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Experience some incredible music as we celebrate Pride First Friday in Downtown Waterville 6/5 ! 🌈 - At Castonguay Squar...
06/02/2026

Experience some incredible music as we celebrate Pride First Friday in Downtown Waterville 6/5 ! 🌈

- At Castonguay Square (outside of Paul J. Schupf Arts Center) 5:30-6:30pm
Kate Campbell Strauss (saxophone), Jake Hickey (keys), and Scott Kiefner (bass) will play a set celebrating the music of q***r jazz composers and musicians.

- At Greene Block + Studios 7-8pm
Random Ideas!
Random Ideas is a triplet punk rock/alternative rock band that has taken their passion for music and human rights/social issues to write powerful, high energy music.

Visit arts.colby.edu for a full list of Pride First Friday Events and follow for details about the upcoming Central Maine Pride Festival!

Looking back at our May First Friday featuring What's the Vibe and Bomba de AquĂ­! Thank you to everyone attended and mad...
05/06/2026

Looking back at our May First Friday featuring What's the Vibe and Bomba de AquĂ­! Thank you to everyone attended and made this evening so delightful.

Photos: John Meader

Join us on April 30th, May 1st, and May 2nd at The Gordon Center for Sagittarius Ponderosa!Reserve free tickets at arts....
04/24/2026

Join us on April 30th, May 1st, and May 2nd at The Gordon Center for Sagittarius Ponderosa!

Reserve free tickets at arts.colby.edu!

Thank you to everyone who came out for the 3rd Annual Colby Creatives Pop Up and Clothing as Canvas workshop!Photography...
04/23/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out for the 3rd Annual Colby Creatives Pop Up and Clothing as Canvas workshop!

Photography: Yuito Watanabe '28

May First Friday: What’s the Vibe + Bomba de AquÍWhere? Greene Block + StudiosWhen? May 1 from 5-7 PM5pm: What’s the Vib...
04/16/2026

May First Friday: What’s the Vibe + Bomba de AquÍ

Where? Greene Block + Studios
When? May 1 from 5-7 PM

5pm: What’s the Vibe
A neon installation by Colby Arts Associates (Yiyun Mao, Peggy Jones, Jen Jackson, Elise Struthers, Eric Adjei), featuring phrases collected from community surveys in Fall 2025.

6pm: Bomba de AquÍ
Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance performance, with student musicians from José Martinez’s class joining the group.

Free and open to the public!

Join us on May 2nd and 3rd at the Gordon Center for the Colby Symphony Orchestra and Choirs at Colby: Choral Masterworks...
04/16/2026

Join us on May 2nd and 3rd at the Gordon Center for the Colby Symphony Orchestra and Choirs at Colby: Choral Masterworks performance! We close our concert season by collaborating with invited soloists and Colby Choirs for Giuseppi Verdi’s operatic, epic Requiem. The program also features Franz Schubert’s Overture “In the Italian Style,” in D major, D. 26, inspired by Gioachino Rossini and written by the young composer in hopes of receiving an operatic commission from a Viennese theater. This concert will also celebrate the student winner of the annual Music Department Concerto Competition.

Get free tickets at arts.colby.edu!

Next week at the Maine Film Center!
04/13/2026

Next week at the Maine Film Center!

Looking back on an incredible performance featuring the Portland Ballet in collaboration with the Colby PTD Department l...
04/09/2026

Looking back on an incredible performance featuring the Portland Ballet in collaboration with the Colby PTD Department last month. Thank you to everyone who came out!

Photography: Yuito Watanabe '28

04/09/2026

Meet the Colby Arts Associates! This is our Marketing and Comms team: Alayna Blier ‘26, Hakan Eroglu ‘26, Audrey Ishiyama ‘28, Elise Struthers ‘28
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Join us at Greene Block + Studios for Two Cent Talks: A reading and Q&A with Maine writers Jessica Berger Gross and Ron ...
04/08/2026

Join us at Greene Block + Studios for Two Cent Talks: A reading and Q&A with Maine writers Jessica Berger Gross and Ron Currie

TUESDAY April 14 at 5pm

Jessica Berger Gross is the author of the memoir Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Longreads and many other publications. She graduated from Vassar College and has a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally from New York, she lives in Maine with her husband and teenage son. Hazel Says No is her first novel.

Ron Currie is the author of four novels and one collection of short stories. He has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program

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