Waterville Rocks is a FREE, family-friendly concert series is held each summer at beautiful Head of Falls in Downtown Waterville. Waterville Rocks 2022 Sponsors: City of Waterville, Colby College, Freedom’s Edge Cider, Maine International Film Festival, The Proper Pig, GHM Insurance Agency, Central Maine Motors, and Kennebec Savings Bank The July 8 concert will begin…
Celebration of the Arts combines music performances from Professor José Martínez’s class, Live Performance with Electronics, and Latin dance performances from Professor Sandra Bernal’s class, Baila and invited guests’ performances to provide a wholesome artistic experience to the Waterville community and surrounding areas. For more information, email: [email protected] and [email protected].
Through the spring semester, conceptual artist Natasha Marin worked with a cohort of artists, Terri Nwanma, Jess Xing, Maimouna Cherif, Kay Wesley, Anosacha Peete-Meyers, and Samah Mohamedzein, to collaboratively create an exhibition engaging the questions that shape her project, Black Imagination: What is your origin story? How do you heal yourself? Describe/imagine a world where…
May’s First Friday at Greene Block + Studios will kick-off at 5 pm – 6 pm with Beets and Letters, a performance of the Social Nourishment project by Lunder Institute Residential Fellow, Golaleh Yazdani. Following the performance on the ground floor, jazz pianist Jake Hickey with Duane Edwards (bass) and Jason Dean (drums) will play…
Colby Collegium Eric Christopher Perry, director Freedom and Captivity Humanities Themed Event Colby College Collegium’s debut at Greene Block + Studios in downtown Waterville. An exploration of repertoire from Estonian composers performed or premiered at the end of the Cold War. Popular, folk, and nationalistic vocal music from Estonia’s “Singing Revolution,” a historic, non-violent protest of…
Colby Jazz Band Jeff Osarczuk, director Swing into spring with an evening of jazz classics by the Colby Jazz Ensemble. Featuring a variety of popular tunes by Thad Jones, Victor Lopez, Bill Holman, and Gordon Goodwin. Guest appearance on saxophone by retired director Eric Thomas. This concert is one you won’t want to miss. Free…
(Funded by the Robert J. Strider Concert Fund) A new music ensemble for the 21st Century, the [Switch~ Ensemble] is dedicated to the creation of new works for chamber ensemble. This concert will take the audience through recently written music based on soundwalks, elements of machinery, Latin American literature, and migration.
Join the Colby College Music Department for a series of live performances in the Colby Museum galleries, featuring local and regional musicians. This program, titled Suites, Sonatas, and Standards, features Peter Bloom on flute and Mark Leighton on guitar performing a chamber-jazz excursion from the salons of Paris, Vienna, and São Paulo to the nightclubs of…
This First Friday, Celebrate Creativity with a Community-Wide Upcycled Fashion Show! Join participants from Kim Bernard’s Upcycled Wearables Workshops to create your own upcycled looks and debut them on the runway at Greene Block + Studios. Bring your own materials or pull from Kim’s stash to design and construct clothing, adornments, accessories, sculptures, anything wearable…
Join the Colby College Music Department for a series of live performances in the Colby Museum galleries, featuring local and regional musicians. For this program, members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, joined by Colby faculty member Yuri Funahashi, will present a chamber music program featuring works by Fauré, and others.