Held in the Community Hall meeting room on the lower level. Also back by popular demand, Sheila Allen will guide young artists, ages 5–12, through a series of one-session projects. Materials will be supplied. All you need to bring is your imaginationand curiosity. Attend one class or all six. Free.

Co-sponsored by Belfast Flying Shoes, and called by Belfast’s Chrissy Fowler with live music by Bluebird (John Pranio, fiddle; Toki Oshima, guitar) If you don’t know what a contra dance is, think Virginia Reel without the hay bales. If you have never done it before, get ready for a lot of fun. It’s easy — ... Read more

Nationally-renowned cheese expert and Baysider, Liz Thorpe, returns this year with a a short course that answers that nagging question, “What wine do I serve with this cheese?” Liz will lead a tasting and discussion of 5 styles of cheese with 5 styles of wine. Includes cheeses, wines and sides. Tickets $35, on sale at ... Read more

Held in the Community Hall meeting room on the lower level. Also back by popular demand, Sheila Allen will guide young artists, ages 5–12, through a series of one-session projects. Materials will be supplied. All you need to bring is your imaginationand curiosity. Attend one class or all six. Free.

Presented in cooperation with the Bar Harbor Music Festival, the Juilliard School-trained musicians of The Ardelia Chamber Players have performed world-wide, including at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and Tanglewood Music Center. They are an exciting string trio bringing together the talents of Janey Choi, violinist; Christopher Souza, violist, and Andrea Lee, ... Read more

Held in the Community Hall meeting room on the lower level. Also back by popular demand, Sheila Allen will guide young artists, ages 5–12, through a series of one-session projects. Materials will be supplied. All you need to bring is your imaginationand curiosity. Attend one class or all six. Free.

Noah Fishman is a jazz performer by training, a classical composer on paper, and a traditional musician at heart. Raised by visual artists in a barn in Belfast Maine, Noah has studied music at Princeton, IRCAM, and Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He has performed on electric bass, double bass, mandolin, guitar, and drums in concert halls, ... Read more

Held in the Community Hall meeting room on the lower level. Also back by popular demand, Sheila Allen will guide young artists, ages 5–12, through a series of one-session projects. Materials will be supplied. All you need to bring is your imaginationand curiosity. Attend one class or all six. Free.

“Keeping the music of Ellington and Strayhorn alive and swinging...”, the musicians of Novel Jazz, a 7-piece ensemble, have been performing straight-ahead jazz in and around Maine and New England for three decades. Coming out with their 4th CD this summer, they are known for combing the Ellington/Strayhorn archives and bringing to performance long- lost ... Read more

Held in the Community Hall meeting room on the lower level. Also back by popular demand, Sheila Allen will guide young artists, ages 5–12, through a series of one-session projects. Materials will be supplied. All you need to bring is your imaginationand curiosity. Attend one class or all six. Free.