From live music and workshops to kids’ activities and festivals, our events calendar keeps happenings across Blue Hill Peninsula in one easy place to scan by date. Browse what’s coming up here, or hop over to the homepage calendar if you like a full grid view.
Community Calendar
Dar Williams Returns to Maine
The acclaimed songwriter Dar Williams is never content simply to sing. Her visit to Midcoast and DownEast Maine later this month will center on a July 18 evening performance at the 877-seat 1932 Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor. But Williams is also holding two of the “Town Talks” she’s been hosting across the country since she wrote a book about lessons in community-building gleaned in hundreds of towns she’s visited as a touring musician since the 1990s.
On Saturday the 18th at 1 p.m., she’ll appear at Hidden Barn Books in Bar Harbor to lead a conversation with local leaders and innovators fostering community resilience and thriving: Johannah Blackman of A Climate to Thrive, the Bar Harbor Story blogger and author Carrie Jones, Puranjot Kaur, a founder of Open Table MDI and John Zavodny of Maine Seacoast Mission. The journalist and songwriter Andy Revkin will facilitate.
Flash! In the Pans Community Pan Dance
Three crack of a cowbell and the music erupts. Join us for Music, Dancing, Food Trucks and Socializing.
Monday evenings 7:30pm to 9pm, from Memorial Day through Labor Day at Blue Hill town park and various locations throughout Downeast Maine.
Community pan dances are free. Donations are collect to benefit various local charities.
See our website for the official flyer with dates, locations, times and information for rain venues Flashinthepans.org.
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