Join us at the Waterville Public Library to watch a Livestream of the Waterville Public Library receiving a National Medal — the highest honor given to libraries in the United States! To watch online: https://youtu.be/xI9GpRnOzKc Waterville Public Library's Director Sarah Sugden along with community member Eve Sotirou will accept the award during the Institute of Museum and […]

Learn about composting from Master Composters Geoff Hill & Ross Nason. FREE and open to the public.

Please join Harry Fraser of The Fraser Group and Lindsay Skilling, CEO of Gifford’s Famous Ice Cream at Thomas College to kick-off the first workshop in a three-part series brought to you by the Institute for Family Owned Business (IFOB) and Thomas College. Supporting IFOB's overall programming theme for the year: "Growing and Protecting Your […]

Turn plastic material into colorful pins you'll want to wear all year round. Choose a drawing from summer-themed images, then shrink it down to create a whimsical pin. Art Instructor: Doreen Morgan. Join us for our summer series, Art in the Park every Thursday from 4-6pm. We invite you to experience the joy of art […]

AMF Opera Workshop's Vocal Institute was established with the express purpose of identifying and nurturing gifted singers for careers in the professional world of opera. Join us for an evening featuring highlights from some of the most important opera scenes.

Featuring exciting and innovative work spanning decades of moving image history, MIFFONEDGE explores the intersection of film and art and pushes the boundaries of commonly accepted notions of cinema. This year's MIFFONEDGE presentation will include a live projector performance by returning guest Kerry Laitala and a multi-media exhibition at Common Street Arts featuring the work […]

Learn how to set type and print or make a monoprint on our historic 1839 Acorn Press. Learn what it was like to work in a print shop and be a printer or a printers apprentice. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Several hundreds of years back, small gatherings began taking place in the drawing rooms of the intellectual. Not only a venue for social visits and communication, these gatherings, or salons as they came to be called, became the birthplace of a fruitful exchange of ideas, an exchange from which inspiration was born. In the 21st […]

Do you have a problem storing historic objects or family treasures? Conservator Ron Harvey will present a MAM workshop, “Beyond the Closet, Collections Storage.” You can sign up for the workshop by calling the museum or going to the Maine Archives and Museums website. Following the workshop, at 3:30 on July 24 there will be […]

Tonight, we are proud to present the winners of the AMF 2017 Piano Competition: Kathy Tai-Hsuan Lee and Kathryn Westerlund.

AMF Opera Workshop's Vocal Institute was established with the express purpose of identifying and nurturing gifted singers for careers in the professional world of opera.

The AMF String Seminar presents a collection of master pieces performed by the Institute's finest students.

Designed to immerse exceptionally gifted musicians into the world of new music technologies, the Future Music Lab presents the newest insights into new music performance, the use of interactive computer technology, extended technique, improvisation, and composition for an exciting new world of sound and technology. In this concert, the director of the Future Music Lab, […]

Venezuelan Fiesta and Wine Tasting featuring chefs Alphonso Ortega and Nilda Wolman and Tree Spirits Winery* Come join the fun for our third annual Beth Israel Congregation fundraiser with a silent auction Cost: $40.00 per person RSVP to Rabbi Isaacs, share on Facebook *All food will be dairy/pareve. No meat will be served

AMF Opera Workshop's Vocal Institute was established with the express purpose of identifying and nurturing gifted singers for careers in the professional world of opera. Join us for an evening of timeless art songs sung by the members of the Opera Workshop.

Bossov Ballet Theatre will perform Giselle on Friday, July 28 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 29 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, or $40 for a family pack (2 adults, 2 students).  You can purchase tickets online or at the door. Seating is general admission.

Hope Haitian Choir is made up of children and young adults ages 7 to 15. Most are from the Port au Prince area in Haiti. The children, along with their chaperones, have come to the states for the month of August each year since 2012, singing and dancing and sharing the hope of Haiti throughout […]

Join the Colby museum, family, and friends for the final performance and presentation of work by 2017 Lively Spaces participants. Third graders through seventh graders have spent three weeks of art making, dancing, poetry reading, and writing during museum’s Lively Spaces Summer Camp.

Explore the insect collections to observe their beautiful colors, shapes, and camouflage. Then draw your favorite insect. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Missoula Children’s Theatre presents Beauty Lou and the Country Beast, an original country western adaptation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Beauty Lou is the oldest daughter of the bronc-bustin’ balladeer Buck. At the local county fair, young Beauty Lou is upset by the ungrateful behavior of a miner who has won […]

The ninth season of one of the Atlantic Music Festival comes to a close with this performance. The AMF Orchestra will play Gioacchino Rossini’s overture to his opera La gazza ladra (“The Thieving Magpie”), AMF founder and artistic director Solbong Kim’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, and Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 6.

Mary Cappello, author of Life Breaks In will present a reading and book signing at the museum. Mary’s book includes a section about her impressions of visiting the museum and the Charles D. Hubbard dioramas. The book also includes photographs taken in the museum by photographer Rosamond Purcell. The book in part explores the mood […]