One Show Only! Introduced by Director Richard Kane Imber’s Left Hand is a love story between two artists faced with one’s death and how art and love transform this tragedy into the brightest affirmation of life. Jon Imber’s switch to painting left handed and the black humor with which he dances with his dying is […]

The Recycled Shakespeare Company will perform Select Works of Edgar Allan Poe on in the gazebo of Memorial Park in Fairfield. In this unique readers theater in-the-round setting the audience will be in the gazebo to hear and see these old classics right in the middle of all the action. Bring a chair. You are […]

Come on a fall walk to enjoy the leaf changes and explore the trails with a museum guide.  Discover why the leaves change, create fall leaf art and enjoy Maine's natural wonders.

Common Street Arts invites you to our new monthly series — Paint with Us! in our fabulous new studio. No experience necessary, no supplies to buy — just show up and we’ll show you how! Our experienced art instructor will lead you step-by-step to create your own work of art. Bring a friend, bring a drink! We will […]

With a special guest performance by cast members of the Waterville Opera House’s Young Frankenstein, opening October 21! Digital version of the black and white classic, a far greater film than the original Frankenstein, from the same director, James Whale, in which the monster realizes he needs a mate. “James Whale’s quirky, ironic 1935 self-parody […]

Come experience the hauntingly beautiful work of David Twiss in this site-specific installation at Common Street Arts.  We will have two installation locations: a larger installation in the Common Street Arts Annex off Castonguay Square, the second in the front window at the 93 Main street entrance to The Center. The exhibit runs October 7-November […]

Please join us for an amazing downtown experience in Castonguay Square! Enjoy delicious snacks and libations from The Proper Pig, tour the new Common Street Arts gallery and education spaces, such as the brand new pottery studio, and be the first to hear about new and exciting projects planned for the City of Waterville.  Speakers […]

The purpose of the meeting is to identify local transit needs, share information and develop a coordinated, comprehensive strategy to meet the growing need for public transit services in the Waterville area. All interested parties are invited to attend.

Discover how to move your piece of Maine in the right direction – without losing what you love most. October 19, 2016, Waterville, Maine. Morning tours around Waterville & afternoon sessions at Thomas College. Click for more info.

Sonja Pieck, associate professor of environmental studies at Bates College, researches the struggles over nature in South America and Germany, including the border region between East and West Germany. Shaped for decades by demographic and economic decline, it became an ecological refuge for more than a thousand endangered plant and animal species. When the wall […]

Khalid Albaih is a political cartoonist from Sudan. He is Colby’s 2016 Oak Fellow at the Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights. Albaih uses his daring, often biting cartoons to champion freedom of expression and democracy in the Arab world, while criticizing Western Islamophobia and U.S. practices including torture and drone attacks. […]

Independent scholar of folk and decorative arts Seth Thayer ’89 and Assistant for Special Projects Anna Fan ’15 will discuss artworks in the exhibition related to whaling and maritime trade, a subject they both focus on as contributing authors in A Usable Past’s accompanying catalog.

Are you a caregiver for a family member or friend? Does your loved one have dementia or another chronic illness? Come and talk with others who share your journey, to support one another and learn of resources and information that may help you. Our Caregiver Support Group is here to listen, to care, to help. […]

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area will offer a 20-hour facilitator training for their grieving children’s program, Hope’s Place, starting Wednesday, October 19, 2016. The training dates and times will be Saturdays, October 22 and 29, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., and Monday and Wednesdays, October 19, 24, 26 and November 2, 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. […]

The Adam Ezra Group (AEG) is not just a band; they are a force to be reckoned with. The group's live performances, sweaty, passionate affairs that have been compared to those of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, attracted the attention of Royal Avenue Records in 2010. Ezra immediately signed with Royal Avenue and […]

Job Corps is a FREE residential vocational training program for eligible youth ages 16-24. Training is available in the construction, medical, hospitality, and administrative fields. Job Corps also offers training in employability skills and life skills. Please join us at the Waterville Public Library to hear more about the program and to start the application […]

We need your input! Please join us and be part of our Health & Wellness Focus Group. We are looking for ways to increase participation and completion in our evidence based programs, Living Well for Better Health, Living Well with Diabetes and Living Well with Chronic Pain. We will meet for one hour and have […]

A keynote lecture by noted Picasso scholar and art historian from California State University at Long Beach Karen L. Kleinfelder, followed by a panel discussing the role of gender, historically and culturally today, in Pablo Picasso’s Vollard Suite.

Prescription drug abuse is a rapidly growing crisis in Maine and our local communities. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet. Safely dispose of unwanted and unused prescription drugs at a convenient location in your community.  FMI call 211 or visit deadiversion.usdoj.gov. Local […]

Join us for refreshments, art making for all ages, games, silhouette portrait cutting, and live music.

Cost is $10 for teens and adults, $4 for children 4-12, and free for children under 4.  Benefits Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter.  Sponsored by St. Mark's Episcopal of Waterville and the Federated Church of Skowhegan.

Jinwook Park conducts his debut concert with the Colby Symphony Orchestra in a program of symphonic favorites, including the overture from Felix Mendelssohn’s magical Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gabriel Fauré’s luminous Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, and the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.