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Arts & Culture

2025

Cultural revival expanding Downeast; Historic church gains new life

A historic building in East Machias, having been rescued from deteriorating into the ground, is now seeing "its old bones" find purpose once more. The East Machias Cultural Arts Center (EMCAC) now calls First Congregational Church home as it moves to interact with both church members, residents and

2025

Cultural revival expanding Downeast; Machias Arts Center to open

The Machias Arts Council (MAC) will be opening a new community project and space this spring to both engage the membership as well as the community. The rental space located at 277 Main Street, the former Refine Furniture building, will be the Machias Arts Center. "We are getting all

2025

Collaboration brings musicians to local schools

“Where words fail, music speaks," wrote Hans Christian Andersen of music's ability to facilitate communication – and yet there are key places where music literacy is lacking, including in Washington County elementary schools.

2024

Legend of pirate Samuel Bellamy spurs hunts for facts, treasure

With would be pirates about to descend on Eastport, the knots of fiction versus fact can be hard to untangle.

2024

Lubec Movie Queen gives rare glimpse into history of town

In the 1930s, nearly everyone in America was going to the movie theaters on a weekly basis -- but it was rare for those films to feature small-town residents or settings. That wasn't the case for the Movie Queen films, a series of short movies produced by the Boston based Amateur Theatre Guild.

2023

Language keepers film stirs emotions

The screening of a PBS film about efforts to preserve Native languages in the U.S., including the Passamaquoddy language, brought forth strong emotions among Passamaquoddy tribal citizens who attended the premiere showing in the state at the Eastport Arts Center on November 1.

2023

Shead jazz band wins state festival gold

The Shead Jazz Quartet under the direction of Eastport schools music teacher Robert Sanchez received the only Gold Medal Performance Award at the Maine State Jazz Festival at Hampden Academy on Saturday, March 18.