Celebrate Local
Rising Tide Co-Op
323 Main St.
Damariscotta
05/02/2025 | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Serving Maine and Lincoln County for over 140 years
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Rising Tide Co-Op
323 Main St.
Damariscotta
05/02/2025 | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us for a Cinco de Mayo community meal. Meet local vendors and sample their products, including wine and beer tasting. Enjoy 10% of all local products in the store. Everyone is welcome. Everyone is welcome. Rain or shine.
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Camp Kieve Buck Building
42 Kieve Road
Nobleboro
05/09/2025 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Come one, come all to Camp Kieve for a family-friendly night of indoor climbing. All gear provided. Waivers to be signed upon arrival.
Suggested donation of $5/per person and $10/per family.
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Coastal Canvas Paint Party Co.
182 Bristol Rd
Damariscotta
05/10/2025 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Coastal Canvas invites you to come and enjoy a relaxing & fun event in our new space! During this event we will be celebrating Mother’s Day & offering a “Painters Choice”. Choose from Spring Flowers, Pemaquid Light House or Enjoy The Ride.
$40 ticket includes: All Art Supplies, pre traced canvas, and instruction.
You will be provided the tools to create your own coastal themed art.
No experience necessary, just an open mind and positive energy.
This is a pre-paid event. Walk-in’s are welcome but not guaranteed.
Text (207) 240-4112 to confirm availability.
Parking is limited. Drop off & Carpooling is recommended. Sorry, No refunds or credits.
SIGN UP: www.coastalcanvasME.com
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The Damariscotta River Cruises
47 Main St
Damariscotta
05/11/2025 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Make This Mother’s Day Unforgettable with Damariscotta River Cruises!
Make This Mother’s Day Unforgettable with Damariscotta River Cruises!
This Mother’s Day, treat the wonderful mothers in your life to a spectacular afternoon aboard the Teciani. Join us for our first cruise of the season. We will celebrate mothers with stunning views, delicious food, and delightful drinks!
damariscottarivercruises.com/product/mothers-day-boat-tour-may11-1-3pm/
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Wiscasset Community Center
242 Gardiner Road
Wiscasset
05/14/2025 | 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us for a screening of Elisif’s Story, followed by a conversation on what works in preventing substance use among young people. The event will feature experts Jonathan Barnes, Haley Bezon, and Will Matteson, who will discuss youth substance prevention strategies. Reception for Studio B’s Wiscasset Youth Art Show from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
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Barters Island Community Hall
24 West Sode Rpad
Trevett
05/15/2025 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join the Boothbay Region Climate Action Team for a public climate workshop to discuss critical environmental issues and community visions for climate resilience. All are invited. The event will be held Thursday, May 15 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Barters Island Community Hall, 24 West Side Road in Trevett. Free food and drinks will be provided.
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Damariscotta Baptist Church
4 Bristol Road
Damariscotta
05/17/2025 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
St. Cecilia Chamber Choir celebrates 30 years of fine choral music with its “Hope Conquers Fear” concerts on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18, both at 3:00 p.m. at Damariscotta Baptist Church. The concert includes works by Benjamin Britten, Zoltán Kodály, Moses Hogan, and more. Linda Blanchard is St. Cecilia’s artistic director, assisted by Sean Fleming on organ.
Britten’s “Rejoice in the Lamb” was composed in 1943, and movingly sets the poem “Jubilate Agno,” by the eighteenth-century poet Christopher Smart, whose outspoken views saw him wrongly imprisoned in a mental asylum. Britten captures the poem’s eccentric yet deeply spiritual tone, portraying everything from animals to letters of the alphabet as symbols of worship and praise. The Times praised the work, saying that “the spirit of the curious, vivid poem has been caught,” and calling it “a work not to be placed in any of the usual categories, but certainly beautiful.”
Kodály’s Missa Brevis was first composed in the early 1940s as an organ mass. According to some accounts, during the siege of Budapest in the winter of 1944 and 1945, Kodály and his wife were forced to seek refuge in the cellars of the Budapest Opera House. It was in one of the Opera House cloakrooms that the premiere took place on 11 February 1945, performed by a choir made up of the Opera company’s soloists, who were accompanied by a harmonium, as well as by the distant sound of gunfire.
The concerts will close with Moses Hogan’s tour de force “Elijah Rock.”
Pre-concert talks will be given before each concert at 2:30. Choir members will talk about special aspects of “Rejoice in the Lamb” and the Kodály mass, with featured presenter and Choir member John Ward.
Ward has been professor and chair of the Kenyon College English department and has served as Dean of Centre College.
Tickets are $20, with free admission for students and children. Tickets are available online at ceciliachoir.org, at Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta, and at the door. For more information, please email info@ceciliachoir.org, or visit facebook.com/stceciliachamberchoir and ceciliachoir.org.
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05/20/2025 | 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Do you struggle with food obsession, overeating, undereating or purging?
There is a Solution, Free Information Session online and by phone.
Tuesday, May 20, 6:30-8:00pm EST
For Phone and Online Access Information
call 207-250-7373 or email fa.newcastle.maine@gmail.com
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Footbridge Brewery
25 Granary Way
Boothbay Harbor
05/22/2025 | 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The next Ocean on Tap event will take place on May 22nd from 6-7pm at Footbridge Brewery. Hannah Sterling of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will be speaking about the history of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), sometimes called “Forever Chemicals” and her research on them along Maine’s coast. Join us for this highly relevant and fascinating conversation!
Ocean on Tap is an informal, ocean-centric speaker series organized by researchers from Bigelow Laboratory and hosted by Footbridge Brewery in Boothbay Harbor. Our goal is to bring people of the community together over the fascinating world of the ocean. At these events, speakers will share their corner of expertise in the ocean, and attendees are encouraged to ask questions.
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The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
05/23/2025 | 7:30 pm
Listen to what the critics say – “Another world-class voice is heard from Louisiana, another soulful, mesmerizing singer who writes emotional songs with impact and heart. Andrew Duhon is a troubadour for the next generation, a story-teller for his generation. Measured in the blues with the gift of narrative, Andrew¹s songs will not only make you think, they will make you sing along, days later. This a young artist to watch, and to hear, as soon as you can find a way.” John Snyder, ArtistHouseMusic.com.
“One of the best things I’ve heard all year…If the songs on this album are anything to go by, Andrew Duhon will be a big name before long…. Duhon brings the craft of a master short story writer to his songs and in doing so creates a series of skillfully rendered vignettes.”— John Scott, The LA Beat
Come listen tonight to one of our favorite artists. We are honored to welcome him, and his music, back to the Opera House stage this season.
Don’t miss this night, we promise you that it will be great! Kindly sponsored by J. Edward Knight Insurance.
Advance discount tickets $25, available only from the box office at 207-633-5159 (open Wed – Fri from 10-2). Regular tickets $30 online at boothbayoperahouse.com, and on the day of show if available.
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Coastal Canvas Paint Party Co.
182 Bristol Rd
Damariscotta
05/25/2025 | 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Coastal Canvas invites you to our Open Studio paint hours. $40 Ticket includes: All Art Supplies and instruction. You will be provided the tools to create your own coastal themed art. No experience necessary, just an open mind and positive energy. All attendees will bring home personalized canvas to hang or canvas tote. Feel free to bring your own beverages and snacks!! Pre-Registration is recommended but not required. Walk ins and cash accepted.
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The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
05/30/2025 | 7:30 pm
“Rollicking, playful, good-time blues and intimate, reflective balladry…her songs ring with emotional depth” – Rolling
Stone.“A welcome ray of sunshine…Ball is a killer pianist, a great singer and songwriter. Potent blues, sweet zydeco, soulful, fast and furious Texas boogie…heartfelt, powerful and righteous” – Billboard. Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist, songwriter and vocalist Marcia Ball was named the 2018 Texas State Musician Of The Year, and has won worldwide fame and countless fans for her ability to ignite a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she takes the stage. Her rollicking Texas boogies, swampy New Orleans ballads and groove-laden Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite with music lovers all over the world. With each new release, her reputation as a profoundly soulful singer, a boundlessly talented pianist and a courageous, inventive songwriter continues to grow. The New York Times says, “Marcia Ball plays two-fisted New Orleans barrelhouse piano and sings in a husky, knowing voice about all the trouble men and women can get into on the way to a good time.” The Houston Chronicle says simply, “She’s as perfect as an artist can be.” Don’t miss this rollicking kick-off to the
Summer of 2025.
Advance discount tickets $35, available only from the box office at 207-633-5159 (open Wed – Fri from 10-2). Regular tickets $40 online at boothbayoperahouse.com, and on the day of show if available.
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Coastal Canvas Paint Party Co.
182 Bristol Rd
Damariscotta
05/31/2025 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Coastal Canvas offers guided instruction along with all the materials needed to create your own coastal-themed artwork. No prior experience is required—just bring an open mind and a positive attitude. Several options of canvas paintings & tote bags. Projects take approximately 1-2 hours.
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North Nobleboro Commmunity Center
554 Upper East Pond Road
Nobleboro
05/31/2025 | 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm
Our Annual Meeting is followed at 6pm by our Annual Potluck. See the separate calendar entry for details. Non members are welcome to attend either or both events.