Our weekly summer tours are back! Join us at our location on campus from 2–3 p.m. every Friday for an in-person tour of our current exhibitions. These guided experiences will be led by staff, student interns, and our museum educators, offering special insight into each exhibition. Summer Exhibitions: Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village • May…
Vibraphonist Simon Moullier is a major new voice on the jazz scene and a multi-faceted improviser, composer, arranger and producer. He is also an important bandleader, leading a Quartet comprised of Lex Korten on piano, Rick Rosato bass, and JK Kim on drums, four unique and cohesive personalities that function together as a true unit.…
Enjoy carnival games and prizes, a bounce house, and more! Meet the Fire Department, visit the Waterville StoryWalk© next to Reed Field, or say hello to the mayor at the selfie station. There will be free art kits from the Colby College Museum of Art, a book giveaway, food by Rita’s Catering for sale, popcorn,…
Celebrate Pride on First Friday! At the Waterville Public Library, 73 Elm Street: 3-4:30pm Button Making at the Waterville Public Library—Fireplace Room (First Floor) Visit the library and design your own pinback button! There will be a selection of Pride flag and pronoun pin designs, as well as an exciting miscellany of other materials. At…
The Departments of English and Performance, Theater, and Dance present InterPlay: Poetry and Light in Performance. Imagine original poems about every human feeling from the desire to be elsewhere to a sense of extreme exhaustion brought to life in performance with light. Colby poets and light designers present InterPlay: a celebration of original work, interdisciplinary…
Please join us for Dr. Taras Filenko’s lecture-recital, including piano performance, poetry, commentary, witness testimony, and projected images. Reception will follow. This event is sponsored by the Center for the Arts and Humanities, Cultural Events Committee, Goldfarb Center, Global Studies, Music, and German and Russian.
The Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance Presents: SERIOUS PLAY Led by Ariana Karp and Annie Kloppenberg in collaboration with students in Improvisational Practice in Performance: Performance invites audiences in like poetry, offering evocative imagery that summons your experience, your response, and your reading rather than telling a single, linear story. This program includes…
At the Paul J. Schupf Art Center: 5–7pm Opening Reception for Together: Hearing, Holding, Healing, Together: Anecdotes and Inspirations, and Together: Art for All Come enjoy refreshments at the opening night of the Together exhibitions located in the Ticonic Gallery, throughout the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, and in different downtown businesses. Together: Hearing, Holding, Healing…
Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the College of the Holy Cross, will take us on a unique journey through stained-glass installations across history. From the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries, we find in windows stories of conflict, commemoration, devotion, and celebration. Sponsored by the Clara M. Southworth Lecture Fund and the…
Waterville Creates, in partnership with the Waterville Public Library and Colby College, is thrilled to present a multi-venue family-friendly event on Saturday, March 16. From 10–11am the library, located at 73 Elm Street, will host a read aloud activity of The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster by Mo Willems. Pigeon himself will be in…
This concert will present Crescent, a sonic exploration of global temperature data, microplastics, and the other impacts of catastrophic climate change. The program is rounded out with music inspired by philosophical explorations of the human condition as well as music from Sankaram and Shankar’s eclectic surf-noir band Bombay Rickey. Co-sponsored by the Colby College Museum…
Christina Spurling (piano), Chris Nemeth (violin), and Marisa Solomon (cello) bring a program of piano trios in honor of Women’s History Month, featuring music by Florence Price, Lera Auerbach, and Clara Schumann. Funded in part by the Hazel Hoyt Witherell Memorial Concert Fund
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