GARDINER — Downtown Gardiner will be bustling with creativity as area artists join with small businesses to celebrate art and community during ArtWalk Gardiner from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 3, according to a press release. In its ninth year, ArtWalk Gardiner was formally launched in the fall of 2005 by the Artdogsª studios and a handful of area artists who exhibited their work to a well-attended, appreciative audience.

WATERVILLE — Colby College will host the Inaugural Points of View Film Festival April 25-28, screening films, free of charge, at the college and Railroad Square Cinema. The weekend-long festival highlights films from around the world that afford audiences unique glimpses into the lives and perspectives of a wide array of individuals.

“Incidental Consequences,” UMA Senior Exhibition, May 11-31, Danforth Gallery, University of Maine at Augusta, 46 University Drive. Opening reception will follow May 11 graduation ceremony. Accretion of nine individual artistic styles and personalities featuring: photographic works, a video installation, a graphic novel, ink drawings, mixed-media prints and plush sewn creatures. Artists include: Adrienne Beacham, of Augusta; Danielle DeWald Pease, of Hampden; Sabrina Langway, of Augusta; Jennifer Smith, of Augusta; Tim Hofmann, of Portland; Amanda Giampetro, of Winthrop; Lisa Tiger, of Waterville; Christina T. Epley, of Hallowell; and Miguel Hidalgo, of Waterville; 621-3274.

ROCKLAND — The Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., will host a special screening of “Girl Rising,” a film created as a global campaign to educate and empower girls. The film will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9.

UMF’s 3rd annual Drag Show, 9 p.m., South Dining Hall, UMF Olsen Student Center. Suggested donation is $2; [email protected] or 778-7346.