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Bride of Frankenstein

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

With a special guest performance by cast members of the Waterville Opera House’s Young Frankenstein, opening October 21! Digital version of the black and white classic, a far greater film than the original Frankenstein, from the same director, James Whale, in which the monster realizes he needs a mate. “James Whale’s quirky, ironic 1935 self-parody […]

Reception for David Twiss: Installations

Come experience the hauntingly beautiful work of David Twiss in this site-specific installation at Common Street Arts.  We will have two installation locations: a larger installation in the Common Street Arts Annex off Castonguay Square, the second in the front window at the 93 Main street entrance to The Center. The exhibit runs October 7-November […]

Harvest on the Square

Please join us for an amazing downtown experience in Castonguay Square! Enjoy delicious snacks and libations from The Proper Pig, tour the new Common Street Arts gallery and education spaces, such as the brand new pottery studio, and be the first to hear about new and exciting projects planned for the City of Waterville.  Speakers […]

Waterville Transit Forum

Educare Central Maine 56 Drummond Ave, Waterville, ME, United States

The purpose of the meeting is to identify local transit needs, share information and develop a coordinated, comprehensive strategy to meet the growing need for public transit services in the Waterville area. All interested parties are invited to attend.

Leaning Into Change: Maine-Grown Solutions

Discover how to move your piece of Maine in the right direction – without losing what you love most. October 19, 2016, Waterville, Maine. Morning tours around Waterville & afternoon sessions at Thomas College. Click for more info.

$60

BorderNature: Stories of People and Nature along the German Wall

Fairchild Dining Room, Dana Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Sonja Pieck, associate professor of environmental studies at Bates College, researches the struggles over nature in South America and Germany, including the border region between East and West Germany. Shaped for decades by demographic and economic decline, it became an ecological refuge for more than a thousand endangered plant and animal species. When the wall […]

The Threat to Journalists in the Sudan

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

Khalid Albaih is a political cartoonist from Sudan. He is Colby’s 2016 Oak Fellow at the Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights. Albaih uses his daring, often biting cartoons to champion freedom of expression and democracy in the Arab world, while criticizing Western Islamophobia and U.S. practices including torture and drone attacks. […]

$10

Folk Art of the Atlantic World

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

Independent scholar of folk and decorative arts Seth Thayer ’89 and Assistant for Special Projects Anna Fan ’15 will discuss artworks in the exhibition related to whaling and maritime trade, a subject they both focus on as contributing authors in A Usable Past’s accompanying catalog.

Free

Family Caregiver Support Group

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Are you a caregiver for a family member or friend? Does your loved one have dementia or another chronic illness? Come and talk with others who share your journey, to support one another and learn of resources and information that may help you. Our Caregiver Support Group is here to listen, to care, to help. […]

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 19, 2016. The training dates and times will be Saturdays, October 22 and 29, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., and Monday and Wednesdays, October 19, 24, 26 and November 2, 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. […]

$30

Adam Ezra Group

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

Job Corps Information Session

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Job Corps is a FREE residential vocational training program for eligible youth ages 16-24. Training is available in the construction, medical, hospitality, and administrative fields. Job Corps also offers training in employability skills and life skills. Please join us at the Waterville Public Library to hear more about the program and to start the application […]

Free

Health & Wellness Focus Group

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

We need your input! Please join us and be part of our Health & Wellness Focus Group. We are looking for ways to increase participation and completion in our evidence based programs, Living Well for Better Health, Living Well with Diabetes and Living Well with Chronic Pain. We will meet for one hour and have […]

Free
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Educator Evenings

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

Enjoy refreshments while learning about artworks and how to incorporate them into your classroom teaching. Those attending will receive contact hours for certification. For K-12 Educators.

Free

Lecture and Panel Discussion: Picasso’s Vollard Suite

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

A keynote lecture by noted Picasso scholar and art historian from California State University at Long Beach Karen L. Kleinfelder, followed by a panel discussing the role of gender, historically and culturally today, in Pablo Picasso’s Vollard Suite.

Free

CroptoberFest

Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME

For people to Scrapbook, Stamp, and/or Craft! Friday, Oct 21 from 6 pm - 10 pm Saturday, Oct 22 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Registration Fee varies depending on days attending.   For more information and/or registration form, contact Deb Cates ((207)692-7123 or Sheila Bacon (207)873-5249

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Young Frankenstein

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

Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks Book by Thomas Meehan and Mel Brooks From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced “Fronk-en-steen”) inherits his […]

$21

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

Prescription drug abuse is a rapidly growing crisis in Maine and our local communities. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet. Safely dispose of unwanted and unused prescription drugs at a convenient location in your community.  FMI call 211 or visit deadiversion.usdoj.gov. Local […]

Community Day at the Colby Art Museum

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

Join us for refreshments, art making for all ages, games, silhouette portrait cutting, and live music.

Free

Bacon Jam

Camden Bank Pocket Park 33 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Turkey Supper

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

Cost is $10 for teens and adults, $4 for children 4-12, and free for children under 4.  Benefits Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter.  Sponsored by St. Mark's Episcopal of Waterville and the Federated Church of Skowhegan.

$4
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Night At the L.C. Bates Museum

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

Gather up your friends and family and get ready for the annual Night At the Museum tour that is a bit spooky and a little bit educational. This popular and fun event for families is not super scary, just wonderfully creepy! Bring a flashlight and explore the decorated museum at night! This is a program […]

$1

Colby Symphony Orchestra: Introducing Jinwook Park

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

Jinwook Park conducts his debut concert with the Colby Symphony Orchestra in a program of symphonic favorites, including the overture from Felix Mendelssohn’s magical Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gabriel Fauré’s luminous Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, and the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.

Free

Business Workshop for Artists

During this all-day business workshop for artists hosted at The Center in downtown Waterville, artists will have the opportunity to network and learn best-practices from their peers during a variety of workshops and breakout sessions presented by the Arts Business Institute (ABI) and Maine Crafts Association in partnership with Waterville Creates! Waterville Creates is collaborating […]

$150

Bend It Like Beckham

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

The hit film Bend It Like Beckman, an inspiring comedy about a young Sikh girl in England who rebels against her orthodox parents to chase her dream as a soccer player, will be shown in anticipation of a lecture by the film’s director, Gurinder Chadha. Chadha will give the 2016 Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture Oct. […]

Free
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