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Northern Maine Chapter Chair Donna Cassese will discuss how SCORE can help you whether you are starting a business, operating an existing business or are ready to retire and sell your business. SCORE provides free mentoring, workshops, and online resources. An entrepreneurial presentation will also be made by Amy Rowbottom of Crooked Face Creamery, sharing […]
Designed for teens aged 13-18, SLICE features free online classes for exploring careers in the creative arts. Join Phoebe and Isabelle Rogers to learn the fun process of bringing life to your own shapes, characters, and scenes through stop-motion animation using simple materials and any basic camera. REGISTER.
The Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs will be hosting an in-person conversation tomorrow with civil liberties leader and free speech expert Nadine Strossen. Kimberly Flowers, the Goldfarb Center's Executive Director, will moderate a robust Q&A with Colby students, faculty, and staff on issues ranging from how to effectively resist hate speech to free speech on college campuses. Strossen […]
Come try old time toys like hoops, graces, and tops.
Visit this Fall Festival for apple slinging, trail walks, a nature scavenger hunt, pumpkin and leaf art, pumpkin bowling, a bean bag toss, a ski swap, and lots of raffles and prizes! FMI
We will walk and create a mini art journal using collage methods as seen in the book, Daniel Finds a Poem. Led by Serena Sanborn of Waterville Creates. Free for all ages — adults welcome! (This event will be held if weather permits.)
Come pick up a Turkey Pie meal to go - with all the fixings, including dessert, all for just $10!
On Sat., Nov 6, 2021, Pleasant Street United Methodist Church will have a Take Out Public Supper 4pm - 5:30pm. The meal is comprised of homemade baked beans, hotdogs, coleslaw, cornbread, and your choice of a homemade dessert. The desserts will be listed on an easel board near the door. Cost is $8 per person. […]
The 58th annual Waterville Rotary Auction with hundreds of gifts, services and unique items will once again be held online. If you would like more information about the online auction November 7 thru November 13, 2021, please look at our webpage for details. You may also actively bid and participate in the auction simply by […]
(Rescheduled from Oct 7, 2021) The Oak Fellow for Incarceration and Human Rights is Russian human rights lawyer Olga Sadovskaya, a human rights lawyer working as the vice-chair of the Committee Against Torture in Russia. She has been working on issues surrounding torture for over 18 years. She began this human rights initiative in 2000 along […]
Join Waterville Creates and Colby College for a beam signing and topping-off ceremony to commemorate the emergence of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. The work on Main Street continues as the final beams are being put into place. As one of Waterville’s new key focal points, the Schupf Art Center will […]
Figure drawing at Ticonic Studio is back! Seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in this costumed figure drawing program. This class offers a unique opportunity for emerging and established artists to hone their drawing skills in a supportive environment. Participants bring their media of choice: charcoal, pastels, paint, clay, etc. Ticonic will provide […]
Un Prophète, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2009, is the story of Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old, illiterate Franco-Algerian inmate who’s been sentenced to six years in prison and the “thick network of warring tribes he finds himself mired in and ultimately forced to master” (Variety). When it comes to hard-bitten crime […]
Designed for teens aged 13-18, SLICE features free online classes for exploring careers in the creative arts. Join children’s book illustrator and graphic novelist Russ Cox as he demonstrates the process he uses to create a graphic novel. REGISTER.
Enjoy a fabulous lunch and meet Briana Warner, President/CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms in Saco. She will share her challenges in growing this successful business, along with her vision for future growth in the kelp field, her notable entrepreneurial path and lifelong experiences that propelled her to her current position. Briana has dedicated her life to […]
In 2021, the mid-Maine region welcomed new businesses, deployed new programs and COVID-19 related assistance, watched construction projects progress, cheered on entrepreneurs and engaged in conversation about their communities’ futures. Let’s recognize this year’s accomplishments, while preparing the local and regional economy for 2022. Featuring: Developer of the Year Emerging Leader Award A look at […]
Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international […]
Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, most recently Chances Are…, Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries; in 2016 he was given the Indie Champion Award by the American Booksellers Association; and in 2017 […]
In his new book The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale (to be released February 1, 2022), behavioral economist and University of Chicago professor John List reveals why every idea’s greatest opportunity—and challenge—lies in it’s potential to go from small to big. What is it about some ideas that […]
Join us for a thoughtful talk with one of the nation’s top First Amendment litigators on free speech issues ranging from protest rights, Black student activism on campuses, andthe recent string of state classroom censorship bills. The event will be an open Q&A session where Colby students will have the opportunity to ask Mr. Sykes […]
Clue November 12, 13, 19, 20 at 7:30pm November 14, 21 at 2:00pm Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn Written by Sandy Rustin Produced through special arrangement with Playscripts Inc. Sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank, GHM Insurance, & OPA Directed by Debra Susi It's a dark and stormy night, and you've been invited to […]
Explore earth and space with NISE Activity Kits and games. Learn about the James Webb telescope and send up a stomp rocket.
Sgraffito is an ancient form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a layer of contrasting color. In this hands-on and playful class, ceramic artist Tim Christensen will guide you through expressing yourself through etching on clay. For ages 12 and up. No experience is necessary. Cost: $37 for adults, $27 for […]
The Maine Film Center will conclude its fall series Cinema in Conversation: Films of Freedom, Captivity, and Human Rights with a special screening of the documentary All Light, Everywhere, followed by a Q&A with producer Jonna McKone. The film is free and open to the public. Jonna McKone, originally from Maryland, graduated from Bowdoin College. […]