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.
18th Annual Gene & Lucille Letourneau Ice Fishing Derby
Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, MEWeigh-in will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Muskie Community Center in Waterville. No entries will be accepted after 5:00 Tickets are on sale now at the Muskie […]
Winter Book Sale
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MEChase away those winter blues! Come to the Waterville Public Library’s semi-annual book sale! Our prices are still incredibly low, and we have a large selection of books of all genres, as […]
Visual Proof
Jack Calcut from Oberlin College, will discuss visual proofs. Visualization is fundamental to mathematics. The late Fields Medalist Bill Thurston began practicing visualization every day as a first grader. We […]
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAri Berman, contributing writer, The Nation magazine, and investigative journalism fellow at The Nation Institute, charts both the transformation of American democracy under the Voting Rights Amendment and the counterrevolution that has sought […]
The Pigeon and the Grid: Animal Locomotion, Comparative Biology, and the Genesis of Ecological Consciousness
Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEProfessor of art history at James Madison University John Ott will speak on Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 Animal Locomotion, a series of stop-motion photographs of humans and animals. Ott is the author of Manufacturing the […]
Things of the Aimless Wanderer
Room 141, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEDon’t miss an opportunity to meet Rwandan director Kivu Ruhorahoza after the screening of his well-acclaimed film Things of the Aimless Wanderer, which was presented at the Sundance Film Festival. To […]
The Taos Society of Artists and the Changing Image of the Indian
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhe oeuvre of the Taos Society of Artists, an organization of Eastern transplants who painted the peoples and landscapes of the American Southwest during the early 20th century, has long […]
Philip Roth and the Americanization of the Holocaust: From Anne Frank to Primo Levi
Room 215, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MENow more than 70 years in the past, the Holocaust is the defining event in Jewish-American life. The survivors are dying, taking with them their memories and lived experiences of genocide. […]
Hope’s Place Facilitator Training
Hospice Community Center 304 Main Street, Waterville, MEHospice Volunteers of Waterville Area will offer a 20-hour facilitator training for their grieving children’s program, Hope’s Place, starting Wednesday, March 2, 2016. The training dates will be Saturdays, March […]
Medicare for Everyone
Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, METhis workshop will give you the answers to basic questions such as: What is Medicare? When and where do I sign up? What services are covered? What is the Medicare […]
3-D Design and Printing for Kids and Teens
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MELearn to use TinkerCAD, a free, web-based design program to create a 3D object that’s uniquely yours. Several lucky attendees will win a free printout of their design from the Library’s […]
Talk and Discussion with Painter Susan Jane Walp
Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAmerican painter Susan Jane Walp studied at the NY Studio School, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the M.F.A. program at Brooklyn College. Her solo exhibitions include those at […]
Death of a Gin Salesman: Hope and Despair Among Stranded Ghanian Migrants and Deportees in Niger
Danish journalist and writer Hans Lucht is an anthropologist at the University of Copenhagen and author of Darkness Before Daybreak, which won the Elliot P. Skinner Book Award from the […]
Crazy About Tiffany’s
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MECrazy About Tiffany’s peels back the velvet curtain and steps into the dream-catching world of Tiffany & Co. with unprecedented access and intrigue. From past to present, behind the scenes and […]
Machine Learning and the Economics of Crime
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEProfessor Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using machine learning tools to help address what we call prediction policy problems. We show that the use […]
Battle of the Badges
Alfond Youth & Community Center 126 North Street, Waterville, MEPlease mark your calendars for Thursday, March 3, when the Waterville Police Department will play the Waterville Fire Department in the annual “Battle of the Badges” basketball game. This is always […]
Seeing and Believing
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhrough the ages the invention of new optical devices has shaped human perceptions of reality and redefined the physical as well as metaphysical boundaries of the world in which we […]
Portraits of our Immigrant Mainers
Holocaust Human Rights Center, University of Maine at Augusta 46 University Drive, Augusta, MEImmigration to Maine has been part of the American narrative for past few centuries. America, as a nation of immigrants, has historically, with a few exceptions, welcomed the world’s persecuted […]
Paint Nite
Winslow Congregational Church 12 Lithgow Street, Winslow, MERaise your glass to a NEW kind of night out! Paint Nite® invites you to create your own unique piece of art, guided by a professional artist and party host. […]
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEIn 1962 the master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and a young French New Wave upstart François Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the […]
Community Day at the Colby College Museum of Art
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJoin us for our spring community day with tours of the Robert Adams: Turning Back exhibition. Art workshops and refreshments will be provided. Begun in response to the bicentennial of […]
Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows?
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MEJoin Maine Author Liza Gardner Walsh and Maine Illustrator Hazel Mitchell for a special event featuring their newest book, Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows? This is an all ages […]
Manon Lescaut
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesThe Metropolitan Opera stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title role of the country girl who […]
From Russia with Love
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEWith Janna Hymes, guest conductor, the Colby Symphony Orchestra will perform three staples of uniquely Russian classical music: from Mikhail Glinka, the early 19th-century father of the Russian orchestral style, his […]