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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Following the Battle of Antietam, Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is offered command of the United States’ first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. With junior officer Cabot […]

Over the last couple of years, the Black Lives Matter movement has turned the nation’s attention to the too-often troubled relationship between black communities and the police. How do these […]

Professor of Religious Studies Debra Campbell will discuss Jacob Lawrence’s depiction of a Catholic priest and nun in his c. 1968 painting and the complex position of the Catholic Church […]