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.

Folk Art of the Atlantic World

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

Independent scholar of folk and decorative arts Seth Thayer ’89 and Assistant for Special Projects Anna Fan ’15 will discuss artworks in the exhibition related to whaling and maritime trade, a subject they both focus on as contributing authors in A Usable Past’s accompanying catalog.

Free

Family Caregiver Support Group

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Are you a caregiver for a family member or friend? Does your loved one have dementia or another chronic illness? Come and talk with others who share your journey, to support one another and learn of resources and information that may help you. Our Caregiver Support Group is here to listen, to care, to help. […]

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, October 19, 2016. The training dates and times will be Saturdays, October 22 and 29, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., and Monday and Wednesdays, October 19, 24, 26 and November 2, 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. […]

$30

Adam Ezra Group

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

The Adam Ezra Group (AEG) is not just a band; they are a force to be reckoned with. The group's live performances, sweaty, passionate affairs that have been compared to those of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, attracted the attention of Royal Avenue Records in 2010. Ezra immediately signed with Royal Avenue and […]

$10

Job Corps Information Session

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Job Corps is a FREE residential vocational training program for eligible youth ages 16-24. Training is available in the construction, medical, hospitality, and administrative fields. Job Corps also offers training in employability skills and life skills. Please join us at the Waterville Public Library to hear more about the program and to start the application […]

Free

Health & Wellness Focus Group

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

We need your input! Please join us and be part of our Health & Wellness Focus Group. We are looking for ways to increase participation and completion in our evidence based programs, Living Well for Better Health, Living Well with Diabetes and Living Well with Chronic Pain. We will meet for one hour and have […]

Free
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Educator Evenings

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

Enjoy refreshments while learning about artworks and how to incorporate them into your classroom teaching. Those attending will receive contact hours for certification. For K-12 Educators.

Free

Lecture and Panel Discussion: Picasso’s Vollard Suite

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

A keynote lecture by noted Picasso scholar and art historian from California State University at Long Beach Karen L. Kleinfelder, followed by a panel discussing the role of gender, historically and culturally today, in Pablo Picasso’s Vollard Suite.

Free

CroptoberFest

Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME

For people to Scrapbook, Stamp, and/or Craft! Friday, Oct 21 from 6 pm - 10 pm Saturday, Oct 22 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Registration Fee varies depending on days attending.   For more information and/or registration form, contact Deb Cates ((207)692-7123 or Sheila Bacon (207)873-5249

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Young Frankenstein

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

Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks Book by Thomas Meehan and Mel Brooks From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced “Fronk-en-steen”) inherits his […]

$21

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

Prescription drug abuse is a rapidly growing crisis in Maine and our local communities. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet. Safely dispose of unwanted and unused prescription drugs at a convenient location in your community.  FMI call 211 or visit deadiversion.usdoj.gov. Local […]

Community Day at the Colby Art Museum

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

Join us for refreshments, art making for all ages, games, silhouette portrait cutting, and live music.

Free

Bacon Jam

Camden Bank Pocket Park 33 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Turkey Supper

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

Cost is $10 for teens and adults, $4 for children 4-12, and free for children under 4.  Benefits Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter.  Sponsored by St. Mark's Episcopal of Waterville and the Federated Church of Skowhegan.

$4
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Night At the L.C. Bates Museum

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

Gather up your friends and family and get ready for the annual Night At the Museum tour that is a bit spooky and a little bit educational. This popular and fun event for families is not super scary, just wonderfully creepy! Bring a flashlight and explore the decorated museum at night! This is a program […]

$1

Colby Symphony Orchestra: Introducing Jinwook Park

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

Jinwook Park conducts his debut concert with the Colby Symphony Orchestra in a program of symphonic favorites, including the overture from Felix Mendelssohn’s magical Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gabriel Fauré’s luminous Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, and the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.

Free

Business Workshop for Artists

During this all-day business workshop for artists hosted at The Center in downtown Waterville, artists will have the opportunity to network and learn best-practices from their peers during a variety of workshops and breakout sessions presented by the Arts Business Institute (ABI) and Maine Crafts Association in partnership with Waterville Creates! Waterville Creates is collaborating […]

$150

Bend It Like Beckham

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

The hit film Bend It Like Beckman, an inspiring comedy about a young Sikh girl in England who rebels against her orthodox parents to chase her dream as a soccer player, will be shown in anticipation of a lecture by the film’s director, Gurinder Chadha. Chadha will give the 2016 Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture Oct. […]

Free

Music at Moody: Lyle Michaud, Pianist

Moody Chapel, Kennebec Valley Community College Stanley Road (off U.S. Route 201), Hinckley, ME, United States

Music at Moody welcomes Califonia-based pianist Lyle Michaud for an evening of solo piano classics, standards, and originals. Lyle Michaud is a pianist, composer/arranger, and teacher originally from Charlestown, NH. He graduated Cum Laude from The Master’s University in Santa Clarita, CA with a degree in Music Composition in 2014. He has been playing piano […]

Reporting on Love Canal and Three Mile Island: A Young Journalist’s Journey

Fairchild Dining Room, Dana Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

David Shribman serves as executive editor and vice president of PG Publishing Co., Inc. He joined the Boston Globe after serving as national political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, covering national politics for the New York Times, writing for the feature and national staffs of the Washington Star, and working in the Washington bureau […]

Capturing War: Images of Conflict, Upheaval, and Revolution

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

In conjunction with the Lovejoy Convocation program, three award-winning war photographers will display and discuss some of their most compelling work in the atrium of the Diamond Building. See the work of Nina Berman, documentary photographer, author, and educator; Andrea Bruce, documentary photographer and co-owner and member of NOOR Photo Agency; and Carol Guzy, American news photographer with […]

Free

Lovejoy Award Presentation and Address

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

Alissa Rubin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, will receive Colby College's Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism and will deliver the 2016 Lovejoy Convocation address at the ceremony. Lovejoy, Colby's valedictorian in 1826, became a crusading abolitionist editor and was murdered in 1837 for his anti-slavery editorials. He was […]

Free

Dissecting Violence: The Humanities Respond, Part II

Cellar Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

How do Colby professors use their disciplines to respond when violence convulses our world? When police shoot and are shot at, when bombs explode and refugees drown, what can the arts and humanities, in particular, teach us? Join us as professors Carleen Mandolfo (Religious Studies), Aaron Hanlon (English), and visiting artists Brother(hood) Dance! explore how […]

Free

Bead with Us!

Common Street Arts invites you to “Bead with Us! – Jewelry Making Night Out” $40 per person ($20 paid upon registration, $20 paid to instructor for beading kit at start of class) Need a night out for some “me” time? Want something fun to do with your besties? This class will be what you’re looking […]

$40

Threepenny Opera

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

Mack the Knife is back in town! A darkly comic new take on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s raucous musical broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre. London scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out […]

$13
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