CAMDEN
Sebold show to feature more than 100 artists
Back for its 35th year, the Carol Sebold Summer HarborArts Juried Show will open in Camden on Saturday and continue through Sunday, July 17. More than 100 established and emerging artists and crafts people will show and sell their work at the show.
Featured fine works include watercolor, oil, acrylics and pastels, blended with photography, sculpture and mixed media and designed jewelry, metal and woodcraft, pottery and fine-crafted furniture.
The festival is named in honor of its founder. It is presented by the Camden-Rockport-Lincolnville Chamber of Commerce. Admission is free. It will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.
For more information, visit camdenharborarts.com.
LEBANON
Exploring link to 1800s Norwegian violin virtuoso
On Aug. 1, the Lebanon Historical Society will sponsor a lecture-concert by Charles Kaufmann, artistic director of the Longfellow Chorus in Portland, and pianist Jesse Feinberg, about the connection between West Lebanon and 19th-century Norwegian violin virtuoso Ole Bull (1810-1880). The lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. and the concert at 7 p.m. in the Martha Sawyer Community Library, Hanson School, Upper Guinea Road, Lebanon.
Bull, a performer and composer and Norway’s leading cultural philanthropist, spent the summer of 1871 in West Lebanon, where his daughter and eventual heiress Olea Bull Vaughan (1871-1911) was born and where she lived her life.
Kaufmann and Feinberg will perform two of Bull’s most popular compositions, one a transcription made by Kaufmann from manuscripts left behind by Bull in West Lebanon, “Siciliano and Tarantella,” and “A Mountain Visit.”
Kaufmann will also show two segments of a 1982 documentary, “Ole Bull’s Fairy Tale,” made by Norwegian Television Corp. and filmed, in part, in West Lebanon and in Boston. The documentary, with English subtitles, features Norwegian violinist Arve Tellefsen as narrator and performer, and an interview with Sylvea Bull Curtis, Bull’s granddaughter, of West Lebanon. She donated Bull’s Norwegian island estate, Lysen, to the Kingdom of Norway. It is now a Norwegian national historic site, concert center and archival institute.
Additionally, Kaufmann will discuss Bull’s longtime friendship with Portland-born poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow’s poem, “The Saga of King Olaf” (1863), features Bull as fictional narrator. It was adapted into a cantata by English composer Edward Elgar in 1896.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and is an associated event of the 2012 Longfellow Choral Festival. For more information, visit longfellowchorus.com. For information about the lecture, call Nancy Wyman at 658-4259.
PORTLAND
OneBook Book Club will read Chris Thompson’s ‘Felt’
Working in collaboration with Artists in Context and the Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance announces a OneBook Book Club with author Chris Thompson and his recently published book “Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama.”
Readers across the state are encouraged to read “Felt,” and then join Thompson and their community of fellow readers for a OneBook discussion at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Frontier Cafe in Brunswick’s Fort Andross.
“Felt” centers on a highly publicized yet famously inconclusive 1982 meeting between German artist Joseph Beuys and the Dalai Lama. Thompson, an associate professor of art history at Maine College of Art in Portland, explores the interconnections among Beuys, the Fluxus movement and Eastern philosophy and spiritual practice.
For information, contact MWPA executive director Joshua Bodwell at 228-8264 or director@ mainewriters.org.
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