Body Confidence with Whitney Way Thore
2025-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
A beginner-level dance class followed by a meet and greet with Whitney Way Thore!
This event is SOLD OUT
We are offering the class via Zoom – sign up for Zoom here

Body Confidence with Whitney Way Thore
2025-10-10 20:00 - 22:00
A beginner-level dance class followed by a meet and greet with Whitney Way Thore!
SOLD OUT
We are offering the class via Zoom on Thursday 10/9 at 7pm – sign up for Zoom here

Ecstatic Dance with EIR
2025-10-11 18:30 - 21:00
Ecstatic Dance featuring musical artist EIR
Saturday October 11, 7:00-9:00pm
$25-35 sliding scale BUY TIX

Ecstatic Dance at Magma
Have we forgotten, through all the doing, how to simply be?
Have we, in our endless pursuit, lost touch with true pleasure?
In the heat of summer’s fires, has the centrifugal force catapulted us out of the body and into the future?
Now, as the wheel turns, we arrive at the apex of autumn—a season when shadows, rivers, and lakes of the subconscious call us to return, return, return…to dance with them.
We’ve moved forward, yes. But with this new growth comes an invitation: to welcome the darkness still alive in our depths—for healing, movement, alchemy, bliss, and pleasure.
Come dance with us in this liminal season, when the veil grows thin and the walk between worlds becomes dreamlike. Together, let us enter the heart of the womb of night and—with curiosity—discover all that waits to be revealed.
Because from shadow comes light…
Music by Eir — weaving sounds from etheric downtempo to world beats & house.
Tea lounge + altar space provided (bring your own cup + an item for the altar if you wish).
Dress to move (comfy or festive!) | flow toys welcome.
All ages: children 12 & under free | ages 13+ are $10 donation.
Sliding scale tickets: $25–35 → [ticket link here]
Saturday, october 11
Magma, Gloucester
6:45–9 PM
Dance Schedule:
≫ 6:45 – Gather + Stretch
≫ 7:00 – Opening Circle
≫ 7:15 – Ecstatic Dance
≫ 8:45 – Closing Meditation
≫ 9:00 – End
Join a beautiful community in a space designed for movement. Let the music and the season sweep you into a world of inspiration, healing, and embodied magic.

Rock Show
2025-10-18 19:00 - 22:30
PlannComm events presents:
@2to1ska @hedgebandma @thelebarons and The Chip Rockers !
This is truly a north shore delight! Bring your skanking shoes!
Doors 7pm, $10, All Ages

GloArts Salon
2025-10-19 16:00 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Sunday, October 19, 2025 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm
MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
Suggested Donation: $5-10 online or at the door
Join us for the GloArts Salon at MAGMA! We’ll kick off with two short quick works-in-progress presentations by Miranda Aisling and Lesley Davison followed by open creative discussions.

Whether you’re a long-time practicing artist or enthusiastically art-adjacent, we hope you’ll join in the conversation.

Closet Case: I'm Scared!
2025-10-24 19:00 - 23:00
Join the Closet Case crew for a ghoulish night of Drag, Burlesque, Dance, and Music. Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
TIX $20 : BUY NOW

Workshop: The Body Remembers, The Body Rewrites
2025-10-25 13:00 - 15:00
What happens when we begin to question the beliefs we’ve always carried? The Body Remembers, The Body Rewrites is an interactive workshop where movement, reflection, and conversation meet. Participants will be invited to look inward and reflect on what they identify with, what they believe, and what they are reaching for. Together, we will explore the process of unraveling deeply ingrained beliefs – or reflect on ones you have already undone.
Open to both movers and non-movers, the session offers multiple ways to participate—through gentle movement, gesture, writing, observation, and discussion. Together, we will explore:

How ingrained beliefs and values live in our bodies
What it feels like to disrupt and unravel them
How we might reimagine and rebuild new ways of being

Please bring a journal, water, and movable clothes.
Cost: $0-23 sliding scale PURCHASE HERE
Accessible to all: No dance experience required; movement options range from full-body expression to subtle gestures. This workshop is pay what you can: no one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you do not see a price point listed or available that you can afford, please email administrator Kristin Wagner at kristincooperwagner@gmail.com.
Building Access: MAGMA is located on the top floor of the Brown Building. A physically accessible entrance is located through Brown’s Mall: take the door to the right of the main entrance or via 186 Main Street, and then take the elevator to the fifth floor.
This community workshop is related to The Click’s performance project Undone, directed by Katrina Conte. Undone is an alternative cabaret-style that unravels tightly bound convictions of the self and encourages a reflective reclaiming of one’s identity through moving performances of poetry, song and dance. Undone will premier informally in MAGMA at 7:30pm following the workshop. Tickets are available for purchase via The Click’s Eventbrite profile. This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the Gloucester Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
About the Facilitator:
KATRINA CONTE (she/her) is a dance artist and choreographer. She was raised in Mt Pocono PA, but has been creating and dancing in Boston for 3 years. Katrina graduated with her BFA in Dance with a minor in Technical Theater from Ball State University. Since moving to Boston, she has performed with Kairos Dance Theater, Liquid Spine, Alive Dance Collective, and Eliza Malecki. She currently is working with Human Movement Project, and The Click, she couldn’t be more excited to dance and create with these inspiring artists.

Undone
2025-10-25 19:30 - 20:30
UNDONE by Katrina Conte/the Click Boston
Undone is a multidisciplinary performance project that makes way for new perspectives on growth and transformation. A tapestry of live poetry, song, and contemporary dance, the project unravels tightly bound ideas, traditions, and convictions as it identifies the many incubators that shape our internal selves.
Featuring poetry written and performed by Noah Phoenix, an original musical score created and performed by Pearl Scott, and contemporary dance solos performed by The Click collaborators Angelina Benitez, Katrina Conte, Alexandria Nunweiler and Kristin Wagner.
TIX $0-30 sliding scale PURCHASE HERE
Undone is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation, and the Gloucester Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

dance workshop: letting things catch fire
2025-11-01 13:00 - 18:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
letting things catch fire – a little house workshop
During this workshop, we will court transformation through sensation, attention, and imagination. Working with guided visualizations and extended sensorial meditations, we will tune to the subtle, looking for the edges of impulse, image, and intention. What ignites our movement? What burns away? What remains?
Participants will engage in various improvisation exercises and tasked based work aimed at engaging their compositional mind. Using different modalities and exercises from choreographer Heather Stewart’s creative process we will build a movement score together over the course of two days.
By allowing curiosity and risk to lead, we’ll explore interference as a strategy for change, letting accidents, friction, and desire shape our choices. The aim is to let things catch fire, to interrupt impulses, to stay with things until they shift.
Workshop is November 1 & 2
November 1 from 1-6:30pm
November 2 from 10am-4pm
(one day options are possible, please inquire)
Sliding scale $125-185 CLICK HERE
Participants of the workshop are invited, but not required, to perform the score at MAGMA on November 14 & 15 for the MAGMA Showcase.

Founded by Heather Stewart (she/they) in 2020, little house is a professional dance company established on principles of democratic process, collaboration, sustainability, and high caliber dance performance in service of a strong arts ecosystem in Maine. After several years of working as an independent artist Heather established little house in order to formalize her collaborative relationships with other dancers, musicians, visual artists, and writers. As an organization, little house exists to challenge the notion that quality dance can only arise in cities that have already been categorized as designated dance hubs.
Exploring human disorder and melancholy, little house dance draws viewers into dark and intimate worlds of movement ritual and duration. Movement vocabulary is created and performed with a clear, rigorous approach to choreography and performance presence. little house dance creates work for audiences who are invested in seeing performance that stretches the boundaries of movement potential while touching on experiences that are uniquely human.

Rock Show
2025-11-01 19:30 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States

Dance Performance: fleshwound
2025-11-08 19:00 - 20:00
fleshwound:
an evening w/ myles kercher & guests
7pm sat, november 8th
$15 admission BUY NOW

Autumn Song Swap
2025-11-09 18:00 - 20:00
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Local singer-songwriters Miranda Aisling, Matt Jenson, and Kara Kulpa are coming together at MAGMA to trade songs and stories. Join them on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 6:00 pm.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10 – 30 both online and at the door, ensuring everyone has access to this community event. All ticket holders receive equal entry, guests are encouraged to support as they are able.
MIRANDA AISLING
Miranda Aisling (ash-lean)’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see through her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and creative entrepreneur. Using an art degree from Mary Baldwin University focusing on painting, pottery, and piano and an education degree from Lesley University focusing on community art, Miranda is a professional artist and community arts consultant. Her original folk songs blend frank vulnerability with insightful social commentary. A classically trained pianist who shifted from Bach to the Indigo Girls, she brings the lively spirit of a folk festival to her performances, engaging audiences with a mix of sung and spoken storytelling.
MATT JENSON
Growing up in rural New Hampshire (USA) injected Matt with a deep spiritual connection communicated by the simplicity, beauty and truth of nature. As a child he had the opportunity to visit extended family in Boston and with that cultural exposure, he fell in love with the musical styles of the African diaspora: Jazz, Blues, Reggae and Afro-Latin music. Later as a young man with a penchant for seeking the deeper understanding of life, he became extremely interested in the socio-political-economic and psychological-emotional conditions of human-kind. This, combined with his intense creative drive, provides the bedrock for nearly all of Matt’s artistic output as a talented keyboardist, singer, composer, arranger, educator and producer. He has been on the piano faculty at Berklee College of Music (20+ years) and teaches, among various labs and one-on-one piano lessons, an entire class on Bob Marley. He’s been performing regionally with his Latin and Reggae bands (Mix Up Mix Up, Combo Sabroso, the Liquid Revolution, Rebel Tumbao) and touring, composing and recording with the internationally acclaimed reggae-jazz fusion band, Groundation (2018-2022, the One Rock album). His current musical project brings him back to his love of simplicity, beauty and nature with “Unmarked Routes”, an ambient, neoclassical, dub piano with electronics project, soon to be releasing a new album.
KARA KULPA
“Poetic and soulful” and “A riotously fun time” are just a couple of ways folks have described singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Kara Kulpa. Since the release of her initial EP, Any Given Day, in May of 2005, Kulpa has toured the country as a solo act as well as in conjunction with various other acts. She has shared the stage with nationally recognized artists including Rufus Wainwright and Eddie Money and made a name for herself as a “go to sideman” for those local to or passing through Boston. House of Abundant Kindness House Concert Series said, “Kara Kulpa has a charm and personality that make you want to be her best friend…” Don’t miss the opportunity to see this seasoned and entertaining performer live.

MAGMA Showcase
2025-11-14 19:30 - 21:00
MAGMA Showcase is our annual performance fundraiser, featuring our adult dance program. Choreographers include Hannah Tupper & Zoe Ulrich, Sophia Dunzelman, Laura Dow, Dawn Pratson, Jillian Chavez-Oliveira, and Sarah Slifer Swift!
Come celebrate our amazing community of dancers and makers. All proceeds go to support MAGMA, enabling MAGMA to best support artists!
Tickets are $15-25 suggested donation BUY HERE
For Saturday Nov 15 show, BUY HERE

MAGMA Showcase
2025-11-15 19:30 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MAGMA Showcase is our annual performance fundraiser, featuring our adult dance program. Choreographers include Hannah Tupper & Zoe Ulrich, Sophia Dunzelman, Laura Dow, Dawn Pratson, Jillian Chavez-Oliveira, and Sarah Slifer Swift.
Come celebrate our amazing community of dancers and makers. All proceeds go to support MAGMA, enabling MAGMA to best support artists!
Tickets are $15-25 suggested donation BUY NOW

Contact Improvisation Jam
2025-12-06 13:00 - 15:00
Monthly CI jams, facilitated by Sarah Slifer Swift and guests, plus live music
Saturdays 1:00-3:00pm
January Jam will be on New Year’s Day 2-4pm
Next date, February 14 1-3pm
$10-20 suggested donation SIGN UP ONLINE

Drawn to Life: Embodied Practice Through Movement and Mark Making
2025-12-13 15:30 - 17:30
Drawn to Life: Embodied Practice Through Movement and Mark Making

An exploration and celebration of movement through the mediums of drawing and dance. Participants will be guided through exercises designed to enhance expression and depiction of movement through pose exploration and simple drawing exercises.

Appropriate for movers, artists, and humans of all backgrounds; no technical training required.

Facilitated by Jeremy Frias, $10-20 suggested donation. SIGN UP NOW or at the door

Please feel free to email jeremyfrias@gmail.com with any questions and/or accommodation requests.

Concert: Love Blast
2025-12-21 17:00 - 19:00
Join the group Love Blast with Greta Bro on vocals, Mitchell Kossak on piano, Fud on bass, Ricardo Frota on violin and percussion, and Nicholas Suchecki on Sax for a Solstice Celebration and Holiday Concert, Sunday, December 21, 5-7pm.
Love Blast is a collective a musicians from the Boston region who seek to uplift people and help transform culture and consciousness through their soulful explorations of music. Their concerts blend vocal and instrumental improvisation with popular and original compositions that draw on Soul, jazz fusion and world music.
Let’s welcome the return of light with dancing, celebration and a blast of love! There will be plenty of seats and also plenty of room for dancing!
Tickets Sliding scale $15-30 BUY NOW

ElektroCabaret: That's a Wrap
2025-12-27 20:00 - 23:00
$10 cover at the door
DJs Snackzilla and Salomon plus performances and surprises
bring you own refreshments as we will be dancing hard

Ecstatic Dance - Transformations
2025-12-30 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for a symbolic, intentional journey of transformation through dance, reflection, costume, and play. As we near the new year, we give ourselves the space to reflect on what we can let go of, what we want to celebrate, and what we want to manifest in the future. We transform energy and experience within us to grow the seeds of our own becoming.
The evening starts with an opening circle, followed by Authentic Movement, and then opens up into Ecstatic Dance. Costumes help us embody the spirit of transformation, letting us shift our energy through the night. We will finish with a closing circle.
There will be a place for stretching, journaling, tarot.
Cost $10-20 suggested donation BUY NOW
SCHEDULE:
6:45pm doors open
7pm opening circle
7:10-7:25 Authentic Movement
7:25-8:50 Ecstatic Dance
8:50 Closing Circle/Meditation
9pm end

Feel Good for the New Year
2025-12-31 14:00 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
with Holly Randall and Sarah Slifer Swift
2-3pm meditation, discussion and face moisturizing/face yoga facilitated by Holly
3-4pm somatic shake facilitated by Sarah
$10-20 suggested donation SIGN UP HERE or at the door
Holly Randall is a Doctor of Nursing, a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Yoga practitioner.
Sarah Swift is a mindful movement facilitator and the Director of MAGMA.

Hip Hop - starts next week
2026-01-03 13:00 - 15:00
UPDATE – the series will start next week, 1/10, due to teacher illness today
MAGMA is thrilled to welcome guest teacher Miranda Lawson for a 6-week Hip Hop dance class series. Classes will dive into the foundations of Hip Hop with a focus on musicality, rhythm, and groove. Dancers will explore both choreography and freestyle, honoring Hip Hop’s roots as an improvisational and expressive practice. Expect to sweat, play, and connect through movement and music.
Drop-in $18 / 6-week series $85
1:00-1:45pm Youth class, ages 5-13 SIGN UP
2:00-3:00pm Teen/Adult class, ages 14+ SIGN UP
Miranda Lawson (she/her) is a Boston-based performer, choreographer, and educator whose work lives at the meeting point of contemporary and Hip Hop dance forms. She is fascinated by how these styles challenge and influence one another. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Dance and Psychology, Miranda’s teaching is rooted in curiosity, authenticity, and community-building. Her classes emphasize exploration and connection, inviting dancers to take risks, celebrate their individuality, and stay open to a little goofiness along the way. She currently performs with Urbanity Dance and Phunk Phenomenon, while continuing to create and share her own choreographic work, which has been presented at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, the Multicultural Arts Center, Tufts University, and the American College Dance Association Conference. Miranda’s practice has been shaped by mentorship through MIDDAY Movement’s BIPOC Professional Dancer Mentorship program (2022–23), her Urbanity X residency (2022), and recognition from the Mass Cultural Council’s Pandemic Relief Grant and the Somerville Artists Fellowship (2023).

Myles Kercher - forward fundraiser - POSTPONED
2026-01-31 19:00 - 20:00
This event is being postponed, new date TBA

Forward Fundraiser for Creation
This semi-annual fundraiser will support Myles Kercher’s upcoming dance projects and offers the North Shore and Boston community an exclusive view at work currently in development. The evening will feature a new choreographic collaboration between Kercher and Yuniel Betancourt (Paul Taylor Dance Company). Additionally, the program includes a performance of the original solo “face”, alongside a new solo creation.

Following the performances, we will host a brief Q&A session, followed by refreshments.
General admission for the event is $15. Please find link below for more fundraising information and tickets.

https://momence.com/MAGMA/Forward-Fundraiser/129597064

https://gofund.me/95a9d0cce

Burns Night Ceilidh
2026-02-08 16:00 - 18:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Burn’s Night Ceilidh
$25 adults, $10 kids
with musicians Michael O’Leary, Susie Petrov, and Stephen Thomforde
Burn’s Night is a tradition in Scotland (and beyond) to celebrate Scottish poet Robert Burns in verse and song… and we add a generous helping of dance! The room will come alive with wonderfully fun country dances, excellent musicians, and traditional refreshments, for a wonderful night steeped in Scottish culture, for all to enjoy. Feel free to BYOB
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February Song Swap - postponed!
2026-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Song Swap will be postponed due to bad weather this Sunday night – new date t.b.a.!
Local singer-songwriters Brian King, Susan Cattaneo, and Miranda Aisling are coming together at MAGMA to trade songs and stories. Join them on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10 – 30 both online and at the door, ensuring everyone has access to this community event. All ticket holders receive equal entry, guests are encouraged to support as they are able.
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3RIAN KING
“Catch him as his star climbs!” – Time Out New York
Gloucester native 3rian King has performed on stages in NYC, London, Boston, and beyond.
3rian is known for his genre bending songs with lyrics that deeply explore themes of love, sexuality, spirituality, human longing, and connection. His original song “Cold Rain” was covered by soul legend Irma Thomas on a Grammy-nominated album, and his band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? performed sold-out runs of their musical production “Medusa” at Museum of Science, Boston, and Central Square Theater in Cambridge. Their new album “Live At The Cut” is now streaming on Spotify, AmazonMusic, AppleMusic, and more. www.whattimeisitmrfox.com
SUSAN CATTANEO
With her powerful voice, captivating melodies and finely-crafted lyrics, Susan Cattaneo is one of Boston’s most respected singer-songwriters. Combining vivid storytelling with a modern songwriter’s spin, Susan’s music blends folk, rock and blues with hint of country. Susan won the CT Folk Festival and has been nominated for five Boston Music Awards including Singer Songwriter of the Year, Americana Artist of the Year and Folk Act of Year. She has been a finalist or winner in the country’s most prestigious songwriting and music contests including being a three-time Kerrville New Folk finalist. www.susancattaneo.com.
MIRANDA AISLING
Miranda Aisling (ash-lean)’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see through her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and creative entrepreneur. Using an art degree from Mary Baldwin University focusing on painting, pottery, and piano and an education degree from Lesley University focusing on community art, Miranda is a professional artist and community arts consultant. Her original folk songs blend frank vulnerability with insightful social commentary. A classically trained pianist who shifted from Bach to the Indigo Girls, she brings the lively spirit of a folk festival to her performances, engaging audiences with a mix of sung and spoken storytelling. www.mirandaaisling.com

Rock Show benefit for the Lily Jean Fund
2026-03-06 19:00 - 22:30
Come out and support! $15-20 at the door. Proceeds go to the Lily Jean Fund
featuring:
Rawstrum
Cold Start
Horsehands
Matt Farley

Dance on Canvas
2026-03-27 18:00 - 20:00
​“Dance on Canvas”
Friday, March 27, 6:00-8:00 Reception & Sale
​Carey McKinley moved to Gloucester in 2023 keen to develop ​her visual art practice and discover where it meets ​her dance practice. Taking a hiatus from teaching, ​she opened ​her first-ever visual art studio in 2024 on Main St. The upcoming Reception & Sale features McKinley’s recent work, alongside fellow dancer/visual artist, Sophia Dunzelman. Please join us to celebrate how the dancing body brings dynamic energy and life to the canvas. Free and open to the public. Works on view during studio hours–magma.center for more info.

Mandala Dance
2026-03-28 19:00 - 21:30
An exciting experimental experience with live music, dancing, singing, spoken word and community art making, facilitated by Lisa Bouchie and Jon Holland.
$15-30 sliding scale, at the door or buy online here

Pouvwa
2026-03-29 14:00 - 17:30
Pouvwa/workshop and performance – JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS
Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE) is a Haitian folkloric and contemporary-infused dance organization that cultivates hope and healing to foster more expressive and socially just communities through professional performances, education, cultural experiences, and the celebration of the joy of movement for all.
Program at MAGMA on Sunday March 29
2:00-3:30 WORKSHOP FOR ALL • Experience the visceral restorative power of Haitian folkloric dance, drumming, and community building. All-ages and all-levels are welcome.
4:00-5:30 PERFORMANCE & Q&A • Explore Pouvwa, JAE’s multidisciplinary repertory on power, culture, and healing, and learn about the new JAE Dance Center in Boston, the Summer Dance Institute, and the Natural Connections Retreat in Dominican Republic.
Sliding scale $15-$25 / each event. (kids $10)
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MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA (elevator access 186 Main St.)
This event is funded in part by generous grants from the Gloucester Cultural Council and the Rockport Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

MAGMA Dance Company: Here Together Now
2026-04-12 17:00 - 18:30
A collaborative dance concert featuring Dawn Pratson, Sophia Dunzelman, Carey McKinley, Anna Kharaz, Kim Motylewski, Cynthia Williams, Zoe Ulrich, Hannah Tupper, Erika Sutter, Teresa Tobin, Donna Prezzano, Raquel del Rosario, and Sarah Slifer Swift.
Sunday April 12, 5pm
Tix $10-20 sliding scale BUY ONLINE

Drag Trivia
2026-04-17 20:30 - 22:00
Get ready to slay with drag queens and show off your trivia skills in this fabulous live showdown!

Join us as Closet Case Parties and Lady Carmen Brûlée collab for a night of drag trivia and a dance party. With performances by Carmen herself, Kylie Karma, Hunter Down, Idaho Voila and Dr. Viola Voila!
Test your skills as we quiz your knowledge on general pop culture!
Grab your friends and see who can win! Prizes include cash, tickets to Carmen’s upcoming ‘Mamma Mia!’ show at Club Cafe on April 30th, Tickets to Closet Case’s spring show on April 18th and more! You don’t want to miss out!
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