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.

The Met: Akhnaten

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

THIS IS A LIVE BROADCAST FROM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE IN NEW YORK CITY. Written by: Philip Glass Approximate Running Time: 3 hours, 30 minutes (2 intermissions) Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo headlines American composer Philip Glass’s transcendent contemporary creation, with Karen Kamensek conducting. Phelim McDermott’s stunning production employs a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers […]

Native American Baskets

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

Join us for a fun and educational tour of the museum’s basket collection, including fine examples of Penobscot and Passamaquoddy craftsmanship. Learn more about some of the natural materials and ingenious techniques involved. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3

Paint Your Own Pottery

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Join us for an afternoon at Common Street Arts exploring the art of glazing ceramics! Instructor Yvonne Brown will lead the group through the glazing process, giving participants tips and ideas to decorate a cool and unique ceramic mug. Participants may also purchase additional mugs, bowls or vases to glaze during the class. We will […]

Harvest Buffet

First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

A Harvest Buffet will be held on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 5 to 6p.m. at the Waterville First Congregational Church UCC. The menu will feature homemade baked beans, casseroles, salads, bread, beverages and apple crisp or gingerbread for dessert. Adults will be charged $9 Children 4- 12 will be charged  $4 Children under 4 are […]

Chili and Chowder Cookoff

Snow Pond Center for the Arts 8 Goldenrod Lane, Sidney, ME

POSTPONED FROM NOVEMBER 2, DUE TO WEATHER!

$20

Colby Symphony Orchestra: Discovery

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

Colby’s own Eric Thomas takes center stage as both composer and clarinet soloist in his Threnody for Ann Arceneaux for solo clarinet and viola, featuring Boston University viola faculty member Hye Min Choi. Thomas and Choi will have further opportunity to shine in Max Bruch’s Concerto for Viola and Clarinet. The concert will conclude with […]

Free
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Auditions for Miss Holmes

Sunday, November 24 at 12:00 p.m. Monday, November 25 at 6:00 p.m. Written by Christopher M. Walsh Directed by Debra Susi Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Setting: London, circa 1881 Seeking: 4 Females / 5 Males Miss Holmes – The story’s Protagonist (25-40) Dr. Dorothy Watson – The Protagonist sidekick and […]

The Met: Madama Butterfly

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

This broadcast was rescheduled from November 9. Anthony Minghella’s vividly cinematic staging returns to cinemas, featuring soprano Hui He in the devastating title role in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera’s most beautiful and heartbreaking scores, with a cast that also includes tenor Piero Pretti as Pinkerton, baritone Paulo Szot […]

$17 – $23

Living with the Damage: Landscapes of Exhaustion in 21st-Century African-American Poetry

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

This talk by Samia Rahimtoola of Bowdoin College reads Dawn Lundy Martin’s Discipline (2011) and Ed Roberson’s City Eclogue (2006) in order to uncover the social and environmental forms of relation that appear under conditions of racialized gentrification. Both books refuse easy narratives of individual overcoming, bodily cure, and environmental repair, instead proposing a catalogue […]

Free

Parade of Lights

Castonguay Square Common Street, Waterville

Downtown Waterville’s annual holiday parade held the evening after Thanksgiving has drawn thousands of families to Main Street for many years and serves as a fun and festive kickoff to the holiday season. What better time of the year to get together and show our community spirit and support for one another! The Children’s Discovery […]

Free

A Celtic Family Christmas

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

Fiddle virtuosos Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are hitting the road again to bring back their popular concert series, A Celtic Family Christmas. One of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia’s most important exports and a superstar in the Celtic music world (though she’s far too humble to admit it), fiddler and step-dancer Natalie MacMaster has built […]

$42 – $53

Saturday Art Adventures: Art + Cart

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

Drop by the Art + Cart for activities kids and their caregivers can use in the galleries, as well as materials to touch, books to read, sketching materials, and resources to take home. Recommended for ages 3+ and their caregivers. For questions, please contact Abby Newkirk.

Free

Small Business Saturday

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Shop local all while having some fun. A group of small businesses in the Central Maine area have come together to offer you some great discounts on Small Business Saturday. In addition, you can play a scavenger hunt bingo card for your chance to win a $100 Chamber of Commerce gift certificate! The bingo cards […]

Matt Tavares Introducing Dasher

Children's Book Cellar 52 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Dasher: How A Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever is a brand new book from Matt Tavares, destined to become a Christmas classic. Matt will read the story, draw for the group, and sign books. Copies of Dasher will be available for purchase. FOR MORE INFORMATION

Free

Explore Mammals: Carnivores, herbivores, and Omnivores

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

Look at mammals and their skulls and teeth to learn how they are adapted to eat different foods. Look at their hoofs and feet to learn about how they are adapted to help mammals. Make a mammal craft to take home and a track game. Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3
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Carols in the Round

The Mount View Chamber Singers is a group of 20 high school students from Mount View High School in Thorndike, Maine, USA. They have traveled around the world sharing their gift of music. Each year between Thanksgiving and Christmas for the past 28 years, they have travelled around Central and Eastern Maine and New Brunswick […]

Free

Comedian Paula Poundstone

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

Paula Poundstone is a humorist, author and comedian known for her clever, observational humor and spontaneous wit. When she isn’t collecting hotel soaps while on tour or panel-ing on NPR’s #1 show, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Paula hosts the popular Maximum Fun podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. Nobody is a comedy field guide to […]

$32 – $38

Benefit Jazz Concert

Grand Central Café 10 Railroad Square, Waterville, ME

WATERVILLE, ME – NOVEMBER 14, 2019 – The “Great Jazz for a Great Cause” benefit concert/Open House will be held on Sunday, December 1, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Grand Central Café, 10 Railroad Square, Waterville, to raise funds for Waterville resident Jen Hickey, who is experiencing financial hardship due to treatment for breast […]

Black Holes and Galaxy Exhaustion

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Dale Kocevski, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, focuses his research on the study of distant galaxies that host actively accreting supermassive black holes, otherwise known as active galactic nuclei (AGN). There is mounting evidence that the evolution of galaxies is closely linked to the growth of their central black holes, but how this connection […]

Free
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Figure Drawing

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Figure drawing at Common Street Arts is back! Beginning on Tuesday, December 3, seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in this figure drawing program hosted by CSA. This program provides a unique opportunity for emerging and established artists to hone their drawing skills in a supportive environment. Participants bring their media of choice: […]

$10

Pottery Sale

Page Commons, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The Colby Pottery will have tables of student pots very reasonably priced, and all of the proceeds will go to the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. There will also be a sale of fine pottery made by students and staff. In case of questions, email Campus Life.

Handbuilding with Clay

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

"Handbuilding" is a process that manipulates clay by hand using only simple tools as opposed to the pottery wheel. In this three-week workshop, students will fire and glaze the coil mug works they create. No experience is necessary. Class starts December 4. The cost is $95. Registration is required. FOR MORE INFORMATION

$95

Modern Times

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

“One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences” —Roger Ebert And why shouldn’t they? Though rooted in the Industrial rather than the Digital Age, Chaplin’s satire of the anti-human wages of mechanization is equally relevant today—to say nothing of just plain […]

Warren Miller’s Timeless

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

The only constant is change, but winter stoke is eternal. After seven decades of celebrating skiing and snowboarding, Warren Miller Entertainment can confirm that nothing compares to the anticipation of another season. Come kickoff the season with WME’s 2019 film, Warren Miller’s 70th film, Timeless, presented by Volkswagen, and travel with new and veteran athletes […]

$16 – $17

Doing Business in a Digital World

Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

Business Breakfast Series Doing Business in a Digital World Andrew Silsby, president and CEO of Kennebec Savings Bank, will discuss the importance of building and maintaining customer service in a digital world.

$18 – $25
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