Colby Arts

Native Intelligence/Innate Intelligence incorporates dance, Hawaiian chant & percussion, original compositions for cello, and multimedia scenic design and asks us each to consider who we are, where we come from, and wonder about o ...

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes; Gentrifier: A Memoir, and a long list of additional award-winning books. Her most recent project, My Inevitable Murder, is a true-crime podcast ...

Funded by the Ermanno Comparetti Concert Fund This program is a celebration of contemporary music that interlaces traditional Asian instruments with Western classical string instruments and presents an anthology of fantasies of As ...

Chamber orchestra Palaver Strings presents Songbook, a collaborative program featuring acclaimed jazz vocalist Vuyo Sotashe and Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Chris Patishall. “Songbook” celebrates the rich musical diversity of Sot ...

Funded by the Freda M. Charles Music Fund Brendon Wilkins, Colby Director of Bands, leads his organ trio for an evening of swinging jazz, featuring music made by Stanley Turretine, Shirley Scott, and Jimmy Smith. The Hammond B3 or ...

Join us for this year’s Orchestral Masterworks concert, featuring Guiseppe Verdi’s dramatic exploration of fate, the Overture to La forza del destino (1862). Violinist Jaewon Wee will perform Polish virtuoso Henri Wieniawski’s daz ...

Kathya Maria Landeros is a Mexican-American photographer and educator. Influenced by her bi-cultural upbringing, her work of almost two decades focuses on Latinx communities and the exploration of history, migration, representatio ...

The word “reflection” can refer to the mirror images we see on shiny surfaces or to the process of thinking back on the past. How can we think about queerness with both of these definitions in mind?  Free and open to all, join us ...

The Colby Jazz Ensemble features works from throughout the history of jazz. The concert includes Dizzy Gillespie’s “Salt Peanuts”, which is an essential part of the jazz repetoire and is based on George Gershwin’s composition “I G ...

The Colby Wind Ensemble’s spring concert presents new compositions, including Dirigo Suite, by Heather Hastings. Dedicated to the state of Maine, Dirigo Suite is a three-movement work based on folk songs connected to Maine. Overtu ...