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New Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution

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

Although the events it describes occurred more than 200 years ago, the term “Haitian Revolution” has only come into widespread use in the past few decades. By putting the events […]

Free

Best and Most Beautiful Things

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

With subjects Michelle and Julie Smith and director Garrett Zevgetis introducing in person! Off a dirt road in rural Maine near Bangor, a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith lives […]

Saudi Modern: Contemporary Art from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Margaret Chase Smith Library 56 Norridgewock Avenue, Skowhegan, ME

(Please note the earlier starting time. Please arrive 15 minutes early if you are having lunch.) The images most Americans have of Saudi Arabia are frighteningly predictable – deserts, camels, […]

Leading Women’s Luncheon with Amber Lambke

Best Western Plus 375 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Amber Lambke is president of the Somerset Grist Mill, LLC and its Maine Grains label, carried by specialty food stores and used by fine restaurants and bakeries throughout the Northeast. […]

$20

Standing Rock Solidarity Vigil

Universalist Unitarian Church 69 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

Come join the Colby College environmental group and 350 Central Maine for a candlelight vigil opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota. […]

Free

Head of Falls

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join us for a book release party as Earl H. Smith reads from his new book Head of Falls, which has already received some glowing reviews! Earl Smith is a […]

Free

Living Well for Better Health

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

You are invited to the Living Well for Better Health Workshop to learn how to best manage your chronic conditions. A proven program developed by Stanford University and supported by […]

Peak Oil: A Love Story

Room 141, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Sustain Mid Maine Coalition’s Education & Community Outreach Team invites you to Peak Oil: A Love Story. This hour-long film was made by Nelson Cole (of Cambridge, ME) and features […]

Free

Humor and Hate: How Two Political Cartoonists Draw a Violent World

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

Oak Fellow Khalid Albaih and Bangor Daily News cartoonist George Danby have thought a lot about how to respond to violence, including the actual shooting of artists like themselves, or really bad jokes […]

Free

Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

In the early 1960s, Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering […]

Recurring

Thanksgiving Bake Sale

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

On Thursday & Friday, November 17 & 18, we will be holding our annual Holiday Bake Sale. Come check out all the goodies that will be available. If you feel […]

Holiday Pop-Up Shop Opening Reception

Common Street Arts is pleased to present its fifth annual Holiday Pop-Up Shop. During the weeks leading up to the winter holidays, we will transform the gallery into a marketplace […]

Revolutions Keynote Address: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Page Commons Room, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

For LaToya Ruby Frazier, winner of a 2015 MacArthur “genius grant,” art is a weapon — a catalyst for social justice. Her photographs and videos document today’s America: post-industrial cities […]

Free
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The Master Builder

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

The Master Builder is one of the later plays of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, known around the world as “the father of modern drama.” It tells the story of aging […]

Free

Migration, Hibernation, and More Survival Strategies

L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, ME

How do Maine animals survive in winter and what adaptations do they use to survive? Come on a tour with a museum guide to learn some of the amazing adaptations […]

$1

Harvest Buffet

First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Please join us for the Women’s Fellowship marquee fall event:  the Harvest Buffet!  The menu includes baked beans, casseroles, salads, apple crisp, and gingerbread. All are welcome. Cost: $8 for […]

$4

Messe de Minuit pour Noël

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

The highly celebrated French composer, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, rivaled Jean-Baptiste Lully, another prolific 17th-century composer, but Charpentier’s style evolved over time to represent a synthesis of the French and Italian schools. […]

Free

Adam Ezra Group w/ Chris Ross Solo

Mainely Brews 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

The Adam Ezra Group (AEG) is not just a band; they are a force to be reckoned with. The group's live performances, sweaty, passionate affairs that have been compared to […]

$10

Holiday Craft Fair

Vintage Manor 54 College Ave, Waterville, ME

Come get in the holiday spirit and help raise money to support the programs of The Maine Children's Home. There will be a wide selection of handmade crafts on sale. […]

Free
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Auditions for It’s Only A Play

Show Synopsis It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the […]

Community Conversations: Waterville Talks About Wealth

Beth Israel Congregation 291 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Community Conversations is a series of three events bringing together Waterville faith and community institutions with Colby faculty and students to discuss major issues of common concern. The theme for […]

Free

Choir Festival

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

Please join us for an evening of wonderful music and fellowship. Many area choirs will participate. Each choir will perform a piece of its own, and the massed choirs will […]

The Dreamers

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

“A swooning love letter to Paris, to cinema and to love.” – The Guardian. Bernardo Bertolucci, arguably one of the greatest directors of all time, whose emotional, exuberant style graced […]

$5
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