Island-wide Memorial Day weekend events
Here’s what’s happening around the island on Memorial Day weekend.
Entertainment
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Arts Glances: Final days of Jesup May exhibit, poetry reading, Rockefeller Garden
Stop by the Jesup Memorial Library to see the work of Bar Harbor-based artist Liddy Hubbell.
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Award-winning writer offers workshop at Gilley
Award-winning writer and mixed media artist Annaliese Jakimides teaches the first of four writing workshops at the Wendell Gilley Museum on Saturday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to noon.
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Open Barn Day May 21
Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center is holding its annual Open Barn Day on Saturday, May 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Lamoine Community Arts to present one-acts
A readers’ theater production of two one-act comedies, “The Death of Me” and “This Random World,” will be presented by Lamoine Community Arts at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 21, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 22, at the Lamoine Grange.
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MDI Drama’s spring play is back on course
MDI Drama is scheduled to perform its first spring play in three years at Mount Desert Island High School’s Higgins Demas Theater this Friday.
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Arts Glances: Interactive story time, library talks, student art show, midday concert
Join Island Readers and Writers (IRW) and Wendell Gilley Museum from 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 14, at the museum, for an interactive story time celebrating Ashley Bryan’s “Beautiful Blackbird.”
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ACT makes Grand return with “Matilda the Musical”
The success of this show rests on the small shoulders of the young actor chosen to play Matilda, who has a daunting amount of dialogue to say, songs to sing and stage business to perform.
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Arts Glances: Library Mother’s Day sale, Open Barn Day, spring plant sale
Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center is holding its annual Open Barn Day on Saturday, May 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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ACT to perform “Matilda the Musical” at The Grand
Acadia Community Theater (ACT), a community organization that gives annual live performances on Mount Desert Island, was working on a performance of “Matilda the Musical” two years ago before COVID-19 halted production.
