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Turkey Supper
First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, MECost is $10 for teens and adults, $4 for children 4-12, and free for children under 4. Benefits Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. Sponsored by St. Mark's Episcopal of Waterville and the […]
Night At the L.C. Bates Museum
L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, MEGather up your friends and family and get ready for the annual Night At the Museum tour that is a bit spooky and a little bit educational. This popular and […]
Colby Symphony Orchestra: Introducing Jinwook Park
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJinwook Park conducts his debut concert with the Colby Symphony Orchestra in a program of symphonic favorites, including the overture from Felix Mendelssohn’s magical Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gabriel Fauré’s luminous […]
Business Workshop for Artists
During this all-day business workshop for artists hosted at The Center in downtown Waterville, artists will have the opportunity to network and learn best-practices from their peers during a variety […]
Bend It Like Beckham
Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhe hit film Bend It Like Beckman, an inspiring comedy about a young Sikh girl in England who rebels against her orthodox parents to chase her dream as a soccer […]
Music at Moody: Lyle Michaud, Pianist
Moody Chapel, Kennebec Valley Community College Stanley Road (off U.S. Route 201), Hinckley, ME, United StatesMusic at Moody welcomes Califonia-based pianist Lyle Michaud for an evening of solo piano classics, standards, and originals. Lyle Michaud is a pianist, composer/arranger, and teacher originally from Charlestown, NH. […]
Reporting on Love Canal and Three Mile Island: A Young Journalist’s Journey
Fairchild Dining Room, Dana Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEDavid Shribman serves as executive editor and vice president of PG Publishing Co., Inc. He joined the Boston Globe after serving as national political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, […]
Capturing War: Images of Conflict, Upheaval, and Revolution
Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEIn conjunction with the Lovejoy Convocation program, three award-winning war photographers will display and discuss some of their most compelling work in the atrium of the Diamond Building. See the […]
Lovejoy Award Presentation and Address
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAlissa Rubin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, will receive Colby College's Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism and will deliver the 2016 Lovejoy Convocation […]
Dissecting Violence: The Humanities Respond, Part II
Cellar Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEHow do Colby professors use their disciplines to respond when violence convulses our world? When police shoot and are shot at, when bombs explode and refugees drown, what can the […]
Bead with Us!
Common Street Arts invites you to “Bead with Us! – Jewelry Making Night Out” $40 per person ($20 paid upon registration, $20 paid to instructor for beading kit at start […]
Threepenny Opera
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesMack the Knife is back in town! A darkly comic new take on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s raucous musical broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre. London […]
Reading Poetry: In the Beginning is the Relation
Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEEdward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published nine books of poems, most recently Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy, and The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which […]
The Unfinished Business of the Darwinian Revolution
Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJudy Stone, professor of biology and Dr. Charles C. and Pamela W. Leighton Research Fellow, discusses the Darwinian Revolution. Darwin’s theories on descent with modification and on evolution by natural […]
Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Arthritis
Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, MEJoin us for a free presentation with Donna Walsh, MSRDN, LD. We will learn about the foods that we can eat that may lessen and control the inflammation linked to […]
Failure to Adjust: How Americans Fell Behind in the Global Economy
Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEIn an election year in which controversies over trade, immigration, and job loss have dominated the presidential election campaign, Edward Alden will discuss how and why the U.S. government failed […]
Kringleville Auction
Hathaway Creative Center 10 Water Street, WatervilleIt's that time of year again. We are preparing for the Parade of Lights and Kringleville. As you know, each year we host our annual Kringleville Auction to support these […]
Body of Work
Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MERegina José Galindo’s artistic practice situates her own body in public space as a way to address the ethical implications of social injustices related to racial and gender discrimination and the history of violence […]
Religion, Culture, Identity: A Journey Through Film
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEGurinder Chadha, director of the hit film Bend It Like Beckham and more than a dozen other films, will deliver Colby’s annual Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture. Her lecture is titled “Religion, […]
Poetry and Human Rights
Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEA poetry reading celebrating the intersection between the personal and the political in English and Spanish. Guatemala’s Regina José Galindo and Colby’s own Adrian Blevins will read from recent work. Regina […]
Father on a Mission for Transgender Equality
Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, MEWayne Maines, the father of Wyatt who became Nicole, will be speaking about the arduous journey and the struggles that his wife, Nicole's twin brother Jonas, and himself took in […]
Prentice Lecture: Leonardo Drew
Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEArtist Leonardo Drew will present the museum’s annual Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture with a discussion of his recent work and Untitled, Number 104, 2005, currently on view […]
Welcome to the G–d— Ice Cube!
Pugh Center, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEBlair Braverman (Colby Class of 2011), dogsledder, journalist, and essayist, has been an Iowa Arts Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. She was an environmental policy major and creative writing minor at […]
Halloween Party for Teens
Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, MEJoin us for a spooky party in the teen room! Activities will include face painting, crafts, pumpkin painting, and more! This event is free, and intended for those under the […]