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Global Image Warming: Climate Visualization from a Visual Studies Perspective

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Rising red curves, glowing red globes and red bars belong to the well-established graphic repertoire of climate research. Climate pictures today should be called political images.  They not only have become an important vehicle to transport  findings of climate research to policy makers, stakeholders and the public; often they are used as instruments in the […]

CareerCenter Services Workshop

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

The Maine Department of Labor's CareerCenters have many resources to offer job seekers and employers. The MDOL CareerCenter’s primary focus is to help facilitate, educate, prepare, and connect those seeking employment with employers needing “job-ready employees”. This two hour orientation of MDOL CareerCenter Services will provide an overview of all available programs and resources that […]

Downtown Waterville Farmers’ Market

The Waterville Farmers' Market is a chance to obtain some of Maine's freshest and most delicious seasonal veggies, meats, milk and cheese, and baked goods. During the winter, the market will be held on the first and third Thursdays of each month, except on New Year's Day. Upcoming dates are March 5 and March 19.

Music at Colby: Musical Offering

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

Musical Offering brings together Boston-area musicians who share a love of performing late-18th-century chamber music — from the last throes of the High Baroque through the wildly emotional gallant period leading up to Mozart.

Free

Gene & Lucille Letourneau Ice Fishing Derby

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

This 17th annual ice fishing derby benefits Spectrum Generations Meals on Wheels and other programs to keep seniors and adults with disabilities safe, healthy, and independent in their homes. Each year the need for Meals on Wheels continues to grow. Last year we cooked, prepared, and delivered more than 200,000 nutritious meals to seniors who […]

Migrations: Immigration Attorney Jon Haddow

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

Jon Haddow '83 has been a practicing attorney in Bangor, Maine, since 1990. He will speak about the immigrant and migrant populations in Maine, their legal needs, and the challenges facing immigrants, migrant workers, and immigration attorneys in the current political climate.

Free

Visiting Writers Series: Fiction Reading with Laura van den Berg

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

Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection and a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Award, and The Isle of Youth, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the […]

Free

Environmental Studies Program Evening Lecture Series: Tim Glidden

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

Tim Glidden '74 has been president of Maine Coast Heritage Trust, a nonprofit land trust in Topsham, since 2011. Prior to that he served as director of the state's Land for Maine's Future program for 10 years.

Free

Environmental Studies Program Lunchtime Lecture Series: Beth Ahearn

Fairchild Dining Room, Dana Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Beth Ahearn is political director for Maine Conservation Voters. She previously served as an assistant district attorney, staff attorney for Maine Audubon, a guardian ad litem in custody cases, and a lobbyist with Moose Ridge Associates, where her clients included conservation, social-justice, and domestic-violence organizations.

Career Planning Workshop

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

In this workshop, you will have the chance to discover your unique career interest code and practice using an online tool to gather information about possible jobs and careers. We will discuss resources for further career exploration and job search, and options for education. There will be time for questions at the end of the […]

Free

S.H.O.U.T! Keynote Speaker: George Takei

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

Actor, author, social justice activist, and social media star George Takei will deliver the keynote address during the annual student-organized S.H.O.U.T! week celebrating multiculturalism. Best known for his portrayal of Sulu in the television and film series Star Trek, Takei is an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights and has appeared in several […]

Free

Hospice Facilitator Training

Hospice Community Center 304 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area will offer a facilitator training for their grieving children’s program, Hope’s Place, starting Monday, March 2, 2015. Hope’s Place’s provides a safe, supportive environment for grieving children, teens and families through peer support groups led by trained volunteers, which nurture and encourage safe expression of grief and loss. The training […]

$30

Poverty, Inequality, and the Social Safety Net in the United States

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

Tonight's speaker, Hilary Hoynes, Colby Class of '83, holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities and is professor of public policy and economics at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. She specializes in the study of poverty, inequality, and the impacts of government tax and transfer programs […]

Free

The Photographic Self-Portraits of Martín Chambi

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

Celia Rubina Vargas, professor of semiotics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, will give a lecture on Martín Chambi (1891-1973). A Latin American photographer from a peasant family in the highlands of Peru, Chambi developed his photographic art in the city of Cuzco. His photography reveals the shifting nature of artistic identity in a […]

Free

Moses in Babylon: Struggles for Power in the Middle East (or Why Reading the Bible Matters, Even if You Aren’t Religious)

Room 215, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

What do Bob Marley, Nebuchadnezzar II, and the ancient Israelites of the Hebrew Bible have in common? In the third millennium BCE, Sargon of Akkad created the world's first empire and located his capital city on the Euphrates in what is now Iraq. Since his time, Babylonia has been a magnet for warriors, prophets, poets, […]

Free

Film Screening: The Man from Oran

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

The Man from Oran depicts the betrayal of revolutionary ideals by Algeria's political leaders after the country gained independence from France in 1962. Djaffar -- the man from Oran -- has no interest in the liberation movement but finds himself involved with his friend Hamid in the murder of a French farmer. They get away, […]

Free

The Soft Power of American Law Enforcement

This talk will be a conversation about American law enforcement as a diplomacy tool.  Andrew Goodridge, Assistant Special Agent, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, will share personal observations and experiences regarding international law enforcement and business community partnerships during his five years living in the Middle East. A Maine native, Goodridge has been employed domestically and internationally as […]

$10

Downtown Waterville Farmers’ Market

The Waterville Farmers' Market is a chance to obtain some of Maine's freshest and most delicious seasonal veggies, meats, milk and cheese, and baked goods. During the winter, the market will be held on the first and third Thursdays of each month, except on New Year's Day.

Queering the Nation from the Other Side: Juan Gabriel, Performance, and the Margins of Mexicanidad

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

Alberto Aguilera Valadez, known as Juan Gabriel, is one of the most prolific and successful Mexican songwriters and performers of the last 40 years and an icon of contemporary Mexican popular culture. His effeminate public persona has prompted fans and critics alike to question his masculinity. Alejandro Madrid, professor of musicology at Cornell, will discuss […]

Free

Spring Dance Concert

Strider Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

This performance will feature Assistant Professor Annie Kloppenberg's professional company in the premiere of Entrances and Echoes and a thesis project by Sara Gibbons '15, Into the Frame of Us. Heralded by the Boston Globe as "a choreographer of nuances," Kloppenberg presents a thematic doubling in Entrances and Echoes, playing with anonymity, togetherness, and the […]

Free

Lenten Organ Recitals

First Baptist Church 1 Park Street, Waterville, ME

Each Lent, the First Baptist Church presents a series of Sunday afternoon organ recitals, each featuring an organist from a different local church. This year's schedule is: March 8: Ed Larson, retired from the Penney Memorial Baptist Church, Augusta March 15: Sharon Saunders, Pleasant Street United Methodist Church, Waterville March 22: Don Pauley, well known […]

Free

A Community Conversation on Race

Page Commons, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Please join us for a conversation about racial identity in Waterville and in the mid-Maine area. This event, which is a collaboration between Thomas College and Colby College, will include the sharing of experiences and perspectives by students and community members from many different heritages, brief comments from several faculty and staff from Thomas and Colby, and small group discussions […]

Free

Good People

Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo, where this month’s paycheck covers last month’s bills, and where Margie Walsh has just been fired from yet another job. Facing eviction with her adult, developmentally-disabled daughter and scrambling to catch a break, Margie thinks an old […]

Empty Bowls Fundraiser

Messalonskee High School 131 Messalonskee High Drive, Oakland, ME

Empty Bowls has been a fundraiser at Messalonskee High School for several years. The purpose is to raise money for local food pantries. It is also about raising awareness of some of our community members that are struggling to provide food for their families. Students from Messalonskee High School have been crafting ceramic bowls in […]

Downtown Waterville Winter Farmers’ Market

The Waterville Farmers' Market is a chance to obtain some of Maine's freshest and most delicious seasonal veggies, meats, milk and cheese, and baked goods. During the winter, the market will be held on the first and third Thursdays of each month, except on New Year's Day.

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