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Cold Engines

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

Cold Engines is an amalgamation of some of the finest players on Boston's north shore. Brought together by David Drouin of The Brew, this all star cast has a progressive alt-country-rock sound that merges the past with the future. On the heels of their first Two albums, "Day Drinker" and "Take Me With You"' comes […]

Free

Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

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

Music: Dmitri Shostakovich Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky Libretto: Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov Cast: Svetlana Lunkina (Zina), Mikhail Lobukhin (Pyotr), Maria Alexandrova (the Ballerina), Ruslan Skvortsov (the Ballet Dancer) During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a […]

$13

The Northeast By Eastern

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

Film, history and live music combine to illustrate a way of life from a simpler, more patient, yet enterprising American era. Film & Music by Sumner McKane. Live Music by Sumner McKane & Josh Robbins. For years, Belfast, Maine-based Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company sent traveling photographer-salesmen on the roads all over New England and […]

$12

New Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution

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

Although the events it describes occurred more than 200 years ago, the term “Haitian Revolution” has only come into widespread use in the past few decades. By putting the events that led to the western world’s first abolition of slavery on the same level as the American and French revolutions, this new language profoundly changes […]

Free

Best and Most Beautiful Things

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

With subjects Michelle and Julie Smith and director Garrett Zevgetis introducing in person! Off a dirt road in rural Maine near Bangor, a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith lives with her mother Julie. Michelle is quirky and charming, legally blind and diagnosed on the autism spectrum, with big dreams and varied passions. Searching for […]

Saudi Modern: Contemporary Art from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Margaret Chase Smith Library 56 Norridgewock Avenue, Skowhegan, ME

(Please note the earlier starting time. Please arrive 15 minutes early if you are having lunch.) The images most Americans have of Saudi Arabia are frighteningly predictable – deserts, camels, and oil; Sharia law, Islamic fundamentalism, and jihad; rich sheikhs in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. In this talk I challenge […]

Leading Women’s Luncheon with Amber Lambke

Best Western Plus 375 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Amber Lambke is president of the Somerset Grist Mill, LLC and its Maine Grains label, carried by specialty food stores and used by fine restaurants and bakeries throughout the Northeast. She is also executive director of the Maine Grain Alliance. A driving force behind Maine’s sustainable foods movement, Amber has worked with local business leaders […]

$20

Standing Rock Solidarity Vigil

Universalist Unitarian Church 69 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

Come join the Colby College environmental group and 350 Central Maine for a candlelight vigil opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota. Bring warm clothing!

Free

Head of Falls

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join us for a book release party as Earl H. Smith reads from his new book Head of Falls, which has already received some glowing reviews! Earl Smith is a consummate storyteller. With a discerning eye, he has captured the wonder of the mid-1950s and the warmth of the Lebanese-American neighborhood where I grew up […]

Free

Living Well for Better Health

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

You are invited to the Living Well for Better Health Workshop to learn how to best manage your chronic conditions. A proven program developed by Stanford University and supported by Spectrum Generations, it is delivered in a series of classes taught by trained community members, many of whom have chronic conditions themselves. Participants have less […]

Peak Oil: A Love Story

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

Sustain Mid Maine Coalition’s Education & Community Outreach Team invites you to Peak Oil: A Love Story. This hour-long film was made by Nelson Cole (of Cambridge, ME) and features Iver Lofving (former Education Team leader and Skowhegan resident). Peak oil is defined as “the point in time when oil extraction reaches its highest level […]

Free

Humor and Hate: How Two Political Cartoonists Draw a Violent World

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Oak Fellow Khalid Albaih and Bangor Daily News cartoonist George Danby have thought a lot about how to respond to violence, including the actual shooting of artists like themselves, or really bad jokes about killing artists like themselves. In 2015 Albaih was horrified by the murder of cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, even though he, a Muslim, had criticized the […]

Free

Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary

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

In the early 1960s, Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering drugs, asked us to think for ourselves, ignited a global counterculture movement, and landed in prison after Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in […]

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Thanksgiving Bake Sale

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

On Thursday & Friday, November 17 & 18, we will be holding our annual Holiday Bake Sale. Come check out all the goodies that will be available. If you feel like baking, we are gladly accepting donations of pies, cookies, breads or anything you would like to bake! Your generosity is greatly appreciated. All proceeds […]

Holiday Pop-Up Shop Opening Reception

Common Street Arts is pleased to present its fifth annual Holiday Pop-Up Shop. During the weeks leading up to the winter holidays, we will transform the gallery into a marketplace filled with handmade items created by over 40 artists and craftspeople from around the state. Featuring all handmade items such as jewelry, pottery, books, paintings, […]

Revolutions Keynote Address: LaToya Ruby Frazier

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

For LaToya Ruby Frazier, winner of a 2015 MacArthur “genius grant,” art is a weapon — a catalyst for social justice. Her photographs and videos document today’s America: post-industrial cities riven by poverty, racism, health-care inequality, and environmental toxicity. Bridging the personal with the social, her gorgeous and haunting shots amplify the voices of the […]

Free
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The Master Builder

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

The Master Builder is one of the later plays of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, known around the world as “the father of modern drama.” It tells the story of aging architect Halvard Solness, a man who fears being made obsolete by the younger generation, and his encounter with Hilde Wangel, a young woman come knocking […]

Free

Migration, Hibernation, and More Survival Strategies

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

How do Maine animals survive in winter and what adaptations do they use to survive? Come on a tour with a museum guide to learn some of the amazing adaptations of mammals, birds, insects and amphibians. Hibernation is one way to survive but many animals adapt by growing more fur and being active. Admission to […]

$1

Harvest Buffet

First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Please join us for the Women’s Fellowship marquee fall event:  the Harvest Buffet!  The menu includes baked beans, casseroles, salads, apple crisp, and gingerbread. All are welcome. Cost: $8 for teens and adults, $4 for children 4 – 12, free for children under 4.

$4

Messe de Minuit pour Noël

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

The highly celebrated French composer, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, rivaled Jean-Baptiste Lully, another prolific 17th-century composer, but Charpentier’s style evolved over time to represent a synthesis of the French and Italian schools. His late work, Messe de Minuit pour Noël was composed during his final post as maître de musique of the Sainte-Chapelle, the glorious Gothic chapel […]

Free

Adam Ezra Group w/ Chris Ross Solo

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

The Adam Ezra Group (AEG) is not just a band; they are a force to be reckoned with. The group's live performances, sweaty, passionate affairs that have been compared to those of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, attracted the attention of Royal Avenue Records in 2010. Ezra immediately signed with Royal Avenue and […]

$10

Holiday Craft Fair

Vintage Manor 54 College Ave, Waterville, ME

Come get in the holiday spirit and help raise money to support the programs of The Maine Children's Home. There will be a wide selection of handmade crafts on sale. To sign up as a crafter or for more information, please contact Amy Harrington at 207-659-6595.

Free
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Auditions for It’s Only A Play

Show Synopsis It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs in the bedroom, where a group of insiders have staked themselves out to await the […]

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