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Young Frankenstein

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

Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks Book by Thomas Meehan and Mel Brooks From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius Mel Brooks adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced “Fronk-en-steen”) inherits his […]

$21

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

Prescription drug abuse is a rapidly growing crisis in Maine and our local communities. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet. Safely dispose of unwanted and unused prescription drugs at a convenient location in your community.  FMI call 211 or visit deadiversion.usdoj.gov. Local […]

Community Day at the Colby Art Museum

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

Join us for refreshments, art making for all ages, games, silhouette portrait cutting, and live music.

Free

Bacon Jam

Camden Bank Pocket Park 33 Main Street, Waterville, ME

Turkey Supper

First Congregational Church, UCC 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Cost is $10 for teens and adults, $4 for children 4-12, and free for children under 4.  Benefits Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter.  Sponsored by St. Mark's Episcopal of Waterville and the Federated Church of Skowhegan.

$4
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Night At the L.C. Bates Museum

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

Gather up your friends and family and get ready for the annual Night At the Museum tour that is a bit spooky and a little bit educational. This popular and fun event for families is not super scary, just wonderfully creepy! Bring a flashlight and explore the decorated museum at night! This is a program […]

$1

Colby Symphony Orchestra: Introducing Jinwook Park

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

Jinwook Park conducts his debut concert with the Colby Symphony Orchestra in a program of symphonic favorites, including the overture from Felix Mendelssohn’s magical Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gabriel Fauré’s luminous Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, and the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.

Free

Business Workshop for Artists

During this all-day business workshop for artists hosted at The Center in downtown Waterville, artists will have the opportunity to network and learn best-practices from their peers during a variety of workshops and breakout sessions presented by the Arts Business Institute (ABI) and Maine Crafts Association in partnership with Waterville Creates! Waterville Creates is collaborating […]

$150

Bend It Like Beckham

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

The hit film Bend It Like Beckman, an inspiring comedy about a young Sikh girl in England who rebels against her orthodox parents to chase her dream as a soccer player, will be shown in anticipation of a lecture by the film’s director, Gurinder Chadha. Chadha will give the 2016 Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture Oct. […]

Free

Music at Moody: Lyle Michaud, Pianist

Moody Chapel, Kennebec Valley Community College Stanley Road (off U.S. Route 201), Hinckley, ME, United States

Music at Moody welcomes Califonia-based pianist Lyle Michaud for an evening of solo piano classics, standards, and originals. Lyle Michaud is a pianist, composer/arranger, and teacher originally from Charlestown, NH. He graduated Cum Laude from The Master’s University in Santa Clarita, CA with a degree in Music Composition in 2014. He has been playing piano […]

Reporting on Love Canal and Three Mile Island: A Young Journalist’s Journey

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

David Shribman serves as executive editor and vice president of PG Publishing Co., Inc. He joined the Boston Globe after serving as national political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, covering national politics for the New York Times, writing for the feature and national staffs of the Washington Star, and working in the Washington bureau […]

Capturing War: Images of Conflict, Upheaval, and Revolution

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

In conjunction with the Lovejoy Convocation program, three award-winning war photographers will display and discuss some of their most compelling work in the atrium of the Diamond Building. See the work of Nina Berman, documentary photographer, author, and educator; Andrea Bruce, documentary photographer and co-owner and member of NOOR Photo Agency; and Carol Guzy, American news photographer with […]

Free

Lovejoy Award Presentation and Address

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

Alissa Rubin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, will receive Colby College's Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism and will deliver the 2016 Lovejoy Convocation address at the ceremony. Lovejoy, Colby's valedictorian in 1826, became a crusading abolitionist editor and was murdered in 1837 for his anti-slavery editorials. He was […]

Free

Dissecting Violence: The Humanities Respond, Part II

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

How do Colby professors use their disciplines to respond when violence convulses our world? When police shoot and are shot at, when bombs explode and refugees drown, what can the arts and humanities, in particular, teach us? Join us as professors Carleen Mandolfo (Religious Studies), Aaron Hanlon (English), and visiting artists Brother(hood) Dance! explore how […]

Free

Bead with Us!

Common Street Arts invites you to “Bead with Us! – Jewelry Making Night Out” $40 per person ($20 paid upon registration, $20 paid to instructor for beading kit at start of class) Need a night out for some “me” time? Want something fun to do with your besties? This class will be what you’re looking […]

$40

Threepenny Opera

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

Mack the Knife is back in town! A darkly comic new take on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s raucous musical broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre. London scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out […]

$13

Reading Poetry: In the Beginning is the Relation

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

Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published nine books of poems, most recently Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy, and The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which brings together 35 years of work. He has also published five prose books, among them A Poet’s Glossary (2014), a complete compendium, and How to Read […]

Free

The Unfinished Business of the Darwinian Revolution

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Judy Stone, professor of biology and Dr. Charles C. and Pamela W. Leighton Research Fellow, discusses the Darwinian Revolution. Darwin’s theories on descent with modification and on evolution by natural selection revolutionized biology. Both of these theories rest upon an underlying insight called population thinking, which recognizes that variation among individuals within a species is […]

Free

Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Arthritis

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

Join us for a free presentation with Donna Walsh, MSRDN, LD. We will learn about the foods that we can eat that may lessen and control the inflammation linked to diseases like Arthritis, Cancer, and Heart Disease. Pre-registration is required by calling 873-4745 or stopping by the reception desk.

Free

Failure to Adjust: How Americans Fell Behind in the Global Economy

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

In an election year in which controversies over trade, immigration, and job loss have dominated the presidential election campaign, Edward Alden will discuss how and why the U.S. government failed over the past half century to respond effectively to a more competitive global economy on issues such as trade, currency, investment and offshoring, worker re-training, […]

Free

Kringleville Auction

Hathaway Creative Center 10 Water Street, Waterville

It's that time of year again. We are preparing for the Parade of Lights and Kringleville. As you know, each year we host our annual Kringleville Auction to support these Downtown Waterville community events. Tickets cost $25 per person and include a delicious meal and access to a fantastic happy hour. If you would like […]

$25

Body of Work

Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Regina José Galindo’s artistic practice situates her own body in public space as a way to address the ethical implications of social injustices related to racial and gender discrimination and the history of violence and abuse in her birth country of Guatemala. She has exhibited her work in the Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion in 2005. This talk is organized […]

Free

Religion, Culture, Identity: A Journey Through Film

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

Gurinder Chadha, director of the hit film Bend It Like Beckham and more than a dozen other films, will deliver Colby’s annual Compagna-Sennett Religious Studies Lecture. Her lecture is titled “Religion, Culture, and Identity: A Journey Through Film.” The movie, which follows the daughter of orthodox Sikhs who rebels against her parents’ traditions to chase her […]

Free

Poetry and Human Rights

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

A poetry reading celebrating the intersection between the personal and the political in English and Spanish. Guatemala’s Regina José Galindo and Colby’s own Adrian Blevins will read from recent work. Regina José Galindo is a performance artist and poet from Guatemala. She is the author of two books of poems including Trentacuentos (2008) and most recently […]

Free

Father on a Mission for Transgender Equality

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

Wayne Maines, the father of Wyatt who became Nicole, will be speaking about the arduous journey and the struggles that his wife, Nicole's twin brother Jonas, and himself took in support of Nicole, who fought for the right to be herself. Following his talk, there will be a question and answer session.  Becoming Nicole books […]

Free
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