This broadcast was rescheduled from November 9. Anthony Minghella’s vividly cinematic staging returns to cinemas, featuring soprano Hui He in the devastating title role in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera’s most beautiful and heartbreaking scores, with a cast that also includes tenor Piero Pretti as Pinkerton, baritone Paulo Szot […]

This talk by Samia Rahimtoola of Bowdoin College reads Dawn Lundy Martin’s Discipline (2011) and Ed Roberson’s City Eclogue (2006) in order to uncover the social and environmental forms of relation that appear under conditions of racialized gentrification. Both books refuse easy narratives of individual overcoming, bodily cure, and environmental repair, instead proposing a catalogue […]

Downtown Waterville’s annual holiday parade 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 another! The Children’s Discovery […]

Fiddle virtuosos Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are hitting the road again to bring back their popular concert series, A Celtic Family Christmas. One of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia’s most important exports and a superstar in the Celtic music world (though she’s far too humble to admit it), fiddler and step-dancer Natalie MacMaster has built […]

Drop by the Art + Cart for activities kids and their caregivers can use in the galleries, as well as materials to touch, books to read, sketching materials, and resources to take home. Recommended for ages 3+ and their caregivers. For questions, please contact Abby Newkirk.

Shop local all while having some fun. A group of small businesses in the Central Maine area have come together to offer you some great discounts on Small Business Saturday. In addition, you can play a scavenger hunt bingo card for your chance to win a $100 Chamber of Commerce gift certificate! The bingo cards […]

Dasher: How A Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever is a brand new book from Matt Tavares, destined to become a Christmas classic. Matt will read the story, draw for the group, and sign books. Copies of Dasher will be available for purchase. FOR MORE INFORMATION

Look at mammals and their skulls and teeth to learn how they are adapted to eat different foods. Look at their hoofs and feet to learn about how they are adapted to help mammals. Make a mammal craft to take home and a track game. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Paula Poundstone is a humorist, author and comedian known for her clever, observational humor and spontaneous wit. When she isn’t collecting hotel soaps while on tour or panel-ing on NPR’s #1 show, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Paula hosts the popular Maximum Fun podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. Nobody is a comedy field guide to […]

WATERVILLE, ME – NOVEMBER 14, 2019 – The “Great Jazz for a Great Cause” benefit concert/Open House will be held on Sunday, December 1, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Grand Central Café, 10 Railroad Square, Waterville, to raise funds for Waterville resident Jen Hickey, who is experiencing financial hardship due to treatment for breast […]

Dale Kocevski, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, focuses his research on the study of distant galaxies that host actively accreting supermassive black holes, otherwise known as active galactic nuclei (AGN). There is mounting evidence that the evolution of galaxies is closely linked to the growth of their central black holes, but how this connection […]

The Colby Pottery will have tables of student pots very reasonably priced, and all of the proceeds will go to the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. There will also be a sale of fine pottery made by students and staff. In case of questions, email Campus Life.

"Handbuilding" is a process that manipulates clay by hand using only simple tools as opposed to the pottery wheel. In this three-week workshop, students will fire and glaze the coil mug works they create. No experience is necessary. Class starts December 4. The cost is $95. Registration is required. FOR MORE INFORMATION

“One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences” —Roger Ebert And why shouldn’t they? Though rooted in the Industrial rather than the Digital Age, Chaplin’s satire of the anti-human wages of mechanization is equally relevant today—to say nothing of just plain […]

The only constant is change, but winter stoke is eternal. After seven decades of celebrating skiing and snowboarding, Warren Miller Entertainment can confirm that nothing compares to the anticipation of another season. Come kickoff the season with WME’s 2019 film, Warren Miller’s 70th film, Timeless, presented by Volkswagen, and travel with new and veteran athletes […]

Business Breakfast Series Doing Business in a Digital World Andrew Silsby, president and CEO of Kennebec Savings Bank, will discuss the importance of building and maintaining customer service in a digital world.

Let your imagination run wild with creative ideas at After School Art Club. Delve into the fun of leather creations with simple braiding, carving, and stamping techniques. For ages 7 -12. $14 per session. Snacks included. Scholarships available. REGISTER

Enjoy a special evening at the Hathaway Creative Center! Stroll the historic halls at Hathaway and join Common Street Arts, Hathaway Mill Antiques, The Robin’s Nest, and Waterville Brewing as they host a diverse array of holiday events perfect for adults looking to create, shop, and have fun! CLICK FOR DETAILS.

This delightfully funny holiday gem tells the story of Ralphie Parker, a nine-year-old who pulls out all the stops to obtain the ultimate Christmas present. Free and open to the public. Screened as part of Joy to the Ville! 94 Min. Rated PG. “It’s a nostalgic comedy featuring a family of eccentrics who lovingly celebrate […]

The city of Waterville will once again embrace the holiday spirit with the third annual Joy to the Ville, a community celebration meant to highlight the magic of the holiday season on the Kennebec River. Waterville Creates! and their friends at the Waterville Public Library, the Colby College Museum of Art, Snow Pond Center for […]

Winslow Congregational Church is again making fresh turkey pies. The proceeds from the pies will be used to offset costs for our newly renovated handicap-access ramp. Pies will be made the morning of Saturday, December 7 and can be picked up at the church, at 12 Lithgow Street, between noon and 2PM. Cost is $10 […]

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 […]