Seacoast arts and tradition information

Open auditions for ‘The People’
ROLLINSFORD — Auditions for “The People” by Stephen Karam will happen on Tuesday, Jan. 24, from 6 to eight p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26, from 6 to eight p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 29, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Garrison Gamers Arts Middle, nook of Roberts Street and Portland Ave (Route 4), Rollinsford.
Six roles: 4 females ages 20’s, 30’s, 60’s, and 80’s, plus two males ages 30’s and 60’s. If doable, please deliver headshot and resume. A ready monologue is most popular however chilly readings will probably be obtainable.
Manufacturing directed by Kevin Collins. Present dates are April 14 to April 23.
For extra details about auditions, exhibits, or GPAC, go to the web site at www.garrisonplayers.org.
Racial Unity Crew hosts 2023 Artwork & Poetry Problem for New Hampshire residents of all ages
STATEWIDE — The Artwork & Poetry Problem – the dwelling, respiratory proof of the ability of the humanities – is an annual problem hosted by the Racial Unity Crew. First, second, and third place money prizes will probably be awarded to winners in elementary, center college, highschool and grownup classes in each artwork and poetry.
Each New Hampshire resident is invited to submit an authentic poem or visible murals impressed by this 12 months’s theme: “A hidden previous >>> an inclusive future.” Youngsters and adults are inspired to discover a story that’s hardly ever informed and specific the way it helps us transfer towards a extra inclusive future.
The deadline for submissions is April 15, and winners will probably be introduced in June. Submissions will probably be exhibited throughout New Hampshire in native libraries, artwork galleries, and on the Racial Unity Crew web site.
For problem guidelines and assets go to: https://racialunityteam.com/art-and-poetry-challenge.
Lecturers are urged to overview the obtainable assets on discovering a hidden story and to encourage their college students to take part.
This problem is made doable by our sponsors: Kennebunk Financial savings, Cambridge Belief, and M&T Financial institution. For additional data, please name 603-263-6511.
Epping Neighborhood Theater presents ‘Virtually Maine’

EPPING — Epping Neighborhood Theater publicizes their February manufacturing of “Virtually Maine”, written by the gifted actor/playwright John Cariani and directed by Lesley Gallagher. This intimate and intensely humorous manufacturing comes simply in time for Valentine’s weekend, Feb.10,11, and 12. Reveals are Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Be sure to buy your tickets at the moment! For more information and to purchase tickets go to: www.eppingtheater.org/AlmostMaine.
Volunteers wanted at Garrison Gamers Arts Middle
ROLLINSFORD — Garrison Gamers Arts Middle is searching for a couple of gifted volunteers to assist in the next areas of Fundraising, Membership, Advertising and marketing & Public Relations. If you want to be a part of one of many oldest continuing-running group theater packages in New Hampshire, we’d simply be the group you are searching for. Extra particulars might be discovered at https://www.garrisonplayers.org/positions-needed.
3S Artspace presents ‘Relics’
PORTSMOUTH — 3S Artspace will maintain an Opening Reception for a brand new artwork exhibit within the Gallery on Friday, Feb. 3, from 5 to eight p.m. Relics options artist Frank Poor’s architectural sculptures.
Guests to the exhibit are invited to discover practically a dozen items set all through the Gallery area. Poor’s approach includes combining pictures he took throughout journeys to Georgia with their corresponding varieties akin to church steeples, retailer home windows, and chimneys.
Reveals at 3S are all the time free and open to the general public, and can be seen just about at galleryat3s.org. Via the distinctive lens of latest arts experiences, 3S Artspace invitations divergent views and encourages energetic discourse centered round problems with at the moment.
$70 for 70 Years of Garrison Gamers
ROLLINSFORD — 2023 is an enormous 12 months. Not solely is it the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Dover, New Hampshire, it’s the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the Seacoast’s one and solely group theater: Garrison Gamers. After placing on exhibits for many years in quite a lot of venues across the metropolis, in 1986 we bought the Hiram R. Roberts Grange Corridor in Rollinsford and started the gradual and costly strategy of renovation, opening our first present there in 2003.
Re-named the Garrison Gamers Arts Middle (now in its twentieth anniversary), our dwelling has supplied high quality group theater, top-notch youth performing arts training, and area for each particular person and group performing artists, in addition to group youth training teams.
Now our venerable outdated constructing wants our assist. On this momentous anniversary, we’re asking our members and our supporters to donate $70 to maintain us going for one more 70 years! $70 for the seventieth! For extra data go to https://www.garrisonplayers.org/70-for-70-years.