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.

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Lenten Organ Recitals

First Baptist Church 1 Park Street, Waterville, ME

Due to COVID-19, the March 22, March 29, and April 5 recitals have been cancelled. The organists are coming, the organists are coming! It’s First Baptist Church’s 29th year of […]

Free

Art + Conversation: Exploring The Sea in a Jug

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

Join the curators of The Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Islamic and Later Indian Art — student Alaleh Naderi ’21, assistant professor of art Marta E. Ameri, Lunder […]

Free

Campus + Community Film Series: Lifeboat

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

In one of Alfred Hitchcock’s earliest films, based on a story by John Steinbeck, seven people with different personalities and backgrounds — an international journalist, a rich businessman, a radio […]

Free

Vote for the Climate!

The Elm 21 College Avenue, Waterville, ME

Colby Citizens’ Climate Lobby is teaming up with Maine Youth Climate Strikes to host a strike at the Maine Presidential Primaries in Waterville, Maine. Through this strike, we are urging […]

Free

Figure Drawing

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Figure drawing at Common Street Arts (CSA) is back! - 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from 6-8pm Seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in this figure drawing program hosted […]

Wealth Inequality in America: What It Looks Like and Why It Happens

Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The wealth gap between the haves and the have-nots is at an all-time high, and the disparity is even larger among marginalized sects of the population. In line with the Goldfarb Center’s theme this year, Associate […]

Free

Lunchtime Conversation on Art and Advocacy with Carolina Caycedo

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

Join us as for lunch in the museum lobby as London-born Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo from Los Angeles talks about her work with meshing art and advocacy.  Caycedo participates in […]

Free

Foundations of Investing

Winslow Public Library 136 Halifax Street, Winslow, ME

Presented by Sasha Fitzpatrick, Financial Advisor Investing can help you grow your money and personal wealth, so you can effectively finance your retirement, your children’s future education, and much more. […]

Free

Be Dammed: Art as Resistance to Environmental Destruction

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

Carolina Caycedo is a London-born Colombian artist living in Los Angeles. She participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right. Her work contributes to […]

Free

Eraserhead

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

A dream of dark and troubling things…. David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing […]

After School Art Club: Creating Art Maps of Maine

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Maine's 200th birthday is March 6! As part of Maine's bicentennial celebration, participants will create their own map of Maine using current historical maps. Ages 7 - 12. Registration required. Cost: […]

$14

Youth Art Month Opening Reception

Common Street Arts 10 Water Street, Suite 106, Waterville, ME

Join central Maine's young artists and their families for this year's Youth Art Month (YAM) exhibition. Now in its sixth year at CSA, YAM showcases artwork from aspiring area artists […]

Free

Why Trust Science?

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

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Naomi Oreskes will give a public lecture titled Why Trust Science? based on her 2019 book of the same title. Oreskes is professor of the history […]

Free

Leave Her to Heaven

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

Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before […]

$7.50

Downtown Student Art Show – Opening Night!

Old Waterville Post Office 1 Post Office Square, Waterville, ME

In collaboration with the Mainely Brews and the Lunder Institute, the Colby Museum of Art’s Student Advisory Board will be hosting an art show to showcase student art this Friday. […]

Free

Casey Abrams

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

Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and American Idol season 10 finalist Casey Abrams, has built a strong following through the years with two album releases (Casey Abrams and Tales From the Gingerbread […]

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Art + Storytelling: Animals All Around

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

This event is cancelled After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme — in March it will be “Animals all […]

Free
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Cinema Explorations: Anthropocene

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

A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive and often thoughtless re-engineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a feature documentary film from the multiple award-winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, […]

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

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

Explore the insect collections in the museum and learn about their special adaptations and life cycles. Try hands on activities to learn how insects walk with six legs, see with […]

$1 – $3

The Met: Agrippina

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

As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of George Fredrich Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Sir David McVicar’s wry new production, […]

$17 – $23

Arts Around the World

Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, ME

What type of art is made in Mexico, Iran, Vietnam, and China? Explore art throughout the world and become inspired by artists from different countries. Members from the International Club […]

Free

DavisConnects Health Forum Keynote: Dr. Erik Alexander

Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Dr. Erik K. Alexander is executive director of education for Brigham Health, and associate dean for medical education and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. In these roles, Dr. […]

Free

Colby Symphony Orchestra: Journey to America

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

The Journey to America alternates between energy and exhaustion, between dramatic and sublime. Beginning in Austria with Beethoven’s electrifying, epochal Fifth Symphony, the program shifts quickly to a pair of […]

Free
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