The Bagaduce Music Lending Library collects, preserves and lends printed sheet music and scores, and to provide music education programs. For fourteen years the BMLL has hosted a statewide Young Composers' Competition each spring in Blue Hill. Students from across Maine submit their short works for judging by a panel of three professional composers. Students are invited to perform their work, receive cash prizes and speak with judges about their work at our Young Composers' Festival in April. BMLL also hosts traveling music education performances.
Contact: Sean Schmeits, Executive Director, 207 374-5454,
Email: sean@bagaducemusic.org www.bagaducemusic.org
The mission of Bay Chamber Concerts is to engage people in the performing arts by showcasing excellence. BCC continues its rich history of presenting chamber music; features classical, world, jazz and contemporary music, lectures and dance, for an increasingly diverse audience; offers educational programs in the performing arts to people of all ages; and uses unique settings along the coast of Maine as well as broadcast media to create memorable experiences for audiences and artists. In 2010, BCC opened its community music school in Rockport, Maine, complete with rehearsal studios, classrooms, and a recital hall.
Contact: Shaunna Brown, Program and Events Coordinator, 207 236-2823,
Email: shaunna@baychamberconcerts.org www.baychamberconcerts.org
The Colby College Museum of Art is a collecting and teaching museum dedicated to the preservation, display, and interpretation of the visual arts. Within its collection are works from diverse cultures and historical periods, with a focus on American art, and a commitment to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. The Museum provides docent-led tours and activities for more than 3,000 Maine school children each year, with full reimbursement for the cost of transportation.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, Mirken Curator of Education, 207 859-5609,
Email: llessing@colby.edu www.colby.edu/museum
The Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ preserve, maintain, and promote, through a program of public concerts and education, the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ. FOKO offers a youth concert; Meet the King of Instruments; family concert Kids, Kartoons & Kotzschmar; and silent film concerts at Merrill Auditorium, Portland, an in school curriculum which includes a demonstration organ on site during the 2-3 week artist in residence program, lectures, organ demonstrations and tours.
Contact: Elsa Geskus, Volunteer Coordinator, 207 571-9859
Email:
geskus@kutztown.edu www.foko.org
The mission of the Grand Theater in Downtown Ellsworth is to enrich the lives of people in Downeast and Eastern Maine by presenting diverse, unique, high-quality programs that provide entertaining, artistic, educational and social experiences, including its Performing Arts for Children series which includes this year a musical about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and a Global Safari.
Contact: Kristie Billings, Arts Education Coordinator 207-667-9500,
Email:
kbillings@grandonline.org www.grandonline.org
The Portland Museum of Art strives to enrich the lives of people through acquisition,
preservation, and interpretation of the visual arts and the Museum's architecturally
significant buildings. The Museum is located at Seven Congress Square, Portland, in the heart of the downtown arts district. Education at the PMA initiates and facilitates conversation about works of art in the Museum's collections and exhibitions. Programs for all ages include art classes for children and adults, guided tours of the exhibitions and collections, professional development workshops for teachers, in-gallery interpretation stations, lectures, artist talks, and films.
Contact: Dana Baldwin, Peggy L. Osher Director of Education, 207 775-6148 x3225,
Email: dbaldwin@portlandmuseum.org www.portlandmuseum.org
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