Come play with the Mobile Museum and an inflatable dome at the Alfond Youth and Community Center to celebrate the Week of the Young Child! Sponsored by the Maine AEYC.
You’re invited to an English Afternoon Tea with the Children’s Discovery Museum! Join us for a celebration of spring with hot tea, finger sandwiches, and petit desserts from Holy Cannoli. Tickets can be purchased at www.childrensdiscoverymuseum.org/programs.
Arts in Bloom weekend Join us for a fun and creative celebration of spring! Kicking off with May’s First Friday festivities, this year’s Arts in Bloom is a multi-day affair featuring art making, live music, movies, story walks, giveaways and more. Presented in partnership with community partners, activities will be held in locations throughout Waterville.…
Put the “fun” in fundraising at Cards and Carbs with Recycled Shakespeare Company (RSC)! For $20 each, participants will get all the materials and instructions to make three beautiful springtime cards while enjoying goodies, tea, and coffee. RSC will perform a small sampler of their work. This event is open and accessible to all. No…
Food highlights a living paradox: it represents the key ingredient that binds us together, yet divides us when power dynamics and privilege are at play. By shedding light on these intricate realities, the Food for Thought Lecture Series seeks to problematize and critically assess the complex social, cultural, environmental, and political relationships that we have…
Join us at the Children’s Discovery Museum for a day of interstellar activities! Learn about constellations in a planetarium; eat astronaut snacks; build your own spaceship; launch rockets; and more! Located at the museum at 7 Eustis Parkway in Waterville. $10/person, no pre-registration required.
Create rainbow art squeegee art at Art in the Park! Using acrylic paint, we will create rainbows of color using squeegees, cardboard, and paper. This messy fun art is inspired by Pride celebrations around Maine and beyond. Book: Something Good by Marcy Campbell Please note the new location at Castonguay Square, the little park at…
This simple form of etching is fun for any age and all abilities. Artist and illustrator Lucky Platt will bring her creative take on making a scratchboard work of art. The book Imagine A Wolf by Lucky Platt will be read aloud by the Waterville Public Library; this book is a part of the Great…
Join us for a conversation between multidisciplinary artist Genevieve Gaignard, a spring 2023 resident fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art, and Jon Gray, multidisciplinary curator and co-founder of the culinary collective Ghetto Gastro. As longtime friends and colleagues, Gaignard and Gray each work through their respective practices on “Changing the Conversation,” seeking to shift social…
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch to give a talk at the Greene Block + Studios on The Many Paradoxes of Tom Phillips’s A Humument. For half a century, from 1966 to 2016, British artist Tom Phillips engaged with an obscure Victorian novel, A Human Document by W.H. Mallock. Phillips “treated” Mallock’s text (his term) by…
Artist Peter Bruun will talk about his recent body of work, Bibliography, a state-of-the-art online exhibition in which Bruun shares his journey in search for healing after his daughter’s death by overdose. In a series of drawings and video montages that incorporate texts by writers and are accompanied by music composed by friends in response…
Alivia Moore – from Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective (EWRC) Rematriation: A Framework for Liberation with Land in Wabanakiyik Part of the Food for Thought lecture series March 13, 7pm, Lovejoy Building, Room 215. Alivia Moore (she//they) is co-founder of Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective. They are a two-spirit member of the Penobscot Nation, parent, auntie, and mover…