Wednesday, August 12. Reception 6:00pm, screening 7:00pm.

In our 90th anniversary year, The Waldo Theatre invites you and your neighbors to an evening of Maine painting and documentary film, the second screening of our 4th Annual Maine Artist Film Series. Brunswick-based filmmakers David Jester and Leigh Doran of Whisky Wolf Media spend time with three local painters across two generations.

In the Blood (35 minutes, 2020) follows Maine painters Philip and Matthew Barter, father and son, as they capture the working life and landscapes of Downeast Maine. The film is a tender portrait of an artistic bond and a shared way of seeing the coast they call home.

A Life Behind the Canvas (51 minutes, 2024) is the first documentary on the career of iconic Maine painter William Irvine. Beginning in 2020, Jester and Doran spent countless hours with Irvine at his waterfront home in Brooklin, gaining rare access to his studio and to the reflections of an artist whose career now spans more than seventy years.

Paintings by William Irvine will hang in The Waldo's Bill and Joan Alfond Gallery from August 11 through September 6. Come early for the opening reception, mingle with your neighbors, and settle in for the films. It's the kind of night The Waldo has been hosting on Main Street for ninety years.

Both films directed by David Jester and Leigh Doran, Whisky Wolf Media.

Free parking is available on Main Street, Friendship Street, Jefferson St, in the 8 unreserved spaces on Glidden Street; in the Kuhn Parking lot (beside the masonic lodge on Main Street); and in the lot behind Perch and The Narrows Tavern. Please DO NOT park on School Street, Shady Lane or in the 2 Reserved spaces on Glidden Ave, as parking there is prohibited and strictly enforced.

If you have mobility needs that require special seating, please send an email to: [email protected]. We will be happy to accommodate your needs. All tickets are final sale and non-refundable.