To celebrate a truly wonderful season, Tidemark Gallery, located at 902 Main St. in Waldoboro, will host a turning-of-the-year reception on Saturday, Dec. 17, from 5-7 p.m. Art lovers and neighbors are invited to enjoy the work of several artists who are new to Tidemark Gallery, along with new work by old friends.

The current Pemaquid Studio Painters art exhibition on the walls of The Carey Gallery, located inside the rear entrance of Skidompha Public Library in Damariscotta, features the artwork of four women – Barbara Applegate, Barbara Klein, Nancy O’Brien MacKinnon, and Liliana Thelander. Thelander, Klein, and Applegate are oil painters; MacKinnon paints in acrylics.

Just in time for the holidays, a new show will open at the Damariscotta River Grill, at 155 Main St. in Damariscotta, on Tuesday, Dec. 6 showcasing New England artists Lina Burley, Joy Linder, and Lee Rowan.

On Sunday, Dec. 4, the River Company will present two afternoon shows of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” The theater company’s version of the quintessential holiday show, however, will be a musical, using a script by Damariscotta writer Eleanor Cade Busby, according to director Margo O’Leary. All proceeds from the show will benefit the local Meals on Wheels program.

Tucked away in River Arts gallery’s prestigious West Gallery, a most unique exhibit is hiding in plain sight. Three of Midcoast Maine’s finest artists have combined their work to create this most delightful and varied showcase, which will be on display from Friday, Nov. 18 through Tuesday, Dec. 13.

“A Sense of Place/El Sentido del Lugar” is the collaborative cross-cultural art exhibit that has graced the walls of both floors of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty in Damariscotta since mid-September.

Kate Coupland, a Ph.D. student at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole, currently has a small, eye-pleasing collection of photographs on exhibit on the walls of the cafe at Rising Tide Community Market in Damariscotta. A relative newcomer to Maine – she has lived in the Pine Tree State for a year and a half – Coupland brings a fresh eye to Midcoast Maine’s landscape and other well-known sights.

In late September, Winslow Myers and his partner, fellow artist Patti Bradley, returned from a three-week trip to Italy, where they saw “an incredible amount of art,” as Myers put it in a late-October interview at the couple’s Bristol home.

The DaPonte String Quartet kicked off its 25th winter season with a concert series titled “Running a Ground” that ranges from Mozart to modern. “Running a Ground” will be performed six times, in Damariscotta, Rockport, Boothbay Harbor, Portland, Gardiner and Brunswick from Nov. 4-20. The program will be performed in Lincoln County at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4 at Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St., Damariscotta, and at 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12 at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 32 Emery Way, Boothbay Harbor.