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 […]

The role of the media in the 2016 election was exceptional and will be studied for decades. Did the press underestimate Donald Trump’s support, or did it help fuel his ascent? The role of the press during the early stages of the Trump Administration has also become a hot topic. How will the press respond […]

The Library Board of Trustees invites the community to celebrate Waterville Library Love Day! By Mayoral Proclamation, April 26, 2017 is a day to celebrate the Library’s 121 years of service to the community. Join the Library Trustees for cake, crafts, treats, prizes, and other fun! Location: Fireplace Room, 1st Floor.

WATERVILLE, April 2017 — Thomas College will hold its first in a series of entrepreneur speaker and networking events to be held at Thomas College’s Ayotte Auditorium on April 26, 2017 at 6 to 7:30 p.m. The first speaker will be Amber Lambke, President and CEO of Maine Grains, who will talk about how she […]

In these fast-paced, uncertain times, it’s more important than ever to send clear messages about the work of Maine’s nonprofits. MANP’s Spring 2017 Executive Leadership Forum will feature Dr. Lynn Davey, an expert in the art and science of framing public discourse on complex social problems. Dr. Davey will explain how non-experts think about the causes […]

53rd Annual Awards Ceremony April 27, 2017 Kennebec Valley Community College Fairfield Campus  5:00PM to 7:30PM $50.00 per person - call 873-3315 to register For 53 years, the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce has presented awards to deserving area businesses and business people.  Join us April 27 to celebrate the achievements and contributions of our 2016 […]

The community is invited to join in the fun and honor with their attendance the community nonprofit organizations and exemplary volunteers which directly and powerfully affect our quality of life.  A Power Point presentation will be projected larger than life on the Waterville Opera House screen providing a rare opportunity for the community to get […]

To celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, Children's Book Cellar will be hosting Hazel Mitchell, Maine author and illustrator. Hazel's newest book is Do Fairies Bring The Spring? Her book, Toby, is a finalist for the newly established Anna Dewdney Read Aloud Award. Come to meet Hazel! She'll demonstrate her drawing skills and do free fairy drawings […]

Join the Colby Museum of Art for another fantastic celebration of our community with refreshments, art making for all ages, guided tours and live music by Suzy and the Smelts! (Smelt-tastic!) Click the link below for more information.

Celebrate Environmental Education Week and Arbor Day! Trees provide homes for animals, homes and furniture for people, shade, paper, fuel, and, oh yes, oxygen for breathing! Let’s look closely at our trees and celebrate their beauty with an elegant art project. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.