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Tim Sample

Waterville Opera House
1 Common Street, Waterville
October 25
7:30pm
From $20
Eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.
FREE to WC members.
All proceeds will go to the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Tim Sample is a Maine native whose unique New England style of humor has gained him a national following. When introducing Tim on ABC’s Good Morning America Charles Gibson referred to him as, “The man who wrote the book-literally, on Maine humor!” Legendary newsman Charles Kuralt has called Sample “Maine’s Humorist Laureate.”

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Arts

Slice

Paul J. Schupf Art Center
93 Main St, Waterville
October 25, and November 8, 15
3–5pm
Free

Our free Slice program is designed for students aged 13–18 to explore careers in the creative arts. This autumn, we'll offer 5 sessions on film, visual art, theatre, and event planning careers. Each session is packed with programming, inspiration, and pizza!

October 25 – Painting Tabletop Roleplaying Miniatures
November 8 –  Event Production and Design: Behind the Scenes at Gordon Center
November 15 – Tell a Story with Film

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Youth Arts Access Fund: We Need Your Help!

Established in March of 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.

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Film

NYAD

Maine Film Center
93 Main Street, Waterville
Opening October 20
From $12
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts  Access Fund.

Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her: the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often referred to as the “Mount Everest” of swims. Determined to become the first person to finish the swim without a shark cage, Diana goes on a thrilling, four-year journey with her best friend and coach Bonnie Stoll (Jodie Foster) and a dedicated sailing team.

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Young Frankenstein

Maine Film Center
93 Main Street, Waterville
October 29
12pm
From $12
Eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

Mel Brooks' comedy is as scary as ever. Gene Wilder stars as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced Fronk-en-steen), a young neurosurgeon and the grandson of the infamous scientist. He's traveling to Transylvania to inspect his newly-inherited estate, when he discovers his grandfather's experiments. Thought to be Mel Brooks' "most disciplined and visually inventive film" (Roger Ebert), Young Frankenstein is hilarious and touching, spooky and weird, but above all, ALIVE!

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Community

Crafternoons For October 2023

Waterville Public Library
73 Elm Street, Waterville
October 24, 31
2:30–4pm
FREE

Crafternoons are fun weekly crafts for young children and their families! Come to the Children’s Room between 2:30 and 4pm to make the craft with help from library staff!

October 24: Coffee Filter Bat
October 31: Paper Plate Sugar Skull

Take pictures of the results and share them in the comments of our Facebook, or on Instagram, we’d love to see what you create!

For more information call 207-872-5433, email [email protected], or go to www.watervillelibrary.org.

Break, Burn, Build 2023

Colby College
Studio 3, Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Waterville
October 27 at 7:30pm
October 28 at 2pm
Free

Led by Annie Kloppenberg and Matthew Cumbie.

Break, Burn, Build is a landmark in the development of movers, makers, and performers. It’s a platform for emerging dancemakers to incubate new performance work. It’s a creative laboratory to explore and expand on ideas driven by inquiry. And it’s a celebration of rigorous work, made manifest through the collaborations between performers and designers on and off stage. The creative processes underpinning these works encourage students to begin their academic years – and careers – by focusing on BREAKing away from familiar patterns, sparking new ideas and letting them BURN; and then BUILDing new work.

There will be a reception following the Friday performance.

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Click Here to view the Waterville Creates Arts Spotlight - October 23, 2023 – October 29, 2023