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Tuesday, June 27^th 7:30pm

Wednesday, June 28^th 1:00pm (Closed Captioning)

(2016. USA. 1hr, 55min. Directed by Jim Jarmusch. R.)Paterson (Adam Driver- “Girls” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey–they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer; he goes home to his wife, Laura. By contrast, Laura’s world is ever changing. New dreams come to her almost daily. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her newfound ambitions; she champions his gift for poetry. The film, made by independent film legend Jim Jarmusch, quietly observes the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details. With Golshifteh Farahani, William Jackson Harper and Method Man.

$8 Adults, $7 Seniors/Students, $6 Grand Members/Matinee General Admission

Brooksville-based guitarist  and songwriter  Derrick Semler returns to Surry Arts at the Barn (SATB)  at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 28.  Accompanied by percussionist Kim Peralta, he will perform American blues.  Semler began his career in the 1970s playing bars and dance halls with the group Soulbenders on the West Coast.  He moved to Maine in the 1980s and has released several CDs, the latest one in 2015 called “It’s the Blues.”

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door or online at SATB’s website surryartsatthebarn.com.

SATB is a performing arts center located in a 100-year-old barn at 8 Cross Road in Surry.  It showcases culturally diverse entertainment.  Refreshments are available. For more information call 207-667-1308 or visit the website.

Opera House Arts presents the annual Live! for $5 series so everyone, regardless of age, can enjoy live theatre. The series consists of 6 hour-long, live performances held on Wednesdays throughout the summer.

Best described as a show without boundaries, Hilby is the living proof that being German doesn’t mean you can’t be funny. Watch out for catapults, marshmallows, lots of Velcro and the bowling-ball of terror!

Location: Stonington Opera House

Town: Stonington

Primary Category: Theatre

Age Group: All ages

Price: $5

Dates: June 28

Contact:

[email protected]

207-367-2788

Delicately weaving truth, memory, and imagination, The Glass Menagerie holds at its center the Wingfields: a St. Louis family in the midst of the Great Depression. Tom is an aspiring poet who spends his days in a warehouse, eager to start out on his own life’s journey; his overbearing mother Amanda yearns for the glamour of the past; and his incredibly shy sister, Laura, longs for a happiness just out of reach.

Age Group: All ages

Price: $25-$40

Dates: June 29-July 9

Contact:  [email protected]  or call 207-367-2788 for tickets

The Criterion Theatre is celebrating its 85th Anniversary month with a benefit for the theatre on Friday, June 30. Local band Em & Company with special guests Bobbi Lane and Trisha Mason will perform at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. with pre-show drinks and light refreshments.

Tickets for the performance cost $15 and can be purchased online at www.criteriontheatre.org or at the box office starting at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 30. All proceeds support The 1932 Criterion Theatre in continuing to bring live music, theater, children’s programming and movies to the community.

Delicately weaving truth, memory, and imagination, The Glass Menagerie holds at its center the Wingfields: a St. Louis family in the midst of the Great Depression. Tom is an aspiring poet who spends his days in a warehouse, eager to start out on his own life’s journey; his overbearing mother Amanda yearns for the glamour of the past; and his incredibly shy sister, Laura, longs for a happiness just out of reach.

Age Group: All ages

Price: $25-$40

Dates: June 29-July 9

Contact:  [email protected]  or call 207-367-2788 for tickets

Friday, June 30^th 7:30pm

Saturday, July 1^st 2:00pm (with Q&A) & 7:30pm

(2016. USA 1 hr, 33 min. Directed by Raoul Peck. PG-13.) One of this year’s Oscar™-nominated documentaries this Grand encore screening is a film based on a never-finished book by the incendiary American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, James Baldwin. In 1979, Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends-Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. With narration by Samuel L. Jackson.

$8 Adults, $7 Seniors/Students, $6 Grand Members/Matinee General Admission

Jazz trio Fuchsia along with guitarist Breaux Higgins will perform at  Surry Arts at the Barn (SATB) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 30.   The trio features George Stevens Academy graduates Joseph Boulet, on drums; Oliver Scot, on piano/keys;and  Matt Stephens, on bass. “We like to feature  our talented friends at some of our performances,” Boulet said.

The  group plays everything from bop to  jazz.  Boulet, who specializes in jazz, R&B and hip hop music, will study jazz at McGill University in Montreal this fall. Scott, who plays classical music, jazz, funk and gospel, will study music education at Ithaca College in upstate New York. Stephens, an electric bass player and music producer, concentrates on jazz, modern, R&B and funk, and will study music at the University of Vermont.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door or online at SATB’s website surryartsatthebarn.com.

SATB is a performing arts center located in a 100-year-old barn at 8 Cross Road in Surry.  It showcases culturally diverse entertainment.  Refreshments are available. For more information call 207-667-1308 or visit the website.