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.

Opening Reception for Earth: Love It or Lose It

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

Join us for the opening of our next Art in the Lobby exhibition featuring the work of Jean Ann Pollard and Laurie Sproul. Light refreshments and good cheer provided! This exhibition will be on display from December 3, 2015 through January 10, 2016.

Free

Evening of Ekphrasis

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

Join faculty members and students in Colby’s Creative Writing Program as they read works written in response to art on view in museum galleries. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Center for the Arts and Humanities, and the Colby College Museum of Art.

Free

Small Acts: Mobilizing Memory Across Borders

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

How can the memory of violent pasts be mobilized for a more progressive and hopeful future? This talk responds to the renewed monumentality we find in memory museums, memorials and commemorative rituals that perpetuate nationalism and ethnocentrism. Connecting the memory of the Holocaust with that of other histories of political violence, the talk searches for […]

Free

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

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

Adapted from Salman Rushdie’s award-winning novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a rollicking roller-coaster journey through strange new lands—where chatter and silence battle for control, where a child must follow an elusive path toward adulthood. It is also a celebration of stories, their value, their joy, and the need to keep them free. Three […]

Free
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Carols in the Round

Directed by Dr. David Stevenson, the Mount View Chamber Singers are a 20-voice choir from Mount View High School in Thorndike. Each year during Advent, the ensemble present a series of hourlong, a capella concerts by candlelight in which the singers encircle the audience. Comprising Christmas carols and other seasonal songs from many lands and […]

Free

Good Will – Hinckley 23rd Annual Festival of Trees

For twenty-three years the annual Good Will - Hinckley Festival of Trees has been a key event and holiday tradition for families in Central Maine. Year after year our community comes through to ensure the ongoing success of this magical event. Admission to view the trees and hear the musical performances is free. Schedule of […]

Holiday Card Making

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

All are invited to make holiday cards using printmaking, watercolor, and stenciling. Attendance to this workshop is limited and preregistration is required. To register, call 859-5613.

Free

Animals in Winter

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

What are all the animals out there doing to survive? Not many of them are truly hibernators, so what ingenious methods do they have to help them thrive in winter? Find out the secrets of chickadees, the amazing structures built by beavers, and the incredible ability of squirrels and other animals that store food to […]

Cookies & Cocoa with Santa

Please join Snow Pond Center for the Arts for Cookies and Cocoa with Santa at 8 Goldenrod Lane in Sidney, only 10 short miles from Waterville and Augusta. At this merry Cookies & Cocoa event, families will step into a friendly winter wonderland and will be greeted by the sights and sounds of the holiday […]

Free

Brass and Organ Christmas Concert

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

Join the Downeast Brass Quintet and organist Sharon Saunders for a lively concert of favorite Christmas carols and hymns.

Free

Warming Up for Christmas

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

With Steve and Linda Fotter, students, and friends. This concert is a benefit is First Choice Pregnancy Resource Center in Waterville. Proceeds from the guitar that we raffle at the show is going to the Cassidy Charette Scholarship Fund at Messalonskee High School. Tickets can be purchased at Uncle Dean's Good Groceries, Down Home Music […]

$20

Pihcintu Choir in Concert

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

Welcoming immigrant children from around the globe, The Pihcintu Mulitcultural Chorus helps restart young lives. War-torn villages, bloodshed, refugee camps, famine, and political turmoil were devastating realities for many of these young singers before being embraced by the warmth, companionship, and harmony that Pihcintu provides. The power of survival eases but never erases the memory […]

$13

A Little More Something for Everyone!

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

Guest conductor Janna Hymes is the Music Director the Maine Pro Musica and the Williamsburg (Va.) Sinfonia. A much sought-after conductor both in the United States and abroad, Maestra Hymes will lead the Colby Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Ballet Suite No. 1; Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, featuring Colby Applied Music Associate Eric Thomas as soloist; and […]

Free

Waterville’s Only Military Campaign: the Arnold Expedition of 1775

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

In his lecture, Stephen Clark will deal with much more than the expedition's brief passing through what is now Waterville. He will tie the present to the past. For instance, where was the historic portage trail that was utilized by the 1100 soldiers as they passed around Ticonic Falls? He will describe the famous men […]

Free

MACE and Cirque du Geek Holiday Cosplay Tea Party

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Dress in your finest holiday cosplays (or just normal cosplay or even not in cosplay — the more the merrier!) for a fun filled day with friends and food! As usual, we will be doing a potluck style tea party where MACE (Maine Association of Cosplay Enthusiasts) will supply the tea, but attendees are encouraged […]

Free

2001: A Space Odyssey

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

Guest speaker: Roy M. Turner, Associate Professor of Computer Science, School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine Stanley Kubrick’s visionary masterpiece returns to the screen in a new, digital DCP print! “Only a few films are transcendent, and work upon our minds and imaginations like music or prayer or a vast belittling landscape…Alone […]

$6

Economic Development Announcement

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

Colby President David A. Greene, Maine Governor Paul LePage, Waterville Mayor Nick Isgro, and others will announce an “important development that will contribute to the long-term economic vitality in Waterville region.”

Free

Community Engagement Forum

Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems (EMHS) and Inland Hospital have enjoyed a long history of working in partnership with healthcare, public health, and community partners to identify health issues and opportunities for collaborative community health improvement. Community forums are underway statewide to learn the results of the 2015 shared Community Health Needs Assessment and identify priorities […]

Income Inequality and Inequality of Opportunity

Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

Scott Winship, senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (and Mid-Maine native), will discuss these two policy issues that continue to resonate in the presidential primaries and field questions about their relationship to poverty and the state of the middle class. Cost is $17 for Chamber members registering by the preceding Friday, $19 […]

Essentials of College Planning

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

This interactive workshop touches on the four steps in the college process: admissions, financial aid, career and study skills. Both sessions will cover the same information, so attending both is optional. Register for a workshop at http://meoc.maine.edu/schedule.php or by calling 1-800-281-3703. Location: Colby Program Room, Lower Level.

Free

Medicare for Everyone Clinic

This is where you can find the answers to basic questions about Medicare such as: What is Medicare? When and where do I sign up? What services are covered? What is the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit? What is the cost for Medicare? What is Medicare Supplemental Insurance? And more... Suggested Donation: $15.00. Pre-registration is required. […]

Packaging Childhood

Kennebec Montessori School 38 Sheridan Road, Fairfield, ME

If you have ever struggled with the pink and blue toy aisles, you'll want to hear from Lyn Mikel Brown and Mark Tappan, authors of Packaging Girlhood and Packaging Boyhood on how media messages stereotype and package gender roles for children. Share your stories and concerns, and take a break from the hectic holiday season […]

Free
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Ukuleles at the Library

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

If you play the ukulele, are learning, or are just curious what the international uke phenomenon is all about, join us for our twice-monthly meet-up.  Except for Christmas Eve, we meet on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. Our group is informal. We learn from each other and enjoy strumming and singing all […]

Free
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