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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Join us at our new space at Hathaway Creative Center and draw or paint a real-life viking as our featured model is local celebrity, Iver Lofving! Lofving is an artist, […]

AGING Well In Waterville! Invites you to join us!   We invite you to join us if you share our concerns about transportation, safety, accessibility and other issues in our […]

Andrew Stancioff is a geologist, natural resource planner, analyst, and manager with 35 years of experience in geology, hydrology, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, climatology, and oceanography. He has 40 years of […]

Students who undertook summer internships will share their experiences. This is a great opportunity for sophomores and juniors to get ideas of places to consider applying for an Environmental Studies-funded internship. […]

Finbarr O’Reilly is the co-author of Shooting Ghosts, a unique joint memoir with retired U.S. Marine Sgt. Thomas James Brennan. Their story about the unpredictability of war and its aftermath […]

An International Conference of Scholars What:  A conference probing the legacy of the Prague Spring of 1968, fleshing out its lessons for important domestic and international issues today, and producing […]

To benefit the Sharon Abrams' Teen Parent School Program On Thursday, September 20th, we will be 'Celebrating Resilience' at O'Brien's Event Center. This year's celebration recognizes the hard work and dedication […]

A former journalist and retired executive, presenter Chet Lunner has a unique, 360-degree perspective on fake news, the First Amendment, and an inside-the-Beltway view of our national government, having been […]

Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity, hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a special Museum […]

Early fall is a wonderful time to explore the trails. Join a guided walk along the historic, early 1900s Good Will-Hinckley Trails behind the L.C.Bates Museum to find signs of […]

After 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 […]

Art House Theater Day celebrates the legacy of independent theaters as advocates for cinema arts. In an age where media has become more digital than tangible, more solitary than social, […]

Roberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality and stems from theoretical interests at the […]

Carly Glovinski has generated a group of works for a two-part exhibition that will be shown concurrently at the Colby Museum and the Waterville Public Library. In its presentation of […]

    September 25 11:30 am to 1:00 pm   Amici's Cucina 137 Main Street, Waterville   Co-host   Join Mid-Maine Chamber as Tobias Parkhurst, president of Oakes & Parkhurst […]

This interactive training is for anyone and everyone. We need YOU! As participants of this series, together we will ... Gain an understanding of the health impacts of community conflicts […]

Andrea Warren, research associate in the Environmental Studies Program at Colby, will discuss the role of implementation research in advancing global nutrition agendas. For the past decade, the goal of improving population-level […]

In late 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched his nonviolent Poor People’s Campaign to bring awareness about poverty and economic injustice in America and to initiate substantial change. In […]

Journalist and former civil rights lawyer Alia Malek will provide a personal narrative of the Syrian conflict and a reading from her book The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir […]