“Broken Clock” Tour in Washington County
Maine Inside Out is back from the July break and is kicking off the second half of the 2025 “Broken Clock” tour with two performances in Washington County! MIO is collaborating with Mano en Mano and The Blueberry Harvest School for a 3-day residency of performances and workshops.
Monday, August 11, at 7pm “Broken Clock” performance and community dialogue at the Milbridge Theater. This performance is free and open to the public. Get Your Tickets!
Tuesday, August 12, “Broken Clock” performance for Blueberry Harvest School students at Cherryfield Elementary School. This performance is not open to the public.
The MIO ensemble will also facilitate interactive theater workshops with youth and families at one of the migrant camps on Tuesday night and workshops with students ages 10-15 at the Blueberry Harvest School (BHS) on Wednesday. We are thrilled to partner with Mano en Mano and BHS on this program.
In the first half of the year, the “Broken Clock” tour performed at the University of Maine Farmington, Colby Arts in Waterville, The Public Theatre in Lewiston and inside correctional facilities at Maine State Prison and Maine Correctional Center. Check out our recap from the four June performances: “We are Not Alone” and the Portland Press Herald coverage of the tour: “Maine Inside Out is raising 25k to bring theater to prisons.”
We are thrilled to announce upcoming tour dates (and stay tuned for additional dates to be announced soon):
Friday, September 12 at 7:30pm Celebration Barn in South Paris. Get Your Tickets!
Friday, September 19 at Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston. This performance is not open to the public.
Monday, September 22 at 7pm at Bowdoin College in Brunswick
Thursday, October 2 at 6pm at Rockport Opera House in Rockport in collaboration with Conscious Revolution and Tapestry
Thursday, November 13 at 6pm at University of Maine School of Law in Portland
All of the performances on the “Broken Clock” tour are free with an option for donation-based tickets. Thank you to everyone who has attended a performance or supported the tour through partnership, fundraising, or promotion. In June, MIO raised over $25k to make up for a rescinded grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that was allocated for the tour. The second half of the tour is able to happen because of your support and we are so excited to continue bringing this performance and community dialogue across the state and inside Maine prisons. We’ll see you at a show this Fall!
Maine Inside Out is continuing to raise funds to support the “Broken Clock” tour as well as our leadership development programing with young adults in Lewiston, after-school theater workshops with Lewiston youth, and statewide reentry support including regular community lunches, mentorship, open mics, peer support, crisis response, and emergency funding.
MIO facilitator Tyler Jackson tabling at the Culture Reggae Festival and posing with Cuba
Maine Inside Out tabled this past weekend at the Culture Reggae Festival in Lisbon Falls. The Culture Reggae Festival is an annual summer music festival in Maine where lovers of Reggae come together to celebrate the culture of the Caribbean through music, food, and good vibes. MIO was invited by the festival organizer, Rayon Wilson, who spoke with the MIO “Landing Pad” community at a community lunch earlier this year about his lessons learned and advice for successful reentry. Here is a clip of Rayon speaking with the group, from MIO’s YouTube channel “Lessons Learned” which features reentry advice from system-impacted mentors recorded at the community lunches:
Upcoming Partner Events & Highlights
Southern Maine Workers’ Center Karaoke Fundraiser
August 31 at 7-10pm at SPACE Gallery Congress St. Portland
The Southern Maine Workers’ Center (SMWC) Annual Karaoke Fundraiser: Impossibly, Irresistibly, Inevitably Connected! To divest from overpolicing and invest in public transportation, SMWC are raising $20,000 to fund the campaign. Enjoy food and performances, get on stage (or on Zoom!) yourself, and support a movement led by workers toward liberation for all. This event will be open to all ages, and will take place in person and on Zoom. Masks are required unless you are on stage. Fundraise and/or perform by signing up HERE!
Restorative Justice Training Retreat
September 25-28
The retreat brings together leaders from across Maine who are dedicated to building pathways for restorative & transformative justice in cases of serious harm, in collaboration with Maine DAs and through community referrals. MIO Co-ED Chiara Liberatore will be participating in the retreat.
Serious harm is defined here to include assault, gun violence, threatening, stalking, sexual assault, robbery and arson. The retreat will launch this effort in 2026 with a cohort of participants.
The training is led by Collective Justice and the retreat is co-sponsored by Soros Justice Fellows Catherine Bestemen and Brandon Brown, Healing First!, Maine Restorative Justice Coalition, and Colby College.
The training is being offered for free to participants and requires community support. Visit this link to support this important and change-making training.
October 2-5, 2025 in Camden
Tapestry Immersive Fall 2025: A Journey Through Land, Legacy, and Incarceration
Join Conscious Revolution and Tapestry for a four-day immersive into history, healing, and collective reckoning. MIO’s “Broken Clock” performance on 10/1 in Rockport will be a part of the program for the immersive.
“While some of us stood in Montgomery this past spring, confronting the legacy of slavery and racial violence, this immersion brings us North—to the stories held in the whitest state in the nation. On the land of the Wabanaki people, we will begin with the present-day realities of mass incarceration and trace our way backward through systems of racialized harm, exploring how these legacies were built and how they continue to shape lives, bodies, and institutions today. Alongside creatives, healers, and change-agents, we will begin weaving a new narrative—together. Fall in Maine is a season of transformation—of shedding, letting go, and preparing the ground for what comes next. It's a time to slow down, reflect deeply, and reconnect with what truly matters.”
This program is for white women committed to racial equity and justice and requires completion or participation in Seeing White: Foundations for White Women.
WHERE Walk hosted by Atlantic Black Box
Over the course of 2025, partners committed to surfacing the truths of colonization and oppression in the place known for millennia by the Wabanaki people as the Dawnland are engaging with local communities on a journey across land and water, and across time.
Walking in solidarity to forward ongoing processes of truthseeking and transformation, our aim is to catalyze and support creative and embodied approaches to antiracist and decolonial historical recovery efforts across the state and the region.
Join Atlantic Black Box at multiple dates and locations across the state this summer and fall!
