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CONTACT:

Erika Sanger
207-367-2788
director@operahousearts.org

DATE: January 16, 2025
TITLE: Island Women Speak Returns to the Stonington Opera House Stage

Stonington, ME — Opera House Arts’ Island Women Speak, storytelling event returns to the stage of the Stonington Opera House, on Thursday, January 23rd at 7 pm. Seven women, seven generations, seven personal stories – told live from the stage in its seventh year!  Island Women Speak returns in the hands of Debbie Weil who conceived of and directs the performance. This year’s theme is #myhiddensuperpower.

The 2025 lineup includes:

Erin Kelly (29), Tegan McGuire (31), Sasha Gross (39), Allie Edinger (41), Tiffany Shepard (52), Laura Johnson (63), and Caroline Spear (71).

There will be a pre-show performance in the Opera House lobby by Along for the Ride beginning at 6pm.

This highly popular storytelling event sells out quickly.

Can’t join in person?  Island Women Speak will be live-streamed. 

In-person and live stream tickets can be purchased on the website at operahousearts.org.

The Stonington Opera House is a historic center of culture and entertainment, a performance space, and a civic gathering place. Our work is rooted in the belief that access to and participation in the arts transforms lives.

The Stonington Opera House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 and in 1999, it was rescued by the founders of Opera House Arts, a 501 (c) 3, that was established specifically to restore this historic building to its original purpose.

A cornerstone of a year-round, vibrant Main Street located at the top of the busiest commercial fishing pier in Maine, the Stonington Opera House is an economic engine for the creative economy of Deer Isle.

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