Join us at the Winslow Public Library to explore select pieces from the children's discovery museum mobile museum. We will have a Lego Wall set up and circuits to explore.

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

Join us at the Winslow Public Library for a reading session with a therapy dog from Love on a Leash Kennebec County. Gain confidence and practice reading. Contact the library at 872-1978 to sign up.

The Spring Open House is a celebration of two new exhibitions that will be on view during the Spring 2020 semester—Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing and The Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Islamic and Later Indian Art—featuring live music, demonstrations, hands-on art-making, gallery experiences, refreshments, and opportunities to learn about upcoming programs.

Tony Jack, an assistant professor at Harvard and author of The Privileged Poor, was once a low-income, first-generation college student who now studies how poor students are often failed by the top schools that admit them. During his talk, he will detail how class divides on campus create barriers to academic success—and he will share […]

For one night only, the Elton John tribute will perform as a trio! This is the same format Elton John performed with in the early ’70s! Hear Elton’s music performed as it was originally intended! Gerald Brann, Mark Kavanaugh, and Kevin Ostrowski perform in the internationally performing tribute, “Yellow Brick Road a tribute to Elton […]

Come explore the stars indoors with Northern Stars Planetarium. Anyone who has had the pleasure of being in the Northern Stars Planetarium knows the joy of entering the big dome and exploring the stories of stars, constellations, and the wonders of our universe. By popular demand we have two shows for families, at 1:00 and […]

Somewhere in desert country, the inhabitants of West Sandy Bottoms are preparing for the highlight of their year – the annual race between the Mammals and the Reptiles. A company of strolling actors attempts to tell the tale in classical fashion. Philoh Ferret reminds the racing fans that his service station is for “mammals only.” […]

Explore the stars indoors with Northern Stars Planetarium! Anyone who has had the pleasure of being in the Northern Stars Planetarium knows the joy of entering the big dome and learning about the stars, constellations, and the wonders of our universe. Admission: $5. Advance registration required. For ages 18+. REGISTER

Called the “most powerful and intense Springsteen experience on the planet,” Bruce in the USA is more than just another tribute band. This high-energy musical event is a note-perfect, visually accurate recreation of one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time. Tickets: $20-$50

Dar Williams in Concert February 23 at 7:00pmOpening Act: Lindsay Mower "Dar Williams, one of America's very best singer-songwriters… Her songs are beautiful. Some are like finely crafted short stories. They are, variously, devastatingly moving, tenderly funny, subtle without being in any way inaccessible, and utterly fresh—not a cliché or a clunker in her entire […]

Film director Miki Dezaki presents his powerful debut work Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue. This highly acclaimed documentary examines the enduring, divisive legacy of the Japanese military’s wartime use of sexual slaves, officially referred to as “comfort women.” Even in today’s Japan, seventy-four years after the end of the Pacific War, […]

This workshop introduces people to educational opportunities in general and Maine Educational Opportunity Center services in particular. This interactive workshop touches on the four steps in the college process: admissions, financial aid, career and study skills. The admission section reviews college options, the college search process and the application structure. The fundamentals of financial aid, […]

Join the Goldfarb Center and the Goldfarb Student Engagement Committee for a panel discussion on infectious disease and policy management. Panelists include Gail Carlson, associate professor of environmental studies, Susan Childers, instructor of biology, Walter Hatch, associate professor of government, and Laura Seay, assistant professor of government, and the discussion will be moderated by GSEC […]

Professor Michael Burke of Colby College will lead this two-hour creative nonfiction writing workshop called “Where to Begin, How to Begin.” Any piece of writing has to begin somewhere of course, but how do you know where to start, and how to start? In this creative nonfiction writing workshop, we’ll talk about what the opening […]

A National Geographic documentary that follows undercover investigators, environmentalists, journalists, and the Mexican Navy on their desperate effort to rescue the Earth’s smallest whale—the Vaquita—from extinction and bring an international crime syndicate to justice. (2019, 104 min.) Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program.

SPaRC (Strengthening, Partnering, and Reinforcing Community) is a grassroots initiative that was developed by leaders from Waterville Public Schools, Educare, Kennebec Valley Community College, Thomas College, Colby College, and Mid-Maine Regional Adult Community Education who are eager to collaborate with Waterville residents, build on Waterville’s strengths, and make Waterville into a nationally recognized hub of […]

Lillian Yvonne-Bertram is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where she teaches in the M.F.A. in creative writing program. Her book of computationally mediated poems, Travesty Generator, was published by Noemi Press in December 2019. Yvonne-Bertram was recently named director of the Chautauqua Institution Writers’ Festival.

Maude Barlow is the national chairperson of the Council of Canadians and she chairs Food & Water Watch’s board. She is also an executive member of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization and a councilor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. In this lecture, she will focus on her new book, Whose Water is […]

Cancelled due to snow! Steven Simon is Professor in the Practice of International Relations at Colby College, following stints as John J. McCloy ’16 Professor of History at Amherst College and lecturer in government at Dartmouth College. He is also a research analyst for the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Prior to this, he was […]

Join us at the library for a free form themed youth art project.  There will be Pokemon themed art projects available to celebrate Pokemon day on February 27, the anniversary of the release of the very first Pokémon games in Japan.!