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After School Art Club: Creating Art Maps of Maine

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Maine'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: […]

$14

Youth Art Month Opening Reception

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Join 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 […]

Free

Why Trust Science?

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

Phi 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 […]

Free

Leave Her to Heaven

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

Novelist 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 […]

$7.50

Downtown Student Art Show – Opening Night!

Old Waterville Post Office 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

In 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. […]

Free

Casey Abrams

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

Singer, 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 […]

Recurring

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 […]

Free
Recurring

Cinema Explorations: Anthropocene

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

A 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, ME

Explore 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 […]

$1 – $3

The Met: Agrippina

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

As 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, […]

$17 – $23

Arts Around the World

Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, ME

What 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 […]

Free

DavisConnects Health Forum Keynote: Dr. Erik Alexander

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

Dr. 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. […]

Free

Colby Symphony Orchestra: Journey to America

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

The Journey to America alternates between energy and exhaustion, between dramatic and sublime. Beginning in Austria with Beethoven’s electrifying, epochal Fifth Symphony, the program shifts quickly to a pair of […]

Free

Tip of My Tongue

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

To celebrate her fiftieth birthday, filmmaker and MIFF alumna Lynne Sachs — MIFF is where this film originally screened — gathers together other people, men and women who have lived […]

Free

Los Lobos

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

“We’re a Mexican American band, and no word describes America like immigrant. Most of us are children of immigrants, so it’s perhaps natural that the songs we create celebrate America […]

$42 – $53

The Gleaners and I

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

The class “Environmental Humanities: Energy and Utopia” will be hosting a screening of the film The Gleaners and I. This 2000 French documentary film by Agnès Varda features various kinds […]

Free

Hobby Lobby – Grand Opening

Please join Hobby Lobby and The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce for refreshments and shopping. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a privately held national retail chain of craft and home decor stores, […]

Stop Telling Women to Smile

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

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a black/Iranian visual artist and Oklahoma City native. She is a painter whose work ranges from the gallery to the streets, using visual art to address the […]

Free

Three Films by Lynne Sachs

Room 5, Arey Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Introduced by filmmaker Lynne Sachs with Q&A to follow. “And Then We Marched” – The 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. viewed through the contexts of previous marches and the […]

Free

How to Audition

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

Acting is great fun, but what comes first is the audition! This workshop focuses on the basics of auditioning. Participants will be given tips on how to audition and the […]

Free

Film About a Father Who

Room 5, Arey Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Introduced by filmmaker Lynne Sachs with a Q&A to follow. Selected as the opening night film for this year’s Slamdance Film Festival and screened as part of MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, […]

Free

Venuste Kubwimana: Son of Genocide

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

After losing members of his family during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, Venuste was left to care for his younger siblings and often had to miss school to fetch water […]

Free
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