Casey Abrams
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesSinger, 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 […]
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 […]
Cinema Explorations: Anthropocene
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEA 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, MEExplore 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 […]
The Met: Agrippina
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesAs 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, […]
Arts Around the World
Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, MEWhat 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 […]
DavisConnects Health Forum Keynote: Dr. Erik Alexander
Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEDr. 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. […]
Colby Symphony Orchestra: Journey to America
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhe 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 […]
Tip of My Tongue
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, METo celebrate her fiftieth birthday, filmmaker and MIFF alumna Lynne Sachs — MIFF is where this film originally screened — gathers together other people, men and women who have lived […]
Los Lobos
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United States“We’re a Mexican American band, and no word describes America like immigrant. Most of us are children of immigrants, so it’s perhaps natural that the songs we create celebrate America […]
The Gleaners and I
Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METhe class “Environmental Humanities: Energy and Utopia” will be hosting a screening of the film The Gleaners and I. This 2000 French documentary film by Agnès Varda features various kinds […]
Hobby Lobby – Grand Opening
Please join Hobby Lobby and The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce for refreshments and shopping. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a privately held national retail chain of craft and home decor stores, […]
Stop Telling Women to Smile
Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, METatyana Fazlalizadeh is a black/Iranian visual artist and Oklahoma City native. She is a painter whose work ranges from the gallery to the streets, using visual art to address the […]
Three Films by Lynne Sachs
Room 5, Arey Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEIntroduced by filmmaker Lynne Sachs with Q&A to follow. “And Then We Marched” – The 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. viewed through the contexts of previous marches and the […]
How to Audition
Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United StatesActing is great fun, but what comes first is the audition! This workshop focuses on the basics of auditioning. Participants will be given tips on how to audition and the […]
Waterville GreenDrinks at Educare
Educare Central Maine 56 Drummond Ave, Waterville, ME, United StatesFilm About a Father Who
Room 5, Arey Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEIntroduced by filmmaker Lynne Sachs with a Q&A to follow. Selected as the opening night film for this year’s Slamdance Film Festival and screened as part of MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, […]
Venuste Kubwimana: Son of Genocide
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAfter losing members of his family during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, Venuste was left to care for his younger siblings and often had to miss school to fetch water […]
Talent on Tap: Partnering to Catalyze Maine’s Future
Waterville Brewing Company 10 Water Street, Ste. 111, Waterville, MEHigh school administrators, guidance counselors, teachers and other educators are invited! The Challenge: Maine’s Governor has given us a call to action! The future of the state we love is […]
Visiting Writer Ana Menéndez
Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAna Menéndez, the Kristina Stahl Writer-in-Residence for 2019-20, has published four books of fiction: Adios, Happy Homeland!, The Last War, Loving Che, and In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, whose title story won a […]
Art as Politic
Chace Forum, Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons 150 Main Street, Waterville, MEArt exists across the world in many different forms and amplifies many different voices. It can expose our truths and challenge how we exist in the world. The third installment of Colby […]
Oak Institute Lecture: Andrea Prasow
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEAndrea Prasow, acting director at Human Rights Watch in Washington, conducts advocacy before the U.S. government on global human rights issues, with a particular focus on national security and human […]
Connections between Climate Change, Food Insecurity, and Conflict
Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEJoin Kimberly Flowers, executive director of the Goldfarb Center, for this lecture. As the climate crises worsen we are simultaneously seeing a rise in global hunger, unprecedented humanitarian need, and increasingly […]
Clarity on Cannabis
Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, MEClarity on Cannabis: The Wellness Connection’s CEO Patricia Rosi speaks on navigating the new cannabis market. A seasoned executive, Patricia Rosi is the current CEO of the Wellness Connection, Maine’s […]