Noah Charney ’02 is founder and president of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA). His articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Washington Post, Salon, The Art Newspaper, the Observer, and Tendencias del Mercado del Arte. He is the Pulitzer-nominated author of 12 books, including The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers (Phaidon, 2015). The talk […]

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Our speaker, Christel Kesler, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Colby College. She also currently serves as the Faculty Associate Director of Colby’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs. Kesler holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California-Berkeley, and has previously held positions at Barnard College and Oxford University. Kesler’s research focuses broadly on […]

Join Maine State Library's STEAM librarian Chris Dorman on Zoom and learn how to make Bristlebots! Bristlebots are a cheap, easy, and fun-to-build robot made from the head of a toothbrush, a battery, and a small motor. A limited amount of Bristlebot kits can be picked up through the Waterville Public Library's Library-to-Go Service, which […]

Mid-Maine Chamber, partnering with Alfond Youth & Community Center, Central Maine Growth Council, Kennebec Valley Council of Governments and KV Connect will feature a virtual informational webinar addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine process. The forum will be held on Zoom from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 24. It is often difficult to […]

Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and KV Connect will co-host “Meet the Reps,” a virtual event that brings members of the business community and public together with elected officials at all levels of government. This is your chance to ask questions, provide input and meet YOUR representatives! This event is free and open to the public. […]

Watch a pre-recorded conversation between Elizabeth Finch and Marshall N. Price, co-curators of Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948–1960. They will discuss the little-known early career of the Pop art legend and their collaborative work on this groundbreaking exhibition, which begins its national tour at the Colby College Museum of Art. At the Colby Museum, Finch is the […]

Created in honor and celebration of Black History Month, the February Art Kit for All is inspired by Maine artist Ashley Bryan's award-winning book Beautiful Blackbird. Bryan is an American artist, writer, and illustrator of children's books, and the majority of his subjects are derived from the African American experience. Art Kits will be distributed […]

Join the Goldfarb Center for our 2021 Cotter Debate to explore this topic with two top experts in the field of constitutional law. Suzanna Sherry, the Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, will discuss the merits of lifetime appointments. The opposing view will be argued by Ilya Shapiro, director of […]

Rescheduled to September 17, 2021! LeAnn Rimes is an international multi-platinum selling acclaimed singer and ASCAP award-winning songwriter who has sold more than 44 million units globally, won 2 Grammy® Awards; 12 Billboard Music Awards; 2 World Music Awards; 3 Academy of Country Music Awards; one Country Music Association Award and one Dove Award. At […]

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All auditions should be filmed and submitted in the Audition Form (link below). Please film only ONE of the audition scenes and submit ONE video. If you would like to be considered for multiple roles, please indicate which ones on the form. The deadline to submit audition videos will be Saturday, February 27. During the […]

CINEMA IN CONVERSATION community discussions with filmmakers and experts from around the world WONDER WOMAN with Prof. Kathleen Rowe-Karlyn, University of Oregon Wednesday, March 3 at 7:30pm How it works: Register for the Zoom webinar (free!) Watch the film anytime, streaming on HBO Max and available to rent/buy from Google, Amazon, Apple, YouTube, etc. Tune in to the Zoom […]

The Greater Waterville Poverty Action Coalition (PAC) is a group of concerned individuals and organizations who came together to address barriers to prosperity in Waterville, Maine. Our mission is to promote opportunity in our community through partnership, awareness, access, and advocacy.  Click for more info. To get link for 9:00 AM Thursday, March 4, 2021 […]

    Attendees are asked to join the conference by Zoom and listen to audio using your computer only. Please do not dial in while also connected via your computer. The dial-in number is for those not joining by computer. This will help accommodate a larger number of participants. See you Thursday!   For inquiries, […]

Joins us for a Virtual Lecture! Our first lecture of 2021!! We will be broadcasting this lecture LIVE at https://vimeo.com/event/660499. The lecture title is "The Landscape History of Mayflower Hill: 1800 - 1931" and will feature Abby Pearson, Laboratory Instructor II, Environmental Studies, Colby College. Please join us at the above link which will also […]

Practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the galleries. Our Artful Movements sessions begin with a deeper look at an artwork, followed by yoga and meditation led by Kathleen Leisure Haberstock of School Street Yoga. In this Artful Movements session, we will be inspired by Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta, 1975, and we will […]

Presented by Belgrade film and television actress Debra Lord Cooke, this workshop will provide an overview of skills specific to acting for film, TV, and commercials, as well as an opportunity to perform in a virtual setting. Body positioning, movement, use of voice, and eye contact will be covered as it relates to commercial and […]

We continue to be inspired by remarkable artistic and creative endeavors across the country and around the world. While we are not able to travel far-and-wide during the pandemic, we are pleased to be able to share these initiatives virtually. Our ARTS WATCH segment spotlights some of the most fascinating, creative, and thought-provoking artists + […]

Experience greater mind-body connection though our Artful Meditation program. During this session, Jing Ye, a meditation teacher and a counselor at Colby College, will guide participants through a meditation inspired by Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta, 1975. Artful Meditation is part of the Museum’s wellness initiative, Let Art Inspire, all of which are available online through the […]

The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce March breakfast will be held on Thursday, March 11, from 7:15 to 9:00 a.m. in the Colby/Coburn Room at the Best Western Plus, 375 Main Street, Waterville. Mary Haley will discuss what community marketing opportunities really are and how to leverage them to engage current customers, attract new ones, and […]

HighByte: The Industrial DataOps Solution for Industry 4.0. Listen in to hear how HighByte is solving persistent data interoperability and security problems faced by industrial operations as the first DataOps solution purpose-built to meet the unique requirements of industrial assets, products, processes & systems at the Edge. FMI:http://www.centralmaine.org/2021/02/22/march-21-tech-talk-highbyte-the-industrial-dataops-solution-for-industry-4-0/

Join Gary Vikan, former director of the Walters Art Museum, for a talk about his recent book, The Holy Shroud: A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death (Pegasus Books, 2020), in which he shows that the world’s most controversial relic, the Shroud of Turin, is not the burial cloth of Jesus but […]

From left to right: Andrew Rudalevige, Tamara Keith, and Nicholas Jacobs. The Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs at Colby College is hosting a virtual public panel discussion to discuss U.S. Presidential Leadership During Times of Crisis. The panel will discuss the Trump and Biden responses to the global pandemic as well as the responses of […]

Rescheduled to September 30, 2021! The constituent parts of The High Kings each had a wealth of history behind them while also being a part of a lineage of such iconic family members such as The Clancy Brothers, Sean Dunphy and some members toured extensively with the acclaimed Three Irish Tenors and Riverdance. The heyday […]