BATH — The Oratorio Chorale and Orchid Ensemble will collaborate for performances at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Montgomery Theatre in Morse High School on High Street in Bath, and at 3 p.m. Sunday at Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland. The musical programs are billed as “Cold Fusion,” in which the Oratorio Chorale will […]

FREEPORT — An event called “Wolfe’s Neck Farm Spring Gala and Auction Pitchfork to Plate: An Evening of Champagne and Desserts,” runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. today at the Harraseeket Inn. The event, which raises funds for operation of the farm, will feature desserts and champagne, a silent auction with a large selection […]

FREEPORT — In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Freeport Community Library will present “Rhythm and Rhyme,” a jazz and poetry celebration at 6:30 p.m. today. Cul de Sax, a saxophone quartet made up of local musicians Susan Nourse, Paul Aliapoulios, Jim Huebener and Chris Gutscher, will perform. After the sax music, Maine poets Gary […]

BATH — Patten Free Library will kick off its third annual summer film festival with a screening of the 2001 French film “Amelie” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The quirky romance stars Audrey Tatou in the title role. Admission is free. For more information, call Leslie Mortimer at 443-5141 extension 25 or email [email protected].

BRUNSWICK “And what do you do for a living, Mrs. Levi?” asks Ambrose Kemper in the first scene of the musical comedy, “Hello, Dolly!” “Some people paint, some sew … I meddle,” replies Dolly. The Midcoast Youth Theater’s production of “Hello, Dolly!” will show the title character at her most musical and meddlesome. The show […]

BRUNSWICK If you are a hat fan, you are in luck. The annual Midcoast Altered Couture Contest, which starts at 6 p.m. May 4 at the Frontier Café in Fort Andross, will feature hats this year. Altered Couture competition director Christine DeTroy said that this year’s hat theme “gets its inspiration from the Kentucky Derby.” […]

BRUNSWICK T he Studio 48 Performing Arts Center will stage a benefit country rock concert at 7 p.m. today in Crooker Theater at Brunswick High School. Students from Studio 48 Performing Arts Center and New England Regional Theater Company have been rehearsing to present a country rock concert to raise money for Studio 48 scholarship […]

LEWISTON — Oddfellow Theater performers and Michael Miclon’s Boo Dog Films will kick off their latest project, “Richard 3,” from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday in the Royal Oak Room at Boo Dog Films, 1 Bates St. The event will showcase many of the actors and film makers involved in creating “Richard 3,” a […]

PORTLAND — Erin Bishop will present a program titled “Social History of Ireland’s 19th Century Catholic Middle Class” at 2 p.m. April 29 in the Maine Irish Heritage Center at the corner of State and Gary streets. A release from the center describes the program as follows: In 1800, Daniel O’Connell, a young barrister who […]

BRUNSWICK — The Studio 48 Performing Arts Center will stage a benefit country rock concert at 7 p.m. April 27 in Crooker Theater at Brunswick High School. Private students as well as singers in Glee Club have been preparing popular song selections to perform with a live “rock band.” Song titles range from “Let it […]