Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2010
The Movies: The 13th Annual MIFF
Waterville’s yearly celebration of the cinematic arts kicks off this weekend with nearly 100 films from around the world and right here in Maine.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2010
Dispatches
NEWCASTLE Salad Days will benefitWatershed’s programs The 16th annual Salad Days will take place at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The fundraising event draws up to 500 visitors for an afternoon of local food, ceramics, kids’ interactive projects, music and a pottery sale. Admission is $30, but […]
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PublishedJuly 1, 2010
Music and Nightlife: Maine’s summer music extravaganza starts tonight.
THE PARTY starts tonight. The Nateva Music & Camping Festival will sprawl over the Oxford Fairgrounds over four days, drawing dozens of jam, indie and reggae bands and as many as 15,000 fans each day. The big acts play Friday, Saturday and Sunday on a pair of twin stages set up side by side. Sets will […]
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PublishedJuly 1, 2010
Art and Theater: Portland art gallery comes back in a new location
The Portland gallery scene expands by one as Susan Porter, proprietor of Addison Woolley Gallery, is back in business. Porter, who formerly operated Addison Woolley in the Old Port, is opening a new, full-time gallery at 123 Washington Ave. “We will be part of the new artistic frontier of the East Bayside/Munjoy Hill neighborhoods,” Porter […]
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PublishedJuly 1, 2010
Cover Story: PSO pops again
Community businesses step up to bring back a music and fireworks spectacular.
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PublishedJune 28, 2010
Museum: Picture of fiscal health
Increasing donations and appealing shows are credited with sustaining the Portland Museum of Art.
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PublishedJune 27, 2010
Arts Dispatches
Festival to celebrate Schumann, Chopin with 80 performances BRUNSWICK – Over the next six weeks, more than 250 musicians from 25 countries will present more than 80 concerts from Portland to Bath as part of the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Opening this week, the festival salutes the 200th anniversary of the births of Robert Schumann […]
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PublishedJune 27, 2010
Arts luminary to deliver message of hope
Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will bring a mixed message of hope and alarm to Maine on Thursday as he attends a mini arts summit at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized and hosted by the Maine Arts Commission, Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative is part of […]
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PublishedJune 27, 2010
Arts Planner
This week As part of the First Friday Art Walk, Maine Historical Society in Portland will show a series of images in its ongoing exhibition “Exposed: Rare Photographs of Life in Maine.” The exhibition weaves a visual narrative of life in Maine. Images include turn-of-the-century automobile racing on Old Orchard Beach, the 1970 student strike […]
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PublishedJune 27, 2010
Jamtown, U.S.A.
Some 50 bands and 15,000 or so of their best friends will make the trek up Route 26 to Oxford for the three-day musicfest called Nateva.
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