Your library loves you; don't let late fees keep us apart! On Wednesday, February 14, Valentine's Day, bring back your overdue items anytime during our normal business hours, and we'll […]

Surprise your significant other, or friends, with an art night to celebrate just being yourselves, in love with the world. Come create a memory in the shape of a cool […]

Join the museum for a celebration of its spring exhibitions with a reception, guided tours, and hands-on activities for families.

Bring a pal and enjoy drinks and snacks while participating in partner-oriented crafts and activities around the museum. Open to the student body as well as members of the Waterville […]

Discover the differences and similarities between birds and mammals as we encourage active learning by dressing two students in our bear and bird costumes. Participants handle and examine beak, foot […]

Join Lunder Curator for Whistler Studies Justin McCann in examining photographs in Game Time: The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss, on view through June 24. Part of the Noontime Art Talks Series.

Fun and Fellowship while enjoying  a cup of chili or corn chowder and the movie Patch Adams (starring Robin Williams).  All are welcome!

Whether she's belting out a raucous blues-rocker, firing up a blistering soul-shouter, bringing the spirit to a gospel-fueled R&B rave-up or digging deep down into a subtle, country-tinged ballad, Shemekia […]

Saturday and Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Cuba, 1983: Santa is a young woman working on a state farm. Andrés is a middle-aged gay novelist who, the government says, has “ideological […]

Create a colorful paper window design inspired by Tiffany lamps in the museum’s collection. Families are invited to attend this two-hour workshop, open to all ages. Children must be accompanied […]

Look at the Maine winter animals and their tracks in the L.C.Bates Museum and then go outside to find and identify animal and bird tracks along the trails. Dress for […]

Did you know that February is often the very best month to view the stars?  But it is also the trickiest month to enjoy standing outside for long periods of […]

Join Sustain Mid Maine’s Rethink, Reduce, Reuse Recycle Team for a screening of the documentary film Bag It about the proliferation of plastic in our environment and society. Bring a […]

At a theatre performance of Manon Lescaut, the young and naive Armand is utterly captivated after meeting the ravishing and most desirable courtesan Marguerite Gautier. Their encounter gives birth to […]

Seussical: The Musical Audition Dates: Sunday, February 18 at 1:00 p.m. Monday, February 19 at 6:30 p.m. Seussical: The Musical Performance Dates: June 15, 16, 22 at 7:30 p.m. June 17, 23, […]

Come enjoy chicken soups from across the Jewish Diaspora, and let the Jewish penicillin work its magic on our dreary February. There will be a small suggested donation at the […]

This week-long art camp explores the things we love about winter: seeing animal tracks in the snow, viewing the Northern Lights, building things out of snow, and going into the […]

The Waterville Opera House collaborates with Missoula Children’s Theatre, an internationally recognized touring group. to present sessions of theater camp during February and summer vacations for students in grades 1-8. […]

All are welcome to help with planning for the June Festival.

Poetic realism reached sublime heights with Children of Paradise, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time. This nimble depiction of nineteenth-century Paris’s theatrical demimonde, filmed during […]

Seussical: The Musical Audition Dates: Sunday, February 18 at 1:00 p.m. Monday, February 19 at 6:30 p.m. Seussical: The Musical Performance Dates: June 15, 16, 22 at 7:30 p.m. June 17, 23, […]

In partnership with the Portland Ballet, we are pleased to present ORIGINS, a new work by internationally recognized dancer and choreographer Yury Yanowsky. Mr. Yanowsky’s professional performance career spanned two […]

Looking for a way to brighten up your child's day? Bring them on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2 and 4PM this week to participate […]

In the space of a few hours on Oct. 23, 1947, a furious wildfire destroyed almost all of the small western Maine town of Brownfield. Neighbors fought and fled the […]