In recent years, many hospitals have merged, increasing the concentration of hospital markets and raising concerns about the price and quality of care. How is hospital consolidation affecting the already high health care expenditures in the U.S.? Because hospital competition for privately insured patients occurs through price negotiations between hospitals and insurers, an estimation of bargaining […]

PechaKucha Night Waterville volume 24 will be held on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at Colby College. Presentation proposals on the theme revolutions are invited. Proposals on other topics are also strongly encouraged. The best PK events are mix of thematic and kaleidoscopic. The deadline for proposals is Monday, March 6, 2017. More info:      https://www.facebook.com/events/1826522547620594/

Join the Mid-Maine Global Forum and the Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) for “This is ME, Too: From Everywhere to New Mainer.” This event will include a panel discussion with three New Mainers: Somali refugee Abdi Iftin; Iraqi refugee Nawar Al Obaidi; and Cambodian refugee Makara Meng. In this panel discussion, Abdi, Nawar and Makara will […]

“When Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba — a long-lost, phantasmagoric Cuban-Soviet propaganda film from 1964 — was rediscovered and reissued in late 1995 (with the prominent support of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola), critic Terrence Rafferty wrote the following in his New Yorker review: ‘They’re going to be carrying ravished film students out of […]

The Trans List explores the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender (an umbrella term for people whose gender identity does not conform to that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth). No two experiences of trans people are exactly alike. Transgender, transsexual, gender-queer, bi-gender, and non-binary are just […]

At the dawn of the 20th century, a family in the Gullah community—former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions—of coastal South Carolina suffers a generational split. Young Haagar (Kaycee Moore) wants to move to the mainland away from tradition-bound matriarch Nana (Cora Lee Day). Former prostitute Yellow Mary (Barbara-O) gets […]

In her new book, Gesture and Power, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh, examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. This lecture will focus on two separate yet related […]

The final event of SHOUT! features Aquib Yacoob, Colby Class of ’15, who utilizes community organizing and the arts as vehicles to mobilize and (re)claim power in communities oppressed by difference. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Pugh Community Board (PCB) as part of SHOUT! Week.

Business Breakfast Series Laurie Lachance, president of Thomas College, Rick Hopper, president of Kennebec Valley Community College and Ruth Jackson, vice president of coummincations of Colby College will discuss the economic impact of their recent investments in our communities.  Register on-line Cost: $18 for Chamber members, $25 at the door & for non-members.

Mark your Calendars for this book launch on Thursday, March 9 for The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel! From 5:00 to 6:00, join the author at a reception in Waterville City Hall, 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME 04901. The reception is sponsored by the Colby […]

This year’s Hunt Lecture is by Arachu Castro, Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Income, education, place of residence, and ethnicity are some of the fundamental social determinants that help explain differences in health utilization and in health outcomes. Hear Castro analyze the […]

Justin McCann and Diana Tuite, co-curators of Graphic Matters, in conversation about George Bellows’s “War Series.”

A tradition that mixes caring, cuisine, and craftsmanship returns this week with the annual Empty Bowls fundraising dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday in the Messalonskee High School cafeteria. The dinner, which raises funds for area food banks, occurs on the second night of the spring play, which this year features Shakespeare’s Much Ado […]

Featuring the music of AC/DC, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Metallica, and more! Bella Electric Strings, led by rock violinist and arranger Nina DiGregorio, has rocked audiences worldwide with their blistering solos, unique arrangements—not to mention their beauty and charm. The girls have performed with some of the biggest names in the business, from […]

Join Colby College Theater and Dance students with special guest artists for fun theater and dance games! Learn about action, focus, movement, character, and playful ways to make up your own theater and dance "productions" from your everyday experiences. No experience necessary; adults welcome to participate! Registration is required; enrollment is limited. Sessions are available […]

Two-Day Class: Saturday, March 11, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., and Sunday, March 12, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Have you always wanted to learn to use the potter’s wheel to turn clay into beautiful wheel-thrown pottery? This fun, fast-paced class will help you tap into your creativity while learning the basic skills of throwing […]

Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera’s most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, a role in which she triumphed on the Met stage in 2015, opposite Michael Faviano as her lover, Alfredo, and Thomas Hampson as his father, Germont. Carmen Giannattasio sings later performances of the title role opposite Atalla Ayan, with the great Plácido […]

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area invites you to Dance the Night Away at the Shamrock Shake! 7pm - Midnight, Saturday, March 11, 2017 At the Waterville Elks Lodge (76 Industrial Street, Waterville, ME) With DJ Scott Ward $20/person Tickets available: - at the Hospice Community Center (304 Main Street, Waterville, ME) - online at www.hvwa.org […]

Boston-based violin virtuoso Eunae Koh joins the Colby Symphony Orchestra in the haunting and poetic violin concerto by American composer Samuel Barber. The concert also features the world premiere of an interactive work for computer and orchestra by composer and Colby Music Professor Jonathan Hallstrom. Felix Mendelssohn’s fifth symphony, “Reformation,” closes the program with a […]

Two performances: 2:00 p.m & 4:00 p.m. Take a walk on the wild side with Pineland Suzuki Students and Snow Pond Community Music School for our Annual Benefit Concert! Students from 4 through 17 will be playing familiar classical pieces and some "pops" arrangements like “Hedwig's Theme,” with some fun surprises — braying donkeys? the […]

Passage at St. Augustine establishes America’s oldest city as home to the most violent Civil Rights campaign of the entire movement. Viewers are transported back to this unlikely Florida tourist town to hear firsthand from civil rights foot soldiers, Klansmen, journalists, clergy, politicians, and the like who fought on the front lines of the 18-month battle […]

Charles D’Ambrosio will deliver this year’s Ed Kenney Memorial Reading. D’Ambrosio is the author of two collections of short stories, The Point, and The Dead Fish Museum, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two essay collections, Orphans and Loitering. He’s been the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award and a Lannan Fellowship, among other honors. His work […]