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.

Visiting Artist: Tim Clorius

Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Tim Clorius, a.k.a. Subone, was the first artist in Maine to pursue a professional career as a spray painter. He labeled himself an “aerosol artist” to emphasize his interest in spray […]

Free

Sustain Mid-Maine Coalition Forum

The Public Policy Team invites you to meet our area legislators on Monday, November 30 at 6:30 in the REM Forum Room (93 Main St., across from the Maine Made […]

Humans in Space

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

Despite trips to the Moon, humans in Earth orbit, and plans for exploring Mars, an expansive vision for human spaceflight has not emerged in the 21st century. Roger Launius, associate director […]

Free

Education Reform

Room 141, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Emily Kennedy-Talmage, a teacher in Lewiston, Maine, is an active blogger on education reform efforts in Maine, with a particular focus on the state’s proficiency-based learning (PBL) model. Kennedy-Talmage will speak about her […]

Free

Soils Year 2015: Inseparability of Science and Socio-Politics

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

Colby Oak Fellow Jodi Koberinski will discuss the intersection of soils science and socio-politics as a microcosm of a larger conversation about the nature and role of “science” more broadly. […]

Benefit Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction

Messalonskee High School 131 Messalonskee High Drive, Oakland, ME

Benefit for Arianna Bragg, 3, the daughter of Amy Bragg and Mike Muzerolle, who were killed in a quadruple murder-suicide Nov. 4. Donations are being sought from area businesses for […]

History Matters: Blackface at the Holidays

Pugh Center, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The "traditional" celebration of St. Nicholas, the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus, is the most popular children's holiday in the Netherlands. Every year, or so it is believed, St. Nicholas […]

Free

Icicles on the Nose, Frost in the Studio: Whistler and the Weather

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

Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Fellow Justin McCann will discuss how Whistler battled the elements to capture evocative atmospheric conditions in his paintings and pastels of London and Venice.

Free
Recurring

Winter Farmers’ Market

Thayer Center for Health 149 North Street, Waterville, ME

Buy fresh, locally produced meats, vegetables, fruits, dairy products on the first and third Thursdays all winter long at this indoor farmers' market!

Lights for Life Open House

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area would like to invite you to join us for our annual Lights for Life open house and lighting of the Memorial Healing Garden on Thursday, […]

Free

Opening Reception for Earth: Love It or Lose It

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

Join us for the opening of our next Art in the Lobby exhibition featuring the work of Jean Ann Pollard and Laurie Sproul. Light refreshments and good cheer provided! This […]

Free

Evening of Ekphrasis

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

Join faculty members and students in Colby’s Creative Writing Program as they read works written in response to art on view in museum galleries. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program, […]

Free

Small Acts: Mobilizing Memory Across Borders

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

How can the memory of violent pasts be mobilized for a more progressive and hopeful future? This talk responds to the renewed monumentality we find in memory museums, memorials and […]

Free

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

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

Adapted from Salman Rushdie’s award-winning novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a rollicking roller-coaster journey through strange new lands—where chatter and silence battle for control, where a child must […]

Free
Recurring

Carols in the Round

Directed by Dr. David Stevenson, the Mount View Chamber Singers are a 20-voice choir from Mount View High School in Thorndike. Each year during Advent, the ensemble present a series […]

Free

Good Will – Hinckley 23rd Annual Festival of Trees

For twenty-three years the annual Good Will - Hinckley Festival of Trees has been a key event and holiday tradition for families in Central Maine. Year after year our community […]

Holiday Card Making

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

All are invited to make holiday cards using printmaking, watercolor, and stenciling. Attendance to this workshop is limited and preregistration is required. To register, call 859-5613.

Free

Animals in Winter

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

What are all the animals out there doing to survive? Not many of them are truly hibernators, so what ingenious methods do they have to help them thrive in winter? […]

Cookies & Cocoa with Santa

Please join Snow Pond Center for the Arts for Cookies and Cocoa with Santa at 8 Goldenrod Lane in Sidney, only 10 short miles from Waterville and Augusta. At this […]

Free

Brass and Organ Christmas Concert

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

Join the Downeast Brass Quintet and organist Sharon Saunders for a lively concert of favorite Christmas carols and hymns.

Free

Warming Up for Christmas

Williamson Performing Arts Center 9 School Street, Fairfield, ME, United States

With Steve and Linda Fotter, students, and friends. This concert is a benefit is First Choice Pregnancy Resource Center in Waterville. Proceeds from the guitar that we raffle at the […]

$20

Pihcintu Choir in Concert

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

Welcoming immigrant children from around the globe, The Pihcintu Mulitcultural Chorus helps restart young lives. War-torn villages, bloodshed, refugee camps, famine, and political turmoil were devastating realities for many of […]

$13

A Little More Something for Everyone!

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

Guest conductor Janna Hymes is the Music Director the Maine Pro Musica and the Williamsburg (Va.) Sinfonia. A much sought-after conductor both in the United States and abroad, Maestra Hymes […]

Free
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