Screened in conjunction with Cirque du Geek 2018: Lost at Sea! One of Studio Ghibli’s greatest recent anime features, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After a chance encounter, Ponyo yearns to become a human so […]

Exhibition opens Tuesday, Sept 11, 2018. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 resistance movements, this exhibition will present photography of the Black Panther movement taken by Ruth Marion-Baruch and Pirkle Jones. This exhibition is co-curated by Chandra Bhimull, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Colby College.  

This year, Colby-Kennebec Choral Society features a musical theatre concert of Leonard Bernstein, a Stephen Sondheim revue, annual Carols and Lights performances, two concerts with the Colby Symphony Orchestra, and an appearance at the Waterville Opera House! We welcome special guests from around the country, including a concert by New England-based chamber ensemble, Renaissance Men, […]

The photographs of the 2018 Oak Human Rights Fellow, Syrian photojournalist Bassam Khabieh, will be featured in the Diamond Atrium with a reception beginning at 6:30 p.m. A public talk at 7 p.m. will follow. Khabieh has powerfully documented war crimes and other ongoing human rights violations in the Syrian conflict. His stunning photographs, “one […]

Exhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. In the last years of the eighteenth century, the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828) conceived a series of prints guided solely, he professed, by his imagination. Los Caprichos, or the Caprices, is the whimsical title Goya gave to his project, yet the series’ images are far from lighthearted. For […]

Exhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. For more than five decades, Nancy Spero (1926–2009) pioneered a feminist art practice that fiercely defied the social expectations imposed on women. Using a lexicon of appropriated imagery, Spero envisioned, as she observed in 1987, “all manner of processions, conflicts, interruptions and disruptions.” Her hybrid artworks made in protest […]

Your Small Business Toolkit- FREE Resources to Help You Grow Your Business From business plan assistance to introduction to lending resources to floor layout of your manufacturing line, let the panel of Maine Small Business Development Center, Small Business Administration & Coastal Enterprises, Inc. help start, scale and grow your business. Moderated by Central Maine […]

Selling Tech with a Human Touch: Challenges of Customer Service in a High-Tech World   By Allison Watson, business advisor at the Small Business Development Center   Join Us for Drinks, Pizza, and the Hottest Issues in Technology! Central Maine's technology community comes together each month for a fun night of collaboration, drinks, food, and networking. […]

Maine State Archivist, Dave Cheever, will present: “How Colby Happened to End up in Waterville: A story of how a flood on the Androscoggin River in 1817, combined with intrigue, cut-throat capitalism, religious persecution, and bare-knuckle politics brought Colby to Waterville.”

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area are sponsoring "An Enchanted Evening In the Garden" in the Hospice Memorial Healing Garden.  Limited Tickets available by calling 873-3615 or online:www.hvwa.org/enchantedevening  $35.00/person   There will be local wine and beer tastings - plus a cash bar, delectable tastings of foods from local providers and catered hors d'oeuvres.   Other […]

Peter Garrett of the Mid Maine Chapter of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby will speak about his recent trip to Washington to lobby for climate change legislation and on reasons for optimism regarding this important issue. Peter is a Winslow resident who has long been involved in environmental causes.

Born and raised on Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, poet and performer Emily Pauline Johnson was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and his English wife. She was educated mainly at home, studying both English literature and Mohawk oral history and legend. In 1892 she was invited to give a poetry reading for the […]

Literacy Volunteers-Waterville Area is having a tutor training session on Saturday, September 15th from 9-3:00 at the United Way office on Kennedy Memorial Drive.  Contact Danielle at 873-7786 or lvwaterville@gmail.com.

Did you know that September is Self-Care Awareness month and it’s also the National Suicide Prevention month?  What better way to take care of yourself than getting outside for some fresh air and taking a nice nature walk.   Did you know that there are beautiful trails on the GWH campus behind the L.C. Bates Museum?  Why not join us […]

Saturday, September 15th 10 AM - 1 PM   On Saturday, September 15th, Low XII Central Maine chapter Widows Sons Masonic Riders Association is putting together a ride and fundraiser to benefit the Christmas Program at the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers! Motorcyclists will be meeting at JFK Plaza in Waterville (by Tractor Supply) […]

Please join us for a community litter cleanup to help beautify Waterville. We will meet at 11:00 a.m. outside Waterville City Hall in Castonguay Square. Trash bags and rubber gloves will be provided for free. We will fan out and cleanup Head of Falls, the Concourse, and Main Street. After the cleanup, please join us […]

Join us for this special presentation – geared especially for kids! –  from friend of the museum & retired soil scientist, Dave Turcotte. The subject matter may sound dry, but you won’t be, as one of the most popular parts of the program involves making mud with different soil types! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Founded in 2008, Philharmonia Boston Orchestra is composed of professional musicians from the Greater Boston area. Their vision is to serve and inspire the community by engaging in educational outreach programs, providing vibrant musical experiences, and introducing young talented musicians. Led by Jinwook Park, Colby Symphony Orchestra’s dynamic director, the PBO string players will present […]

Alan Robock, distinguished professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, will discuss the climatic and humanitarian impacts of a nuclear war. A nuclear war between any two nations with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas, would inject so much smoke from the resulting fires into […]

Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the feminist art movement radically transformed the art and culture of our times. This documentary film by Lynn Hershman Leeson is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Nancy Spero: Unbound, on view at the Colby College Museum of […]

Methtacular! is the brutally honest story of writer/performer Steven Strafford’s three years as a crystal meth addict in Chicago. Remarkably, the account of his exploits manages to be simultaneously hilarious and devastating. Don’t miss your opportunity to experience this heartfelt, fun, and searingly honest memoir directly from someone who’s been through the worst and came out […]

Uniting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) with families, PFLAG meets the third Tuesday of each month at 5:30 PM at the Pleasant Street Methodist Church in the Dunn Parlor on the 2nd floor. All those interested in promoting the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their […]