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.

Colby Symphony Orchestra: Journey to Italy

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

It’s often said that Verdi was to opera what Beethoven was to the symphony — in its third program of the season, the orchestra, directed by Jinwook Park, has both: Verdi’s popular Overture to La Forza del destino, a selection of opera scenes from his La Traviata, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Shuttle service to the […]

Free

Maine Jewish Film Festival: The Interpreter

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

The late-middle-aged son of a Nazi officer embarks on a road trip with his translator, an older Jewish Slovakian man who believes the officer murdered his family. Beautifully filmed in the countryside and small villages of Slovakia, The Interpreter builds suspense while exploring a most unlikely friendship. Part of the Maine Jewish Film Festival, this […]

$8 – $10

Shemekia Copeland

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

Shemekia Copeland March 9, 2019 at 8:00pm Shemekia Copeland returns to Waterville Opera House! Shemekia Copeland never holds back. Her instantly recognizable voice—capable of being sultry, assertive and roaring—delivers every song with unparalleled honesty and passion. Her wide-open vision of contemporary Americana roots and soul music showcases the evolution of a passionate artist with an up-to-the-minute musical […]

Maine Jewish Film Festival: 93 Queen

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

In the heart of Hasidic Judaism in Brooklyn, the first ever all-women EMT corps of Ezras Nashim (“women helping women”) pushes the edges of strict gender norms within this conservative religious sect.  Bold, inspired and controversial, 93 Queen offers an intimate view into the marrow of this usually private and veiled community, bearing witness to […]

$8 – $10

Bolshoi Ballet: Sleeping Beauty

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

In this lavish staging of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, it is Princess Aurora’s sixteenth birthday. Four foreign princes have come to ask for her hand. At the height of the festivities, an old woman with a knitting spindle appears at the Princess’s side… This performance is an encore high-definition broadcast from Moscow. The running time is 2 […]

$15 – $18

Food Recovery Committee

Mayor's Conference Room, City Hall 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME

A group of people concerned about food insecurity for area residents is starting a gleaning group. Gleaning, or food rescue, is defined by the Maine Gleaning Network as “gathering of produce after or during an active harvest and donating the produce to humans rather than for compost or for animal feed. The produce gleaned could […]

Leveraging Social Marketing for Reproductive Health

Bobby Silberman Lounge, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Join the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Jennifer Pope ’96, director, family planning and reproductive health at Population Services International. Pope provides technical assistance to country programs providing life-saving products, clinical services, and behavior change communications that empower the world’s most vulnerable populations to lead healthier lives. She has more than 15 years of experience […]

Free

Maine Jewish Film Festival: The Waldheim Waltz

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

Austria’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1986, when Austrian activists were protesting against Kurt Waldheim, filmmaker Ruth Beckermann was both protester and reporter, capturing confrontations between activists and Waldheim supporters. Thirty years later, Beckermann uses her footage, as well as contemporaneous news archives, to chronicle Waldheim’s run for […]

$8 – $10

William Blake and Elizabeth Bishop in the Anthropocene

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

Reading Elizabeth Bishop’s The Sandpiper along with William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence, this talk by Wai Chee Dimock makes a case for the continuing resonances of two poets who, writing before climate change was an available term, nonetheless spoke to the vulnerabilities of the planet — of humans and nonhumans — in a way newly meaningful […]

Free

SHOUT! 2019 Keynote Address

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

An environmental justice activist, a storyteller, and a cultural geographer, Carolyn Finney wrote Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. Her work challenges us to question whose stories frame or are left out of environmental institutions and issues. How do stories influence the ways we understand the world? […]

Free

Career Fair

Alfond Athletic Center, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

More than 65 employers from all over the state will be on campus on Tuesday, March 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Alfond Athletic Center for Thomas College’s annual Spring Career Fair. Students, alumni, and the public are welcome to attend. Students looking for full-time jobs, internships, or summer positions should be […]

Gazing Back: Zanele Muholi as Artist and Activist

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

Sarah Duff, visiting assistant professor of history, and Laura Seay, assistant professor of government, will be in conversation responding to Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness. Part of the Noontime Art Talks Series. Location: Lower Jetté Galleries, Colby Museum of Art.

Free

Clara M. Southworth Lecture with Paul Discoe

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

Designer and innovator Paul Discoe is managing partner for O2 Artisans Aggregate (O2AA), an urban industrial eco-park in Oakland, Calif. He is also a design consultant for Japanese-style temples, restaurants, houses, and furniture. His studio at O2AA includes a small workshop for prototypes and one-of-a-kind objects. A longtime student of Zen Buddhism, Discoe is an ordained Buddhist […]

Free

Waterville Green Drinks

Waterville Brewing Company 10 Water Street, Ste. 111, Waterville, ME

Come join KV Connect, Waterville’s young professionals group, for an exciting evening of networking and socialization while helping to support a great cause! This month, we're at Waterville Brewing Company. Admission is a $5.00 suggested donation to benefit the Children's Discovery Museum. The children’s discovery museum is a local organization that creates long-lasting memories for […]

Maine Jewish Film Festival: Wajib

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

Over one winter’s day in Nazareth, father Abu and son Shadi (real-life father and son actors Mohammed and Saleh Bakri) visit friends and family to deliver invitations for the wedding of Abu’s daughter. Along the way, they reminisce, bicker and laugh together, revealing tensions both political and familial. A richly cinematic sense of place, complex […]

$8 – $10

Is Going Global for You?

Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

Learn about the opportunities and challenges of taking your business international from Wade Merritt, president, Maine International Trade Center.  At this Business Breakfast series, Merritt will discuss global strategy and if it is right for your business.  Merritt is responsible for the directing the trade and investment policy for the state, including the delivery of […]

$18 – $25

After School Art Club: Create Your Own Comic

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

The theme of Youth Art Month is “Your art, Your Story”. To explore the realm of art and stories we will create cool comics of one story we each love to tell about our lives. Learn the art of comics and how artists choose images and text for creating great comics and graphic novels. Ages […]

$14

Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Post-Dictatorship Argentina

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

A prominent scholar of Latinx performance, Dr. Noe Montez is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. His research considers how theater, as a site of activism, can produce memory narratives that change the public's reception to governmental policies on human rights violations. […]

Free

1944 Championship Basket Ball Team

Waterville Historical Society - Redington Museum 62 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

Join us as Fred Stubbert talks to us about the 1944 New England Championship Basket Ball Team. Hosted by Waterville Historical Society and Redington Museum

Free

Beyond a Binary God

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

Rev. Tara Soughers is author of Beyond a Binary God: A Theology for Trans* Allies. Tara is a parent of a trans young adult as well as an Episcopal priest. What does it mean about God and about humans, that there is not a strict gender binary? How can we affirm and include what we […]

Threats Climate Change Poses to Global and National Security

Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Please join the Goldfarb Center at Colby College for a lecture by Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney, USMC (Ret.) of the American Security Project on the threats that climate change presents for national and global security. The world is heating up. Despite skepticism from climate change deniers, our bases and stations are literally going under […]

Free

Notes From Home: A Penobscot Journey Through Maine History

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

John Bear Mitchell, will share stories about his experiences growing up on the Penobscot Nation’s tribal headquarters of Indian Island and his childhood in a Catholic school. With humor and brief anecdotes, he will branch out into his professional escapades, and wonder with you, how he was so honored to have had the experiences he’s had […]

Free

Recovery Boys

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Kennebec Montessori School Open House

Kennebec Montessori School 38 Sheridan Road, Fairfield, ME

All are welcome to visit the school and learn more about the Montessori approach to early childhood and elementary education. Prospective parents and children will be able to explore the classrooms and the newly constructed Elementary wing. You will also be able to try the hands-on materials, meet the teachers and talk to current parents […]

Free
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