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.

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Auditions for Miss Holmes

Sunday, November 24 at 12:00 p.m. Monday, November 25 at 6:00 p.m. Written by Christopher M. Walsh Directed by Debra Susi Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Setting: London, circa 1881 Seeking: 4 Females / 5 Males Miss Holmes – The story’s Protagonist (25-40) Dr. Dorothy Watson – The Protagonist sidekick and […]

The Met: Madama Butterfly

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

This broadcast was rescheduled from November 9. Anthony Minghella’s vividly cinematic staging returns to cinemas, featuring soprano Hui He in the devastating title role in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera’s most beautiful and heartbreaking scores, with a cast that also includes tenor Piero Pretti as Pinkerton, baritone Paulo Szot […]

$17 – $23

Living with the Damage: Landscapes of Exhaustion in 21st-Century African-American Poetry

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

This talk by Samia Rahimtoola of Bowdoin College reads Dawn Lundy Martin’s Discipline (2011) and Ed Roberson’s City Eclogue (2006) in order to uncover the social and environmental forms of relation that appear under conditions of racialized gentrification. Both books refuse easy narratives of individual overcoming, bodily cure, and environmental repair, instead proposing a catalogue […]

Free

Parade of Lights

Castonguay Square Common Street, Waterville

Downtown Waterville’s annual holiday parade held the evening after Thanksgiving has drawn thousands of families to Main Street for many years and serves as a fun and festive kickoff to the holiday season. What better time of the year to get together and show our community spirit and support for one another! The Children’s Discovery […]

Free

A Celtic Family Christmas

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

Fiddle virtuosos Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are hitting the road again to bring back their popular concert series, A Celtic Family Christmas. One of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia’s most important exports and a superstar in the Celtic music world (though she’s far too humble to admit it), fiddler and step-dancer Natalie MacMaster has built […]

$42 – $53

Saturday Art Adventures: Art + Cart

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

Drop by the Art + Cart for activities kids and their caregivers can use in the galleries, as well as materials to touch, books to read, sketching materials, and resources to take home. Recommended for ages 3+ and their caregivers. For questions, please contact Abby Newkirk.

Free

Small Business Saturday

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Shop local all while having some fun. A group of small businesses in the Central Maine area have come together to offer you some great discounts on Small Business Saturday. In addition, you can play a scavenger hunt bingo card for your chance to win a $100 Chamber of Commerce gift certificate! The bingo cards […]

Matt Tavares Introducing Dasher

Children's Book Cellar 52 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Dasher: How A Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever is a brand new book from Matt Tavares, destined to become a Christmas classic. Matt will read the story, draw for the group, and sign books. Copies of Dasher will be available for purchase. FOR MORE INFORMATION

Free

Explore Mammals: Carnivores, herbivores, and Omnivores

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

Look at mammals and their skulls and teeth to learn how they are adapted to eat different foods. Look at their hoofs and feet to learn about how they are adapted to help mammals. Make a mammal craft to take home and a track game. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3
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Carols in the Round

The Mount View Chamber Singers is a group of 20 high school students from Mount View High School in Thorndike, Maine, USA. They have traveled around the world sharing their gift of music. Each year between Thanksgiving and Christmas for the past 28 years, they have travelled around Central and Eastern Maine and New Brunswick […]

Free

Comedian Paula Poundstone

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

Paula Poundstone is a humorist, author and comedian known for her clever, observational humor and spontaneous wit. When she isn’t collecting hotel soaps while on tour or panel-ing on NPR’s #1 show, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Paula hosts the popular Maximum Fun podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. Nobody is a comedy field guide to […]

$32 – $38

Benefit Jazz Concert

Grand Central Café 10 Railroad Square, Waterville, ME

WATERVILLE, ME – NOVEMBER 14, 2019 – The “Great Jazz for a Great Cause” benefit concert/Open House will be held on Sunday, December 1, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Grand Central Café, 10 Railroad Square, Waterville, to raise funds for Waterville resident Jen Hickey, who is experiencing financial hardship due to treatment for breast […]

Black Holes and Galaxy Exhaustion

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Dale Kocevski, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, focuses his research on the study of distant galaxies that host actively accreting supermassive black holes, otherwise known as active galactic nuclei (AGN). There is mounting evidence that the evolution of galaxies is closely linked to the growth of their central black holes, but how this connection […]

Free
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Figure Drawing

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Figure drawing at Common Street Arts is back! Beginning on Tuesday, December 3, seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in this figure drawing program hosted by CSA. This program provides a unique opportunity for emerging and established artists to hone their drawing skills in a supportive environment. Participants bring their media of choice: […]

$10

Pottery Sale

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

The Colby Pottery will have tables of student pots very reasonably priced, and all of the proceeds will go to the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. There will also be a sale of fine pottery made by students and staff. In case of questions, email Campus Life.

Handbuilding with Clay

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

"Handbuilding" is a process that manipulates clay by hand using only simple tools as opposed to the pottery wheel. In this three-week workshop, students will fire and glaze the coil mug works they create. No experience is necessary. Class starts December 4. The cost is $95. Registration is required. FOR MORE INFORMATION

$95

Modern Times

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

“One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences” —Roger Ebert And why shouldn’t they? Though rooted in the Industrial rather than the Digital Age, Chaplin’s satire of the anti-human wages of mechanization is equally relevant today—to say nothing of just plain […]

Warren Miller’s Timeless

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

The only constant is change, but winter stoke is eternal. After seven decades of celebrating skiing and snowboarding, Warren Miller Entertainment can confirm that nothing compares to the anticipation of another season. Come kickoff the season with WME’s 2019 film, Warren Miller’s 70th film, Timeless, presented by Volkswagen, and travel with new and veteran athletes […]

$16 – $17

Doing Business in a Digital World

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

Business Breakfast Series Doing Business in a Digital World Andrew Silsby, president and CEO of Kennebec Savings Bank, will discuss the importance of building and maintaining customer service in a digital world.

$18 – $25

After School Art Club: Leather Accessories

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Let your imagination run wild with creative ideas at After School Art Club. Delve into the fun of leather creations with simple braiding, carving, and stamping techniques. For ages 7 -12. $14 per session. Snacks included. Scholarships available. REGISTER

$14

Hathaway Holiday Stroll

Hathaway Creative Center 10 Water Street, Waterville

Enjoy a special evening at the Hathaway Creative Center! Stroll the historic halls at Hathaway and join Common Street Arts, Hathaway Mill Antiques, The Robin’s Nest, and Waterville Brewing as they host a diverse array of holiday events perfect for adults looking to create, shop, and have fun! CLICK FOR DETAILS.

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Carols and Lights

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

Friday, December 6, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, December 7, 3:30 p.m. SOLD OUT! Saturday, December 7, 7:00 p.m. A Colby tradition since 1971, the fiftieth annual Services of Carols and Lights include readings and carol singing by candlelight. Colby musical ensembles provide a festive evening of traditional and contemporary seasonal music from around the world. As a […]

Free

A Christmas Story

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

This delightfully funny holiday gem tells the story of Ralphie Parker, a nine-year-old who pulls out all the stops to obtain the ultimate Christmas present. Free and open to the public. Screened as part of Joy to the Ville! 94 Min. Rated PG. “It’s a nostalgic comedy featuring a family of eccentrics who lovingly celebrate […]

Free

Joy to the Ville

Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, ME

The city of Waterville will once again embrace the holiday spirit with the third annual Joy to the Ville, a community celebration meant to highlight the magic of the holiday season on the Kennebec River. Waterville Creates! and their friends at the Waterville Public Library, the Colby College Museum of Art, Snow Pond Center for […]

Free

Homemade Turkey Pies

Winslow Congregational Church 12 Lithgow Street, Winslow, ME

Winslow Congregational Church is again making fresh turkey pies. The proceeds from the pies will be used to offset costs for our newly renovated handicap-access ramp. Pies will be made the morning of Saturday, December 7 and can be picked up at the church, at 12 Lithgow Street, between noon and 2PM. Cost is $10 […]

$10
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