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Waterville City Manager Search

The Elm 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Notice of Public Meeting on Waterville City Manager Search The Waterville Mayor and City Council are inviting citizens, businesses andorganizations to a public meeting to be held on March 16, 2023, at 6pm at TheElm, 21 College Avenue Lower Level-Rear Entrance, Waterville ME 04901. The purpose of the meeting is to gather information regarding what […]

Free

Art & Changing the Conversation

Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Thursday, March 16, 2023, 6 pm Given Auditorium, Bixler Art & Music Center, Colby College (Also available virtually, via Zoom) Join us for a conversation between multidisciplinary artist Genevieve Gaignard, 2023–24 Residential Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art, and Jon Gray, multidisciplinary curator and co-founder of the culinary collective Ghetto Gastro. As longtime […]

Free

Song of the Sea

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

This St. Patrick's Day, dive into this visually stunning Celtic tale of a young Irish boy, Ben, who discovers his mute younger sister, Saoirse, is a selkie – a mythological being that can transform from human to seal. Ben must protect Saoirse and help her find her voice, which is the only thing that will […]

Free – $9

My Name Is Andrea

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

My Name Is Andrea is the story of controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture, and the ways it impacts every woman’s daily life. This documentary film, directed by Pratibha […]

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Recurring

Audtions for Rock of Ages

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

It’s the tail end of the big, bad 1980s in Hollywood, and the party has been raging hard. Aqua Net, Lycra, lace, and liquor flow freely at one of the Sunset Strip’s last legendary venues, a place where sex machine Stacee Jaxx takes the stage and scantily clad groupies line up to turn their fantasies […]

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KV Connect 101

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

KV Connect is a group of tomorrow's community leaders! They are young professionals from 21-45 living and working in central Maine with a passion for making central Maine the best place to live, work and play. Connect with us on Facebook: Click Here Follow our page to stay connected! Better yet, share our events with […]

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Ashley Bryan Storytime

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

Children and their caregivers are invited to join Waterville Public Library staff for a free read-aloud story time in the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center! Enjoy a reading of Ashley Bryan’s picture books and then visit the Colby Museum’s exhibition Ashley Bryan/Paula Wilson: Take the World Into […]

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United Way Ribbon Cutting

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 9 Legion Memorial Drive, South China, ME, United States

Please join us for the official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, hosted by the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce. Light refreshments will be provided, courtesy of Raymond James Financial Services. RSVP

Free

Art Break: Jojo by Ashley Bryan

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

Each Thursday, join the Colby College Museum of Art to spend thirty minutes with one work of art on view in their gallery spaces. This week, Joshua Veilleux, Downtown Gallery Assistant, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Jojo by Ashley Bryan, located in the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at Paul J. Schupf Art […]

Free

To-Go Lunch

Winslow Congregational Church 12 Lithgow Street, Winslow, ME

Yummy Soup & Biscuit Fundraiser Coming to Winslow Congregational Church as To-Go Lunch, Saturday, March 25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.   Get ready to enjoy a yummy take-out lunch, brimming with your choice of mouth-watering soup or chowder, a homemade biscuit or cornbread, and homemade chocolate chip or snickerdoodle cookies! On Saturday, March […]

$5

National Theatre Live: The Crucible

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

RESCHEDULED from March 4 to March 25, 2023 A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of […]

$13.50 – $16

Ithaka

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

Q&A with John Shipton, father of Julian Assange! The world's most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption, and unpunished war crimes. Now with Assange facing a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US, his family members are confronting the […]

$10 – $12

On These Grounds

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

Q&A with Maine director Garrett Zevgetis! A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. A healer and an activist, Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York City to move to South Carolina to support the girl […]

$8 – $9

Downtown Waterville Visioning Workshop

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Work with your neighbors to shape the vision for downtown Waterville. The workshop is located at the Muskie Community Center with parking behind the building and along the street. We are asking you to enter through the back of the building, which is where the parking lot is. See map below showing the parking and […]

Free

Haley Reinhart: Off the Ground

Alumni Hall, Snow Pond Center for the Arts Goldenrod Lane (off Route 23), Sidney, ME

A timeless voice outlasts eras. It feels just as at home in the sixties as it does in the TikTok age. It also resounds louder as time goes on. Haley Reinhart brandishes such a voice. The expansive scope of her range comes into full focus on her fourth album, Lo-Fi Soul. The gold-certified Chicago-born/Los Angeles-based […]

$55
Recurring

The Play That Goes Wrong

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

Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their […]

$24 – $26

MET Opera Live in HD: Lohengrin

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

 Richard Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium […]

Outrageous Outer Space Day

Children's Discovery Museum 7 Eustis Parkway, Waterville, ME, United States
$10

To America

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

Colby Wind Ensemble Director, Brendon Wilkins Saturday, April 1, 7:30 p.m. Lorimer Chapel This program pays homage to America with two major works from the 20th and 21st century. American Hymn Song Suite by Dwayne S. Milburn, a piece for wind band that features four of America’s greatest hymn tunes, and Variations on America, a staple of the wind […]

Free

My Neighbor Totoro

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

Date: Sunday, April 2 at 12pm - FREE Running Time: 1 hour 26 minutes MPA Rating: G Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine Part of Listening to Film: See the full film series. Screening preceded by a discussion of the film’s sound design by Colby students in MU237A […]

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2001: A Space Odyssey

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

Date: Sunday, April 2 at 6:45pm Running Time: 2 hours 29 minutes MPA Rating: G Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. One Night Only! Truly made for the big screen, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece follows Dr. Dave Bowman, Dr. […]

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Waterville, ME

Director Lisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive material and performances that bring us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the […]

Food for Thought Keynote Speaker Bryant Terry

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities is delighted to announce chef, food justice activist, and critically acclaimed author Bryant Terry as their Food for Thought Keynote speaker. Groundbreaking and rich, Terry's work illuminates the intersections between poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity, in order to pave a new, better path forward. LEARN MORE

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