Get Out: Weekend Planner, May 11-13

Join the MIHS Drama Department at the Performing Arts Center for its spring production of Our Town. There’s a little bit of something in this show for everyone, whether it’s young love, child/parent relationships, the trials and joys of marriage, regrets, loss of a loved one, or a celebration of everything we love and hold sacred.

Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Cost: $15 at the door.

A 2- hour celebration of women, for women and with women.
•  Vinyasa  yoga to burn through toxins
•  Restorative poses to release tensions
•  Pranayama to fan the inner fire and practice Tapas
•  Meditation to open us to the possibility of contentment, grace and fulfillment.

Imagine a practice where women come together to sweat, breathe, pause, listen, offer, explore and restore.  Imagine women igniting their feminine spirit, tuning in to the inner sacred, ready to live, laugh, and love.  This will be a powerful experience on all levels: exploring what yoga is for you, learning about Goddesses who have come before us, and celebrating the beauty of being the woman that you are today.

This special workshop will include 75 minutes of flowing Vinyasa yoga to start the inner fire, mudras to guide the energy flow, and breath to intensify the flame.  Together we will bask in the heat and light, releasing into a deeper place with restorative poses.  Once warm and open, we will sit together in meditation, embracing ourselves as the women that we are, sharing positivity and sacred goddess space.

Saturday, May 12 at 12:00 p.m.

Cost: $35 ($30 pre-registration).

This is an intergenerational program presented by actress and historian Tames Alan in period costume, who will tell how suffragettes influenced politics, child labor laws, and other issues of their era.  We will have a reception before the performance, honoring island seniors who are 80+ in age. There will be a half hour Q & A period following the performance.  Advance tickets will be available at $20 each, though our special senior honorees will be our guests and have reserved seating space in the front of the room.

This program is multigenerational, suitable for elementary grades on up.  It has been given as a general history lecture, a cultural background lecture for students of social history, and as a clothing program for costume and design students.

This is an ideal and unusual way to celebrate Mother's Day. 

Saturday, May 12 at 1:00 p.m.

Cost: $20

will host a free five-part reading and discussion series.

In commemoration of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the series encourages you to consider the legacy of the Civil War and Emancipation. The discussions will focus on three books:

• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James McPherson
• America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversariesedited by Edward L. Ayers
• Part Five – War and Freedom
• Book Discussion: Selections from America’s War

Each discussion will be led by our project scholar, Dr. Lorraine McConaghy, Public Historian from the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI).

Sunday, May 13 at 2:00 p.m.

Cost: Free