4/11/2022 COVID Update: The State of Maine no longer requires masking or proof of vaccination to attend any public events, but individual venues are free to do so. For the latest information, visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or the State of Maine’s COVID site.

Opening Reception for Mud: Works in Clay

In collaboration with Maine Crafts Association and in conjunction with Maine Craft weekend, Common Street Arts will present works in clay by Maine ceramic artists from throughout the state. This […]

Free

PechaKucha Night Waterville, Vol 22

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

PechaKucha Night Waterville is a creative networking event centered on storytelling. Every event is well attended and provides its own distinctive ride. PechaKucha Night (PKN) began in Tokyo in 2003 […]

Free

Beer/Wine Cellar & Silent Auction

Bishop Auditorium, Prescott Building, Good Will – Hinckley 16 Prescott Drive (off Route 201), Hinckley, ME

Good Will-Hinckley and SKILLS, Inc. are partnering to do a Beer/Wine Cellar & Silent Auction. We are excited to tell you more about what's happening on campus, and to give […]

$30

Waterville Fire Department Open House

Waterville Fire Department 7 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

While you're enjoying the festivities at Harvest Fest, take the short walk to the Waterville Fire Department! Firemen will be offering fire station tours, equipment demonstrations, children's activities, a memorial […]

Free

Harvest Fest

Head of Falls Temple Street at Front Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Waterville Main Street is proud to present the 14th Annual Harvest Fest, hosted in the heart of downtown Waterville at historic Head of Falls on Front Street. This event presents […]

The Emotional Residue of an Unnatural Boundary

Pugh Center, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

If the emotional health and well-being of individuals are linked to the larger structural features of their societies, then literature provides an important but often overlooked site for examining the […]

Free

Peace in Colombia?

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

On Oct. 2, Colombians went to the polls for a historic vote: whether or not to accept the negotiated accord with the country’s largest and oldest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary […]

Free

Photography and/as Scientific Revolution

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

Early photographic experimentation was frequently less concerned with optics — with providing a picture of the world — than with physics. Techniques such as spectroscopy were developed and deployed explicitly […]

Free

Nitrogen Cycling in Eutrophic Systems

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

Silvia Newell, assistant professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, will discuss cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Lake Taihu and western Lake Erie, which are driven largely by […]

Free

Dissecting Violence: The Humanities Respond, Part I

Pugh Center, Cotter 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 […]

Free

Mental Health First Aid

Muskie Community Center 38 Gold Street, Waterville, ME

This national, evidenced-based certification course will help participants support loved ones, colleagues, neighbors, and others coping with mental illness and addiction. At the end of the day, you will have […]

$5

President Trump And Other Plausible Impossibilities

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

Join panelists E.J. Dionne, columnist for the Washington Post and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Eliana Johnson, Washington editor for National Review Magazine, and David Shribman, editor-in-chief for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a discussion on […]

Free

Slavery and Colonization in Early America

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

Wendy Warren, an assistant professor at Princeton University, will discuss the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the culture of New England in the 17th century based on her […]

Free

Abbott Meader: Three Films

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

This special screening features new digital renditions of two of Abbott Meader’s 16mm films. “South Slope” (1979-80) is an elegant contemplation of a small patch of Oakland, Maine through the […]

Essentials of College Planning

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

This interactive workshop touches on the four steps in the college process: admissions, financial aid, career, and study skills. Advance registration required. Visit http://meoc.maine.edu/schedule.php or call 1-800-281-3703.

Free

Darwinian Revolution

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

History tells us that Charles Darwin was neither the first nor the only one to think of evolution. This talk by Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science […]

Free
Recurring

Constellations

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

Constellations is a multimedia theater piece by Alexis Atkinson ’15 that aims to reflect and track the psychological and emotional development of a young black female. The one-woman play utilizes different […]

Tailgate Party

Kids and cops on campus! Maine's Law Enforcement, Local Communities & Higher Education Come together for a day of Fun! Barbecue, Games and the COLBY COLLEGE VS. UMO RUGBY MATCH […]

Recurring

Art + Storytelling: Pumpkins Galore

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

After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the fall season. Children and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education […]

Free

Tristan und Isolde

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

Music by Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde opens the Met season in a new production by Mariusz Treliński (the director responsible for the 2014–15 season’s double bill of Iolanta and […]

Indie Author Day

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Bette Stevens, and Richard Wooten will be joining us for a book signing as part of Indie Author Day 2016! During this inaugural Indie Author Day, libraries all across North […]

Free

Bob Marley

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

Maine's own wicked funny comedian returns for his annual performance at the Waterville Opera House! Tickets: $25 (Note: There will be only one performance. The previously announced 9:00 performance has […]

$25

International Moon Night

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

Ever caught yourself looking up at the Moon wondering exactly what you were looking at? The L.C. Bates Museum will be one of thousands of locations around the globe celebrating […]

Casco Bay Tummlers

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

After 36 years teaching guitar in the Music Department, Carl Dimow will retire after this academic year. He performs his final official faculty concert with his eclectic klezmer band, the […]

Free

Cuba

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

A problematic romance; a less problematic revolution. Sean Connery (the first James Bond!) and Brooke Adams (a past Railroad Square guest who first rose to prominence in Terrence Malick’s Days […]

$5
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