Celebrate William Shakespeare's 454th birthday with Recycled Shakespeare Company. Sign up for a time slot to read a sonnet. You will receive an email with your assigned sonnet and location (we travel throughout Downtown Waterville). Please go to www.signupforms.com/registrations/16435 to sign up to read a sonnet and/or perform.

Come join Colby Students for a community-wide barbecue featuring free food tastings and entertainment Saturday, April 20th at Head of the Falls on Front Street. We will have activities for children as well as small samples from local vendors, including Selah Tea, Jorgensens, Portland Pie, Silver Street Tavern, Opa, and Hilman’s Bakery. The barbecue will […]

In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts. This […]

Celebrate the Bard's Birthday with a Masquerade Ball! Come learn Elizabethan dances with Marge and Sam Bartlett of the SCA. Wear a mask and costume if you like, masks will be available to borrow. Cake and refreshments available, all aspects of this celebration are FREE. Dances are group/social dances; don't worry if you don't have […]

A showcase of music that is fun to play. Works include the spectacular Four Scottish Dances by Malcolm Arnold and the completion of our Lord of the Rings cycle with a performance of Johan de Meij’s “Gandalf” and “Elvenwood” movements. J.S. Bach’s “Komm’, Süßer Tod,” Tania León’s “Alegre,” “Foundry” by John Mackey, and John Philip […]

“The Trento Tunnels Project” an experiment in the recovery of an abandoned industrial site in the reinvention of the history museum in the animation of historical archives Imagine two 300 meter superhighway tunnels wide enough to accommodate four side-by-side tractor trailers, snaking under the cliff that faces the Northern Italian capital city of Trento. Cut […]

This year’s Grossman Lecturer is Professor Ethan Lewis of Dartmouth College. Dr. Lewis’s research focuses on how U.S. labor markets adjust to immigration and technological change, including how firms adapt their production technology to employ less-skilled immigrants. His recent research includes investigating the role historical immigration waves played in advancing the second Industrial Revolution and […]

Heather Streets-Salter’s (Northeastern University) research focuses on world history, the structure of empires and colonial relationships, and the scholarship of pedagogy. She is the author of World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in an Era of Global Conflict (2017), Empires and Colonies in the Modern World (2010) with Trevor Getz, Martial Races: […]

Book club for kids with discussion, crafts and activities based off of your favorite graphic novel. Feel free to bring a graphic novel in to share or ideas to suggest to others. Geared towards ages 8 to 12.

The Center for the Arts and Humanities is delighted to announce that Roxane Gay will be the keynote speaker for this year’s humanities theme, Presence of the Past. Roxane’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short […]

Join the Environmental Studies lunchtime lecture series for a presentation, discussion, and book reading with author/environmental journalist Heather Hansman, Colby Class of ’05. Hansman is interested in the intersection of science, adventure, and culture. Her book, Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West is about her trip down the length of the Green […]

Join us at Winslow Public Library for a showing of the Robin Williams classic film Dead Poets Society, followed by a community poetry read.  Bring your favorite poem to share.  Light refreshments will be served.  Celebrate National Poetry Month!

This year’s Hunt Lecturer is Dr. Jemima Pierre of UCLA. She is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areas: race, racial formation theory, and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and […]

Elle Hearns is an organizer, speaker, strategist, and writer. Elle is a cofounding member of the Black Lives Matter network, an organization formed with multiple local chapters as a political project in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin in order to explicitly combat implicit bias and anti-black racism and to protect and affirm […]

Clay is always a favorite. Discover how the tools of sculpting are used and invent some creative clay figures to bring home. Ages 7 - 12. Registration required. Cost: $14. Scholarships available. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Presented by Akiko Takeyama, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas. Increasing numbers of young Japanese women allegedly volunteer to perform in pornography; and yet, the numbers of women, who seek legal support for their forced performance, have been also increasing. Despite the tension, there is neither a clearly […]

Join Kim Nashed and John Parsons of Kim Nashed YOGA for a couple hours of Deep Relaxation. They will guide you in a simple flow of breathing and meditation. Please bring two blankets and a yoga mat if you have one. This free event is offered in the spirit of wellbeing for YOU and our […]

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This is a march and speak-out for survivors of sexual violence to share stories. It will begin with a rally at Pulver Pavillion at 7:00, followed by a march around campus, ending at the Miller Library Steps. A narrative reading will begin on the steps at 7:30. All are welcome to march and share their […]

Join us for a language-based social event. This is a great opportunity to practice your language skills and converse with other art lovers. This event is brought to you in collaboration with the Spanish Department at Colby College.

A two-day symposium presented in partnership between Colby College and the University of Maine School of Law Maine is over 60% rural, and its rural communities are facing a well-documented lawyer shortage. While some work is underway to address this vexing problem, the absence of legal representation remains a constant challenge to the quality of […]

Join us at the Winslow Public Library for the opportunity to bring storybooks to life through songs, activities and film. Featuring the "How do Dinosaurs..." series by Jane Yolen. Geared towards ages 2 to 7.

This popular annual outing involves a short walk to a very active vernal pool — an important habitat for native frogs and salamanders. Celebrate the return of spring as we learn to identify different frog calls, and carefully catch and release a variety of creatures from peepers to newts. You never know what we will […]