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Please register and join us, Thursday, November 18 at 11 am for our next Business to Business Conference Series: Supporting our families’ health and wellness this holiday season. Materials including recordings from our Zoom series are easy and convenient to access, visit our designated webpage. https://northernlighthealth.org/Resources/Business-to-Business-Conference-Series ________________________________________________________________________________________ For inquiries, please contact: Lanie Abbott lwabbott@northernlight.org

Join us on Tuesday, November 16, for a 1-hour (virtual) conversation with artists who will share how they use their artistic brilliance to raise awareness, challenge norms, and cause a ruckus. Can’t make the live event but don’t want to miss this? No problem! Everyone who registers ahead will receive a link to both the […]

Prof. Aaron Hanlon Prof. Christel Kesler Prof. Dasan Thamattor Conventional wisdom holds that science flourishes in a free, open society with robust free speech norms. But as misinformation spreads during a global pandemic, costing lives and undermining scientific credibility, is it time to rethink conventional wisdom? The Goldfarb Center will host an interdisciplinary faculty-led discussion […]

In his new book The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale (to be released February 1, 2022), behavioral economist and University of Chicago professor John List reveals why every idea’s greatest opportunity—and challenge—lies in it’s potential to go from small to big. What is it about some ideas that […]

Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, most recently Chances Are…,  Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries; in 2016 he was given the Indie Champion Award by the American Booksellers Association; and in 2017 […]

In 2021, the mid-Maine region welcomed new businesses, deployed new programs and COVID-19 related assistance, watched construction projects progress, cheered on entrepreneurs and engaged in conversation about their communities’ futures. Let’s recognize this year’s accomplishments, while preparing the local and regional economy for 2022. Featuring: Developer of the Year Emerging Leader Award A look at […]

Designed for teens aged 13-18, SLICE features free online classes for exploring careers in the creative arts. Join children’s book illustrator and graphic novelist Russ Cox as he demonstrates the process he uses to create a graphic novel. REGISTER.

(Rescheduled from Oct 7, 2021) The Oak Fellow for Incarceration and Human Rights is Russian human rights lawyer Olga Sadovskaya, a human rights lawyer working as the vice-chair of the Committee Against Torture in Russia.  She has been working on issues surrounding torture for over 18 years.  She began this human rights initiative in 2000 along […]

The 58th annual Waterville Rotary Auction with hundreds of gifts, services and unique items will once again be held online. If you would like more information about the online auction November 7 thru November 13, 2021, please look at our webpage for details. You may also actively bid and participate in the auction simply by […]

Designed for teens aged 13-18, SLICE features free online classes for exploring careers in the creative arts. Join Phoebe and Isabelle Rogers to learn the fun process of bringing life to your own shapes, characters, and scenes through stop-motion animation using simple materials and any basic camera. REGISTER.

The Margaret Chase Smith Library is pleased to announce Pamela White as the speaker for the 2021 Leeke-Shaw Lecture on International Affairs. This lecture is cosponsored by the Mid-Maine Global Forum. Ambassador White had a long career as a diplomat. Following graduation from the University of Maine in 1971, she served in Cameroon as a […]

Designed for teens aged 13-18, SLICE features free online classes for exploring careers in the creative arts. Join Raechel Moore to learn how to paint miniatures used for popular table-top games such as Dungeons & Dragons. Each participant will have the opportunity to paint their own miniature. FMI

The Art Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Renée Ater, Provost Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, Brown University. The material remains of slave cabins dot the American landscape in the South and Middle Atlantic. Hiding in plain sight, slave cabins are reminders of the painful legacy of slavery in the United States including […]

Designed for teens aged 13-18, SLICE features free online classes for exploring careers in the creative arts. Join Maine Inside Out in an interactive virtual workshop on what it means to create art that is inspired by social justice issues. This workshop will be inspired by themes in the paintings of Bob Thompson. LEARN MORE.

With Kerry Gallivan, Co-Founder, and CEO Listen in to hear how Chimani is navigating the great outdoors with GPS-enabled maps, curated content, and information on more than 400 national parks, wildlife refuges, and forests getting you off on the right foot no matter where you go. Chimani is a Yarmouth, ME-based software company that makes […]

How does the set design for a theatrical production come to life? Join scenic artist, Desiree DuBois, as she discusses the collaborative and artistic process of creating a theatrical set design from a small-scale model to a full- scale set. Each participant will design their own small-scale model for ‘The Secret Garden’. For ages 13-18. […]

Please join us and register today for our next Zoom meeting, Thursday, September 30 at 11 am. Please Register by clicking here before joining meeting

Mental health and living with continued COVID One-hour Zoom Conferences Twice a Month on Thursdays at 11am If you want your employees and your customers focused on why they’re at your business, instead of on whether they’ll get sick, you’ll want to attend our series. Our panels of experts will cover the topics and contingencies you […]

Listen in to hear how Defendify is cultivating a cyber-smart culture, utilizing technology that goes beyond traditional antivirus and firewalls to provide customers with a comprehensive cybersecurity platform to protect data and privacy. Presented by Tom Leen, Head of Engineering. Click for more info and to register

Practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the Colby College Museum of Art galleries. Our virtual Artful Movements sessions begin with a deeper look at an artwork, followed by yoga and meditation led by Kathleen Leisure Haberstock of School Street Yoga. LEARN MORE

The Latest on COVID 19 and back to school in our new normal We’ve gathered an expert panel for our upcoming Zoom Webinar, be sure to register and join us, Thursday August 19 at 11am.   If you’re looking for materials from our previous Zooms, they’re easy and convenient to access, visit our designated webpage. […]

Join us for a virtual panel discussion about a broad spectrum of Maine visual culture in the mid-century era. The program will expose audiences to some of the incredibly rich visual creations produced in, by, and for the state during the mid-century era, and ask them to consider how the state was represented in the […]

Our experts are ready to share: ·         Insight into the latest on COVID-19 ·         What the fall may look like and require of us to keep our kids safe and healthy ·         Learn more about mandatory vaccinations that go into effect on September 1 ·         Mental health support for kids ·         And plenty of time […]

Register and join us July 15 at 11am. Our next Good Health Is Good Business Zoom is all about ‘Defining the new work normal’. We’ll have a lively panel discussion with business and community leaders from across Maine.       Attendees are asked to join the conference by Zoom and listen to audio using […]