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REM Craft Fair

Champions Fitness Club 30 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Shop with some of Maine’s finest artisans!  Pick out that one-of-a-kind gift you’ve been searching for. 10:00 am to 3:00 pm both Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27-28, 2018 More details, including link to list of crafters, at: rem1.org/craft-fair/

The Met: La Fanciulla del West

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

This performance is a live HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC. Running Time: 3 hours, 22 minutes (2 intermissions) Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw she loves. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov also […]

Know Your Bones

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

You can learn so much about an animal by examining how it is put together — come look at a variety of skulls and bones, and learn about how certain traits can help an animal thrive and survive. Admission: Adults: $3 Under 18: $1

Pumpkin Portraits

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Tired of the same old design year after year for your pumpkin? Come spice things up with Common Street Arts at our pumpkin carving and painting event! We’ll be using printing tools to transform the bland orange surface into a unique pumpkin portrait. This event is in conjunction with our exhibition Face to Face: Portraits by […]

$20

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.

Vegas Baby!

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Alfond Youth Center: Charity Ball! Location: Ray Haskell Lincoln Ford Showroom in Oakland. Click for more info.

Colby Symphony Orchestra: 19th Century Masterworks

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

In its first concert of the season, the orchestra, directed by Jinwook Park will perform three 19th century masterworks: Weber’s beloved overture to the opera Der Freischutz;  Chopin’s elegant First Piano Concerto, featuring Colby College’s own Lily Funahashi; and Tchaikovsky’s glorious Fifth Symphony.

Free

Waterville Fire Department Open House

Waterville Fire Department 7 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Celebrate with the Waterville Fire Department! Tour the fire house and apparatus, visit with the fantastic firefighters, learn about the equipment and tools, enter a raffle, enjoy some yummy food, and buy a cool T-shirt! Bring the kids along for fun activities and the chance to win a ride to school on a fire truck! […]

Free

Set in the Living Room Talkback and Feedback

Strider Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Come enjoy snacks, give your feedback, and pose questions to the cast and creative team of Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play. This informal meeting will be moderated by Matthew Cumbie of the Dance Exchange. Cumbie will lead us through Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process.

Perspectives on Women in Science

Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

One of the most distinctive developments in American science and engineering during the last 50 years isn’t any specific discovery or invention. Instead, this revolution involves something even more fundamental: re-envisioning ideas about who can and should become an engineer or scientist. This talk by Amy Sue Bix, Iowa State University, explores that transformation, reviewing the […]

Free

Health Impacts of Community Conflict: Leadership Training #3

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

Event to be held at the following time, date, and location: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM (EDT) Colby Chace Forum 150 Main Street Waterville, ME 04901 View Map Attend Event Share this event: Health Impacts of Community Conflict: Leadership Training #3   Positive Outcomes Through Shared Measures   Please JOIN […]

Free

Chat with Colby Environmental Science Majors

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

Come and have a cup of coffee and chat informally with Colby Environmental Science majors about their work on Waterville streams. We are examining many different aspects of local streams including topics of microplastics, garbage, pharmaceuticals, biodiversity, and how streams respond to storms. We would love to have a chance to hear your thoughts about […]

Free

The Dance Exchange

Strider Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Over their forty-two year history, Dance Exchange has remained committed to breaking boundaries between stage and audience, theater and community, movement and language, tradition and the unexplored. They are known for innovative performance projects and creative practices that engage communities and partners across wide ranging disciplines, and for catalyzing collaborations across generations and communities that ignite inquiry and […]

Free

Washington Watch: Threats to Maine’s Environment

Dana Dining Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Hear from Emmie Theberge, Colby Class of  ’08, federal director at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, about current threats coming from the Trump administration and Congress that could hurt Maine’s clean air, water, wildlife, and climate — and what you can do to help protect Maine’s environment. Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program.

Halloween (1978): Fortieth Anniversary Restoration

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

40th Anniversary Screening featuring a RESTORED and REMASTERED digital print! A young boy kills his sister on Halloween of 1963 and is sent to a mental hospital. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his home town in order to wreak havoc. Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, John Carpenter’s Halloween set the standard for […]

$6.50 – $9.50

Dawnland

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

Mishy Lesser, Learning Director of the Upstander Project, will join us to introduce the film and lead a Q&A afterwards. “My foster mother told me … she would save me from being Penobscot.” For most of the 20th century, government agents systematically forced Native American children from their homes and placed them with white families. […]

$6.50 – $9.50

Readings for an Exhibition: Carly Glovinski and Jenna Crowder in Conversation

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

Artist and writer Jenna Crowder will speak with Carly Glovinski about the list of books, essays, and poems that Crowder developed in resonance with Glovinski’s exhibition Currents 8. Introduced by Beth Finch, curator of the exhibition.

Free

Fall Craft Fair

Bishop Auditorium, Prescott Building, Good Will – Hinckley 16 Prescott Drive (off Route 201), Hinckley, ME

Homemade items upstairs in the Bishop Auditorium and direct sales vendors downstairs in the cafeteria along with food items to purchase. Crafters with homemade items to include: Pottery, Jewelry, Christmas Ornaments, Natural Horse Treats, Natural Sugar Scrubs, Primitives, Jams & Jellies, Mittens, Towels, Greeting Cards, Paintings, Baby Blankets, Quilts, Table Runners, Fleece Blankets, and more…. […]

Free

Quarry Road Fall Festival

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

Family-friendly activities will include trail walks, pumpkin bowling, apple slinging, bean bag toss, face painting, and more. Common Street Arts and the Children’s Discovery Museum will offer a pop-up museum and pumpkin art. Cider making and fall refreshments will be provided at no charge and 92 Moose will be on-hand with a live radio broadcast […]

Free
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Art + Storytelling: People and Portraits 1

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

After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art.

Free

Old Time Toys

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

Take a trip through history and explore some of the popular games kids played a hundred years ago! Roll a hoop, play a proper Victorian game called Graces, try a ring toss, write on a slate board and more, as well as making a craft to take home. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3

Homemade Chicken Pie Supper

Fairfield United Methodist Church 37 Skowhegan Rd., Fairfield, ME

Homemade chicken pie, served with mashed potatoes, gravy, squash, Harvard beets, rolls and dessert. Take-outs available. Adults & Teens $9, Children (under 12) $5.

$5 – $9

A Night Out

Club Calumet 334 West River Rd, Augusta, ME

Are you ready for A NIGHT OUT?  Kennebec Behavioral Health cordially invites you to join us for our 3rd annual “A Night Out” Comedy Show/Fundraiser on Saturday, November 3rd at the Calumet Club in Augusta. “A Night Out” is a fun evening of laughter and comedy for a great cause.  This year, we will be […]

USA, with the Colby Wind Ensemble

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

We’ll celebrate the 100th birthday of iconic American composer Leonard Bernstein with “Slava!: A Political Overture,” written in celebration of Mstislav Rostropovich’s appointment as artistic director of the Kennedy Center. This concert of American music also includes Loren Fields as the featured soloist on Gary Kuo’s “Wingspan,” “Zion” by Dan Welcher, “Hambone” by Libby Larsen, […]

Free

5K Run/Biathalon

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME
$10 – $15
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