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"Oh Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman's Lincoln"

At the Theater at Monmouth on Friday, July 3rd at 7:30 pm.

Written and Performed by Bill Van Horn.

Celebrate America's Independence with a look into a great period in the history of our country. "Oh Captain, My Captain" takes us to the Camden, New Jersey home of one of America's most influential and original voices, Walt Whitman. Often considered the father of free verse, Walt Whitman was much like his writing: bold, enigmatic, always captivating.

Maine Art Galleries

New Work by William Roy Dawes, Ling-Wen Tsai, Mark Wethli (Image: Ling-Wen Tsai "little squares ~ 2") At Whitney Art Works July 1 through August 1, 2009. William Roy Dawes is based in the Boston area, and is currently the Assistant Director of Operations at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. His work has been show widely throughout Boston and Massachusetts at the...

Editor´s Movie Picks

Summer Hours (l'Heure D'ete) France. 102 minutes. Not rated. The divergent paths of three forty-something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle’s exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. Left to come to terms with themselves and their differences, Adrienne, a successful New York designer, Frédéric, an...

Maine Dance Performances

Bates Dance Festival Celebrates Its 27th Season (Photo by Julia Cervantes) July 11th through August 8th. Join the Bates Dance Festival and experience the power and invention of contemporary dance and music. The six-week festival features premiere performances, panel discussions, and lectures by more than 30 internationally recognized dance artists who bring deeply consid...

Maine Artists Interviews

Alison Hildreth: Printmaker and Painter (Image: Detail of "Forthright #15) After graduating from Vassar College with a B.A. in Art History, Alison Hildreth worked in New York and went to night school at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Art. She married and moved to Maine with her four children. When her youngest child was in school, she c...

Maine Jazz and Blues Scene

Ameranouche at the Frontier Cafe in Brunswick Thursday, July 16th at 7:30 pm. Ameranouche formed in 2004 and has played at venues from all over, including the prestigious JVC Newport Jazz Festival and Djangofest Northwest. The award winning Ameranouche trio features the melodic virtuosity of guitarist Richard Sheppard, the vehement rhythm chops of guitarist Ryan Flaherty...

Maine Poetry

5th Annual Belfast Poetry Festival Fourteen poets, ten visual artists, four performing artists, and more will participate in the 5th Annual Belfast Poetry Festival October 16 and 17, 2009 in downtown Belfast. The festival has added new events to the weekend as well as continuing its tradition of the popular Gallery Walk. “This is a community-based festival tha...

Maine Arts Organizations News

Summer Art Classes at Waterfall Arts (Image: "Urban Leaf" by Kathy Levine) An exciting group of classes for adults, teenagers and children in Belfast and Montville will begin the first week of August. The complete schedule is available online at www.waterfallarts.org and paper brochures can be requested by calling 338-2222. A limited amount of scholars...

Special Arts Events

12th Annual Maine International Film Festival (Image: "(500) Days of Summer") July 10th through July 19th at the Waterville Opera House. Ten days, one hundred films, fifty filmmakers. During the festival's ten days MIFF shows nearly one hudred films, representing the best of American independent and international cinema. The festival also spotlights some of Ma...

Maine Theater Performances

"Curtains" Takes the Stage in Skowhegan At the Lakewood Theater with several performances throughout the month of July. The curtain unfolds backstage at the Colonial Theater in Boston in 1959. A new musical comedy, "Robbin Hood," is inching toward Broadway. It would move faster if the leading lady could sing and act. When the untalented woman is murdered ...

Maine Art Museum Exhibits

Landscape Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection At the Bates College Art Museum June 12 - October 3, 2009. Marsden Hartley was born in Lewiston and during his lifetime had expressed a hope that a memorial collection be established in his hometown. In 1951, the heirs of the Marsden Hartley estate left as a gift to Bates College, in compliance with his wis...

Maine Authors

Theresa Mattor Author Signing at Left Bank Books Maine landscape architect Theresa Mattor will present a talk and slideshow on legendary Maine landscapes and the architects who created them on Friday evening, July 10, at 7:00 pm at Left Bank Books in Searsport. The talk coincides with the publication of Designing the Maine Landscape, co-authored by Mattor and Lucie Teegarde...

Covering Maine Literature

Maine Concerts

Bowdoin International Music Festival Concerts Every Sunday at the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath at 2:00 pm, July 12 through August 2, 2009. The Bowdoin International Music Festival's concerts feature distinguished musicians from renowned chamber groups, orchestras, and conservatories worldwide, and the extraordinary young musicians who travel to Maine each summe...

Maine Arts Commission News

Private Money Funds Public Sculpture in Maine Six public art projects have received a combined total of $60,755 in funding from the Maine Arts Commission thanks to a generous donation by the Harry Faust Art Fund. Recipients of the funding are artists Christina Bechstein, Randy Regier, Susan Camp, Robert Rainey and Sandy MacLeod, as well as the City of...

Maine Opera

PORTopera Presents "The Secret Marriage" At various locations, June 25 & 28 and July 7, 9 and 12. PORTopera’s Maine’s Emerging Artists (MEA) Program will present six productions of Domenico Cimarosa’s "The Secret Marriage" at various locations throughout Southern Maine between June 25 and July 12. While originall...

Maine Live Music

Gordon Bok Live at the Strand Theatre On Thursday, July 16 at 7:00 pm. Gordon Bok takes the stage at Rockland's Strand Theatre for an evening that is sure to be remembered. Bok is an established leader in preserving, collecting, creating and sharing a wide variety of rich and beautiful folk songs about the land and sea. His rich mastery of both 6 string and 12 st...

Heather Masse Band Plays at One Longfellow Square

Sculptors in Maine

"The Silent Arrival of Memory" by James Strickland The great joy, the payback as it were, of living the life of happy and quiet solitude that usually goes by the title of artistic freedom, is to know that you are never alone. The images you dream, the "voices" you hear, are not some delphic musings but simply the human condition respeaking itse...

Maine Art Headlines

12th Annual Maine International Film Festival July 10th through July 19th at the Waterville Opera House. Ten days, one hundred films, fifty filmmakers. During the festival's ten days MIFF shows nearly one hudred films, representing the best of American independent and international cinema. The festival also spotlights some of Maine and New England's most exciting and in...

Maine Literature

Lewis Putnam Turco Publishes His Latest Book Satan's Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft In May, Dresden resident Lewis Putnam Turco published his history titled Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1694. Lewis Putnam Turco is well-known in the literary culture of the United States as an award-winning poe...

Maine Literature Daily

Marketing the Arts in Maine

Maine Art Scene launches ART Marketing Services Full-Service Marketing Services for Individual Artists and Arts Organizations Maine Art Scene has joined forces with Bonneville Consulting and Suzette McAvoy Curatorial Services to offer a full range of marketing tools and services for visual artists and galleries. The collaboration called "ART MARKETING SERVICES" d...

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