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.

Unicorn Party

Winslow Public Library 136 Halifax Street, Winslow, ME

Join us for a unicorn-themed event. We will have crafts, art and activities all about unicorns. For ages pre-K to 5.

Free

Safe Space for Politics

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

To engage the crises of grotesque inequality, social isolation, the demonization of anyone deemed “other,” and the existential threat to democracy itself, we must invest in institutions of the common good. Ernesto Cortés, Jr., will discuss the “hows” and “whys” of building diverse, broad-based relationships and organizations to exercise democratic power. The Compagna-Sennett Lecture sponsored […]

Free

Water Rights and Decolonization: A Lecture and Poetry Reading with Craig Santos Perez

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Craig Santos Perez is an award-winning poet and professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. In his words, “My work is deeply influenced by Chamorro aesthetics in particular, and indigenous aesthetics in general, in which much art, architecture, weaving, tattooing, etc., employ symmetrical and repeating patterns. The same is true for many indigenous […]

Free

Foresta Ultra Naturam: Exhausting Translation

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than 30 books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from Italian. In 2010 his translation of Adriano Spatola’s The Position of Things: Collected Poems, 1961-1992 won an Academy of American Poets Prize. From 1971 to 1982 he was coeditor, with John McBride, of the literary […]

Free

Urgency & Agency in the Battle to Avert a Climate Crisis

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

Michael E. Mann is the distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State and the director of the Earth System Science Center, also at Penn State. His research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth’s climate system. Human-caused climate change represents arguably the greatest threat we face as a civilization. […]

Free

Trick or Treat and Halloween Crafts

Winslow Public Library 136 Halifax Street, Winslow, ME

Join us for family trick or treating and Halloween crafts at the library. Feel free to come in costume.

Free

Artful Halloween

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

Celebrate Halloween in artful style: “trick-or-treat” through the museum galleries and enjoy festive food, drinks, and music. Art-inspired costumes are encouraged. Sponsored by the Museum Student Advisory Board.

Free

The Evil Dead

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

New digital restoration and soundtrack! Sam Raimi’s 1981 bloodfest horror classic The Evil Dead returns to theaters for the first time in 4K with a terrifying new soundtrack. This special edition of The Evil Dead presents the film for the first time with a reimagined score by original composer Joseph DeLuca and a thrilling new […]

$7.50 – $9.50

Be Seen on Screen: Using Social Media to Enhance Your Brand

Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville

Presented by Nate Towne, Waterville Creates! Friday, November 1st Thomas College, Waterville Nate will share his wealth of knowledge including content formatting on the largest social media networks – what works and what doesn’t. He will also provide inside information on the ever-changing social media algorithms and marketing tricks to keep your head above the […]

$15

Motor Booty Affair

Waterville Elks Lodge 76 Industrial Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Join us for a fun night while supporting the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter & Services! Motor Booty Affair has been lighting up stages across America with their 70’s extravaganza for several years, continually improving on the show that has been dubbed “The Ultimate Disco Party Band”. The music is infectious - the most danceable songs of […]

$25

75th Holiday Fair

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

Christmas Bazaar

St. Joseph Maronite Catholic Church 3 Appleton St, Waterville, ME

Fall Craft/Vendor Fair

Good Will – Hinckley School 16 Prescott Dr, Hinckley, ME

Please join us for a Fall Craft Fair. Entrance is free to the public. All proceeds will go towards changing the lives of the students in all the programs on campus. Crafters & Vendors: If you are interested in having a "booth", please download the application and mail back with your payment to secure your […]

Free

Quarry Road Fall Festival

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

On Saturday, November 2, the community is invited between 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. for the Quarry Road Trails Fall Festival in Waterville. All are invited to this free community event to enjoy fun activities, explore the trails and learn about winter programs, volunteer opportunities, recent updates and future plans. Quarry Road Trails is located […]

Free

Artful Movements: Time to Power-Up

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

In this FREE one-hour session, Artful Movements provides an opportunity to practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the galleries. Each session will begin with a deeper look at an artwork, followed by movement and meditation with Kathleen Leisure Haberstock of School Street Yoga. All yoga levels, families, and children over […]

Free

Old Time Toys and Clothes

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

Take a trip through history and explore some of the popular games kids played a hundred years ago! Dress up as if it was 1910. Roll a hoop, play a proper Victorian game called Graces, try a ring toss, write on a slate board and more, as well as making a craft to take home. […]

$1 – $3

Bach All Night

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

The choirs at Colby — Colby College Collegium, Colby-Kennebec Choral Society, and the Colby College Chorale — present their fall choral showcase featuring choral/orchestral works by Western classical music’s epitome of “Energy/Exhaustion,” Johann Sebastian Bach. The program will consist of the triumphant Magnificat in D and the jubilant solo cantata BWV 51: Jauchzet Gott in […]

Free

Bombay Hustle: Film History as an Ecology of Energy Relations

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Cinema is a powerful assemblage that activates people and things and sets them into motion. At the same time, a vast ecology of off-screen practices also participates in cinema’s dynamic logics. As an employer, cinema has the power to put bodies to work. The cine-ecology is at once energized and consumed by practices required to […]

Free

“Plague-winds” and “Great stinks”: Pollution and Disease in Whistler’s London

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

Gail Carlson, assistant professor of environmental studies, will speak on issues and themes related to River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames, on view through May 2020. Our Noontime Art Talk programs, museum staff members, Colby faculty members, and guest speakers discuss current exhibitions or works in the museum collection, with a Q&A. Location: Gourley […]

Free

After School Art Club: Printed Bubble Wands

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Using the 3d printers, participants invent their own 3d print bubble wands.  Once created, students will blow bubbles outside. Ages 7 -12 $14 per session Snacks included Scholarships available REGISTER

$14

Twelfth Annual Worldvision Song Contest

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

Who will add their name to Colby’s Worldvision Song Contest trophy this year? Come find out. Sing along. See what gimmicks Colby’s language assistants have come up with for 2019. Drums? Trumpets? Violins? Balloons? Dancing mules? Most of all, come celebrate foreign languages at Colby along with the College’s talented language assistants and their great […]

Free

Master Class with Cassatt String Quartet

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

Join us for this special opportunity to hear the members of the world-renowned Cassatt String Quartet as they work with Colby chamber groups in a workshop setting.

Free

Newsies Opening Night Party

Waterville City Hall 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME

Celebrate Opening Night in style! Join us on the Opening Night of Disney's Newsies the Musical for food and drinks before the show. The Opening Night Party is free to all November 8 ticket holders and will be catered by Amici's Cucina. Beer, wine, and hors d'oeuvres will be provided. Location: First Floor, Waterville City Hall.

Free
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Newsies: the Musical

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

November 8, 9, 15 at 7:30 p.m. November 10, 16, 17 at 2:00 p.m. Music by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman Book by Harvey Fierstein Directed by Debra Susi Set in turn-of-the century New York City, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged "newsies." When titans […]

AYCC Fundraiser: Bruins Alumni vs. Waterville Whalers

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

Bruins Alumni vs. Waterville Whalers Saturday, November 9, 2019 4:00 Open Skate, 5:00 Game Colby College Alfond Arena JOIN US! We have gathered our best local skaters to take on the great Boston Bruins Alumni. Come cheer on our athletes and enjoy an evening of family fun, competitive play, and more! FREE Community Skate For […]

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