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Turkey Supper
First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, MECost is $10 for teens and adults, $4 for children 4-12, and free for children under 4. Benefits Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. Sponsored by St. Mark's Episcopal of Waterville and the Federated Church of Skowhegan.
Night At the L.C. Bates Museum
L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, MEGather up your friends and family and get ready for the annual Night At the Museum tour that is a bit spooky and a little bit educational. This popular and fun event for families is not super scary, just wonderfully creepy! Bring a flashlight and explore the decorated museum at night! This is a program […]
Colby Symphony Orchestra: Introducing Jinwook Park
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJinwook Park conducts his debut concert with the Colby Symphony Orchestra in a program of symphonic favorites, including the overture from Felix Mendelssohn’s magical Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gabriel Fauré’s luminous Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, and the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.
Business Workshop for Artists
During this all-day business workshop for artists hosted at The Center in downtown Waterville, artists will have the opportunity to network and learn best-practices from their peers during a variety of workshops and breakout sessions presented by the Arts Business Institute (ABI) and Maine Crafts Association in partnership with Waterville Creates! Waterville Creates is collaborating […]
Bend It Like Beckham
Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhe hit film Bend It Like Beckman, an inspiring comedy about a young Sikh girl in England who rebels against her orthodox parents to chase her dream as a soccer player, will be shown in anticipation of a lecture by the film’s director, Gurinder Chadha. Chadha will give the 2016 Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture Oct. […]
Music at Moody: Lyle Michaud, Pianist
Moody Chapel, Kennebec Valley Community College Stanley Road (off U.S. Route 201), Hinckley, ME, United StatesMusic at Moody welcomes Califonia-based pianist Lyle Michaud for an evening of solo piano classics, standards, and originals. Lyle Michaud is a pianist, composer/arranger, and teacher originally from Charlestown, NH. He graduated Cum Laude from The Master’s University in Santa Clarita, CA with a degree in Music Composition in 2014. He has been playing piano […]
Reporting on Love Canal and Three Mile Island: A Young Journalist’s Journey
Fairchild Dining Room, Dana Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEDavid Shribman serves as executive editor and vice president of PG Publishing Co., Inc. He joined the Boston Globe after serving as national political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, covering national politics for the New York Times, writing for the feature and national staffs of the Washington Star, and working in the Washington bureau […]
Capturing War: Images of Conflict, Upheaval, and Revolution
Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEIn conjunction with the Lovejoy Convocation program, three award-winning war photographers will display and discuss some of their most compelling work in the atrium of the Diamond Building. See the work of Nina Berman, documentary photographer, author, and educator; Andrea Bruce, documentary photographer and co-owner and member of NOOR Photo Agency; and Carol Guzy, American news photographer with […]
Lovejoy Award Presentation and Address
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAlissa Rubin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, will receive Colby College's Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism and will deliver the 2016 Lovejoy Convocation address at the ceremony. Lovejoy, Colby's valedictorian in 1826, became a crusading abolitionist editor and was murdered in 1837 for his anti-slavery editorials. He was […]
Dissecting Violence: The Humanities Respond, Part II
Cellar Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEHow do Colby professors use their disciplines to respond when violence convulses our world? When police shoot and are shot at, when bombs explode and refugees drown, what can the arts and humanities, in particular, teach us? Join us as professors Carleen Mandolfo (Religious Studies), Aaron Hanlon (English), and visiting artists Brother(hood) Dance! explore how […]
Bead with Us!
Common Street Arts invites you to “Bead with Us! – Jewelry Making Night Out” $40 per person ($20 paid upon registration, $20 paid to instructor for beading kit at start of class) Need a night out for some “me” time? Want something fun to do with your besties? This class will be what you’re looking […]
Threepenny Opera
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesMack the Knife is back in town! A darkly comic new take on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s raucous musical broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre. London scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out […]
Reading Poetry: In the Beginning is the Relation
Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEEdward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published nine books of poems, most recently Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy, and The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which brings together 35 years of work. He has also published five prose books, among them A Poet’s Glossary (2014), a complete compendium, and How to Read […]
The Unfinished Business of the Darwinian Revolution
Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJudy Stone, professor of biology and Dr. Charles C. and Pamela W. Leighton Research Fellow, discusses the Darwinian Revolution. Darwin’s theories on descent with modification and on evolution by natural selection revolutionized biology. Both of these theories rest upon an underlying insight called population thinking, which recognizes that variation among individuals within a species is […]
Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Arthritis
Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, MEJoin us for a free presentation with Donna Walsh, MSRDN, LD. We will learn about the foods that we can eat that may lessen and control the inflammation linked to diseases like Arthritis, Cancer, and Heart Disease. Pre-registration is required by calling 873-4745 or stopping by the reception desk.
Failure to Adjust: How Americans Fell Behind in the Global Economy
Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEIn an election year in which controversies over trade, immigration, and job loss have dominated the presidential election campaign, Edward Alden will discuss how and why the U.S. government failed over the past half century to respond effectively to a more competitive global economy on issues such as trade, currency, investment and offshoring, worker re-training, […]
Kringleville Auction
Hathaway Creative Center 10 Water Street, WatervilleIt's that time of year again. We are preparing for the Parade of Lights and Kringleville. As you know, each year we host our annual Kringleville Auction to support these Downtown Waterville community events. Tickets cost $25 per person and include a delicious meal and access to a fantastic happy hour. If you would like […]
Body of Work
Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MERegina José Galindo’s artistic practice situates her own body in public space as a way to address the ethical implications of social injustices related to racial and gender discrimination and the history of violence and abuse in her birth country of Guatemala. She has exhibited her work in the Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion in 2005. This talk is organized […]
Religion, Culture, Identity: A Journey Through Film
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEGurinder Chadha, director of the hit film Bend It Like Beckham and more than a dozen other films, will deliver Colby’s annual Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture. Her lecture is titled “Religion, Culture, and Identity: A Journey Through Film.” The movie, which follows the daughter of orthodox Sikhs who rebels against her parents’ traditions to chase her […]
Poetry and Human Rights
Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEA poetry reading celebrating the intersection between the personal and the political in English and Spanish. Guatemala’s Regina José Galindo and Colby’s own Adrian Blevins will read from recent work. Regina José Galindo is a performance artist and poet from Guatemala. She is the author of two books of poems including Trentacuentos (2008) and most recently […]
Father on a Mission for Transgender Equality
Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, MEWayne Maines, the father of Wyatt who became Nicole, will be speaking about the arduous journey and the struggles that his wife, Nicole's twin brother Jonas, and himself took in support of Nicole, who fought for the right to be herself. Following his talk, there will be a question and answer session. Becoming Nicole books […]
Prentice Lecture: Leonardo Drew
Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEArtist Leonardo Drew will present the museum’s annual Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture with a discussion of his recent work and Untitled, Number 104, 2005, currently on view in the museum’s Gordon Gallery.
Welcome to the G–d— Ice Cube!
Pugh Center, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEBlair Braverman (Colby Class of 2011), dogsledder, journalist, and essayist, has been an Iowa Arts Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. She was an environmental policy major and creative writing minor at Colby. Her work has appeared on This American Life, and Buzzfeed, and in Orion, and Atavist magazines. Last May she was named to the inaugural Outdoor magazine 30 […]
Halloween Party for Teens
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MEJoin us for a spooky party in the teen room! Activities will include face painting, crafts, pumpkin painting, and more! This event is free, and intended for those under the age of 18. For more information, please call (207) 872-5433, or email staylor@watervillelibrary.org.