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.

Amphibian Walk

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

Come on a walk to look for amphibian signs and to look at a vernal pool during the day! If we have the right timing, we will see eggs and even see some amphibians hiding in wait for night, when they become most active. Discover the courtship of amphibians in spring! Admission: $3 for adults, […]

$1 – $3

The Surrealist Revolution

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

Beginning in the 1920s, the Surrealists sought to instigate a revolution that was both mental and material. Art making was central to this endeavor. As a concrete manifestation of poetic thought, visual art was proof that it was possible to remake reality to accord with the unrestrained inventions of the creative mind. This talk by […]

Free

Wine Tasting Event

T&B Celebration Center 6 Jefferson St, Waterville, ME, United States

Enjoy four carefully selected wines, hors d’oeuvres,  a silent auction and two souvenir Riedel wine glasses. $35 per person, to benefit The Maine Children's Home. Kindly respond on or before April 14. For tickets, please call The Maine Chldren's Home with your MasterCard or Visa at 207-872-0261 or visit the Development office in building 3 […]

$35

Gender Revolution

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

Medicare 101

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Are you new to Medicare? Medicare has four parts: Part A is hospital insurance. Part B is medical insurance. Part C is Medicare Advantage Plans & Part D is for prescription drugs. Do you know the difference between a Medigap Plan and a Medicare Advantage Plan? This is where you can find the answers to […]

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Rummage Sale

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

First Congregational Church of Waterville will be holding a Rummage Sale 9-1 Friday and 9-noon Sat, Apr 21 & 22.  Furniture, clothing, books, toys - you'll find all sorts of bargains!

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Electronic Waste Recycling

In celebration of Earth Day, the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of Mid-Maine have partnered up to bring a two-day electronic waste recycling event to Waterville! Free electronic waste collection for households, plus businesses, non-profits and municipalities of fewer than 100 employees. You won’t even have to get out of your car! […]

Free
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Electronic Waste Recycling

Free electronic waste collection for households, plus businesses and non-profits with fewer than 100 employees. You don’t even have to get out of the car! Just pop the trunk, and the electronics will be unloaded and sorted for you. All you do is some quick paperwork. You can find out more on the Chamber's website, […]

Free

Teddy Bear Hike

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

Join us for a short hike to the Roosevelt Monument. We'll talk about the things we see along the way, learn some fun exercises, and finish by making a teddy bear craft in honor of the president who loved spending time outdoors — Theodore Roosevelt! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour) and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in London. David Leveaux’s new production marks the 50th anniversary of the play that made […]

$13 – $15
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Late, A Cowboy Song

Strider Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Mary, foundering in her romantic relationship, meets a female cowboy who becomes her escape. Late, A Cowboy Song, by Sarah Ruhl, is a play about art, soup, and the freedom of learning to ride a horse. The text is lean and beautiful and includes live music. This production will be helmed by the students in the […]

Free

Shakespeare’s 453rd Birthday Bash

Recycled Shakespeare Company is planning Shakespeare's 453rd Birthday Bash on Saturday, April 22. We will be walking through Downtown Waterville, stopping along the way to read some of Shakespeare's sonnets. The event begins at the Waterville Public Library, followed by a Shakespeare period costumed parade through the Concourse, Silver Street, and the South End of […]

Free

Spring Cleaning in Downtown Waterville

Join us to celebrate Earth Day! We will be meeting volunteers in Castonguay Square. Armed with gloves, rakes, brooms, and other cleaning supplies, we'll spend the morning making Downtown Waterville shine. This  family-friendly event will be a great way to teach our youth about community involvement. If you'd like to volunteer, or have any questions, […]

Free

Photography and Migration

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Photography and Migration is a community photo-sharing event hosted by the Waterville Public Library and Colby College. Bring your historical family photos to the library for digitization and share your migration stories! The afternoon will include free local music, food, workshops on preserving family photos, conversations with local historians, an demonstrations of early photographic processes. […]

Free

Eugene Onegin

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

Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah Warner’s moving production, starring Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Tatiana and Onegin. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Lenski, and Robin Ticciati conducts. This is a live, high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The running […]

$18 – $20

Earth Day: Endangered and Extinct

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

The year 2014 was the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. In celebration of Earth Day, discover the story of this pigeon and other endangered animals around the museum. Make a fun animal craft to bring home and find out ways to help animals and plants around you. Admission: $3 for adults, […]

$1 – $3

Draw With the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators

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

Come spend the afternoon sketching with Guild of Science Illustrators Maine at the L.C. Bates Museum, an early 20th-century natural history and cultural museum in Hinckley, Maine. The museum has 32 habitat dioramas, galleries of birds, mammals, marine life, insects, reptiles, and minerals, as well as hands-on educational exhibits. Also on the grounds of the […]

$1 – $3

Gloria!

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

Directed by Jesse Wakeman, the Colby Collegium Musicum performs Antonio Vivaldi’s masterful Gloria. This brilliant and complex work for choir and orchestra, with soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, is sure to invigorate the soul and ring in the spring. The program will also feature two madigals and several instrumental works. Sponsored by the Music Department.

Free

Dirty Dog Mud Run

Join us for Thomas College’s Third Annual Dirty Dog Mud Run! The run is a 5K mud run and obstacle course featuring 12-15 obstacles and multiple mud pits. The run is open to community members and will be a family-friendly atmosphere. This year’s event will offer a mini obstacle course open to children up to […]

Earth Day Spring Cleaning

Postponed from Saturday, April 22, due to weather. Join us to celebrate Earth Day! We will be meeting volunteers in Castonguay Square. Please bring anything you have including rakes, brooms, cleaning supplies, trash bags, gloves, and some work attire! This  family-friendly event will be a great way to teach our youth about community involvement. If […]

Free

Writing in Support of Solar Power

Universalist Unitarian Church 69 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

350 Central Maine invites you to a letter-writing meeting.  We will be writing letters to area representatives to support solar power. FMI: linda350centralmaine@gmail.com

A Hero of Our Time

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

The new ballet score, based on motifs from the Lermontov novel A Hero of Our Time, was commissioned from the very young (32-year-old) Peresburg composer Ilya Demutsky who, though not averse to experiments, keeps to a fairly traditional musical language. However his acute interest in contemporary topics which finds reflection in his music, and his […]

$13 – $15

Screenings of Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice and The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

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

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African-American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells’ memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards. The Black Press: Soldiers […]

Free

Open Midnight: Where Ancestors & Wilderness Meet

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

Brooke Williams will read from his Open Midnight, which weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness: that of the author’s year alone with his dog, ground truthing, backcountry maps of southern Utah and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, William Williams, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the […]

Free
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