4/11/2022 COVID Update: The State of Maine no longer requires masking or proof of vaccination to attend any public events, but individual venues are free to do so. For the latest information, visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or the State of Maine’s COVID site.
Fighting Hate Speech, Defending Free Speech
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhe Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs will be hosting an in-person conversation tomorrow with civil liberties leader and free speech expert Nadine Strossen. Kimberly Flowers, the Goldfarb Center's Executive Director, will moderate […]
Old Time Toys
L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, MECome try old time toys like hoops, graces, and tops.
Fall Festival
Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, MEVisit this Fall Festival for apple slinging, trail walks, a nature scavenger hunt, pumpkin and leaf art, pumpkin bowling, a bean bag toss, a ski swap, and lots of raffles […]
Art and Nature Walk
North Street Community Trail 126 North Street, Waterville, MEWe will walk and create a mini art journal using collage methods as seen in the book, Daniel Finds a Poem. Led by Serena Sanborn of Waterville Creates. Free for all […]
Turkey Pie to go
Fairfield United Methodist Church 37 Skowhegan Rd., Fairfield, MECome pick up a Turkey Pie meal to go - with all the fixings, including dessert, all for just $10!
Take Out Public Supper
Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, MEOn Sat., Nov 6, 2021, Pleasant Street United Methodist Church will have a Take Out Public Supper 4pm - 5:30pm. The meal is comprised of homemade baked beans, hotdogs, coleslaw, […]
Waterville Rotary Online Auction
Online Event METhe 58th annual Waterville Rotary Auction with hundreds of gifts, services and unique items will once again be held online. If you would like more information about the online auction […]
2021 Oak Human Rights Fellow: Olga Sadovskaya (Rescheduled)
Online Event ME(Rescheduled from Oct 7, 2021) The Oak Fellow for Incarceration and Human Rights is Russian human rights lawyer Olga Sadovskaya, a human rights lawyer working as the vice-chair of the Committee […]
Paul J. Schupf Art Center Topping-Off Ceremony
Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesJoin Waterville Creates and Colby College for a beam signing and topping-off ceremony to commemorate the emergence of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. The work on […]
Community Figure Drawing
Ticonic Gallery Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEFigure drawing at Ticonic Studio is back! Seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in this costumed figure drawing program. This class offers a unique opportunity for emerging and […]
Un Prophète
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEUn Prophète, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2009, is the story of Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old, illiterate Franco-Algerian inmate who’s been sentenced to six years […]
SLICE: Creating Graphic Novels
Online Event MEDesigned for teens aged 13-18, SLICE features free online classes for exploring careers in the creative arts. Join children’s book illustrator and graphic novelist Russ Cox as he demonstrates the […]
Leadership Luncheon: Briana Warner of Atlantic Sea Farms
Amici's Cucina 137 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesEnjoy a fabulous lunch and meet Briana Warner, President/CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms in Saco. She will share her challenges in growing this successful business, along with her vision for future […]
Central Maine Growth Council Annual Meeting
Online Event MEIn 2021, the mid-Maine region welcomed new businesses, deployed new programs and COVID-19 related assistance, watched construction projects progress, cheered on entrepreneurs and engaged in conversation about their communities’ futures. […]
Godzilla
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEGodzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling […]
Maine Voices Live Waterville with Richard Russo
Online Event MERichard Russo is the author of eight novels, most recently Chances Are…, Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was […]
The Voltage Effect
Online Event MEIn his new book The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale (to be released February 1, 2022), behavioral economist and University of Chicago professor […]
Free Speech Protections on Campus
Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJoin us for a thoughtful talk with one of the nation’s top First Amendment litigators on free speech issues ranging from protest rights, Black student activism on campuses, andthe recent […]
Clue
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesClue November 12, 13, 19, 20 at 7:30pm November 14, 21 at 2:00pm Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn Written by Sandy Rustin Produced through special arrangement with Playscripts […]
Explore Earth and Space
L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, MEExplore earth and space with NISE Activity Kits and games. Learn about the James Webb telescope and send up a stomp rocket.
Sgraffito
Ticonic Gallery Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MESgraffito is an ancient form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a layer of contrasting color. In this hands-on and playful class, ceramic artist Tim Christensen […]
All Light, Everywhere
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, METhe Maine Film Center will conclude its fall series Cinema in Conversation: Films of Freedom, Captivity, and Human Rights with a special screening of the documentary All Light, Everywhere, followed […]
Does Free Speech Give Us Better Science?
Online Event MEProf. Aaron Hanlon Prof. Christel Kesler Prof. Dasan Thamattor Conventional wisdom holds that science flourishes in a free, open society with robust free speech norms. But as misinformation spreads during […]
Arts and Social Justice
Online Event MEJoin us on Tuesday, November 16, for a 1-hour (virtual) conversation with artists who will share how they use their artistic brilliance to raise awareness, challenge norms, and cause a […]