2025 Event Calendar Quick Links
Art, Music, Food & Community
Note: Our calendar is subject to updates. Please double-check updates by emailing [email protected] or texting 207-930-5919. We are building the 2025 calendar now and expect most details to be in place by April 1, 2025
Spring Project Week: May 16-23, 2025
Bring your tools and your camper (or tent)...we've got a chore list and plenty of free camping! Like an old-fashion work party we'll keep a pot of homemade soup on the woodstove and spend our evening relaxing by the campfire.
For cleanup week details, click here.
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Fourth Annual Frets Halligan Ukulele Picnic: May 31, 2025
Frets Halligan was a great ambassador for ukulele in midcoast Maine years ago. He taught uke to everyone and anyone who approached him. John Elberfeld and Ando Anderson have created a picnic to bring local players together to share songs and good company and we're thrilled that they're hosting the picnic here. Admission to the picnic is free and open to everyone. Family participation is encouraged. Volunteers will pass the hat for free will donations to help defray the cost of this event.
For picnic details, click here.
If you have specific questions please contact Ando Anderson
Artists in Residence Program: June 16 - September 1, 2025
Most weeks, visit our studio and craft memories with the artist in residence. These free and/or low-cost programs are for campers and guests to explore the pleasure of making with their hands. Please visit our Artist in Residence page for details about each session.
Strings in the Garden: June 9 - September 22, 2025
Every Thursday evening from 4-5:30 PM bring a cocktail, a picnic and a friend and relax to the wonderful music of the Sea String Orchestra's rehearsals.
Front Porch Jams: June 18 - September 24, 2025
Every Wednesday evening from 5-7 PM on the main stage. For all playing levels. These hosted and mentored jams are fun for everyone. There's a song book and room for improvisation. Come and participate or join the audience to sing and clap along. Artisans are welcome to set up a vending table and there's a hosted craft session for more hands-on fun. Sponsored by the Makers Guild of Maine, 501c3.
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Stories from the Allagash with Tim Caverly: July 11, 2025 7-8 PM
So You Think You Know Maine!” DISCOVER the birth place of Disney’s Bambi, northern forest ice caves, abandoned railroads, petrographs, and TALES which can only be described as CLASSIC MAINE. Our story teller will be celebrated author Tim Caverly, 33 year veteran guide of the Allagash River.
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Our gardens will be spilling into the pathways and we’ll be getting ready to pull the onions and garlic because it's time to marinate the shish kebab! Cooking and sharing food is a way to sharpen our senses, to connect us with the land and the bounty it produces. When you think about it, cooking and baking celebrate the magic of fire and water…touchstones in our lives.
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Build a Wood-fired Bread Oven Workshop: July 29- August 1, 2025
Ever wanted to bake bread in your own wood fired bread oven? Join master baker Michael Baker for a 4 Day intensive. Learn to build an oven of your own and learn why baking breads in a wood-fired oven involves thinking about temperature and ingredients in a different way. All participants should possess minimal baking skills in a household oven. Michael has over 20 years of experience building ovens and baking in both urban and extremely remote settings across multiple continents. Michael is a renowned historian of grains and baking lore. It's a remarkable treat to have him with us in Searsport for a workshop. He's in our world for 10 days because of his generous offer to bake for the Armenian Picnic.
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Drop in Classes and Craft Fair. Bring the family camping for Labor Day weekend and seize a day or two to play in the studios. Drop in and out as you choose between 10:00 and 4:00, there will be a project waiting for you to try...anyone who has the appropriate attention span is welcome to join in. Even if you’re not a camper… there’s nothing like a day of learning and making to turn this holiday weekend into a special treat.
For this year’s Fiber College, we’re excited to offer a choice of five, intensive five-day workshops that will run simultaneously from Wednesday through Sunday, the week after Labor Day at the award-winning Searsport Shores Ocean Campground and art facility in Mid-Coast Maine. Your chosen workshop will consist of at least 21 hours of personalized instruction that will be the core of a unique retreat experience. You'll be sharing your meals and campfires with all of our talented teachers and your fellow makers. There will be plenty of opportunity to work or daydream in the garden and on our beach. This is your time to renew your creative energy, confidence, and passion, carrying it with you long after we wave goodbye.
Strung Together: Maine Folk Campout Festival, September 12-15, 2025
The OT & Bluegrass Jam weekend begins Friday afternoon with an OTJam and banjo workshop followed by our world famous Strung Together wood fired pizza bar and concert. The jams will take place in different areas in the park but close enough to give all participants easy access to both jam circles.
This year we are jamming around the grounds under tents, porches, trees and other canopies. Designated spaces will be laid out for each style of music, with unlimited spots to hold you own jam.
We (Steven and Astrig) are musicians and artists...taught creativity by our parents who were also musicians and artists. In the decades that we've lived in Searsport, we've had the pleasure of surrounding ourselves with other talented people who are passionate and dedicated to intentional living. Our campground world is a better place because of the friends that we share it with and we hope that you'll join in!
In addition to this weekly program of artists, we host the Sea Strings Orchestra on Monday afternoons in the garden and Wednesday evenings a mentored, community jam on the bandstand for anyone who would like to play on stage or sing along from the audience. Ask for a songbook when you get here and if you'd like to lead a session or a song, just talk with Steve. Anytime you hear music, we invite you to bring a refreshing drink, a nibble and a comfortable seat...you and your friends are always welcome!
The real magic of the Shores can't be contained in a schedule. Within this community of creative and friendly people, many of the best gatherings are spontaneous. While you're here, if you feel the inspiration to host a camper meal or offer a special class...track us down and let's make it happen together