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Carols and Lights Ticket Distribution

Pulver Pavillion, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Three performances of fiftieth Annual Service of Carols and Lights, a community Christmas celebration combining music and worship and sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life will be held Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, 2019, in the College’s beautiful Lorimer Chapel. Friday’s service will be held at 7:00 p.m. with additional […]

Transit of Mercury

L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, ME

Come by anytime today to view the transit of Mercury. The 2019 Transit of Mercury across the Sun will start at 7:36 AM and continue until after 1 PM. Visit the museum to learn about the transit. It will not happen again until 2032. Do not look at it without a filtered telescope. You will […]

$1 – $3

Intermediate Pottery Class

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

This six-week pottery class is perfect for the individual with wheel throwing and centering clay experience who would like to further refine their skills. In this class, students will build upon basic pottery skills including building and throwing forms, creating more complex vessels including but not limited to, large bowls, dinner plates, lidded vessels, stacked […]

$175

How Natural and Manmade Emissions Interact to Shape Air Quality

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

One visible effect of fossil fuel energy consumption is the emission of gases and particles into the atmosphere. These emissions include not only carbon dioxide, but also a wide range of other reactive gases. But anthropogenic processes are not the only sources of atmospheric emissions. Many natural systems, including the oceans, volcanoes, and plants, also […]

Free

Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf is a documentary about landscape designer Piet Oudolf, who describes his creative process from his abstract sketches to his conventional notions of beauty, public space, and nature. In collaboration with Railroad Square Cinema, this film is directly related to and inspired by the Colby College Museum of Art […]

Free

Brazil: Still the Country of the Future?

Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Patrice Franko, a specialist in development economics in Latin America, came to Colby College in 1986. She teaches classes in the economics of globalization, contemporary economic development in Latin America, and in microeconomics principles. She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil (2012/2013), was a AAAS fellow in 1990 and a Pew Faculty fellow […]

$12

Alfond Youth & Community Center Annual Holiday Dinner

Alfond Youth & Community Center 126 North Street, Waterville, ME

FREE COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER Wednesday, November 13TH 4:00 - 6:00PM in AYCC Triple Gymnasium WHAT'S FOR DINNER? Turkey Stuffing & Gravy Cranberry Sauce & Rolls Corn & Carrots Pumpkin Pie & Apple Pie WHO ENJOYS THE DINNER? In 2017 we served 805 full dinners to community residents who included individuals from Sacred Heart Soup Kitchen […]

Free

Visiting Writers Series: Jaed Coffin

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

Jaed Coffin is the author of Roughhouse Friday (FSG), a memoir about the year he won the middleweight title of a barroom boxing show in Juneau, Alaska. He’s also the author of A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants (Da Capo), which chronicles the summer he spent as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s village in Thailand. A regular contributor […]

Free

Preserving the Gilded Age: The Care and Conservation of Newport’s Architectural Heritage

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

For the 2019 Clara M. Southworth Lecture, Patricia Miller, chief conservator at the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, R.I., will present a behind-the-scenes look at on-going efforts to preserve the society’s 11 historic properties and landscapes — including Hunter House and The Breakers — as well as care for the vast decorative arts collection inside and […]

Free

Masterpiece Art

Waterville Brewing Company 10 Water Street, Ste. 111, Waterville, ME

Looking to learn a bit about drawing, or just want the opportunity to refine your skills? Join us as we learn about the style and techniques employed by artist James McNeill Whistler. Participants will then use these techniques, such as drypoint etching, to create their own drawing. Registration required. MORE

$35

Marketing Your Business

Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

Business Breakfast Series Marketing Your Business Martha Jones, account executive, & Chris Bernazzani, director of digital sales at NEWSCENTER Maine Media, will share with you ideas on navigating the landscape of media choice.

$18 – $25

Music in the Museum: Gulimina Mahamuti, Piano

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

Internationally acclaimed Chinese-American pianist Gulimina Mahamuti will perform a recital of piano transcriptions of works by J.S. Bach, Egon Petri, Domenico Scarlatti, Enrique Granados, Franz Liszt, and Maine composer Lucas Richman, conductor of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. Location: Alex Katz Gallery, Colby Museum of Art.

Free

After School Art Club: Cardboard Challenge

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

What kind of model house or room can you make from cardboard? Using cardboard combined with plenty of tape and imagination, participants will design a unique house of their own invention. Adults will be on hand to help cut out designs! Ages 7 -12 $14 per session Snacks included Scholarships available REGISTER

$14

Readings from The River Rail: Occupy Colby

Brewster Reading Room, Miller Library Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

A community gathering featuring author readings from The River Rail: Occupy Colby, a collaborative project in which students, faculty, and members of the extended Colby community investigate our climate crisis. Putting into dialogue the work of scientists and artists, novelists and activists, The River Rail: Occupy Colby reflects Colby’s strengths as an institution dedicated to interdisciplinary […]

Free

History Of Pharmacy

Waterville Historical Society - Redington Museum 62 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

Join us as Dr. McCarthy, Dean of the College of Pharmacy, talks to us about the History of Pharmacy! This should be a very interesting event and we will have the Apothecary open for viewing after the event! Dr. Robert L. McCarthy was appointed the 4th Dean of the University of New England College of […]

Recurring

Wendy and the Neckbeards

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

Wendy, a 17-year-old plus-sized, body-positive makeup artist with her own YouTube channel, is having her life exploded by internet trolls. In the meantime, Jess discovers that her long-term boyfriend Chad spends his time harassing young women on the internet to “blow off steam”. From here, the two stories converge in a hilarious and insightful examination […]

Free

KISS Army: The Coolest Band in the World

The Elm 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

This ultra-established KISS Tribute Phenomenon is Armed and Dangerous with identical makeup, outrageous outfits, classic instruments, top quality talented musicians with enough musical muscle to tell it like it was in vintage 1970’s classic KISS style! And that's only the beginning of what you can expect from this unbelievable act at showtime. Now celebrating their […]

$20 – $28

Converge and Create Weekend

Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville

Calling all entrepreneurs and innovators! The third annual Central Maine Converge and Create Weekend will be hosted at Thomas College in Waterville on Friday, November 15, 2019, from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m. and on Saturday, November 16, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Registration is free. The Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation at […]

Free

Balance and Imbalance: A Celebration of Nature and a Call to Action

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

Marnie Sinclair is a process artist raised in the tropics and now making her home on the rugged coast of Maine. Inspired by nature, Sinclair works in many different mediums but prefers sculpture for its tactual quality. She is also an environmental activist who often uses her art to visually express the many complicated issues […]

Rustic Overtones w/ Sara Hallie Richardson & Amarantos Quartet

Snow Pond Center for the Arts 8 Goldenrod Lane, Sidney, ME

Rustic Overtones is a seven piece rock band from Portland Maine with a discography that spans 20 years. The bands unique version of indie rock is strongly influenced by soul music, garage punk, jazz and psychedelic music of the 60's and 70's. Amarantos Quartet members, Hannah Schroeder Jackson (cello), Meagan McIntyre (violin), Lauren Hastings Genova […]

$25 – $35

Music That Makes Community

First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Music That Makes Community is excited to visit Mid Coast Maine, sharing paperless (oral/aural tradition) music and leadership practices. Waterville United Church of Christ will host this time of musical and spiritual nourishment as we join voices and hearts in song. the Executive Director of Music that Makes Community, Paul Vasile, will offer leadership, inviting […]

Winter Birds in Maine

L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, ME

When winter comes to Maine, many birds migrate south, but some stay and tough it out! We will discuss some of these hardy birds, and the special adaptations and behaviors they use to survive until spring returns. We will tour the winter birds in the gallery and do a bird scavenger hunt. Admission : $3 […]

$1 – $3

Chicken Pie Supper

Fairfield United Methodist Church 37 Skowhegan Rd., Fairfield, ME

Homemade All Meat Chicken Pie Supper with Mashed potatoes, gravy, squash, Harvard beets, coleslaw, rolls, beverage and dessert. Adults $9.00 Children $5:00

We Have Standards

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

All professional jazz musicians are expected to know their “standards,” an ever-evolving list from which we’ll select some of the best-known examples, including “St. Louis Blues,” “‘Round Midnight,” and “Body and Soul.” We’ll also check out some lesser-known works we suspect may be standards-in-waiting, including selections from the album The New Standard and from artists […]

Free

The Illusion of Time: Testing the Relationship Between Free Will and Temporal Horizons

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Belief in free will, operationalized as the ability to freely choose one’s own actions and determine one’s own outcomes, is the embodiment of energy and exhaustion. Belief in free will can energize us, instilling the notion that we are active agents in our social world. Disbelief in free will can exhaust us by dampening our […]

Free
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