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.

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

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

White Rabbit Red Rabbit has been called a play. But it’s a lively, global sensation that no one is allowed to talk about. Its award-winning playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, is Iranian. His words have escaped censorship and are awaiting your audience. Slyly humorous and audaciously pointed, this “theater-entertainment-meets-social experiment” is unlike anything and will make you question everything. Performed […]

Free

Camp Expo and Healthy Kids Day

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

Join us for a morning of active play and learn about summer camp opportunities. Enjoy Adventure Playland, arts & crafts, fun games and activities, face painting, swimming and more — all for free! For details and more family-friendly activities, visit www.inlandhospital.org or call 861-3292. For a printable poster, click HERE.

Free
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Art + Storytelling: Color

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 color. Children and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Center to have a snack and create their own works of art. This one-hour program is designed for preschoolers and toddlers. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby […]

Free

Jubilant Spring!

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

Join the Colby College Chorale and Chamber Choir in collaboration with the Bowdoin Chamber Choir as they herald the spring season with joyous song. The program features works inspired by the warmth and vigor of springtime, with selections that celebrate the joys of life and love and the beauty of nature. Works include “A Jubilant […]

Free

Waterville United Against Hate

Waterville City Hall 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME

The Waterville community will gather on the steps of City Hall to speak out against the presence of the KKK in Waterville, and for the Waterville we know and desire:  a place where all are welcome.  Bring your palms (from Palm Sunday worship services)!

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Family Violence Project training

Are you a good listener? Are you comfortable talking on the phone? Do you have a passion for helping others? If you answered yes to these questions, I have an opportunity that may be perfect for you! Family Violence Project has an ongoing need for volunteer advocates to help answer our 24-Hour Helpline for those […]

Malcolm X

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

The much-hyped Malcolm X happens to be a spiritually enriching testament to the human capacity for change — and surely Spike Lee’s most universally appealing film. An engrossing mosaic of history, myth, and sheer conjecture, this ambitious epic manages to sustain itself for three hours and 21 minutes and overcomes an early frivolity of tone and […]

Free

It’s All About The Legs!

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Regular walks increase endurance, lower blood pressure, reduce "bad" cholesterol, improve cardiovascular health, boost bone strength and help burn more calories. Join Robin Maginn, Advanced Senior Personal Trainer and Group Exercise Instructor, to learn leg exercises that utilize multiple joints to increase core stability. Cost: $10.00. Please register in advance by calling 873-4745 or stopping […]

$10
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Teen Anime Club

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Come join us for our bi-weekly anime club! Already a fan or curious to know what it's all about? Join us for old and new favorites, plus snacks and socializing. This event is free and open to attendees under the age of 18. For more information, please call 872-5433, or email staylor@watervillelibrary.org. Upcoming Presentations: May […]

Free

Waterville Green Drinks

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

Come join KV Connect, Waterville’s young professionals group, for an exciting evening of networking and socialization while helping to support a great cause! Admission is a $5.00 suggested donation to benefit Sebasticook Regional Land Trust . Appetizers will be provided. Waterville Green Drinks is part of the international Green Drinks network, which is an informal […]

$5

Debra Spark Fiction Reading

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

Colby Professor of English Debra Spark is the author of six books of fiction, including, most recently, Unknown Caller, The Pretty Girl, and Good for the Jews. Other books include Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing and the anthology Twenty Under Thirty. Spark has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a […]

Free

Activism, Justice, and Future Generations

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

Our speaker, Winona LaDuke, is this year’s Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Humanities. LaDuke is an internationally renowned writer and activist working on issues of climate change, sustainable development, and the rights of indigenous communities. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota and is a two-time vice presidential […]

Free

Grizzly Man

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

Guest Speakers: Dr. John “Jack” Hopkins, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology, Unity College, and Deanna Witman, Assistant professor of Environmental Humanities, Unity College Grizzly Man chronicles the life and death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell, who was killed, along with his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by a rogue bear in October 2003. In one of the […]

$5 – $10

Digital Marketing in a Nutshell

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Okay, business owners and marketers, time to mark your calendars! TOCmedia’s Tracy O’Clair will be hosting a FREE marketing seminar at the Waterville Public Library! The same seminar will be offered on two different dates, April 5 and April 12, at noon. You need only attend once! Bring your lunch and stop by! During this […]

Free

KVCAP Story Time

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

You can help raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention! Join our friends from KVCAP for a special children's event. Come make crafts, have snacks, and listen to a fun book reading by a local police officer! For more information contact: Deb Rick, 859-1588, debrar@kvcap.org; Emily Buckhalter, 859-1514, ebuckhalter@kvcap.org; or Connie Breger, 859-1588, connieb@kvcap.org.

Free

Revilusion, or the Battle of Utopias

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

Artist and educator Luis Camnitzer, whose conceptual artwork, The Museum Is a School, occupies the façade of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, will combine a personal reflection on revolution with a prescription for renewal without complacency in the overlapping realms of art and education. Having come of age in Uruguay during a period of widespread revolution […]

Free

Easter Bunny Cake Contest

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Our Local Advisory Council is sponsoring a Community "Best Easter Bunny Cake" Contest and Cake Sale. Judges from Hillman's Bakery , Holy Cannoli , our LAC, and the community will be awarding a $100 First Place prize, $75 Second Place prize, and a $50 Third Place prize for the best cakes. The decision of the […]

Maine Open Juried Art Show Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony

The Waterville Area Art Society and Waterville Creates! are proud to co-present the 2017 Maine Open Juried Art Show at Common Street Arts in Downtown Waterville. Now entering its 27th year, the Maine Open Juried Art Show has traditionally attracted over 90 artists representing over 50 Maine communities in a variety of media, including oil, […]

Free

A Celebration of No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki

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

Join us for a reception from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the William D. Adams Gallery followed by a concert from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center. Artist Zao Wou-Ki nurtured a lifelong passion for European classical and 20th-century avant-garde music. This concert highlights some of Zao’s favorite pieces, […]

Free

Yearning to Breathe Free: The Immigrant Experience in Maine

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Elizabeth Helitzer, Executive Director, Holocaust Human Rights Center, Augusta David Greenham, Program Director HHRC The story of immigrants in Maine is older than the state itself. From Verrazano’s first glimpse of Maine in 1524 on, immigrants have played a key role in shaping Maine and her people. This program, inspired by our 2015 exhibit of […]

$10

Opening Reception for The Return to the Merchant’s Garden

The Framemakers 46 Main St., Waterville, ME

Everyone is invited! Gallery runs now through May 13. Meet the artists April 14 with food, drinks, and live entertainment. Display includes Fiber Works by Christine Nilles, Photographs by David Clinard, Oil paintings by Gisele & Jim McLear, Photography by Greta Joseph, Porcelain & Raku by Kim Ahern, Assemblage by Robin Lisherness, Watercolor by Susan […]

Free
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Spring Awakening

Page Commons, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Spring Awakening is a rock musical set in Germany in 1891 that tells the story of a group of teenagers fighting against a world dominated by adults. The main character, Wendla, discovers what it means to fall in love and to explore the meaning of her body when she finds herself falling for one of […]

Free

Easter Egg Hunt

Maine Children's Home 93 Silver Street, Waterville, United States

Free Easter Egg Hunt for children up to grade 2.  Special prizes will be awarded to some lucky winners.

Free

Eggsploring Art

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

Find new and exciting ways to explore the Museum through a scavenger hunt and then participate in an egg-decorating workshop.

Free

Bat Appreciation Day

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

Why are bats so important to our environment? What do they do that makes a huge difference in our lives and the lives of other animals? Take a tour of our bat collection with a museum guide and learn cool facts about this important and wonderful mammal! Create a fun bat craft! Admission: $3 for […]

$1 – $3
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