The reader dogs are back! Our therapy dog friends from Kennebec Valley Love on a Leash will be in this afternoon for read-aloud time! For kids who want to practice their reading skills and for families who want a fun, calming read-aloud opportunity. Spend 15 minutes with a dog who loves to listen. Bring your […]

The museum Student Advisory Board hosts an evening of student and club performances inspired by the museum’s current exhibitions. Theater, dance, poetry, music, and more. Location: Jette Galleries, Museum of Art.

In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria today, there is large-scale destruction of cultural heritage, especially remnants of ancient visual cultures in the region. This lecture by Assistant Professor of Art Marta E. Ameri examines the history of such image destruction in the Middle East, focusing on its role in the context of political and social upheaval […]

Enjoy a fabulous fall evening at the Waterville Opera House with the Portland Symphony Orchestra featuring guest conductor, Janna Hymes, Artist in Residence at Colby College, as well as the return of lovely soprano, Suzanne Nance. Tickets are $50 per person for reception and concert, $25 per person for concert only. The funds raised from […]

KBH’s first annual fun/fundraising event – “A Night Out” features comedy improve group Teachers Lounge Mafia! Join us for a fun night of comedy and a chance to win some great prizes. Basket raffles, 50/50 raffle, snacks & cash bar available. PG-13 show. Tickets cost $15 each with discounts for military personnel and veterans. Tickets: […]

Can there be tolerance of a belief system without endorsement of it? Does coexistence allow one to claim that their beliefs are exclusively true? Join a panel of five each speaking from their own perspective and belief system to address the idea of coexistence in today's world. Folks from these traditions will participate: humanist/atheist, Conservative […]

This concert is dedicated to all things inspired by the letter B. In most jazz charts the letter B denotes the “bridge” section whose qualities usually include less memorable thematic material and less stable harmony, which can be the improviser’s great playground. Featuring tunes whose titles or forms start with B and many more. Works […]

Cold Engines is an amalgamation of some of the finest players on Boston's north shore. Brought together by David Drouin of The Brew, this all star cast has a progressive alt-country-rock sound that merges the past with the future. On the heels of their first Two albums, "Day Drinker" and "Take Me With You"' comes […]

Music: Dmitri Shostakovich Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky Libretto: Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov Cast: Svetlana Lunkina (Zina), Mikhail Lobukhin (Pyotr), Maria Alexandrova (the Ballerina), Ruslan Skvortsov (the Ballet Dancer) During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a […]

Film, history and live music combine to illustrate a way of life from a simpler, more patient, yet enterprising American era. Film & Music by Sumner McKane. Live Music by Sumner McKane & Josh Robbins. For years, Belfast, Maine-based Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company sent traveling photographer-salesmen on the roads all over New England and […]

Although the events it describes occurred more than 200 years ago, the term “Haitian Revolution” has only come into widespread use in the past few decades. By putting the events that led to the western world’s first abolition of slavery on the same level as the American and French revolutions, this new language profoundly changes […]

With subjects Michelle and Julie Smith and director Garrett Zevgetis introducing in person! Off a dirt road in rural Maine near Bangor, a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith lives with her mother Julie. Michelle is quirky and charming, legally blind and diagnosed on the autism spectrum, with big dreams and varied passions. Searching for […]

(Please note the earlier starting time. Please arrive 15 minutes early if you are having lunch.) The images most Americans have of Saudi Arabia are frighteningly predictable – deserts, camels, and oil; Sharia law, Islamic fundamentalism, and jihad; rich sheikhs in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. In this talk I challenge […]

Amber Lambke is president of the Somerset Grist Mill, LLC and its Maine Grains label, carried by specialty food stores and used by fine restaurants and bakeries throughout the Northeast. She is also executive director of the Maine Grain Alliance. A driving force behind Maine’s sustainable foods movement, Amber has worked with local business leaders […]

Come join the Colby College environmental group and 350 Central Maine for a candlelight vigil opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota. Bring warm clothing!

Join us for a book release party as Earl H. Smith reads from his new book Head of Falls, which has already received some glowing reviews! Earl Smith is a consummate storyteller. With a discerning eye, he has captured the wonder of the mid-1950s and the warmth of the Lebanese-American neighborhood where I grew up […]

You are invited to the Living Well for Better Health Workshop to learn how to best manage your chronic conditions. A proven program developed by Stanford University and supported by Spectrum Generations, it is delivered in a series of classes taught by trained community members, many of whom have chronic conditions themselves. Participants have less […]

Sustain Mid Maine Coalition’s Education & Community Outreach Team invites you to Peak Oil: A Love Story. This hour-long film was made by Nelson Cole (of Cambridge, ME) and features Iver Lofving (former Education Team leader and Skowhegan resident). Peak oil is defined as “the point in time when oil extraction reaches its highest level […]

Oak Fellow Khalid Albaih and Bangor Daily News cartoonist George Danby have thought a lot about how to respond to violence, including the actual shooting of artists like themselves, or really bad jokes about killing artists like themselves. In 2015 Albaih was horrified by the murder of cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, even though he, a Muslim, had criticized the […]

In the early 1960s, Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering drugs, asked us to think for ourselves, ignited a global counterculture movement, and landed in prison after Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in […]

Common Street Arts is pleased to present its fifth annual Holiday Pop-Up Shop. During the weeks leading up to the winter holidays, we will transform the gallery into a marketplace filled with handmade items created by over 40 artists and craftspeople from around the state. Featuring all handmade items such as jewelry, pottery, books, paintings, […]

For LaToya Ruby Frazier, winner of a 2015 MacArthur “genius grant,” art is a weapon — a catalyst for social justice. Her photographs and videos document today’s America: post-industrial cities riven by poverty, racism, health-care inequality, and environmental toxicity. Bridging the personal with the social, her gorgeous and haunting shots amplify the voices of the […]