Join us for this special presentation – geared especially for kids! –  from friend of the museum & retired soil scientist, Dave Turcotte. The subject matter may sound dry, but you won’t be, as one of the most popular parts of the program involves making mud with different soil types! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Founded in 2008, Philharmonia Boston Orchestra is composed of professional musicians from the Greater Boston area. Their vision is to serve and inspire the community by engaging in educational outreach programs, providing vibrant musical experiences, and introducing young talented musicians. Led by Jinwook Park, Colby Symphony Orchestra’s dynamic director, the PBO string players will present […]

Alan Robock, distinguished professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, will discuss the climatic and humanitarian impacts of a nuclear war. A nuclear war between any two nations with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas, would inject so much smoke from the resulting fires into […]

Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the feminist art movement radically transformed the art and culture of our times. This documentary film by Lynn Hershman Leeson is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Nancy Spero: Unbound, on view at the Colby College Museum of […]

Methtacular! is the brutally honest story of writer/performer Steven Strafford’s three years as a crystal meth addict in Chicago. Remarkably, the account of his exploits manages to be simultaneously hilarious and devastating. Don’t miss your opportunity to experience this heartfelt, fun, and searingly honest memoir directly from someone who’s been through the worst and came out […]

Uniting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) with families, PFLAG meets the third Tuesday of each month at 5:30 PM at the Pleasant Street Methodist Church in the Dunn Parlor on the 2nd floor. All those interested in promoting the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their […]

Join us at our new space at Hathaway Creative Center and draw or paint a real-life viking as our featured model is local celebrity, Iver Lofving! Lofving is an artist, environmental activist, and a fantastic art teacher at Skowhegan high school. Seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in the life drawing program hosted […]

AGING Well In Waterville! Invites you to join us!   We invite you to join us if you share our concerns about transportation, safety, accessibility and other issues in our whole community.  We have chosen to begin by focusing on the downtown of our service center hoping to expand as we grow.  We invite you […]

Andrew Stancioff is a geologist, natural resource planner, analyst, and manager with 35 years of experience in geology, hydrology, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, climatology, and oceanography. He has 40 years of experience in developing countries and 24 years in Africa. During the last ten years, Mr. Stancioff has worked to develop methods and models to monitor […]

Students who undertook summer internships will share their experiences. This is a great opportunity for sophomores and juniors to get ideas of places to consider applying for an Environmental Studies-funded internship. A casual lunch from 11:30-noon followed by quick-fire presentations beginning promptly at noon. Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program.

Finbarr O’Reilly is the co-author of Shooting Ghosts, a unique joint memoir with retired U.S. Marine Sgt. Thomas James Brennan. Their story about the unpredictability of war and its aftermath explores the things they’ve seen and done, the ways they have been affected, and how they have navigated the psychological aftershocks of war and wrestled […]

An International Conference of Scholars What:  A conference probing the legacy of the Prague Spring of 1968, fleshing out its lessons for important domestic and international issues today, and producing a volume of essays. When:  September 20-21, 2018 Where:  The Smith and Robins Rooms of the Roberts Building, Ostrove Auditorium and the Atrium of the Diamond […]

To benefit the Sharon Abrams' Teen Parent School Program On Thursday, September 20th, we will be 'Celebrating Resilience' at O'Brien's Event Center. This year's celebration recognizes the hard work and dedication of some past and present pregnant or parenting teens to complete their high school education and become successful parents.   Past and present teen parents […]

A former journalist and retired executive, presenter Chet Lunner has a unique, 360-degree perspective on fake news, the First Amendment, and an inside-the-Beltway view of our national government, having been a Maine newspaper editor, Congressional chief of staff, 9/11 press secretary, homeland security intelligence officer, and staffer to four Cabinet secretaries. He worked with, or […]

Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity, hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a special Museum Day ticket. Tickets will be available for the public to download beginning at midnight on August 15, 2018. Visit www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday for more details.

Early fall is a wonderful time to explore the trails. Join a guided walk along the historic, early 1900s Good Will-Hinckley Trails behind the L.C.Bates Museum to find signs of wildlife and even check a small insect pit trap for ground beetles and ants. Learn how some animals are getting ready for winter and find […]

After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art

Art House Theater Day celebrates the legacy of independent theaters as advocates for cinema arts. In an age where media has become more digital than tangible, more solitary than social, art house theaters remain the physical spaces where film lovers congregate and connect with intrepid, creative filmmaking. They are the beating heart for new and […]

Roberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy. His book, Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America (University of California Press), is based on an […]

Carly Glovinski has generated a group of works for a two-part exhibition that will be shown concurrently at the Colby Museum and the Waterville Public Library. In its presentation of painted, cast, and woven forms, the exhibition manifests what Glovinski calls a “viewshed,” a term she has adopted from terrain analysis to describe her associative […]

    September 25 11:30 am to 1:00 pm   Amici's Cucina 137 Main Street, Waterville   Co-host   Join Mid-Maine Chamber as Tobias Parkhurst, president of Oakes & Parkhurst Glass and co-founder of Cushnoc Brewing Co. takes center stage. Meet one of Maine's young entrepreneurs who started as a professional world traveling skateboarder. Tobias […]

This interactive training is for anyone and everyone. We need YOU! As participants of this series, together we will ... Gain an understanding of the health impacts of community conflicts Learn and practice Community of Solutions leadership tools to help bridge the divides in our circles Learn to use and apply these tools: Active listening, […]

Andrea Warren, research associate in the Environmental Studies Program at Colby, will discuss the role of implementation research in advancing global nutrition agendas. For the past decade, the goal of improving population-level nutritional status by way of targeting maternal and child nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life has received unprecedented attention in low- and middle-income […]

In late 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched his nonviolent Poor People’s Campaign to bring awareness about poverty and economic injustice in America and to initiate substantial change. In recent years activists across America have revived his campaign, which seeks to address the interrelated crises of “systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, […]

Journalist and former civil rights lawyer Alia Malek will provide a personal narrative of the Syrian conflict and a reading from her book The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria. Born in Baltimore to Syrian immigrant parents, Malek worked in the legal field in the U.S., Lebanon, and the West Bank. In April 2011, […]