Looking for a way to brighten up your child’s day? Bring him or her on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4:oo every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft! (Children under 7 must be accompanied by a grown-up helper.) This week: Paper Cup Sea Serpents

Our therapy dog friends from Kennebec Valley Love on a Leash will be in this afternoon for read-aloud time! Great for kids who want to practice their reading skills and for families who want a fun, calming read-aloud opportunity. Spend 15 minutes with a dog who loves to listen! Bring your own favorite book, or […]

If you have a garden or are thinking of putting one in… March 20: Growing root crops and lesser known or grown vegetables. March 27: Growing wheat, oats and barley varieties that are easy to process. He will also include buckwheat, amaranth, and quinoa. Programs are an hour in length with time for questions. He […]

A night with Zach Fowler, winner of The History Channel’s reality show Alone in a one-on-one conversation with Drew Bonifant, Sports Writer for the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. Zachary Fowler, a boatbuilder from Appleton, survived 87 days in the Patagonia region of South America to earn $500,000 on the TV show Alone on The […]

Help safe a life! The Waterville Robert LaFleur Airport and the City of Waterville are hosting a blood drive at the airport on March 28. There will be a silent auction accompanied by prize give-a-ways! Sponsored by the American Red Cross.

Postponed from March 8, due to snowstorm. Angela Goebel-Bain, curator of the Over There and Down Home: Mainers and World War I exhibit which is currently on display at the Maine State Museum, will speak about the photographs and artifacts in the exhibit. The talk will chronicle the United States' journey from neutral country to […]

The Bow Wow Film Fest is a joyful, traveling, dog-centric collection of short films that celebrates the human-canine bond. We feature the year’s best pooch themed shorts, all wrapped up in one beautiful, 90 minute, fun-loving package. Benefit for the Maine Federation of Humane Societies! (Unrated, 90 min.) Tickets cost $12 and are available in […]

  March 29, 2018 Colby College Field House 4000 Mayflower Hill, Waterville 12:00PM to 6:00PM With over 140 exhibitors and 2,000+ attendees, the Business to Business Showcase is great for networking, and it’s the premier trade show in the area. There will be a list available at check in of all businesses who are hiring. […]

Join us in the Bartlett Room for Teens at 4:00 p.m. every Thursday for a screening of a popular movie! The movie changes every week. This week, we'll be showing Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (PG-13). This event is free, and open to attendees ages 11-18. Light refreshments will be provided. More Information »

The Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers will be hosting its Annual FREE Easter Egg Hunt on its campus on Saturday, March 31st at 9 am! This Easter Egg Hunt is for Children up to grade 3 and please bring your own basket for collecting eggs. We will also have special prizes and giveaways!  Admission […]

A scavenger hunt at the museum is followed by an egg-decorating workshop in the Mirken Education Center. Open to all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult. Location: Mirken Education Center, Colby Museum of Art.

Starting at 12:30, an auction of the cake entries will be held after the prizes for first, second, and third place are awarded for the Easter bunny cakes and coloring contest. A new category for professional bakers has been added for the cake entries! For more information please contact Roger Derosier at 485-5841 or Carol […]

Did you know that our native rabbit, the New England cottontail, is on the endangered species list? Come on in and learn a little more about these amazing creatures and what YOU can do to help protect them! And don’t worry we didn’t forget about our native snowshoe hare. Come on in and learn all […]

The wonderful folks from Pushed Learning and Media join Common Street Arts for the afternoon! Learn from award-winning hip-hop dancer Oliver “Sydesho” Arias, who currently teaches hip-hop dance choreography at Brown University. Work on the fundamentals of a variety of hip-hop dance forms, including breakdancing, popping and locking. Please register for this event to reserve […]

Join us in the Bartlett Room for Teens every Monday at 3:00 p.m. and make something new. We'll provide the supplies; you bring the creativity! On Monday, April 2, we'll be learning how to make different kinds of macramé jewelry! This event is free, and open to attendees ages 11-18.

After building her own do-it-yourself “artificial pancreas,” Dana Lewis helped found the open-source artificial pancreas movement (known as “OpenAPS”), making of safe and effective artificial pancreas technology available (sooner) for people with diabetes around the world. She is part of the #WeAreNotWaiting movement and engages with patient communities globally to solve healthcare problems in new […]

Looking for a way to brighten up your child’s day? Bring him or her on down to the Library for Crafternoons! Drop in anytime between 2:30 and 4:oo every Tuesday to participate in a fun craft! (Children under 7 must be accompanied by a grown-up helper.) This week: Pom-Pom Bird's Nests

Cornel West will deliver the keynote lecture for the 2017-18 Colby College humanities theme, Origins. West is professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, Democracy Now!, and C-Span. His passion is to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to […]

Kathleen Sullivan, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been engaged in the nuclear issue for nearly 30 years and has worked internationally as an educator for disarmament focusing primarily on two distinct audiences: young people and atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha). Currently, she is the program director for Hibakusha Stories, an arts-based initiative. As an education […]

Charles D’Ambrosio is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Lannan Fellowship and 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 teaches in the M.F.A. program at the Iowa Writers […]

different works of found footage. The shortest of these, Celeste Fichter’s “Walking on Water,” lasts just over a minute and uses the theme from Hawaii Five-O to accompany the biblical tale of Jesus defying natural law. Soda Jerk’s “The Time That Remains,” a “spectral melodrama” starring several iterations of both Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, […]

Join us in the Bartlett Room for Teens at 4:00 p.m. every Thursday for a screening of a popular movie! The movie changes every week. This week, we'll be showing Star Wars: The Last Jedi (PG-13). This event is free and is open to attendees ages 11-18. Light refreshments will be provided. More Information »

This talk by Rita Felski makes a case for “attachment” as a key word for the humanities. What are the devices that attach us to works of art? Zadie Smith’s conversion to the music of Joni Mitchell offers a striking example of one such device: that of attunement. Felski is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor […]

Book by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks Directed by Debra Susi It's delightfully obscene! It's marvelously indecent! It's Mel Brooks at his finest and you don't want to miss it! In The Producers, the curtain rises on a washed-up Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his nervous accountant, Leo Bloom. […]

by Nick Pattison '18 Showcasing both the rich history and daily life of older people, an intergenerational audience will learn to understand ways that disease, age, and ability interact with the life of older people. Based on narratives from residents at Lakewood Nursing Home in Waterville, this show will provide some of the deepest ways […]