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The Eastport Arts Center (EAC) nurtures and promotes six year-round constituent groups engaged in theater, art, music, film, education and community outreach. The EAC is available for rental and serves as our region’s premiere venue for an array of special events and visiting artists and performers. Our mission: “To stimulate and nurture an appreciation of the visual and performing arts and the creative process, and to provide a home and an environment within the community where they can prosper.”
Please Note: EAC abides by State of Maine CDC COVID guidelines, revisiting our policy monthly. At this time, EAC encourages people to wear masks when in our building. As well as gatherings at the Center, we continue to offer online opportunities for connection and expression. Check out upcoming and past projects here, and sign up to receive a digest of this site in our weekly email newsletter. Learn more about the EAC here.
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Stage East presents: Panopticon
Stage East’s spring production, Panopticon, premieres this month in the Eastport Arts Center’s downstairs space. The show, an irreverent history of the prison system, is written and directed by Stage East’s executive artistic director, Mark Macey and based off the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault.Challenged to describe the … [Read More]
Sunday Afternoons at the Arts Center: “Something Borrowed,” a piano recital by John Newell
EAC’s Sunday Afternoons at the Arts Center series will continue with a piano recital and talk, “Something Borrowed,” by John Newell on March 26 at 3 pm. Newell will present an array of short keyboard works that adapted popular dance and song styles over the past 300 years. Alongside … [Read More]
Ecstatic Dance
Eastport Arts Center’s Ecstatic Dance group has resumed, and meets most Tuesdays, weather permitting, 5-6 pm, at the Center*. Offering a comfortable space in which attendees can dance to release stress, not to impress, the sessions feature expertly curated musical playlists. Attendees should wear clothing that allows free movement, … [Read More]
Youth Drum Circles with Gene Nichols
Eastport Arts Center will offer a free 10-week session of Youth Drum Circles led by Gene Nichols on Wednesdays, beginning March 22. Each week there will be separate sessions for students age 9 to 13, from 3:30-4:40 pm, and for students age 14 to 20, from 4:45 to 5:45 … [Read More]
KinderArts: Free Sessions in Calais
Eastport Arts Center’s KinderArts program is back after a winter break, and has announced that it will run free ten-week sessions in two communities, beginning in March. New to the program is a satellite center for families in the Calais area: Sunrise Opportunities (the former Calais Congregational church), at … [Read More]
KinderArts: Free Sessions at EAC
Eastport Arts Center’s KinderArts program is back after a winter break, and has announced that it will run free ten-week sessions in two communities, beginning in March. New to the program is a satellite center for families in the Calais area: Sunrise Opportunities (the former Calais Congregational church), at … [Read More]
Workshop: Clay Tiles with Marlys Farn-Guillette
Eastport Arts Center will offer a Clay Tile Workshop with Marlys Farn-Guillette on Saturday, April 1, from 1-4 pm. Participants will be guided through the process of hand building a clay tile, to be presented as a wall hanging or a free standing piece. In an exploration of the … [Read More]
High School Jazz Night featuring the Award-Winning Shead Jazz Quartet
EAC is thrilled to announce the return of High School Jazz Night, April 5th at 7 pm, featuring the Shead Jazz Quartet. The quartet gave an award-winning performance for Maine State Instrumental Jazz Competition at Hampden Academy on March 18, and earned the only Gold Medal Performance Award. Jazz … [Read More]
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The work of Eastport Arts Center is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.