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July 2019
Summer Workshop Series: Garden Stone Casting with Richard Klyver
Eastport Arts Center’s Summer Workshop Series continues from 10 am to 3 pm, Saturday, July 6, with Garden Stone Casting. Instructor Richard Klyver will help participants to create a low relief mold in wood of a Maine wildlife or plant image. A concrete mixture will then be poured into the mold to form unique garden stepping stones. If preferred, a vermiculite mixture may be used to create a piece suitable for hanging. After learning this technique, participants will be able…
Find out more »Summer Arts Camp: North Woods Adventures Along the Appalachian Trail
A Summer Arts Camp for children ages 6-13 will be offered from 9 am-noon, July 8-12, at Eastport Arts Center. This year’s theme is North Woods Adventures Along the Appalachian Trail. Ann Cannizzaro, educator, and Willy Claflin, musician and storyteller, will engage campers in an exciting experience learning about the famous trail that ends in Maine’s north woods, with a host of themed projects and Claflin’s humorous songs and stories to boot. Activities will include making bandanas, tin lanterns, painted…
Find out more »The Concert Series presents Gregory Biss, pianist
The Eastport Arts Center’s popular summer concert series continues Friday, July 12 at 7 pm, with Gregory Biss, pianist. The program will feature Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A major, D. 664, which was composed in 1820, and Chopin’s 3rd Ballade, opus 47, from 1841. Also on the program are two Preludes & Fugues from J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier plus shorter works by Franz Liszt, Nikolai Kapustin, Philip Glass and Biss. A reception sponsored by Moose Island Marine will follow…
Find out more »Scott Cleveland: “The Blues Spectrum”
The Eastport Arts Center will present Scott Cleveland’s unique concert experience, “The Blues Spectrum,” on Saturday, July 13 at 7 pm. Cleveland, who’s dubbed his program a ‘docu-concert’ will speak, sing and play his way through the Blues and many of its musical offspring, from 18th century field hollers, to acoustic Delta Blues, Chicago Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Blues ballads by artists like Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, to lush, astringent jazz Blues, with a few originals mixed in. Cleveland…
Find out more »Summer Workshop Series: KinderArts Movin’ and Music with Beth Goodliff
Eastport Arts Center’s Summer Workshop Series will feature a special Movin’ and Music KinderArts Class with Beth Goodliff on Tuesday, July 16 from 10 to 11 am. The free session will offer an interactive music experience for young children, sure to get the kids and their caregivers singing and moving to great tunes! Beth Goodliff, music teacher for AOS 90, loves music and keeps busy with the Machias Blueberry Musical, Quoddy Voices, the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra, the University of…
Find out more »The Coldharts present: The Legend of White Woman Creek
Eastport Arts Center will present The Legend of White Woman Creek, a one-woman opera, on Friday, July 17 at 7 pm. The show, written and performed by the coldharts touring theater company, was inspired by a ghost story, and Eastport Arts Center will present The Legend of White Woman Creek, a one-woman opera told from the perspective of a ghost, on Friday, July 17 at 7 pm. Written and performed by the coldharts touring theater company, the show weaves a…
Find out more »Gentle Flow Yoga
Katie Wilson will offer Gentle Flow yoga class at the EAC on Saturday mornings from 8:30-9:30 am. Wilson is originally from New York, and began her yoga practice there, then received her RYT-200 certification while living in Florida. She has returned to Maine to be close to family and writes “The knowledge and tools that I’ve gained through my experience in yoga teacher training is something that I’m very passionate about sharing with each of my students. Yoga can bring…
Find out more »Screening: ‘Round Midnight starring Dexter Gordon, plus Q&A with Maxine Gordon, Dexter’s widow and biographer
Eastport Arts Center and Peavey Memorial Library will host a two-day series of jazz events July 19 and 20, featuring Maxine Gordon, widow of jazz great and tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, and author of his biography, Sophisticated Giant: the Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon. On Friday, July 19 at 1 pm, at Peavey Memorial Library, there will be an author’s reading, book signing and panel discussion with local jazz bassist and radio personality Joan Lowden and local musicians. Maxine…
Find out more »Summer Workshop Series: Pastel Washes & Underpainting with Sue Griggs-Bailey
Eastport Arts Center’s Summer Workshop Series continues from noon to 3 pm, Tuesday, July 23, with Sue Griggs-Bailey’s workshop, Pastels and Underpainting. Participants will learn in a relaxed atmosphere to use underpainting techniques to create a dramatic pastel painting. Attendees may choose to follow along with a demonstration, or may create their own painting from references. Sue Griggs-Bailey recently became a full-time resident of Eastport after spending 13 summers here. Originally from New Jersey, Sue’s music teacher parents instilled in…
Find out more »Ecstatic Dance
Ecstatic Dance has resumed weekly meetings at Eastport Arts Center. All are invited to come and dance to great rhythmic music and move however they wish on Tuesdays from 5-6 pm, weather permitting. Attendees should wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring water to drink. $3 suggested donation. For more information please email info@eastportartscenter.org.
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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.