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Monetize Your Idea in 5 Steps and $500

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Take any idea and learn how to validate the market quickly and affordably using the Lean Startup methodology. Presented by Mike Duguay, Executive Director of the Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation at Thomas College. Part of Small Business Week Waterville. FREE. CLICK TO REGISTER.

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Camp Code

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Want to learn how Minecraft, iPads, and Google are made? Come join us for Camp Code! Each week we will show you how to turn your ideas into reality, with languages like Python and Scratch. Are you new to tech, and want to learn some basics? We have you covered. Are you a tech veteran […]

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Free Comic Book Day

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book specialty shops and libraries across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their shops and libraries! Costumes are encouraged, but not required! FREE comics will be handed out 10am-12pm, or while supplies last! After […]

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Guided Meditation

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join Kim Nashed and John Parsons of Kim Nashed YOGA for a couple hours of Deep Relaxation. They will guide you in a simple flow of breathing and meditation. Please bring two blankets and a yoga mat if you have one. This free event is offered in the spirit of wellbeing for YOU and our […]

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Spring Book Sale

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Looking for your next favorite book? Stop by the Waterville Public Library during library hours from Saturday, April 13 through Friday, April 19 and check out our Spring Book Sale featuring a wide selection of materials for all ages! All sales are by donation! The book sale is open any time during library hours. Sale […]

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From the Light: Writing About Wounding Experiences

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

As writers we draw inspiration from the moments that have had a lasting impact on our lives. Those moments have often left us wounded, and those wounds have left a presence that we wish to address in our writing. Although, writing has its therapeutic effects, the goal of this craft workshop is to use the […]

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Camp Code

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Want to learn how Minecraft, iPads, and Google are made? Come join us for Camp Code! Each week we will show you how to turn your ideas into reality, with languages like Python and Scratch. Are you new to tech, and want to learn some basics? We have you covered. Are you a tech veteran […]

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Speaking and Listening: The Art of Dialogue

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Good dialogue can bring enormous vividness and music to our prose. Good dialogue invites a reader into a room, helps us connect, and lets us hear and see. It can forward plot, illuminate character, reveal theme. But writing dialogue is not always intuitive, in part because dialogue is not merely transcribed speech. (Artful dialogue has […]

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Valentine’s Cosplay Tea Party!

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

MACE and Cirque du Geek's Valentine's Cosplay Tea Party! Love is in the air and cosplays can be shaken out of the closet as we inch closer to spring for our annual tea party hosted with our friends at Cirque du Geek! Come and show off your adorable couples cosplay with a friend or that […]

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Camp Code

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Want to learn how Minecraft, iPads, and Google are made? Come join us for Camp Code! Each week we will show you how to turn your ideas into reality, with languages like Python and Scratch. Are you new to tech, and want to learn some basics? We have you covered. Are you a tech veteran […]

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Holiday Cosplay Tea Party

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Cosplayers of all ages are invited to come together this holiday season and share tasty treats. Regardless of what, if any, winter celebrations you observe, it is a good time to deck the halls with that jolly cosplay and share in the fellowship at the end of another great year. Come make some lasting memories. […]

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Nosh + Knockoff 2018: An Interactive Mystery Event

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

SAVE THE DATE! This year's Nosh & Knock Off FUNdraiser promises to be the not-to-be-missed event of the season! Featuring some of our region's most illustrious and remarkable theatrical talent, NK 2018 will delight and entertain, while raising critical funds to support library programs and services. Click for more details.

Celebrating Librarian Sarah Sugden

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

All are invited to a Celebrate Sarah! Event on Thursday, October 18, 2018, 4p-6p at the Waterville Public Library. After serving as the transformative and inspirational director of the Waterville Public Library since 2005, Sarah Sugden will be leaving Waterville at the end of October. Sarah is moving on to new challenges and opportunities in […]

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Crafternoons

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Looking for a way to brighten up your child's day? Bring them on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4PM every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft. We do something different every week! This Month:     10/9/18: Leaf People!   10/16/18: Masking Tape Mummies   10/23/18: Q-Tip/Cotton Swab Skeletons […]

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Art + Storytelling: Wind in the Willows

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

This special edition of Art + Storytelling will take place at the Waterville Public Library as part of the artist Carly Glovinski's exhibition. After finding artworks that look curiously like books on the shelves of the library, we will read excerpts from The Wind in the Willows. This program is designed for toddlers through early elementary and their caregivers.  Click for more info.

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Satur-Play

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Starting Sept 8, 2018, come to the library every Saturday from 1-2 in the afternoon to play games, make things, tell stories, and meet new people. Click for more info

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Cirque du Geek 2018

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Including events based around,anime, manga, movies, art, cosplay, and more, Cirque du Geek is a celebration of everything that excites us about being a geek! It is a FREE, 3-day convention that takes place at the Waterville Public Library and in participating Waterville businesses every September. Click for more info:

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Crafternoons

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Looking for a way to brighten up your child's day? Bring them on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4PM every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft. We do something different every week! Coming up: 9/25: Clay & Pinecone Animals Children under 7 must be accompanied by a […]

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Teen Anime Night

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

  Teen Movie Night is Teen Anime Night for the summer!   Through the end of August, come to the Teen Room at the Waterville Public Library every Thursday and enjoy a different anime!  Thursday, August 30th @ 4-6pm: Attack on Titan: Junior High (Episodes 1-4)    These events are free, and open to attendees ages 11-18. Light […]

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Crafternoons

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Looking for a way to brighten up your child's day? Bring them on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4PM every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft. We do something different every week! Today: Pasta Shell Snails   This Month: 8/7: Clay Cacti 8/14: Paper Plate Whales 8/21: […]

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Therapy Dog Visit for Teens

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Visit to the library and unwind with a furry friend! Our friends, the therapy dogs from Kennebec Valley Love on a Leash will be visiting teens at the Waterville Public Library on Tuesday, August 21st from 4-5pm! Stop by and relax with friendly puppers!    This event is free and open to attendees ages 11-18.     For […]

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Crafternoons

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Looking for a way to brighten up your child's day? Bring them on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4PM every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft. We do something different every week! Today: Paper Heart Mice  This Month: 8/7: Clay Cacti 8/14: Paper Plate Whales 8/21: Paper […]

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Earth Jams! with Matt Loosigian

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Sing and dance and make your own music with Matt!   (www.earthjams.com ) "Jump on the Song Toboggan and sing-a-long with Matt Loosigian of Earth Jams.   "Matt is a Woolwich, ME based folk singer, guitarist, and songwriter specializing in playful, funny songs about ecology and being green. Join him as he works his musical magic […]

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New Children’s Librarian Meet and Greet with Ice Cream

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

  The Library is so excited to welcome our new Children's Librarian, Liz Davis!  Stop by the Children's Room to meet her and say hi and have some ice cream! She is excited to meet the kids and families (and grownups!) of this community! Please help us welcome her!   FMI: 207-872-5433, librarian@watervillelibrary.org

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Crafternoons: Clay Cacti!

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Looking for a way to brighten up your child's day? Bring them on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4PM every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft. We do something different every week!   This Month: 8/7: Clay Cacti 8/14: Paper Plate Whales 8/21: Paper Heart Mice 8/27: […]

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