The exhibit Afterlife: Asian Tomb and Ritual Art from the Colby Collection will be shown at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville October 18 through January 5.
Family Homecoming Weekend will be held at Colby College in
Waterville Friday, October 18, to Sunday, October 20. The following
events will be open to the public, and all are free of charge unless
otherwise noted.
Chicano poet and American
Book Award winner Tino Villanueva will give a poetry reading and talk
on Tuesday, October 22, at Colby College in Waterville.
The Department of Theater and Dance at Colby College will present three performances of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf Thursday, October 17, through Saturday, October 19.
Juliet Garcia, president of the University of Texas-Brownsville, will be the keynote speaker for the 2002 Dr. Ralph J. Bunche Symposium at Colby College in Waterville. Garcia will deliver her address at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 19, in the Page Commons Room of Cotter Union. The lecture is free of charge and open to the public.
Jeff Drumtra, senior policy analyst on Africa for the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR), will give the lecture "In Search of Human Rights: Africa's 13 Million Uprooted People" on Tuesday, October 8, at Colby College in Waterville. The event is part of the Oak Human Rights Lecture Series. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 01 of the F.W. Olin Science Center and is open to the public free of charge.
Hinrich Lehmann-Grube, the former mayor of Leipzig, Germany, will give the lecture "Twelve Years United Germany--A Story of Success and Failure" on Thursday, October 17, at Colby College in Waterville.
On Saturday, October 5, members of Colby's music faculty will perform a concert of solo and ensemble works. The concert, part of the 2002-03 Music at Colby Concert Series, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Given Auditorium of the Bixler Art and Music Center on the Waterville campus. It is open to the public and free of charge.
On Saturday, September 28, the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble New York Voices will perform at Colby College in Waterville. The concert, part of the 2002-03 Music at Colby Concert Series, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Page Commons Room of Cotter Union. It is open to the public and free of charge.
his year's Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award will honor the late Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal, Colby College President William D. Adams has announced.
Wednesday, September 18, at Colby College Jack Mendelsohn will present "The Lessons of September 11th for U. S. Foreign Policy: Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction." Mendelsohn is an arms control expert, retired State Department official and consultant to several non-governmental organizations.
Actor, author, playwright and Colby graduate Mike Daisey will present his one-man show 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com on Friday, September 27, at Colby. 21 Dog Years comes directly to Colby after a six-month Off-Broadway run to strong reviews. The performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Strider Theater in the Runnals Building on the Waterville campus.
The Science, Technology and Society lecture series at Colby College will hold three lectures in September on the Waterville campus. All are open to the public and free of charge.
Colby College's 2002-03 Visiting Writers Series will hold three readings this fall on the Waterville campus. Each program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Robins Room of Roberts Building and is open to the public free of charge.
On Sunday, September 15, guitarist David Burgess will perform music from Brazil. The concert, part of the 2002-03 Music at Colby Concert Series, will be held at 3 p.m. in Given Auditorium of the Bixler Art and Music Center on the Waterville campus. It is open to the public and free of charge.
The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville will be closed on Monday, September 2, for Labor Day. The museum will be open regular hours Saturday, August 31, and Sunday, September 1.
On Tuesday, September 3, from noon to 6 p.m. Colby College will hold a yard sale featuring used household items. The event is open to the public and will be held in the field house of the Harold Alfond Athletic Center on the Waterville campus. Items for sale will include lamps, dishes, clocks, refrigerators, shelving, sporting goods and more.
On Saturday, September 7, the Portland String Quartet, artists-in-residence at Colby, will open the 2002-03 Music at Colby Concert Series with a free concert. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Lorimer Chapel on the Waterville campus and is open to the public free of charge.
As Congress debates the shape of a new Homeland Security Administration and amid widespread concern about the numbers and intentions of foreign students coming to the United States, financier Shelby M.C. Davis is spending millions of dollars to put hundreds of foreign students through some of America's top colleges, Colby College in Maine among them.
Colby College President William Adams announced today that Daniel Rosenfeld, currently Academy Professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, has been appointed director of the Colby College Museum of Art. Hugh Gourley, the museum's director for nearly four decades, will retire this fall.
