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If you find this publication to be valuable please consider making a donation to its non-profit publisher, the Tides Institute & Museum of Art, to help us continue this free publication, and the accompanying Artsipelago guide, available online for the 2020 season.
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“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Would you like to see one of your images of your community, event or artwork the header for CulturePass? We are inviting submissions! Send your image to info@artsipelago.net
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December 21, 2020 - January 3, 2021
**During this time of social - distance requirements, CulturePass welcomes the submission of local events that may proceed virtually online, or in compliance with local state or province public health recommendations.**
Holidays
** Winter Solstice December 21 **
** Christmas Eve December 24 **
** Christmas Day December 25 **
** Boxing Day December 26 **
**Whirling Wind Full Moon December 29 **
** New Years Day January 1 **
** Levée January 1 New Brunswick **
Image: "Santa too" Woodcarving by Roland LaVallee of CrowTracks, Eastport, ME.
Event Calendar
Stories from the Dawnland: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
| Online Event - Bangor, ME
December 21 6:00 - 7:00 pm
This Monday for the Winter Solstice, join us at 6:00 PM for storytelling with Geo Neptune and songs with Gracie Davis!
We’ll be live streaming the event over Zoom and right here on our Facebook page. We hope to see you then! To get the Zoom meeting info, register by clicking here.
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Trivia Night at The Red Herring Pub
| at Red Herring Pub - St. Andrews, NB
December 21 7:00 - 10:00 pm
 Join us Monday evenings have some safe fun with your bubble and win great prizes. You can register your team at the pub (bonus prizes for best team name!) Rules: - Teams can be 3-6 people and must be people in your bubble. - Masks are required and must be worn when not seated at your table. - Food/Beverages must be purchased. - No phones allowed during gameplay!
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Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Class with Newell Lewey
| Online Event - Bangor, ME
December 22 2:00 - 3:00 pm
 Learn the Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language right from the comfort of your own home with weekly virtual language classes with Passamaquoddy Linguist Newell Lewey. Newell will be conducting the class over Zoom which will also be streamed to the Wabanaki Public Health Facebook Page. We encourage participants to download the Zoom app to join the meeting so you can talk directly with Newell and with other students. To tune in via Facebook Live, visit the Wabanaki Public Health Facebook Page at the time of the event to view the class. Students are required to register for this class. To register, click this link.
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Tuesday Arts Group for Seniors
| at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre - St. Andrews, NB
December 22 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
This new program at SSANC is aimed at providing a relaxed social opportunity to seniors in our community – a chance to explore and share arts knowledge and skills. Materials will be provided. Informal instruction with an experienced facilitator will be offered to provide the chance to explore new media and work on small projects. We encourage participants to work on their own projects, help each other with shared skills and social interaction. SSANC provides the studio space (with safe social distancing), basic materials and experienced instructor.
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A Very Merry Christmas w/ The Big Fun Duo
| at Red Herring Pub - St. Andrews, NB
December 23 9:00 - 11:30 pm
A Very Merry X-Mas w/ The Big Fun Duo $10 per person / Tickets sold in Tables Pub & Live Music Venue in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick
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Online Holiday Trivia Night!
Online Event - Campobello, NB
December 24 6:00 - 6:15 pm
 Join Park interpreters from the comfort of your own home, via Zoom, and participate in our Online Holiday Trivia Night! Form a team -you can play individually, or as a group. There will be a little point deduction for those playing in a team of more than 1 person! Sign up for the event - and receive an email confirmation with the link details! Register here: Play along on the night of the event - and maybe even win some cool prizes! This event is free but donations are gratefully accepted.
Give us a call at 506-752-2922 or email info@rooseveltcampobello.org for more details.
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Stage East Presents: A Play by Play Production: It's A Wonderful Life
| Online Event - Eastport, ME
December 31 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Celebrate New Year's Eve with Stage East in a whole new way with a Zoom reading of Brian Schuth's "It's A Wonderful Life". Meet via zoom and email Mark Macey with questions at mark@eastportartscenter.org
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Sardine & Maple Leaf drop - New Years Eve 2020
| Eastport, ME
December 31 9:00 - 11:00 pm
 Join us for the 16th annual New Year’s Eve Great Sardine and Maple Leaf event! This year’s celebration will be different, with community safety in mind in light of the pandemic. TIMA is planning new ways to celebrate the New Year’s arrival in Canada and the US, including a drive-by parade by the Great Sardine & Maple Leaf (watch online or in person!), online programming for those near and far, and take-home party and craft kits with free downloadable components. We’re looking forward to this annual community celebration and starting new traditions! Happy New Year to all!
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LGBT2Q+ New Years Eve Zoom
| Online Event - Eastport, ME
December 31 10:00 - 11:00 pm
A fun meet-up across Zoom rooms with LGBT2Q+ and Allied Folx across our region. Have a favorite song? We'll play it! Some games? We're there. Jokes and kindness welcome! This will be a multi-generational event open to all ages, and will be an alcohol and chemical free event. Click for Zoom link.
Meeting ID: 456 676 0909
Passcode: Yes!
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Exhibitions
Tides Institute & Museum of Art
Maine Bicentennial Book
As part of Maine’s Bicentennial, the Tides Institute & Museum of Art mounted an exhibition of works from its collections ranging in date from 1820 to the present. In addition, the Tides Institute will publish a Bicentennial book featuring 100 works from its collections and the stories behind the works and how they came into the Tides Institute’s collection. Each week, one of the selected works will be featured in CulturePass, and can be viewed in more detail here.
 This week’s piece is a large watercolor (7”/17.8 cm x 17”/43.2 cm) by American artist, Douglas Anderson (1854-1921) called “The Tow.” It dates to about 1900. At the time the painting was completed, its subject matter, “The Tow,” was a common scene along the eastern coast of Maine and southwestern New Brunswick. It portrays a steam powered tug towing a series of sail powered sardine carriers that were used to transport small herring fish freshly caught in the hundreds of weirs then active throughout this region to the numerous sardine factories located primarily in Eastport and Lubec, Maine but also elsewhere along this coastal region. The watercolor was acquired by the Tides Institute from a local Eastport historian. Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Anderson moved with his family to Eastport, Maine when he was two to a farm located on Kendall’s Head. He is revered as a local “favorite” painter of the period and his distinctive style watercolors with his trademark signature are highly sought after locally. But he is little known beyond the immediate Eastport area as his work was never shown, with the exception of a small exhibition of his work in Boston in 1978, outside this area.
Photo Caption: Large watercolor painting, “The Tow,” by artist, Dougal Anderson, c.1900.
Tides Institute Online
For online resources from the Tides Institute, click here. Included in these online resources are Tides Institute publications, exhibitions, videos and StudioWorks artists talks. Direct online access to many of the works in the Tides Institute’s collections can be found through this link.
This season, museum hours have changed to by-appointment, and visitors will be required to wear face masks.
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Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre
Deck the Walls: Fire & Ice Exhibition
| at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre - St. Andrews, NB
November 20 - December 31
Our annual holiday show in celebration of Charlotte County artists and artisans opens Friday, November 20.
This exhibition invites artwork created by local artists to celebrate local talent. This year we have a theme! This can be interpreted in many ways, but we are looking for artworks that speak to a Winter theme of Fire and/or Ice.
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Ongoing Classes/Events
Eastport Arts Center
Eastport, ME
 Despite closed doors, EAC continues to welcome all with an array of online opportunities for connection and expression.
Read about upcoming and past projects on our website, and check out all of the latest from EAC video here.
Image: Scenes from a Zoom—Artist Sue Riddle taught a meditative shell ornament-decoration technique to a coast-to-coast group of students at the finale of EAC's Festival of Ornaments, a Zoom workshop trio offered by the center this year in place of the annual Festival of Trees. Jenny Robish, a grade school teacher who Zoomed in for all three workshops of the series, submitted the image of one of her decorated shells featuring a snowman motif, which in turn inspired other participants.
Eastport Gallery Online Holiday Market
| Online Event - Eastport, ME
Through January
From stocking stuffers to statement pieces, the members of the Eastport Gallery have created an online market just in time for the holiday gift-giving season. Joan Lowden, gallery president, says, "Our virtual gallery has something for everyone, from greeting card sets to limited edition prints to small original works, all are priced for gift giving, and shipping is available." Visit eastportgallery.com to wrap up 2020 in style.
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Cans 4 Cancer Redeemable Drive
| at Eastport, ME
Ongoing
Hi ! My name is Tammy Leppin Hoche and I am collecting returnables which we turn into gas cards for travel expenses to cancer care patients and families. Cans can be delivered to the fire station in Eastport, or else you can send a message to the facebook page and arrange for a pick up. We also accept donations :) There is a Savings account at the The First Bank called Cans 4 Cancer, donations can be made there.
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Bottle & Can Drive for Lubec Library
| at Lubec Lyons IGA - Lubec, ME
Ongoing
Redeemable drive for Lubec Memorial Library Turn your bottles and cans into BOOKS! When you bring your returnables to Lyons IGA - please ask them to put the money into the library's envelope.
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Cobscook Institute
Lubec & North Trescott, ME
January 28 - March 18, 2021
Monday Night Music Circle - Every Monday at 6:00 pm via Zoom, contact Alan Furth or Daphne Loring daphne@cobscookinstitute.org for the link.
Thursday Virtual Writers Group - New and/or seasoned (salt/pepper) writers are welcome to join the Thursday Writers group. Every other Thursday from 1- 3 pm. (2nd & 4th Thursday). For more information, please contact Michael Brown at mrbrown64@msn.com
Classes & Events Calendar
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Axiom Education & Training Center
Machias, ME
 Washington County Adult Education (WCAE) programs offered by Axiom Education and Training Center (AETC) are available at online for Washington County residents, from Danforth to Cherryfield.
Fall catalogue is here!
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Online Artist's Community with Anne S. Hopkins
Online Event - Eastport, ME
Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:00 pm Fridays 9:00 - 10:00 am
Zoom in for In The Studio every Friday morning. In the Studio is a time for visiting, exploring and discussing the creative process. Each week a featured artist/creative shares their studio/screen with us and a lighthearted and sincere question and answer ensues.
During non-covid times Anne hosts the weekly Life Drawing Workshop at Eastport Arts Center. In our current era, Anne hosts Wednesday Portrait Drawing, Friday In the Studio and our monthly Draw-a-thon online!
Class links may be found here; or email anneshieldshopkins@gmail.com for more information.
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Lunamuse Fiberart Showroom
at Lunamuse Fiber Arts - Eastport, ME
Hours vary |
The Lunamuse Fiberart showroom is open by appointment and sometimes by chance.
To make an appointment to check out my current selection of handspun yarns and one of a kind knitwear designs at your leisure please call me at 207-853-2076 or email me at lunamusefibers@gmail.com
Follow me on Instagram or like my Facebook page if you’d like to stay in the loop about current works in progress on the spinning wheel, on the knitting needles and get sneak peeks of new designs.
Manuela Brice aka Lunamuse Fiber Artist, Artyarn Creator & Knitwear Designer
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Yoga, Fitness, and Tai Chi
Classes Online
Local mindful movement instructors are offering online versions of their popular local classes:
Katie Melancon is offering yoga online, please email anchorandbalanceyoga@gmail.com or click here!
Find Get Fit with Tina on Facebook for a current class schedule and Zoom offerings.
Samantha Williams is offering Tai Chi and yoga online, as well as hosting a 200 hour teacher training in January. Please email boldcoastyoga@gmail.com for times and links.
For information on Mindfulness and Yoga Classes taught by Lilli Danaea on Tuesdays and Fridays, contact lillireally@gmail.com or click here!
Dawn & Lori have launched a new fitness & wellness site called MiMoxi out of St. Andrews NB. Check out their growing list of livestream and on-demand yoga, cardio, strength and barre classes.
Check in with your other favorite yoga and exercise instructors to see if they have plans to move classes online.
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