SATURDAY, JUNE 3 — Workshop begins at 11:00 AM Join theater artist, clown, and puppeteer Marta Mozelle MacRostie of Brave Bucket Co. for a hands-on mini-workshop exploring hand puppet basics, quality of movement, and connecting to breathing, voice, and play. This workshop will explore the technique of bare-hand puppetry used in Brave...

SATURDAY, JUNE 3 — Doors at 3:00 PM; Show at 3:30 PM Please Ship This Wet Gift is one clown’s presentation about terrible feelings, and provides an opportunity for family audiences to laugh together about feeling bad. Everyone can go home when she thinks you’re prepared. (because its better...

SUNDAY, JUNE 4 — Doors at 4:30 PM; Show at 5:00 PM Kardemimmit [kʌr-deh-mim-mit] is a band of four awesome women playing the Finnish national instrument, kantele [kʌn-teh-leh]. Their modern approach to original pieces has a strong foundation in Finnish, Eastern European, and Scandinavian traditions. The Finnish reki-singing style, 19th-century...

SATURDAY, JUNE 10 — Doors at 7:00 PM; Show at 7:30 PM Choro from Brazil to Maine! Join Choro das 3 and Choro Louco for an evening of beautiful melodies, complex harmonies, and syncopated rhythms at Mayo Street Arts.  Choro das 3 is a Brazilian band of three sisters. Corina, the oldest sister, plays...

MONDAY, JUNE 12 at 5:30 PM Explore the art of flamenco palmas, the beautiful rhythmic clapping that is inherent to flamenco! Attendees will look at the proper palmas technique to learn how to create quality sounds, how palmas are used in flamenco and the many different time signatures and...

FRIDAY, JUNE 16 — Doors at 7:00 PM; Show at 7:30 PM Judas & Suicide is a debut poetry collection by Maya Williams about how our language from our spiritual and religious communities influence how we view and treat ourselves in staying alive. Maya and fellow poets Signature MiMi, Marco...

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 — Doors at 7:00 PM; Show at 7:30 PM SUNDAY, JUNE 18 — Doors at 4:30 PM; Show at 5:00 PM Join Mayo Street Arts and Great Small Works for two evenings of short-format toy theater work in three acts. Featuring a magnificent copper beech tree growing in...

SUNDAY, JUNE 18 — 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Join us for Puppeteers’ Happy Hour! This FREE recurring informal gathering is for puppet artists and enthusiasts to share their work and ideas, catch up on the latest puppet dirt, and hang out.  For this very special happy hour, Trudi Cohen and...

FRIDAY, JUNE 23 — Doors at 7:00 PM; Show at 7:30 PM 13 Scotland Road is a rare and dynamic blues and acoustic roots band. The New Jersey group now living in Portland, combines one of the most unique slide guitar players that you’ll ever hear in Bill Binford, with...