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.

Storytime Special: Meet the Therapy Dogs!

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Dogs help people in many ways. Some dogs even have jobs! This week, we welcome dogs and their people from Kennebec Valley Love on a Leash. Find out how therapy dogs help people. What's the best way to approach a working dog? Or any dog? Learn from the people and dogs who really know! Our […]

Free

18th Annual Gene & Lucille Letourneau Ice Fishing Derby

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Weigh-in will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Muskie Community Center in Waterville. No entries will be accepted after 5:00 Tickets are on sale now at the Muskie Center reception desk or online. Tickets cost $3 for 1 , $5 for 2, and $10 for 5. You can enter one fish for each […]

Winter Book Sale

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Chase away those winter blues! Come to the Waterville Public Library’s semi-annual book sale! Our prices are still incredibly low, and we have a large selection of books of all genres, as well as magazines, CDs, and DVDs! When: Monday, February 29 (it’s a Leap Year!) to Saturday, March 12 from open to close. It now runs two weeks, right from the get-go! Where: The Fireplace Room, […]

Visual Proof

Jack Calcut from Oberlin College, will discuss visual proofs. Visualization is fundamental to mathematics. The late Fields Medalist Bill Thurston began practicing visualization every day as a first grader. We will practice our visualization and present several visual proofs in topology and geometry. Important questions arise, including: are visual proofs rigorous? Sponsored by the Department […]

Free

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Ari Berman, contributing writer, The Nation magazine, and investigative journalism fellow at The Nation Institute, charts both the transformation of American democracy under the Voting Rights Amendment and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet, […]

Free

The Pigeon and the Grid: Animal Locomotion, Comparative Biology, and the Genesis of Ecological Consciousness

Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Professor of art history at James Madison University John Ott will speak on Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 Animal Locomotion, a series of stop-motion photographs of humans and animals. Ott is the author of Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California: Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority (2014) and has published essays on art auctions, combat artists, comic books, and motoring […]

Free

Things of the Aimless Wanderer

Room 141, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Don’t miss an opportunity to meet Rwandan director Kivu Ruhorahoza after the screening of his well-acclaimed film Things of the Aimless Wanderer, which was presented at the Sundance Film Festival. To be absolutely mesmerized by a film, totally transfixed, is a rare happening in cinema, but should be the norm, right? Ruhorahoza’s Things Of The Aimless […]

Free

The Taos Society of Artists and the Changing Image of the Indian

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

The oeuvre of the Taos Society of Artists, an organization of Eastern transplants who painted the peoples and landscapes of the American Southwest during the early 20th century, has long been regarded as authentic glimpses into the lives of Pueblo communities untouched by modernity. Professor of art history at James Madison University John Ott will […]

Free

Philip Roth and the Americanization of the Holocaust: From Anne Frank to Primo Levi

Room 215, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Now more than 70 years in the past, the Holocaust is the defining event in Jewish-American life. The survivors are dying, taking with them their memories and lived experiences of genocide. The personal testimony of these witnesses, which has been authoritative for American Jews’ understanding of the Holocaust, is running out. Artists, writers, and filmmakers have […]

Free

Hope’s Place Facilitator Training

Hospice Community Center 304 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area will offer a 20-hour facilitator training for their grieving children’s program, Hope’s Place, starting Wednesday, March 2, 2016. The training dates will be Saturdays, March 5 and 12, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., and Wednesdays, March 2, 9 and 16, 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. Those who complete the training are […]

$30

Medicare for Everyone

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

This workshop will give you the answers to basic questions such as: What is Medicare? When and where do I sign up? What services are covered? What is the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit? What is the cost for Medicare? What is Medicare Supplemental Insurance? And more… Suggested Donation: $15. Pre-registration is required. Call 873-4745 to […]

$15

3-D Design and Printing for Kids and Teens

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Learn to use TinkerCAD, a free, web-based design program to create a 3D object that’s uniquely yours. Several lucky attendees will win a free printout of their design from the Library’s Cube 3D printers! The event is free and open to people ages 7-17, but space is limited. Reserve your spot by calling the Children’s Department […]

Free

Talk and Discussion with Painter Susan Jane Walp

Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

American painter Susan Jane Walp studied at the NY Studio School, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the M.F.A. program at Brooklyn College. Her solo exhibitions include those at Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco; Fischbach Gallery, NYC; ISA Gallery, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy; and Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NYC, where she’s currently represented. Walp […]

Free

Crazy About Tiffany’s

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

Crazy About Tiffany’s peels back the velvet curtain and steps into the dream-catching world of Tiffany & Co. with unprecedented access and intrigue. From past to present, behind the scenes and in the spotlight, this film captures how a small but uncompromising New York jeweler has woven itself into the fabric of the world. Whether it’s […]

$12

Machine Learning and the Economics of Crime

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

Professor Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using machine learning tools to help address what we call prediction policy problems. We show that the use of algorithmic predictions of risk to inform release decisions create the opportunity to simultaneously reduce crime, reduce jail populations, and reduce racial disparities within the […]

Free

Battle of the Badges

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

Please mark your calendars for Thursday, March 3, when the Waterville Police Department will play the Waterville Fire Department in the annual “Battle of the Badges” basketball game. This is always a fun event! Tickets are just $4 for teens, 'tweens, and adults and free for children under 10. Tickets can be purchased at the South […]

Seeing and Believing

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

Through the ages the invention of new optical devices has shaped human perceptions of reality and redefined the physical as well as metaphysical boundaries of the world in which we live. Ori Gersht will contextualize his own practice in relation to technology, history, and art history, weaving between the personal and the general. He will […]

Free

Portraits of our Immigrant Mainers

Holocaust Human Rights Center, University of Maine at Augusta 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME

Immigration to Maine has been part of the American narrative for past few centuries. America, as a nation of immigrants, has historically, with a few exceptions, welcomed the world’s persecuted by offering them safety and a chance to start a new life. Maine’s recent immigrants, most of them refugees fleeing wars, religious and political persecution, […]

$10

Paint Nite

Winslow Congregational Church 12 Lithgow Street, Winslow, ME

Raise your glass to a NEW kind of night out! Paint Nite® invites you to create your own unique piece of art, guided by a professional artist and party host. You'll spend two hours painting, laughing, and flexing your creative muscles. There's no experience necessary and we'll provide all the supplies, so you don't have […]

$45
Recurring

Hitchcock/Truffaut

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

In 1962 the master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and a young French New Wave upstart François Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting — used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut — this film illustrates the greatest […]

$8

Community Day at the Colby College Museum of Art

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

Join us for our spring community day with tours of the Robert Adams: Turning Back exhibition. Art workshops and refreshments will be provided. Begun in response to the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Turning Back, an exhibition of 164 photographs by acclaimed photographer Robert Adams, will be on display at the Colby Museum […]

Free

Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows?

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join Maine Author Liza Gardner Walsh and Maine Illustrator Hazel Mitchell for a special event featuring their newest book, Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows? This is an all ages event, featuring the author and illlustrator reading from and talking about their book. There will be a fairy-related art activity as well! Copies of the book […]

Free

Manon Lescaut

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

The Metropolitan Opera stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing student who desperately woos her. Director Richard Eyre places the action in occupied France […]

$15
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