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Call For Proposals

Waterville Creates invites proposals from individuals, groups, and/or organizations for community-centered arts programming to be held at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in Downtown Waterville between June 1, 2023 and May 30, 2024. Proposals may be submitted by individual artists, artist collaboratives, and/or arts organizations. This call is open to local, regional, and national applicants; however, priority will be given to Maine-based artists. The deadline for submission is April 14, 2023.

With this call, we are seeking proposals for diverse and dynamic programs that will invite people of all ages and backgrounds into the Paul J. Schupf Art Center by providing accessible, meaningful, and joyful arts experiences while also responding to issues and themes that are relevant and important to our community.

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Film

Summer Of Soul

Maine Film Center

93 Main St, Waterville

Wednesday, February 22 at 7pm

Free

Join us for a free screening of Summer of Soul, a documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity. The film will be preceded by a presentation from a student musician. This documentary is part of the "Campus + Community" film series, inspired by the exhibition Ashley Bryan / Paula Wilson: Take the World into Your Arms, now on view at the Colby College Museum of Art’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center.

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Mississippi Masala

Maine Film Center

93 Main St, Waterville

Thursday, February 23 at 7pm

$12 adults, $10 students + seniors

This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Part of the "Love Makers + Rule Breakers" series. Mira Nair's 1991 Mississippi Masala is a downright sexy film with some serious social commentary. Mina (played by newcomer Sarita Choudhury), the daughter of Indian immigrants who own a motel in rural Mississippi, and Demetrius (Denzel Washington), a Black American carpet cleaner, develop a star-crossed relationship against the conventions of their respective cultures and families.

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Performing Arts

Missoula Children's Theatre: Hansel + Gretel

Waterville Opera House

Saturday, February 25 at 12pm

$8–$10

This event is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Missoula Children's Theatre and our local theatre campers proudly present an original musical adaptation of the Brothers Grimm age-old tale of a journey, a secret and a grand adventure. There’s music and laughter and thrills and chills. So join the fun as Hansel and Gretel’s dream is mysteriously blended with real life, and the lessons of one apply to the other. You’ll learn the secret of the Wildwood - but, shhh - don’t tell!

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Upcoming

Youth Art Month

Ticonic Gallery

93 Main St, Waterville

Hours: Wed–Mon, 11am–7pm

Greene Block + Studios

18 Main St, Waterville

Hours: Tue–Fri, 11am–7pm + Sat, 12–5pm

March 3–31

Free

Ticonic Gallery is delighted to partner with Greene Block + Studios to celebrate Youth Art Month with a spectacular, multi-site exhibition of artwork by local students in grades K-12. Featuring works in a variety of media, including painting, digital art, pottery, photography, and more, Youth Art Month is an opportunity for students to showcase their work in a gallery setting and share their achievements with their families and their community. This year’s theme is Your Art, Your Story.

Pictured: Uliana Fournier, Landscape, acrylic on canvas, 2022, Winslow High School, Grade 10.

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March First Friday

Multiple Locations

Downtown Waterville

Friday, March 3 from 4–7pm

Free

First Fridays celebrate the vibrant creativity in Waterville through a wide array of arts experiences. On the first Friday of every month, visit Main Street in downtown Waterville to meet artists, see performances, listen to live music, eat delicious food, shop at local businesses, enjoy the arts, and come together as a community.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once

Maine Film Center

93 Main St, Waterville

Friday, March 3 at 6:45pm

$12 adults, $10 students + seniors

This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Just in time for tax season, join us for a special screening of Everything Everywhere All at Once, followed by a short lecture and Q&A session, in which Assistant Professor Se Young (Seth) Kim of the Cinema Studies Department at Colby College, will examine the film's explosive popularity. By focusing on the resurgence of star Michelle Yeoh and looking at her career more broadly, we will see how Everything Everywhere All at Once fits into the history of martial arts cinema in the US and how the film taps into the genre's historical engagement with questions of gender, race, and nation.

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National Theatre Live: The Crucible

Maine Film Center

93 Main St, Waterville

Saturday, March 4 at 12pm

$16 adults, $14.50 students + seniors

This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lyndsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (The Lehman Trilogy). This is a filmed recording of a London stage production and will be screened at the Maine Film Center.

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