Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine May 24-30

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Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine May 24-30

History House Heritage Plant Sale, Skowhegan

May 24, Thursday, 7:30pm, “39 Steps,” suspenseful comedy based on the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, $12/general, $10/students and seniors, Gaslight Theater, Hallowell City Hall, 1 Winthrop Street, Hallowell.  FMI:  207-626-3698, www.hallowellarts.org.
May 25, Friday, 4-9:30pm, Ride Into Summer, events include a bike rodeo, bicycle parade, “Gardiner’s Best Pizza” competition, Maine’s Largest Fireworks Show, Nikki Hunt Band, free, $8/pizza tasting, Gardiner Waterfront Park, Water Street, Gardiner.  FMI:  207-582-3100, www.gardinermainstreet.org.
May 25, Friday 7-9pm, An Evening of Words and Wisdom with Rivera Sun Cook, nationally-touring playwright/performer and native Maine girl, gives a spectacularly theatrical reading from her two books “Freedom Stories: volume one” and “The Imagin-a-nation of Lala Child” which capture the magic and poetry of the stage production that are receiving standing ovations from coast to coast, free, Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon Street, Lewiston.  FMI:  207-513-3004, www.lplonline.org.
May 25, Friday, 8pm, Pageant Play, sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of, their pushy, pageant mothers…not so much.  A clever peek into the world of spray tans, sequined gowns, and flippers, this hilarious satire is set in the exotic world of pint-sized Texas beauty pageants, $19-27, Lakewood Theater, 75 Theater Road, Madison.  FMI:  207-474-7176, www.lakewoodtheater.org.
May 26, Saturday, 9am-12pm, Heritage Plant Sale, Skowhegan History House ornamental Heirloom Gardens were established in 2005 and are maintained by Master Gardener Patricia Horine, this sale will contain a large variety of old-fashioned plant materials that would have been available to New England gardeners in the mid-1800s, Skowhegan Savings Bank, Madison Avenue, Skowhegan.  FMI: 207-474-6907, www.skowhegan.org.
May 26, Saturday, 7:30pm, Music for Three, regionally recognized Farmington vocalist/instrumentalists, Jess and Sam Sytsma, will be joined by performer/composer Mary E. Larew, from New Haven, CT, to provide a program of music and period-style improvisation from the European Renaissance for voices and instruments in various combinations, donation, Noridca Auditorium, UMF, Main Street, Farmington.  FMI:  207-860-2674, www.umf.maine.edu.
 May 26, Saturday, 7:30pm, Pianist Mauro Bertoli, program will include compositions by Brahms, Busoni, Shostakovich, Khachaturian and Ginastera, $16/general, $14/seniors, free/students, Franco American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston.  FMI:  207-783-1585, www.francocenter.org.

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