Center Theatre is next stop in Points North Recovery in Maine film series
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre announced that it is the next stop in the Recovery in Maine screening series from Points North Institute. The free event taking place at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 29 is in partnership with Points North and the Recovery Wellness Community Center of Sangerville. The event will feature screenings of two short films, “A Phantom Song” and “Recovery in Maine: Wabanaki Voices”, which are intended to spark a public discussion about substance use disorder, the recovery process and the collective response to the opioid epidemic.
“We were first contacted by The Forty Hour Club — a long-standing Resident Company of the famed La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City, who created and produced the documentary film ‘A Phantom Song,’” said Patrick Myers, the Center Theatre’s executive director. “They connected us with Points North and we were thrilled to be able to host this stop in their recovery film series. We’re also proud to partner with the Recovery Wellness Center to give them a forum to talk about the vital needs in our community, which often go unseen.”
“A Phantom Song”, called “A spellbinding and necessary film event” by the Portland Press Herald, is unrated with a runtime of 45 minutes. In the film, a playwright and advocate breathes new life into a long-abandoned theater, creating a visual metaphor of recovery and rehabilitation for both the theater and those living in the shadows of the opiate crisis in the state capitol of Augusta, Maine. The film features performances and dramatic testimonials from members of the recovery and reentry community, several of whom had never been on stage before.
The second film “Recovery in Maine: Wabanaki Voices” is also unrated with a runtime of 10 minutes, and centers on Wabanaki approaches to recovery, showing how community, song, language and tradition act as powerful forms of healing. It is the latest installment in the Recovery in Maine series, which is a partnership between Gov. Janet Mills’ Office of Opioid Response and Points North Institute, home of the Camden International Film Festival.
A discussion will follow the film screenings, and the entire event is free and open to the public. Those interested in attending can contact the Center Theatre at 207-564-8943, by email at info@centertheatre.org or in person at the Center Theatre Box Office, 20 East Main St., Dover-Foxcroft.
The Center Theatre for the Performing Arts is celebrating the 20th anniversary of reopening in 2006 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to engage and inspire by making arts, education and entertainment accessible to our rural communities.