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Two English classes in Piscataquis Community Secondary School in Guilford and one English class and one drama class in Penquis Valley High School in Milo created theater pieces during Building Community Through the Arts residencies (see our most recent website post)...

This is a busy month for Building Community Through the Arts! For the past two weeks all the ninth grade students in Bethel's Telstar High School, who are participating in a morning experiential learning program at nearby Bryant Pond, have been doing a BCTA creative...

  We now have the 2009 full census report for arts education in Maine available on our site - view it now in "Creative Communities" (under the "MAAE Programs" tab).

Youth in the Parkside area of Portland performed an original theater piece on the evening of July 21st that they had created as part of MAAE's Building Community Through the Arts (BCTA) program. The group of mostly immigrant and minority youth meet as part of OPEN...

(Emily Bean, BCTA Bangor Community Committee Chair; Betsy Webb, Superintendent of Bangor Schools; Susan Potters, MAAE Director) MAAE's Building Community Through the Arts (BCTA) program and Bangor High School's new Visual and Performing Arts Academy were celebrated...

Excerpted from an article by Peter Alexander in the Coastal Journal: "I was in Boston on Jan. 31 where I attended the Berklee High School Jazz Festival. The festival, organized by the Berklee College of Music, was celebrating its 47th year and drew well over 1,000...