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Load up your family and friends for a family-friendly day of rock at the Rochester Opera House on Sunday, May 18 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM.  Rocking Horse Studio and StopTime Productions presents five fantastic local bands with talented young musicians from ages eleven to seventeen.  (Click title for full article) 

SEE IT MAY 5, 2014

Greatness doesn’t come cheap – at least not for the students of Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar. Kate, Martin, Douglas and Izzy have each shelled out $5,000 for a ten week writing course with Leonard, a celebrated international literary figure and merciless editor. As Leonard submits both their prose and their egos to his lacerating critiques, romances are sparked, alliances forged, and backs thoroughly stabbed, all in the  name of moving from mediocrity to magnificence. 

THROUGH NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The Portsmouth Historical Society is pleased to announce the 2014 exhibition for the John Paul Jones House Mapping the Piscataqua Region: John Smith to Google Maps. The exhibition will run through November 3, 2014.The John Paul Jones House, 43 Middle St Portsmouth is open every day May1 through November 3 from 11 AM to 5 PM. (Click headline for details) 

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New Hampshire Theatre Project’s Youth Repertory Company will present Joseph Kesselring’s macabre and hilarious comedy,Arsenic & Old Lace, on May 16-25. Directed by Robin Flower, this delightful script has been entertaining audiences since 1939.  (Click title for full article) 

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The second annual TEDx event will take place on May 9th, 2014, at St. John's Hall on Chapel Street in downtown Portsmouth. A public lottery for 40 of the 100 tickets available will be open from April 1st–20th at tedxpiscataquariver.com. The full-day event will also be available streaming live online. (Click headline for list) 

PORTSMOUTH MAY 3, 2014

The Coloring of Law and Punishment: Exploring the Role of Race, Ethnicity and Class in Incarceration is the theme of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail 10th annual spring symposium on Saturday, May 3, from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Discover Portsmouth Center, 10 Middle Street. (Click headline for details) 

SUMMER 2014 

Catch all your favorite fairy-tale characters as they invade Prescott Park this summer! Shrek has been announced as the musical for Prescott Park Arts Festival's 2014 summer season. Wilcox Industries COO, Laurie Teetzel and CEO, Jim Teetzel, made the announcement. (Click headline for details) 

APRIL 24, 2014 TALK

Historian Jan Eakins became interested in devices used by early New Englanders to ward off witches when she was director/curator of Fairbanks House, built in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1641.Puritans believed supernatural forces for good and evil shaped their daily lives.To ward off disaster, they placed old shoes in the walls of their houses and barns, hung a horseshoe over the door, or crossed their fingers – practices that continued long after the Puritan religion faded. (Click on headline) 

OPEN MAY 1- October 31 

Throughout the season the Ogunquit Museum of American Art features exhibitions of John Laurent, Andrew Wyeth, Richard Brown Lethem, Alexandra de Steiguer, Amy Stacey Curtis and Henry Strater, as well as recent acquisitions and works from the permanent collection.  

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As warmer days approach, families can spend the summer sailing in a boat they built together -- right now. Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 Family Boat Building Workshop sponsored by the UNH Marine Docents.