Join us to celebrate work that brings together diverse people creating common-sense solutions toward a healthy and toxic-free future at the Environmental Healthy Strategy Center’s 2018 Celebration. Community members will come together to celebrate the work done in Maine and nationwide to get toxic chemicals out of children’s and families’ food, drinking water, and products. The keynote speaker this year is Dr. Ami Zota, Scd, MS, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who is recognized for her research on toxic chemicals in food and her environmental justice advocacy.

Merry Madness, a Portland Downtown event, brings thousands of residents and visitors downtown for a one-of-a-kind holiday shopping experience. On this special night, more than 75 shops stay open late (until 10pm) so that shoppers can enjoy a truly magical evening exploring all that downtown has to offer.

Please note: Merry Madness is 21+ and rain, shine, or snow.

Internationally acknowledged as one of the finest traditional Irish bands of recent times, Lunasa’s inventive arrangements and bass driven grooves have steered Irish music into exciting territory. Lunasa returns to the Camden Opera House by popular demand!

Join us in Portland on Monday, December 31 for the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s 11th annual Polar Bear Dip & Dash. NRCM’s chilling and thrilling 5k and polar bear dip raises funds to combat climate change. The effects of climate change on Maine’s environment are severe. Weather patterns are changing from one extreme to the next, habitat has been lost, and our seas are rising.

National Geographic Live speakers share their journeys of exploration from being on assignment around the world. Illustrated with award-winning photography and video, each evening concludes with a speaker-led audience Q&A session.

Join veteran National Geographic photographer Jodi Cobb on a whirlwind retrospective of a distinguished career spanning four decades.

Get ready for four days of family-friendly fun! Sugarloaf, in partnership with EqualityMaine, will keep the party going Thursday through Sunday with parties, fireworks, presentations and more. Discounted lodging packages and Kids’ Night Out programs are available.

“The new princess of Nubian pop” (The Guardian), Alsarah first graced Ovations’ series in 2015 as part of the pan-African music extravaganza, the Nile Project. In 2019, the stunning Sudanese-born singer, songwriter, bandleader and ethnomusicologist returns with her band, the Nubatones.

Each January, over 900 of the state’s leading real estate experts attend the Annual Forecast Conference & Member Showcase.  Scheduled to be held on January 17, 2019 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland, this unique conference brings together the largest gathering of commercial real estate professionals in Maine, and is specifically geared toward developers, brokers, architects, bankers, attorneys, accountants, and other industry professionals.

Voices Appeared is a live multimedia performance and historical reconstruction of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc. Curated and performed by the UK’s celebrated Orlando Consort, the project uses vocal works from the early part of the 15th century — coinciding with Joan of Arc’s lifetime — to accompany the classic silent film.

Presented by the Public Theatre. A blundering fertility doctor mistakenly implants the embryo of a latte-sipping liberal couple into the womb of a NRA-cardholding conservative family! Get ready for an outrageously funny nine months as both couples attempt to become friends for the good of the child. Don’t miss this timely and provocative new comedy that asks, “Will our similarities ever outweigh our differences?”