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In celebration of Earth Day, the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of Mid-Maine have partnered up to bring a two-day electronic waste recycling event to Waterville! Free electronic waste collection for households, plus businesses, non-profits and municipalities of fewer than 100 employees. You won’t even have to get out of your car! […]
Free electronic waste collection for households, plus businesses and non-profits with fewer than 100 employees. You don’t even have to get out of the car! Just pop the trunk, and the electronics will be unloaded and sorted for you. All you do is some quick paperwork. You can find out more on the Chamber's website, […]
Join us for a short hike to the Roosevelt Monument. We'll talk about the things we see along the way, learn some fun exercises, and finish by making a teddy bear craft in honor of the president who loved spending time outdoors — Theodore Roosevelt! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour) and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in London. David Leveaux’s new production marks the 50th anniversary of the play that made […]
Mary, foundering in her romantic relationship, meets a female cowboy who becomes her escape. Late, A Cowboy Song, by Sarah Ruhl, is a play about art, soup, and the freedom of learning to ride a horse. The text is lean and beautiful and includes live music. This production will be helmed by the students in the […]
Recycled Shakespeare Company is planning Shakespeare's 453rd Birthday Bash on Saturday, April 22. We will be walking through Downtown Waterville, stopping along the way to read some of Shakespeare's sonnets. The event begins at the Waterville Public Library, followed by a Shakespeare period costumed parade through the Concourse, Silver Street, and the South End of […]
Join us to celebrate Earth Day! We will be meeting volunteers in Castonguay Square. Armed with gloves, rakes, brooms, and other cleaning supplies, we'll spend the morning making Downtown Waterville shine. This family-friendly event will be a great way to teach our youth about community involvement. If you'd like to volunteer, or have any questions, […]
Photography and Migration is a community photo-sharing event hosted by the Waterville Public Library and Colby College. Bring your historical family photos to the library for digitization and share your migration stories! The afternoon will include free local music, food, workshops on preserving family photos, conversations with local historians, an demonstrations of early photographic processes. […]
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah Warner’s moving production, starring Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Tatiana and Onegin. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Lenski, and Robin Ticciati conducts. This is a live, high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The running […]
The year 2014 was the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. In celebration of Earth Day, discover the story of this pigeon and other endangered animals around the museum. Make a fun animal craft to bring home and find out ways to help animals and plants around you. Admission: $3 for adults, […]
Come spend the afternoon sketching with Guild of Science Illustrators Maine at the L.C. Bates Museum, an early 20th-century natural history and cultural museum in Hinckley, Maine. The museum has 32 habitat dioramas, galleries of birds, mammals, marine life, insects, reptiles, and minerals, as well as hands-on educational exhibits. Also on the grounds of the […]
Directed by Jesse Wakeman, the Colby Collegium Musicum performs Antonio Vivaldi’s masterful Gloria. This brilliant and complex work for choir and orchestra, with soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, is sure to invigorate the soul and ring in the spring. The program will also feature two madigals and several instrumental works. Sponsored by the Music Department.
Join us for Thomas College’s Third Annual Dirty Dog Mud Run! The run is a 5K mud run and obstacle course featuring 12-15 obstacles and multiple mud pits. The run is open to community members and will be a family-friendly atmosphere. This year’s event will offer a mini obstacle course open to children up to […]
Postponed from Saturday, April 22, due to weather. Join us to celebrate Earth Day! We will be meeting volunteers in Castonguay Square. Please bring anything you have including rakes, brooms, cleaning supplies, trash bags, gloves, and some work attire! This family-friendly event will be a great way to teach our youth about community involvement. If […]
350 Central Maine invites you to a letter-writing meeting. We will be writing letters to area representatives to support solar power. FMI: linda350centralmaine@gmail.com
The new ballet score, based on motifs from the Lermontov novel A Hero of Our Time, was commissioned from the very young (32-year-old) Peresburg composer Ilya Demutsky who, though not averse to experiments, keeps to a fairly traditional musical language. However his acute interest in contemporary topics which finds reflection in his music, and his […]
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African-American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells’ memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards. The Black Press: Soldiers […]
Brooke Williams will read from his Open Midnight, which weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness: that of the author’s year alone with his dog, ground truthing, backcountry maps of southern Utah and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, William Williams, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the […]
The role of the media in the 2016 election was exceptional and will be studied for decades. Did the press underestimate Donald Trump’s support, or did it help fuel his ascent? The role of the press during the early stages of the Trump Administration has also become a hot topic. How will the press respond […]
The Library Board of Trustees invites the community to celebrate Waterville Library Love Day! By Mayoral Proclamation, April 26, 2017 is a day to celebrate the Library’s 121 years of service to the community. Join the Library Trustees for cake, crafts, treats, prizes, and other fun! Location: Fireplace Room, 1st Floor.
WATERVILLE, April 2017 — Thomas College will hold its first in a series of entrepreneur speaker and networking events to be held at Thomas College’s Ayotte Auditorium on April 26, 2017 at 6 to 7:30 p.m. The first speaker will be Amber Lambke, President and CEO of Maine Grains, who will talk about how she […]
In these fast-paced, uncertain times, it’s more important than ever to send clear messages about the work of Maine’s nonprofits. MANP’s Spring 2017 Executive Leadership Forum will feature Dr. Lynn Davey, an expert in the art and science of framing public discourse on complex social problems. Dr. Davey will explain how non-experts think about the causes […]
Mark your calendars! The Downtown Waterville Farmers' Market opens on Thursday, April 27, in its new location, Castonguay Square and Common Street. Rain or shine, the Market will be open from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. every Thursday through November 16. Due to the change in location, the City will be closing down Common Street from […]
53rd Annual Awards Ceremony April 27, 2017 Kennebec Valley Community College Fairfield Campus 5:00PM to 7:30PM $50.00 per person - call 873-3315 to register For 53 years, the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce has presented awards to deserving area businesses and business people. Join us April 27 to celebrate the achievements and contributions of our 2016 […]