How can we slow this thing down, so we truly listen?
Photos from performances of “Broken Clock” at the Milbridge Theater and the Blueberry Harvest School (BHS), of the creative ensemble cast, and with students from BHS following theater workshops.
Maine Inside Out’s creative ensemble traveled to Washington County last week for two performances of “Broken Clock” and theater workshops with migrant youth and families who are working the blueberry harvest. Deep gratitude to Mano En Mano’s Blueberry Harvest School for partnering with us to bring “Broken Clock” to the school and Downeast community. Mano En Mano is doing incredible work with youth and families and we had a great time performing, playing, connecting, and dialoguing with audience members, workshop participants, and collaborators. At the Monday night performance at Milbridge Theater, audience members used the post-show dialogue to discuss local issues that were most on their hearts. They spoke as often to each other as to the cast and asked complex questions about social change. They expressed feeling stuck by the lack of trust and connection in the community and grappled with how to respond to this moment:
When things are urgent how do we respond without amplifying the urgency?
How do we find common ground in a world where people are not truly hearing and seeing each other?
How can you convince someone not to outcast and vilify a group of people?
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this part of the tour and who helped make it happen - it was a powerful experience that will continue to reverberate as we prepare for the next performances of “Broken Clock.”
Fall Broken Clock Tour!
“Broken Clock” tour continues this Fall with upcoming performances in communities statewide, college campuses, and inside correctional facilities. Ticket registrations are live now for most of our confirmed Fall performances. All of the performances on the “Broken Clock” tour are free with an option for donation-based tickets. The performances continue to evolve and deepen as we tour the play, and we can’t wait for you to join us in dialogue about “Broken Clock.”
Celebration Barn in South Paris, ME
Friday, September 12 at 7:30pm
The Celebration Barn is hosting MIO for a 3 day residency to continue developing “Broken Clock.” Join us on Friday night for a fresh and live performance at the culmination of the residency!
Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston, ME
Friday, September 19
This will be the tour’s 4th performance inside Maine prisons following performances at Maine Correctional Center and Maine State Prison in June. MIO returns to Mountain View after 3 years of collaborating programming there to share and dialogue with incarcerated community members about Broken Clock. This performance is not open to the public.
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME
Monday, September 22 at 7pm
Bowdoin College and MIO present “Broken Clock.” This performance is open to the public.
Rockport Opera House in Rockport, ME
Thursday, October 2 at 6pm
This performance is co-hosted by Conscious Revolution and Tapestry as part of the Tapestry immersion program: a four-day immersion into history, healing, and collective reckoning. See the Partner Events section of the newsletter for more information about the Tapestry immersive. The performance is open to the public.
Beyond the Bars Conference at University of Southern Maine in Portland, ME
Friday, October 3
On day three of the “Beyond the Bars” Conference at USM, MIO will perform “Broken Clock.” Stay tuned for more information about Beyond The Bars and how to register for the conference!
University of Maine Law School in Portland, ME
Thursday, November 13
The University of Maine School of Law’s Youth Justice Society and the Students for the 6th Amendment are hosting a performance of “Broken Clock” in the Living Room at Maine Law School. This performance is open to the public with a special focus on fostering dialogue among Maine’s legal community about the 6th amendment crisis in Maine and its impact on directly impacted people and society at large.
MIO is actively looking for sponsors to support the Fall performances of “Broken Clock.” Sponsorship will support the artists and event production, and make it possible for MIO to offer free tickets for these events and to continue to bring this tour inside Maine prisons to perform and dialogue with incarcerated community members. Please consider sponsoring the tour and sharing this opportunity widely!
Along with the “Broken Clock Tour” Maine Inside Out is continuing to raise funds to support 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. This work is possibly only with your support!
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 over policing 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!
