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.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy Journalism Award

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

For shining a spotlight on poverty and the heartrending inequalities of our era, Katherine Boo has a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a MacArthur genius grant. In October, […]

Free
Recurring

Alex Katz Exhibition Tour

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

Katz Curator Diana Tuite will offer lunchtime tours Oct. 6 and Oct. 13 of the exhibition Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s. Learn how Katz worked through the dominance of […]

Free

ADHD in Children and Adolescents

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Speaker: Janine Taylor Community members are welcome to this free general information workshop on ADHD in children and adolescents. Light refreshments will be available and childcare will be provided if […]

Free

Futurism, Violence, and the Remaking of the World

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

Since its beginning, futurism, the first of the historical avant-garde movements, strived to establish a radically new way of representing the world. Violence was its preferred mode of interacting with […]

Free

Noontime Art Talk: Whistler and the London Art Market

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

Pamela Fletcher, professor of art history at Bowdoin, will speak about the commercial and cultural environment in which James McNeill Whistler's work circulated. Fletcher teaches courses on British art and exhibition […]

Free

Cultural Planning Launch Meeting

Waterville Main Street, in partnership with Waterville Creates!, has been awarded a cultural planning grant from the Maine Arts Commission. We are hosting a launch meeting and all are welcome […]

Free
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Life Drawing Open Studio

Serious artists and beginners alike are welcome. This non-instructional weekly session is an opportunity to improve your life drawing skills by drawing from a live model with fellow students/artists. Bring […]

$15

Modern Romance: A Conversation with Eric Klinenberg

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

Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University, will talk about his book Modern Romance, a New York Times bestseller that explores the perils and pleasures of modern romance. […]

Free

Music in the Museum: Members of BOOM (Baroque Orchestra of Maine)

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

Heidi Powell (baroque violin), Timothy Burris (lute and theorbo), and Raffael Scheck (baroque cello) perform baroque music by Bach, Corelli, Handel, and de Marzis on period instruments.

Free

James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty

Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Screening of the 2014 PBS documentary James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty. Discussion and Q&A with Justin McCann, Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Fellow, to follow. Cosponsored by […]

Free

Creating Fall Art

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

The incredible colors of fall inspire this program filled with autumn leaves and fun. We will be outside for the program if weather permits, so wear warm clothes!

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

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

Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met, Leonora, the Verdi heroine who sacrifices her own life for the […]

The Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle

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

Music: Adolphe Adam Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich The young peasant girl Giselle dies when she learns that the man she loves, Albrecht, has betrayed her. Against her own will, she joins […]

Medicare for Everyone

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

This is where you can find the answers to basic questions about Medicare such as: What is Medicare? When and where to sign up for Medicare? What services are covered […]

Meadowland

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

Sarah (Olivia Wilde) and Phil’s (Luke Wilson) son goes missing, shattering their life together. As months pass with little information, they each struggle in their own way to cope. Phil’s […]

$10

Hope’s Place Facilitator Training

Hospice Community Center 304 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area will offer a 20 hour facilitator training for their grieving children’s program, Hope’s Place, starting Wednesday, October 14, 2015. The training dates and times will […]

$30

Growing Power and the Good Food Revolution

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

Winner of a genius grant and one of TIME Magazine's World's 100 Most Influential People, Will Allen will share his expertise in urban farming and its relationship to strong local communities. As […]

Free

Whistler: Nature and Nation

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

This symposium is dedicated to the exploration of how American artists working abroad or exposed to an international milieu in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th […]

Free

Home Movie Day

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

Community members are invited to bring their Super 8, 8mm, and 16mm films to Railroad Square Cinema, where technicians will inspect and project them on the big screen for all […]

Free

Fall Leaves, Changing Colors, and Tree Transformations

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

Come on a fall walk to enjoy the leaf changes and explore the trails with a museum guide. Discover why the leaves change, create fall leaf art, and enjoy Maine’s […]

Bob Marley

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

With shows at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m., Maine's own "wicked funny" comedian makes his annual appearances at the Opera House! Tickets: $25

$25

The Sweet Way

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

Charles H. Traub, photographer of the real world, will talk about his long involvement with the delights of the street, particularly those of Italy. Drawing from his two recent books, […]

Free

This Changes Everything

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

What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international bestseller of the same name, This Changes […]

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