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Holidays 

** Commonwealth Day March 8 (Canada) **
 

Event Calendar  

Kids March Break

at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre - St. Andrews, NB February 27 - March 5   10:00 - 12:00 pm   Registration is open - Sign up your kid today! Kids March Break 2021 will be lead by Instructor Chantal Vincent throughout the week of February 27 - March 5 from 10am - 12pm. Ages 5-13, with a maximum of 8 students per day. * Design and Print Your Own T-Shirts: 2/27, 3/2 & 3/4 or Create Felt Jungle Animals - 3/1, 3/3, & 3/5 * Register today by clicking this link. More information

Marine March Break

at Huntsman Marine Science Center - St. Andrews, NB February 27 - March 7  9:00 - 4:00 pm   Who is ready for MARINE MARCH BREAK?! The Huntsman team has a full week of FUN planned for you and your family this March Break at the Fundy Discovery Aquarium! Please note our COVID-19 protocols on our website. More information

Zoom Hangouts & Art Projects

"This is How We Name Our Lands:" Mapping Penobscot Place Names

Online Event  - Portland, ME March 10    6:00 - 7:30 pm   Please join us for: "Iyoka Eli-Wihtamakʷ Kətahkinawal--This is How We Name Our Lands: Mapping Penobscot Place Names," a panel discussion, via Zoom Webinar, on the making of the 2016 Penobscot Nation Cultural and and Historic Preservation Department Map and Gazetteer, as we learn from Language Masters, Historians, Artists, and Cartographers, on the intersections of place, language, art, culture, and cartography. Featuring: Carol Dana James E. Francis, Sr. Gabe Paul Margaret Pearce More information

Across the Pond 2021

at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre - St. Andrews, NB March 12   6:30 - 9:00 pm   Music Runs Through It and Sounds Just Fine, in association with Music / Musique NB, Province of NB and Sunbury Shores Gallery, are thrilled to present Across the Pond 2021 featuring Julie Aubé and Luke Jackson. The tour will stop in St. Andrews on March 12, at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre.Tickets available at Eventbrite. This tour will see the two solo artists presented in a double bill over five dates in May throughout New Brunswick. To read all about Julie & Luke, please visit the official Facebook event by clicking here. More information

March Coffee House

Online Event  - St. Stephen, NB March 12    7:30 - 9:00 pm   March Coffee House - with Loyal Tides Music Collective - March 12th 2 7:30. For more details click on our Facebook page. More information

Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop

at Cobscook Institute - Trescott, ME March 13   10:00 - 12:00 pm   Cobscook Institute presents: Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop, co-sponsored by MOFGA. Saturday March 13th 10 am - 12 noon. Taught by CJ Walke, MOFGA Orchardist More information

St. Patty's Day Drive Thru Dinner

Lubec American Legion Post 65  - Lubec, ME March 13   4:00 - 7:00 pm   Celebrate St. Patty's Day while observing social distancing practices. Join the American Legion Auxiliary unit #65 with a drive thru dinner on March 13, starting at 4 and going until the food has run out! Menu: corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, turnip, and carrots. For dessert there is chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting! 491 County Road, Lubec, ME 04652 More information

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. 

This week’s piece is a large wood engraving print (12 1/16”/30.6 cm x 10 1/8”/25.7 cm) titled “Fog in Eastport” completed in 1928 and is the work of American printmaker, Howard Norton Cook. It shows a scene along the busy Eastport waterfront of the time. Cook was born in 1901 in Springfield, Massachusetts and is particularly known for his wood engravings and murals. He learned printmaking from Joseph Pennell at the Art Students League in New York City in the early 1920s. From 1928 to 1935, he and his wife and fellow artist, Barbara Latham, traveled to Europe, Mexico and the American South. In 1928, Cook spent a summer with Barbara on Deer Island, New Brunswick. He did several wood engravings and and etchings while in the area and original prints of almost all are in the collections of the Tides Institute including “Fog in Eastport,” “Herring Fisherman,” “Quoddy Bay,” and “Deer Island.” More of Howard Norton Cook's story can be viewed in detail here.

Photo caption. Wood engraving, “Fog in Eastport,” by Howard Cook. 1928.

 

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.  Visit our puzzle page that features six virtual puzzles based on works from our collection for a deeper interaction.   Our museum store is online and can be found by clicking here.

 

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

Inspiratory: From the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Collection

Eastport Arts Center's Washington Street Gallery

Covid Creations: Online Exhibition

Online Event  - Eastport, ME  February & March    Washington Street Gallery asked artists, "What have you created during the Covid-19 pandemic?" The works submitted in response, alongside artists' statements probing the act of creativity in these unusual times, comprise the Covid Creations online exhibition. Many of the 45 works on view are available for sale directly by the artists; more information is available on the exhibition page here. More information

Huntsman Marine Debris Art Contest

at Huntsman Marine Science Center - St. Andrews, NB Through March 19, 2021   The #DebrisFreeFundy project would like your help to raise awareness about the importance of healthy oceans! We are hosting our second annual Marine Debris Art Contest- winners of the contest will have their artwork printed in our 2022 Marine Debris Calendar! Grab your art supplies and show us how marine debris impacts the Bay of Fundy and how you can help prevent marine debris! Participants must be New Brunswick public, private or homeschool students.   For complete details and to receive required contest instructions and forms, email Nicole.Waaler@huntsmanmarine.ca More information

Eastport Gallery

Winter Show

Online Exhibit - Eastport, ME Through March   Brighten your winter by visiting the new online Winter Show at the Eastport Gallery’s virtual gallery, featuring works by 14 of the member artists. Visit the online gallery.  More information

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: Our February Food Month, celebrated in these images of the 2019 feast by Brandy Argir, concludes with a video recalling EAC's International Dinner tradition; other features this week: 'Remarkable Reptiles' Arts Camp in review; Needle-felted Landscapes with Paula Farrar, coming up next in our workshop series; and an artist spotlight on Eastport Gallery's Helena Bosse. Please check out our events listings, too—weekly offerings are multiplying: Quoddy Voices, drawing, yoga, and theater!     Musically Mine   Online Event  - Lubec, ME February 22 - March 15   LAMPS would like to welcome you to "Musically Mine," a new fundraiser project. The objective of this program is to build awareness of LAMPS and raise funds to support upcoming programs. The money raised during this campaign will be used to support LAMPS' local musical projects and charitable giving fund. To read more about LAMPS' work, click here. ​ Musically Mine is about the music you love. To participate, we are inviting you to create a short video where you introduce and play a piece of music that is important to you.  For guidelines and information, please click here to visit the official site.   More information       Spring Fling Raffle   at Wabanaki Natural Basket & Gift Shop - Pleasant Point, ME Through March 20   Spring Fling ticket sales will benefit basketry classes at the shop, and there will also be "private raffles" with submissions from Gal Frey, Mary Daigle & Brenda Moore-Mitchell. Raffle tickets can be purchased in person or online through Cash app/$brendamooremitchell. Photos to follow. start date for ticket sales will be March 1st, and the raffle will be on March 20th. More information     Quoddy Voices Resumes for Spring Season   Online Event  - Eastport, ME Mondays, Starting March 8   7:00 pm - 9:00 pm   Quoddy Voices community chorus begins its Spring virtual season on Monday, March 8, with weekly get togethers and rehearsals via the Zoom platform. Singers will work on learning some beautiful new choral pieces and those who wish can participate in the creation of a few virtual choir videos. These involve singers learning (through online rehearsals and practice videos) and recording their parts, which will be assembled into a video choral performance. For complete details, please visit the official website by clicking here. More information       History of Women's Suffrage in the United States   Online Event  - Dennysville, ME February 24 - May 19  6:30 pm - 8:00 pm   Join a Maine Humanities Council book group discussion of Women's Suffrage in the United States online via Zoom, sponsored by the Lincoln Memorial Public Library, every three Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8 p.m. To register please call the Library at 726-4750 and leave your Name, Telephone Number, and Email Address, or call Coordinator Bill Attick at 726-4685 with questions. All books and reading materials will be provided to every participant, to be returned to the Library at the end of the series. A complete list of books and topics for discussion is found by clicking here. More information     Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Class with Newell Lewey   Online Event - Bangor, ME Tuesdays    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 and we encourage participants to download the Zoom app to join the meeting so you can talk directly with Newell and with other students, but each class can also be viewed by logging into   Wabanaki Public Health Facebook Page each Tuesday at 2pm. Students are required to register for this class. To register, click this link. More information       10 Minute Self-Care Zoom   Online Event  - Downeast, ME Fridays 12:00 - 12:15 pm   Join Annie Hopkins and Guests! 10 minutes of centering & connection. Click here for Zoom Link.  VIDEO ON or OFF. AUDIO ON or OFF. Meeting ID: 873 7601 7576 Passcode: calm More information     Eastport to Machias - and Beyond Music Friends   Online Event - Downeast, ME   Thursdays    7:00 - 9:00 pm   Elizabeth Nichols-Goodliff is inviting you to Zoom into Thursday night open mic. Perform for others or just listen. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 872 8632 9341 More information     Story Time Saturday with Porter Memorial Library   Online Event  - Machias, ME Saturdays through March 27   Porter Memorial Library will post a new, reading aloud segment called Story Time Saturday to its Facebook page beginning February 13. During the recorded session, a guest reader will read aloud from new and old children's literature. The library's first guest reader, Andrea McGill O'Rourke, will present the children's classic, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White. Andrea will start by reading Chapters 1 to 3 on Saturday, February 13. Each Saturday a new recording will be posted to Facebook. The final chapters of Charlotte's Web will be available on Saturday, March 27. Listener/viewers can find Story Time Saturday here.   More information       Play by Play: Theater of the Absurd   Online Event  - Eastport, ME Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:00 pm   Play by Play is a free theatre appreciation course offered by Stage East that builds participants' abilities to analyze and thoughtfully discuss plays through in-class readings and discussion as well as helpful study guides. This session's focus is Theatre of the Absurd. Alongside facilitator, Mark Macey, participants will chart this movement's impact on theatre history and its relevance today.  Click here for the full line up of shows, and more detailed information, or contact Macey at mark@eastportartscenter.org. More information        Cobscook Institute Lubec & North Trescott, ME   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 More Information   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.   More information     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.   Winter/Spring catalogue is here!   More information   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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