In 2019, the mid-Maine region welcomed new businesses, watched construction projects progress, cheered on entrepreneurs, and engaged in conversations about their communities' futures. Let's celebrate the year's accomplishments and toast to what's to come in 2020! CLICK FOR MORE INFO.

Citizens’ Climate Lobby has chapters across the world working to influence policy to benefit the environment. CCL supports legislation, particularly carbon fee and dividend legislation. CCL recognizes the need for massive carbon reductions for a sustainable future. The Waterville chapter is just one of many throughout Maine with which you can get involved.

Take a guided tour of the museum’s Maine bird dioramas painted by Charles Hubbard. Learn to identify the birds in the dioramas and where they are found. See how Hubbard’s background paintings in the dioramas show us the birds common habitats. Make a small bird diorama. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

SOLD OUT! Bob loves being a comedian. He’s wicked good at it! He lives in Maine which is the best state in the world maybe even the universe. He’s featured regularly on Sirius XM radio and he even won their Superbowl of Comedy! He has put out over 20 comedy CD’s and DVD’s! He was […]

THIS IS A LIVE BROADCAST FROM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE IN NEW YORK CITY. Written by: Philip Glass Approximate Running Time: 3 hours, 30 minutes (2 intermissions) Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo headlines American composer Philip Glass’s transcendent contemporary creation, with Karen Kamensek conducting. Phelim McDermott’s stunning production employs a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers […]

Join us for a fun and educational tour of the museum’s basket collection, including fine examples of Penobscot and Passamaquoddy craftsmanship. Learn more about some of the natural materials and ingenious techniques involved. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Join us for an afternoon at Common Street Arts exploring the art of glazing ceramics! Instructor Yvonne Brown will lead the group through the glazing process, giving participants tips and ideas to decorate a cool and unique ceramic mug. Participants may also purchase additional mugs, bowls or vases to glaze during the class. We will […]

A Harvest Buffet will be held on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 5 to 6p.m. at the Waterville First Congregational Church UCC. The menu will feature homemade baked beans, casseroles, salads, bread, beverages and apple crisp or gingerbread for dessert. Adults will be charged $9 Children 4- 12 will be charged  $4 Children under 4 are […]

POSTPONED FROM NOVEMBER 2, DUE TO WEATHER!

Colby’s own Eric Thomas takes center stage as both composer and clarinet soloist in his Threnody for Ann Arceneaux for solo clarinet and viola, featuring Boston University viola faculty member Hye Min Choi. Thomas and Choi will have further opportunity to shine in Max Bruch’s Concerto for Viola and Clarinet. The concert will conclude with […]

This broadcast was rescheduled from November 9. Anthony Minghella’s vividly cinematic staging returns to cinemas, featuring soprano Hui He in the devastating title role in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera’s most beautiful and heartbreaking scores, with a cast that also includes tenor Piero Pretti as Pinkerton, baritone Paulo Szot […]

This talk by Samia Rahimtoola of Bowdoin College reads Dawn Lundy Martin’s Discipline (2011) and Ed Roberson’s City Eclogue (2006) in order to uncover the social and environmental forms of relation that appear under conditions of racialized gentrification. Both books refuse easy narratives of individual overcoming, bodily cure, and environmental repair, instead proposing a catalogue […]

Downtown Waterville’s annual holiday parade held the evening after Thanksgiving has drawn thousands of families to Main Street for many years and serves as a fun and festive kickoff to the holiday season. What better time of the year to get together and show our community spirit and support for one another! The Children’s Discovery […]

Fiddle virtuosos Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are hitting the road again to bring back their popular concert series, A Celtic Family Christmas. One of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia’s most important exports and a superstar in the Celtic music world (though she’s far too humble to admit it), fiddler and step-dancer Natalie MacMaster has built […]

Drop by the Art + Cart for activities kids and their caregivers can use in the galleries, as well as materials to touch, books to read, sketching materials, and resources to take home. Recommended for ages 3+ and their caregivers. For questions, please contact Abby Newkirk.

Shop local all while having some fun. A group of small businesses in the Central Maine area have come together to offer you some great discounts on Small Business Saturday. In addition, you can play a scavenger hunt bingo card for your chance to win a $100 Chamber of Commerce gift certificate! The bingo cards […]

Dasher: How A Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever is a brand new book from Matt Tavares, destined to become a Christmas classic. Matt will read the story, draw for the group, and sign books. Copies of Dasher will be available for purchase. FOR MORE INFORMATION

Look at mammals and their skulls and teeth to learn how they are adapted to eat different foods. Look at their hoofs and feet to learn about how they are adapted to help mammals. Make a mammal craft to take home and a track game. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Paula Poundstone is a humorist, author and comedian known for her clever, observational humor and spontaneous wit. When she isn’t collecting hotel soaps while on tour or panel-ing on NPR’s #1 show, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Paula hosts the popular Maximum Fun podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. Nobody is a comedy field guide to […]