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Crafternoons
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MELooking for a way to brighten up your child's day? Bring them on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4PM every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft. We do something different every week! Today: Pasta Shell Snails This Month: 8/7: Clay Cacti 8/14: Paper Plate Whales 8/21: […]
Art in the Park
Castonguay Square Common Street, WatervilleNature Journals Enjoy the refreshing sounds and views of nature. With a nature journal, you’ll be able to record all the beauty and peace that you encounter. Draw pictures of animals and write something that you find interesting! Art in the Park, a program of Common Street Arts is designed to foster creativity […]
Teen Anime Night
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, METeen Movie Night is Teen Anime Night for the summer! Through the end of August, come to the Teen Room at the Waterville Public Library every Thursday and enjoy a different anime! Thursday, August 30th @ 4-6pm: Attack on Titan: Junior High (Episodes 1-4) These events are free, and open to attendees ages 11-18. Light […]
Family Frog Day
L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, MEMake the most of these waning days of summer with a family trip to the museum pond. A short walk out the museum’s back door, our pond is teeming with life, from frogs and tadpoles to crawfish and insects! Educators will be on hand to help with identification. Wear boots you don’t mind getting muddy—nets will be […]
Adult Band Camp Concert
Bowl in the Pines, Snow Pond Center for the Arts Geranium Lane (off Route 23), Sidney, MEParticipants in the New England Music Camp's weeklong adult music camp perform. The performers are New Horizons Band members, New England Music Camp alumni, and/or community band members. We range in age from 20-something to nonagenarians. We are novice to advanced musicians looking for a place to spend a week making music and trying new […]
Taj Mahl Trio
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesTaj Mahl Trio "What inspires me most about my career is that I've been able to make a living playing the music that I always loved and wanted to play since the early '50s," Taj Mahal says. "And the fact that I still am involved in enjoying an exciting career at this point in time […]
Crafternoons
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MELooking for a way to brighten up your child's day? Bring them on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4PM every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft. We do something different every week! Coming up: 9/25: Clay & Pinecone Animals Children under 7 must be accompanied by a […]
Colby’s 201st Convocation
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEConvocation is a 200-year-old tradition and time for the community to celebrate the opening of the academic year. This ceremony illuminates the common bond that all Colby members share; a commitment to an engaged intellectual life and a journey of discovery and growth. Featured speakers are President David A. Greene and Professor Nikki Singh, Crawford […]
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
Universalist Unitarian Church 69 Silver Street, Waterville, MEFilmmaker James Redford (Robert Redford’s son) embarks on a colorful personal journey into the dawn of the clean energy era as it creates jobs, turns profits, and makes communities stronger and healthier across the US. Unlikely entrepreneurs in communities from Georgetown, TX to Buffalo, NY reveal pioneering clean energy solutions while Jamie's discovery of how […]
The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute
Bowl in the Pines, Snow Pond Center for the Arts Geranium Lane (off Route 23), Sidney, MEIf you want to experience the best Beatles tribute ever, you won’t want to miss The Fab Four-The Ultimate Tribute. The Emmy Award Winning Fab Four is elevated far above every other Beatles Tribute due to their precise attention to detail. With uncanny, note-for-note live renditions of Beatles' classics such as "Can't Buy Me Love," […]
Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons Ribbon Cutting
Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, MEA ceremony marking the official opening of the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons and welcoming the 200 Colby students, staff, and faculty now occupying the residence hall. Meet on the Concourse side of the building. A reception will follow in the Chace Community Forum with light refreshments and opportunities to tour the building.
Cirque du Geek 2018
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MEIncluding events based around,anime, manga, movies, art, cosplay, and more, Cirque du Geek is a celebration of everything that excites us about being a geek! It is a FREE, 3-day convention that takes place at the Waterville Public Library and in participating Waterville businesses every September. Click for more info:
Free E-waste Recycling Day
Notre Dame Church 116 Silver St, Waterville, MERecycle your unused electronics - FREE! A donation will be accepted to benefit Parish Charities FMI: 956-1457 or bwood@ccmaine.org
Satur-Play
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MEStarting Sept 8, 2018, come to the library every Saturday from 1-2 in the afternoon to play games, make things, tell stories, and meet new people. Click for more info
Why the Long Face?
L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, METry out the fun charades game “Why the Long Face?” This delightful game of faces actually features some of the taxidermy animals of the L.C. Bates Museum! Come imitate weasels, run like rabbits and explore the fabulous and funny faces of the L. C. Bates. Afterwards, we will draw some of our favorite animal faces! […]
Baked Bean Supper
Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, MECome enjoy baked beans, hot dogs, casseroles, salads, rolls, pies, and beverages.
Ponyo
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEScreened in conjunction with Cirque du Geek 2018: Lost at Sea! One of Studio Ghibli’s greatest recent anime features, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After a chance encounter, Ponyo yearns to become a human so […]
1968: “Sensitive Humanity” and Black Radicalism
Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, MEExhibition opens Tuesday, Sept 11, 2018. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 resistance movements, this exhibition will present photography of the Black Panther movement taken by Ruth Marion-Baruch and Pirkle Jones. This exhibition is co-curated by Chandra Bhimull, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Colby College.
Colby Choral Kickoff
Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhis year, Colby-Kennebec Choral Society features a musical theatre concert of Leonard Bernstein, a Stephen Sondheim revue, annual Carols and Lights performances, two concerts with the Colby Symphony Orchestra, and an appearance at the Waterville Opera House! We welcome special guests from around the country, including a concert by New England-based chamber ensemble, Renaissance Men, […]
Syrian People: A Battle for Life
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhe photographs of the 2018 Oak Human Rights Fellow, Syrian photojournalist Bassam Khabieh, will be featured in the Diamond Atrium with a reception beginning at 6:30 p.m. A public talk at 7 p.m. will follow. Khabieh has powerfully documented war crimes and other ongoing human rights violations in the Syrian conflict. His stunning photographs, “one […]
Darkness Visible
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEExhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. In the last years of the eighteenth century, the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828) conceived a series of prints guided solely, he professed, by his imagination. Los Caprichos, or the Caprices, is the whimsical title Goya gave to his project, yet the series’ images are far from lighthearted. For […]
Nancy Spero: Unbound
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEExhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. For more than five decades, Nancy Spero (1926–2009) pioneered a feminist art practice that fiercely defied the social expectations imposed on women. Using a lexicon of appropriated imagery, Spero envisioned, as she observed in 1987, “all manner of processions, conflicts, interruptions and disruptions.” Her hybrid artworks made in protest […]
Your Small Business Toolkit
Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, MEYour Small Business Toolkit- FREE Resources to Help You Grow Your Business From business plan assistance to introduction to lending resources to floor layout of your manufacturing line, let the panel of Maine Small Business Development Center, Small Business Administration & Coastal Enterprises, Inc. help start, scale and grow your business. Moderated by Central Maine […]