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Quarry Road Summer Race Series

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

The Quarry Road Summer Race Series is a fun, family-friendly, weekly trail running series. Our goal is to provide a summer of great experiences for runners in the greater Waterville area. Each week participants will complete different courses of varying lengths from 3K to 8K, utilizing the full extent of the Quarry Road trail system. […]

$5

Taste of Waterville

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Join us on August 8, 2018 in Downtown Waterville for the Taste of Waterville. This year’s event will feature live entertainment, children’s events, amazing food from our local restaurants, a beer garden with live bands, gymnastics and dance demonstrations and a business vendor section. Every year we close down Main Street and host a family […]

New Children’s Librarian Meet and Greet with Ice Cream

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

  The Library is so excited to welcome our new Children's Librarian, Liz Davis!  Stop by the Children's Room to meet her and say hi and have some ice cream! She is excited to meet the kids and families (and grownups!) of this community! Please help us welcome her!   FMI: 207-872-5433, librarian@watervillelibrary.org

Free

Central Maine Tech Night

Bricks Coworking & Innovation Space Hathaway Creative Center, 10 Water St. Ste. 110, Waterville, ME

    Join Us for Drinks, Pizza, and the Hottest Issues in Technology!   Central Maine's technology community comes together each month for a fun night of collaboration, drinks, food, and networking. At Tech Night you will be connected with technologists (from experts to hobbyists) who share a passion for learning, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.   Come […]

Free

Asa Redington: From Orphan to Community Builder

Waterville Historical Society - Redington Museum 62 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

Lawrence (Larry) Dodge III of the Waterville Public Library, will be presenting about a pioneer and businessman Asa Redington. His lecture is the story of how an orphan helped win independence, served George Washington, and helped shape a community. Lawrence (Larry) Dodge III was born and raised in Waterville. He graduated from Waterville High School […]

Free

The Last Waltz

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

“No other concert film has ever expressed so fervently the erotic root of rock. Seeing it is the opposite of taking a trip down memory lane; it’s more like plunging into the belly of the beast” —Peter Rainer, New York Magazine The greatest rock and roll movie ever? Well… if it ain’t, we’d like to […]

$6.5 – $9.5
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Little Shop of Horrors

Alumni Hall, Snow Pond Center for the Arts Goldenrod Lane (off Route 23), Sidney, ME

Directed by Frances Mercanti Anthony, with music direction by S. Mark Aliapoulios. New England Music Camp’s musical theater students will conclude the NEMC season in their performance of Little Shop of Horrors. Directed by Broadway veteran and NEMC newcomer Frances Mercanti Anthony (Spring Awakening), this group of young talent from across the country will perform […]

$10 – $20

Artists Reception: Watermarks

The Framemakers 46 Main St., Waterville, ME

Come explore the art while enjoying music, food and drink, and meet the artists behind the incredible works. Artist collections on display: Photography by Arend Thibodeau, Mixed Media & Prints by Eileen Berger, Acrylics & Watercolors by Susan Newkirk-Sanborn, and Watercolors by David Solmitz. Live music performance by Laurie Jones. The exhibit runs until September […]

Free

Weight Band

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

2018 WORLD GONE MAD TOUR The Weight Band originated in 2013 inside the famed Woodstock, New York barn of Levon Helm when Jim Weider and Randy Ciarlante - both former members of The Band - performed "Songs of The Band" with Band founder, Garth Hudson, alongside Jimmy Vivino and Byron Isaacs. Inspired to carry on […]

Blueberry Festival

Winslow Congregational Church 12 Lithgow Street, Winslow, ME

Blueberry Pancake Breakfast 7 am to 10 am Bounce House, kids games and more, 10 am to 1 pm Blueberry Café 7 am to 1 pm. Blueberry pie sale, yard sale, baked goods, children’s activities, agricultural exhibition, face painting, fire truck, police car, live music, 50/50 raffle and more.

Earth Jams! with Matt Loosigian

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Sing and dance and make your own music with Matt!   (www.earthjams.com ) "Jump on the Song Toboggan and sing-a-long with Matt Loosigian of Earth Jams.   "Matt is a Woolwich, ME based folk singer, guitarist, and songwriter specializing in playful, funny songs about ecology and being green. Join him as he works his musical magic […]

Free

Amazing Mammals

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

While we mostly focus on Maine wildlife, you might be surprised to discover the number of “oddball” creatures housed in the museum collections! In this special program, we will highlight the amazing diversity of mammals, roaming the museum from anteater to platypus, from baboon to sloth! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3

Missoula Children’s Theatre: The Princess and the Pea

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

Envision a kingdom of snow where the residents are Winter Wind Workers, Blizzard Bringers, Icicle Sharpeners and Snow Smoothers, ruled by the Storm King and the Snow Queen. Add to that a Prince looking for a proper Princess to share the throne. Now imagine the Princess and her friend the Pea living in a kingdom […]

$5 – $7

Simons and Goodwin at the Union Coffeehouse

Union Church of Belgrade Lakes 67 Main Street, Belgrade Lakes, ME

The final Union Coffeehouse of the 2018 summer season will feature the delightful music of Simons and Goodwin. The tight-knit harmonies of Renee Goodwin and Bob Simons have made them one of our favorite headliners at the Coffeehouse for the past 12 years. Central Maine’s favorite folk-singing duo performs both original and traditional folk and […]

$5

Sing

Benton Family Fun Park 269 Neck Road, Benton, ME

A koala impresario stages a gala singing competition in order to save his theater. The contest attracts in the attention of such musically inclined animals such as a harried pig mom, a teenage gorilla, a shy elephant, and a punk porcupine. Rated PG. Kennebec Federal Savings presents their first annual Saturday Movie Nights at Benton […]

Free

Maine Appreciation Day

Bowl in the Pines, Snow Pond Center for the Arts Geranium Lane (off Route 23), Sidney, ME

(New England Music Camp Band & Orchestra Concert, 3:00 - 5:00)

Free

Bible’s Buried Secrets

First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY - THE BIBLE'S BURIED SECRETS Dr. Steven W. Mann will be showing and moderating a discussion of the 2008 PBS NOVA documentary called "The Bible's Buried Secrets" on Sunday August 12th from 6:00PM - 8:30PM at the Waterville UCC.  This program presents recent mainstream archeological scholarship, including discussions from world renowned archeologists and […]

Dogs to the Rescue

First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Come enjoy a community cookout at 6 PM, followed by a puppet show, Dogs to the Rescue at 7 PM. Dogs to the Rescue is a lively puppet comedy about dogs who train people to stop climate change. Flash and Diego are the furry stars of Dogs to the Rescue. They make people laugh as they […]

Don Campbell: An Evening of Dan Fogelberg Music

Alumni Hall, Snow Pond Center for the Arts Goldenrod Lane (off Route 23), Sidney, ME

Don Campbell is a singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist whose music is inspired by sources as diverse as the Celtic and Canadian Maritimes music of his family to Dan Fogelberg, Vince Gill, the Beatles and novelist, Stephen King. Writing in genres including adult contemporary, country, Celtic, Christmas, bluegrass, and rock, Don has released 12 CDs, most […]

$20

The Role of Failure in the Creative Life

Winslow Public Library 136 Halifax Street, Winslow, ME

Maine author Monica Wood will speak on “The Role of Failure in the Creative Life.”  Wood’s most recent novel, The One-in-a-Million Boy, earned international interest, with 22 foreign editions in over 30 countries. She is also the author of When We Were the Kennedys, a New England bestseller, Oprah magazine summer-reading pick, and winner of […]

Free

Family Art in the Afternoon

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

Come by the museum for a leisurely hour of creating your own artwork, inspired by the wonders and curiosities found throughout the museum. Art materials provided. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3

The Rise and Fall of Axe Making in Maine

Oakland Public Library 18 Church St., Oakland, Maine

Howard Hardy, a local historian and tool collector, will present a talk and display. The presentation will focus on how and why axe making became so big in Oakland and around the state. You will learn about the advantages Oakland had in the making of axes as well as scythes since the scythe’s history parallels […]

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Art in the Park

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Passionate about the river, fish, or the ocean? Come make a mini river life "aquarium" in the Castonguay Square with us! We'll use glass mason jars, and recycled and found materials to recreate the beauty of our favorite waterways in miniature form. Art in the Park, a program of Common Street Arts is designed to […]

Free
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