Join us for our May Community Draw, a unique opportunity to practice your craft with live models. Bring your medium of choice — charcoal, pastels, paint, clay, etc. — and hone your skills in this supportive environment. Cost: $10. (This event is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.) REGISTER

Join the Mid-Maine Chamber for an engaging business breakfast presentation with Trampoline Advertising Managing Partner Paula Slayton and Creative Director Derek Slayton. They will cover audience communications, brand consistency, measuring and tracking marketing performance through Google Analytics, and how to use that information to benefit your marketing. Please come prepared with your questions and take […]

Join HINGE Collaborative + Colby College Museum of Art for an Artist Workshop with Daniel Minter, where we will explore telling the stories of personally meaningful everyday objects through art. Minter will discuss his unique visual language and approach to printmaking and guide workshop participants in creating their own relief prints. 6:00 – 7:00: Meet […]

Join us for a ribbon cutting FRIDAY, MAY 12 - 3:00 p.m. to celebrate the opening of ReMaine Humble Farms to be held at the 746 Augusta Road, Winslow (across from the cemetery)

What do humans, bears, whales, and bats have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out! We will talk about what makes a mammal a mammal, and the adaptations we can observe in a mammal’s fur, teeth, and feet to find out who they are, and what they’re good at! Skulls and pelts will be […]

Six-time Grammy Award-winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays […]

Join us for a day of enchantment at the Children's Discovery Museum's Fairies & Gnomes Festival on May 13th at Viles Arboretum. This free event, with a suggested $5 donation, offers child-friendly activities like building gnome houses, fantasy face painting, guided walks through the woods, arts and crafts, music, and hot dogs. Bring your little […]

Be sure to save the date so you can hear the delightful music of Simons and Goodwin, as they return for their seventeenth appearance at the Union Coffeehouse.  Bob Simons and Renee Goodwin always provide our audiences with a first-class concert. Their voices blend seamlessly to create delightful harmonies while Bob’s accomplished guitar accompaniment completes […]

Fleeing Persecution, Seeking Safety, and Finding Only Sporadic Support: LGBT People and Global Migration and Transgender Rights Program The Global Forum is excited to have Kyle Knight  to speak  during the luncheon hour and to the students at Messalonskee High School. Kyle is a senior researcher on health and LGBT rights at Human Rights Watch. Previously, he was […]

Learn how museums create exhibitions and what steps they take to promote, advertise, and engage their potential visitors. Participants will take a special tour at the Colby Museum (before it opens to the public!) with some of the staff who helped create the exhibition. Learn how museums use social media as a tool for outreach, […]

Waterville Creates 93 Main St. Waterville ME. A great place to network and market your business. After hours is hosted, or co -hosted by chamber members in our region and is one of many benefits we offer to Chamber members. Hors d'oeuvres, beer wine and other beverages are available, or you could win the 50/50 […]

Looking for a new job? Enjoy networking to grow your circle? Clear your calendar and plan to join us for the best networking opportunity in Mid-Maine. Thursday, May 18 - Noon to 6 p.m. at the Thomas College Harold Alfond Athletic Center West River Rd., Waterville Enjoy the warm weather and join us for: ~ […]

May Speaker Series: Elements of Dynamic Selling - May 18 | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Bricks Coworking Space, Hathaway Creative Center, Waterville - With Richard Ruhlin, Matter Surfaces Chief Growth & Product Officer & Chris MacKenzie, STARC Systems Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships - Join Rich and Chris as they discuss their careers in professional […]

Our annual work weekend is just around the corner, and we are looking for a few more hands to help get work done! Work weekend is happening Friday, May 19 – Sunday, May 21, at Friends Camp in South China, ME. Tasks for the weekend will include: raking painting clearing pathways of sticks & branches […]

Come learn about some of the techniques used by NASA scientists to explore and understand our universe, through a series of fun and informative hands-on activities, including: Stomp Rockets • Mars Rover Game • Discovering Distant Planets • Moon Craters • and more! Plus, discover the construction and principles behind a working refractor telescope with […]

Come watch the members of the Class of 2023 graduate! Journalist Amy Walter will give the commencement address. She and four others will receive honorary degrees. Commencement is open to the public with general admission seating. Standing room will also be available on Miller Lawn. In the case of extreme weather, the ceremony will be […]

Please Support Winslow Congregational Church by Dining at Mainely Brews on Tuesday, May 23!   Now you can support Winslow Congregational Church … in a fun, incredibly easy way! Simply dine at Mainely Brews in Waterville on Tuesday May 23 and 10 percent of your food and beverage bill goes toward Winslow Congregational Church’s fundraiser! […]

36 years ago, the four original members of Blues Traveler—John Popper, Chandler Kinchla, Brendan Hill, and the late Bobby Sheehan—gathered in their drummer’s parent’s basement in Princeton, NJ to jam. From these high school sessions emerged a band that would go on to release a total of 14 studio albums, four of which have gone […]

Artist and author-illustrator Lucky Platt creates children’s picture books, life-sized bear paintings, crankies, mixed-media animations, relief prints, paper sculptures, and more in her lakeside studio in Burnham, Maine. Platt’s debut picture book, Imagine a Wolf was a 2022 Maine Literary Awards Finalist, a 2022 Ezra Jack Keats Award Finalist in New Writers, a 2021 New […]

Join us for a ribbon cutting THURSDAY, MAY 25 - 10 a.m. to celebrate a name change for Surette Real Estate to be held at 113 Silver Street, Waterville