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.

Opening Night Party for The Wizard of Oz

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

If you haven't already, order your tickets for opening night of The Wizard of Oz. Only opening night ticket holders and sponsors are invited to this free VIP party. Hors d'oeuvres by Amici's Cucina and libations by Meridians. All opening night ticket holders are entered to win a Wizard of Oz themed Day's Jewelers bracelet, […]

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Wizard of Oz the Musical

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

The final three performances, April 12-14, have all sold out! Travel over the rainbow with Dorothy and her dog, Toto. Watch as characters fly across the stage, and discover the real meaning of home with this Kansas farm girl. Sing along to the classics with your family while experiencing a fantastic musical! By L. Frank […]

$24 – $27

Turkish Music Concert

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

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear Turkish classical and folk music, featuring virtuoso Amos Libby (oud) and Sarah Mueller (violin). Parking available in the Roberts Lot, adjacent to Bixler, and along Bixler Drive. The concert is part of the New England Chapter for the Society of Ethnomusicology conference.

Free

Rustic Overtones

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

Rustic Overtones is a seven piece rock band from Portland Maine that boasts a discography spanning 20 years. The bands unique version of indie rock is strongly influenced by soul music, garage punk, jazz and psychedelic music of the 60's and 70's. Best known for their energetic live shows and perceptual songwriting, they have collaborated and […]

$15 – $20

Camp Expo & Healthy Kids’ Day

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

Alfond Youth Center and Northern Light Health Inland Hospital invite you to join them for a morning of active play and learn about summer camp opportunities.  Enjoy Adventure Playland, arts and crafts, fun games and activities, face painting, swimming, and more - all for FREE! For details and more family-friendly activities, visit northernlighthealth.org/Inland-Hospital or call […]

Free
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Art + Storytelling: Let’s Move

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

After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art.

Free

Maine Mammals

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

From marten to moose, Maine mammals are magnificent! Join us to learn about the more than 50 wild mammals that call Maine home. We will inspect the furs and skulls of a few species, and afterwards make a mammal craft to take home! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3
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Camp Code

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Want to learn how Minecraft, iPads, and Google are made? Come join us for Camp Code! Each week we will show you how to turn your ideas into reality, with languages like Python and Scratch. Are you new to tech, and want to learn some basics? We have you covered. Are you a tech veteran […]

Free

Sign Paint Night

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

Thomas College Education Club and Art Club are hosting an Adult Paint Night. Bring your friends and create your own painted sign — perfect for dorms, apartments, homes, or even a handmade gift. All of the proceeds go directly to the summer opening of the Western Maine Play Museum in Wilton. Cost: $10, or $5 […]

$5 – $10

Wordplay: Colby Collegium

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

A panoply of puns! A manifestation of musical merriment! A fanfare of frivolous tomfoolery! Colby College Collegium will present Orazio Vecchi’s 1604 madrigal cycle Le veglie di Siena (Night Games of Siena), a work filled with witticisms, wordplay, and wholesome, wholehearted wizardry of all genres. Collegium will be joined by a quintet of early music […]

Free
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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
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