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“The Velveteen Rabbit,” Monmouth Theatre

June 20, Thursday, 6-7pm, “I Dig Books! Magic Show with Conjuring Carroll,” kick off the summer with this fun event, includes agricultural tips, bugs and an appearing 4 foot shovel, if you love magic grab the kids and come on out to join the adventure, free, Bridge Academy Public Library, 44 Middle Road, Dresden. FMI: 207-737-8810, www.bapl.us.
June 20, Thursday, 7pm, Kathleen Gorey McSorley with Mike Hall, Canadian fiddler and step dancer, she has spent the last year thrilling audiences in Ireland, the Unites States and Canada, $15, Unity Centre for the Performing Arts, Unity. FMI:  207-948-7469, www.unity.edu/uccpa.
June 21-23, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Friday and Saturday, 2pm/Sunday, “No Sex Please, We’re British,” farce surrounding an assistant bank manager, Peter Hunter, who live above his bank with his new bride Frances. When Frances innocently sends a mail order off for some Scandinavian glassware, what comes back is Scandinavian pornography. The two, along with the bank’s frantic chief cashier Brian Runnicles, must decide what to do with the veritable floods of pornography, photographs, books, films and eventually girls that threaten to engulf this happy couple,, $10-12, “Gaslight Theatre, Hallowell City Hall, Hallowell. FMI: 207-626-3598, www.gaslighttheater.org.
June 22, Saturday, 6pm, The 8th Annual Inspired Voices Benefit Concert, music, poetry, dance and individual stories of hope and recovery, $15-25, Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-783-1585, www.inspiredvoices.com.
June 22, Saturday, 7pm, “The Velveteen Rabbit,” family show, based on the children’s book, reception with the cast will follow, $10-15, Cumston Hall, Monmouth. FMI: 207-933-9999, www.theateratmonmouth.org.
June 22, Saturday, 7-9pm, “Casco Bay Tummlers,” based in Portland, Maine, this group has been performing klezmer music since 1988, they have released three recordings and were featured performers on the LL Bean Holiday CD. They also have a dramatic side, creating and performing the music for the world premier of “Manifest” at the Portland Stage Company and for a whimsical Belgian documentary, “Mon noM,” $8, Vienna Union Hall, 5 Mountain Road, Vienna. FMI: 207-293-2674, www.cascobaytummlers.com.
June 23, Sunday, 11am-4pm, Riverfront Festival, annual waterfront celebration of the arts and wellness, live acoustic music by “Steamboat Gypsy,” 19-th century letterpress printer, woodworkers with custom cabinetry and contemporary housewares, classic and abstract paintings and local favorite of recycled arts, as well as assemblage of vintage steam punk fashions, and more, various locations, Hallowell. FMI: 207-629-9020, www.sunjournal.com.

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