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The Materials Movement: Employing Transparency and Purchasing Power for Market

Fairchild Dining Room, Dana Hall, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Building materials are responsible for many environmental issues throughout their life cycle, including human illness, pollution, habitat and species loss, and resource depletion. How do you design a building with […]

Poetry Out Loud State Finals

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

Recitation and performance are major new trends in poetry. There has been a recent resurgence of poetry as an oral art form, as seen in the slam poetry movement and […]

Free

Enough School Violence!

Castonguay Square Common Street, Waterville

Come out of sympathy for the victims. Come out of respect for the victims’ families. Come out of solidarity for teachers and students. Come out of concern for area schools […]

Free

Golden Leaves: Medieval Manuscript Fragments at Colby

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

In April 2016, Maine bookseller Seth Thayer, Colby Class of ’89, found a cache of medieval manuscript leaves “in a trunk in a client’s house in Maine.” A Google search […]

Free

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

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

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30 Take a trip to a curious land unlike any other. The innovative Scottish playwright Anthony Neilson has created The Wonderful World of Dissocia, where […]

Free

Last Chance – Governor LePage’s Final Push

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

March 15 (postponed from March 8) 7:15 to 9:00 AM  Summit Room, Spann Commons, Thomas College, 180 West River Road, Waterville Governor Paul LePage will review his ultimate legislative agenda […]

$18 – $25

Winter Indoor Farmers’ Market

Alfond Youth & Community Center 126 North Street, Waterville, ME

Join The Boys & Girls Clubs and YMCA at the Alfond Youth Center (2nd floor library) for the Winter Downtown Waterville Farmers’ Market! Every 1st and 3rd Thursday, December 7, […]

Teen Movie: Thor: Ragnarok

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

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 Thor: […]

Free

Shakespeare Slam Competition

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Similar to Slam Poetry, a Shakespeare Slam is a competition to present Shakespeare through spoken word. Contestants will be judged on their ability to memorize the Shakespearean text of their […]

Free

Making Space for We: Building Bridges Through Art and Social Action

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Designed to build community capacity for public art projects, establish a common understanding of best practices, and develop a shared language for community discussion, Waterville Creates! and the Colby Museum […]

Free

Poetry Reading with Adrian Blevins

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

Rescheduled from Tuesday, March 13 to Thursday, March 15, due to the storm expected on Tuesday. Adrian Blevins, associate professor of English at Colby, has written Appalachians Run Amok, winner […]

Free

ACAT: God of Carnage

Written by Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton, and Directed by Doree Austin A playground altercation between 11-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to […]

$10 – $15

Femmes of Rock Workshop for Strings Students

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

The Waterville Opera House is excited to announce it is partnering with the talented musicians from the nationally recognized touring group, Femmes of Rock, to offer an educational workshop for […]

Free

Noontime Art Talk: Exploring Game Time

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

Join Tim Hood, Colby Class of 2019, as he explores game time in our current exhibition Game Time: The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss, on view through June 24.

Free

The Femmes of Rock in Concert

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

The Femmes of Rock, led by rock violinist and arranger, Nina DiGregorio, has rocked audiences worldwide with their blistering solos, unique arrangements, not to mention their beauty and charm. The […]

$35 – $50

Cinema Explorations: The Other Side of Hope

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

To be shown Saturday and Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Aki Kaurismäki’s wry, melancholic comedy, a clear-eyed response to the current refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a new life. […]

$5 – $9

Colby Nordic Marathon

Quarry Road Recreation Area 300 Quarry Road, Waterville, ME

Join the Colby College Nordic ski team for their spring fundraiser on March 17, 2018. Race Information: 40 km or 20 km Skate Mass Start. Start is at 9:30 a.m. […]

Montessori Open House and Registration

Kennebec Montessori School 38 Sheridan Road, Fairfield, ME

Kennebec Montessori School invites prospective parents and their children to visit the school and learn more about the Montessori approach to early childhood and elementary education. Visitors will be able […]

Free

The Met: Semiramide

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

Music by Gioachino Rossini This masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance — its first in nearly 25 years — with Maurizio Benini on the podium. The […]

$15 – $20

Silver Tea

Fireplace Lounge, Randall Student Center, University of Maine at Augusta 70 University Drive, Augusta, ME

BPW/Maine Futurama Foundation Invites you to the 29th Annual Maine Women’s Hall of Fame Silver Tea 1:00 PM Induction Ceremony 2:00 PM Saturday, March 17, 2018 Snow date Sunday, March […]

Birding-In

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

Birding-In is what we call Birding in the L.C.Bates Museum Audubon Gallery. In the gallery you can Get ready for spring trail side birding by touring the many museum specimens […]

$1 – $3

Clay Slab Creations

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Join Common Street Arts for an afternoon focused on crafting unique clay creations. Participants are invited to represent themselves in a visual format. What makes you, you? What do you […]

Colby Wind Ensemble: Program Music

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

The ensemble delves into the world of program music, featuring marches by composer Julie Giroux — “March of the Sundried Tomatoes,” recounting a cooking debacle, and “Tiger Tail March,” depicting […]

Free

Maine Jewish Film Festival: Oriented

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

Postponed from March, 10:00 a.m., due to snow! What is life like for a gay Palestinian twenty-something living in Tel Aviv? It’s complicated. In this big-hearted documentary, we meet three […]

Service of Ordination for Kurt Nelson

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

The Living Water Association of the Maine Conference of the United Church of Christ invites you to a Service of Ordination for Kurt D. Nelson, Sunday, March 18, 2018, at […]

Free
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