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Cardboard Square Building Challenge

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Use your imagination and use cardboard to create unique sculptures! The possibilities are endless! For more information, please call 872-5433 or email staylor@watervillelibrary.org. Location: Bartlett Room for Teens

Free

Central Maine Tech Night

Hathaway Creative Center 10 Water Street, Waterville

Rescheduled from February 9, due to snow! CGI will be holding an open house on the first floor of the Hathaway Center in Waterville. Come and enjoy a frothy pint of beer or a tasty glass of wine and learn about CGI - who they are, what they do, and their future goals with the […]

Free

Cate Marvin Poetry Reading

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Cate Marvin’s first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002 she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. She co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of […]

Free

Bookend Painting

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Personalize your library! Join us in the Bartlett Room for Teens on and help make it a more colorful place!  Design a bookend based on your favorite book or fandom, the possibilities are endless! After they're painted, the bookends will return to holding up books on the teen room shelves with a lot more style! […]

Free

Animals in Winter

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

What is happening right now in the forests and fields? What animals hibernate? And which ones cache food or sleep only during the coldest days? Come explore the museum with a guide and learn some of the amazing adaptations animals have to survive winter. (Please note that the museum will be closed if is snowing […]

$1 – $3

Design Your Own Buttons

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Looking for something to do during school vacation week?  Drop by the library between 2 and 4 pm on Wednesday to design and make your own personal pins and badges. For kids 7 and up; younger kids bring a grown-up helper!

Free

Citizens Climate Lobby- A Climate Solution for Everyone – And You Can Help

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

A presentation by Peter Garrett In a political climate that seems to be taking us backwards environmentally, there is hope for finding a solution for what is arguably our most serious global environmental challenge.   Peter Garrett, Citizens Climate Lobby coordinator for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, will give a presentation on Citizens Climate Lobby's persuasive […]

Free

Duct Tape Crafts

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

What can you create with duct tape? The possibilities are endless! Come to the library and learn how to make  wallets, bow ties, and more! For more information, please call 872-5433 or email staylor@watervillelibrary.org. Location: Bartlett Room for Teens.

Free

Zao Wou-Ki and Calligraphy

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

Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art Ankeney Weitz, co-curator of No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki, will discuss the calligraphic impulse in the artist’s paintings. Location: Jetté Galleries, Colby Museum of Art.

Free

Trees In Winter

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

Get to know your trees and especially your Sugar Maple to be ready for sap season. Discover amazing animal and bird habitats in the woods and which trees they like best. Make a woods habitat craft. (Please note that the museum will be closed if is snowing or stormy. Check our Facebook page for more […]

$1 – $3

Slime Science

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Why do slugs have slime?  Does it help them at all, besides keeping the rest of us away?   Drop by between 2 and 4 pm to find out the science behind the slime! Don't worry!  No actual slugs will be included in this program. For kids 7 and up; younger kids must bring a […]

Artist Talk: Tracking the Border

Tracking the Border is the culminating event of a year-long project focused on the artist Lucinda Bliss's navigation of the 611 miles that make up the Maine-Canada border. The resulting work takes many forms, including installation, drawing, and photography, all of which will be represented in the Common Street Arts exhibit, alongside other, related bodies […]

Free

Date Night in the Museum

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

Grab a date (or a friend) and head to the Museum for a night of food and fun! Partner challenges such as a blindfolded sketching competition will come with prizes for the winning pair. Sponsored by the Museum’s Student Advisory Board. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Museum Lobby.

Free

Healthy Baby Teeth Workshop

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Do you have questions about dental health for your preschooler?   Do you want to find out more about keeping children's teeth healthy and strong for a lifetime? Drop in to meet with Jane Allen of the Healthy Living Center.  As a Pediatric Oral Health Educator, she will discuss current recommendations for kids 5 and […]

Free

Marble Maze Madness

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Work in teams or on your own to create an amazing marble maze out of recycled materials! For more information, please call 872-5433 or email staylor@watervillelibrary.org. Location: Bartlett Room for Teens

Free

Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Open House

Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter 19 Colby St, Waterville, ME, United States

At the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter, the new YES program (Youth Empowerment Supports) will begin to provide affordable housing for youth, 18-24 years of age.  Come join us Feb 24, 2017 to find out all about it. This transformational housing will include 2 one-bedroom apartments, 4 efficiencies, and a suite of 6 single rooms with private […]

Free

Seedlings: Ready for Spring!

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Drop by the library between 2:00 and 4:00 P.M. for an activity that includes Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math: STEAM! Explore how seeds grow into flowers and food plants. For kids 7 and up. Younger kids must bring a grown-up helper.

Free

Droplet Dance

Messalonskee High School 131 Messalonskee High Drive, Oakland, ME

The celebration and awareness of water through dance, featuring Molly Gawler, Lissa, Schneckenburger, and Nettie Lu Lane. Droplet Dance integrates dance, theater, acrobatics, weaving story and song into colorful threads that connect every heart and bring about awareness of water in our world. All choreography is by Molly Gawler, and she is often joined in […]

$8 – $15
Recurring

After The Storm

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

After The Storm is from the profoundly humanist Japanese director, Hirokazu Kore-eda (Our Little Sister). Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother and ex-wife seem to […]

$8

Missoula Children’s Theatre Performance:Alice in Wonderland

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

The Missoula Children’s Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland, an original adaptation based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The story begins with Alice and her older sister Margaret reading together. Margaret becomes frustrated as Alice is curious about absolutely everything. Suddenly, a White Rabbit appears from nowhere. After a […]

$5 – $7

Paint with Us!

Common Street Arts invites you to our series — Paint with Us! in our fabulous studio on the first floor of in the Center Building at 93 Main Street. No experience necessary, no supplies to buy — just show up and we’ll show you how! Our experienced art instructor, Doreen will lead you step-by-step to […]

$30

The Tradition of Creation: Mari Kimura, Violin

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

Described by the New York Times as a “virtuoso playing at the edge” and “a technologically fearless violinist,” violinist/composer Mari Kimura, director of the Atlantic Music Festival’s Future Music Lab, will perform both her own compositions that integrate interactive computer and pieces written for her by other composers. These works will demonstrate how the living […]

Free

Gorilla Finger Dub

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

Gorilla Finger is a dub style rock band from southern Maine that is heavily influenced by reggae music. The band formed in the spring of 2011, and has shared the stage with many well respected artists in the Reggae and Jam band communities throughout Maine and New England. Performing a very aggressive approach to tradition […]

$5

Down to Earth: A Film of Climate Justice Stories

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

In Down to Earth:  A Film of Climate Justice Stories, thirteen Maine people share their experiences addressing climate injustice. Each one tells his or her own story; each story is infused with a  passion for climate justice, challenging communities to say "no" to fossil fuels, struggling for land and water sovereignty, and working toward living […]

Free

The Entertainer

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

Rescheduled from November 19, 2016, due to technical difficulties. Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment. Rob Ashford directs Kenneth Branagh as the unforgettable Archie Rice. This Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production is […]

$13 – $15
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