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June 3, 2024 Contact: Chris Melville, [email protected] Celebrate Pride Month with Waterville Creates and Maine Film Center WATERVILLE, Maine—Join Waterville Creates and other businesses in downtown Waterville for First Friday in celebration of Pride month on June 7. First Fridays celebrate the vibrant creativity in Waterville through a wide array of arts experiences. On the…

May 28, 2024 Contact: Chris Melville, [email protected] 27th Maine International Film Festival to Honor Directors Mary Harron and Jos Stelling WATERVILLE, Maine—The Maine Film Center is pleased to announce filmmaker Mary Harron as the recipient of the 2024 Midlife Achievement Award and Jos Stelling as the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award-winner at the 27th annual Maine…

May 14, 2024 Contact: Chris Melville, [email protected] Ticonic Gallery Opens New Interactive Exhibition, At Play: Works by Tom Jessen WATERVILLE, Maine—Waterville Creates and Ticonic Gallery + Studios are pleased to present the new exhibition At Play: Works by Tom Jessen, in conjunction with the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities’ annual theme of PLAY.…

April 16, 2024 Contact: Chris Melville, [email protected] Get Ready to Fall Head Over Heels at the Waterville Opera House WATERVILLE, Maine—The 2024 theatrical season at the Waterville Opera House (WOH) continues April 26–May 5 with the outrageous musical comedy Head Over Heels. This genre-bending romp defies theatrical convention to flip just about everything—expectations, the gender…

April 11, 2024 Contact: Chris Melville, [email protected] Maine International Film Festival: Passes and Packages Now On Sale WATERVILLE, Maine—The Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) returns to Waterville, Maine, for its 27th edition July 12–21, 2024. Festival passes and packages are now available for preorder online at MIFF.org. MIFF showcases the best of American and international…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2024 Contact: Chris Melville, [email protected] How Art Is Building Community and Combatting Isolation in Central Maine: The Together Project at Waterville Creates At a time when the Surgeon General has declared loneliness an epidemic, an artist in Central Maine has teamed up with a community-based arts organization to leverage art’s…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2024 Contact: Chris Melville, [email protected] David Byrne Leads Two Sold-Out Programs at Waterville Creates Waterville, ME—Waterville Creates is pleased to welcome musician and artist David Byrne for two sold-out programs on Saturday, March 30, at the Waterville Opera House and Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. At 7:30pm…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                 February 23, 2024 Contact: Jackie Ferlito, [email protected] Youth Art Month Multi-Site Exhibition returns to Waterville Creates and Greene Block + Studios WATERVILLE, Maine—Ticonic Gallery, a division of Waterville Creates, is delighted to partner with Greene Block + Studios to celebrate Youth Art Month (YAM) with a spectacular, multi-site exhibition of artwork by local students in…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                 January 8, 2024 Contact: Jackie Ferlito, [email protected] Waterville Creates Welcomes Five New Fulltime Employees WATERVILLE, ME—Waterville Creates is pleased to announce the arrival of five new fulltime staff members. Since moving into the Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street in Waterville in December 2022, Waterville Creates has consolidated the…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                            November 20, 2023 Contact: Jackie Ferlito, [email protected]  Maine Film Center Director to Participate in Mashariki African Film Festival in Kigali, Rwanda  Waterville, Maine – Mike Perreault, executive director of the Maine Film Center (MFC), will serve as a juror for film competitions at the Mashariki African Film Festival from November 5 to…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                            November 16, 2023 Contact: Jackie Ferlito, [email protected]   Mark Tipton and Les Sorciers Perdus to perform a live, newly-composed score to accompany “The Trail of ‘98”  WATERVILLE, Maine – The Maine Film Center and the Colby College Museum of Art are thrilled to announce a one-night only event featuring a screening of the…

October 23, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jackie Ferlito, [email protected] Waterville Opera House Announces 2024 Season WATERVILLE, Maine —The Waterville Opera House (WOH) is delighted to announce its 2024 theatrical season. Two amazing musicals and two entertaining plays will reignite the stage of the historic 121-year-old theatre in downtown Waterville. “I’m excited to bring this…