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 […]
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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 […]
Ari 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 […]
Professor 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 […]
Don’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 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 […]
Now 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. […]
Hospice 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 […]
This 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 […]
Learn 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 […]
American 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 […]
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 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 […]
Professor 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 […]
Please 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 […]
Through 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 […]
Immigration 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 […]
Raise 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. […]
In 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 […]
Join 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 […]
Join 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 […]
The 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 […]
With 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 […]
Music: Frédéric Chopin Choreography: John Neumeier A young bourgeois, Armand Duval, falls madly in love with Marguerite Gautier, a gorgeous courtesan celebrated by the Parisian high society. Despite her infidelity, […]
“Family-to-Family” is a free, evidence-based, 12-week educational course for family members and friends of people living with mental illness. The course covers basic information about mental illnesses, such as mood disorders (bipolar […]
Please join Snow Pond Arts Academy, Maine’s first public performing arts charter high school, for an open house and information session in Alumni Hall. Snow Pond Arts Academy is tuition […]