The Coastal Children’s Museum and National Audubon’s Project Puffin are teaming up to offer Seaside Science, a six week series of science workshops for children 6 and up focusing on topics such as biodiversity, adaptations, conservation and more. The workshops will take place from 3:30-4:30 starting Saturday May 25th and continue each Saturday until June 29th. Each program will focus on a different topic to build scientific knowledge and skills through activities, stories, games and art. The series culminates in an afternoon trip to Hog Island off of Muscongus Bay.

COLLECT: MECA's Summer Art Sale

This event benefits MECA's scholarship fund and participating artists - work by over 100 Maine College of Art community artists.

June 7-9, 2013 - 85 Free Street (entrance behind Maine College of Art), Portland, ME.
Friday, June 7, 9:00am-9:00pm, Saturday, June 8, 9:00am-7:00pm (Meet the Artists 2:00pm-5:00pm), Sunday, June 9, 10:00am-2:00pm. For more information visit www.meca.edu/artsale.

The Georgetown Working League is holding their 100th annual fair in 2013. Quilt raffle, handmade items,collectibles, homemade baked goods, art, crafts, books, jewelry, white elephants, childrens activities, lunch. All proceeds benefit the town.

The first career museum retrospective for American painter Lois Dodd will feature paintings that define the places and subjects that have mattered most in her nearly 60-year career—views of New York City’s Lower East Side from her apartment windows; of the woods and gardens of Midcoast Maine; and wintery scenes near her family home in New Jersey. Dodd was a key member of New York’s postwar art scene and part of the wave of modern artists who explored the coast of Maine in the latter half of the 20th century.

Opening Night: Fri, Feb 1 5:00 pm
Regular hours: 02.01.13 through 02.28.13
Weds-Sat, 12pm-6pm

Join us for this group show where artists created works of art based on personal mementos that have been carried with them over time. Themes of possession and dispossession are explored through a variety of media. Sentimental objects previously kept in boxes and drawers are reexamined and reworked by the artist.

Three weekends of winter fun in Bethel! We’re building a Snowcano – that’s right, a volcano made of snow! – to celebrate the season.
Feb. 9 – Sledding hill on the side of the Snowcano open to public (BYOS – bring your own sleds)
Feb. 16 – Snowcano erupts at 6:30 p.m.! A 40-foot-tall bonfire will be built inside a huge snow hill. The sparks and flames create the effect of a volcano – see it to believe it!
Feb. 23 – RAILWARS rail jam. Skiers & riders show off their best moves on rails set into the side of the Snowcano.

The provisional Program, including order of speakers and topics addressed, appears below, and is subject to change as it becomes further developed.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22

8:00 PM Welcome and Dedication
Bland Banwell, President, Camden Conference
Keynote Address - Robin Wright
Journalist, Foreign Policy Analyst, Author of three recent books on the Arab Awakening, Political Islam, and Iran.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23

8:30AM-4:30PM
Marwan Muasher, Broad aspects of the Arab Awakening

We’re bringing Cellardoor to a little place with big flavors. Our second Cellar Series dinner of the season will be taking place in Bangor with a fabulous underground dinner in the heart of the city’s gourmet food scene — The Fiddlehead Restaurant! With an intimate setting that is booked nearly every weekend and fabulous locally-sourced food making for an always evolving menu, seats for this evening of gourmet food and wine are limited and are sure to sell out fast.

$90 per person. Advanced purchase required. Please call (207) 763-4478 for more information or to reserve your spot!