Events this week and in the near future.
It’s our weekly round-up, and I may have missed some things, so apologies! If you have something you’d like in here, please let me know.
To check out our news stories from the past week. Click on the archive section and you’ll see them in chronological order.
Come Sing!
Sing with the Mount Desert Summer Chorale this season!
- We’ll be performing Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem and Vaughn Williams 5 Mystical songs with orchestra!
- Performance dates are August 2 at Ellsworth Highschool and August 3 at St. Saviour’s in Bar Harbor.
- Rehearsals start June 20 at MDI High School and then continue on Wednesdays from 6:30-9 p.m.
- We are a non auditioned community choir made up of experienced singers of all ages.
- – Here is the link to sign up!
COME HELP!
THIS WEEK:
MONDAY, JUNE 17
Monday events via the Bar Harbor Chamber:
TUESDAY, JUNE 18
OPEN TABLE MDI!
For more information, click here.
Get Your Knowledge On!
ASC Racial Justice Book Group
Are you interested in joining us? We are open to new members who want to share in the reading and the hard work that ensues as we examine the underpinnings of systemic racism and its effects on society and on each of us individually, in the ultimate hope that our studies can work toward change.
We have been meeting once a month on the second Tuesday of the month from 10:30- 12:15.
We started with the basic readings of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee. We then spent many months delving deeply into The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Since then, we’ve read some James Baldwin, Colon Whitehead, Zora Neale Hurston, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Clint Smith and many others. We look forward in the next few months to reading some James McBride and Bryan Stevenson. We also share articles of interest that deal with the issues we’re facing.
If the truly hard, but most meaningful, work we are doing to examine our society, culture and ourselves sounds like something that interests you, please contact me at rjbg2021@gmail.com or 207-664-9954.
Read more about the book group
Tuesday events via the Chamber:
- Yoga by the Bay
- La Rochelle Mansion + Museum
- Baby and Toddler Time
- Intro to Bird Carving – Tuesday Mornings
- Intro to Bird Carving – Tuesday afternoons
- PEOPLE-NATURE-ART WITH RICK ALLEY, JR., DUCK STAMP PAINTER
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
Registration Now Open for Weekly Save Our Summits Hikes
Do you want to be a #SoilHero by hiking up a mountain AND helping Acadia’s efforts to restore summit vegetation? Friends of Acadia is partnering with the park and Schoodic Institute to host a weekly Save Our Summits Volunteer Program, every Wednesday from June through September. This program invites tenacious hikers to bring bags of soil to the summits of Penobscot and Sargent Mountains to help with restoration efforts. Hikes run from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., weather permitting. Advanced registration is required.
Register and learn more about how to prepare for the event her
Weekly Save Our Summits Hikes
Do you want to be a #SoilHero by hiking up a mountain AND helping Acadia’s efforts to restore summit vegetation? Friends of Acadia is partnering with the park and Schoodic Institute to host a weekly Save Our Summits Volunteer Program, every Wednesday from June through September. This program invites tenacious hikers to bring bags of soil to the summits of Penobscot and Sargent Mountains to help with restoration efforts. Hikes run from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., weather permitting. Advanced registration is required.
Register and learn more about how to prepare for the event here.
Wednesday events via the Chamber:
- Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) in Surry
- Yoga by the Bay
- La Rochelle Mansion + Museum
- Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) in Surry
- ALL AGES PAINT ‘N’ SIP: WATERCOLOR SNAIL AND MUSHROOMS
- Artist Talk with Claire Loon Baldwin
- Zen Living, Zen Sitting
THURSDAY, JUNE 20
Fusion Flow Fitness
Thursdays in May and June, 5:30-6:30 pm at ArtWaves
This class is a braid of yoga, pilates, barre, and the art of not caring what you look like, but how you feel. Move, sweat, breathe, and enjoy!
Somesville Library Storytime at Peggy Rockefeller Farm
Jun 20 at 10:00AM – 11:00AM
PAUL WEISS
6 p.m. June 20
An evening of poetry read aloud by local author Paul Weiss. Paul’s poems address both the illumination and the suffering at the heart of the world. They nurture our radical commitment to be here with the whole of our being, and to “find the vast and intimate terrain that opens in the headlights of our own compassion.”
Teacher, therapist, and lifelong poet, Paul Weiss has made his home in Maine since 1969. A student of zen and tai chi since the mid nineteen sixties, he also studied in China over many years. He founded The Whole Health Center in Bar Harbor in 1981, which offered counseling and holistic health care, as well as workshops and meditation retreats. Its Town Hill location closed its doors just this past summer after 42 years, but he continues to counsel and to teach. Paul has read and ‘performed’ his poems widely. His published work includes the poetry collection You Hold This (2012), as well as two books of zen poems, commentaries, and teachings -– Moonlight Leaning Against an Old Rail Fence (2015) and The Dharma of Direct Experience: Non-dual Principles of Living (2022).
Registration is requested but not required.
Thursday events via the Chamber:
- Yoga in the Forest
- Yoga by the Bay
- La Rochelle Mansion + Museum
- Intro to Bird Carving – Thursday mornings
- Figure Drawing
- Intro to Bird Carving – Thursday afternoons
- Lobster and Blueberry Pie
- HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS: The Secret Life and Intimate Writings of Sarah Oren Jewett
- Fusion Flow Fitness
- Trivia Night at Fogtown Brewing Company Bar Harbor
FRIDAY, JUNE 21
Friday events via the Chamber:
- Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) in Surry
- Parent and Me Ballet
- Stained Glass for Beginners
- Yoga by the Bay
- La Rochelle Mansion + Museum
- Toddler Ballet
- Kids Ballet
- Music & The Solutionary Way: Songs and Conversation
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
PROJECT 2025: A SUPREME THREAT TO U.S. DEMOCRACY WORKSHOP
NORTHEAST HARBOR—Jennifer Flynn Walker of The Center for Popular Democracy will offer a free, public workshop on Project 2025: A Supreme Threat to U.S. Democracy.
The workshop will be held in the Mellon Room at the Northeast Harbor Library on Saturday, June 22, 2024 from 3:00-4:30.
“Project 2025, which is funded by the Heritage Foundation, has published a terrifying document with more than 900-detailed pages on how to turn our representative democracy into a
fully-empowered, staffed, tax-payer funded autocracy on day 1 of a Republican administration,” states Flynn.
“Project 2025 is a roadmap that inserts an extreme Christian view throughout American politics, a view that is neither democratic nor representative of the people. It calls for expanded presidential powers, elimination of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, fossil fuel expansion,rollback of green infrastructure investments, reduced consumer rights and protections, a Department of Justice weaponized against the people, and much more.”
“I hope attendees will come away from the workshop understanding the real threat Project 2025 poses to each of us and our world, and what can be done to work together to ensure this proposal is never enacted.“
Flynn Walker is Co-Chair of the Campaigns Department at the Center for Popular Democracy. She oversees teams working on voting rights and democracy, healthcare, housing, SCOTUS, and immigration and justice issues across the country.
“We’re pleased to welcome Jennifer to Maine so we can better understand Project 2025 and the threat it poses to our democracy,” said Caroline Pryor, one of the event organizers.
Flynn Walker is founder and former executive director of VOCAL-NY, organizing around welfare rights, homelessness, drug user rights, and immigration with winning campaigns that resulted in a right to housing legislation and over $30 million to build housing.
The Center for Popular Democracy, founded in 2012, uses a model for change that draws on successful base-building and advocacy by partners. The Center is working for change thanks to a staff of 95, and 53 partners and affiliates in 131 cities in 34 states and Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. In Maine, the Center’s affiliate is the Maine People’s Alliance, the state’s largest community action organization with more than 32,000 members.
Flynn Walker’s recognitions include the Union Square Award, Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Award, and New York City Council Hero Award. She is profiled in the book Girl Activist for her creation of the birddog nation and the campaign to save the Affordable Care Act. Her master’s degree was awarded by New School for Social Research.
MDI COMMUNITY MARKET!
Come see us at Mother’s Kitchen from 9 to 1 and find plenty of fresh food from your local farmers & harvesters
We’ll have veggies, mushrooms, seedlings, fish, mussels, vegan baked goods and art! Live music from 11 with Gus La Casse and Mathias Kamin! Community tent! You can purchase fresh food to donate to Common Good Soup Kitchen in Southwest Harbor! Mother’s Kitchen and Salsbury’s will both be open. Plenty to do and to see! And we’re still accepting vendors, so if you’re interested in joining come chat with us
FINBACK ALEHOUSE LIVE MUSIC!
There’s live music every Saturday night all summer long at the Finback Alehouse in Bar Harbor. Music starts at 9:30!
VIRTUAL WRITE ON! WRITING GROUP
Want support for your craft? The Write On! writer’s group has been meeting at the Jesup since 2014, and remotely during the pandemic. Each meeting, members may bring in up to 1200 words to read for feedback, and in turn offer feedback to others. Although each member doesn’t get to read work every time, the group shares the time fairly. The group meets on Zoom, and hold in confidence what is shared. This group welcomes adults 18 and up writing in many genres. There’s no homework–the only commitment is two hours on Saturday mornings.
Date and Time
SATURDAYS
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location
Zoom
How to Attend
Call the library, 207-288-4245, for more about us and how to join, or email info@jesuplibrary.org.
Welcoming all knitters and would be knitters…and crocheters! The Welcome and Care Team at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church UCC is hosting a weekly Prayer Shawl Mission Group every Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church UCC. The intention of the group is to create a sense of community and a flow of Prayer Shawls for distribution to those in need of comfort due to illness, loneliness, or loss. Supplies and instruction will be provided to those with skills for knitting and/or crocheting and for those with a desire to learn.
There are no costs to the participants.
For more information contact Pat by calling (203) 770-0063 or email: pgdizazzo@yahoo.com.
Saturday events Via the Chamber:
- Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) in Surry
- Parent and Me Ballet
- Stained Glass for Beginners
- Yoga by the Bay
- La Rochelle Mansion + Museum
- Toddler Ballet
- Kids Ballet
- Music & The Solutionary Way: Songs and Conversation
SUNDAY, JUNE
PLANT SALE
6 p.m. start
Bar Harbor’s Eden Farmer’s Market
Maine grown, raised and value added delights in Bar Harbor.
Sundays, 9 am -12 noon, rain or shine, Park and Main Streets.
Sunday events via the Chamber:
- Acadia Festival of Traditional Music & Dance
- The Unforeseen Wilderness: Nature, Bookbinding, and Photography at Schoodic Institute (Winter Harbor, ME)
- Yoga by the Bay
- Which Stitch: A Circle of Needles
- Maine Historic Colonial Desserts
FUTURE EVENTS:
BAR HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL!
2024 Tickets are on sale!! Concerts July 8- October 13. https://www.barharbormusicfestival.org/2024-season/
(Please call or text 212-222-1026 for subscriptions or orders by check)
New for 2024: lower priced rear section seating, Young Audience Concerts on Cranberry thanks to Ned Swain and Devenish Wines, a collab concert with Nimbus Dance, and FREE tickets for everyone 21 and under thanks to the Thirsty Whale in Bar Harbor!
Sunday, June 30
FREE Young Audience Concert on Great Cranberry Island. Sponsor Ned Swain and Devenish Wines. Stories, Poems, and Music. Willie was Different by Norman Rockwell and Seymour Barab, Sail Away by Langston Hughes and Ashley Bryan, Portraits of Langston by Valerie Coleman. Allison Kiger, flute, Eric Thomas, clarinet, Christina Spurling, piano.
Monday, July 8th at 7:30PM
FREE Isaac Bray with the Bar Harbor Town Band on the Village Green featuring Rossini’s most popular aria “Largo al factotum” from the Bar Harbor of Seville (and classic cartoons!)
Isaac Bray has performed numerous opera roles and other solo engagements with musical organizations around the United States including Florida Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Central City Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, Opera San Antonio, Charlottesville Opera, the Bangor Symphony, and Opera in the Pines. Notable opera roles include Marcello in La Bohème, the title role in Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, John Proctor in The Crucible, Le DancaÏre in Carmen, and Sam in Trouble in Tahiti. Bray has performed solo engagements in New England with Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bagaduce Chorale, Acadia Choral Society, and Blue Hill Bach. Bray was a member of the Florida Grand Opera Young Artist Studio, the Bonfils-Stanton Apprentice Program with Central City Opera, and the apprentice artist program with Natchez Festival of Music. He is a graduate of the Boston University Opera Institute, The Boston Conservatory, and Abilene Christian University. Mr. Bray teaches on the voice faculty at the University of Maine and also serves on the board of the Maine chapter of NATS.
Veronica O’Brien
Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30PM
Pianist Veronica O’Brien (Festival debut) Music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Gershwin, and Scriabin – at St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church.
Info and Purchase
Oceanview Tea Concert – Kelly Hill, mezzo-soprano and Steven Crawford, piano at the Bar Harbor Historical Society. With donated tea and pastries.
Friday, July 12 at 4PM
Info and Purchase
FRIENDS OF ACADIA SAVE THE DATES
ACADIA WILDLIFE CENTER
Open House & Silent Auction!
ACADIA WILDLIFE CENTER IS CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF REHABILITATING INJURED NATIVE WILDLIFE!
Join us for our ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE and SILENT AUCTION
When: Saturday July 6th
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Where: Town Hill Community Hall 1328 ME-102, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
Directions: Please park at Town Hill’s Community Hall which has plenty of free parking. Our Silent Auction, Bake Sale and much more will be outside the community hall. We will be providing shuttle rides from the Town Hill’s Community Hall, 5 minutes down the road to our Nature Center, and then back to the hall throughout the day.
Activities:
Town Hill’s Community Center: Silent auction, raffle, baked goods, local restaurant participants, playground, and more! We have many gift items and gift certificates donated by local businesses and every dollar will support the ongoing work of Acadia Wildlife Center. We will be drawing 2 RAFFLE TICKETS at the end of the day, each winner + 3 of their guests will be invited to a release of wild animal that has been rehabilitated and is ready to go back to the wild!
Nature Center: (via shuttle back and forth from Town Hill’s Community Hall) Explore our Nature Center, meet our Animal Ambassadors, learn about Wildlife Rehabilitation & Environmental Conservation! You will learn about each species and observe wildlife you only ever see from a distance. The Ambassador Non-Releasable Education Animals currently in the Center are: A Red Fox, Bald Eagle, Porcupine, Skunk, Vulture, Great Horned Owl, Bats, Red-Tailed Hawk, and others.
BAR HARBOR FOURTH OF JULY PARADE
Acadia Wildlife will be marching in the Bar Harbor July 4th Parade/
OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION FOR ITS 30th YEAR ON JULY 6!
To celebrate tits 30th year on July 6th, Acadia Wildlife will be having a silent auction, raffle, merchandise, bake sale, and possibly an ice cream truck at the Town Hill Community Hall.
The organization will be having people park at the ball field and transporting them down the road to visit the center. More details to come, but save the date!
SHAVING CREAM WIFFLE BALL
On June 27 at the Bar Harbor Congregational Chuch parking lot in Bar Harbor, off Mount Desert Street there will be free shaving cream wiffle ball. The fun begins at 6 p.m. It is free.
Acclaimed Author Kevin Wilson Visits Mount Desert Island for Special Events on June 26th and 27th, 2024
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND—Jesup Memorial Library and Northeast Harbor Library are excited to announce that celebrated author Kevin Wilson will be visiting Mount Desert Island for two special events as part of the NEA Big Read: MDI.
Author Talk at Jesup Memorial Library
On Thursday, June 27th at 7pm, Kevin Wilson will be at the Jesup Memorial Library for an author talk on his book Nothing to See Here. During this event, Wilson will delve into his writing process, share insights from his literary career, and take questions from the audience. Attendees will also have the opportunity to get their books signed by the author. Books will be for sale, courtesy of Sherman’s Maine Coast Books.
Writing Workshop at Northeast Harbor Library
Additionally, Wilson will lead a writing workshop for adults on Wednesday, June 26th from 5pm-7pm at the Northeast Harbor Library. This workshop, focused on writing family stories, is open to writers of both fiction and non-fiction, regardless of their level of experience. Space is limited and registration is required.
About NEA Big Read: MDI
These events are a highlight of the NEA Big Read: MDI, a program which the Jesup Memorial Library was awarded an NEA Big Read grant for 2024. The featured book for this year’s NEA Big Read: MDI is Wilson’s acclaimed novel Nothing to See Here, along with other companion books for young readers. The NEA Big Read aims to broaden our understanding of the world, our communities, and ourselves through the power of a shared reading experience.
From January to June 2024, Jesup Memorial Library, in collaboration with community partners on MDI and across the state, distributed free copies of Nothing to See Here, hosted book discussions, a self-care fair, activities for kids, and other programs. The chosen books explore themes such as non-traditional parenting, homeschooling, the importance of self-care and emotional regulation, and women’s basketball.
About Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and their sons. There, he writes and teaches as an associate professor in the English Department at Sewanee: The University of the South. He is the author of two other novels, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011) and Perfect Little World (Ecco, 2017), along with two short story collections: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco, 2018). When he is not teaching or writing, he spends long hours with his children rambling through the mountains of Tennessee, exploring their backyard pond, watching old WrestleManias, hiking through the woods and “searching for frogs and lizards, for all the living things moving around us, unseen unless you try to find them” (LA Review of Books). When Wilson writes about parenthood, he captures this unseen: the aliveness of childhood curiosity, the fierce gratitudes of parenting, the terrible and wonderful uncertainties of love. “You can’t anticipate what your children are going to do or what the problems are going to be,” he told the New York Times. “You love them, so you attack it head on and go forward.”
These events are free and offered in-person or virtually via Zoom.
Register for the Writing Workshop with Kevin Wilson.
Register for the Author Talk: Kevin Wilson.
WRITING WORKSHOP
You can still register for a writing workshop with Kevin Wilson on Wednesday, June 26 from 5-7 p.m in Northeast Harbor.
https://nehlibrary.libcal.com/event/10802101
Open Garden Day 2024
Saturday, July 27, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Seal Harbor, Maine
Six private gardens—details here.
$50 per guest. Stay as long as you like, just let us know if you plan to arrive morning or afternoon. Tickets are non-refundable. Event is held rain or shine.
Proceeds benefit dozens of local horticultural and conservation projects.
Note this is a shuttle-only tour, no private car access. Signs and volunteers will direct you to parking on east Cooksey Drive. Free bus access to Seal Harbor from Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor via Island Explorer. Most gardens have uneven terrain, stairs or narrow paths so are not handicap or stroller accessible. Houses are NOT open. Restroom available at Seal Harbor Village Green. No video cameras, dogs, or smoking. Cell phone photography only.
SHAVING CREAM WIFFLE BALL
On June 27 at the Bar Harbor Congregational Chuch parking lot in Bar Harbor, off Mount Desert Street there will be free shaving cream wiffle ball. The fun begins at 6 p.m. It is free.
GET YOUR ANNUAL BIRTHDAY PARTY ON!
To get tickets, click here.
INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCES
Years ago Bar Harbor had monthly international folk dances with live music in the Municipal Building “ballroom”. The live band that played was The Bar Harbor Folk Orchestra with Tom Crikelair, Jon Archer, Carl Karush and Joe Niemczura. But in the 1990s, the dances were discontinued. International folk dances in Ellsworth were suspended in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. But now an enthusiastic group of dancers and musicians from both on and off the Island, have assembled to relaunch this community activity. “We want to share our love for other cultures and the joy of dancing to live ethnic music” noted one of the group members of the newly-formed Downeast Folk Dancers. “We hope everyone will come to join in the fun!”
International Folk Dancing with the Kotwica Band, featuring dances from the Baltic, to the Black Sea, and beyond, will be held on the first Saturday of the month this summer: July 6, August 3, 7:00-9:00pm, at the MDI-YWCA, 36 Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor. Dances will be taught by Carolyn Rapkievian – no experience and no partner is needed. This new series is sponsored by the Downeast Folk Dancers. Admission is $10 at the door. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559917761571
CRITERION EVENTS
June 28th – 7:00PM
Sandbar Solstice: June 15th – 7:00PM
Howie Day – 20th Anniversary of “Stop All The World Now”
Saturday, July 20 | 7PM
https://criteriontheatre.fanlink.tv/072024
ARTWAVES CLASSES AND EVENTS
ArtWaves often has classes, a variety every week. For the updated selection, check out its website here
A FEW OF THE FUTURE JESUP EVENTS
For a full list of Jesup Memorial Library events, click through to its calendar here.
QUESTIONS OF DEMOCRACY
The 2024 College of the Atlantic Summer Institute will examine democracy in the United States during one of the most consequential years of our times.
Struggles for democracy traverse our lives and society, from ballot boxes to inboxes, from the corridors of congress to the halls of schools, from kitchen tables to city streets. Questions of democracy confront us in our debates over freedom of the press, voting rights, and artistic freedom, in struggles of authoritarianism, and in conversations about how to effectively engage with disagreement and conflict across a range of topics.
Join us from July 29 – August 2 as elected officials, authors, analysts, and community organizers discuss what democracy means to them, the threats it faces, and how our individual and collective efforts can fortify democracy now and for future generations.
We will announce speakers over the next weeks. Please check the Summer Institute page for more details as they are announced. Registration is free, and opens May 1 for Champlain Society members, June 1 for the general public.
Upcoming Events at the MDI BIO LAB
Please register for MDI Bio Lab events by clicking on the title.
June 24, 2024 at 5 PM: MDI Science Café online and on campus at Maren Auditorium – What the Science Says About Endangered Right Whales
New England Aquarium senior researcher Amy Knowlton, Ph.D., has worked on the Right Whale Research Program since 1983. Nick Record, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, is an expert ocean modeler and forecaster. They will share her latest findings on whale mortality, ecosystem shifts and potential solutions.
July 11, 2024 4-6 PM: Family Science Night at MDI Bio Lab
Family Science Night is an annual summer tradition where scientists, students, and members of the community come together to encourage learners of all ages to engage in hands-on science activities. We’ll have more than a dozen activities and exhibits organized by MDI Bio Lab Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows and several community partners. Bring your friends and family and have fun with science!
Making Democracy Work Series
The Jesup Memorial Library, Acadia Senior College, and the League of Women Voters – Downeast are pleased to announce a short series of programs under the theme “Making Democracy Work.” This series will feature prominent speakers addressing the challenges facing modern governance and proposing ways to enhance the democratic process.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld
Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Tuesday, July 16th, 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Steven Levitsky
The David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University
ONGOING:
GET YOUR HERO ON!
BAR HARBOR FIRE DEPARTMENT
To check if Bar Harbor Fire Department is currently hiring, please go to the town’s jobs page.
But even if it isn’t, you can become a call member
Becoming a call force firefighter requires extensive training, hard work, and dedication to the community. We rely on call force firefighters to respond quickly to emergencies, to perform firefighting duties, and to provide assistance and support to career firefighters. To be a fall force firefighter is to have a chance to aid and serve the community, which is an extremely rewarding experience.
La Rochelle Mansion + Museum
Join the Bar Harbor Historical Society at Bar Harbor’s Summer Cottage, La Rochelle, this season! See the exhibits and artifacts that helped shaped this storied town!
May 28 at 10:00 A.M. – Oct 26 at 2:00 P.M.
Bar Harbor Historical Society, 127 West Street
$15.00
GET YOUR VOLTA ON!
Volta, in Trenton, has a ton of things always going on. You can check that out here.
GET YOUR MOVIE ON!
REEL PIZZA
Reel Pizza is open! To check out what’s playing go here.
Tickets are on sale via its website.
Please note that for a while this winter, it will be closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
CRITERION THEATRE
The theater’s website is here, and click for the latest updates.
GET YOUR FITNESS, DANCE AND WELLNESS ON!
THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE!
The Neighborhood House has a slew of classes to help you get your fitness on. Descriptions are at its website.
MDI YMCA!
The MDI YMCA’s program guide is here.
DOWNEAST COMMUNITY DANCE
Downeast Community Dance
Free form dance, conscious or ecstatic, not facilitated. Come drop into your own joyful movement.
This is now held the first, third, and fifth Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. at ArtWaves Dance StudioFor more information, contact Susan at 288-8103 or cloudnine@gwi.net.
Location
Dance Studio at ArtWaves, 1345A State Highway 102, Bar Harbor
GET YOUR MUSIC ON!
THE FINBACK ALEHOUSE
The Finback has entertainment most nights. The schedule is posted every Tuesday.
THE NOR’EASTER
The Nor’Easter has music every Saturday night from 8-10 in the summer and 7-9 in the winter.
ONE OFF PUB
The One Off Pub often has music and is often open until midnight. The location? 119 Main Street.
HAVANA
Every Saturday night its open, at 6:30 p.m, you can come hear the maestro Bob Lombardi. Maestro isn’t something we put out there for everyone. Havana is on lower Main Street.
IVY MANOR INN
Every day out on the lawn, weather permitting, the music begins at 2!
“Things To Do” is mostly curated by me looking for things happening in the upcoming week, which takes a lot of time and I truly do not know all that is going on.
If there’s something in Bar Harbor (or MDI or Trenton or Ellsworth or even Bangor) that you’d like me to mention, please let me know, because I’m definitely always missing some events every week.
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