Join the student curators of the installation Zao in Context as they discuss and interpret artworks that put the exhibition No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki into context.

Community Voices is a live event series featuring one-on-one interviews with notable Community Voices, exclusively from the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. Join us for a night with George Mitchell in a one-on-one conversation led by our own Amy Calder on April 6. Doors open at 6:30. Advance tickets are required. Admission is free for […]

With a performance career spanning more than 30 years, Yoko Hiraoka is widely recognized as a master performer and teacher of Japanese traditional string instruments and vocal styles. Hiraoka returns to Colby to sing and play highlights of famous music for the biwa (four-stringed lute). The Tale of the Heike is a lyrical account of […]

White Rabbit Red Rabbit has been called a play. But it’s a lively, global sensation that no one is allowed to talk about. Its award-winning playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, is Iranian. His words have escaped censorship and are awaiting your audience. Slyly humorous and audaciously pointed, this “theater-entertainment-meets-social experiment” is unlike anything and will make you question everything. Performed […]

Join us for a morning of active play and learn about summer camp opportunities. Enjoy Adventure Playland, arts & crafts, fun games and activities, face painting, swimming and more — all for free! For details and more family-friendly activities, visit www.inlandhospital.org or call 861-3292. For a printable poster, click HERE.

Join the Colby College Chorale and Chamber Choir in collaboration with the Bowdoin Chamber Choir as they herald the spring season with joyous song. The program features works inspired by the warmth and vigor of springtime, with selections that celebrate the joys of life and love and the beauty of nature. Works include “A Jubilant […]

The Waterville community will gather on the steps of City Hall to speak out against the presence of the KKK in Waterville, and for the Waterville we know and desire:  a place where all are welcome.  Bring your palms (from Palm Sunday worship services)!

The much-hyped Malcolm X happens to be a spiritually enriching testament to the human capacity for change — and surely Spike Lee’s most universally appealing film. An engrossing mosaic of history, myth, and sheer conjecture, this ambitious epic manages to sustain itself for three hours and 21 minutes and overcomes an early frivolity of tone and […]

Regular walks increase endurance, lower blood pressure, reduce "bad" cholesterol, improve cardiovascular health, boost bone strength and help burn more calories. Join Robin Maginn, Advanced Senior Personal Trainer and Group Exercise Instructor, to learn leg exercises that utilize multiple joints to increase core stability. Cost: $10.00. Please register in advance by calling 873-4745 or stopping […]

Come join KV Connect, Waterville’s young professionals group, for an exciting evening of networking and socialization while helping to support a great cause! Admission is a $5.00 suggested donation to benefit Sebasticook Regional Land Trust . Appetizers will be provided. Waterville Green Drinks is part of the international Green Drinks network, which is an informal […]

Colby Professor of English Debra Spark is the author of six books of fiction, including, most recently, Unknown Caller, The Pretty Girl, and Good for the Jews. Other books include Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing and the anthology Twenty Under Thirty. Spark has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a […]

Our speaker, Winona LaDuke, is this year’s Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Humanities. LaDuke is an internationally renowned writer and activist working on issues of climate change, sustainable development, and the rights of indigenous communities. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota and is a two-time vice presidential […]

Guest Speakers: Dr. John “Jack” Hopkins, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology, Unity College, and Deanna Witman, Assistant professor of Environmental Humanities, Unity College Grizzly Man chronicles the life and death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell, who was killed, along with his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by a rogue bear in October 2003. In one of the […]

Okay, business owners and marketers, time to mark your calendars! TOCmedia’s Tracy O’Clair will be hosting a FREE marketing seminar at the Waterville Public Library! The same seminar will be offered on two different dates, April 5 and April 12, at noon. You need only attend once! Bring your lunch and stop by! During this […]

You can help raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention! Join our friends from KVCAP for a special children's event. Come make crafts, have snacks, and listen to a fun book reading by a local police officer! For more information contact: Deb Rick, 859-1588, debrar@kvcap.org; Emily Buckhalter, 859-1514, ebuckhalter@kvcap.org; or Connie Breger, 859-1588, connieb@kvcap.org.

Artist and educator Luis Camnitzer, whose conceptual artwork, The Museum Is a School, occupies the façade of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, will combine a personal reflection on revolution with a prescription for renewal without complacency in the overlapping realms of art and education. Having come of age in Uruguay during a period of widespread revolution […]

Our Local Advisory Council is sponsoring a Community "Best Easter Bunny Cake" Contest and Cake Sale. Judges from Hillman's Bakery , Holy Cannoli , our LAC, and the community will be awarding a $100 First Place prize, $75 Second Place prize, and a $50 Third Place prize for the best cakes. The decision of the […]

The Waterville Area Art Society and Waterville Creates! are proud to co-present the 2017 Maine Open Juried Art Show at Common Street Arts in Downtown Waterville. Now entering its 27th year, the Maine Open Juried Art Show has traditionally attracted over 90 artists representing over 50 Maine communities in a variety of media, including oil, […]

Join us for a reception from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the William D. Adams Gallery followed by a concert from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center. Artist Zao Wou-Ki nurtured a lifelong passion for European classical and 20th-century avant-garde music. This concert highlights some of Zao’s favorite pieces, […]

Elizabeth Helitzer, Executive Director, Holocaust Human Rights Center, Augusta David Greenham, Program Director HHRC The story of immigrants in Maine is older than the state itself. From Verrazano’s first glimpse of Maine in 1524 on, immigrants have played a key role in shaping Maine and her people. This program, inspired by our 2015 exhibit of […]

Everyone is invited! Gallery runs now through May 13. Meet the artists April 14 with food, drinks, and live entertainment. Display includes Fiber Works by Christine Nilles, Photographs by David Clinard, Oil paintings by Gisele & Jim McLear, Photography by Greta Joseph, Porcelain & Raku by Kim Ahern, Assemblage by Robin Lisherness, Watercolor by Susan […]