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.

Friends Camp Spring Work Weekend

Friends Camp 729 Lakeview Drive, South China, ME

Our annual work weekend is just around the corner, and we are looking for a few more hands to help get work done! Work weekend is happening Friday, May 19 – Sunday, May 21, at Friends Camp in South China, ME. Tasks for the weekend will include: raking painting clearing pathways of sticks & branches […]

Free

Earth and Space Activities

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

Come learn about some of the techniques used by NASA scientists to explore and understand our universe, through a series of fun and informative hands-on activities, including: Stomp Rockets • Mars Rover Game • Discovering Distant Planets • Moon Craters • and more! Plus, discover the construction and principles behind a working refractor telescope with […]

$1 – $4
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Studio One for Dancers: Ziegfeld Follies

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

Saturday, May 20 at 7:00 + Sunday, May 21 at 2:00 Mr. Scott and Studio One for Dancers proudly present their 2023 recital, Ziegfeld Follies. Join us at Waterville Opera House on May 20 & 21 to celebrate all our dancers' amazing accomplishments this year. Tickets: $25. Price includes a per ticket handling fee. Tickets […]

$25

Colby’s 202nd Commencement

Miller Library Lawn, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, Maine

Come watch the members of the Class of 2023 graduate! Journalist Amy Walter will give the commencement address. She and four others will receive honorary degrees. Commencement is open to the public with general admission seating. Standing room will also be available on Miller Lawn. In the case of extreme weather, the ceremony will be […]

Free

Dine-to-Donate

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

Please Support Winslow Congregational Church by Dining at Mainely Brews on Tuesday, May 23!   Now you can support Winslow Congregational Church … in a fun, incredibly easy way! Simply dine at Mainely Brews in Waterville on Tuesday May 23 and 10 percent of your food and beverage bill goes toward Winslow Congregational Church’s fundraiser! […]

Student Film Night

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States
Free

Blues Traveler (Sold Out!)

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

36 years ago, the four original members of Blues Traveler—John Popper, Chandler Kinchla, Brendan Hill, and the late Bobby Sheehan—gathered in their drummer’s parent’s basement in Princeton, NJ to jam. From these high school sessions emerged a band that would go on to release a total of 14 studio albums, four of which have gone […]

$63 – $73

SLICE: Make a Moving Panorama

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Artist and author-illustrator Lucky Platt creates children’s picture books, life-sized bear paintings, crankies, mixed-media animations, relief prints, paper sculptures, and more in her lakeside studio in Burnham, Maine. Platt’s debut picture book, Imagine a Wolf was a 2022 Maine Literary Awards Finalist, a 2022 Ezra Jack Keats Award Finalist in New Writers, a 2021 New […]

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Surette Real Estate 113 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

Join us for a ribbon cutting THURSDAY, MAY 25 - 10 a.m. to celebrate a name change for Surette Real Estate to be held at 113 Silver Street, Waterville

Free

Beauty Is Embarrassing

Waterville, ME

Part biography, part live performance, Beauty Is Embarrassing traces the career of Wayne White and shows what it takes for one uniquely talented, profanely hilarious, and utterly uncompromising artist to make it in America. Post-film Q&A by Scott Nash and Nancy Gibson-Nash, directors of the Illustration Institute, where Wayne White was a former artist in […]

Spring Wildflower Walk

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

What wonderful wildflowers are blooming in spring? Begin the wildflower art walk at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center beneath Tessa Greene O’Brien’s mural Fields Alive with Pollen and Wings, followed by a walk at Quarry Road to explore, draw, and discover! Led by wildflower enthusiasts and Maine Master Naturalists Harry Vayo and Serena Sanborn. […]

$10

Audubon’s Revenge

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

Let your imagination run wild as we invent fantastic new creatures by combining parts of existing animals in the museum — using colored pencils, of course! This fun activity helps kids think about adaptations and the “creativity” we observe in some animals’ naturally selected traits. Can you invent a chimera stranger than the duck-billed platypus? […]

$1 – $4

SLICE: Combat + Movement for Stage

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Ever wonder how stage actors make fights look so realistic? Learn simple combat and movement tricks with the help of theater educators John Dalton Logan and Nathan Sylvester. Students will watch a choreographed combat scene and learn the magic of how the scene is crafted + created. Students will learn simple and safe techniques in […]

Free

First Friday: Pride!

Downtown Waterville Main Street at Common Street, Waterville, ME

First Fridays celebrate the vibrant creativity in Waterville through a wide array of arts experiences. On the first Friday of every month, visit Main Street in downtown Waterville to meet artists, see performances, listen to live music, eat delicious food, shop at local businesses, enjoy the arts, and come together as a community. In addition, […]

Opening of Cattail Trail

Lawrence High School 9 School St., Fairfield, ME

The town of Fairfield is excited to announce the opening of the Cattail Trail, a new trail that runs adjacent to Lawrence High School. The trail will host its opening in conjunction with National Trail Day on Saturday, June 3. Recognizing the importance of protecting natural resources and inviting the public to participate in the […]

Free

KMTrails Birthday Bash

Head of Falls Temple Street at Front Street, Waterville, ME, United States
Free

Opening Day Celebration: Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change

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

Join us for an opening day celebration for our new exhibition Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change. Curator David Park Curry will lead gallery tours and sign advance copies of the accompanying exhibition catalogue. Tours will be offered at 2 and 3:30 pm, and he will be available to sign books and talk with visitors in the museum lobby […]

Free

Met Opera Encore: Don Giovanni

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded […]

$17 – $19
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Auditions for Murder on the Orient Express

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Audition Times: Sunday, June 4 at 4:30 p.m. + Monday, June 5 at 6:00 p.m. Audition Location: Studio 1902, Paul J. Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, 2nd Floor Show Dates: September 1, 2, 8, & 9 at 7:30 p.m. + September 3 & 10 at 2:00 p.m. About the Show: Just after midnight, a […]

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Join us for a ribbon cutting TUESDAY, JUNE 6 - 2 p.m. to celebrate the opening of their new simulation center, with Northern Light Inland Hospital and Perdue University Global to be held at 222 Kennedy Memorial Drive, Waterville

Free

Constructing Identity

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Simply defined, identity is how we see ourselves, the qualities that make up our unique sense of self. In this special 4-week summer course, students will combine art, 3D printing technology and the psychology of identity to express personal ideas, style and uniqueness. Co-taught by Mark Kavanaugh, KVCC Psychology Department Chair, and Stephen LaRochelle, KVCC […]

$130

SLICE: Carpentry With Jon Slack

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Jon “Carpenter” Slack has a passion for building and crafting with wood. He will share his passion for carpentry and industrial arts, how he got started, and about his favorite projects. Jon believes that working with your hands is a gift to yourself as well as to your customers. Students will tour the newly renovated […]

Free

Good Health is Good Business

Online Event ME

Let's Talk About Men's Health A one-hour zoom conference focused on Men's Health. Topics will include cancer prevention and screenings, cardiovascular disease, and health risk factors you need to know. As an employer, we are right here with you, navigating the same uncharted COVID-19 waters you are. We have learned a thing or two along […]

Free

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Nash's Gym 9 Legion Memorial Drive, South China, ME, United States

THURSDAY, JUNE 8 - 2 p.m. to celebrate the grand opening of Nash's Gym 9 Legion Memorial Drive, So. China

Free

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez (John Alberto Leguizamo) – one of the losers that evening – the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the […]

$10 – $12
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