Schoodic Arts

Advisory Board Member, Former Principal at Peninsula School, & Vice Principal Specializing in Drop-Out Mitigation at Sumner Memorial High School.

We want for our children a childhood filled with dreams, passions, and hope.  How we expose them to new ideas and ways of looking at the world helps them to see possibilities- not just for the world, but for themselves, as well.  We are blessed to live in an area where the environment itself is art, and each of us an artist who can

It’s obvious Jeremy Strater belongs in a coffee house. So, he brought one to him, and the rest of us have benefitted ever since.

Once a month, the Last Friday Coffee House features the best desserts around and folk music that fills Hammond Hall to the balcony. Jeremy Strater has seen to the programming of the Coffee House since its inception nine years ago. He introduces each act, walks musicians out the door after the performance and bids them to come back real soon. And he never stops smiling when in the company of Michael Cooney or Paul Gerimiah or other blues and blue grass musicians.

Meetinghouse Theatre Lab is hard at work on a play about hard-working people. The spring production, Nickel and Dimed, is a play written by Joan Holden, based on the real-life experiences of Barbara Ehrenreich in her best-selling book of the same title. A well-known journalist, Ehrenreich went “undercover” as a low-wage worker in multiple jobs around the US, to see how people could get by. Mostly, she found, they didn’t, or did so just barely. Holden’s play highlights some of her experiences, including a stint in Maine, with humor and pathos.

This May through September, Winter Harbor and the peninsula can expect a monthly outdoor concert sponsored by Schoodic Arts for All.  Planning is still in the works, but we have so far settled on a schedule, and in cooperation with the Channing Chapel Preservation Society will be hosting these events at the parking area and lawn of the Channing Chapel Library.  Each concert will be held on the 3rd Sunday of the month at 5pm - May 17th, June 21st, July 19th, August 16th, and Sept. 20th.  Some performers to expect:  Schoodic Steel and the Cherryfield Town Band.  This event will be free to the public, with refreshments for sale.  We welcome any input or support - especially volunteers - and look forward to kicking off, celebrating, and wrapping up another Summer with you.