Independent scholar of folk and decorative arts Seth Thayer ’89 and Assistant for Special Projects Anna Fan ’15 will discuss artworks in the exhibition related to whaling and maritime trade, a subject they both focus on as contributing authors in A Usable Past’s accompanying catalog.

Are you a caregiver for a family member or friend? Does your loved one have dementia or another chronic illness? Come and talk with others who share your journey, to support one another and learn of resources and information that may help you. Our Caregiver Support Group is here to listen, to care, to help. […]

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area will offer a 20-hour facilitator training for their grieving children’s program, Hope’s Place, starting Wednesday, October 19, 2016. The training dates and times will be Saturdays, October 22 and 29, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., and Monday and Wednesdays, October 19, 24, 26 and November 2, 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. […]

The Adam Ezra Group (AEG) is not just a band; they are a force to be reckoned with. The group's live performances, sweaty, passionate affairs that have been compared to those of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, attracted the attention of Royal Avenue Records in 2010. Ezra immediately signed with Royal Avenue and […]

Job Corps is a FREE residential vocational training program for eligible youth ages 16-24. Training is available in the construction, medical, hospitality, and administrative fields. Job Corps also offers training in employability skills and life skills. Please join us at the Waterville Public Library to hear more about the program and to start the application […]

We need your input! Please join us and be part of our Health & Wellness Focus Group. We are looking for ways to increase participation and completion in our evidence based programs, Living Well for Better Health, Living Well with Diabetes and Living Well with Chronic Pain. We will meet for one hour and have […]

A keynote lecture by noted Picasso scholar and art historian from California State University at Long Beach Karen L. Kleinfelder, followed by a panel discussing the role of gender, historically and culturally today, in Pablo Picasso’s Vollard Suite.

For people to Scrapbook, Stamp, and/or Craft! Friday, Oct 21 from 6 pm - 10 pm Saturday, Oct 22 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Registration Fee varies depending on days attending.   For more information and/or registration form, contact Deb Cates ((207)692-7123 or Sheila Bacon (207)873-5249

Prescription drug abuse is a rapidly growing crisis in Maine and our local communities. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet. Safely dispose of unwanted and unused prescription drugs at a convenient location in your community.  FMI call 211 or visit deadiversion.usdoj.gov. Local […]

Join us for refreshments, art making for all ages, games, silhouette portrait cutting, and live music.

Cost is $10 for teens and adults, $4 for children 4-12, and free for children under 4.  Benefits Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter.  Sponsored by St. Mark's Episcopal of Waterville and the Federated Church of Skowhegan.

Jinwook Park conducts his debut concert with the Colby Symphony Orchestra in a program of symphonic favorites, including the overture from Felix Mendelssohn’s magical Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gabriel Fauré’s luminous Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, and the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.

During this all-day business workshop for artists hosted at The Center in downtown Waterville, artists will have the opportunity to network and learn best-practices from their peers during a variety of workshops and breakout sessions presented by the Arts Business Institute (ABI) and Maine Crafts Association in partnership with Waterville Creates! Waterville Creates is collaborating […]

The hit film Bend It Like Beckman, an inspiring comedy about a young Sikh girl in England who rebels against her orthodox parents to chase her dream as a soccer player, will be shown in anticipation of a lecture by the film’s director, Gurinder Chadha. Chadha will give the 2016 Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture Oct. […]

Music at Moody welcomes Califonia-based pianist Lyle Michaud for an evening of solo piano classics, standards, and originals. Lyle Michaud is a pianist, composer/arranger, and teacher originally from Charlestown, NH. He graduated Cum Laude from The Master’s University in Santa Clarita, CA with a degree in Music Composition in 2014. He has been playing piano […]

David Shribman serves as executive editor and vice president of PG Publishing Co., Inc. He joined the Boston Globe after serving as national political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, covering national politics for the New York Times, writing for the feature and national staffs of the Washington Star, and working in the Washington bureau […]

In conjunction with the Lovejoy Convocation program, three award-winning war photographers will display and discuss some of their most compelling work in the atrium of the Diamond Building. See the work of Nina Berman, documentary photographer, author, and educator; Andrea Bruce, documentary photographer and co-owner and member of NOOR Photo Agency; and Carol Guzy, American news photographer with […]

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 address at the ceremony. Lovejoy, Colby's valedictorian in 1826, became a crusading abolitionist editor and was murdered in 1837 for his anti-slavery editorials. He was […]

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 arts and humanities, in particular, teach us? Join us as professors Carleen Mandolfo (Religious Studies), Aaron Hanlon (English), and visiting artists Brother(hood) Dance! explore how […]

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 of class) Need a night out for some “me” time? Want something fun to do with your besties? This class will be what you’re looking […]

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 scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out […]