Arts and Culture
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life.”
— Pablo Picasso
Maine Sculpture Trail, Addison
Connect with the Arts
Spend some time in DownEast Acadia, and you’ll feel the same artistic magnetism that
has long drawn creative types here. That same artistic connection is woven deeply into
the Passamaquoddy culture and on display at the Indian Days Heritage Celebration and
the Abbe Museum’s Basket Makers Market.
Here, art crosses generational lines too, like at Schoodic Arts For All’s Hammond Hall,
which offers diverse cultural programming including multi-generational art, music and
dance exhibitions, classes, and performances. The Eastport Arts Center brings together
art at The Tides Institute & Museum and music through a symphony, an ongoing Concert
Series, and Quoddy Voices, as well as theater and film.
Tour the workshops at the world-renown Haystack Mountain School of Craft, maybe take
a class. Enjoy open-air theater and dance at Settlement Quarry in Stonington. Kneisel Hall,
Opera House Arts, 1932 Criterion Theatre, and The Grand all host best-in-class live
performance and film.
Great music has found its home here all year long, but each summer, the region swells
with a delightful cacophony of genres. Bluegrass and Roots stream out of the woods
near Grand Lake Stream, Celtic from Calais, Jazz from Bar Harbor, or rock-out on the
waterfront in Ellsworth. Some weekends it seems like there is live music happening in
every brewery, bandshell, and bar along the DownEast coast.
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