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 […]

BATH — Maine author and Bath native Elizabeth Peavey brings her one-woman show, “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother,” to the Chocolate Church Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Peavey performs “My Mother’s Clothes” as a series of connected monologues as she confronts the following: Losing a parent is difficult […]

BATH — A reception for an exhibit titled “Edge of the Sea” will run from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Chocolate Church Art Gallery, 804 Washington St. “Please join local artists in a celebration of the sea with their individual interpretations of this delicate ecosystem,” a release from the gallery states. “A […]

BRUNSWICK Cuba Week, the annual celebration of Brunswick’s sister city relationship with Trinidad, Cuba, starts today and runs through April 29. Presented by Brunswick- Trinidad Sister City Association (BTSCA), the ninth annual Cuba Week is themed around Cuba’s love of baseball. The lineup Community events begin Saturday with a salsa dance featuring live music from […]

BRUNSWICK — Rabbi Harry Sky, rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth El in Portland and a collector of Canadian Inuit art, will visit the Peary- MacMillan Arctic Museum on the Bowdoin College campus Sunday for a public reception in his honor and to discuss the Inuit art collection he donated to the museum. The art viewing […]

Heritage Days art show seeks exhibitors BATH — The Kennebec Art Club seeks participants for its annual “Art in the Park” feature of Heritage Days. During the festival, artists from Maine and elsewhere display their work at City Park. The net proceeds of “Art in the Park” are used for scholarships distributed to art students […]

LEWISTON — L/A Arts will present “Broadway’s Next H!t Musical” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Franco American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St. An L/A Arts release describes the show as follows: Master improvisers gather made-up, hit song suggestions from the audience and create a spontaneous evening of music, humor and laughter. The audience votes […]

STANDISH — The Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society’s 29th annual Gem and Mineral Show will take place Saturday and Sunday at Saint Joseph’s College. More than 25 vendors, including 12 displaying jewelry, will show gems, rocks, fluorescent minerals, crystals, fossils and geodes. The show also features gold panning and gem-cutting demonstrations. Children will be able […]

FREEPORT — An event called “Wolfe’s Neck Farm Spring Gala and Auction Pitchfork to Plate: An Evening of Champagne and Desserts,” will run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. April 27 at the Harraseeket Inn. The evening, which raises funds for operation of the farm, will feature desserts and champagne, a silent auction with a […]