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.

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Haunting Hour

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

What Are You Afraid Of? Join Us for Colby Theater Company: HAUNTING HOUR! Friday, October 28, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October, 29, 7:30 p.m. Coming this Friday and Saturday, a theatrical event of chilling proportions arrives on campus: Haunting Hour, a craftily curated collection of short plays just in time to usher in Halloween 2022. An […]

Free

Kids’ Fun Day

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

The community is invited to Quarry Road Trails for Kids Fun Day.  This free community event features fun activities for kids, including trail walks, scavenger hunts, pumpkin art, prizes, and more! Waterville Creates staff will be there to lead an art project, weaving colorful yarn and natural objects on Y-shaped sticks. LEARN MORE

Free

Ribbon Cutting

Green Street Park Green Street, Waterville, ME

Join us for a ribbon cutting Saturday, October 29 at NOON for the new playground and the dedication of the new David Dutil, Jr. Skatepark. Green Street Park, Waterville

Free

Trunk or Treat & Open House

Alfond Youth & Community Center 126 North Street, Waterville, ME

The Alfond Youth & Community Center is hosting their second Trunk or Treat & Open House! Join us on Saturday, October 29th from 2 - 5pm for trick or treating, a guided building tour, raffles, and more!

Free

Amy Helm

Alumni Hall, Snow Pond Center for the Arts Goldenrod Lane (off Route 23), Sidney, ME

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm’s third album, What the Flood Leaves Behind, is her most autobiographical yet, both in content and creation. These 10 songs represent a gathering of ideas and experiences, friends and collaborators. Yet, the album also marks a landing — a pause for the traveling musician and mother of two young boys […]

$40 – $45

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

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

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) as the Creature and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) as Victor Frankenstein. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he […]

$13.75 – $16
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Ghostbusters

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

Sunday, October 30 + Monday, October 31, 7:00 p.m. “Who you gonna call?” There’s only one answer to that for all your ghost-riding needs! This is the original Ghostbusters. Bill Murray (especially), Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson lead the cast as the “Ghostbusters,” spirit-exterminators who fearlessly take on the other-worldly evil infiltrating Manhattan, whether […]

Serving History with Faux Food and Artists’ Games

Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Date: Tuesday, November 1 Time: 5:00 p.m. Organization: Colby College Department of Art Location: Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center, Colby College Join the Colby College Department of Art for The James M. Carpenter Lecture: Serving History with Faux Food and Artists’ Games: Works by Angela Lorenz, on Tuesday, November 1st at 5 p.m. […]

Free

Leadership Luncheon with Erin Ovalle of Maine Life Media

Amici's Cucina 137 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Join us for a delicious lunch and presentation with Founder, Executive Producer and Host of Maine Life Media, Erin Ovalle, as she shares her experiences and challenges along the way to her successful career both in front of and behind the camera. Erin's Maine Life Media includes nine shows in her production company portfolio. “I’ve spent a […]

$25 – $30

Ribbon Cutting

Waterville, ME

Join us for a ribbon cutting Thursday, November 3 at 4 p.m. The Neighborhood Child Care Center 20 Garland Rd., Winslow

Free

Hanzaburo Araki and Nicole Rabata

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

This program will feature traditional shakuhachi pieces performed by a shakuhachi grand master Hanzaburo Araki, and contemporary works for modern flute inspired by the rich tradition of the shakuhachi. The performance will highlight the deep and ancient traditions of the Japanese shakuhachi, a bamboo end-blown flute, and how these traditions have influenced contemporary compositions for the […]

Free

November First Friday

Greene Block + Studios 18 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Songs From Here is a new initiative intended to connect poets, composers, and performers in the beautiful state of Maine, to promote local talent and foster a greater sense of community across creative disciplines. Waterville is but one stop for an inaugural series of performances given by pianist Bridget Convey and classical vocalist Sarah Tuttle […]

Free

Giselle

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

The ballet Giselle, a story of love and betrayal, life and death, vengeance and forgiveness. Follow the story, as passionately told by the dancers of Portland Ballet, of the peasant girl, Giselle, as she falls in love with the nobleman, Albrecht, whose betrayal condemns her to the unearthly realm of the Wilis. This beloved romantic […]

Free
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November Saturdays at L.C.Bates

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

Animals in Winter (Nov. 5): What do animals do during winter? How have they prepared for winter? Come on a tour of Maine animals in winter! What are all the animals out there doing to survive? Not many of them are truly hibernators, so what ingenious methods do they have to help them thrive in […]

$1 – $3

Medea

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

Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance, kicking off the highly anticipated 2022–23 Live in HD season. Joining Radvanovsky in the Met-premiere production of Cherubini’s rarely performed masterpiece is tenor Matthew Polenzani […]

$16 – $19

Closing Reception for A Rock Made Out of Stone

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

Join us for the closing reception of Abbott Meader’s exhibition A Rock Made Out of Stone. Light refreshments will be served from 5:00 to 6:00, with a selection of Meader’s short films to be screened starting at 6:00.

Free

Colby Wind Ensemble: Movements

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

The Colby Wind Ensemble starts the year with an exciting program under the baton of their new director, Brendon Wilkins. This concert will feature a variety of works from the wind band repertoire, including Mark Camphouse’s A Movement for Rosa, a moving work written to honor the contributions of Rosa Parks to the civil rights movement.

Free

The Manchurian Candidate

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

Sixty years later and just in time for Election Day, The Manchurian Candidate, now recognized as a classic, looks just as terrifying — in fact more so! The recently deceased Angela Lansbury received an Oscar nomination as the extreme right-wing mother of a Korean War officer who returns from the war with a medal of honor […]

Late Wonders: Wesley McNair in Waterville, ME

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

  Join longtime Godine author Wesley McNair for a reading from Late Wonders: New and Selected Poems. There will be a reception before the reading and a Q&A after the reading. Copies of Wesley McNair’s books will be for sale throughout the event, and a display of his books will be available for checkout. Refreshments provided […]

Free

Idiocracy

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

One screening only! Politics got you down? Well, it could be a lot worse. On Election Day we're showing 2006's Idiocracy, "easily the most potent political film of the year" (Reihan Salam, Slate). Despite having never benefitted from a wide release or big studio marketing budget, Mike Judge's follow-up to Office Space has earned its place as one […]

Central Maine Growth Council Annual Meeting

Bricks Coworking & Innovation Space Hathaway Creative Center, 10 Water St. Ste. 110, Waterville, ME

CMGC Annual Meeting   YOU'RE INVITED TO CMGC'S ANNUAL MEETING Recognizing Mid-Maine's Resiliency & 2022 Accomplishments November 9, 2022 | 5:30 - 7:00 pm Bricks Coworking & Innovation Space, Hathaway Creative Center, Waterville Featuring: Developer of the Year Award Emerging Leader Award A look at what's to come in 2023 In 2022, the mid-Maine region […]

Free

Hybrid Working Arrangements: How to Manage Employees and Productivity

Best Western Plus 375 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Join the Mid-Maine Chamber for an engaging presentation with David Ciullo, CEO/Owner of Career Management Associates, and Peter Lowe, attorney at Brann & Isaacson, as they present the new reality of hybrid working in the organization. In Post Pandemic times employees may either be back in the office, working a hybrid schedule or working entirely […]

$20 – $27

Ribbon Cutting

Waterville, ME

Join us for a ribbon cutting to celebrate a change of ownership to Ashley Ferris Thursday, November 10 at 3 p.m. Waterville Florist and Formal Wear 287 Main Street, Waterville

Free

Lecture: Oscar Santillán

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Gather live in Ostrove Auditorium on the Colby College campus for a talk and Q&A with Oscar Santillán, who will present the 2022 Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture virtually. The artist will speak about his practice and introduce the research and work that he will be doing at Colby College during the 2022–23 […]

Free
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