JOIN US on SUNDAY! FMI Sawyer Boulette at 207-861-8016 x243 or sboulette@clubaycc.org  

Race continues to play a fundamental role in shaping economic, social, and political life in the United States and across the world. Yet many Americans have limited knowledge of the historical and contemporary processes that account for racial inequality. As a result, few people are equipped to recognize and confront racial inequities in their own lives and communities. Americans’ collective inability to conscientiously contend with race enables systems of oppression, […]

Screened in conjunction with Cirque du Geek 2019: Myths and Legends! History is turned on its comic head when, in 10th century England, King Arthur travels the countryside to find knights who eventually end up on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Click for more info.

Conservator Ron Harvey will present a Maine Archives & Museums (MAM) workshop on conservation and care of collections. Whether you are from a museum or have family treasures you need to preserve, this workshop will be of interest to you. If you would like the conservator to offer information about preserving a specific object, you […]

President Laurie G. Lachance M.B.A. ‘92 invites you to celebrate the dedication of The Peter & Paula Lunder School of Education Announcement and press conference held in the Center for Innovation in Education, followed by the unveiling and reception on the Ayotte Center lawn. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP by September 12, 2019 to […]

Language is a constant dialectic between energy and exhaustion: as new words and expressions come into use, others pass away. While dynamic is ongoing, few periods in the English language have witnessed as much, and as rapid, change as the early 16th century, which saw the demise of what we now term Middle English, and […]

Please join 2019 Lunder Institute Fellow and Occupy Colby curator Phong Bui for a wide-ranging conversation building on the themes of Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2. Bui will be joined by artist Alexis Rockman and Colby professors Denise Bruesewitz and Keith Peterson. Join us […]

Free admission! Help us join in the national celebration of independent Art House Theater Day with early MIFF guest Ildiko Enyedi’s 30th anniversary digital restoration of her charming first film, My 20th Century, “a bracing combination of wit, invention, common sense and lunacy. It’s a gravely comic meditation on civilization at the turn of this […]

Join us to learn about coding through robots! We will feature a different theme each session. Geared towards grades 2 and up.

Join Common Street Arts for an opening reception for the exhibition, I Am Not a Stranger  on Thursday, September 19 from 4:00-6:00pm.  This reception is hosted in conjunction with the Colby College Museum of Art’s fall Open House event from 5:00-7:00

The Fall Open House celebrates the exhibitions that will be on view during the Fall 2019 semester with live music, demonstrations, art-making, gallery experiences, refreshments, and opportunities to learn about upcoming programs. Click for more info.

The 2019 Faculty Biennial Show artists — Bradley Borthwick, Bevin Engman, Gary Green, Amanda Lilleston, and Thalassa Raasch — will discuss their works that will be on view Sept. 5–22. Our Noontime Art Talk programs consist of museum staff members, Colby faculty members, and guest speakers discussing current exhibitions or works in the museum collection, followed by […]

Charles Gauvin is currently an independent consultant and advisor on strategy, leadership, and philanthropy. Previously, he served as chief development officer of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, executive director of Maine Audubon, chief development officer of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the CEO and CEO emeritus of Trout Unlimited.

Peter Werbe of Fifth Estate will bring greetings from the Marius. Marius Mason is an anarchist, and environmental and animal rights activist serving a 22 year sentence for committing acts of environmental sabotage. Threatened with a life sentence in 2009, Marius pleaded guilty to arson charges and 12 acts of property damage. No one was […]

The Beggar Boys invite you to explore the intersection of Scottish art and folk music, from Italianate Baroque trio sonatas to high-spirited reels, jigs, strathspeys, and songs by Robert Burns and his contemporaries. Follow the music across the ages and across the Atlantic, from 18th-century Edinburgh to contemporary Cape Breton, Appalachia, and the Pacific Northwest. […]

Come enjoy the Book & Pie Sale from 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM at the Pleasant Street United Methodist Church, 61 Pleasant Street, Waterville on Saturday, September 21, 2019.

Come join us to learn to identify the trees along our forest paths as part of Maine Outdoor Weekend. We will look at specimens in the museum and then head out on the trail.

Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian Magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. Tickets will be available for the public to download beginning at midnight on August 15. 2019. Visit www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday On Sept 21, 2019, when you […]

In this free one-hour session, Artful Movements provides an opportunity to practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the galleries. Each session will begin with a deeper look at an artwork, followed by movement and meditation with Kathleen Leisure Haberstock of School Street Yoga. All yoga levels, families, and children over […]

The Celebrity Dinner is our largest fundraising/awareness event of the year and is a fun & helpful way to suppport those affected by sexual violence. Last year this event raised nearly $60,000.  A large part of the fundraising is done by our fabulous celebrity waiters. Each celebrity has a goal to earn a minimum of […]

42nd Street is the song and dance, American dream fable of Broadway, featuring the West End’s biggest cast on Theatreland’s oldest stage, Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Featuring the iconic songs 42nd Street, We’re In The Money, Lullaby Of Broadway, Shuffle Off To Buffalo, Dames, and I Only Have Eyes For You, this is a musical […]

Everyone is invited to come and play with our new hand bells. For more information, please contact Grenda at 873-5358 or gbanton26@gmail.com.

In the story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening, Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons. On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New […]

How do we become attached to places, things, and other beings? How might aesthetic objects participate in the formation of attachments between humans and nonhumans, culture, and energy? In this talk, Tommy Davis, associate professor of English at Ohio State University, will address the making and unmaking of attachment in the Anthropocene. He’ll take up […]