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Reading Comics and Graphic Literature in a Time of Environmental Crisis

Fairchild Dining Room, Dana Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

What role can comics and other forms of literary-visual art play in our conversations about the environment? This talk by Thomas Doran, assistant professor, Rhode Island School of Design, explores how comics-art functions as a unique medium for telling stories about how humans and other animals relate to their environments, focusing especially on the form’s […]

Free

Teen Anime & Art Club: Beast King GoLion

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Discover a different anime every month and practice your drawing skills with friends at the Waterville Public Library's Teen Anime & Art Club! These events are free, and open to attendees ages 11-18. Cos-play is welcome, but not required. This month's anime is Beast King GoLion: "Thousands of years ago, GoLion was an arrogant robot […]

Free

Writer’s Workshop

Oakland Public Library 18 Church St., Oakland, Maine

Will Bonsall, author, and well known gardening expert and seed curator will speak about developing writing skills aimed for people who want to write journals, diaries, reflective writing, letters to editors/ friends and articles for publishing.

Free

Poetry Workshop: When Money Talks, Nobody Walks

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Poetry workshop with Kate Marvin, visiting professor in creative writing at Colby College. Advanced registration required. Click for details.

Free

Teen Movie Night: Wreck-It-Ralph

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join us in the Bartlett Room for Teens at 4:00 p.m. every Thursday for a screening of a popular movie! The movie changes every week. This week, we’ll be showing Wreck-It-Ralph (PG). This event is free and is open to attendees ages 11-18. Light refreshments will be provided. Location: Bartlett Room for Teens. More Information […]

Free

Mid-Maine Chamber 55th Annual Awards Ceremony

Carter Hall, Kennebec Valley Community College 92 Western Avenue, Fairfield, ME

  Look at this Rising Star! One of Waterville's young professionals is being recognized for his leadership and hard work. Celebrate with Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce as it distinguishes those people and businesses who deserve it the most.   Email Kelly Smith to register   April 26 5:00 PM Kennebec Valley Community College Carter Hall […]

$55

Artist Talk with Cassie Jones and Will Sears

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

Cassie Jones and Will Sears discuss the process and inspiration for their new work on view in Side by Side at Common Street Arts. This conversation will help you explore the creative minds and the processes of Jones and Sears. Learn more about how each artist employs distinct methods to investigate color and form through […]

Free

Activism at Colby: Panel with Alumni

Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Join the Oak Student Committee in dialogue with alumni as they share their experiences with activism on Colby’s campus and beyond. Alumni in attendance will include Muheb Esmat ’16, Tionna Haynes ’15, Eric Mehnert ’82, and Charles Terrell ’70.

Free

Israel and the New American Jewish Novel

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Since its founding in 1948, Israel has played an important role in the Jewish-American imagination. But the Jewish state has come to mean very different things to different segments of the American-Jewish community. Perhaps not surprisingly, many 20th-century Jewish-American writers steered clear of the topic, focusing instead on the Holocaust or on Jewish life in […]

Free

Danika and the Jeb

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

Following the Artist Talk with Cassie Jones and Will Sears at Common Street Arts on Thursday night, there will be a wonderful free music performance by the passionate and talented Danika Holmes! Danika + the Jeb are known for being a dynamic, uplifting, and fun band that creates powerful music through soulful writing and elegant […]

Free

Quicksand: A Dance Concert

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

Live performance is ephemeral. Sometimes we slip into it and sometimes it drips through our grasp; we experience its impact more palpably than we can recreate individual moments. This evening of new work highlights that ephemeral process of meaning-making as performers, audience members, and student choreographers together negotiate performances of passing realities. The performance features […]

Free

Girls ROCK! Central Maine Conference

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

Girls Rock! Conferences are planned BY girls FOR girls. The high school girls on the Girls Advisory Board choose topics for the conference that are relevant to them AND YOU! They are the speakers and the workshop facilitators. In fact, they design the workshops! It’s a fun filled day of learning, sharing, growing and some […]

$20 – $25

Noontime Art Talk: What a Game!

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

Join Bill Lagerstrom, museum docent and former professional sports photographer, and Robert P. Hernandez, freelance illustrator and high school baseball coach, in discussing the current exhibition Game Time: The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss, which will remain on view through June 24, 2018.

Free

PechaKucha vol 27

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

PK WTVL volume 27 will take place on Friday, April 27, 2018, at the Waterville Opera House! The evening will begin with a reception at 6:00pm at Common Street Arts, 93 Main Street, Waterville. Presentations will begin at 7:20p in the Waterville Opera House. The V27 emcee will be Garvan Donegan of the Central Maine […]

Free

Haydn’s Creation Mass

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

In the final concerts of the season, the Colby Symphony Orchestra, Colby Chorale, and Colby Kennebec Choral Society present Haydn’s Mass No. 13 in B-flat Major, Schöpfungsmesse, or “Creation Mass.” Not to be confused with Haydn’s most famous oratorio, The Creation, this exuberant mass setting is a masterpiece in its own right. Also on the […]

Free

Rummage Sale

Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME

Clothing, books, home decor, houseware items, and more! April 28, 2018, 8am - 2pm in the fellowship hall at the Pleasant Street United Methodist Church, 61 Pleasant St., Waterville. 

Free

Make Your Own Personal Trading Card

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

Participants will visit the exhibition Game Time, then create their own personal trading card. Family workshops are free and open to all ages. No RSVP is required. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Free

Metropolitan Opera: Cendrillon

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

Music by Jules Massenet “Glorious,” raved the New York Times when Joyce DiDonato sang the title role of Cendrillon (“Cinderella”) at the Royal Opera in 2011. “Her performance was thoroughly enchanting.” Now, for the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with DiDonato starring in the title role. […]

$15 – $20

Save the Frogs!

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

Sunday, April 29, is Save the Frogs Day! The whole month of April has been dedicated as National Frog Month, so what better way to end the month than talking about what we can do to help save our amphibian friends? We would love it if you could join us to learn about some frog […]

$1 – $3

Paper Pop-Ups

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

Learn unique and fun methods of 3-D paper construction with visiting artist, Tamar Ettigen! Create one-of-a-kind pop-up cards and discover how to craft paper into incredible structures. Participants will create works inspired by artists Cassie Jones and Will Sears, whose work will be on display in the exhibition, Side by Side. Ages 8 and up. […]

Free

Explore a Vernal Pool!

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

Have you ever heard of a vernal pool? They provide an amazing temporary habitat for animals like frogs and salamanders! And we have one right here on campus! We would love to show you and teach you all about the animals that live there and why vernal pools are so important. But you must remember, […]

American Ride

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

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Concert starts at 8:00 p.m. Appetizers & cash bar available. Grab your friends and get your tickets... You won't want to miss this show! American Ride plays cover music from artists like Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown,Brantley Gilbert, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, The Doobie Brothers, The […]

$18

One in Five 5K

Alfond Athletic Center, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

In Maine, 1 in 5 people will experience sexual violence in their lifetime. This shocking statistic has outraged many of us in our community. We have decided to take a stand against sexual violence by running or walking at this event in support of those survivors in our own home towns. The seventh annual One […]

$10 – $30

May Pole Dance and Sheep Shearing Day

Winterberry Farm 538 Augusta Road, Belgrade, ME

Come to our annual sheep shearing day! We will also raise the May pole, fiddle some tunes, and dance in the spring weather. We will have wool spinners and there spinning wheels demonstrating and plenty of hands on fun. Try your hand at our weaving loom, set up for you to weave in some natural […]

Annual Lebanese Supper

St. Joseph Maronite Catholic Church 3 Appleton St, Waterville, ME
$6 – $10
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