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Community Development Through Food Systems

Fairchild Dining Room, Dana Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Lunch at 11:30, lecture at noon. Sandy Gilbreath is the project coordinator for the Maine Food Strategy, where she provides oversight of the organization’s councils, support for collaborative projects, and […]

SHOUT! Keynote Lecture with Janet Mock

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

As a journalist, trans advocate Janet Mock brings issues of gender, race, class, and equity to the forefront of public discourse. Her memoir, Redefining Realness, debuted on the New York […]

Free

The Tempest

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

On a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no […]

$13 – $15

Lipman Lecture with Nathan Englander

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

Award-winning short-story writer and novelist Nathan Englander is this year’s Lipman lecturer. The title of his talk is “Writing in Uncertain Times.” Englander, the distinguished writer-in-residence at New York University, […]

Free

Charity as Mitzvah (Commandment)

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

Krista N. Dalton is the Cofounder and Executive Editor at the Ancient Jew Review, a web journal and American Academy of Jewish Research grant recipient. Her talk is titled: "Charity […]

RenMen in Concert

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

RenMen, Renaissance Men, is composed of Boston and New York’s most active chamber musicians, educators, and music aficionados.Where did a cappella come from? How do ensembles today approach this versatile […]

Free

Betye Saar’s Leader

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

Mirken Coordinator of Academic and Public Programs Jordia Benjamin will discuss the liberation of Aunt Jemima through Saar’s Leader.

Free

Waterville Family Photographs Presentations

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

Celebrate the Picher, LaVerdiere, Bernier, and Levine families, who recently donated their photo collections to Colby. Presentations by family members and Colby students will be followed by lunch. This event […]

Free

Youth Art Month – Opening Reception

In celebration of Youth Art Month, Common Street Arts in downtown Waterville will be offering an opportunity to all local school-aged children (grades pre-K to12) to exhibit in our professional […]

Free

Blue Scholars

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

Blue Scholars is an American hip-hop duo based in Seattle created in 2002 while members DJ Sabzi (Saba Mohajerjasbi) and MC Geologic (George Quibuyen) were students at University of Washington. […]

Free
Recurring

The Babushkas of Chernobyl

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

In the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4, a defiant community of women scratches out an existence on some of the most toxic land on Earth. They share […]

$8
Recurring

Art + Storytelling: Shapes

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

After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to shapes. Children and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Center to […]

Free

Fashion Show and Afternoon Tea

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

Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter presents the 3rd Annual Fashion Show and Afternoon Tea. 2:00 PM March 4, 2017 (Snow date March 11) First Congregational Church 7 Eustis parkway, Waterville, ME All […]

$20
Recurring

Lenten Organ Recitals

First Baptist Church 1 Park Street, Waterville, ME

Now in its 26th season, each recital in this series features an organist from a different area church. Each program is 45 minutes to an hour long, with a reception […]

Hospital Competition and Bargaining: Higher Prices or Greater Innovation?

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

In recent years, many hospitals have merged, increasing the concentration of hospital markets and raising concerns about the price and quality of care. How is hospital consolidation affecting the already […]

Free

Deadline for Proposals for PechaKucha Night v24

PechaKucha Night Waterville volume 24 will be held on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at Colby College. Presentation proposals on the theme revolutions are invited. Proposals on other topics are also […]

This is ME, Too: From Everywhere to New Mainer

Michael Klahr Center, University of Maine, Augusta 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME, United States

Join the Mid-Maine Global Forum and the Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) for “This is ME, Too: From Everywhere to New Mainer.” This event will include a panel discussion with three […]

I Am Cuba

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

“When Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba — a long-lost, phantasmagoric Cuban-Soviet propaganda film from 1964 — was rediscovered and reissued in late 1995 (with the prominent support of Martin Scorsese […]

$5 – $9

The Trans List

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

The Trans List explores the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender (an umbrella term for people whose gender identity does not conform to that typically associated […]

Free

Daughters of the Dust

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

At the dawn of the 20th century, a family in the Gullah community—former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions—of coastal South Carolina suffers a generational […]

Free
Recurring

Speak French Social Hour

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Was French your first language? Do you speak French but only have a few people to converse with? Are you learning French and wish for more opportunities to practice? If […]

$3

Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo

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

In her new book, Gesture and Power, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh, examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo […]

Free

SHOUT! Endnote Lecture with Aquib Yacoob ’15

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

The final event of SHOUT! features Aquib Yacoob, Colby Class of ’15, who utilizes community organizing and the arts as vehicles to mobilize and (re)claim power in communities oppressed by […]

Free
Recurring

Waterville Women’s Action Group

Are you ready to cause a ruckus? We have been supporting the activism of girls for a long time but you have told us that there is a great need […]

$15
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