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Please join us for wonderful music and fellowship. Many area choirs will be participating in an evening of music. Each choir will perform individually, and all the singers will participate in a massed choir.
Join us for celebrity life drawing series capturing the poses of local “celebrities” at Common Street Arts! This week is Veronique Plesch! Click for more info.
Insects buzz with activity during the warm months, and when winter comes most folks hardly think of them at all! Some insects migrate to warmer climes. But other insects are surprisingly hardy and active above ground, while still others use amazing tricks and tools to keep their bodies from freezing during diapause, the insect version […]
Downtown Waterville’s annual holiday parade, the Parade of Lights, held the evening after Thanksgiving, has drawn thousands of families to Main Street for many years and serves as a fun and festive kickoff to the holiday season. What better time of the year to get together and show our community spirit and support for one […]
Hot Tuna BOOK SPECIAL for $64.99! Fifty premium orchestra seats will include a copy of Jorma Kaukonen's long awaited memoir, titled Been So Long (price $29.99). Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, perform with a well-honed and solid power - always in the groove from their years of experience and mutual inspiration. Started […]
GHM Insurance Agency is once again a neighborhood champion for Small Business Saturday. Join them at 9:30 a.m. in the park beside our office (51 Main Street, Waterville). They will have coffee, cocoa and breakfast goodies for you to enjoy. You can pick up your passport for the day and while shopping, get the passport […]
Little Chair press of Portland will be in the CSA studio with an awesome mobile printing press! Print your own t-shirt, hoodie, or tea towel with fun and playful Waterville themed designs. Prices will range from $8 for a tea towel to $25 for a shirt. All proceeds will benefit Common Street Arts scholarships for […]
Join us for a fun and educational tour of the museum's basket collection, including examples of Penobscot and Passamaquoddy craftsmanship. Learn about some of the natural materials and ingenious techniques used. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. MGC Artistic Director Michael Grandage directs this first ever UK revival since directing the world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse […]
The Mount View Chamber Singers is a group of 20 high school students from Mount View High School in Thorndike, Maine, USA. They have traveled around the world sharing their gift of music. For the past 27 years, they have travelled around Central and Eastern Maine and New Brunswick to sing Carols in the Round, […]
THE BOLSHOI BALLET: La Sylphide This performance is an encore HD broadcast from Moscow. The story of a young Scottish farmer, James, who, on the eve of their wedding, abandons his betrothed, Effie, after being enticed away to the forest by the ethereal Sylphide of the title. But when the Sylphide dies and Effie marries […]
Audition Dates and Times: November 25 at 1:00 p.m. November 26 at 6:30 p.m. Show Dates: January 25, 26, February 1, 2 at 7:30 p.m. January 27 and February 3 at 2:00 p.m. Auditions will consist of readings from the script. There are parts for three men and three women. For character descriptions and sides, […]
In this series of 4 classes you will learn discipline methods that work, how to prevent tantrums, establishing routines to make life easier, and much more. This class is designed for parents of children from birth-age 5. All classes are free, but pre-registration is required. Mondays: November 26, December 3, 10 & 17 5:30 – […]
You are invited to the Urban Design Cooperative’s second annual design event, where we will present proposals for community-oriented design projects in Waterville. I have attached a flier; please circulate to anyone who might be interested. The group would love community feedback on these developing projects; we’re also looking for partners to help us shape […]
#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving, fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving , #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving. Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers is joining this movement to help their Adoption & Counseling programs build […]
Robert Steneck, professor at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, presents the fall 2018 Hollis Lecturer in Environmental Studies. Ecosystems can “flip” and, as a result of reinforcing feedback mechanisms, “lock” into alternative stable states. Steneck studied this process in a kelp-forest ecosystem in Maine for nearly four decades and found two stable states: […]
Come explore the world of clay! This six-week pottery class will teach students the basics of throwing clay on the wheel. The class will start with clay basics and expand to creating mugs, bowls, plates, and other objects based on student interests. Skills that will be developed include centering, shaping, trimming, handle making, and decoration […]
For over a dozen years, Leslie Thomas, founding executive and creative director of ART WORKS Projects, has curated and directed multi-media exhibitions and public projections. She will present a sample of these along with a film excerpt from her soon to be released documentary, The Prosecutors, and discuss the role of the arts in ending grave […]
Spare your home the mess and have your child make slime in our art studio. We will make sure to have a secure package for each slime creation! Admission is $12 per session. Scholarships available. Click for more info.
Throughout his brief but brilliant career, the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty maintained an intense interest in painting, and especially in the painting of Paul Cézanne. Merleau-Ponty saw Cézanne as a fellow explorer in the primordial land of perception, a pioneer in the archaeology of the visible world. This talk explores Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical interest in the […]
Fall Performance Projects includes new works by four student choreographers; highlights first year students in the first year theater and dance projects directed by senior majors Gabriella Foster and Kaylee Pomelow; and features a powerful solo by Visiting Assistant Professor Tsaibwom Akuchu. FPP highlights products of curricular creative research that emphasize experimentation, collaboration, and hybridity. […]
Please join us for this 3:30 concert featuring festive arrangements of Christmas carols and hymns, featuring the Downeast Brass Quintet and PSUMC organist Sharon Saunders. Admission to the concert is free. Following the concert, we'll have a public supper from 5:00 to 6:00 in Fellowship Hall, with beans, hot dogs, casseroles, salads, rolls, and homemade […]
The museum invites adults and children of all ages to drop in and make glowing holiday ornaments using decorative paper, LED lights and button batteries. This free workshop is open to ages 5 and up. No RSVP required.
In anticipation of our upcoming tracking walk next month, let’s take some time indoors to study the tracks we might expect to see. From the snowshoe hare to wild cats and weasels, we can learn a lot from observing not just an individual footprint, but the animal’s gait! Plus, we will talk about the special […]