4/11/2022 COVID Update: The State of Maine no longer requires masking or proof of vaccination to attend any public events, but individual venues are free to do so. For the latest information, visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or the State of Maine’s COVID site.

Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra

Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Colby College in Waterville opens its doors again this summer to one of the most exciting music festivals in the nation. The Atlantic Music Festival returns for a ninth season, and once more welcomes you to an incredible series of free orchestral and chamber concerts, presented by some of the best and brightest classical music […]

Free

38th Annual NEMC Pops Concert

Messalonskee High School 131 Messalonskee High Drive, Oakland, ME

New England Music Camp will present the 38th Annual NEMC Pops Concert at the Messalonskee Performing Arts Center in Oakland, Maine. The NEMC Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Chorale, and Jazz Ensemble perform in this fantastic performance that also features a Silent Auction. All proceeds go directly to the NEMC scholarship fund. Seating is limited! Doors […]

$20

Waterville Public Library National Medal Presentation

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

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 […]

Free

Composting Workshop

Winslow Public Library 136 Halifax Street, Winslow, ME

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

Free
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Auditions for Macbeth

Fairfield United Methodist Church 37 Skowhegan Rd., Fairfield, ME

The play will be performed October 20 and 21.if you can't attend auditions, but would like to get involved please contact Emily Fournier, Director of the Recycled Shakespeare Company at 314-8607. Set, crew, etc are all needed.

How to Kick Start Your Succession Plan

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 […]

$15

Art in the Park: Wearable Art

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 […]

Free

Opera Scenes

Strider Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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.

Free

MIFFONEDGE – Astro Trilogy and other works

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 […]

Free

Printing on the Historic Acorn Press

L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, ME

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.

$1 – $3

Salon @ the Bar

Marchese Blue Light Pub, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville

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 […]

Free

Beyond the Closet

L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, ME

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 […]

AMF Piano Competition Winners’ Recital

Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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

Free

A Rachmaninoff Retrospective

Strider Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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.

Free

AMF String Seminar Recital

Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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

Free

Future Music Lab Concert

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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, […]

Free

Kosher Caracas!

Beth Israel Congregation 291 Main Street, Waterville, ME

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

$40

Art Song Recital

Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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.

Free
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Waterville Rocks!

Waterville Rocks! is a series of four outdoor concerts presented for the enjoyment of the greater Waterville community. At these concerts, families and friends gather in historic downtown Waterville, lay down a blanket in Castonguay Square, listen to awesome local music, and dance and socialize with others in the community. Established in 2016 by local […]

Free

Hope Haitian Choir in Concert

Fairfield United Methodist Church 37 Skowhegan Rd., Fairfield, ME

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 […]

Lively Spaces Final Performance

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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.

Free

Discover Amazing Insects

L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, ME

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

$1 – $3

Beauty Lou and the Country Beast

Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United States

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 […]

$5 – $7

Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra

Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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.

Free
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