James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her […]

Directed by Shannon Chase, the Colby College Chorale and Chamber Singers will perform a festive program of music evocative of the season and in celebration of Family Homecoming Weekend.

The Halloween Bash is for ages 21+. Maine’s premier party and dance band, Absolute Zero, will perform. Costumes are optional, but there will be a costume contest with cash prizes. The party will continue until midnight. All proceeds benefit United Way of Mid-Maine’s annual campaign. For more than 60 years, United Way of Mid-Maine has […]

The New York Times calls Michael Winther a "first-rate singer of unusual refinement" with "a voice that traverses genres." Broadway singer/actor Winther joins forces with Broadway musical director and pianist Kimberly Grigsby for a evening of well-known standards and some lesser-known, newer love songs by top emerging theater composers and lyricists. "Mr. Winther stakes out […]

Did you remember to set your clocks back (and change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors)?

"Bring Scary Back!" with Hardy Girls Healthy Women's Seventh Annual Freaky 5K, a Halloween costumed 5K fun run and community walk. This annual event pushes back at the sexualizing of girls' costumes by celebrating the spooky spirit of the Halloween holiday. Runners, walkers and kids of all ages are encouraged to run in their scariest […]

Anglican Evensong, which has often been called the most beautiful service in all Christendom, will be presented in traditional style and followed by a brief organ recital. Featuring the choir of St. Mark's Church and Don E. Kerr, organist and choir director, the program will include works of Bach, Handel, Stanford, Vaughn Williams, and Sweelinck. […]

The 25th Annual Interfaith Memorial Service hosted by Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area is scheduled for Sunday, November 1st at 4:00 pm at Saint Joseph Maronite Church, 2 Appleton Street in Waterville, Maine. This is a special service of remembrance designed for those who wish to remember their loved ones in a special way this […]

KV Connect has teamed up with the Colby College Student Alumni Association to co-host a fun event! Join us from 7:00 to 8:00 in Diamond 122 for a panel discussion of about careers in the nonprofit sector. Presenters include: Karen Heck, former Mayor of Waterville; Jane Phillips, President of the Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges; […]

The Leading Women’s Luncheon series is organized quarterly by Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Anthem. Each event in the series features a woman who has achieved great success in her field as the speaker. Though the series focuses on women’s experiences and challenges in pursuing successful careers, men and women are equally welcome […]

Gloria Otieno, head of Biodiversity International in East Africa, is charged with promoting the conservation and use of agro-biodiversity among small and large farmers, particularly in Uganda and Kenya. Otieno works as a Ph.D. academic as well as an on-the-ground practitioner. Otieno will address food sovereignty, food justice, and food security from a human rights […]

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, and especially in the ’60s and ’70s, Italian poets attempted a radical renovation of traditional literary institutions and conventions. What had begun as an effort to reconsider literature soon turned into a political experiment aimed at re-writing the world itself. Beppe Cavatorta, associate professor of Italian at the University […]

Theresa Secord, founding member of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, will share a 200-year tribal history and her story as a Penobscot Indian basket maker and longtime advocate for the art. Secord also fast-forwards to a new generation of young Wabanaki basket makers to look into their world, their challenges, and the exciting new directions […]

Feeding the hungry is a world problem we all want to solve. But how? Should we leave it up to big agriculture? Big government? Big philanthropy? Gloria Otieno, a development economist and food policy expert, believes local communities play a major role in their own agricultural fates. In this talk, she argues that local communities in […]

Kathleen Vernon, associate professor of Hispanic languages and literature at the SUNY, Stony Brook, has published widely on various aspects of Spanish-language cinema from the 1930s to the present, with special focus on melodrama, film music and sound, and women’s cinema. She is completing a book on voice, music, and sound in film, and two […]

Contemporary American politics are highly polarized. Some blame social issues as the driver of polarization, while others point to economic inequality and class divisions. Building on his recent book, Mark Brewer, professor and interim department chair of political science at the University of Maine, will argue that disagreement over a much more fundamental matter lies at […]

For the last nine years, Inland Hospital in Waterville has held their signature event, an Annual Pops Concert as their gift to the community while raising necessary funds for an area of need within the hospital or at one of the 19 Inland Family Care practices in Kennebec/Somerset counties. The dynamic energy of the Portland […]

Paintball guns and instruction provided. Proceeds benefit Central Maine Ski Club. FMI: 207-397-3477

The 2015 Southworth Symposium will bring together scholars and enthusiasts to contemplate the enduring role that gardens play in our attempts to design our environment. This year’s expanded format includes four distinguished scholars who will speak on the relationship between humans and nature in the context of the garden in Asia, the Islamic world, Europe, […]

Theresa Secord, founding member of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance and a nationally recognized, award-winning artist, will share her traditional weaving. Attendance to this workshop is limited to 25 and preregistration is required. To register, call 859-5613.

• Hot cider & refreshments • Trail walks • Dryland dog sled and fat biking demos • Pump track open – bring your bike! • Pumpkin bowling • Hay Bale Maze • Face painting and more family-friendly activities!

Meet 10-year-old Jo-Jo Thoreau and listen to her read from her second book, Buckaroo Bobbie Sue. She's also prepared a craft activity, and there will be copies of both books to purchase. She'll even sign them for you!

In the Reader Dog program, children actually read books to a trained dog and the dog loves to listen! A child who may be hesitant to read to his peers is typically less stressed when reading to a dog. Each child will have 15 minutes to read aloud to Cole from the book of their […]

This family-friendly show features fast-paced juggling, comedy, escape wizardry, dangerous props and insane stunts. Proceeds will benefit The Maine Children's Home. Tickets are $10 and available at the door or at The Maine Children's Home. Tickets for children 10 and under are $5.00.

Germaine Taillefaire (Overture for the Orchestra) and Darius Milhaud (West Point Suite) were members of “Les Six”, a group of French composers reacting both to the Wagner’s bombast and Debussy’s overt sensuality. Milhaud’s suite and William Grant Still’s “To You, America” were both commissioned for the West Point sesquicentennial. Still and Vincent Persichetti (Symphony for the […]