Mixed media and fiber artist Susan Mills will guide you through the process of wet felting using merino wool, soapy water, and a palm sander. Make your own handbag, vessel, or wall hanging. Click for more info.

Live HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC of Sampson et Dalila. Click for more info.

When the sun goes down, nocturnal animals come out to play! Come learn about the special adaptations these creatures of the night use to find food while the rest of the world is asleep! Admission: Adults: $3 Under 18: $1

Bring a photo of you or a friend to embroider onto a tea towel. Instructors are Serena Sanborn and Yvonne Brown. Click for more info.

Come join us for an evening of entertainment, fine dining, fellowship and a live auction that includes a weekend getaway in beautiful Rangeley Maine. Most importantly, hear from students about their experiences and how GWH has changed their lives and have an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of more Maine youths. Tickets […]

 Saturday October 20th à 6:00 – 9:30 pm Ristorante Fellowship Hall! Amore, cibo e canzone!      (trans: Love, dinner and song!) Reserve early, you don’t want to miss this! On Saturday night, October 20th, Fellowship Hall will be gaily transformed into an Italian Ristorante offering a delicious 4-course meal and entertainment by the incredible Charlie […]

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. By participating in this event, you will be part of the solution to end domestic violence with all proceeds going to benefit the Family Violence Project, whose mission is to end domestic violence in Kennebec and Somerset counties by increasing victim safety, empowering survivors, and advocating for social change. […]

Have you ever wondered how batteries work? How materials behave in a vacuum? How colorful dyes are made? How dry ice can change directly from a solid to a gas? All these questions, and more, are explored in a new series of hands - on Chemistry activities, generously provided by NISE. Join us and our […]

This lecture by Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., will illustrate views of the city from the 1850s to the 1880s. Photography came to Waterville in the 1840s, and one of its first photographers was Simon Wing, who took panoramic and street views of the community in the 1850s. When Wing moved to Boston […]

Presented by the F. Russell Cole Distinguished Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Jon Foley of the California Academy of Science. The news on the global environmental front is grim. But what if there was a practical plan, based on the latest science, that could turn it around, and help us build a better future? That’s what PlanetVision […]

< Colby Music Associate Mark Leighton presents music from Maestro Segovia’s prodigious repertoire, from compositions written for him to his transcriptions and arrangements of traditional classical guitar pieces. Location: Paul J. Schupf Wing, Colby College Museum of Art.

The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce is hosting a ribbon cutting for the Harland A. Turner Family Counseling Center Expansion on Wednesday, October 24th at 5:30 on the Dorothy 'Bibby' Alfond Campus at the Maine Children's Home! Please join us to take a look at our new counseling center and enjoy some refreshments.

Caroline Webb ’19 presents her research for the exhibition Seeing Otherwise — a collaboration with Professor Catherine Besteman and Chloé Powers ’19. A culmination of a visual culture lab, Seeing Otherwise explores relationships among mobility, sovereignty, displacement, identity, and community.

Join downtown Waterville in welcoming Hazel Mitchell for a book signing! Mitchell's newest book is Farmer's Market Surprise. It's only fitting that she will be reading the book and signing copies on Farmer's Market day! Go to the market and then cross main street to visit Hazel at the Children's Book Cellar! CLICK HERE FOR […]

Come celebrate Halloween with the Museum as we “trick-or-treat” through the Museum galleries as tarot card readers predict your future, enjoy festive food, drinks, and live music by Peace Brother. Art-inspired costumes are encouraged with prizes! This program is open to all ages, 21+, bring ID. Co-sponsored by the Museum Student Advisory Board, Student Programming […]

This is not a normal pop documentary because M.I.A. is not a normal popstar”—The Atlantic. Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge’s Sundance award winning Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. […]

Hosted by The Center for Small Town Jewish Life and Colby College You can find the whole schedule on our website: http://www.colby.edu/jewishlife/fall-shabbaton/. Registration is $10 per family, and you can register online on the Center website. October 26 at 6 PM-- Join Joey Weisenberg of the Hadar Institute for the "Torah of Music," a night of inspiration and […]

Julianne Gilland, deputy director, and Véronique Plesch, professor of art, discuss the paired exhibitions Darkness Visible: Goya Prints from the Lunder Collection and Nancy Spero: Unbound. Introduction by Beth Finch, curator of the exhibitions. Location: Lower Jetté Galleries, Colby Museum of Art.

Join Snow Pond for a fantastic Country Rock concert starring Taylor Road! Band members include  Lenny Goodine, vocals and guitar; Joel Jolicoeur, vocals and guitar; Robin Thompson, keyboards and vocals; Rich Thompson, bass; and Wade Bragg, drums. Enjoy a foot-stomping good ol' time! Doors open at 7:00.

Celebrate the grand opening of the Waterville South End Tool Shed, a newly constructed lending library for tools! Click for more info.

Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes-single-use disposable bags that we mindlessly throw away. But where is “away?” Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life and human health? Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not […]