Arts

The third Annual Northern Forest Paddlers Film Festival will open in Portland on Thursday, April 15 at One Longfellow Square.

Sponsored by Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT), the event will feature four documentary films and a clay-animated short on recreational canoeing and kayaking.

"We have an excellent lineup of films this year, celebrating the diverse culture of paddling and the beauty of the places our boats take us," said NFCT Executive Director Kate Williams. "We look forward to the opportunity that these Film Fest evenings provide for us to meet with members, paddlers, and other adventurers."

Here's the lineup according....

Theodore Enslin, a prizewinning Maine poet, will perform a free reading of his work to the public at Bates College on November 30.

Enslin has published 118 books of poetry over six decades and is known for adding a musical element to his work.

"If anybody really wanted to compliment me, instead of calling me a writer or a poet, simply call me a composer who happened to use words instead of notes," he claims.

The event is at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. in Lewiston.....

Portland, Maine - Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine (CMTM) will host two events in the coming week, each in partnership with a national non-profit, that will give Mainers the opportunity to visit the Museum at no cost.

Smithsonian Museum Day: Saturday, September 26th

CMTM will participate in the fifth annual Museum Day, presented by Smithsonian magazine. A celebration of culture, learning and the dissemination of knowledge, Museum Day emulates the free-admission policy of the Smithsonian Institution's Washington, DC-based properties. Doors will be open free of charge to Smithsonian magazine readersand anyone who downloads a Museu....

Portland, Maine -- Charles DuBack (born 1926) first came to Maine from New York City in the mid-1950s. Charles DuBack: Coming to Maine will feature 20 paintings and collages focusing on his rarely shown, but pivotal, work from the late 1950s. The exhibition is complemented by a small selection of his more recent watercolors from 1998 depicting the woods that surround his home in Tenants Harbor. These two bodies of work, although separated by decades, are related in conception and are the result of DuBack’s response to the landscape of Maine. This is the Portland Museum of Art’s first exhibition devoted to that seminal period wh....

I have previously performed regularly in summer musical theater, but a couple of years ago I vowed to discontinue the practice. Why waste the precious few weekends of decent weather in Maine hanging out in a hot, dingy theater rehearsing or putting on shows? Any sane person would be outdoors recreating. However, this year the Waldo is offering “The Full Monty.” This presented a challenge I could not resist.

Many people have an aversion to removing their clothes in public, but I’m not one of them. There was a time when I was biking in Ireland and we passed an inv....

Portland, Maine -- There are a handful of arts and cultural events of note happening in Portland today and tonight. Enjoy your weekend!

27th Annual Greek Festival
June 25 2009 - June 27 2009
11:30am-9:30pm

Green Streets
June 26 2009

Dogs at Work Festival
June 26 2009

Portland, Maine -- Portland Magazine’s founder and publisher Colin Sargent has a new book out called, The Museum of Human Beings. The novel, now listed on Amazon, tells the story of Sacagawea's son Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau.

Playwright Sargent's debut novel is a stylish look at the fate of Sacagawea's baby son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the first Native American to tour Europe—as a curiosity and entertainment, of course. Twenty-four-year-old Sacagawea, though marrie....

Portland, Maine -- A new exhibition from the Portland Musuem of Art:

The art colonies of New England played a key role in the creation of an American national identity in the early 20th century. Art colonies in Old Lyme and Cos Cob, Connecticut and Ogunquit and Monhegan, Maine were inspiration for nationally recognized artists including Edward Hopper, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Kent, and George Bellows, among others. The exhibition chronicles the development of impressionist Connecticut and modernist Maine and feature 73 works drawn from the collections of the Portland Museum of Art and the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticu....

I recently attended a Pecha Kucha Night at the Space Gallery in Portland. It blew me away–and I’ve seen Jim Hendrix and Chicago headline a concert together! What an amazing range of presenters for this event–a filmmaker, a furniture maker, two photographers, a solar energy developer, a non-profit organization, an architect, an artist, and last but not least, an animator/artist/teacher who presented a combination of wit, creative excellence, and a unique concept-–how he spent $7 billion dollars of stimulus money (a clever tall tale).

Started in 2003 by Klein Dytham Architects,

Will America survive the upcoming years as a "sovereign nation," or will the hideous dream of a one-world government be our fate? This is the paramount issue facing America in the 21st century; it transcends all other concerns.

Conservatives believe devoutly in the "sovereignty" of America as a fundamental requisite for the preservation of freedom and justice in the world. Those of liberal persuasion do not. To those on the left, America's fundamental cornerstones of a limiting Constitution, decentralized government, capitalism and individual freedom are the causes of war, poverty, exploitation and chaos. World order rather than individu....