“Call Me by Your Name,” rated R and running 130 minutes, will play at Harbor Theater in Boothbay Harbor on Thursday, March 8 at 7 p.m. and on Friday, March 9 at 2 p.m. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Timothee Chalamet), and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The free live music series at Oxbow’s farmhouse brewery in Newcastle continues in March on Friday evenings. The O.G.’s will perform on Friday, March 2 from 6 to 9 p.m.

The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Rosa Lane as winner of the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize. In partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia, the University of Georgia Press established the Georgia Poetry Prize in 2015 as a national competition that celebrates excellence in poetry.

Happenings

The Academy Awards take place this Sunday evening – and the nominees for Best Picture and other categories continue this week at Lincoln Theater. Will last week’s “Three Billboards” take home the grand prize? Or might this week’s “The Shape of Water?”

Come dressed to the nines on Saturday, March 10 for Coastal Kids Preschool’s fundraising event “Coastal Kids and All That Jazz!” from 6 to 9 p.m.

Betsey Marthelia deGroff, one of Maine’s most well known vocal teachers, is pleased to announce she has happily moved back to Lincoln County where she is now accepting students for her new voice studio at her home in Southport.

Harbor Theater presents “Darkest Hour,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” and “The Shape of Water” this week. 

Young violin and cello players performed in recital on Sunday, Jan. 28 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Newcastle.

One of the best live acts to come out of Ireland in recent years is the multi-award-winning We Banjo 3. With a seven-time all-Ireland banjo champ, a four-time banjo champ, and another member who is an all-Ireland champ on both fiddle and bodhran, and with a passionate lead vocalist like a young Bruce Springsteen adopted by The Chieftains, the result is truly unforgettable. On both sides of the Atlantic, the word is out about this group – and on Friday, March 2, these Galway boys will come to Maine to perform at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor.

This week we launch a new season of Talking Art in Maine: Intimate Conversations, begin screening an entire BBC series on the British royals, continue our Oscar-nominated films, and enjoy another fantastic pre-opera talk by Dr. Morton Achter prior to a live screening of an operatic favorite. It may be snowing out – but things are heating up at the theater.