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Welcome Lecture by 2016 Oak Fellow Khalid Albaih

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Khalid Albaih, a cartoonist from Sudan, is the 2016 Oak Fellow with Colby’s Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights. Albaih uses his daring, often biting cartoons to champion freedom of expression and democracy in the Arab world while criticizing Islamophobia, torture, and drone attacks.

Oak Fellow Bassam Khabieh Welcome Reception and Exhibition Talk

Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Join the Oak Center in welcoming 2018 fellow Bassam Khabieh to the Colby community with a cocktail reception and tour of the photographic exhibition with the photographer. Khabieh has powerfully documented war crimes and other ongoing human rights violations in the Syrian conflict. He will give a tour of his work and speak about some of the […]

Free

Journalists Combat ISIS

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

In the era of ISIS,  a group young people started Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a non-partisan, independent organization that exposes and fights the atrocities committed by the Bashar Al-Assad regime and ISIS in Syria in a peaceful way. Abdalaziz Alhamza, an award-winning Syrian journalist, human rights defender, activist, IT trainer, and founder of […]

Free

Claiming Public Space for Human Rights

Room 141, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

For over a dozen years, Leslie Thomas, founding executive and creative director of ART WORKS Projects,  has curated and directed multi-media exhibitions and public projections.  She will present a sample of these along with a film excerpt from her soon to be released documentary, The Prosecutors, and discuss the role of the arts in ending grave […]

Free

500 Years

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

500 Years tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in their history, from the genocide trial of General Ríos Montt to the citizen uprising that toppled President Otto Perez Molina. While indigenous peoples of Guatemala are no stranger to oppression, the recent events that took place over a tumultuous three-year span, change […]

Free

Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. While many may know the details, Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film is a collab­oration between Indigenous filmmakers, […]

Free

Domestic Violence Impact on Children

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Join us for a Finding Our Voices program in which local survivors will share experiences growing up and as adults on how domestic violence impacts children. The program begins with short documentaries by Matt Siegel on Christine Buckley and Courtney Billings from Maine who grew up in abusive households and then found themselves trapped in […]

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