Eastport Arts Center

By Paula HorvathHector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique was a baffling enigma for those who witnessed aperformance in the 1800s. But for Berlioz, this wild departure from the era’s conventional pieceswas a symbol of love.“A lot of people at the time thought he was completely insane,” explained Mark DeVoto,a musicologist, composer, … [Read More]

By Michael Morse Author Catherine J.S. Lee shared excerpts from her fiction—both Island Secrets: Stories from the Coast of Maine, and her in-process collection, Forest Whispers: More Stories from the Coast of Maine, for the April 2 Sunday Afternoons at the Arts Center series. In Island Secrets Catherine J.S. … [Read More]

By Sarah Dalton-Phillips and Helen Swallow The Sunday Afternoons at the Arts Center series continued on March 26th with a lecture/concert by John Newell.  Some fifty people listened intently to his program entitled, “Something Borrowed,” a journey through the Western classical music canon. Greg Biss introduced the afternoon with a brief … [Read More]

By Catherine J.S. Lee At the most recent event in the Sunday Afternoon at the EAC series, on Sunday, March19th, the Eastport Arts Center hosted Poe scholar and Eastport resident Barbara Cantalupo fora well-attended presentation about Edgar Allan Poe and Belgian artist James Ensor. Cantalupois an emerita professor of … [Read More]

By Kathleen DunbarIt was a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon on March 12, but that did not stop about 30 patronsfrom visiting the Eastport Arts Center to watch a dramatized reading of The Last Priest. Originally planned by the Lubec Campobello Community Theatre for a 2020 Sunday series presentation, the … [Read More]

By Paula Horvath In poetry that stitched together images from the opposite ends of a continent, Eastport’sTom Sexton offered listeners insight into his almost 83 years of life, a journey that’s led himfrom New England to Alaska and back. His gentle, poetic sketches, often punctuated with humor, told of … [Read More]