International performer and sculpture artist Sha Sha Higby will present The Yellow Cup, a solo dance performance, on Friday, April 4, at Colby College in Waterville. The performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Strider Theater in the Runnals Building. An opportunity to meet the artist and examine her sculptural costumes will be provided.
Flutist Jean Rosenblum and pianist Cheryl Tschanz will perform a concert of works titled "A Feast of Flute Fare by Female Composers" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 6, at Colby College. The concert will be held in Given Auditorium of the Bixler Art and Music Center on the Waterville campus. Part of the 2002-03 Music at Colby concert series, the event is open to the public and free of charge.
Poet and Colby professor Ira Sadoff will read selections of poems from Barter, his most recent collection, on Tuesday, April 8, at Colby College in Waterville. The poetry reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Robins Room of Roberts Building and will be followed by a book signing with the author. It is open to the public and free of charge.
Foreign and Familiar, a series of photographs by Dee Peppe will be shown at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville April 6 through June 8. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held at the museum on Sunday, April 13, from 2 - 4:30 p.m. It is open to the public and free of charge.
Wire and Plastic, Leather and Grass: Contemporary African Creativities, an exhibit of objects from South Africa, Somalia and West African countries, will be shown at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville March 30 through June 8. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held at the museum on Tuesday, April 1, from 4:30 - 6 p.m. It is open to the public and free of charge.
On Saturday, March 15, the Colby College Sinfonietta will perform its debut concert. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Lorimer Chapel on the Waterville campus. Part of the 2002-03 Music at Colby concert series, the event is open to the public and free of charge.
On Tuesday, March 18, author and journalist Ross Gelbspan will lecture at Colby College in Waterville on "History at Risk: The Challenge of Climate Change." The talk will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 100 of the Lovejoy Building. It is open to the public and free of charge.
On Tuesday, April 1, the Colby College Museum of Art's Friends of Art will tour the "Impressions of Light" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The trip is available to the general public and includes free time for lunch and to explore the museum. Transportation to Copley Place will be provided for shopping and dinner before the return trip to Waterville.
Colby Dance Theater, Colby's repertory dance company, will perform Thursday, March 13, Friday, March 14, and Saturday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. nightly in Strider Theater of Runnals Building on the Waterville campus. The performances will feature four compositions in contemporary dance, choreographed and performed by professional choreographers and advanced students in the Department of Theater and Dance at Colby.
Author and immigration researcher Mary Waters will present the annual Kingsley Birge Lecture in Sociology at Colby College in Waterville on Thursday, March 6. Waters's talk, titled "Becoming American: The New Second Generation in American Society," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Pugh Center of Cotter Union. The event is open to the public and free of charge.
Terence Riley, chief curator of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, will deliver the 33rd annual Clara M. Southworth Lecture in Environmental Design at Colby College in Waterville on Tuesday, March 11. The lecture, titled "Architecture and the Media: Changing Relationships," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 01 of the F.W. Olin Science Center. Riley's talk and slideshow will look at the role of architecture as a source of information from the time of the cathedrals through contemporary architecture. The lecture is open to the public and free of charge.
At 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 2, at the Messalonskee Performing Arts Center in Oakland, instrumental ensembles from Colby, Bates and Bowdoin colleges will present a free concert of band music.
World-renowned epidemiologist Devra Lee Davis will be at Colby College in Waterville on Thursday, March 6, to discuss her book When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 100 of the Lovejoy Building. It is open to the public and free of charge.
The piano trio Triple Helix will perform at Colby College on Saturday, March 1, as part of the 2002-03 Music at Colby Concert Series. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Lorimer Chapel on the Waterville campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge.
Steven Whitfield, an American studies professor at Brandeis University, will deliver the lecture "National Security vs. Freedom of Information: The Case of the Pentagon Papers" on Monday, March 3, at Colby College. The lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Robins Room of Roberts Building on the Waterville campus. A reception will follow. The talk and the reception are open to the public and free of charge.
On Saturday, February 22, the Colby College Chorale will perform a concert titled "Ancient Texts, Modern Voices" at 7:30 p.m. in Lorimer Chapel. Part of the 2002-03 Music at Colby concert series, the event is open to the public and free of charge.
Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and current president of Tel Aviv University, will speak at Colby College in Waterville on Thursday, February 27, at 7 p.m. Rabinovich will speak on "War and Peace in the Middle East" for the annual Lipman Lecture in Jewish studies. The event will be held in the Pugh Center of Cotter Union and is open to the public free of charge.
Pianist Cheryl Tschanz will perform a concert of solo works titled "Three Centuries of Piano" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 16, at Colby College. The concert will be held in Given Auditorium of the Bixler Art and Music Center on the Waterville campus. Part of the 2002-03 Music at Colby concert series, the event is open to the public and free of charge.
Paul Mayewski, director of the Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine and chief scientist and expedition leader for the U.S. International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE), will speak at Colby College in Waterville on Tuesday, February 18, at 7 p.m. Mayewski will speak about the ITASE, a traverse of 5,000 kilometers of Antarctica over four years to record 200 years of climate and environmental change. The lecture will be held in room 100 of Lovejoy Building and is open to the public free of charge
Colby will celebrate Black History Month with a series of films, a panel and a concert, all focused on the 2003 centennial anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. With its essays on African-American life following the Emancipation Proclamation, The Souls of Black Folk is considered fundamental to the development of African-American and black studies programs. All of the following events are open to the public free of charge.
