Join Viles Arboretum and The Children’s Discovery Museum for a day full of music, family activities, and best of all, BBQ! Spread out across Viles Arboretum’s outdoor property, enjoy a BBQ lunch and take a stroll through Viles’ beautiful trail system. Lunch includes ribs, cornbread, coleslaw and beans. The Children’s Discovery Museum will be hosting […]

Suki Flanagan, principal harpist for the Mid Coast Symphony, will play a concert outdoors in the garden at St. Marks. Please bring your own chair. Donation requested.

Enjoy a fabulous lunch and share an entertaining and informative presentation by outdoor enthusiast Zachary Fowler. Zach will share the survival skills he utilized to maintain an 87-day existence in the deep woods of Patagonia, alone, with only a dozen tools and supplies at his disposal.  He will share tips and anectdotes, detailing his month’s-long […]

How it works: This fall we introduce a new virtual film series hosted by the Maine Film Center. Filmmakers, film experts, policymakers, and journalists from around the country and the world will join us on Zoom to discuss a film. Register for the Zoom webinar (free!) Watch the film anytime (most films are available for streaming on a major […]

What kind of art can you make out from materials meant for the landfill or recycling center? Find out with this week's kit! Based on the installation now on view at Common Street Arts, Unearth by artist Ian Trask, the kit will contain materials for a mobile and recycled materials to use. Makers are encouraged […]

WATERVILLE, Maine— Friends of Green Street Park is hosting a ribbon-cutting on Friday. The Ribbon-cutting will showcase the newly built children’s theater stage as well as the kick-off of their capital campaign to complete a series of fitness stations around the park. We ask that guests adhere to social distancing guidelines, including wearing a mask […]

We are delighted to announce that Naomi Klein will be the Fall 2020 keynote speaker for the humanities theme Boundaries and Margins, and will also serve as the 2020 Mellon Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Humanities. Naomi Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, and an […]

Let’s gather together, socially distanced of course, to celebrate the regions movers and shakers achievements in one elegant evening. Click for more info.

Thorn Dickinson, CEO and president of NECEC Transmission, LLC and vice president of business development at Avangrid will deliver a presentation on the corridor project and its importance to our area. This informative presentation will be the focus at Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce’s October Business Breakfast. This month’s breakfast will be held on Thursday, October […]

Featuring Eric Thomas, saxes; Jon Hallstrom, guitar; Duane Edwards, bass; R.J. Miller, drums; and with special guest Julia Warnock, Class of '19. the Colby Jazz Collective presents a virtual concert on Facebook of four much-loved tunes from the standard jazz repertoire, including "My Baby Just Cares for Me," "Night and Day," "Shall We Dance," and […]

Restrictions on sizes for large gatherings into the Fall have resulted in the cancellation of Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce’s 28th Annual Taste of Waterville scheduled to be held on Sunday, October 11 at the Head of Falls, downtown Waterville. This year’s event had been moved due to construction on Main Street and the anticipation of […]

Come join KV Connect, Waterville’s young professionals’ group, for an exciting evening of networking, socialization, and social distancing while helping to support a great cause! Benefitting Mid-Maine Regional Adult Community Education.

In Artful Meditation, a new Let Art Inspire wellness series, Jing Ye, a meditation teacher and a counselor at Colby College, will guide participants through a 30-minute meditation session inspired by a work in the Museum’s collection, fostering greater mind-body connection. In this session, we’ll ground our thoughts with the help of Martin Puryear’s Up […]

Jason De León is a professor of anthropology and Chicana/o studies at the University of California, Los Angeles with his lab located in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. He is also executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a long-term anthropological study of clandestine migration between Latin America and the United States that uses […]

Create a Stained Glass Tissue Paper Suncatcher, perfect for hanging in a window. Inspired by two beautiful stained glass lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany that are in the Colby College Museum of Art’s collection, this kit contains an assortment of brightly-colored tissue paper and other materials needed to create this window decoration. Kits will be […]

All net proceeds will benefit our Campus Living Program, which gives our youth the option to live on campus in a safe home environment while gaining personal and academic skills.  Click here to learn more about the program. Ways you can participate in this year's virtual Gala: Click here to register yourself as a bidder to […]

IN MY SKIN and WOMEN IN WINDOWS  October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. After watching these two films (one short film and one feature length), join the discussion with filmmakers Anna-Sophia Richards and Astrid Schäfer (director, producer, IN MY SKIN), and Patrisha McLean (founder/president of Finding Our Voices; producer, "Women in Windows"). October 18 at 2:00pm […]

Artful Healing provides an opportunity to practice a series of hands-on activities inspired by artworks in the galleries. Bodhi Simpson, LCPC, ATR, is an art therapist with a private practice in Waterville, Maine, called Conscious Art Therapy. She is also a teaching artist, an adjunct college instructor, and a workshop and retreat facilitator who incorporates […]

Phil Bofia is an independent candidate for Waterville mayor. He has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Maine and works as an IT Business Analyst for CGI in Waterville. His experience includes chairing the Waterville Solar Committee; and being a member of the KSW (credit union) board; Kennebec Regional Diversity Initiative; Mid-Maine […]