4/11/2022 COVID Update: The State of Maine no longer requires masking or proof of vaccination to attend any public events, but individual venues are free to do so. For the latest information, visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or the State of Maine’s COVID site.
Lenten Organ Recitals
First Baptist Church 1 Park Street, Waterville, MEDue to COVID-19, the March 22, March 29, and April 5 recitals have been cancelled. The organists are coming, the organists are coming! It’s First Baptist Church’s 29th year of […]
Art + Conversation: Exploring The Sea in a Jug
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJoin the curators of The Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Islamic and Later Indian Art — student Alaleh Naderi ’21, assistant professor of art Marta E. Ameri, Lunder […]
Campus + Community Film Series: Lifeboat
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEIn one of Alfred Hitchcock’s earliest films, based on a story by John Steinbeck, seven people with different personalities and backgrounds — an international journalist, a rich businessman, a radio […]
Vote for the Climate!
The Elm 21 College Avenue, Waterville, MEColby Citizens’ Climate Lobby is teaming up with Maine Youth Climate Strikes to host a strike at the Maine Presidential Primaries in Waterville, Maine. Through this strike, we are urging […]
Figure Drawing
Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, MEFigure drawing at Common Street Arts (CSA) is back! - 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from 6-8pm Seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in this figure drawing program hosted […]
Wealth Inequality in America: What It Looks Like and Why It Happens
Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhe wealth gap between the haves and the have-nots is at an all-time high, and the disparity is even larger among marginalized sects of the population. In line with the Goldfarb Center’s theme this year, Associate […]
Lunchtime Conversation on Art and Advocacy with Carolina Caycedo
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJoin us as for lunch in the museum lobby as London-born Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo from Los Angeles talks about her work with meshing art and advocacy. Caycedo participates in […]
Foundations of Investing
Winslow Public Library 136 Halifax Street, Winslow, MEPresented by Sasha Fitzpatrick, Financial Advisor Investing can help you grow your money and personal wealth, so you can effectively finance your retirement, your children’s future education, and much more. […]
Be Dammed: Art as Resistance to Environmental Destruction
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MECarolina Caycedo is a London-born Colombian artist living in Los Angeles. She participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right. Her work contributes to […]
Eraserhead
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEA dream of dark and troubling things…. David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing […]
After School Art Club: Creating Art Maps of Maine
Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, MEMaine's 200th birthday is March 6! As part of Maine's bicentennial celebration, participants will create their own map of Maine using current historical maps. Ages 7 - 12. Registration required. Cost: […]
Youth Art Month Opening Reception
Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, MEJoin central Maine's young artists and their families for this year's Youth Art Month (YAM) exhibition. Now in its sixth year at CSA, YAM showcases artwork from aspiring area artists […]
Why Trust Science?
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEPhi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Naomi Oreskes will give a public lecture titled Why Trust Science? based on her 2019 book of the same title. Oreskes is professor of the history […]
Leave Her to Heaven
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesNovelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before […]
The Issues in Our Tissues: Neurobiology, Trauma, Embodiment, and Social Justice
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJacoby Ballard, a yoga and meditation teacher with more than 20 years of unique experience, will lead a philosophical and theoretical conversation about the effect of mindfulness on our nervous […]
Downtown Student Art Show – Opening Night!
Old Waterville Post Office 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, MEIn collaboration with the Mainely Brews and the Lunder Institute, the Colby Museum of Art’s Student Advisory Board will be hosting an art show to showcase student art this Friday. […]
Casey Abrams
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesSinger, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and American Idol season 10 finalist Casey Abrams, has built a strong following through the years with two album releases (Casey Abrams and Tales From the Gingerbread […]
Art + Storytelling: Animals All Around
Colby College Museum of Art
5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME
This event is cancelled After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme — in March it will be “Animals all […]
Cinema Explorations: Anthropocene
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEA cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive and often thoughtless re-engineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a feature documentary film from the multiple award-winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, […]
Bugs, Bugs, Bugs
L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, MEExplore the insect collections in the museum and learn about their special adaptations and life cycles. Try hands on activities to learn how insects walk with six legs, see with […]
The Met: Agrippina
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesAs the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of George Fredrich Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Sir David McVicar’s wry new production, […]
Arts Around the World
Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, MEWhat type of art is made in Mexico, Iran, Vietnam, and China? Explore art throughout the world and become inspired by artists from different countries. Members from the International Club […]
DavisConnects Health Forum Keynote: Dr. Erik Alexander
Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEDr. Erik K. Alexander is executive director of education for Brigham Health, and associate dean for medical education and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. In these roles, Dr. […]