Volume 20 of PechaKucha will be held on Apr. 9, 2016 at the Hathaway Creative Center and proposals are due by Mar 8, 2016. Click for more details.

Dan Wasserman will show and discuss his cartoons from the current and past election campaigns. He will be joined by his images of all your favorite political characters, from Bernie and Hillary, to Jeb! and the Donald. Dan will discuss the role of satire in a democracy, his sources for cartoon ideas, conflicts with editors […]

More than 50 Employers Hiring at Skowhegan Area Job Fair. For more info see: Maine Career Center

Reginald Dwayne Betts will graduate from Yale Law School in May. This is a far cry away from May of 1997, when a sixteen-year-old Dwayne was sentenced to nine years in prison for carjacking. He knows the criminal justice system from both ends of the spectrum and describes his chosen field as “the business of […]

Author and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts will read from his latest book, Bastards of the Reagan Era, which examines the war on drugs while challenging popular conceptions about its ending and its impact on the black community. Currently a student at Yale Law School, Betts once served nine years in prison for carjacking. A Q&A […]

Networking and more importantly building relational capital is not about shaking more hands or collecting more business cards; it’s about developing relationships that make others want to help you and your business. Jason Buchannan of Colonial Danforth Consulting will teach you how to maximize your networking and get the most out of chamber events and […]

The staff of Senator Angus S. King, Jr. will hold constituent hours to hear your concerns. For more information, call  1-800-432-1599. Location: Fireplace Room, 1st Floor, Waterville Public Library.

These events have been formed to enhance communication and relationships between business leaders and their local, state, and federal elected officials. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, beer, and wine provided. This event will be held at KVCC, Hinckley Campus, at the new agricultural building. Use the Green Road entrance.

The reception will take place in the cafeteria and auditorium. Every year, Waterville High School students participate in some of the best band, chorus, drama, and strings productions in Central Maine. At the heart of these critical academic endeavors is the auditorium. But it isn't just for theater or music; nearly every student at WSHS […]

Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was a central figure in the so-called New York School of American painters and musicians of the 1940s-70s. Colby faculty members Ursula Reidel (German, retired) and Steven Nuss (music), and pianist Nathan Trivers ’17, present a performance and discussion of Feldman’s last work for piano and suggest that his Palais de Mari is […]

John Della Volpe, is director of polling at the  Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Each semester, he leads a public opinion survey group of students who develop, field and report on the attitudes of young Americans (Millennial Generation) toward politics and public service. Since 2000, the IOP survey has tracked pre- and post-9/11 attitudes; […]

Youth Art Month is a celebration of visual art from our youngest community members. Art selected by art teachers from local schools will be on display at Common Street Arts throughout the month of March.

Beatles For Sale is an award-winning, New England-based Beatles tribute band that is committed to recreating the sounds of the Beatles live in concert. This band of talented musicians was drawn together by their love of Beatles music and the desire to keep the music alive, bringing it to a whole new generation of Beatles […]

Following a sell-out run at London’s Royal Court Theatre, Olivier and Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan, In Bruges) returns to the West End with Matthew Dunster’s award-winning production of his deeply funny new play Hangmen, broadcast live to cinemas by National Theatre Live. In his small pub in the […]

Delicious Soups, Chowders, Chili, Casseroles, Breads, and Desserts Benefit for the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Cost: $8 for adults and older children, $4 for children 4-8, free for children 3 and under. Snow Date: March 13

American tackle football was imported to Israel in the late 1980s by foreign-born Israelis who missed the sports passion of their youth. Players persevered with woefully inadequate facilities and an indifferent public until New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sponsored the Israeli Football League and funded a stadium. In a country where religious and ethnic […]

Music: Aram Kachaturian Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich In ancient Rome, Spartacus, a Thracian king, is turned captive by Crassus with his wife Phrygia. Forced to fight as a gladiator and kill one of his friends, Spartacus plots an unprecedented upheaval. Grigorovich’s Spartacus was created at the Bolshoi in 1968 and has since remained the Russian company’s […]

Professor Jim Fleming will give very short remarks about shooting chickens out of a cannon, building an artificial volcano, nuking the north pole, and his new book, Inventing Atmospheric Science, just published by the M.I.T. Press. Jim Fleming is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College. He also serves as series editor for […]

Join the Choir of St. Mark's Church along with choir members and clergy from area churches for a program that includes the music of Bach, Mozart, Roberton, Victoria, Scheidt, and Stainer.

In the East End of London the neighborhood Jewish bakery is losing business. Run single-handedly by Nat, a widowed Old World perfectionist, played by Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones, Pirates of the Caribbean), his aging clientele is losing interest and his family is losing patience. To keep the business afloat, Nat hires Ayyash (a.k.a. Shaun), […]

Howard Hawks’ epic yet intimate 1948 western is at once “classic” and “revisionist,” pitting John Wayne’s so-determined-he’s-tyrannical settler against his much more humane “adopted son” Montgomery Clift as they launch an insane cattle drive that will either make or break a lifetime of work on the frontier. Howard Hawks’ amazing western is quite unlike those […]

A fundraiser dinner for area robotics teams is being held at The Red Barn in Augusta.The restaurant will donate a portion of the profits to be shared by Hall-Dale High School's REM Delta Prime Robotics team and Gardiner's Iron Tigers robotics team.  Both robotics teams are members of the FIRST Robotics Competition, an international high […]

Fees and registration deadlines, along with rules for the summer season, will be discussed. If you are interested in putting together a team, make sure to attend this meeting.