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 […]

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 […]

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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. […]

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? […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]