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Waterville Creates Arts Spotlight from January 2 - 8, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
January 2, 2023
From: Waterville Opera HouseF E A T U R E D
JANUARY FIRST FRIDAY
Multiple Locations
Downtown Waterville
Friday, January 6
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
FREE
First Fridays celebrate the vibrant creativity of Waterville by inviting people downtown to engage in arts experiences. On the first Friday of every month, visit Main Street in downtown Waterville to meet artists, participate in various workshops, listen to live music, eat delicious local food, and come together as a community.
A R T S
JANUARY COMMUNITY DRAW
Ticonic Studio
93 Main St, Waterville
Wednesday, January 4
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$10
This event is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.
Community Draw is back! Join us for our January session, a unique opportunity to practice your craft with live models. Bring your medium of choice - charcoal, pastels, paint, clay, etc. - and hone your skills in this supportive environment. This month's program, the first one in our new space, features Waterville native Chase Wheeler, a lifelong athlete and fitness enthusiast.
COMMON THREADS
Ticonic Gallery
93 Main St, Waterville
Running through Sunday, February 12
FREE
What does it mean to be part of a community? How can we forge meaningful connections with each other and the place we call home? Using a beautiful, screen-printed tent as a gathering place, artists Elizabeth Jabar and Colleen Kinsella brought artists and community members of all ages together to explore these questions through a series of collaborative workshops and conversations during the summer of 2022. Featuring an array of prints, written works, and portraits, this exhibition represents the individual and collective stories gathered throughout the process and provides a glimpse of the shared hopes, dreams, and ideas for Waterville.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission and realized in partnership with the Colby College Museum of Art and its Lunder Institute for American Art.
F I L M
AMARCORD
Maine Film Center
93 Main St, Waterville
Saturday, January 7 + Sunday, January 8
10:00 a.m.
FREE
Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is set in his coastal hometown of Rimini during Mussolini’s fascist rule of Italy in the 1930s and is full of vignettes drawn from adolescent memories and remembered fantasy. It is playful, ribald, and wild, yet never loses sight of the shadowy malevolence posed by the fascism lurking in Italian society. Part of "Cinema Explorations," a wintertime community-curated film series, sponsored by the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities.
L I T E R A R Y
BOOK BITES!
A FACEBOOK READ-ALOUD
Waterville Public Library's Facebook Page
Thursday, January 5
7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
FREE
Discover your child’s next favorite read! Each week on Thursdays from 7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Mrs. Liz will read an excerpt from a book off one of the New Books shelves.
C O M M U N I T Y
QUARRY ROAD OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
Quarry Road Trails Yurt
300 Quarry Road, Waterville
Tuesday, January 3
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
FREE
Come for a walk in the woods this winter with the Children’s Discovery Museum! They meet at the Quarry Road yurt every Tuesday for an outdoor adventure. Weekly meetups last about an hour and include a walk through the trails and a simple nature-based activity. Open to all ages.
U P C O M I N G
TEEN CLAY CLUB
Ticonic Studio
93 Main St, Waterville
Tuesday, January 10
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
$30
This event is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.
Join us for our first after school clay club for teens aged 13-16! In this bi-monthly exploration of clay, students will learn wheel throwing, hand building, glazing, surface design, and more. Healthy snacks will be provided.
ALL THAT BREATHES
Maine Film Center
93 Main St, Waterville
Wednesday, January 11
7:00 p.m.
$12 adults, $10 students + seniors
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.
In the first image of the incredibly great documentary All That Breathes, the camera slowly takes us into the rain-soaked, dirty, unpaved streets of Delhi, India, where, by the end of the shot, we’ve gone from disgust to delight—the ugly streets are actually teeming with animal life! We are now ready to join brothers Nadeem and Saud, who have made it their mission in life to care for the streets and skies' black kites, majestic birds of prey essential to Delhi’s ecosystem, who have been dropping from those skies at alarming rates. What they do is a human-made miracle—and so is this film, which makes us truly see nature, human beings and the world differently.
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (IN 3D)
Maine Film Center
93 Main St, Waterville
Saturday, January 14
6:30 p.m.
FREE for Waterville Creates members!
$12 adults, $10 students + seniors
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay. The stunning underwater sequences, directed by James C. Havens, make the Creature's costume really come alive.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Maine Film Center
93 Main St, Waterville
Saturday, January 14
12:00 p.m.
$16 adults, $14.50 students + seniors
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.
The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riviera has been visited by artists, celebrities, and royalty, but when the owner’s daughter weds a dashing young soldier, not all guests are in the mood for love. A string of scandalous deceptions soon surrounds not only the young couple but also the adamantly single Beatrice and Benedick. Following the award-winning success of National Theatre Live’s Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra, director Simon Godwin returns with this irresistible comedy, broadcast live from the National Theatre stage.
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