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Connecting regional arts, culture and heritage through advocacy, education, promotion and celebration.

Our region includes twelve communities in Midcoast Maine: Brunswick, Harpswell, Topsham, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Richmond, Bath, West Bath, Phippsburg, Woolwich, Arrowsic, and Georgetown.

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Friday Art Walk¦Dates: 9/14, 9/21, 10/12 & 11/14, 5-8pm. Self-guided tour of studios and galleries. 2nd Fridays in downtown Brunswick & Topsham. 3rd Friday in Bath. Free. Contact: 798-6964, www.fiveriversartsalliance.org.

Community Contradance¦Dates: 9/21, 3rd Fridays, 7-11pm, People Plus, 6 Noble St Brunswick. Families/beginners at 7pm, all join in at 8. Benefit Merrymeeting Community Shares. $5/person, $15/family. Contact: 729-4718, mloosigian@yahoo.com

Family Arts Festival¦Date: 9/22, 10-4, Brunswick Town Mall. 11th annual “arts free for all.” Art making for all ages, plus music, dance, drumming and “Our Town” intergenerational workshops-plein air watercolor, photography and 3-D collage! Free. Contact: 798-6964, www.fiveriversartsalliance.org.

Maine Fiberarts Center-Warming Party¦9/30, 2-5 p.m. Warm Maine Fiberarts' new two-story addition and to celebrate the art quilts of Gayle Fraas and Duncan Slade. Demonstrating artists, show-and-tell, and refreshments, too! Contact: 721-0678, www.mainefiberarts.org

Suzan-Lori Parks Lecture¦10/2, 7:30pm, Pickard Theater, Bowdoin College. By Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur grant-winning playwright and author of “365 Days/365 Plays.” Free. Contact: 725-3375, http://academic.bowdoin.edu/theaterdance/calendar/index.shtml