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Lovejoy Award Presentation and Address

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

Alissa 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 […]

Free

Dissecting Violence: The Humanities Respond, Part II

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

How 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 […]

Free

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 […]

$40

Threepenny Opera

Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Mack 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 […]

$13

Reading Poetry: In the Beginning is the Relation

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

Edward 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 […]

Free

The Unfinished Business of the Darwinian Revolution

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

Judy 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 […]

Free

Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Arthritis

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Join 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 […]

Free

Failure to Adjust: How Americans Fell Behind in the Global Economy

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

In 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 […]

Free

Kringleville Auction

Hathaway Creative Center 10 Water Street, Waterville

It'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 […]

$25

Body of Work

Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Regina 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 […]

Free

Religion, Culture, Identity: A Journey Through Film

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

Gurinder 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, […]

Free

Poetry and Human Rights

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

A 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 […]

Free

Father on a Mission for Transgender Equality

Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME

Wayne 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 […]

Free

Prentice Lecture: Leonardo Drew

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

Artist 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 […]

Free

Welcome to the G–d— Ice Cube!

Pugh Center, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Blair 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 […]

Free

Halloween Party for Teens

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join 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 […]

Free

Freaky 5K

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

Time to get freaky!! Join us for the 8th Annual Freaky 5k Run/Walk: Saturday, October 29! The Freaky 5k is a reminder that Halloween should be about imaginative and creative […]

$15 – $25

Making Faces

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

Get a special view of masks from the museum’s collection and then make your own. A family-friendly event.

Free
Recurring

REM Craft Fair

Support local Maine artisans and at the same time pick up that one-of-a-kind gift you’ve been searching for. Sat: 10-5, Sun:10-3 For more info see REM Craft Fair page.

Free

Remones Reanimated

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

 Waterville's favorite punk rock band returns for a special all-ages, shushing-free matinee. Remones Reanimated will mix songs of the Ramones with other sca-a-a-ry punk rock classics. Admission is free, costumes […]

Free

A Folk Song Tour of America

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

Making his debut at Colby, Jesse Wakeman will conduct the Colby Chorale and Chamber Choir in a performance of folk music. Enjoy a cultural tour of the continent with arrangements […]

Free

Beyond Bathrooms

Universalist Unitarian Church 69 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

Learning to be an ally to the transgender people in your life, or to transgender people overall, is an ongoing process. Some ways to be a good ally are relatively […]

Free

Bagel Brunch

Beth Israel Congregation 291 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Join the Beth Israel Congregation for bagels, a guest speaker, and great discussion. Brunches will be held one Sunday each month- keep an eye out for future dates. Brunch topics […]

Spooky Movie Night for Teens

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Come enjoy the 2016 remake of a popular spooky movie from 1984! This program is open to attendees between the ages of 11 and 18. For more information (including the […]

Free

Recurring

National Novel Writing Month Write-In

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

To celebrate National Novel Writing Month, the library will be hosting a series of Write-Ins during the month of November! Write-In events will take place in the Barlett Room for […]

Free
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