Music

Oct. 6

Jazz/Poetry Project, featuring former Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl with Gary Wittner on guitar and Jim Cameron on saxophone. Interactive arrangements of Sholl’s poetry in which music and text are thematically and rhythmically connected, along with improvisational sections, without words, woven into the arrangements. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for 7-9 p.m. performance, Raymond Village Community Church, 27 Main St., Raymond. Refreshments. Suggested donation $10. Sponsored by the Raymond Arts Alliance.

Oct. 13

Old-Fashioned Outdoor Band Concert, University of Southern Maine Concert Band, Corthell Concert Hall green, USM, Gorham, 1 p.m. Free.

Music with a Mission season finale, “One Light, Many Candles,” a multifaith program in word and song presented by the Rev. Betty Stookey and Noel Paul Stookey, 7 p.m., North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. Tickets $22.50 at door, starting at 6 p.m., or in advance at mwamconcerts.com or at church office 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday.

Oct. 19
Pianist Laura Kargul, “Wild at Heart,” Faculty Concert Series, 8 p.m., Corthell Concert Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham.  Tickets $15 for adults; $10 for seniors, USM employees and alumni; $5 for students at www.usm.maine.edu/music/boxoffice or 780-5555.

Oct. 27

Fiddle-icious, fiddle orchestra led by Franco-American fiddler Don Roy, 7 p.m., McCormack Performing Arts Center, Gorham High School, 41 Morrill Ave. Tickets available at door, $15; children 12 and under free. www.fiddleicious.com/performances.

Theater

Oct. 5-7

“And Then There Were None,” 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road, Standish. Tickets $12, $14 at www.schoolhousearts.org.

Oct. 19-28

“Sister Act,” 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, Windham Center Stage Theater, 8 School Road, Windham. Tickets at windhamtheater.org.

“Tartuffe” by Moliere, University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre, Russell Hall, Gorham campus. $8-$16. Go to usm.maine.edu/theatre for show times and ticket information.

Art

Through Dec. 9

Daniel Minter, “OTHERED, Displaced from Malaga,” Art Gallery, 5 University Way, Gorham. 

Talks
Oct. 16
“Reconsidering the Lizzie Borden Murder Case: The Role of Ethnicity and Gender“ with Joseph Conforti, author and University of Southern Maine Distinguished Professor of American and New England Studies Emeritus, 7 p.m.,  Buxton-Hollis Historical Society, 100 Main St., Bar Mills.

Send events 10 days in advance to arts@keepmecurrent.com.

The Rev. Betty Stookey and Noel Paul Stookey will present “One Light, Many Candles,” a multifaith program in word and song, at 7 p.m. Oct 13 at North Windham Union Church.