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Ponyo

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

Screened in conjunction with Cirque du Geek 2018: Lost at Sea! One of Studio Ghibli’s greatest recent anime features, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After a chance encounter, Ponyo yearns to become a human so […]

1968: “Sensitive Humanity” and Black Radicalism

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Exhibition opens Tuesday, Sept 11, 2018. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 resistance movements, this exhibition will present photography of the Black Panther movement taken by Ruth Marion-Baruch and Pirkle Jones. This exhibition is co-curated by Chandra Bhimull, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Colby College.  

Free

Colby Choral Kickoff

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

This year, Colby-Kennebec Choral Society features a musical theatre concert of Leonard Bernstein, a Stephen Sondheim revue, annual Carols and Lights performances, two concerts with the Colby Symphony Orchestra, and an appearance at the Waterville Opera House! We welcome special guests from around the country, including a concert by New England-based chamber ensemble, Renaissance Men, […]

Free

Syrian People: A Battle for Life

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The photographs of the 2018 Oak Human Rights Fellow, Syrian photojournalist Bassam Khabieh, will be featured in the Diamond Atrium with a reception beginning at 6:30 p.m. A public talk at 7 p.m. will follow. Khabieh has powerfully documented war crimes and other ongoing human rights violations in the Syrian conflict. His stunning photographs, “one […]

Free

Darkness Visible

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

Exhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. In the last years of the eighteenth century, the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828) conceived a series of prints guided solely, he professed, by his imagination. Los Caprichos, or the Caprices, is the whimsical title Goya gave to his project, yet the series’ images are far from lighthearted. For […]

Free

Nancy Spero: Unbound

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

Exhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. For more than five decades, Nancy Spero (1926–2009) pioneered a feminist art practice that fiercely defied the social expectations imposed on women. Using a lexicon of appropriated imagery, Spero envisioned, as she observed in 1987, “all manner of processions, conflicts, interruptions and disruptions.” Her hybrid artworks made in protest […]

Free

Your Small Business Toolkit

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

Your Small Business Toolkit- FREE Resources to Help You Grow Your Business From business plan assistance to introduction to lending resources to floor layout of your manufacturing line, let the panel of Maine Small Business Development Center, Small Business Administration & Coastal Enterprises, Inc. help start, scale and grow your business. Moderated by Central Maine […]

$18 – $25

Selling Tech with a Human Touch

Bricks Coworking & Innovation Space Hathaway Creative Center, 10 Water St. Ste. 110, Waterville, ME

Selling Tech with a Human Touch: Challenges of Customer Service in a High-Tech World   By Allison Watson, business advisor at the Small Business Development Center   Join Us for Drinks, Pizza, and the Hottest Issues in Technology! Central Maine's technology community comes together each month for a fun night of collaboration, drinks, food, and networking. […]

Free

How Colby College Ended Up In Waterville

Waterville Historical Society - Redington Museum 62 Silver Street, Waterville, ME

Maine State Archivist, Dave Cheever, will present: “How Colby Happened to End up in Waterville: A story of how a flood on the Androscoggin River in 1817, combined with intrigue, cut-throat capitalism, religious persecution, and bare-knuckle politics brought Colby to Waterville.”

Free

An Enchanted Evening In the Garden

Hospice Community Center 304 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area are sponsoring "An Enchanted Evening In the Garden" in the Hospice Memorial Healing Garden.  Limited Tickets available by calling 873-3615 or online:www.hvwa.org/enchantedevening  $35.00/person   There will be local wine and beer tastings - plus a cash bar, delectable tastings of foods from local providers and catered hors d'oeuvres.   Other […]

$35

The Good News and Our Choices on Climate Change

Winslow Public Library 136 Halifax Street, Winslow, ME

Peter Garrett of the Mid Maine Chapter of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby will speak about his recent trip to Washington to lobby for climate change legislation and on reasons for optimism regarding this important issue. Peter is a Winslow resident who has long been involved in environmental causes.

Free

Readings From Approaching Poems: Historical Poetics 1895/2018

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

Born and raised on Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, poet and performer Emily Pauline Johnson was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and his English wife. She was educated mainly at home, studying both English literature and Mohawk oral history and legend. In 1892 she was invited to give a poetry reading for the […]

Free
Recurring

Maine Storytelling Muster

Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME

The greater Waterville community is invited to the annual MAINE STORYTELLING MUSTER which will be held at the Pleasant St. Methodist Church in Waterville on Friday evening, Sept. 14 and all day Saturday, Sept. 15.  The annual event is the party for all Maine storytellers, folks interested in storytelling and storytelling fans from beyond our […]

Recurring

Things My Mother Taught Me

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

Olivia and Gabe are moving into their first apartment together. They've just packed up all of their belongings and driven halfway across the country, to start a new life together in Chicago. Their moving day doesn't go exactly as planned, though, and things become slightly more complicated when all of their parents show up to […]

$21 – $24

Literacy tutor training

United Way 105 Kennedy Memorial Drive, Waterville, ME

Literacy Volunteers-Waterville Area is having a tutor training session on Saturday, September 15th from 9-3:00 at the United Way office on Kennedy Memorial Drive.  Contact Danielle at 873-7786 or lvwaterville@gmail.com.

Self Care Nature Walk

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

Did you know that September is Self-Care Awareness month and it’s also the National Suicide Prevention month?  What better way to take care of yourself than getting outside for some fresh air and taking a nice nature walk.   Did you know that there are beautiful trails on the GWH campus behind the L.C. Bates Museum?  Why not join us […]

Motorcycle Ride and BBQ Fundraiser

Maine Children's Home 93 Silver Street, Waterville, United States

Saturday, September 15th 10 AM - 1 PM   On Saturday, September 15th, Low XII Central Maine chapter Widows Sons Masonic Riders Association is putting together a ride and fundraiser to benefit the Christmas Program at the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers! Motorcyclists will be meeting at JFK Plaza in Waterville (by Tractor Supply) […]

$10

Waterville Community Litter Cleanup

Castonguay Square Common Street, Waterville

Please join us for a community litter cleanup to help beautify Waterville. We will meet at 11:00 a.m. outside Waterville City Hall in Castonguay Square. Trash bags and rubber gloves will be provided for free. We will fan out and cleanup Head of Falls, the Concourse, and Main Street. After the cleanup, please join us […]

Free

Soil & Water Conservation for Kids

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

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, as one of the most popular parts of the program involves making mud with different soil types! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

$1 – $3

Philharmonia Boston Orchestra String Players

Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

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 programs, providing vibrant musical experiences, and introducing young talented musicians. Led by Jinwook Park, Colby Symphony Orchestra’s dynamic director, the PBO string players will present […]

Free

Climatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War

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

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 two nations with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas, would inject so much smoke from the resulting fires into […]

Free

!Women Art Revolution

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

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. This documentary film by Lynn Hershman Leeson is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Nancy Spero: Unbound, on view at the Colby College Museum of […]

Free

Methtacular!

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

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 devastating. Don’t miss your opportunity to experience this heartfelt, fun, and searingly honest memoir directly from someone who’s been through the worst and came out […]

Free

PFLAG

Pleasant Street United Methodist Church 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME

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 in the Dunn Parlor on the 2nd floor. All those interested in promoting the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their […]

Free
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