Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965 […]

After he birthed Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and reimagined the American West in reality and myth in one of the […]

Now that Maine is entering into springtime, do you know why we have seasons? Why does our hemisphere experience summer solstice in June while in the Southern Hemisphere is having […]

Increasingly the seafood sustainability discussion includes calls for transparency as a solution to combatting illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing (IUU) and mislabeling and fraud. Seafood-value chains remain some of the […]

Zao Wou-Ki’s unique pictorial language drew from a rich variety of sources—ancient and modern, Asian and European. Exhibition co-curator Melissa Walt will examine how the artist moved across time and […]

In January 2013, Angus King was sworn in as Maine’s first Independent United States Senator, filling the same seat once held by storied Maine leaders Edmund Muskie, George Mitchell, and […]

Fortepianist David Hyun-sun Kim returns to Colby with violinist Lauren Basney to present a program of Mendelssohn and Schumann. The duo will perform on early-19th-century instruments including a fortepiano built in Maine by […]

Come on a walk to look for amphibian signs and to look at a vernal pool during the day! If we have the right timing, we will see eggs and […]

Beginning in the 1920s, the Surrealists sought to instigate a revolution that was both mental and material. Art making was central to this endeavor. As a concrete manifestation of poetic […]

Enjoy four carefully selected wines, hors d’oeuvres,  a silent auction and two souvenir Riedel wine glasses. $35 per person, to benefit The Maine Children's Home. Kindly respond on or before […]

Are you new to Medicare? Medicare has four parts: Part A is hospital insurance. Part B is medical insurance. Part C is Medicare Advantage Plans & Part D is for […]

Join us for a short hike to the Roosevelt Monument. We'll talk about the things we see along the way, learn some fun exercises, and finish by making a teddy […]

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour) and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly […]

Recycled Shakespeare Company is planning Shakespeare's 453rd Birthday Bash on Saturday, April 22. We will be walking through Downtown Waterville, stopping along the way to read some of Shakespeare's sonnets. […]

Join us to celebrate Earth Day! We will be meeting volunteers in Castonguay Square. Armed with gloves, rakes, brooms, and other cleaning supplies, we'll spend the morning making Downtown Waterville […]

Photography and Migration is a community photo-sharing event hosted by the Waterville Public Library and Colby College. Bring your historical family photos to the library for digitization and share your […]

Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah Warner’s moving production, starring Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Tatiana and Onegin. Alexey Dolgov […]

The year 2014 was the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. In celebration of Earth Day, discover the story of this pigeon and other endangered animals around […]

Come spend the afternoon sketching with Guild of Science Illustrators Maine at the L.C. Bates Museum, an early 20th-century natural history and cultural museum in Hinckley, Maine. The museum has […]

Directed by Jesse Wakeman, the Colby Collegium Musicum performs Antonio Vivaldi’s masterful Gloria. This brilliant and complex work for choir and orchestra, with soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, is sure to invigorate […]