Become a Participant!
Nothing is more fulfilling than your role as an audience member or on stage. We are actively looking for people to enjoy all aspects of the Arts Center. At the Eastport Arts Center, we offer a wide array of arts workshops, theatrical productions, visual arts, live music, and other performances. We seek volunteers, performers, and audience members!
The Eastport Arts Center has grown over its 18 years of existence to include 7 constituent programs. Please click on the links below to learn more about what the Arts Center has to offer.
Our Constituent Programs
| ArtsBloom ArtsBloom offers art workshops to all who are interested in exploring the arts, learning new skills, or fine-tuning existing skills. All workshops are held in and around the Eastport Arts Center, located on 36 Washington Street in Eastport, Maine. Just a short walk to the ocean, many artists and travelers visit the area in the summertime to capture the raw beauty located on the Bold Coast of Maine. Eastport offers many fun and unique experiences to those who travel or live in the area, and we hope that the Arts Center can complete your seasonal plans. |
| Eastport Gallery, 74 Water Street The Eastport Gallery is launching its 2010 season with an exciting “25th Anniversary Show”, June 12th-July 5th, for which it is soliciting work from all of the artists who have ever showed at the Gallery. The Gallery was organized in 1985 and through the years, including the current membership of 27 members, there have been some 70 artists represented by this artists’ non-profit cooperative. The Anniversary Show will be celebrating all of these artists and the contributions they have made to the artistic and cultural life of Eastport and surrounding communities. |
| Eastport Strings Eastport Strings began in 2001 with six students, rehearsing in a private home. Over the last eight years the program has served more than 50 students, thanks in part to a generous donation of 15 violins and 2 violas from Johnson String Instruments of Massachusetts and to local donors. Children who belong to the Eastport Strings program range in ages from 4 to 18. |
| Northern Lights Film Society Showing films both classic and contemporary from around the world that are beautiful and provocative. |
| Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra Under conductor, Trond Saevurud, the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony consists of varying age groups and performs 3-5 concerts per year throughout Washington County and Charlotte County, New Brunswick. |
| Stage East In 1990 Stage East established itself as a permanent theater program in Eastport, and soon began producing 3-4 performances each year. Over time, Stage East has grown into a household name, involving many community members in the process of theatrical production. Actors, stage crew, light crew, house managers, ticket volunteers and audience participants all contribute to the continuing success of Stage East. The year 2010 marks Stage East’s 20th season and members are working on creating a spectacular season that will not be soon forgotten. The season will open with a comedy in May, the summer performance will be a drama, and the season will finish off in the fall with a mystery. Season tickets will be sold in March through the first performance and it is likely that season pass holders will also receive special offers and invitations to special anniversary events. |
| The Concert Series Presenting primarily classical music. |