2025 — STORM DAMAGE: Transformative Healing — Musical Poetry Performance
— words written and performed by Lisa Ann Reilich
— music arranged and performed by Gary Bushee
Project Direction — Margaret Mae Reilich-Godino and Ensemble
Link to STORM DAMAGE: Performance Script (for accessibility)
Link to STORM DAMAGE Virtual Performance Extra Goodies
PERFORMANCES:
Run time 90 minutes, no intermission.
*For transparency, this performance touches the topics of sudden loss and grief.
No charge for admission — if so moved, please make donations to organizations hosting performances, linked below.
Sun. 3/23 at 3pm — Sorrento Sullivan Recreation Center, Sullivan (in-person only, no preregistration needed)
Th. 3/27 at 6pm — Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor (in-person only — must preregister to attend — register at this link )
Sun. 3/30 at 3pm — New Surry Theatre, Blue Hill (in-person and via ZOOM — link for “pay-what-you-wish” tickets )
Weds. 4/2 at 3:30pm — University of Maine at Machias Art Gallery, Machias (in-person only, no preregistration needed)
Sun. 4/6 at 3pm — B.A.R.N. (Bangor Area Recovery Network), Brewer (in-person only, no preregistration needed)
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Join us for a powerful performance of poetry interwoven with music inspired by and written in the aftermath of Lisa’s middle child Maiah’s unforeseen transition to the Otherside on March 3rd, 2020.
These poems record and reflect her inner journey through the chrysalis of grief and lament to transformative healing through the power of words and music, offering silver linings of surrender, grace, joy and eternal love.
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WHAT OUR AUDIENCES ARE SAYING ABOUT THEIR STORM DAMAGE JOURNEY
“Awesome and powerful!”
“…Deeply personal, yet also playful and transcendent. It will be on my mind for a long time to come…”
“… I could feel [Lisa] speaking for so many of us on our [grief] journeys… I very definitely cried, but I also smiled and yes, I danced.”
“What an amazing and beautiful expression of profound loss and resurrection.”
“Taking Healing to the next level!”
“… stunning and deeply felt… so full of tenderness …”
“Amazingly beautiful performance…”
“No words … just WOW…”
Link to County Wide News 3/18/2025 Article on STORM DAMAGE
Link to Ellsworth American 3/18/2025 Article on STORM DAMAGE
Link to STORM DAMAGE: Performance Script (for accesibility)
ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE
Gary Bushee is a multifaceted musician, artist, storyteller and student of human ecology, currently exploring the realms of experimental theatre. He gratefully resides on his wooded Sullivan, Maine homestead where he is working on creating a diversified holistic music studio encompassing education, therapy and phenomenology of sound and movement in the field of play.
Lisa Ann Reilich is a mother, farmer, poet, theatre artist, teacher and spiritual seeker. She spends the majority of her minutes and hours tending the land and animals of Painted Pepper Farm on the Downeast coast of Maine with her daughter Margaret Mae, living the silver linings of life and surrendering gratefully to the present moment.
Margaret Mae Reilich-Godino has been in and around theatre projects for as long as she can remember. A farmer and poet, her happy place is at home on Painted Pepper Farm with her mom and goats, and in volunteering where Love is actively in action.