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Halloween (1978): Fortieth Anniversary Restoration

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

40th Anniversary Screening featuring a RESTORED and REMASTERED digital print! A young boy kills his sister on Halloween of 1963 and is sent to a mental hospital. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his home town in order to wreak havoc. Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, John Carpenter’s Halloween set the standard for […]

$6.50 – $9.50

Dawnland

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

Mishy Lesser, Learning Director of the Upstander Project, will join us to introduce the film and lead a Q&A afterwards. “My foster mother told me … she would save me from being Penobscot.” For most of the 20th century, government agents systematically forced Native American children from their homes and placed them with white families. […]

$6.50 – $9.50

Readings for an Exhibition: Carly Glovinski and Jenna Crowder in Conversation

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

Artist and writer Jenna Crowder will speak with Carly Glovinski about the list of books, essays, and poems that Crowder developed in resonance with Glovinski’s exhibition Currents 8. Introduced by Beth Finch, curator of the exhibition.

Free

Fall Craft Fair

Bishop Auditorium, Prescott Building, Good Will – Hinckley 16 Prescott Drive (off Route 201), Hinckley, ME

Homemade items upstairs in the Bishop Auditorium and direct sales vendors downstairs in the cafeteria along with food items to purchase. Crafters with homemade items to include: Pottery, Jewelry, Christmas Ornaments, Natural Horse Treats, Natural Sugar Scrubs, Primitives, Jams & Jellies, Mittens, Towels, Greeting Cards, Paintings, Baby Blankets, Quilts, Table Runners, Fleece Blankets, and more…. […]

Free

Quarry Road Fall Festival

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

Family-friendly activities will include trail walks, pumpkin bowling, apple slinging, bean bag toss, face painting, and more. Common Street Arts and the Children’s Discovery Museum will offer a pop-up museum and pumpkin art. Cider making and fall refreshments will be provided at no charge and 92 Moose will be on-hand with a live radio broadcast […]

Free
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Art + Storytelling: People and Portraits 1

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

After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art.

Free

Old Time Toys

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

Take a trip through history and explore some of the popular games kids played a hundred years ago! Roll a hoop, play a proper Victorian game called Graces, try a ring toss, write on a slate board and more, as well as making a craft to take home. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3

Homemade Chicken Pie Supper

Fairfield United Methodist Church 37 Skowhegan Rd., Fairfield, ME

Homemade chicken pie, served with mashed potatoes, gravy, squash, Harvard beets, rolls and dessert. Take-outs available. Adults & Teens $9, Children (under 12) $5.

$5 – $9

A Night Out

Club Calumet 334 West River Rd, Augusta, ME

Are you ready for A NIGHT OUT?  Kennebec Behavioral Health cordially invites you to join us for our 3rd annual “A Night Out” Comedy Show/Fundraiser on Saturday, November 3rd at the Calumet Club in Augusta. “A Night Out” is a fun evening of laughter and comedy for a great cause.  This year, we will be […]

USA, with the Colby Wind Ensemble

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

We’ll celebrate the 100th birthday of iconic American composer Leonard Bernstein with “Slava!: A Political Overture,” written in celebration of Mstislav Rostropovich’s appointment as artistic director of the Kennedy Center. This concert of American music also includes Loren Fields as the featured soloist on Gary Kuo’s “Wingspan,” “Zion” by Dan Welcher, “Hambone” by Libby Larsen, […]

Free

5K Run/Biathalon

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME
$10 – $15

Deconstructing The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour

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

Coming off the great success of Deconstructing The Beatles: Season 1 (The White Album, Sgt. Pepper, Revolver and Rubber Soul), we’re excited to bring to you into Deconstructing The Beatles: Season 2! Explore the music written for the Magical Mystery Tour TV show, as well as the additional songs that appeared on the 1967 LP. […]

$6.50 – $9.50

Women, Sanskrit, and the Public Sphere

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

Laurie L. Patton is president of the American Academy of Religion and the 17th president of Middlebury. Patton is a leading authority on South Asian history, culture, and religion, the author or editor of 11 books in these fields, and she has translated the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. She is also the author of three books of […]

Free

Life Drawing

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

Seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in the life drawing program. Life Drawing provides a unique opportunity for emerging and established artists to hone their drawing skills in a supportive environment. Participants bring their media of choice. CSA provides the model, chairs, and camaraderie. Open to all levels of experience and are without […]

$5

(AO)

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

The Lunder Institute for American Art is pleased to host (AO), a series of performances by visiting artist Torkwase Dyson and invited collaborators that explore the ways in which forms of visual art, literature, and science respond to distance and distortion. The afternoon will unfold through embodied experiences in and around Dyson’s exhibition Nautical Dusk, curated […]

Free

Visiting Writers’ Series: Reading by Chen Chen

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Chen Chen, this year’s Kristina Stahl Writer in Residence, is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. […]

Free

Brewmaster

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

In 1998 there were fewer than 1,500 breweries in the United States. Now there are over 7,000 — with Maine, and central Maine in particular — a real fulcrum of microbreweries! Brewmaster tells the story of the rise of craft beer through two young men pursuing their dreams in the world of beer. Drew is […]

$6.50 – $9.50

Keys to Building and Engaging a Passionate Team that Gets Results

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

November 8 7:15 to 9:00 AM  Summit Room, Spann Commons, Thomas College, 180 West River Road, Waterville David Pease, senior vice president of human resources at Bangor Savings Bank, will talk about what engages your staff and how to make them passionate about working as a team while attaining positive outcomes. Cost per person: $18 […]

$18 – $25

Visiting Writers’ Series: Craft Talk by Chen Chen

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Chen Chen, this year’s Kristina Stahl Writer in Residence, is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. […]

Free

The Art of the Proposal

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

Are you an artist who is ready to apply for artist calls, grants, and residencies? Do your eyes glaze over in panic when you read the proposal submission requirements? If so, this workshop is for you! Join Anne Marie Purkey Levine for this informal workshop where she will walk you through the nuts and bolts […]

Free

The Aryans and Q&A with the Filmmaker

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

Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary Die Arier/The Aryans (2014) followed by a conversation and Q&A with acclaimed Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang. Following a death threat, Asumang sets out to confront racists face to face. In her documentary about right-wing movements worldwide, Asumang embarks on a journey into the madness of racism and meets German […]

Free

Other-than-Humans in Species and Specie

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

What do companion animals and money have to do with each other? Why were lapdogs and coins special objects in 18th-century narratives? What do dogs and coins tell us about love, about human affect, and even about what counts as human? Laura Brown, Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, is the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English, […]

Free

Understanding Violence in Central Africa

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

Mid-Maine Global Forum presents Presents Understanding Violence in Central Africa by Professor Laura Seay Laura is an assistant professor of Government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Her research is centered around the study of community responses to conflict and U.S. foreign policy in Africa’s Great Lakes region.  She is currently finishing a book, Substituting for the State, about […]

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Hello, Dolly!

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

Directed by Debra Susi Performances: November 9, 10, 16, & 17 at 7:30 p.m.; November 11 & 18 at 2:00 p.m. The romantic and comic exploits of Dolly Gallagher-Levi, turn-of-the-century matchmaker and “woman who arranges things,” are certain to thrill and entertain with humor, romance, high energy dancing, and some of the greatest songs in […]

$24 – $27

Community Gospel Sing

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

Come make a joyful noise with returning Gospel artists David Dupree and David Powell, who are back for their third time at Colby. All are welcome to join the choir. We will rehearse Saturday, November 10, 9:30 – 4:00, with lunch provided, in Lorimer Chapel; the concert will be held on Sunday November 11, at […]

Free
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