Peter Werbe of Fifth Estate will bring greetings from the Marius. Marius Mason is an anarchist, and environmental and animal rights activist serving a 22 year sentence for committing acts of environmental sabotage. Threatened with a life sentence in 2009, Marius pleaded guilty to arson charges and 12 acts of property damage. No one was […]

The Beggar Boys invite you to explore the intersection of Scottish art and folk music, from Italianate Baroque trio sonatas to high-spirited reels, jigs, strathspeys, and songs by Robert Burns and his contemporaries. Follow the music across the ages and across the Atlantic, from 18th-century Edinburgh to contemporary Cape Breton, Appalachia, and the Pacific Northwest. […]

Come enjoy the Book & Pie Sale from 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM at the Pleasant Street United Methodist Church, 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville on Saturday, September 21, 2019.

Come join us to learn to identify the trees along our forest paths as part of Maine Outdoor Weekend. We will look at specimens in the museum and then head out on the trail.

Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian Magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. Tickets will be available for the public to download beginning at midnight on August 15. 2019. Visit www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday On Sept 21, 2019, when you […]

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 […]

The Celebrity Dinner is our largest fundraising/awareness event of the year and is a fun & helpful way to suppport those affected by sexual violence. Last year this event raised nearly $60,000.  A large part of the fundraising is done by our fabulous celebrity waiters. Each celebrity has a goal to earn a minimum of […]

42nd Street is the song and dance, American dream fable of Broadway, featuring the West End’s biggest cast on Theatreland’s oldest stage, Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Featuring the iconic songs 42nd Street, We’re In The Money, Lullaby Of Broadway, Shuffle Off To Buffalo, Dames, and I Only Have Eyes For You, this is a musical […]

Everyone is invited to come and play with our new hand bells. For more information, please contact Grenda at 873-5358 or gbanton26@gmail.com.

In the story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening, Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons. On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New […]

How do we become attached to places, things, and other beings? How might aesthetic objects participate in the formation of attachments between humans and nonhumans, culture, and energy? In this talk, Tommy Davis, associate professor of English at Ohio State University, will address the making and unmaking of attachment in the Anthropocene. He’ll take up […]

Spain of the 1860s was a hotbed of guitar activity, both for composers and for guitar builders like Antonio de Torres Jurado. The concert will include works by Antonio Cano, Tomás Damas, and José Viñas. Burris will perform on a copy of an 1864 Torres guitar.

In this one-day experience, participants will deepen their understanding of how childhood trauma and adversity impact the long-term health of a community and how to strategically bring about grass-roots change. Registration and refreshments at 9:00 AM. Please RSVP to Denise Delorie:  denise.delorie@mainegeneral.org   or  861-5266 You are also invited to bring diapers for the KVCAP diaper […]

This workshop introduces people to educational opportunities in general and MEOC services in particular. This interactive workshop touches on the four steps in the college process: admissions, financial aid, career and study skills. The admission section reviews college options, the college search process and the application structure. The fundamentals of financial aid, including the filing […]

Come to the Chace Community Forum to explore the stars indoors with Northern Stars Planetarium and special guest astronomer from Austria, Rose Grutzbauch! Anyone who has had the pleasure of being in a program in the Northern Stars Planetarium knows the joy of entering the big dome and exploring the stories of stars, constellations and […]

The great John Huston’s (The Maltese Falcon, Wise Blood, The Dead) classic film adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is, like all of Huston’s work, truly one of a kind. Set in the 19th century New England, the film follows the sole survivor of the lost whaling ship Pequod and its captain, Ahab’s (Gregory […]

Join us to learn about a different -ology or "science" each time through crafts, activities, visuals and more. Geared towards grades 2 and up.

Kate Evans is founder and director of Elephants for Africa and an award-winning behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist. Her interest in male elephants has expanded to focus on the social and ecological requirements of male elephants in the context of a human landscape. Evans is an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter, an […]

Keller Williams released his first album in 1994, FREEK, and has since given each of his albums a single syllable title: BUZZ, SPUN, BREATHE, LOOP, LAUGH, HOME, DANCE, STAGE, GRASS, DREAM, TWELVE, LIVE, ODD, THIEF, KIDS, BASS, PICK, FUNK, VAPE, SYNC and RAW, , those who have followed his career will know this. Each title […]

Join Steve and Molly Saunders of Wayne, Me. for a talk about their experience volunteering recently in El Paso, Texas. As former Peace Corps Volunteers in El Salvador, Steve and Molly heard about the need for Spanish speakers at a church-run shelter for asylum seekers coming from Central America upon their being released from detention […]

JOIN US SEPTEMBER 27th @ 12PM FOR THE 2019 CAMPAIGN KICK OFF!    We will be doing things a little differently this year, and adding a CANstruction contest to our kick off festivities.   We encourage workplace campaigns to put together a team and enter a CANstruction sculpture into the contest. Our goal is to collect […]

The Waterville Public Library is organizing the JUMP RIGHT IN Volunteer Fair, to be held at the Library on Saturday, September 28. Organizations who are interested in occupying a free table can contact the fair's organizers at 2019volunteerfair@gmail.com. This event is an opportunity for local groups to greet potential volunteers and detail the nature of […]

Live Middle Eastern Music By George Maslouf and His Band, Noon – 4:00! Games and Dancing! Authentic Lebanese Cuisine, With a Cash Bar!

Come learn about the fascinating lives of Maine’s raptors! We will cover adaptations, habitats, migration, calls, and more. Then, see if you can be a successful hunter too — with a museum scavenger hunt! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.