FEATURED

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

Maine Film Center
93 Main St, Waterville
Now Showing
$12 adults, $10 students + seniors
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Activist artist Nan Goldin is a great countercultural photographer with her own history with addictive pharmaceuticals. But Goldin channels her rage into effective social action, focusing on the Sackler family, who used their blood money to support art museums. The museums often looked the other way at where their money came from, honoring the Sacklers by naming their galleries for them in exchange for their gifts. "ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED becomes a tale of the opioid epidemic (roughly 500,000 dead in the U.S. alone), which was and is a human-made tragedy.”—Variety

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ARTS

COMMON THREADS                   

Ticonic Gallery
93 Main St, Waterville
On view 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.

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FILM

LIVING         

Maine Film Center
93 Main St, Waterville
Opening January 27
$12 adults, $10 students + seniors
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

The great British actor Bill Nighy as Mr. Williams is a pinched, humorless bureaucrat, or so it seems. “…His life has been an homage to dutiful respectability. As his doctor gives him a terminal prognosis, he realizes that for all his proper behavior from birth to near retirement, he forgot to live, to give and receive joy, to risk and rise. Based on a simple yet elegant screenplay adapted by Kazuo Ishiguro (THE REMAINS OF THE DAY) from the 1952 Japanese masterpiece, Akira Kurosawa’s IKIRU, this wise and moving drama is an existential journey that celebrates learning how to live life, in all its fleeting beauty.”—AARP Movies for Grownups

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PERFORMING   ARTS

MET OPERA ENCORE:
FEDORA (GIORDANO)                 

Maine Film Center
93 Main St, Waterville
Saturday, January 28
12:55pm
$19 adults, $17 students + seniors
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists, sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Becza?a. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidante, and baritone Artur Ruci?ski is the diplomat De Siriex, with much-loved Met maestro Marco Armiliato conducting. This filmed recording will be screened at the Maine Film Center.

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COMMUNITY

TODDLER POWER HOUR      

Children's Discovery Museum
7 Eustis Parkway, Waterville
Monday, January 23
9–10am
$2 per toddler

Join the Children's Discovery Museum for Toddler Power Hour every Monday. Designed for children aged 1-4, this is a time of unstructured play for children to explore Mobile Museum sets, toy sets, sensory toys, and more. Please note there will be minimal museum staffing and the area will be set up in a way to invite children to explore and connect through play rather than through adult-led activities. Supervision is required.

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UPCOMING

80 FOR BRADY        

Maine Film Center
93 Main St, Waterville
Opening February 3
$12 adults, $10 students + seniors
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Four of the most celebrated actresses around—Oscar winner Jane Fonda, Oscar winner Sally Field, Oscar winner Rita Moreno, and Oscar nominee Lily Tomlin—star as four best friends with a crush on Tom Brady (actually, one prefers his fellow New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski) who decide on living life to the fullest when they take a wild, impromptu trip to the 2017 Super Bowl to see their hero play.

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FEBRUARY FIRST FRIDAY  

Multiple Locations
Downtown Waterville
Friday, February 3
4-7pm
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.

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SHEMEKIA COPELAND

Waterville Opera House
Saturday, February 4
8pm
$23–$33
This event is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Award-winning blues, soul and Americana singer Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. She is beloved worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty, and humor of her revelatory music, as well as for delivering each song she performs with unmatched passion. Copeland — winner of the 2021 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year — connects with her audience on an intensely personal level, taking them with her on what The Wall Street Journal calls “a consequential ride” of “bold and timely blues.”

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