STORM DAMAGE: Transformative Healing — Musical Poetry Performance Tour
WHERE: Belfast Poetry Festival, Belfast Maskers Theatre — Belfast, Maine
WHEN: Wednesday, October 14th, 6:30pm
— words written and performed by Lisa Ann Reilich — Link to STORM DAMAGE: Performance Script (for accessibility)
— music arranged and performed by Gary Bushee
Project Direction — Margaret Mae Reilich-Godino and Ensemble
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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The Weft and Weave of the Way: Elevating and Deepening the Reach of Spoken Word with Music and Sound
WHERE: Belfast Poetry Festival — Belfast, Maine
WHEN: Friday, October 16th, 3:30-5:30 pm
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FREE — Reserve Your Tickets HERE
In this generative poetry and sound workshop, Lisa Ann Reilich and Gary Bushee will first create a framework for our experimental time together by sharing on their process collaboratively creating “Storm Damage,” their musical poetry performance.
From this grounding, we will then work together in our circle as a group to generate short spoken word pieces in which we individually and collectively explore enhancing them with instruments, common household items as well as our own voices, finding the fullness and ripening of the senses and meaning through this multisensory journey. Our word and sound circle experience will give participants tools to spark new creative pathways and collaborations with fellow poets/artists.
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YOUR CHILDREN: The Trial Testimony of Charles Manson — adapted by Dave Garrett
SAVE THE DATES — Performances will be held at New Surry Theatre in Blue Hill
RESERVE Your Tickets with New Surry Theatre HERE
WHERE: New Surry Theatre
WHEN: Friday 10/23 & Saturday 10/24 at 7pm; Sunday 10/25 at 3pm and 6pm
*For transparency, this performance touches the topics of sexuality, drug use, violence and homicide and is intended for mature audiences only.
Run time is 60 minutes with no intermission.
TICKETS: All Tickets are “Pay-What-You-Wish” — Reservations are strongly recommended. Stay tuned for details!
PAST PERFORMANCES
2026 — Water, Clouds & Storms: Musical Poetry Reading
WHERE: Russell’s Poetry Grove, Common Ground Fair
WHEN: Sunday 9.27.2026 — 3 to 3:50pm
Poems by Lisa Ann Reilich
Music performed by Gary Bushee
Join Lisa Ann for readings selected from her three poetry collections— “Storm Damage”, “The Clouds in Our Eyes”, & “The Shapes of Water” — with improvisational musical accompaniment arranged & performed by Gary, weaving together the sacred & the profane, the profound & mundane through the shifting ground of love, loss & memory rooted in nature.
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Pop-Up & Spontaneous DUCK VARIATIONS by David Mamet
At a Park Bench near you! July -September 2026
2025 — THE CLOUDS IN OUR EYES: Musical Poetry Reading
Russell’s Poetry Grove, Common Ground Fair — Sunday 9.21.2025, 2:30-3:20pm
Poems by Lisa Ann Reilich
Music performed by Gary Bushee
Join Lisa Ann for a reading of poems from her upcoming second collection of poems — “The Clouds in Our Eyes”, tracing the lines of laughter, loss and love filtered through the lenses of persistent memory, shifting perspective and grounding through place. Improvisational musical accompaniment to the reading will be arranged and performed by Gary.
LINK to THE CLOUDS IN OUR EYES: Performance Script (for accessibility)
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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.
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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.
THE SWAN by Elizabeth Egloff (January 2021)
Link to VIRTUAL Performance of THE SWAN (1/23/2021)
Link to VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE of THE SWAN (1/30/2021)