Waldoboro’s Hurricane Gallery opens its 2019 exhibition with a reception on Saturday, Aug. 24 for the show “Democracy and Its Discontents,” which is a clear nod to Sigmund Freud’s famous essay “Civilization and Its Discontents,” with its emphasis on the eternal battle between the rational and the irrational, consciousness and the unconscious, civilization versus the individual’s instinctual need for freedom.

When someone emphatically describes a performance as “the best show ever,” as one individual did to this reviewer on the night of Thursday, Aug. 15, referring to LCCT’s production of “A Grand Night for Singing: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein” at Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, one pauses and asks oneself, “Really?”

Audiences have raved about “Maiden,” so we are holding it over for one more week, through Wednesday, Aug. 28, with two shows that day, at 2 and 7 p.m.

For “Roger Dale Brown: Around Town,” his first solo show at Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor, Roger Dale Brown, one of the U.S.’s foremost marine painters, chose to focus on Boothbay Harbor and the surrounding villages, including Southport, East Boothbay, Pemaquid, and Port Clyde.

After a soft opening in July, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts held an open house on Tuesday, Aug. 20 for its campus’s newest building in Edgecomb, which completes the first phase of the nonprofit organization’s campaign to open its facilities year-round.

After a four-month-long search that attracted more than 50 applicants from throughout the U.S., the Waldo Theatre Board of Directors is very pleased to announce that Kate Fletcher will be the organization’s new executive director.

“Wharf Hill, Monhegan,” a watercolor painted in 1927 by the late Maud Briggs Knowlton, could just as easily have been painted in 2019, as it is so perfectly representative of Monhegan Island’s timeless beauty.

Cheney Financial Group is hosting the second of three fun summer events in its Local Flavors series Thursday, Aug. 15 from 4:30-6 p.m.

We are excited to have another weekend of classic songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein on our Lincoln Theater stage. Our Y-Arts camp friends return for their final musical for the summer, a highly acclaimed performance from the National Theatre in London is broadcast, as is one of the greatest concert films of all time. Exciting times ahead.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts invites visitors to an open-house celebration of its newly renovated public program space and gallery on Tuesday, Aug. 20 between 5 and 7 p.m. Guests will have an opportunity to meet and view work by summer artists-in-residence, enjoy light refreshments, and learn more about Watershed’s programs.

A tasty new adventure from a local business combines the experience of Maine flavors like Moxie and wild blueberries with the heritage of Maine towns, including Damariscotta.

Local musical instrument manufacturer NS Design, a Ned Steinberger company, along with Schooner Landing Restaurant and Marina in Damariscotta are proud to co-sponsor The Company Stores on Tuesday, Aug. 13 from 6-9 p.m. at 40 Main St., Damariscotta.