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.

Love Without Limits

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

Featuring Colby students Alexis Atkinson ’15, Milton Guillén ’15, and Anne Vetter ’17 with Sonja Thomas, associate professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a conversation about representation in the arts sector, self-expression in repressive cultures and institutions, the intersection of art and activism, and what it means to put yourself into your work. Inspired […]

Free

The Passion Project: Activist Storytelling Workshop

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

After a spirited and successful program last year, Theater and Dance presents The Passion Project 2019, a brand-new evening of original, story-based performance about issues Colby students are most passionate about in their lives. Through the Jan Plan Activist Storytelling Workshop, students will write and rehearse a series of short solo and small-group pieces inspired […]

Free

In Search of Our Mothers’ Arrows

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

This workshop with Sabaah Folayan will be a multimedia presentation on women leadership in rebellion and a discussion about people like Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Nina Simone, Dolores Huerta, and Queen Nanny. This event will explore Folayan’s current work in progress, touching on the themes of femininity during conflict, romance, and relationship to popular literature. […]

Free

Girls Rock! Waterville

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

The Girls Rock! Conference is an event planned BY girls FOR girls.  The high school girls on the Girls Advisory Board choose topics for the conference that are relevant to them AND YOU!  Get ready for a fun filled day of learning, sharing, growing and some girl-powered activism! #girlsrock17 The conference is open to girls* […]

$20

Sustain Mid Maine Annual Meeting: The Business and Economic Case for Renewable Energy

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

Sustain Mid Maine Coalition invites you to attend our eighth annual meeting on Saturday, March 18 from 8:30 to 10:00 AM in the Silberman Lounge part of the Cotter Union at Colby College. Dr. Stephen Kahl,Associate Professor of Science and Sustainability Liaison at Thomas College, will be the keynote speaker. As founding director of the […]

Free

SHOUT! Endnote Lecture with Aquib Yacoob ’15

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

The final event of SHOUT! features Aquib Yacoob, Colby Class of ’15, who utilizes community organizing and the arts as vehicles to mobilize and (re)claim power in communities oppressed by difference. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Pugh Community Board (PCB) as part of SHOUT! Week.

Free

The Trans List

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

The Trans List explores the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender (an umbrella term for people whose gender identity does not conform to that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth). No two experiences of trans people are exactly alike. Transgender, transsexual, gender-queer, bi-gender, and non-binary are just […]

Free

Destroying Cultural Heritage in the Middle East

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

In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria today, there is large-scale destruction of cultural heritage, especially remnants of ancient visual cultures in the region. This lecture by Assistant Professor of Art Marta E. Ameri examines the history of such image destruction in the Middle East, focusing on its role in the context of political and social upheaval […]

Free

Welcome to the G–d— Ice Cube!

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

Blair Braverman (Colby Class of 2011), dogsledder, journalist, and essayist, has been an Iowa Arts Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. She was an environmental policy major and creative writing minor at Colby. Her work has appeared on This American Life, and Buzzfeed, and in Orion, and Atavist magazines. Last May she was named to the inaugural Outdoor magazine 30 […]

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 arts and humanities, in particular, teach us? Join us as professors Lisa Arellano (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Gary Green (Art), and Anindyo Roy (English) […]

Free

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 social conditions that support (and diminish) mental health. Julie Minich, University of Texas at Austin, examines the depiction of mental health on the U.S.-Mexico border […]

Free

Colby First Generation to College Student Narratives

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

The final event in Colby’s month-long First Generation to College Student Program, join Colby students as they share their successes, challenges, and hopes as First-Gen college students. Light refreshments provided.

Free

Roadtrip Nation: “Why Not Us”

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

An episode screening and discussion of “Why Not Us” from Roadtrip Nation. Follow the journeys of four young people — all first in their families to go to college — as they travel across the country to interview inspiring individuals who were also first in their families to pursue higher education. Part of Colby’s First Generation to […]

Free

History Matters: Blackface at the Holidays

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

The "traditional" celebration of St. Nicholas, the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus, is the most popular children's holiday in the Netherlands. Every year, or so it is believed, St. Nicholas arrives with a steamer packed with gifts and sweets that he distributes among Dutch children on the eve of his birthday, December 6th. But he […]

Free
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