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.

End Domestic Violence 5K Race

Good Will – Hinckley School 16 Prescott Dr, Hinckley, ME

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. By participating in this event, you will be part of the solution to end domestic violence with all proceeds going to benefit the Family Violence Project, whose mission is to end domestic violence in Kennebec and Somerset counties by increasing victim safety, empowering survivors, and advocating for social change. […]

$15 – $25

Let’s Do Chemistry Day!

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

Have you ever wondered how batteries work? How materials behave in a vacuum? How colorful dyes are made? How dry ice can change directly from a solid to a gas? All these questions, and more, are explored in a new series of hands - on Chemistry activities, generously provided by NISE. Join us and our […]

Waterville’s First Photographs

First Baptist Church 1 Park Street, Waterville, ME

This lecture by Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., will illustrate views of the city from the 1850s to the 1880s. Photography came to Waterville in the 1840s, and one of its first photographers was Simon Wing, who took panoramic and street views of the community in the 1850s. When Wing moved to Boston […]

Free

PlanetVision: A Global Plan to Build a Better, More Sustainable Future

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

Presented by the F. Russell Cole Distinguished Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Jon Foley of the California Academy of Science. The news on the global environmental front is grim. But what if there was a practical plan, based on the latest science, that could turn it around, and help us build a better future? That’s what PlanetVision […]

Free

Music in the Museum: The Andrés Segovia Continuum

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

< Colby Music Associate Mark Leighton presents music from Maestro Segovia’s prodigious repertoire, from compositions written for him to his transcriptions and arrangements of traditional classical guitar pieces. Location: Paul J. Schupf Wing, Colby College Museum of Art.

Free

Turner Family Counseling Center Ribbon Cutting

Maine Children's Home 93 Silver Street, Waterville, United States

The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce is hosting a ribbon cutting for the Harland A. Turner Family Counseling Center Expansion on Wednesday, October 24th at 5:30 on the Dorothy 'Bibby' Alfond Campus at the Maine Children's Home! Please join us to take a look at our new counseling center and enjoy some refreshments.

Free

Noontime Art Talk: Seeing Otherwise

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

Caroline Webb ’19 presents her research for the exhibition Seeing Otherwise — a collaboration with Professor Catherine Besteman and Chloé Powers ’19. A culmination of a visual culture lab, Seeing Otherwise explores relationships among mobility, sovereignty, displacement, identity, and community.

Free

Hazel Mitchell Book Signing

Children's Book Cellar 52 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Join downtown Waterville in welcoming Hazel Mitchell for a book signing! Mitchell's newest book is Farmer's Market Surprise. It's only fitting that she will be reading the book and signing copies on Farmer's Market day! Go to the market and then cross main street to visit Hazel at the Children's Book Cellar! CLICK HERE FOR […]

Artful Halloween

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

Come celebrate Halloween with the Museum as we “trick-or-treat” through the Museum galleries as tarot card readers predict your future, enjoy festive food, drinks, and live music by Peace Brother. Art-inspired costumes are encouraged with prizes! This program is open to all ages, 21+, bring ID. Co-sponsored by the Museum Student Advisory Board, Student Programming […]

Free

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

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

This is not a normal pop documentary because M.I.A. is not a normal popstar”—The Atlantic. Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge’s Sundance award winning Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. […]

$6.50 – $9.50
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Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play

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

Jaclyn Backhaus’s Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play is the story of a group of middle- and working-class suburbanites living in Illinois in 1947, all enmeshed in their own tragedies. The play is rooted in the American drama of the 1940s and 1950s, and it playfully explores that style, as […]

Free

Fall Shabbaton

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Hosted by The Center for Small Town Jewish Life and Colby College You can find the whole schedule on our website: http://www.colby.edu/jewishlife/fall-shabbaton/. Registration is $10 per family, and you can register online on the Center website. October 26 at 6 PM-- Join Joey Weisenberg of the Hadar Institute for the "Torah of Music," a night of inspiration and […]

Noontime Art Talk: Goya/Spero

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

Julianne Gilland, deputy director, and Véronique Plesch, professor of art, discuss the paired exhibitions Darkness Visible: Goya Prints from the Lunder Collection and Nancy Spero: Unbound. Introduction by Beth Finch, curator of the exhibitions. Location: Lower Jetté Galleries, Colby Museum of Art.

Free
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You Can’t Take It With You

WATERVILLE, Maine – Aqua City Actors Theatre (ACAT) presents its final production ever in Studio 93 with the comedy “You Can't Take It With You” by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.  Performances are October 26-27 and November 2-3 at 7:30 p.m., and October 28 and November 4 at 2:00 p.m., in Studio 93 at The Center, […]

$10 – $15

Taylor Road

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

Join Snow Pond for a fantastic Country Rock concert starring Taylor Road! Band members include  Lenny Goodine, vocals and guitar; Joel Jolicoeur, vocals and guitar; Robin Thompson, keyboards and vocals; Rich Thompson, bass; and Wade Bragg, drums. Enjoy a foot-stomping good ol' time! Doors open at 7:00.

$10

South End Tool Shed Grand Opening

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Celebrate the grand opening of the Waterville South End Tool Shed, a newly constructed lending library for tools! Click for more info.

Free

Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic?

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

Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes-single-use disposable bags that we mindlessly throw away. But where is “away?” Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life and human health? Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not […]

Free
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REM Craft Fair

Champions Fitness Club 30 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Shop with some of Maine’s finest artisans!  Pick out that one-of-a-kind gift you’ve been searching for. 10:00 am to 3:00 pm both Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27-28, 2018 More details, including link to list of crafters, at: rem1.org/craft-fair/

The Met: La Fanciulla del West

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

This performance is a live HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC. Running Time: 3 hours, 22 minutes (2 intermissions) Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw she loves. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov also […]

Know Your Bones

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

You can learn so much about an animal by examining how it is put together — come look at a variety of skulls and bones, and learn about how certain traits can help an animal thrive and survive. Admission: Adults: $3 Under 18: $1

Pumpkin Portraits

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

Tired of the same old design year after year for your pumpkin? Come spice things up with Common Street Arts at our pumpkin carving and painting event! We’ll be using printing tools to transform the bland orange surface into a unique pumpkin portrait. This event is in conjunction with our exhibition Face to Face: Portraits by […]

$20

Nosh + Knockoff 2018: An Interactive Mystery Event

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

SAVE THE DATE! This year's Nosh & Knock Off FUNdraiser promises to be the not-to-be-missed event of the season! Featuring some of our region's most illustrious and remarkable theatrical talent, NK 2018 will delight and entertain, while raising critical funds to support library programs and services. Click for more details.

Vegas Baby!

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Alfond Youth Center: Charity Ball! Location: Ray Haskell Lincoln Ford Showroom in Oakland. Click for more info.

Colby Symphony Orchestra: 19th Century Masterworks

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

In its first concert of the season, the orchestra, directed by Jinwook Park will perform three 19th century masterworks: Weber’s beloved overture to the opera Der Freischutz;  Chopin’s elegant First Piano Concerto, featuring Colby College’s own Lily Funahashi; and Tchaikovsky’s glorious Fifth Symphony.

Free

Waterville Fire Department Open House

Waterville Fire Department 7 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Celebrate with the Waterville Fire Department! Tour the fire house and apparatus, visit with the fantastic firefighters, learn about the equipment and tools, enter a raffle, enjoy some yummy food, and buy a cool T-shirt! Bring the kids along for fun activities and the chance to win a ride to school on a fire truck! […]

Free
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