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Business After Hours

T-Mobile Retail 337 Main Street, Waterville, ME

  Plan to join us for our next Business After Hours WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 - 5:30 -7 p.m. T-Mobile Retail 337 Main Street, Waterville Great Food - Great Networking - Great Prizes! A great place to network and market your business. Business After Hours is hosted, or co -hosted by chamber members in our region […]

Free

Forbidden Planet

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

This classic sci-fi film features both a young Leslie Nielsen in a dramatic role as well as the first fully electronic Hollywood film score, composed by experimental musicians Bebe and Louis Barron. Credited as “electronic tonalities,” the Barrons’ soundscape creates alien technology, spaces, and creatures and reflects American anxieties about what it meant to be […]

Free

Tape Face

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

Tape Face Date: April 12, 2023 at 7:30pm This event is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Sometimes actions speak louder than words! TAPE FACE is a totally unique silent comedian who has been on the comedy circuit for years and become a viral sensation thanks to his appearance on America’s Got Talent. His […]

$38 – $48

The Struggle is Real: Employee Mental Health

Best Western Plus 375 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Leslie Lenning of Community Health & Counseling will address mental health issues in the workplace due to stressors on employees such as pandemics, inflation and general national unrest. Explore how employers can support your workforce. Location: Colby/Coburn Room, Best Western Plus. Cost: $23 for Chamber members in advance, or $29 at the door and for […]

$23 – $29

Generational Differences in the Workplace

Online Event ME

Good Health is Good Business: Generational Differences in the Workplace   A one-hour educational session on generational differences in the workplace. The session will address the following: - why is it important to understand the perceptions of generational differences - how generational preferences manifest in the workplace - how to begin changing the narrative on […]

Free

Don’t Throw Things and Other Tips for Building Strong Teams

Bricks Coworking & Innovation Space Hathaway Creative Center, 10 Water St. Ste. 110, Waterville, ME

With Susan Ruhlin, Managing Director, Dirigo Labs Join Susan Ruhlin for a discussion on her experience using a customer discovery approach to making early hires and establishing a positive culture in a tech startup. About Dirigo Labs: Dirigo Labs is a startup accelerator based in Waterville, Maine. With a mission to grow the greater Waterville […]

Free

Blueprint For Artificial Intelligence Bill Of Rights

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

Sorelle Friedler Ph.D. is the Shibulal Family Associate Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. She served as the Assistant Director for Data and Democracy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where her work included the AI Bill of Rights. Her research focuses on the fairness and interpretability of machine learning […]

Free

Coffee and Conversations: Financial Life Hacks

Bricks Coworking & Innovation Space Hathaway Creative Center, 10 Water St. Ste. 110, Waterville, ME

Learn useful financial life hacks such as how to stretch your shopping budget, sneaky ways to save your money and advice for living on a low budget. 8:00 - 8:30 AM - Networking with coffee and treats from Sunrise Bagel 8:30 - 9:30 AM - Panel Discussion Join us for coffee, refreshments, networking, and a […]

Free

Met Opera Encore: Falstaff

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

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to oversee a brilliant ensemble cast that features sopranos Hera Hyesang Park and Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, tenor […]

$17 – $19

East Coast and West Coast

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

Colby Jazz Band Director, Brendon Wilkins Saturday, April 15, 7:30pm Given Auditorium The Colby Jazz Ensemble continues its exploration of musical styles with work from arrangers and composers from coast to coast. Bill Holman’s arrangement of “Stompin’ at the Savoy” will immerse the listener in the sound of the Stan Kenton Big Band, and Toshiko […]

Free

Juston McKinney

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

Date: April 15, 2023 at 8:00pm Organization: Waterville Opera House Venue: Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St, Waterville, ME This event is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.   With multiple appearances on The Tonight Show, two Comedy Central specials, and two Amazon Prime specials, including his latest, Parentally Challenged, it’s no wonder the […]

$28

The Lunchbox

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

12:00 p.m.: Refreshments from Jewel of India 1:00 p.m.: Film screening and Q&A with editor John Lyons! Join us for a free screening of the delightful Hindi film The Lunchbox, followed by a Q&A with the film's editor, John Lyons. A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife […]

Free

The Fits

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

This coming-of-age film is a unique collaboration between director Anna Rose Holmer and a cast of young dancers and actors from the dance group Q-Kidz in Cincinnati. Royalty Hightower brilliantly portrays Toni, an eleven-year-old girl who becomes curious about the “fits” of the teenagers in a local dance troupe. The experimental score by Danny Bensi […]

Free

Whose Live Anyway

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

  WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? Wednesday, April 19 at 8:00 p.m. Back by popular demand! The current cast members of the Emmy-nominated TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? are proud to present their new improv tour: WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? is 90 minutes of hilarious improvised comedy and song all based on audience […]

Maine Laboratories Ribbon Cutting

Maine Laboratories 25 Main Street, Norridgewock, ME

Join us to celebrate the opening of Maine Laboratories, LLC. Our 2023 ribbon cuttings are sponsored by:

Free

We Are Called To Be a Movement

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

For years the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign has been one of the most gifted moral fusion organizers, strategists and orators in the country. As an indispensable figure in the public policy and public theology landscape, he believes it’s time for everyone who cares about the state of our […]

Free

David Mallett & The Mallett Brothers

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

This family will break generational barriers and join us for one awesome night together. Two rockin’ sons with the father of folk, and three great songwriters. Singer-songwriter, David Mallett, is one of America’s true original troubadours. In a career spanning four decades, he has recorded 17 albums, had several hundred covers of his songs, including […]

$25 – $30

Bard’s Birthday Bash

Downtown Waterville Main Street at Common Street, Waterville, ME

Come join Recycled Shakespeare Company for our 10th Annual Bard's Birthday Bash! Throughout the day, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., we will be reading all of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets interspersed with monologues and songs from his plays. It is a special birthday party for Shakespeare being our 10th year and the 400th anniversary of the publishing of […]

Free

Wheel Throwing Exploration

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

In this fun, relaxed class students will explore the basics of wheel throwing. Instructor Yvonne Brown will demonstrate each step from centering clay to finishing techniques. Students will then have time on the wheel and, if they’d like to learn more, can consider taking a six-week session offered at Ticonic Clay Studio. Note: Students will […]

$35

Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Resistance and Heroism

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

“All I owned was my camera, a leopard coat, and a grenade in case of capture...the pillow was the rifle, the walls were the trees and the sky was the roof,” says partisan Faye Schulman. Over 25,000 Jewish partisans, fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators from deep within the forests of WWII’s Eastern […]

Free

Mexico: A Musical Journey Cuartelo Latinoamericano

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

Mexico: A Musical Journey Cuartelo Latinoamericano Saturday, April 22, 7:30pm Lorimer Chapel (Funded by the Ermanno Comparetti Concert Fund) In this unique concert, the Latin Grammy Award-winning Cuartelo Latinoamericano and scholar Benjamin Juarez, professor emeritus at Boston University, explore connections in Mexican visual art, history, and culture through the music of six iconic composers alongside […]

Free

The Sixties Show

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

This is a show about time travel, going back to the 1960’s, based and around the most remarkable musical re-creation show you will ever see. This popular theater show is a cross-generational crowd pleaser and has been selling out every theater and performing arts center that the show plays at. The band is widely celebrated […]

Negra

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

Free admission, sponsored by Colby College Department of Spanish and the Latin American Studies Program. At the age of seven, filmmaker Medhin Tewolde Serrano recounts her first experience of being called Black by a stranger on the streets of Mexico, noting it as the first time becoming conscious of her racial identity and the prejudice […]

Free

Porpora

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

Q&A with local trans activists and Colby students! Porpora is a road trip across Italy and through the life of Porpora Marcasciano, a leading figure of the Italian trans movement. While traversing the Italian peninsula from the north to the south, Porpora and her traveling companion, Vittorio, retrace the key moments and places of her […]

Free

Book Discussion: The Devil’s Highway

Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, ME

NEW DATE! (moved from April 26 to April 25) In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the “Devil's Highway.” Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. Proclaimed a modern classic, The […]

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