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 […]

Lunch at 11:30, lecture at noon. Sandy Gilbreath is the project coordinator for the Maine Food Strategy, where she provides oversight of the organization’s councils, support for collaborative projects, and […]

As a journalist, trans advocate Janet Mock brings issues of gender, race, class, and equity to the forefront of public discourse. Her memoir, Redefining Realness, debuted on the New York […]

On a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no […]

Award-winning short-story writer and novelist Nathan Englander is this year’s Lipman lecturer. The title of his talk is “Writing in Uncertain Times.” Englander, the distinguished writer-in-residence at New York University, […]

Krista N. Dalton is the Cofounder and Executive Editor at the Ancient Jew Review, a web journal and American Academy of Jewish Research grant recipient. Her talk is titled: "Charity […]