Here’s a quick event guide for some things happening this week in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Every Monday, we’ll have a quick preview of events happening that week in Bar Harbor and you can look for in-depth features later on in the week.
And if you’d like something listed, just let us know by commenting or contacting us!
Scroll all the way down for links to the stories from the past week.
Go have fun!
Get Your Education On!
Our One and Only Ocean
The Summer Institute is COA’s week-long ideas festival that welcomes experts from around the world to share their perspectives on the most pressing issues of our time.
The 2022 Summer Institute: Our One and Only Ocean, held in collaboration with The National Geographic Society, will explore the beauty, promise, and perils of our greatest commonality—the ocean. We will dive into the complex and interwoven challenges facing our ocean while spotlighting solutions and leaders that offer us hope. Institute sessions will address climate change, deep sea exploration, fisheries and aquaculture, pollution and resource extraction, conservation, history, art, and inspiration.
Date and Time
Monday Jul 25, 2022 through Friday Jul 29, 2022
Location
College of the Atlantic
North Lawn
105 Eden St.
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
Fees/Admission
Register Here – Sessions are both in person and virtual
Website
https://www.coa.edu/giving/summer-institute/
Get Your Garden On!
Garden Club Tour
Rain or Shine Six Private Gardens in Northeast Harbor $45 or $40 in advance on our website http://www.gardenclubofmountdesert.org 100% of proceeds benefit Maine horticultural and environmental organizations
Date and Time:
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. EDT
Cost:
$45 or $40 in advance via website below
Website:
http://www.gardenclubofmountdesert.org
Get Your Music On!
Bar Harbor Town Band Concert
Join the Bar Harbor Town Band for an hour of march and concert band music under the stars on the Bar Harbor Village Green.
Date and Time
Monday Jul 25, 2022
8 a.m. – 9 p.m. EDT
Monday and Thursday evenings through August 15, 2022
Location
Village Green in Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
FREE
Musician Carl Wockner
Australian export now based in Nashville, TN – Carl Wockner was recently awarded “Musician of the Year” by the LiveWire Prestige Awards, Global winner of the IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards USA) and Finalist Nominee for the Independent Music Awards USA. Featured in multiple TV and Film appearances and boasts a fast growing YouTube Channel, Carl Wockner is becoming known as one of the worlds most engaging and talented solo performers.
His signature vocals and guitar flavor matched with his off-the-cuff live looping agility combined with award winning songwriting really submerge the listener into a musical experience unique to each individual performance.
Carl Wockner will perform a mixture of originals and specialized covers across diverse genres.
Date and Time:
Wednesday, July 27
7 p.m. (120 minutes)
Location
Criterion Theatre on Cottage Street in Bar Harbor
Cost:
$15
More Information:
Get Your Art On!
Open Studio – Member Mondays
Members can reserve a table in our studio for an hour or the whole session and have access to our non-consumable tools or use some materials from our stock!
$10 for reserved space – participant brings supplies.
OR $25 for reserved space plus access to consumable materials; felting, glass, paint, printmaking.
Participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Masking, vaccinated, and social distancing for staff and participant safety.
Date and Time
Monday July 25, 2022
2:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. EDT
Location
ArtWaves, 1345A State Highway 102, Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
$42.00
Website
https://www.artwavesmdi.org/event
Contact Information
207-266-0010
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Monday Evening Figure Drawing – Emotion Through Body Language
To Register: https://artwavesmdi.org/event
Join Gabrielle for instructed sessions on portraiture and clothed figure drawing or use the time to practice with our model! Mondays – instruction from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m then drawing from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Masking, vaccinated, and social distancing for staff and participant safety.
Date and Time
Monday July 11, 2022
5 p.m. – 8 p.m. EDT
Location
ArtWaves, 1345A State Highway 102, Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
$50.00
Website
https://www.artwavesmdi.org/event-4849702
Contact Information
207-266-0010
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Monday & Thursday Night Figure Drawing
Please register, space is limited – February 2022
Artists will have a few quick warm-up poses then be able to spend time refining a long pose. Registration necessary- ArtWaves maintains distances for safety.
The model is the star, no instruction, but plenty of easels, boards, horses, paper, charcoal and fellow friendly artists. Feel free to bring your paints and brushes as well!
18 and over, under 18 allowed with parental attendance or prior signature.
Date and Time
Monday, Jul 25, 2022 and Thursday
6 p.m. – 9 p.m. EDT
Mondays 6-9 single pose and Thursdays multi poses
Location
ArtWaves Fine Arts Studio
Fees/Admission
$15 for 3-hour session
Members: $25 month fee
Contact Information
office @artwavesmdi.otrg
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Elements of a Graphic Novel – Summer Series
Join Gabrielle and feel free to bring your questions and current work in progress! See the syllabus below.
To Register: https://artwavesmdi.org/event
Gabrielle is a young illustrator and multimedia artist. She grew up on a small island in Maine, and consistently finds her art influenced by her upbringing. She worked for the Illustration Institute based out of Portland Maine in 2020 producing a short documentary series about how drawing influences thinking. Gabrielle is currently enrolled at College of the Atlantic and is on course to graduate with a study in visual narratives. When she’s not drawing or crafting you can find her planning her next cross-country bike tour.
Date and Time
Sundays until August 28
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. EDT
Location
ArtWaves, 1345A State Highway 102, Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
$42 per session
Website
https://www.artwavesmdi.org/event
Contact Information
office@artwavesmdi.org
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Kids Crafternoons
ArtWaves is devoting 3 afternoons of studio (under the big tent) sessions for children to create. Most workshops use unique materials like fiber, ink, stained glass and wax. Weekly themes. Open to kids between 7-11. No skills required.
Masks, vax’d (over 5), and distancing for staff and participant safety.
To Register: https://artwavesmdi.org/event
Date and Time
Every Monday Wed and Friday
3 p.m. – 5 p.m. EDT
Location
ArtWaves, 1345A State Highway 102, Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
$30 materials included or bring some of your own! ($20 for members) Student membership is $36 a year!
Contact Information
office@artwavesmdi.org
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CREATING A PET PORTRAIT with Gloria Avner
If you’ve ever wanted a beautiful portrait of your favorite fur baby (or bird or horse or snake), you have two choices: Pay a professional artist or have an energizing learning experience and do it yourself! Pet Portrait Artist – Gloria Avner will give you step-by-step guidance, working with soft pastels, pastel pencils, and velour paper.
You’ll go home with a matted PORTRAIT OF YOUR PET, ready for an 11” x 14” or 16” x 20” frame and increased self-esteem in your drawing abilities! All materials will be provided. Send a photo of your pet to Gloria at least one week before the workshop so she can do the prep work. Geetavner@gmail.com.
Masks, vax’d (over 5), and distancing for staff and participant safety.
Date and Time
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. EDT
Location
ArtWaves 1345A Hwy 102 Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
$100 ($90 for members)
Website
https://artwavesmdi.org/event-4879762
Contact Information
207-266-0010
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BATIK PAINTING: ANCIENT ART/ NEW TWIST
Come learn the ancient art of Batik Painting with Master Batik Teacher Gloria Avner! Using wax as a resist, you will create layers of brilliantly graduated color and experience effects not possible with other painting techniques. Learn to use ink, wax and watercolor on delicate Japanese rice paper. You will be guided step-by-step through the creation of beautiful artwork.
Teens/Adults of all skill levels. The class is equally effective for beginners, professional artists and those taking the course multiple times. You don’t need to bring anything. All is provided, including a great array of subject matter (though you can bring a specific picture if there is something you’d really like to paint).
Masks, vax’d (over 5), and distancing for staff and participant safety.
Date and Time
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
1:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. EDT
Location
1345A Hwy 102 Bar Harbor ME 04609
Fees/Admission
$82.50 ($72.50 for members)
Website
https://artwavesmdi.org/event-4878847
Contact Information
207-266-0010
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Needle Felted Teacup Village with Kristen M. Walsh
In this fun, fast paced, yet beginner-friendly class you’ll learn basic needle felting techniques that will open the door of this amazing art/craft form! Wool can be twisted, rolled and folded in specific ways (and then needled, of course) to create every shape imaginable.
At the end of this workshop, not only will you have a good foundation for further needle felting, but you will also have a wonderful one-of-a-kind piece of art!
Masks, vax’d (over 5), and distancing for staff and participant safety.
Come with ideas for your little teacup town! Is it rural? urban? southwestern? Is your creation purely decorative or is your art also a useful pincushion? You decide!
Date and Time
Saturday, Jul 30, 2022
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. EDT
Location
ArtWaves 1345A Hwy 102 Bar Harbor
1345A Hwy 102 Bar Harbor ME 04609
Fees/Admission
$80 ($70 for members) includes materials and teacup (or you can bring your own sentimental cup!)
Website
https://artwavesmdi.org/event-4874025
Contact Information
207-266-0010
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Let’s Get Our Book On
Back Deck Book Sale at The Naturalist’s Notebook
Between 25% – 75% off HUNDREDS of science, nature, and art titles, as well as toys, games, notebooks, posters, and MORE. There will also be lots of FREE STUFF.
They are clearing out various display stands that may be of interest to local businesses.
TEACHERS: we’re also parting with some of our beloved educational exhibits and panels from years past. We’re hoping these will find new homes in classrooms and home-schools! This year’s Back Deck Book Sale will be just about twice as big and twice as discounted as last year’s, and will probably never again reach such an epic scale, so don’t miss out! This is an outdoor event that will be held weather permitting
Date and Time
Friday, Jul 29 – Sunday, Jul 31
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. EDT
Location
The Naturalist’s Notebook 16 Main St Seal Harbor, 04675
Fees/Admission
FREE
Website and Tickets
http://www.thenaturalistsnotebook.com/events
Contact Information
Katama Murray or Jordan Chalfant
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Get Your Movement and Your Dance On!
Acadia Dance Festival 2022
Nimbus Dance and the Acadia Dance Festival triumphantly return to the 1932 Criterion Theatre with a remarkable program of dance set to music by Philip Glass, Arturo Márquez, and a first-ever showing of Artistic Director Samuel Pott’s new staging of Aaron Copland’s iconic score: Appalachian Spring.
The performances also feature Boston-based Luminarium Dance and talented performers from the Acadia Dance Festival Intensive, Camp Beech Cliff and the Summer Festival of the Arts.
Date and Time:
Saturday, July 30
7 p.m.
Location :
Criterion Theatre, Cottage Street, Bar Harbor
TICKET PRICES
Vary. Click here to buy tickets or for more information.
YOGA!
Rejuvenating and relaxing classes guided by professional, certified yoga instructors. Soak in the sun, smell the salt air & listen to the waves at this safe & social distance Yoga class on the lawn of the Bar Harbor Inn overlooking Frenchman’s Bay.
Open to the public, ALL LEVELS.
No experience necessary. No preregistration. Bring your mat (if you have one) & beach towels or mats are available
Yoga by the Bay
Date and Time
Daily
9 a.m – 10 a.m. EDT
Location
Bar Harbor Inn & Spa, 1 Newport Drive, Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
$15 per person.
Contact Information
Contact Beth for questions (340) 643-6467
Send Beth an Email
Modern Dance Technique (Teen/Adult)
In this introductory level class, you’ll work to develop a movement practice that centers both self-care and togetherness, working to access availability, spaciousness, presence, and pleasure both individually and collectively. Students will investigate basic patterns of choreography, experimenting with principles of velocity and momentum and exploring personal and shared movement impulses.
Date and Time
Monday Jul 25, 2022
6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. EDT
Location
ArtWaves 1345A Hwy 102 Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
$45 for 3 sessions ($36 for members)
Contact Information
207-266-0010
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ZUMBA!
It’s a dance party, no experience needed!
Come take care of yourself, shake, smile & sweat! Every class is different; the music, people and weather, and we always have a blast! Erin leads a workout that caters to all levels of fitness and ability. All you need is a love for music and movement (or come to class to fall in love with dancing), but no experience necessary. You can follow along and give it your own flair! Come join our classes throughout the week, in the gorgeous dance studio at ArtWaves! If you haven’t tried Zumba and want to talk with Erin, feel free to email anytime.
Date and Time
Thursdays
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. EDT
Location
Dance Studio at ArtWaves, 1345A State Highway 102, Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
$40-$50 per month ($10 per week paid monthly)
Website
Get Your Movie On!
Seaside Cinema – Outdoor Family Movie Night
Bring the whole family and a blanket to sit on to our weekly outdoor movies under the stars! Movies are shown on a giant inflatable screen in Agamont Park, overlooking Frenchman Bay.
Free popcorn will be available!
Movies will start at dusk each Wednesday once the sun has gone down enough to show on the screen.
Date and Time
Wednesdays
8 p.m. – 11 p.m. EDT
Movies are shown on Wednesday once the sun has gone down enough to see the screen.
Location
Agamont Park is located on the corner of West and Main Streets in Bar Harbor.
Fees/Admission
FREE
Website:
https://www.visitbarharbor.com/seaside-cinema
Contact Information
Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce
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Presented by Bar Harbor Bank & Trust.
Produced by the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce.
OTHER CINEMAS
REEL PIZZA
https://www.reelpizza.net/now-playing
Location: 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor
CRITERION THEATRE
https://www.criteriontheatre.org/
Location: 25 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor
Get Your Food On!
Homemade Pies at the YWCA MDI
Join the Y for its Tuesday pie sales at the YWCA Mount Desert Island. All the pies are homemade by YWCA volunteers, and the proceeds go to the Y’s lodging program for women and girls.
Date and Time
Tuesdays
10 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. or until sold out.
Location
36 Mount Desert St., Bar Harbor, ME
207-288-5008
Cost
$20 – $30
Website
Homepage
Contact Information
Suzanne White-Kelly
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Bar Harbor’s Eden Farmer’s Market
Maine grown, raised and value added delights in Bar Harbor. Sundays, 9 a.m. – Noon, rain or shine, Mother’s Day weekend until the end of October.
Date and Time
Sundays
9 a.m. – Noon
Location
Park and Main Street at the YMCA parking lot, Bar Harbor
Website
GET YOUR CIVIC DUTY ON!
TOWN GOVERNMENT MEETINGS
SOUTHWEST HARBOR:
Regular Meeting Schedule (meetings held at the Town Office unless otherwise noted)
Board & Committee Meeting Schedule
Select Board: 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of every month @ 6 p.m.
Conservation Commission: 1st Tuesday of every month @ 4 p.m. via zoom
Planning Board: 1st & 3rd Thursdays of every month @ 6 p.m. at the Town Office and via zoom
Historical Cemetery Committee: 3rd Wednesday of every month @ the Town office or otherwise specified @ 2 p.m.
Harbor Committee: 2nd Monday of every month @ 6 p.m.
Shellfish Committee: 2nd Monday of every month @ 5 p.m.
Board of Appeals: 2nd Wednesday of every month (as needed) @ 6 p.m.
Warrant Committee: as needed
TREMONT:
BAR HARBOR:
- Town Council Meetings- the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7 p.m.
- Planning Board meetings- the first Wednesday of each month at 4 p.m.
- Design Review Board- the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 6 p.m.
- Appeals Board – As needed, call the Planning Office for meeting times
MOUNT DESERT:
GET YOUR NEWS ON!
I’m just one person, so some weeks there will be more news than others as I try to fit things around my editing novels, podcasting and writing my own books, but here you go!
OUR STORIES THIS PAST WEEK
Trying to Save a Bar Harbor Gem – The Fate of Glen Mary’s Wading Pool
Creating Community With Art and Fun
A UFO chased by jets over Acadia National Park? Maybe . . .
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