Arts & Leisure

CALLING ALL YOUNG ORGANISTS. Auditions are coming up for the Young Organist Collaborative (YOC). Recently, the organization sponsored a master class with Marblehead, Mass., organist Dr. Douglas Major, who is pictured here instructing Katelyn Emerson, 15, of York. The YOC subsidizes pipe organ lessons for music students between the ages of 11 and 16 in the Seacoast area. Applications for 2007-2008 are due May 1 and auditions are on May 12. FMI: visit www.stjohnsnh.org or call (603) 436-8283.
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Kittery author shares WWII stories with York Rotary

When Juliana Fern Patten, now of Kittery, was growing up in the Cincinnati area, a fixture in the family home was a World War II brass shell casing big enough and heavy enough to serve as a doorstop.

Photography and sculpture at Portsmouth's Banks Gallery

At the time of my first visit to Portsmouth's Banks Gallery, there were no special exhibits and the walls of several floors in the gallery were floor-to-ceiling filled by so many contemporary artists that I found it impossible to evaluate the immense number of holdings.

Film festival continues with "The Rocket"

The story of hockey great Maurice Richard will be the next presentation in the York Public Library's Winter Film Festival.

Tricky Trays are coming to town

The York High School Music Boosters have just the trick to make an early spring night a memorable one.

OPA Classic Film Series continues with "Mr. Hulot's Holiday"

Ogunquit Performing Arts continues the 2006-2007 Classic Film Series season with "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" at the Dunaway Center next week.

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This week's happenings

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Old York Garden Club still growing after 75 years

The Old York Garden celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2007

OPA presents Irish entertainment for St. Patrick's Day

In a double-header of Irish grace and humor, Ogunquit Performing Arts will present its Irish Evening on Friday, March 16, at 7 p.m., featuring Irish step dancers from the renowned Stillson School of Irish Dance to be followed by a showing of the hilarious Irish film, "Waking Ned Devine."

Combating winter with theatre: a few attractions

On a cold evening, this past weekend, at Portsmouth's Players' Ring we attended the Mad Dogs and Englishmen production of Noel Coward's time-tested, improbable farce, "Blythe Spirit," a tricky theatrical undertaking requiring the presence of a wifely ghost hovering about the stage, raising havoc to second-time-around husband-and-wife domesticity in an English country house.

Former writer for The Independent publishes first book

"The Vanished Messenger," a new novel by Randy Moser, is being hailed as a rallying cry for Generation X.

Art Attack: New student exhibit pulls in a crowd

The opening of Third Annual York Public Library Student Art Show drew what might have been one of the largest turnouts ever at the library's opening reception on Friday, Feb. 2.

Captivating images of privileged early Americans through the eyes of John Brewster (1766-1854)

Pictured on the soft-cover catalogue accompanying the exhibition, "The World of John Brewster, Jr.," currently at the Portland Museum of Art, is a full-length portrait of an unidentified little girl.


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