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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.
Come on a walk to look for amphibian signs and to look at a vernal pool during the day! If we have the right timing, we will see eggs and even see some amphibians hiding in wait for night, when they become most active. Discover the courtship of amphibians in spring! Admission: $3 for adults, […]
Beginning in the 1920s, the Surrealists sought to instigate a revolution that was both mental and material. Art making was central to this endeavor. As a concrete manifestation of poetic thought, visual art was proof that it was possible to remake reality to accord with the unrestrained inventions of the creative mind. This talk by […]
Enjoy four carefully selected wines, hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction and two souvenir Riedel wine glasses. $35 per person, to benefit The Maine Children's Home. Kindly respond on or before April 14. For tickets, please call The Maine Chldren's Home with your MasterCard or Visa at 207-872-0261 or visit the Development office in building 3 […]
Are you new to Medicare? Medicare has four parts: Part A is hospital insurance. Part B is medical insurance. Part C is Medicare Advantage Plans & Part D is for prescription drugs. Do you know the difference between a Medigap Plan and a Medicare Advantage Plan? This is where you can find the answers to […]
First Congregational Church of Waterville will be holding a Rummage Sale 9-1 Friday and 9-noon Sat, Apr 21 & 22. Furniture, clothing, books, toys - you'll find all sorts of bargains!
In celebration of Earth Day, the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of Mid-Maine have partnered up to bring a two-day electronic waste recycling event to Waterville! Free electronic waste collection for households, plus businesses, non-profits and municipalities of fewer than 100 employees. You won’t even have to get out of your car! […]
Free electronic waste collection for households, plus businesses and non-profits with fewer than 100 employees. You don’t even have to get out of the car! Just pop the trunk, and the electronics will be unloaded and sorted for you. All you do is some quick paperwork. You can find out more on the Chamber's website, […]
Join us for a short hike to the Roosevelt Monument. We'll talk about the things we see along the way, learn some fun exercises, and finish by making a teddy bear craft in honor of the president who loved spending time outdoors — Theodore Roosevelt! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour) and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in London. David Leveaux’s new production marks the 50th anniversary of the play that made […]
Mary, foundering in her romantic relationship, meets a female cowboy who becomes her escape. Late, A Cowboy Song, by Sarah Ruhl, is a play about art, soup, and the freedom of learning to ride a horse. The text is lean and beautiful and includes live music. This production will be helmed by the students in the […]
Recycled Shakespeare Company is planning Shakespeare's 453rd Birthday Bash on Saturday, April 22. We will be walking through Downtown Waterville, stopping along the way to read some of Shakespeare's sonnets. The event begins at the Waterville Public Library, followed by a Shakespeare period costumed parade through the Concourse, Silver Street, and the South End of […]
Join us to celebrate Earth Day! We will be meeting volunteers in Castonguay Square. Armed with gloves, rakes, brooms, and other cleaning supplies, we'll spend the morning making Downtown Waterville shine. This family-friendly event will be a great way to teach our youth about community involvement. If you'd like to volunteer, or have any questions, […]
Photography and Migration is a community photo-sharing event hosted by the Waterville Public Library and Colby College. Bring your historical family photos to the library for digitization and share your migration stories! The afternoon will include free local music, food, workshops on preserving family photos, conversations with local historians, an demonstrations of early photographic processes. […]
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah Warner’s moving production, starring Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Tatiana and Onegin. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Lenski, and Robin Ticciati conducts. This is a live, high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The running […]
The year 2014 was the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. In celebration of Earth Day, discover the story of this pigeon and other endangered animals around the museum. Make a fun animal craft to bring home and find out ways to help animals and plants around you. Admission: $3 for adults, […]
Come spend the afternoon sketching with Guild of Science Illustrators Maine at the L.C. Bates Museum, an early 20th-century natural history and cultural museum in Hinckley, Maine. The museum has 32 habitat dioramas, galleries of birds, mammals, marine life, insects, reptiles, and minerals, as well as hands-on educational exhibits. Also on the grounds of the […]
Directed by Jesse Wakeman, the Colby Collegium Musicum performs Antonio Vivaldi’s masterful Gloria. This brilliant and complex work for choir and orchestra, with soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, is sure to invigorate the soul and ring in the spring. The program will also feature two madigals and several instrumental works. Sponsored by the Music Department.
Join us for Thomas College’s Third Annual Dirty Dog Mud Run! The run is a 5K mud run and obstacle course featuring 12-15 obstacles and multiple mud pits. The run is open to community members and will be a family-friendly atmosphere. This year’s event will offer a mini obstacle course open to children up to […]
Postponed from Saturday, April 22, due to weather. Join us to celebrate Earth Day! We will be meeting volunteers in Castonguay Square. Please bring anything you have including rakes, brooms, cleaning supplies, trash bags, gloves, and some work attire! This family-friendly event will be a great way to teach our youth about community involvement. If […]
350 Central Maine invites you to a letter-writing meeting. We will be writing letters to area representatives to support solar power. FMI: linda350centralmaine@gmail.com
The new ballet score, based on motifs from the Lermontov novel A Hero of Our Time, was commissioned from the very young (32-year-old) Peresburg composer Ilya Demutsky who, though not averse to experiments, keeps to a fairly traditional musical language. However his acute interest in contemporary topics which finds reflection in his music, and his […]
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African-American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells’ memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards. The Black Press: Soldiers […]
Brooke Williams will read from his Open Midnight, which weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness: that of the author’s year alone with his dog, ground truthing, backcountry maps of southern Utah and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, William Williams, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the […]