Maine Jewish Film Festival: 93 Queen
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEIn the heart of Hasidic Judaism in Brooklyn, the first ever all-women EMT corps of Ezras Nashim (“women helping women”) pushes the edges of strict gender norms within this conservative religious sect. Bold, inspired and controversial, 93 Queen offers an intimate view into the marrow of this usually private and veiled community, bearing witness to […]
Bolshoi Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesIn this lavish staging of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, it is Princess Aurora’s sixteenth birthday. Four foreign princes have come to ask for her hand. At the height of the festivities, an old woman with a knitting spindle appears at the Princess’s side… This performance is an encore high-definition broadcast from Moscow. The running time is 2 […]
Food Recovery Committee
Mayor's Conference Room, City Hall 1 Common Street, Waterville, MEA group of people concerned about food insecurity for area residents is starting a gleaning group. Gleaning, or food rescue, is defined by the Maine Gleaning Network as “gathering of produce after or during an active harvest and donating the produce to humans rather than for compost or for animal feed. The produce gleaned could […]
Leveraging Social Marketing for Reproductive Health
Bobby Silberman Lounge, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJoin the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Jennifer Pope ’96, director, family planning and reproductive health at Population Services International. Pope provides technical assistance to country programs providing life-saving products, clinical services, and behavior change communications that empower the world’s most vulnerable populations to lead healthier lives. She has more than 15 years of experience […]
Maine Jewish Film Festival: The Waldheim Waltz
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEAustria’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1986, when Austrian activists were protesting against Kurt Waldheim, filmmaker Ruth Beckermann was both protester and reporter, capturing confrontations between activists and Waldheim supporters. Thirty years later, Beckermann uses her footage, as well as contemporaneous news archives, to chronicle Waldheim’s run for […]
William Blake and Elizabeth Bishop in the Anthropocene
Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEReading Elizabeth Bishop’s The Sandpiper along with William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence, this talk by Wai Chee Dimock makes a case for the continuing resonances of two poets who, writing before climate change was an available term, nonetheless spoke to the vulnerabilities of the planet — of humans and nonhumans — in a way newly meaningful […]
SHOUT! 2019 Keynote Address
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAn environmental justice activist, a storyteller, and a cultural geographer, Carolyn Finney wrote Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. Her work challenges us to question whose stories frame or are left out of environmental institutions and issues. How do stories influence the ways we understand the world? […]
Career Fair
Alfond Athletic Center, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, MEMore than 65 employers from all over the state will be on campus on Tuesday, March 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Alfond Athletic Center for Thomas Colleges annual Spring Career Fair. Students, alumni, and the public are welcome to attend. Students looking for full-time jobs, internships, or summer positions should be […]
Gazing Back: Zanele Muholi as Artist and Activist
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MESarah Duff, visiting assistant professor of history, and Laura Seay, assistant professor of government, will be in conversation responding to Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness. Part of the Noontime Art Talks Series. Location: Lower Jetté Galleries, Colby Museum of Art.
Clara M. Southworth Lecture with Paul Discoe
Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEDesigner and innovator Paul Discoe is managing partner for O2 Artisans Aggregate (O2AA), an urban industrial eco-park in Oakland, Calif. He is also a design consultant for Japanese-style temples, restaurants, houses, and furniture. His studio at O2AA includes a small workshop for prototypes and one-of-a-kind objects. A longtime student of Zen Buddhism, Discoe is an ordained Buddhist […]
Waterville Green Drinks
Waterville Brewing Company 10 Water Street, Ste. 111, Waterville, MECome join KV Connect, Waterville’s young professionals group, for an exciting evening of networking and socialization while helping to support a great cause! This month, we're at Waterville Brewing Company. Admission is a $5.00 suggested donation to benefit the Children's Discovery Museum. The children’s discovery museum is a local organization that creates long-lasting memories for […]
Maine Jewish Film Festival: Wajib
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEOver one winter’s day in Nazareth, father Abu and son Shadi (real-life father and son actors Mohammed and Saleh Bakri) visit friends and family to deliver invitations for the wedding of Abu’s daughter. Along the way, they reminisce, bicker and laugh together, revealing tensions both political and familial. A richly cinematic sense of place, complex […]
Is Going Global for You?
Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, MELearn about the opportunities and challenges of taking your business international from Wade Merritt, president, Maine International Trade Center. At this Business Breakfast series, Merritt will discuss global strategy and if it is right for your business. Merritt is responsible for the directing the trade and investment policy for the state, including the delivery of […]
After School Art Club: Create Your Own Comic
Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, METhe theme of Youth Art Month is “Your art, Your Story”. To explore the realm of art and stories we will create cool comics of one story we each love to tell about our lives. Learn the art of comics and how artists choose images and text for creating great comics and graphic novels. Ages […]
Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEA prominent scholar of Latinx performance, Dr. Noe Montez is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. His research considers how theater, as a site of activism, can produce memory narratives that change the public's reception to governmental policies on human rights violations. […]
1944 Championship Basket Ball Team
Waterville Historical Society - Redington Museum 62 Silver Street, Waterville, MEJoin us as Fred Stubbert talks to us about the 1944 New England Championship Basket Ball Team. Hosted by Waterville Historical Society and Redington Museum
Beyond a Binary God
Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, MERev. Tara Soughers is author of Beyond a Binary God: A Theology for Trans* Allies. Tara is a parent of a trans young adult as well as an Episcopal priest. What does it mean about God and about humans, that there is not a strict gender binary? How can we affirm and include what we […]
Threats Climate Change Poses to Global and National Security
Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEPlease join the Goldfarb Center at Colby College for a lecture by Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney, USMC (Ret.) of the American Security Project on the threats that climate change presents for national and global security. The world is heating up. Despite skepticism from climate change deniers, our bases and stations are literally going under […]
Notes From Home: A Penobscot Journey Through Maine History
Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJohn Bear Mitchell, will share stories about his experiences growing up on the Penobscot Nation’s tribal headquarters of Indian Island and his childhood in a Catholic school. With humor and brief anecdotes, he will branch out into his professional escapades, and wonder with you, how he was so honored to have had the experiences he’s had […]
Recovery Boys
Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, MEKennebec Montessori School Open House
Kennebec Montessori School 38 Sheridan Road, Fairfield, MEAll are welcome to visit the school and learn more about the Montessori approach to early childhood and elementary education. Prospective parents and children will be able to explore the classrooms and the newly constructed Elementary wing. You will also be able to try the hands-on materials, meet the teachers and talk to current parents […]
Art + Storytelling: Daydreams
Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAfter a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art.
St. Patrick’s Day Green Hunt
L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, MELook for the green! Grab a paper and green marker and see how many green things you can find and draw in the museum You will find green birds, insects, shells frogs and more that are well colored to camouflage in the green leaves and grass. Learn a little about the advantages of green. Make […]
Grandparent and Grandchild Day
Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, MEBring your grandparents, grandchildren, great aunts or uncles to create and celebrate! Create art and tell your story! Bring an old photo or object from the past and share its story with your family and friends. Registration required. Click to register.