Belfast oil-enamel painter Jon Byrer’s current show on the walls of The Carey Gallery at Skidompha Public Library in Damariscotta is a lovely reminder that spring is on its way. None of Byrer’s large landscape paintings feature snow. Instead, they offer colorful glimpses of the world as it will look shortly – full of flowers, rushing water, and beautiful skies.

Walt Disney Studios’ new live-action “Beauty and the Beast” movie is playing this week at The Harbor Theatre. This “Beauty and the Beast” is retelling of the studio’s animated classic with original music and several new songs.

The Hall Gallery at LincolnHealth – Miles Campus in Damariscotta is presenting a show of the digital photographs of Patrick Conlin through Friday, March 17. Patrick is a 14-year-old homeschooled ninth-grader and self-taught photographer from Boothbay. He is the youngest person ever to be given his own art show in the Hall Gallery.

When LCCT, the resident theater company at Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater, held its general auditions in the fall, it was searching for talented people interested in investing their talents, time, and energy in creating wonderful live entertainment for the community, including its upcoming production of “Mary Poppins — In Concert.” It turns out that Mary Poppins herself it not the only one with a mysterious background and hidden stories. Take, for example, one of LCCT’s newest cast members, Zora Margolis.

One of the nice things about taking in an art show at the Damariscotta River Grill in downtown Damariscotta is that the two-story restaurant has a lot of wall space on which to display a lot of art.

The Damariscotta River Grill will welcome spring on Tuesday, March 21 with a profusion of colorful photographic flower and nature studies by Joan Atkinson, Kathryn Simpson Bean Davis, and Lisa Mossel Vietze.

River Arts in Damariscotta offers more than 50 art classes year-round in its studio on Route 1. Classes range from drawing, painting, fiber, ceramics, stone-carving, collage, encaustics, and photography.

Local artist Polly Peckenham’s show of what appear to be linocut prints, along with several color photographs, on the walls of the cafe at Damariscotta’s Rising Tide Community Market is definitely worth a good, long look over a bowl of hot soup or a cup of organic coffee. Her prints, which are not labeled as to their technique, are eye-pleasing. Some are one-color prints and others feature two or more colors, a testament to Peckenham’s skill at printmaking.