Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine June 20-26

Out and About for the Sanford/York Lakes Region of Maine June 20-26
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June 20, 2013

Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine June 20-26

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Schoolhouse Arts Center, Standish

June 20, Thursday, 2-8pm, Introduction to Invasive Aquatic Plant Patrolling, the primary goal of this comprehensive, 6-hour workshop is to provide those who wish to join Maine’s “early detection” effort with information and guidance needed to get started. All IPP training sessions are open to the public and FREE to anyone interested in learning more about the threat of invasive aquatic plants in Maine. The Panther Pond Association will provide a pizza dinner and beverages. Pre-registration is required, max capacity 35+, free, Raymond Public Safety Building, 1443 Roosevelt Trail, Raymond. FMI: 207-783-7733, www.raymondmaine.org.
June 20, Thursday, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Mid Summer’s Night Snack, A brand new event featuring local specialty foods as a fund-raiser for a new Canada Lynx exhibit. Pre-purchase tickets to visit the park on an ‘almost solstice/almost full moon’ evening & sample snacks & specialties from local stores, farms & restaurants. Chipman Farms, Cole Farms, Cyndi’s Dockside, Friends of the Wildlife Park, Harvest Hill Farm, New Gloucester Village Store, Pineland Farms Creamery, Poland Spring Water & Sabbathday Shaker Village will be stationed at tables around the park providing samples of their specialty foods, rain or shine, non refundable advance tickets/$12, day of event tickets/$15, Maine Wildlife Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray. FMI: 207-657-4977, www.maine.go/ifw/education/wildlifepark.
June 20-23, Thursday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Thursday-Saturday, 2pm/Sunday, “The Fourth Wall,” in this love letter to the theater, A.R. Gurney uses the stage to explore, quite comically, our place in the world today. Set in the living room of a contemporary, upper-class, Buffalo, New York couple, the author sharpens is wit on such topics as cola wars, politics, and even the very audiences who attend plays, $10/adults, $8/seniors and students, free/18 and under, Norway Grange, 15 Whitman Street, Norway. FMI: 207-739-6200, www.ohmppa.org.
June 21-23, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Friday and Saturday, 5pm/Sunday, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” musical comedy, centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School, six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, which is run by three equally-quirky grown-ups, $18, $16/seniors and students, Schoolhouse Arts Center,16 Richville Road,,Standish. FMI: 207-642-3743, www.schoolhousearts.org.
June 21, Friday, 7:30pm, Music into Summer Concert Series, featuring Emilia Dahlin, singer-songwriter, her shows are a lesson in intimacy. Emilia charms her audience to the edge of their seats with her wry smirk and clarion voice-then drops them to the floor with foot-stomping, headshaking grooves, $15-18, Deertress Theatre, 156 Deertrees Road, Harrison. FMI: 207-583-674, www.deertreestheatre.org.
June 22, Saturday, 7:30pm, DaPonte String Quartet, works by Beethoven, Schubert and Dhnanyl, $25, free/under 21, Denmark Arts Center, 50 W Main Street, Denmark. FMI: 207-452-2412, www.daponte.org.
June 26, Wednesday, 7-9pm, “Maine Festival of American Music: Synergy – The Energy Combination,” Portland String Quartet, guest artist David Lonebear Sanipass, aine MicMac Tribe storyteller, reservations recommended, $25, $20/seniors, free/under 21, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. FMI: 207-926-4597. www.shaker.lib.me.us.

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