JANUARY 8, 2024 – JANUARY 14, 2024
Due to a staff retreat, the Paul J. Schupf Art Center will be closed on Saturday, January 13.

FEATURED

COMMUNITY DRAW
Paul J. Schupf Art Center
93 Main Street, Waterville
Wednesday, January 10
6–8pm
$10
Eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund

Seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in this costumed figure drawing program. This class offers a unique opportunity for emerging and established artists to hone their drawing skills in a supportive environment. Participants bring their media of choice: charcoal, pastels, paint, clay, etc. Ticonic will provide the chairs, model, and camaraderie.

All levels of experience are welcome. Each class will begin with a quick drawing warm-up exercise, followed by timed, open-drawing sessions. There will be an optional 15-minute sharing of work after class.

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ARTS

YOUTH ARTS ACCESS FUND: WE NEED YOUR HELP!     
Established in March 2022, the Youth Arts Access Fund (YAAF) provides youth aged 18 and under with free access to Waterville Creates events and programs all of them!

For just $1,000/month or $5,000/6 months, your business can be recognized as a YAAF sponsor of the month and provide critical support for this beloved program.

January’s YAAF sponsor is Northern Light Inland Hospital. Northern Light Inland Hospital is where you come first! Our providers, staff and volunteers are passionate about providing you and your family with the highest quality medical care and service.

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FILM

A STORM FORETOLD
Maine Film Center
93 Main Street, Waterville
Now Showing
From $12
Eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund

"When you're planning a coup, it's not the best idea to have a camera crew around recording it. This film spells real trouble for Donald Trump."  Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal. Yet having the Danish camera crew of A Storm Foretold around–for years–is exactly what Roger Stone, Trump’s notorious strategist, did. And here it is. Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen began his project in 2018, before Stone was arrested and convicted for witness tampering and lying to Congress, pardoned by the president, and quietly reinstated in time to orchestrate his "Stop the Steal" masterplan that led to the attempted coup. The film crew is there for the entire rollercoaster ride, up until the immediate, acrimonious aftermath of January 6, and capture major players being astoundingly candid–or astoundingly reckless–on camera. “Jaw-dropping”–Jessica Klang, Variety.

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NUH-MI-BEE-UN
Maine Film Center
93 Main Street, Waterville
January 11 at 7pm
Free, ticket reservation encouraged

From 1904 to 1908, in what is now Namibia, the German colonial government systematically killed approximately 80,000 Herero and Nama people. More than a century later, Germany at last acknowledged this massacre as genocidal, but still refuses to apologize directly to descendants of survivors or provide reparations for harms done.

The screening will be followed by a discussion between Hambira and Miriam Gleckman-Krut, a Jewish sociologist who lost family in the Holocaust, about the interconnections between the Kaiser’s genocide in southern Africa and the Nazi Holocaust in Europe.

Sponsored by the Department of Jewish Studies with the support of the Berger Family Holocaust Fund.

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PERFORMING ARTS

WATERVILLE MOVES
Greene Block + Studios
18 Main Street, Waterville
January 13
Parent + Child: 9:30–10:15am
All Ages: 10:30–11:30am
Free

Waterville Moves is a bi-weekly series that invites you to move your body, share stories, and create connections through guided movements and dance making. Each class is 45 minutes to an hour long, and can be taken as a series or a single workshop. Classes are free and open to all: no experience with dance needed.
Classes are every other Saturday through May 2024.

9:30–10:15am Parent + Child with instructor Jenny Ngidi-Brown. This shorter 45 minute program is for parents with children younger than age five; designed specifically for parents to move with their child.

10:30–11:30am All Ages (ages 5-105!) with instructor Matthew Cumbie. This hour long intergenerational dance class is for people of all ages, backgrounds and experiences.

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