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CroptoberFest

Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME

For people to Scrapbook, Stamp, and/or Craft! Friday, Oct 21 from 6 pm - 10 pm Saturday, Oct 22 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Registration Fee varies depending on […]

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Young Frankenstein

Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks Book by Thomas Meehan and Mel Brooks From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel […]

$21

Business Workshop for Artists

During this all-day business workshop for artists hosted at The Center in downtown Waterville, artists will have the opportunity to network and learn best-practices from their peers during a variety […]

$150

Bend It Like Beckham

Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The hit film Bend It Like Beckman, an inspiring comedy about a young Sikh girl in England who rebels against her orthodox parents to chase her dream as a soccer […]

Free

Music at Moody: Lyle Michaud, Pianist

Moody Chapel, Kennebec Valley Community College Stanley Road (off U.S. Route 201), Hinckley, ME, United States

Music at Moody welcomes Califonia-based pianist Lyle Michaud for an evening of solo piano classics, standards, and originals. Lyle Michaud is a pianist, composer/arranger, and teacher originally from Charlestown, NH. […]

Capturing War: Images of Conflict, Upheaval, and Revolution

Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

In conjunction with the Lovejoy Convocation program, three award-winning war photographers will display and discuss some of their most compelling work in the atrium of the Diamond Building. See the […]

Free

Lovejoy Award Presentation and Address

Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Alissa Rubin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, will receive Colby College's Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism and will deliver the 2016 Lovejoy Convocation […]

Free

Dissecting Violence: The Humanities Respond, Part II

Cellar Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

How do Colby professors use their disciplines to respond when violence convulses our world? When police shoot and are shot at, when bombs explode and refugees drown, what can the […]

Free

Bead with Us!

Common Street Arts invites you to “Bead with Us! – Jewelry Making Night Out” $40 per person ($20 paid upon registration, $20 paid to instructor for beading kit at start […]

$40

Threepenny Opera

Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Mack the Knife is back in town! A darkly comic new take on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s raucous musical broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre. London […]

$13

Reading Poetry: In the Beginning is the Relation

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published nine books of poems, most recently Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy, and The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which […]

Free

The Unfinished Business of the Darwinian Revolution

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Judy Stone, professor of biology and Dr. Charles C. and Pamela W. Leighton Research Fellow, discusses the Darwinian Revolution. Darwin’s theories on descent with modification and on evolution by natural […]

Free

Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Arthritis

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Join us for a free presentation with Donna Walsh, MSRDN, LD. We will learn about the foods that we can eat that may lessen and control the inflammation linked to […]

Free

Failure to Adjust: How Americans Fell Behind in the Global Economy

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

In an election year in which controversies over trade, immigration, and job loss have dominated the presidential election campaign, Edward Alden will discuss how and why the U.S. government failed […]

Free

Kringleville Auction

Hathaway Creative Center 10 Water Street, Waterville

It's that time of year again. We are preparing for the Parade of Lights and Kringleville. As you know, each year we host our annual Kringleville Auction to support these […]

$25

Body of Work

Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Regina José Galindo’s artistic practice situates her own body in public space as a way to address the ethical implications of social injustices related to racial and gender discrimination and the history of violence […]

Free

Religion, Culture, Identity: A Journey Through Film

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Gurinder Chadha, director of the hit film Bend It Like Beckham and more than a dozen other films, will deliver Colby’s annual Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture. Her lecture is titled “Religion, […]

Free

Poetry and Human Rights

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

A poetry reading celebrating the intersection between the personal and the political in English and Spanish. Guatemala’s Regina José Galindo and Colby’s own Adrian Blevins will read from recent work. Regina […]

Free

Father on a Mission for Transgender Equality

Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME

Wayne Maines, the father of Wyatt who became Nicole, will be speaking about the arduous journey and the struggles that his wife, Nicole's twin brother Jonas, and himself took in […]

Free

Prentice Lecture: Leonardo Drew

Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Artist Leonardo Drew will present the museum’s annual Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture with a discussion of his recent work and Untitled, Number 104, 2005, currently on view […]

Free

Welcome to the G–d— Ice Cube!

Pugh Center, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Blair Braverman (Colby Class of 2011), dogsledder, journalist, and essayist, has been an Iowa Arts Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. She was an environmental policy major and creative writing minor at […]

Free

Halloween Party for Teens

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join us for a spooky party in the teen room! Activities will include face painting, crafts, pumpkin painting, and more! This event is free, and intended for those under the […]

Free

Freaky 5K

Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Time to get freaky!! Join us for the 8th Annual Freaky 5k Run/Walk: Saturday, October 29! The Freaky 5k is a reminder that Halloween should be about imaginative and creative […]

$15 – $25

Making Faces

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Get a special view of masks from the museum’s collection and then make your own. A family-friendly event.

Free
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