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.

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Auditions for Ripcord

The Waterville Opera House is looking for cast members for the fun and quirky comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire set in a senior living facility. All interested individuals will be asked to read from the script. Parts are available for 3 men and 1 women. The two female leads have already been cast. A rehearsal schedule […]

On the Road with Mainebiz

Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Join us at our second stop in the 2019 On the Road with Mainebiz event series at the Chace Community Forum on Main Street in Waterville! Attendance is free but space is limited so please be sure to register ahead. Enjoy hors-d'oeuvres and a cash bar while networking with business executives in the area. Be […]

Free

How Current Genomes are Shaped by Evolutionary Pasts

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Lives of organisms are shaped by their social interactions, including those with other individuals of the same species, as well as with individuals of different species. These interactions affect how our genomes evolve so that current patterns of DNA sequence variation from genomes can be used to detect past evolutionary events. Using the social amoeba […]

Free

The Diversity Bargain

Robins Room, Roberts Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Natasha Warikoo is an expert on racial and ethnic inequality in education. Her most recent book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, illuminates how undergraduates attending Ivy League universities and Oxford University conceptualize race and meritocracy. The book emphasizes the contradictions, moral conundrums, and tensions on campus related […]

Free

Ribbon cutting

Join Work Health on the opening of its 6th location. Ribbon cutting at 12:30. Light refreshments will be served. 10 Washington Street Waterville, ME

Lecture with Susanna Coffey

Susanna Coffey is the F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her portraits are investigations of the iconic human head. The work is driven by questions about what a portrait image can mean. What is a beautiful appearance? Why do conventionally gendered images involve caricature? Meticulously observed, the […]

Free

Waterville Green Drinks

Waterville House of Pizza 145 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Come join KV Connect, Waterville’s young professionals group, for an exciting evening of networking and socialization while helping to support a great cause! This month we’re at Waterville House of Pizza. Admission is a $5 suggested donation to benefit the Hospice Volunteers of Waterville area. Click for more info.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña: The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist

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

In his latest solo work, Guillermo Gómez-Peña draws from his 30-year-old living archive and combines new and classic performance material to present a unique perspective on the immediate future of the Americas. Combining spoken-word poetry, activist theory, radical storytelling, and language experimentation, Gómez-Peña offers critical and humorous commentary about the art world, academia, new technologies, the culture […]

Free

Business After Hours

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Join us each month at a different area business for Business After Hours. These events are a great opportunity to mix and mingle with other business professionals and leaders in our communities. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine, and other beverages are available, as well as a 50/50 raffle and fabulous door prizes donated by area […]

Free

Leviathan

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

Oscar nominee: Best Foreign Film. Kolia lives in a small town near the Barents Sea in North Russia. He has his own auto-repair shop. His shop stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son from a previous marriage. Vadim Shelevyat, the mayor of the town, wants […]

Failure Demand 201

Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

Megan Hart, MaineGeneral Medical Center, will present on how to enhance business processes, measure results, and how to make incremental steps to make your team a success. Hart is the Operations Manager of Patient and Guest Relations who works with many support services teams, at Maine General Health, to make business processes more efficient. Hart […]

$18 – $25

Girls Rock! Central Maine Conference

Alfond Youth & Community Center 126 North Street, Waterville, ME

The Girls Rock! Conference is an event planned BY girls FOR girls.  The high school girls on the Girls Advisory Board choose topics for the conference that are relevant to them AND YOU!  They are the speakers and the workshop facilitators. In fact, they design the workshops! It’s a  fun filled day of learning, sharing, […]

$20

The Music of Surrealism

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

With Colby Music Associate, Mezzo-Soprano Joelle Morris, and Bridget Convey on piano. This program will explore the dream-like and unexpected aesthetics of surrealist music featuring French composers Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud as well as selections by Kurt Weill with texts by Jean Cocteau and Guillaume Apollinaire. Location: Paul J. Schupf Wing, […]

Free

After School Art Club: Wire and Nylon Sculptures

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

The popular funky-sculpture making class is back. Make unique sculptures using wire, nylon, and paint. Ages 7 - 12. Registration required. Cost: $14. Scholarships available. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

$14

From the Light: Writing About Wounding Experiences

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

As writers we draw inspiration from the moments that have had a lasting impact on our lives. Those moments have often left us wounded, and those wounds have left a presence that we wish to address in our writing. Although, writing has its therapeutic effects, the goal of this craft workshop is to use the […]

Free

Teen Tabletop RPG

Winslow Public Library 136 Halifax Street, Winslow, ME

Teen Tabletop RPG: Dungeons and Dragons Character Creation. Learn how to create a character on paper. Basics of D&D 5th edition. Geared towards ages 12 to 18.  

Free

Central Maine Tech Night

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

The Process of Patenting a Product: A Behind-the-Scenes Look With Zack Atherton + Brendan Paradis, Co-Owners of Lockout Labs, LLC of Sidney, ME The patent process is fraught with paperwork, regulation and compliance, and significant wait-time. How did two local entrepreneurs succeed through the process? Zack and Brendan will share their experience patenting the FT […]

Free

Old Maine Central #470 Steam Locomotive

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

Join us as Peter Violette talks to us about the Old Maine Central #470 Steam Locomotive that is currently being restored by New England Steam Corporation. Click for more info.

Two Cent Talk: Mira Ptacin and Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Mira Maria Ptacin is a Maine-based creative nonfiction and children’s book author (and New York Times bestselling ghostwriter). She’s the author of the award-winning memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press 2016) as well as the forthcoming book The In-Betweens (Liveright-W.W. Norton). Her work frequently appears in Lenny Letter, Guernica, Tin House, Vice, New York Magazine, Poets & Writers, Slice, […]

Free

Conversación & Comunidad

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

Conversación y comunidad es un evento social para reunir a gente de la comunidad Latinx y hispana del centro de Maine junto con estudiantes, profesores y empleados de Colby College. ¡Ven para conocer a gente nueva, y para aprender de la colección en el museo de arte! Conversación y comunidad is a social gathering to […]

Free

Nature’s Song: Artists Reception

The Framemakers 46 Main St., Waterville, ME

Come meet the artists from the new exhibition, Nature's Song. There will be refreshments provided by Holy Cannoli! and live music by Adam Babcock. The exhibit runs from March 15 to May 11. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Free

Create a 3D Toy

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

Children will celebrate the small joys of inventing and creating with family at Common Street Arts! In collaboration with the Family Enrichment Council, we offer a free interactive toy-making event with 3d printed elements from our studio. This program is designed to bring children (and their adults!) a little joy as we raise awareness of Child Abuse […]

Free

Learning to See

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

In this class, instructor Oliver Solmitz will introduce the formal values of art: space, shape, line, color, texture, and pattern. Participants will use their own cell phones or digital cameras to see the world from a formal standpoint. Cost: $25. Registration required. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION,  

$25

Zanele Muholi Dance Performance

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

In a joint initiative of the Colby College Museum of Art and the Lunder Institute for American Art, Spelman College and Colby students will come together for a dance performance in the Zanele Muholi: Sonymama Namayama, Hail the Dark Lioness exhibition space. The Colby students are part of the course “Critical Race Feminisms and Tap Dance” taught by Sonja […]

Free

From Dizzy: Colby Jazz Band

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

We explore the roots of bebop first planted by Dizzy Gillespie in the Latin jazz featured in his later work. Gillespie’s compositions “Con Alma,” “Manteca,” and “Salt Peanuts” will be featured along with works by composers associated with Gillespie’s career such as Cab Calloway, Arturo Sandoval, Tito Puente, Chuck Mangione, Esperanza Spalding, and Paquito de […]

Free
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