 Our mission is to provide a creative and dynamic space for artists and people from the community to come together. And that is still our mission. And as we grow, we become more about our community. We're a community arts center, so we are focused on the arts, but also on people that live in this neighborhood. This is the East Bayside neighborhood, and it's a very diverse community. There are a lot of new citizens, a very diverse refugee population, and tons and tons of kids. There are also a lot of artists and little new startup businesses in East Bayside. So it's an interesting place to be. There's a diverse group of people that come here and use the space, whether they're artists or performers or audience members. Well, we have our performing arts programs, performing arts and culture series. So that's anything that's happening on the stage, and it could be music, it could be dance, theater. Like today we're doing a Hansel and Gretel puppet opera, so we do a lot of puppetry in that series. And then we do what's called Artist Space, and so we're also a gallery. It's a nonprofit gallery, and we rent affordable artist studios downstairs. We have five artists working in the building. And then our third program is the Children's Puppet Workshop, which is an after-school program for kids in the neighborhood. And they come here and do, they make puppets and do performances, and they also do hip-hop dance and writing and music and all kinds of things. So Hansel and Gretel, the puppet opera, is by Paper Bowl Puppets, which is a pretty new puppet troupe and they're based in South Portland. And some of them are USM students, and so they're a group of puppeteers and musicians who put the show together. It's an actual opera, so they have professional singers that'll be singing Engelbert Humperdink score, and they are manipulating the puppets, which are Bong Raku-style puppets. Brian Arlette is Blaner's husband and co-founder of the Mayo Street Arts Center. We have a small staff of people here, and we have a lot of people interested in doing things here, all kinds of plays or music, all kinds of things. And so it is very challenging just to keep up with who wants what, when, and being able to be here to make it happen. Blaner and I having two kids, and I go full-time school, and so it's just, it's really hectic, it's really challenging, but we love what we do here, so it's worth it. Of course, like any other organization, funding is up there. Any help we can get to, donations, we send out our annual mailing to get some donations, and we really appreciate any financial support people can give us, because it's all back into this place and to provide for great events for kids in the neighborhood, and for anybody in the great Portland area or beyond to come here and do things here. Intern Lauren Siegel talked about her experiences at Mayo Street Arts. I've learned a lot, I love it here. There's so many different shows and such a diverse population. One of the events we had a couple weeks ago was a guy from the South Sudan, and he wrote a book, and it was a fundraiser for him, and it was really interesting. There was a bunch of different dances and music, and all that stuff, it was really fun. Mayo Street Arts Center really brings the community together. It's so diverse, I can't say that enough. There are so many different people that you wouldn't think would come together and interact. You wouldn't think they'd be friends, but they are, and everyone loves it here, and everyone's so friendly. An upcoming premiere shows how the Arts Center reaches out to the greater Portland community. One project we have coming up in April is a puppet Alice in Wonderland, and the kids that come to our after-school programs for the Children's Puppet Workshop are making puppets for this performance, and it's going to premiere at the Portland Performing Arts Festival in April at the Masonic Temple. So there are kids in it that will have made hand puppets for Alice in Wonderland, and then mecha students are making right now marionettes for the performance, so there will be 13 Sicilian marionettes which are about this high, and then there's music, there's a marimba ensemble and there's a lot of applause in the piece, and it's with Shoe String Theater as well, so that's a big project that we're working on now, and it's a real community effort, and we're excited to be able to go premiere that in April.