Please join us at the beautiful Nonesuch River Golf Club on September 20 for our 5th Annual Golf Tournament! A fun day for golfers of all levels, the tournament will be an 18-hole scramble with a shotgun start at 9:00 am. There will be many contests with prizes, including a hole-in-one, closest-to-pin, longest drive, putting, and [...]
Teacher? Lawyer? Doctor? Business Consultant? Barbee Gilman could have been anyone of these but instead has decided to stay home while her children are still school-aged and devote her time to her family, her community, volunteerism and leading the Children’s Museum & Theatre Board of Directors. As a passionate friend of the Museum & Theatre [...]
Dancing With Books is a series of innovative early childhood reading programs at the Museum & Theatre that uses theatre, movement and music to help develop young children’s enthusiasm for performing arts and reading while enriching their language skills in a fun and engaging way. Our most recent series was funded by a generous grant [...]
Renaldo, Brenda and Melody are just three of our Kids on the Block! Hi everyone! Do you know what Mandy, Renaldo, Mark, Brenda, and Melody all have in common? They are our new Kids on the Block life size puppets and each one has a unique disability that they have come to understand and that [...]
Each year starting in early October, our volunteer friends committee spends endless hours planning and preparing for our annual auction. The auction raises funds for the Museum & Theatre’s exhibits and educational programming, is rewarding to work on as a volunteer and fun to attend as a guest. This year’s auction, which was held this [...]
Each year since the late 1980s, our annual auction has raised much-needed funds to keep our Portland-based organization a premier cultural institution for all children and families, regardless of need. For the past four years, we have had one particularly dedicated auction volunteer who has made a huge contribution to our auction leadership team. Her name is Julie Chevalier [...]
By now, we hope you’ve heard all about our ongoing shows in the Dress Up Theatre, Cinderella and The Emperor’s New Clothes. But have you heard of the New Clothes Collaboration? When these two shows were selected many months ago, we thought of so many ways all kinds of artists in our community could make [...]
Winter marks a busy season for science programming at Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. Our Youth Ranger program, generously funded by Fairchild Semiconductor, is an innovative leadership training program for students in grades 8-11 interested in environmental education. It involves recruiting, training and employing teenagers as environmental science educators who work under the guidance [...]