4/11/2022 COVID Update: The State of Maine no longer requires masking or proof of vaccination to attend any public events, but individual venues are free to do so. For the latest information, visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or the State of Maine’s COVID site.

What Makes Russian Culture Russian?

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Suzanne Massie will speak about Russian cultural markers in the folk tale, folk art, and ballet. Best known for her  influential book Land of the Firebird (1980), she was invited […]

Free

Nina

Strider Theater, Runnals Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

What makes a happy life? The 50-year friendship of two concentration camp survivors is challenged by the death of a daughter and subsequent questions about the nature and mysteries of […]

Free

Veterans Day Luncheon

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

The menu includes Baked Ham, Seasoned Baked Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Glazed Carrots and a Special Dessert from 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. This luncheon is free for veterans; the cost is $6.00 […]

Harvest on the Square

  TUESDAY  NOVEMBER 10th, 2015 4:30 - 7:00 PM 14-24 Common Street Downtown Waterville RSVP NOW Gail Conway   207.873.5101     gail@ghmagency.com Come Celebrate Community!   Take in three […]

Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on the Environment

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The themes of anthropocentrism, the intrinsic value of nature, and an ecological worldview have preoccupied environmental philosophers for decades. How have philosophers considered these topics, and which of their conclusions are […]

Free

Music in the Museum: The Andrés Segovia Continuum

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Mark Leighton, guitar, will perform music composed for, transcribed by, or reintroduced into the repertoire by Andrés Segovia during a career that spanned nearly the entire 20th century. Included will […]

Free

Studio Artist Lecture: Jackie Brown

Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Artist and educator Jackie Brown focuses on sculpture installation, working to create immersive environments that invite the viewer into imagined biological systems. An assistant professor of art at Bowdoin College, […]

Free

Poetry Reading by Erika Meitner

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Erika Meitner is the author of four books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner. Meitner’s poems have been anthologized widely, and have appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia […]

Free

Doing Business Across the Border

Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

Maine’s trading relationship with Canada is worth over $3.5 billion annually and continues to grow. Join Canada’s Consul General to New England to learn about business opportunities across the border, […]

Soils Based Economies

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Mid-Maine Global Forum presents 2015 Oak Human Rights Fellow: Jodi Koberinski Soils Based Economies and the Future of Food in Celebration of the 2015 United Nations Year of Soils More […]

Educator Evenings

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Join the Colby Museum for our new Educator Evenings! Network with fellow educators while learning about current exhibitions, artists, and works in the Museum’s collection. Refreshments will be served. Attendees […]

Free

Mary Poppins Auditions

Colorful and imaginative, Mary Poppins follows the story of a nanny employed by a wealthy Edwardian-era English banker and his wife to look after their out-of-control children Jane and Michael. […]

The Ghosts Of Jeju

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

Director and Waterville native Regis Tremblay introduces The Ghosts Of Jeju Free and Open To All! Waterville born and bred, documentarian Regis Tremblay returns to introduce the first theatrical showing […]

Free

Veteran Stories

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Morgan Rielly, author of Neighborhood Heroes, and other presenters will share memories of WWII and other wars. Audience members are welcome and encouraged to share their own testimonials. Refreshments provided. […]

Free

Migration, Hibernation, and More Strategies for Survival

L.C. Bates Museum, Good Will-Hinckley 14 Easler Road, Hinckley, ME

How do Maine animals survive in winter and what adaptations do they use to survive? Come on a tour with a museum guide to learn some of the amazing adaptations […]

Colby Jazz Band: Cover Me … or Not!

Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

John Coltrane's "Lady Bird" draws upon Tadd Dameron's composition by the same name and foreshadows the famous Coltrane changes. Freddie Hubbard's cool hard bop chart "Lo, How A Rose E'er […]

Free

Theater of War

Page Commons, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Theater of War presents dramatic readings of Sophocles’ Ajax—a Greek tragedy about the suicide of a great, respected warrior—to engage communities about the visible and invisible wounds of war. This event is […]

Free

Aguirre: The Wrath Of God

Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath Of God looks more magnificent and mad than ever, one of the great folies de grandeur of 1970s cinema, an expeditionary Conradian nightmare like Coppola's Apocalypse Now. […]

$5

Arsenic in Water and Food: What Might it Mean for You?

Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Arsenic is a known carcinogen that can also affect the cardiac, respiratory, neurological and immune systems. Private wells in New Hampshire and Maine can contain elevated levels of arsenic due […]

Free

James White

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

Join us for the world premiere of James White an award-winning independent movie that rocked this year’s Sundance Film Festival. This pre-release screening will take place throughout the country and […]

$10

Romanticism and Cameron’s “Heaven”

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

A conversation with Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jamison Kantor and Curator of Academic Programs Shalini Le Gall examining the echoes of Romantic literature visible in Cameron’s “Heaven” (1864), a recent […]

Free
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Business After Hours

Join the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce for Business After Hours! Held on the third or fourth Wednesday of each month, these events are a great opportunity to mix and mingle […]

Free
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