Come join KV Connect, Waterville’s young professionals group, for an exciting evening of networking and socialization while helping to support a great cause! This month we’re at Waterville House of Pizza. Admission is a $5 suggested donation to benefit the Hospice Volunteers of Waterville area. Click for more info.

In his latest solo work, Guillermo Gómez-Peña draws from his 30-year-old living archive and combines new and classic performance material to present a unique perspective on the immediate future of the Americas. Combining spoken-word poetry, activist theory, radical storytelling, and language experimentation, Gómez-Peña offers critical and humorous commentary about the art world, academia, new technologies, the culture […]

Join us each month at a different area business for Business After Hours. These events are a great opportunity to mix and mingle with other business professionals and leaders in our communities. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine, and other beverages are available, as well as a 50/50 raffle and fabulous door prizes donated by area […]

Oscar nominee: Best Foreign Film. Kolia lives in a small town near the Barents Sea in North Russia. He has his own auto-repair shop. His shop stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son from a previous marriage. Vadim Shelevyat, the mayor of the town, wants […]

Megan Hart, MaineGeneral Medical Center, will present on how to enhance business processes, measure results, and how to make incremental steps to make your team a success. Hart is the Operations Manager of Patient and Guest Relations who works with many support services teams, at Maine General Health, to make business processes more efficient. Hart […]

The Girls Rock! Conference is an event planned BY girls FOR girls.  The high school girls on the Girls Advisory Board choose topics for the conference that are relevant to them AND YOU!  They are the speakers and the workshop facilitators. In fact, they design the workshops! It’s a  fun filled day of learning, sharing, […]

With Colby Music Associate, Mezzo-Soprano Joelle Morris, and Bridget Convey on piano. This program will explore the dream-like and unexpected aesthetics of surrealist music featuring French composers Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud as well as selections by Kurt Weill with texts by Jean Cocteau and Guillaume Apollinaire. Location: Paul J. Schupf Wing, […]

The popular funky-sculpture making class is back. Make unique sculptures using wire, nylon, and paint. Ages 7 - 12. Registration required. Cost: $14. Scholarships available. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

As writers we draw inspiration from the moments that have had a lasting impact on our lives. Those moments have often left us wounded, and those wounds have left a presence that we wish to address in our writing. Although, writing has its therapeutic effects, the goal of this craft workshop is to use the […]

Teen Tabletop RPG: Dungeons and Dragons Character Creation. Learn how to create a character on paper. Basics of D&D 5th edition. Geared towards ages 12 to 18.  

The Process of Patenting a Product: A Behind-the-Scenes Look With Zack Atherton + Brendan Paradis, Co-Owners of Lockout Labs, LLC of Sidney, ME The patent process is fraught with paperwork, regulation and compliance, and significant wait-time. How did two local entrepreneurs succeed through the process? Zack and Brendan will share their experience patenting the FT […]

Join us as Peter Violette talks to us about the Old Maine Central #470 Steam Locomotive that is currently being restored by New England Steam Corporation. Click for more info.

Mira Maria Ptacin is a Maine-based creative nonfiction and children’s book author (and New York Times bestselling ghostwriter). She’s the author of the award-winning memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press 2016) as well as the forthcoming book The In-Betweens (Liveright-W.W. Norton). Her work frequently appears in Lenny Letter, Guernica, Tin House, Vice, New York Magazine, Poets & Writers, Slice, […]

Conversación y comunidad es un evento social para reunir a gente de la comunidad Latinx y hispana del centro de Maine junto con estudiantes, profesores y empleados de Colby College. ¡Ven para conocer a gente nueva, y para aprender de la colección en el museo de arte! Conversación y comunidad is a social gathering to […]

Come meet the artists from the new exhibition, Nature's Song. There will be refreshments provided by Holy Cannoli! and live music by Adam Babcock. The exhibit runs from March 15 to May 11. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Citizen Science Day celebrates the important contributions that can be made to scientific knowledge by everyday nature lovers. Some Citizen Science projects are major undertakings, such as the ongoing efforts of the Maine Bird Atlas. Others are smaller in scale — it helps us at the museum to know what you’re seeing out on the […]

Children will celebrate the small joys of inventing and creating with family at Common Street Arts! In collaboration with the Family Enrichment Council, we offer a free interactive toy-making event with 3d printed elements from our studio. This program is designed to bring children (and their adults!) a little joy as we raise awareness of Child Abuse […]

In this class, instructor Oliver Solmitz will introduce the formal values of art: space, shape, line, color, texture, and pattern. Participants will use their own cell phones or digital cameras to see the world from a formal standpoint. Cost: $25. Registration required. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION,  

In a joint initiative of the Colby College Museum of Art and the Lunder Institute for American Art, Spelman College and Colby students will come together for a dance performance in the Zanele Muholi: Sonymama Namayama, Hail the Dark Lioness exhibition space. The Colby students are part of the course “Critical Race Feminisms and Tap Dance” taught by Sonja […]

We explore the roots of bebop first planted by Dizzy Gillespie in the Latin jazz featured in his later work. Gillespie’s compositions “Con Alma,” “Manteca,” and “Salt Peanuts” will be featured along with works by composers associated with Gillespie’s career such as Cab Calloway, Arturo Sandoval, Tito Puente, Chuck Mangione, Esperanza Spalding, and Paquito de […]

Begin your spring the fun way: with art at CSA! Create amazing spring art in this week-long exploration of art and creativity. Make a cool mini drawing robot, learn about ceramics, explore the 3D printing world, and even adventure outside (weather permitting). Ages 8-12. April 15 - 19 Half Days 9:00 - 12:00 p.m. $125 […]

In all its various forms and configurations, Juliet Karelsen’s work cross-references painting, stitching, tapestry, rug making, embroidery, abstract art, fantasy, landscape, textile, miniature worlds, and even science – from botany to mycology to planetary and solar – touching on the micro and macro scales. In the windows at 93 Main Street, Waterville from Apr 15 […]

Ever wondered how 3D printers work and what you can create with them? This three-week workshop will provide an overview of 3D printing from start to finish, including demonstrations, software, preparation, designing, and of course, printing. For ages 15 and up. Registration required. This workshop begins on Monday, April 15, and continues for the next […]

Please join the Goldfarb Center to hear José Miguel Vivanco, one of the nation’s experts on human rights in Latin America, give this year's Senator George J. Mitchell Distinguished International Lecture. Over the last 70 years, the international community has reached a key consensus on human rights issues, ranging from torture to freedom of expression, from women’s […]