In collaboration with Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and the Center for the Arts and Humanities’ 2023–2025 “Play” theme, Colby College will be sponsoring a two-day LitFest focusing on creativity, graphic writing, and social justice. Featuring MacArthur Fellow and the 2024–2025 Kristina Stahl Writer-in-Residence Lynda Barry. Lynda Barry is an award winning author and artist.…
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,…
What is the value of academic preparation in the “humanities”? How does one leverage such preparation to work in the “real” world? If you are asking these questions as a student, faculty member, administrator, or a member of the local community, join us for a lively exchange with Bro Adams, Aaron Hanlon and Damon Yarnell.
Free and open to the public Elle Pérez is an artist from the Bronx, New York, who lives and works in New York City. Pérez primarily works in photography and moving image, depicting intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within their portraits, landscapes, and films. Their work has been exhibited across the United States…
Directed by AB Brown and Bess Welden. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is a collection of three short plays exploring the themes of girlhood and play, inspired by the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities theme of ‘Play.’ Each play investigates the gendered, age-based, and class politics of ‘play’ and questions how play in our…
Led by Annie Kloppenberg and Matthew Cumbie. Break, Burn, Build is a landmark in the development of movers, makers, and performers. It’s a platform for emerging dancemakers to incubate new performance work. It’s a creative laboratory to explore and expand on ideas driven by inquiry. And it’s a celebration of rigorous work, made manifest through…