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.

The Taos Society of Artists and the Changing Image of the Indian

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

The oeuvre of the Taos Society of Artists, an organization of Eastern transplants who painted the peoples and landscapes of the American Southwest during the early 20th century, has long been regarded as authentic glimpses into the lives of Pueblo communities untouched by modernity. Professor of art history at James Madison University John Ott will […]

Free

Philip Roth and the Americanization of the Holocaust: From Anne Frank to Primo Levi

Room 215, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Now more than 70 years in the past, the Holocaust is the defining event in Jewish-American life. The survivors are dying, taking with them their memories and lived experiences of genocide. The personal testimony of these witnesses, which has been authoritative for American Jews’ understanding of the Holocaust, is running out. Artists, writers, and filmmakers have […]

Free

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, March 2, 2016. The training dates will be Saturdays, March 5 and 12, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., and Wednesdays, March 2, 9 and 16, 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. Those who complete the training are […]

$30

Medicare for Everyone

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

This workshop will give you the answers to basic questions such as: What is Medicare? When and where do I sign up? What services are covered? What is the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit? What is the cost for Medicare? What is Medicare Supplemental Insurance? And more… Suggested Donation: $15. Pre-registration is required. Call 873-4745 to […]

$15

3-D Design and Printing for Kids and Teens

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Learn to use TinkerCAD, a free, web-based design program to create a 3D object that’s uniquely yours. Several lucky attendees will win a free printout of their design from the Library’s Cube 3D printers! The event is free and open to people ages 7-17, but space is limited. Reserve your spot by calling the Children’s Department […]

Free

Talk and Discussion with Painter Susan Jane Walp

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

American painter Susan Jane Walp studied at the NY Studio School, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the M.F.A. program at Brooklyn College. Her solo exhibitions include those at Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco; Fischbach Gallery, NYC; ISA Gallery, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy; and Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NYC, where she’s currently represented. Walp […]

Free

Crazy About Tiffany’s

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

Crazy About Tiffany’s peels back the velvet curtain and steps into the dream-catching world of Tiffany & Co. with unprecedented access and intrigue. From past to present, behind the scenes and in the spotlight, this film captures how a small but uncompromising New York jeweler has woven itself into the fabric of the world. Whether it’s […]

$12

Machine Learning and the Economics of Crime

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

Professor Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using machine learning tools to help address what we call prediction policy problems. We show that the use of algorithmic predictions of risk to inform release decisions create the opportunity to simultaneously reduce crime, reduce jail populations, and reduce racial disparities within the […]

Free

Battle of the Badges

Alfond Youth & Community Center 126 North Street, Waterville, ME

Please mark your calendars for Thursday, March 3, when the Waterville Police Department will play the Waterville Fire Department in the annual “Battle of the Badges” basketball game. This is always a fun event! Tickets are just $4 for teens, 'tweens, and adults and free for children under 10. Tickets can be purchased at the South […]

Seeing and Believing

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

Through the ages the invention of new optical devices has shaped human perceptions of reality and redefined the physical as well as metaphysical boundaries of the world in which we live. Ori Gersht will contextualize his own practice in relation to technology, history, and art history, weaving between the personal and the general. He will […]

Free

Portraits of our Immigrant Mainers

Holocaust Human Rights Center, University of Maine at Augusta 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME

Immigration to Maine has been part of the American narrative for past few centuries. America, as a nation of immigrants, has historically, with a few exceptions, welcomed the world’s persecuted by offering them safety and a chance to start a new life. Maine’s recent immigrants, most of them refugees fleeing wars, religious and political persecution, […]

$10

Paint Nite

Winslow Congregational Church 12 Lithgow Street, Winslow, ME

Raise your glass to a NEW kind of night out! Paint Nite® invites you to create your own unique piece of art, guided by a professional artist and party host. You'll spend two hours painting, laughing, and flexing your creative muscles. There's no experience necessary and we'll provide all the supplies, so you don't have […]

$45
Recurring

Hitchcock/Truffaut

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

In 1962 the master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and a young French New Wave upstart François Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting — used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut — this film illustrates the greatest […]

$8

Community Day at the Colby College Museum of Art

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

Join us for our spring community day with tours of the Robert Adams: Turning Back exhibition. Art workshops and refreshments will be provided. Begun in response to the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Turning Back, an exhibition of 164 photographs by acclaimed photographer Robert Adams, will be on display at the Colby Museum […]

Free

Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows?

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join Maine Author Liza Gardner Walsh and Maine Illustrator Hazel Mitchell for a special event featuring their newest book, Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows? This is an all ages event, featuring the author and illlustrator reading from and talking about their book. There will be a fairy-related art activity as well! Copies of the book […]

Free

Manon Lescaut

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

The Metropolitan Opera stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing student who desperately woos her. Director Richard Eyre places the action in occupied France […]

$15

From Russia with Love

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

With Janna Hymes, guest conductor, the Colby  Symphony Orchestra will perform three staples of uniquely Russian classical music: from Mikhail Glinka, the early 19th-century father of the Russian orchestral style, his famous and rousing opera overture Ruslan and Lyudmilla; from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the late-19th-century romantic and master melodist, his Symphony No. 2, The Little Russian; and from […]

Free

Lady of Camellias

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

Music: Frédéric Chopin Choreography: John Neumeier A young bourgeois, Armand Duval, falls madly in love with Marguerite Gautier, a gorgeous courtesan celebrated by the Parisian high society. Despite her infidelity, Armand will do all he can to win the beautiful woman’s heart and convince her to leave her indulgent life. The Bolshoi Ballet breathes new […]

$13

National Alliance on Mental Illness Family-to-Family Education Program

St. Mark's Episcopal Church 60 Eustis Parkway, Waterville, ME

“Family-to-Family” is a free, evidence-based, 12-week educational course for family members and friends of people living with mental illness. The course covers basic information about mental illnesses, such as mood disorders (bipolar disorder and major depression), panic disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other major mental illnesses. Additional topics include coping skills, such […]

Free

Snow Pond Arts Academy Open House

Please join Snow Pond Arts Academy, Maine’s first public performing arts charter high school, for an open house and information session in Alumni Hall. Snow Pond Arts Academy is tuition free and open to all Maine students entering the 9th or 10th grade in the fall of 2016. Open House Dates: Thursday, February 25, at […]

Free

Out of Line: Drawing Democracy in an Election Year

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Dan Wasserman will show and discuss his cartoons from the current and past election campaigns. He will be joined by his images of all your favorite political characters, from Bernie and Hillary, to Jeb! and the Donald. Dan will discuss the role of satire in a democracy, his sources for cartoon ideas, conflicts with editors […]

Free

Job Fair

Alfond Fitness Center at KVCC's Hinckley campus 15 Stanley Road, Hinckley, ME

More than 50 Employers Hiring at Skowhegan Area Job Fair. For more info see: Maine Career Center

Free

Confronting Our Incarceration Epidemic: Race, Mercy, and A Failed Concept of Justice

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Reginald Dwayne Betts will graduate from Yale Law School in May. This is a far cry away from May of 1997, when a sixteen-year-old Dwayne was sentenced to nine years in prison for carjacking. He knows the criminal justice system from both ends of the spectrum and describes his chosen field as “the business of […]

Free
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