Notice of Public Meeting on Waterville City Manager Search The Waterville Mayor and City Council are inviting citizens, businesses andorganizations to a public meeting to be held on March 16, 2023, at 6pm at TheElm, 21 College Avenue Lower Level-Rear Entrance, Waterville ME 04901. The purpose of the meeting is to gather information regarding what […]

Thursday, March 16, 2023, 6 pm Given Auditorium, Bixler Art & Music Center, Colby College (Also available virtually, via Zoom) Join us for a conversation between multidisciplinary artist Genevieve Gaignard, 2023–24 Residential Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art, and Jon Gray, multidisciplinary curator and co-founder of the culinary collective Ghetto Gastro. As longtime […]

This St. Patrick's Day, dive into this visually stunning Celtic tale of a young Irish boy, Ben, who discovers his mute younger sister, Saoirse, is a selkie – a mythological being that can transform from human to seal. Ben must protect Saoirse and help her find her voice, which is the only thing that will […]

My Name Is Andrea is the story of controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture, and the ways it impacts every woman’s daily life. This documentary film, directed by Pratibha […]

KV Connect is a group of tomorrow's community leaders! They are young professionals from 21-45 living and working in central Maine with a passion for making central Maine the best place to live, work and play. Connect with us on Facebook: Click Here Follow our page to stay connected! Better yet, share our events with […]

Children and their caregivers are invited to join Waterville Public Library staff for a free read-aloud story time in the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center! Enjoy a reading of Ashley Bryan’s picture books and then visit the Colby Museum’s exhibition Ashley Bryan/Paula Wilson: Take the World Into […]

Please join us for the official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, hosted by the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce. Light refreshments will be provided, courtesy of Raymond James Financial Services. RSVP

Each Thursday, join the Colby College Museum of Art to spend thirty minutes with one work of art on view in their gallery spaces. This week, Joshua Veilleux, Downtown Gallery Assistant, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Jojo by Ashley Bryan, located in the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at Paul J. Schupf Art […]

Yummy Soup & Biscuit Fundraiser Coming to Winslow Congregational Church as To-Go Lunch, Saturday, March 25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.   Get ready to enjoy a yummy take-out lunch, brimming with your choice of mouth-watering soup or chowder, a homemade biscuit or cornbread, and homemade chocolate chip or snickerdoodle cookies! On Saturday, March […]

RESCHEDULED from March 4 to March 25, 2023 A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of […]

Q&A with John Shipton, father of Julian Assange! The world's most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption, and unpunished war crimes. Now with Assange facing a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US, his family members are confronting the […]

Q&A with Maine director Garrett Zevgetis! A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. A healer and an activist, Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York City to move to South Carolina to support the girl […]

Work with your neighbors to shape the vision for downtown Waterville. The workshop is located at the Muskie Community Center with parking behind the building and along the street. We are asking you to enter through the back of the building, which is where the parking lot is. See map below showing the parking and […]

A timeless voice outlasts eras. It feels just as at home in the sixties as it does in the TikTok age. It also resounds louder as time goes on. Haley Reinhart brandishes such a voice. The expansive scope of her range comes into full focus on her fourth album, Lo-Fi Soul. The gold-certified Chicago-born/Los Angeles-based […]

 Richard Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium […]

Colby Wind Ensemble Director, Brendon Wilkins Saturday, April 1, 7:30 p.m. Lorimer Chapel This program pays homage to America with two major works from the 20th and 21st century. American Hymn Song Suite by Dwayne S. Milburn, a piece for wind band that features four of America’s greatest hymn tunes, and Variations on America, a staple of the wind […]

Date: Sunday, April 2 at 12pm - FREE Running Time: 1 hour 26 minutes MPA Rating: G Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine Part of Listening to Film: See the full film series. Screening preceded by a discussion of the film’s sound design by Colby students in MU237A […]

Date: Sunday, April 2 at 6:45pm Running Time: 2 hours 29 minutes MPA Rating: G Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. One Night Only! Truly made for the big screen, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece follows Dr. Dave Bowman, Dr. […]

Director Lisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive material and performances that bring us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the […]

The Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities is delighted to announce chef, food justice activist, and critically acclaimed author Bryant Terry as their Food for Thought Keynote speaker. Groundbreaking and rich, Terry's work illuminates the intersections between poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity, in order to pave a new, better path forward. LEARN MORE