Convocation is a 200-year-old tradition and time for the community to celebrate the opening of the academic year. This ceremony illuminates the common bond that all Colby members share; a commitment to an engaged intellectual life and a journey of discovery and growth. Featured speakers are President David A. Greene and Professor Nikki Singh, Crawford […]

Filmmaker James Redford (Robert Redford’s son) embarks on a colorful personal journey into the dawn of the clean energy era as it creates jobs, turns profits, and makes communities stronger and healthier across the US. Unlikely entrepreneurs in communities from Georgetown, TX to Buffalo, NY reveal pioneering clean energy solutions while Jamie's discovery of how […]

If you want to experience the best Beatles tribute ever, you won’t want to miss The Fab Four-The Ultimate Tribute. The Emmy Award Winning Fab Four is elevated far above every other Beatles Tribute due to their precise attention to detail. With uncanny, note-for-note live renditions of Beatles' classics such as "Can't Buy Me Love," […]

A ceremony marking the official opening of the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons and welcoming the 200 Colby students, staff, and faculty now occupying the residence hall. Meet on the Concourse side of the building. A reception will follow in the Chace Community Forum with light refreshments and opportunities to tour the building.

Including events based around,anime, manga, movies, art, cosplay, and more, Cirque du Geek is a celebration of everything that excites us about being a geek! It is a FREE, 3-day convention that takes place at the Waterville Public Library and in participating Waterville businesses every September. Click for more info:

Recycle your unused electronics - FREE! A donation will be accepted to benefit Parish Charities FMI: 956-1457 or bwood@ccmaine.org

Starting Sept 8, 2018, come to the library every Saturday from 1-2 in the afternoon to play games, make things, tell stories, and meet new people. Click for more info

Try out the fun charades game “Why the Long Face?” This delightful game of faces actually features some of the taxidermy animals of the L.C. Bates Museum! Come imitate weasels, run like rabbits and explore the fabulous and funny faces of the L. C. Bates. Afterwards, we will draw some of our favorite animal faces! […]

Screened in conjunction with Cirque du Geek 2018: Lost at Sea! One of Studio Ghibli’s greatest recent anime features, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After a chance encounter, Ponyo yearns to become a human so […]

Exhibition opens Tuesday, Sept 11, 2018. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 resistance movements, this exhibition will present photography of the Black Panther movement taken by Ruth Marion-Baruch and Pirkle Jones. This exhibition is co-curated by Chandra Bhimull, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Colby College.  

This year, Colby-Kennebec Choral Society features a musical theatre concert of Leonard Bernstein, a Stephen Sondheim revue, annual Carols and Lights performances, two concerts with the Colby Symphony Orchestra, and an appearance at the Waterville Opera House! We welcome special guests from around the country, including a concert by New England-based chamber ensemble, Renaissance Men, […]

The photographs of the 2018 Oak Human Rights Fellow, Syrian photojournalist Bassam Khabieh, will be featured in the Diamond Atrium with a reception beginning at 6:30 p.m. A public talk at 7 p.m. will follow. Khabieh has powerfully documented war crimes and other ongoing human rights violations in the Syrian conflict. His stunning photographs, “one […]

Exhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. In the last years of the eighteenth century, the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828) conceived a series of prints guided solely, he professed, by his imagination. Los Caprichos, or the Caprices, is the whimsical title Goya gave to his project, yet the series’ images are far from lighthearted. For […]

Exhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. For more than five decades, Nancy Spero (1926–2009) pioneered a feminist art practice that fiercely defied the social expectations imposed on women. Using a lexicon of appropriated imagery, Spero envisioned, as she observed in 1987, “all manner of processions, conflicts, interruptions and disruptions.” Her hybrid artworks made in protest […]

Your Small Business Toolkit- FREE Resources to Help You Grow Your Business From business plan assistance to introduction to lending resources to floor layout of your manufacturing line, let the panel of Maine Small Business Development Center, Small Business Administration & Coastal Enterprises, Inc. help start, scale and grow your business. Moderated by Central Maine […]

Selling Tech with a Human Touch: Challenges of Customer Service in a High-Tech World   By Allison Watson, business advisor at the Small Business Development Center   Join Us for Drinks, Pizza, and the Hottest Issues in Technology! Central Maine's technology community comes together each month for a fun night of collaboration, drinks, food, and networking. […]

Maine State Archivist, Dave Cheever, will present: “How Colby Happened to End up in Waterville: A story of how a flood on the Androscoggin River in 1817, combined with intrigue, cut-throat capitalism, religious persecution, and bare-knuckle politics brought Colby to Waterville.”

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area are sponsoring "An Enchanted Evening In the Garden" in the Hospice Memorial Healing Garden.  Limited Tickets available by calling 873-3615 or online:www.hvwa.org/enchantedevening  $35.00/person   There will be local wine and beer tastings - plus a cash bar, delectable tastings of foods from local providers and catered hors d'oeuvres.   Other […]

Peter Garrett of the Mid Maine Chapter of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby will speak about his recent trip to Washington to lobby for climate change legislation and on reasons for optimism regarding this important issue. Peter is a Winslow resident who has long been involved in environmental causes.

Born and raised on Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, poet and performer Emily Pauline Johnson was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and his English wife. She was educated mainly at home, studying both English literature and Mohawk oral history and legend. In 1892 she was invited to give a poetry reading for the […]