The Coastal Children’s Museum and National Audubon’s Project Puffin are teaming up to offer Seaside Science, a six week series of science workshops for children 6 and up focusing on topics such as biodiversity, adaptations, conservation and more. The workshops will take place from 3:30-4:30 starting Saturday May 25th and continue each Saturday until June 29th. Each program will focus on a different topic to build scientific knowledge and skills through activities, stories, games and art. The series culminates in an afternoon trip to Hog Island off of Muscongus Bay.

COLLECT: MECA's Summer Art Sale

This event benefits MECA's scholarship fund and participating artists - work by over 100 Maine College of Art community artists.

June 7-9, 2013 - 85 Free Street (entrance behind Maine College of Art), Portland, ME.
Friday, June 7, 9:00am-9:00pm, Saturday, June 8, 9:00am-7:00pm (Meet the Artists 2:00pm-5:00pm), Sunday, June 9, 10:00am-2:00pm. For more information visit www.meca.edu/artsale.

The Georgetown Working League is holding their 100th annual fair in 2013. Quilt raffle, handmade items,collectibles, homemade baked goods, art, crafts, books, jewelry, white elephants, childrens activities, lunch. All proceeds benefit the town.

The first career museum retrospective for American painter Lois Dodd will feature paintings that define the places and subjects that have mattered most in her nearly 60-year career—views of New York City’s Lower East Side from her apartment windows; of the woods and gardens of Midcoast Maine; and wintery scenes near her family home in New Jersey. Dodd was a key member of New York’s postwar art scene and part of the wave of modern artists who explored the coast of Maine in the latter half of the 20th century.

Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii - affectionately known as “Nobu” - captured the hearts and imaginations of music lovers throughout the world with his gold medal–winning performances at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009. Blind since birth, Nobu believes that “there are no barriers in the field of music.”