There - Then
January Greendrinks
THERE + THEN- March 2010
Photography by Jonathan Laurence
The first Greendrinks of 2010 brought together Maine and the VIA Group at the Portland advertising agency’s Danforth Street headquarters.
ICING: SPACE Gallery + Maine magazine’s New Year’s Eve Bash
THERE + THEN- March 2010
Photographs by Samuel Cousins
Good food, good friends, and a handful of great performances. The nonprofit arts venue showed video from SWOON’s spiffy installation, Olas! performed a catchy, hand-clapping round of flamenco, and Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia rocked.
Read more: ICING: SPACE Gallery + Maine magazine’s New Year’s Eve Bash
Oncology on Canvas
THERE + THEN- Jan/Feb 2010
Photography by Jonathan Laurence
The fifth annual documentary film festival highlighted 37 feature films and included a weekend of events.
Camden International Film Festival
THERE + THEN- Jan/Feb 2010
Photography by Jonathan Laurence
The fifth annual documentary film festival highlighted 37 feature films and included a weekend of events.
Kindle: Northern New England Bioneers Conference
THERE + THEN- Jan/Feb 2010
Photography by Amanda Kowalski
Regional environmental leaders, social thinkers, and musicians gathered around Portland’s Arts District for two days of presentations and telecasts that offered solutions for restoring people and the planet.
AIGA Maine’s Snowball
THERE + THEN- Jan/Feb 2010
Photography by Amanda Kowalski
The professional design association hosted its annual holiday party for creatives at Port City Music Hall with live music from Sly Chi and hors d’oeuvres from Aurora Provisions.
Swoon Opening at SPACE Gallery
THERE + THEN- Jan/Feb 2010
Photography by Amanda Kowalski
Brooklyn street artist Swoon and her artistic collaborators descended on SPACE Gallery in Portland to install a new urban landscape—paper portraits, cardboard collages, and wheat paste posters. For one night, artists from Portland and Bed-Stuy collided on the dance floor.
Portland Museum of Art’s Call of the Coast Auction
THERE + THEN- Nov/Dec 2009
Photography by Amanda Kowalski
The museum hosted its annual silent auction at Holiday Inn By the Bay with auctioneer
Read more: Portland Museum of Art’s Call of the Coast Auction
North Forty Creative’s Point of Connection
THERE + THEN- Nov/Dec 2009
Photography by Amanda Kowalski
The Point of Connection art installation at the North Dam Mill kicked off a two-day chalk drawing event in downtown.
PICNIC
THERE + THEN- Nov/Dec 2009
Photography by Nathan Eldridge
Portland’s own renegade craft fair featured handmade posters, clothes, and cards in Lincoln Park. Live music from up-and-coming artists on Peapods Recordings.
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance’s Literary Garden Party
THERE + THEN- October 2009
Photography by Amanda Kowalski
Angus King and Mary Herman hosted the writer’s sixth annual sunset cocktail party at their beach cottage near Reid State Park in Georgetown.
Read more: Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance’s Literary Garden Party
Maine Magazine Launch Party
THERE + THEN- October 2009
Photography by Amanda Kowalski
We think our party had all the trimmings of a classic magazine launch—here and now in Maine.
Taste of the Midcoast
The Contemporaries at the Portland Museum of Art
THERE + THEN- September 2009
Photography by Bryan Bruchman
An empty bottle hung from a tree in the Portland Museum of Arts’s garden on Spring Street as fiddler Pam Weeks and flutist Laura Block played live music. Food purveyors offered a taste of the Maine coast—all paired with a summer painting show, Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England.
