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.

The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser

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

James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her […]

All Hallow’s Day Concert

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

Directed by Shannon Chase, the Colby College Chorale and Chamber Singers will perform a festive program of music evocative of the season and in celebration of Family Homecoming Weekend.

Free

Halloween Bash for United Way of Mid-Maine

The Halloween Bash is for ages 21+. Maine’s premier party and dance band, Absolute Zero, will perform. Costumes are optional, but there will be a costume contest with cash prizes. The party will continue until midnight. All proceeds benefit United Way of Mid-Maine’s annual campaign. For more than 60 years, United Way of Mid-Maine has […]

$10

Old Love and New Love

Page Commons, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The New York Times calls Michael Winther a "first-rate singer of unusual refinement" with "a voice that traverses genres." Broadway singer/actor Winther joins forces with Broadway musical director and pianist Kimberly Grigsby for a evening of well-known standards and some lesser-known, newer love songs by top emerging theater composers and lyricists. "Mr. Winther stakes out […]

Free

Daylight Savings Time Ends

Did you remember to set your clocks back (and change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors)?

Freaky 5K

"Bring Scary Back!" with Hardy Girls Healthy Women's Seventh Annual Freaky 5K, a Halloween costumed 5K fun run and community walk. This annual event pushes back at the sexualizing of girls' costumes by celebrating the spooky spirit of the Halloween holiday. Runners, walkers and kids of all ages are encouraged to run in their scariest […]

Choral Evensong and Organ Recital for the Feast of All Saints

St. Mark's Episcopal Church 60 Eustis Parkway, Waterville, ME

Anglican Evensong, which has often been called the most beautiful service in all Christendom, will be presented in traditional style and followed by a brief organ recital. Featuring the choir of St. Mark's Church and Don E. Kerr, organist and choir director, the program will include works of Bach, Handel, Stanford, Vaughn Williams, and Sweelinck. […]

Free

Interfaith Memorial Service

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

The 25th Annual Interfaith Memorial Service hosted by Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area is scheduled for Sunday, November 1st at 4:00 pm at Saint Joseph Maronite Church, 2 Appleton Street in Waterville, Maine. This is a special service of remembrance designed for those who wish to remember their loved ones in a special way this […]

Free

Ready to Network?

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

KV Connect has teamed up with the Colby College Student Alumni Association to co-host a fun event! Join us from 7:00 to 8:00 in Diamond 122 for a panel discussion of about careers in the nonprofit sector. Presenters include: Karen Heck, former Mayor of Waterville; Jane Phillips, President of the Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges; […]

Leading Women’s Luncheon: Patricia Quinn

The Leading Women’s Luncheon series is organized quarterly by Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Anthem. Each event in the series features a woman who has achieved great success in her field as the speaker. Though the series focuses on women’s experiences and challenges in pursuing successful careers, men and women are equally welcome […]

$25

Socio-Ecological Resilience, Sustainable Local Food Systems, and Agro-Biodiversity in the Global South

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

Gloria Otieno, head of Biodiversity International in East Africa, is charged with promoting the conservation and use of agro-biodiversity among small and large farmers, particularly in Uganda and Kenya. Otieno works as a Ph.D. academic as well as an on-the-ground practitioner. Otieno will address food sovereignty, food justice, and food security from a human rights […]

Free

Re-Writing the World: Italian Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s

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

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, and especially in the ’60s and ’70s, Italian poets attempted a radical renovation of traditional literary institutions and conventions. What had begun as an effort to reconsider literature soon turned into a political experiment aimed at re-writing the world itself. Beppe Cavatorta, associate professor of Italian at the University […]

Free

Noontime Art Talk: Maine Basket Making

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

Theresa Secord, founding member of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, will share a 200-year tribal history and her story as a Penobscot Indian basket maker and longtime advocate for the art. Secord also fast-forwards to a new generation of young Wabanaki basket makers to look into their world, their challenges, and the exciting new directions […]

Free

Owning Seeds, Accessing Food: Biodiversity, Food Sovereignty, and Food Security

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

Feeding the hungry is a world problem we all want to solve. But how? Should we leave it up to big agriculture? Big government? Big philanthropy? Gloria Otieno, a development economist and food policy expert, believes local communities play a major role in their own agricultural fates. In this talk, she argues that local communities in […]

Free

Funny Voices: Comedy, Gender, and Subversion in Hispanic Cinema

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

Kathleen Vernon, associate professor of Hispanic languages and literature at the SUNY, Stony Brook, has published widely on various aspects of Spanish-language cinema from the 1930s to the present, with special focus on melodrama, film music and sound, and women’s cinema. She is completing a book on voice, music, and sound in film, and two […]

Free

Polarization and the Politics of Personal Responsibility

Room 141, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Contemporary American politics are highly polarized. Some blame social issues as the driver of polarization, while others point to economic inequality and class divisions. Building on his recent book, Mark Brewer, professor and interim department chair of political science at the University of Maine, will argue that disagreement over a much more fundamental matter lies at […]

Free

Inland Hospital’s Tenth Anniversary Pops Concert

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

For the last nine years, Inland Hospital in Waterville has held their signature event, an Annual Pops Concert as their gift to the community while raising necessary funds for an area of need within the hospital or at one of the 19 Inland Family Care practices in Kennebec/Somerset counties. The dynamic energy of the Portland […]

$20 – $50

Quarry Road Paintball 5K Run Biathlon

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

Paintball guns and instruction provided. Proceeds benefit Central Maine Ski Club. FMI: 207-397-3477

$10 – $15

The Culture of Nature: Garden Design, East and West

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

The 2015 Southworth Symposium will bring together scholars and enthusiasts to contemplate the enduring role that gardens play in our attempts to design our environment. This year’s expanded format includes four distinguished scholars who will speak on the relationship between humans and nature in the context of the garden in Asia, the Islamic world, Europe, […]

Free

Workshop: Bookmark Making

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

Theresa Secord, founding member of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance and a nationally recognized, award-winning artist, will share her traditional weaving. Attendance to this workshop is limited to 25 and preregistration is required. To register, call 859-5613.

Quarry Road Fall Festival

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

• Hot cider & refreshments • Trail walks • Dryland dog sled and fat biking demos • Pump track open – bring your bike! • Pumpkin bowling • Hay Bale Maze • Face painting and more family-friendly activities!

Free

Storytime Special: Young Author Jo-Jo Thoreau

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Meet 10-year-old Jo-Jo Thoreau and listen to her read from her second book, Buckaroo Bobbie Sue. She's also prepared a craft activity, and there will be copies of both books to purchase. She'll even sign them for you!

Free

Come Read to Cole the Reader Dog!

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

In the Reader Dog program, children actually read books to a trained dog and the dog loves to listen! A child who may be hesitant to read to his peers is typically less stressed when reading to a dog. Each child will have 15 minutes to read aloud to Cole from the book of their […]

Free

Maine Children’s Home Variety Show

Williamson Performing Arts Center 9 School Street, Fairfield, ME, United States

This family-friendly show features fast-paced juggling, comedy, escape wizardry, dangerous props and insane stunts. Proceeds will benefit The Maine Children's Home. Tickets are $10 and available at the door or at The Maine Children's Home. Tickets for children 10 and under are $5.00.

$10

Colby Wind Ensemble: Five Degrees of Increasing Separation

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

Germaine Taillefaire (Overture for the Orchestra) and Darius Milhaud (West Point Suite) were members of “Les Six”, a group of French composers reacting both to the Wagner’s bombast and Debussy’s overt sensuality. Milhaud’s suite and William Grant Still’s “To You, America” were both commissioned for the West Point sesquicentennial. Still and Vincent Persichetti (Symphony for the […]

Free
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