Mayo Street Arts

10/22/2024

Take a behind the scenes peek into the inspiration for "A Haunting on Mayo Street" with producer Austin Phillips!
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Do you believe in spirits? Join Stanley the Great as he attempts to connect with spirits from beyond the grave in this Victorian styled magic show.
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https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mayostreetarts/1370643/r/fbpost

10/18/2024

Watch to the end…and then watch in-person TODAY at 5PM!

10/17/2024

Join us this Friday for a FREE performance of Janoah Bailin's "rOng: a cOmmunity circus shOw"!
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Featuring live music by Kafari, "rOng" combines circular motions from dance, theatre, and circus to create circuitous connections between movement, music, stories, and humans.
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Friday, October 18 at 5PM at the Kennedy Park Basketball Courts on Fox Street
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Family Friendly!

09/30/2024

We’re hiring!
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MSA's Marketing & Communications Manager facilitates clear communication with the general public and effectively promotes our programming, fundraising, and community events. They work closely in collaboration with other staff members identify priorities for advertising and design and curate the organization’s voice and the way we present ourselves to the public.
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This is a full time position. Some early mornings, evenings, and weekends are required. $43,000 – $45,000 annual salary plus accrued PTO, retirement, and health, dental and vision insurance plans.
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Applicants will be considered on a rolling basis with interviews beginning on Tuesday, October 15. Applications will be accepted until Thursday, October 31 at 5:00 PM. The position will begin in November, on a date to be agreed upon by MSA and the selected applicant.
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https://mayostreetarts.org/employment

09/08/2024

Check out this lovely Portland Press Herald article from Ray Routhier about Puppets in Portland and its context in our larger puppetry community!

Puppets in Portland will be held Sept. 13-22 and feature more than two dozen performances and workshops.

09/07/2024

Don’t miss Puzzle Theatre’s “Bois” and all of the other incredible shows during Puppets in Portland, September 13-22!

COMING SOON: "Bois" by Puzzle Théâtre at the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine (Puppets In Portland Event) 🌿

September 21 & 22, 2024
11 am & 2 pm

CMTM is proud to partner with Mayo Street Arts on the biennial city-wide international puppetry festival, Puppets in Portland (PiP). CMTM will host four performances of "Bois" by Montreal-based Puzzle Théâtre.

$18 per person, 10% off for members. CMTM discounts apply.
Reservations are required to guarantee admission.
Learn more: https://www.kitetails.org/specialguests

09/06/2024

THIS SATURDAY 9/7 at 5:00 PM 🎪Bread & Puppet Theater returns to Fort Allen Park on Portland’s Eastern Prom for its annual puppet circus and pageant!
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This brand new show will feature your favorite stilt dancers, paper maché beasts, and riotous brass band, swirling together into a colorful pageant of protest and celebration. As always, Bread and Puppet Theater will serve its famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli after the performance, and Bread and Puppet Press “Cheap Art” will be for sale.
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FREE to attend and fun for all ages! Cash donations, chairs/blankets, sunscreen, and water are encouraged. Learn more & RSVP with your donation at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mayostreetarts/1308200/r/fbpost

09/03/2024

✨FREE PARADE✨ Sunday, September 15 at 4:00PM✨Portland, Maine’s own Shoestring Theater (as seen at Old Port Fest!) celebrates the opening weekend of PUPPETS IN PORTLAND 2024 with a merry procession of giant puppets and masks, tall stilt-walkers, wild drummers, and huge assemblages of color, costume, and sound! Our friends in the Ideal Maine Social Aid & Sanctuary Band will join the parade along with festival artists and community members.
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The parade kicks off at the Root Cellar, and carries along from Washington Ave, down Oxford St, and up to Mayo Street Arts. Immediately following the parade, join us at Mayo Street Arts for a FREE puppet show by Modern Times Theater from Vermont!
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Puppets in Portland international festival takes place September 13-22, 2024. Learn more at: puppetsinportland.org

08/21/2024

The circus is coming! Bread & Puppet Theater is returning to Portland’s Fort Allen Park on Saturday, September 7 at 5:00 PM (music begins at 4:40 PM) to present its iconic puppet circus and pageant!
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This brand new show titled “The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus” draws on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread and Puppet Theater iconography to draw attention to the urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes, and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful pageant of protest and celebration, featuring “the proverbial sheep of the system refusing to be sheep and committing revolution against the system” among other spectacles.
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After the performance, Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread and Puppet Press “Cheap Art” will be for sale.
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FREE to attend and fun for all ages! Cash donations, chairs/blankets, sunscreen, and water are encouraged.
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Learn more & RSVP at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mayostreetarts/1308200/r/fbpost

08/17/2024

Join Mayo Street Arts at Rising Tide Brewing Company this Sunday, August 18 from 1:00 - 7:00 PM for this month's Kegs for Causes!
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Alongside a special pilot-release of Rising Tide beer, MSA will be hosting an afternoon full of puppet-themed activities for all-ages. Plus, live music from DJ Group Human Fam (1:00 - 4:00 PM) and great food and drinks!
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This event is all ages, FREE, and $1 of every beer sold will be donated back to MSA!
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Here's a sneak peek at day:
1:00 - 2:00 PM — Shadow Puppet Playground — Family friendly, open exploration of shadow performance on a giant screen
3:00 - 4:00 PM — Bunraku & Beers — Adult/teen oriented lessons in animating a puppet with 2-3 people and creating a short, non-verbal skit
5:00 - 7:00 PM — Merch Crafting — Open to visual artists who would like to help MSA create small crankies that we will sell in support of PiP (block printing, drawing & painting)
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Come out for a fun afternoon and support MSA and Puppets in Portland 2024!

08/12/2024

Hit The Lights Theater Co. brings their performance of ISLA to Mayo Street Arts on Saturday, Aug 24 at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM!
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Inspired by the family history of company member Samantha Blain, ISLA tells the story of three sisters who escape from their island and embark on a journey to redefine the meaning of home. Shadow puppetry, poetry, an original live score, and recorded audio interviews of the original sisters combine to convey this investigation of harsh realities of political refugees, the love of family, Cuban mythology, and the spirit of sisterhood.
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Immediately following the 2:00 PM performance of ISLA, join HTL! Co-Artistic directors and panelists from Portland's immigrant and artist communities for a discussion of the themes explored in the production, moderated by Kifah Abdulla and Sayalí Robles.
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Many thanks to Maine Humanities Council for their funding support to share this experience with Portland! Get your tickets now at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mayostreetarts/1302943/r/fbpost

07/24/2024

Mayo Street Arts is hiring for multiple positions!
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MSA is seeking individuals to support our visual & performing arts and our youth programs in our Program Manager, Event Coordinator, and Teaching Associate roles
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We encourage applicants of all experience backgrounds—especially residents of East Bayside—to apply. Special consideration will be given to individuals with proficiency in other languages, especially Arabic, French, Kinyarwanda, Lingala, Portuguese, Somali, and Spanish.
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Applicants will be considered on a rolling basis until the positions have been filled. Please apply by Tuesday, July 30 for priority consideration.
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Learn more and apply at: mayostreetarts.org/employment

07/23/2024

Puppets in Portland is back for 2024 this September 13 -22! We’re ready to pack Portland with more puppets than this seaside city has ever seen! Our PiP 2024 featured artists & performances are:
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𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 & 𝐎𝐥𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝’s 𝑀𝐴𝑅𝑂𝑂𝑁𝐸𝐷! 𝐴 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑦 (Baltimore, Maryland)
𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬’ 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟 (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
𝐗𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐬’ 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 (Barcelona, Spain)
𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐞’s 𝑂𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑙𝑓 (Portland, Oregon)
𝐏𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐡éâ𝐭𝐫𝐞’s 𝐵𝑜𝑖𝑠 (Montréal, Canada)
𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐬’ 𝐴 𝑆𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑃𝑖𝑒 (Northfield, Massachusetts)
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑟. 𝑃𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ (East Hardwick, Vermont)
and 𝑃𝑖𝑃 𝑃𝑖𝑃 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒! with 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 (Portland, Maine)
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And if these visual delights aren’t enough to satisfy your puppetry fervor, all of our visiting artists will also offer hands-on workshops suitable for every level of experience.
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Ticket bundles and individual event tickets are on sale now! Get yours at PuppetsInPortland.org

07/17/2024

Many thanks to the Portland Press Herald for this wonderful feature on our 2024 Traditional Arts Network Fund awardees!
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Here are just a couple of the beautiful quotes from artists. Check out the full article at: https://www.pressherald.com/?p=7338809&uuid=7ceb0b8c-7cd2-4802-9f00-7324a9450e7e&lid=15317

07/12/2024

It’s the East Bayside Block Party 2024 this Sunday, July 14 from 10am - 5pm!
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Mayo Street Arts will be off-site to hang out with our friends at Side By Side Coffee and the Q***r Maker’s Market Community Yard Sale. Swing by 122 Anderson St. to say hi and play with some puppets!
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See you there!

07/10/2024

Nine traditional artists and organizations who enrich Maine with artistic heritage from their cultures have received financial support this summer thanks to a micro-granting program!
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The Traditional Arts Network (TAN) Fund has awarded small grants of up to $1,000 to Maine-based artists to overcome short-term financial hurdles and/or lay the foundation for long-term goals.
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The TAN Fund Awards were administered by Mayo Street Arts and Cultural Resources and reviewed by a TAN Fund Committee composed of community-based artists and cultural advocates from Greater Portland. The TAN Fund is made possible through support from Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by National Endowment for the Arts.
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See the list of awardees and learn more about the TAN Fund at: https://mayostreetarts.org/2024/06/28/announcing-our-2024-tan-fund-awardees/
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Congratulations to all of our awardees — we're so excited for you and your artistic projects to grow!
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📸 Tim Greenway [Agnes Mukakalisa (left) and Maurice Habimfura (right) perform a traditional Rwandan song. Mukakalisa is a 2024 recipient of a TAN Fund award and Habimfura received an award in 2023.]

07/03/2024

We’re thrilled to share that Mayo Street Arts has been selected as a Lowe's Home Improvement Hometowns project!
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Our $110,000 grant from Lowe’s Hometowns will help us make some much needed improvements to our beloved 134-year-old former Danish Lutheran church building, including insulation and drainage system updates, siding, trim, and foundation repairs, and HVAC renovations.
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More importantly, this project will enable us to reduce our carbon footprint AND develop an additional stream of revenue through private rentals on currently untapped summer weekends.
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The work will bolster our ability to create a welcoming space for artistic exploration here in Kennedy Park. We can’t wait to share further updates with you! Follow along using