Upcoming Public Events & Activities
Colby-Sawyer College hosts a wide variety of educational and cultural events that are open to the public. For more information, please call (603) 526-3000. For information about athletic events at Colby-Sawyer, visit Colby-Sawyer Athletics.
Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
Convocation: The Formal Opening of the Academic Year and Welcome of the Class of 2014
Front Lawn, 2:30 p.m.
Convocation brings the college and community together to welcome the first-year class and to celebrate the official opening of the 2010-2011 academic year. The college community, along with area residents, parents, family and friends, are invited to attend.
Admission is free.
Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010
Fifth Annual Colby-Sawyer College-Community 5K Dash & Stroll
Lethbridge Lodge on Campus
Registration begins at 9 a.m.; walkers depart at 9:45 and runners at 10 a.m. First one 100 registrants receive free T-shirts.
This free non-competitive fun run/walk is open to college community members, alumni and friends, and area residents of all ages. The run/walk begins at Lethbridge Lodge and winds through New London's town center and residential areas. The event will take place rain or shine.
Admission is free.
Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: Celebrating Tomie dePaola
Sawyer Center Lobby Gallery, 12-1 p.m.
For the inaugural event of the Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, Tomie dePaola, an internationally renowned artist and writer/illustrator of children's books, will discuss his extraordinary career and present highlights of his work.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
Thursday, Sept. 23 - Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010
Master Prints at Colby-Sawyer: Selected Works from the Susan C. Harp Collection for Graphic Design Permanent Collection
Reception: Friday, October 1
Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery and Sawyer Center Lobby Gallery, 5-7 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010
Screening of the Film: "Invictus"
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center, 7 p.m.
"Invictus" is a 2009 drama based on events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in that country following the dismantling of apartheid. Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film stars Morgan Freeman as South African President Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as François Pienaar, the captain of the Springboks, the South African rugby union team. "Invictus" was nominated for three Golden Globe and two Academy Awards in 2010.
The event is sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee. Admission is free.
Friday, Oct. 1, 2010
Guild of Artistic Thinkers Studio Art Sale
Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center, Lobby Gallery, 3-5 p.m.
A new student organization, the Guild of Artistic Thinkers presents a Studio Art Sale of some of their current work.
Admission is free.
Friday, Oct. 1, 2010
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: Art Historian Robert T. Singer Presents "Animals and Nature in Japanese Art"
Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center, Gordon Hall 7 p.m.
World-renowned art historian Robert T. Singer, founding curator of the Japanese Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will address the question, "Why is the depiction of animals, birds, fish and bugs in 2,000 years of Japanese painting, sculpture, ceramics and lacquer among the very finest - the most alive and often humorous - of any culture in world history?"
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
Friday-Saturday, Oct. 1-3, 2010
Alumni Fall Festival 2010
Locations Across Campus
Enjoy the beautiful fall foliage on campus and in the surrounding New London area. Reunite with friends and classmates and celebrate your college years. Meet current students and faculty and experience the Colby-Sawyer of today. Learn more here.
Admission is free.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
You Found What in the Basement?: Rediscovering Colby-Sawyer's Print Collection
Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery 2-3 p.m.
Tuesday, October 5 from 12-1 p.m.
This gallery talk with Brian Clancy, Assistant Professor, Art History, is free and open to the public.
Monday, Oct. 4, 2010
"Hidden History, Hidden Lives": Presentation by Kent Nerburn
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center, 7 p.m.
Author Kent Nerburn discusses what Native America can teach us about ourselves, our past and our place on this land. Sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee.
Admission is free.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
You Found What in the Basement?: Rediscovering Colby-Sawyer's Print Collection
Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery 12-1 p.m.
This second presentation of a gallery talk with Brian Clancy, Assistant Professor, Art History, is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010
Performance by Guitarist and Singer AnnaMaria
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center, 7 p.m.
A classical and flamenco guitarist, AnnaMaria's style speaks of her proud heritage as an 18th-generation Santa Fean, a link to the world's best-preserved enclave of Spanish colonial culture. As a singer, her mezzo-soprano voice exudes the warmth of her Mediterranean ancestry.
AnnaMaria recorded her first CD at age 15 and founded her own label, Musica Mundial Productions. Her first CD was featured on QVC and met with great success, but the exposure expanded her audience much wider than her native Santa Fe. She has appeared at the Kennedy Center, performed for the Prince of Spain and in numerous concerts with full orchestra of her favorite work, Rodrigo's profoundly moving Concierto de Aranjuez.
Sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee, admission is free.
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: Art Historian Brian Clancy Presents: "You Found What in the Basement?: Rediscovering Colby-Sawyer's Print Collection"
Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, 12-1 p.m.
Colby-Sawyer Assistant Professor of Art History Brian Clancy will discuss the collection and the current exhibition. which includes works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Kandinsky; Japanese ukiyo-e landscapes and portraits by Hiroshige, Hokusai and Utamaro; and a surprising collection of 20th-century American etchings.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: The Empty Bowls Project
Outside of Ware Campus Center, 12–1:30 p.m.
Empty Bowls is a grassroots effort to raise money and awareness in an effort to end hunger and food insecurity. For many years, Colby-Sawyer students and faculty in the Ceramics Program have participated, donated their handmade bowls to food pantries, Doctors without Dorders in Haiti, and other organizations.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free. In case of inclement weather, the event will be held in Wheeler Hall.
Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
Film Screening of "Frozen River"
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center, 7 p.m.
"Frozen River," a 2008 independent film, won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. This dramatic story takes place just before Christmas near a border crossing in a hardscrabble region between New York state and Canada. Two abandoned mothers who might seem a world apart are drawn by the promise of big money into the world of smuggling immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River.
Sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee. Admission is free.
Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: Assistant Professor of Theatre Julie Vogt Presents "How to Make an Original Halloween Costume"
Sawyer Fine Arts Center, Sawyer Center Lobby Gallery, 12-1 p.m.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
Thursday, November 4 - December 17, 2010
Faculty Art Exhibition
Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery and Sawyer Center Lobby Gallery
Exhibition: (Lobby Gallery through March 1)
Reception: Thursday, November 4 from 5-7 p.m. (followed by “Lady of Pleasure”)
Thursday-Saturday, November 4-6, 2010
“Lady of Pleasure” by James Shirley
Sawyer Center Theatre, 7 p.m.
Theatre production directed by Julie Vogt, Assistant Professor.
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: Associate Professor of Art Bert Yarborough Presents a Discussion of The Art Faculty Exhibition
Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, 12-1 p.m.
Bert Yarborough examines the Colby-Sawyer Art Faculty Exhibition with special focus on his latest work.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010
Presentation by Adventurer Karin Muller
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center, 7 p.m.
Karin Muller is a Swiss-born author, filmmaker, photographer and adventurer. She is an expert lecturer on Japan for the National Geographic Society, has been featured on National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio's "Marketplace," and her writing appears in National Geographic and Traveler magazines.
Muller produced the PBS television special “Hitchhiking Vietnam” and a companion book by Globe Pequot Press of the same name, the television series “Along the Inca Road” for National Geographic, and “Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa” as both a documentary series and book.
Sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee. Admission is free.
Monday, Nov. 29, 2010
Screening of the Film: "After the Fog: Interviews with Combat Veterans"
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center, 7 p.m.
Film Producer/Director Jay Craven presents "After the Fog," a documentary that chronicles the dramatic experiences of 11 U.S. combat veterans. Craven will introduce the film and provide a brief presentation and answer questions afterward.
Veterans featured in the film include WWII Army Ranger Curtis Whiteway, who won three Purple Hearts for service during The Battle of the Bulge, where only 20 soldiers survived from his 250-man battalion. Other veterans in the film are Cliff Austin, who was called into the Army during his junior year of high school and sent straight to the front, where he was captured and held as a German POW for more than a year; David Underwood, who lost part of his foot while working as a helicopter crew chief in Vietnam; Bob Miller, who fought in northern Africa and Italy and helped to produce the film; and young Iraq vets Jonathan Miller and Abbie Pickett, the one female soldier in the group.
Together, these former soldiers provide a vivid, detailed, emotionally charged and highly personal picture of military recruitment, training, combat and reintegration into civilian life. They share remarkable insights into their life under fire. In doing so, they pose eternal questions about the nature and impact of war — and how human beings cope with the intense emotional, psychological and physical changes they experience from combat.
Sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee, admission to this event is free.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
CSC Singers Winter Holiday Concert
Sawyer Center Theater, 7 p.m. (Snow date: December 10)
Directed by Susan Cancio-Bello, Adjunct Assistant Professor.
Community members are welcome to attend this festive event, and admission is free.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: Colby-Sawyer Adjunct Professor of Printmaking Mary Mead Presents "Artists Who Make Prints"
Wheeler Hall, Alumni Lounge, 12-1 p.m.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: Colby-SawyerProfessor of History Randy Hanson Presents "Mexican Art from Outsiders to Contemporary"
Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, 12-1 p.m.
Randy Hanson, an expert on Mexican culture and history, draws on his years of experience and travel in Mexico and his interest in the arts for this illuminating presentation.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: The Photography of Nick Gaffney
Hicks Alumni Lounge, Ware Campus Center 12-1 p.m.
Colby-Sawyer College Colby-Sawyer Assistant Professor of Photography Nick Gaffney presents a discussion of photographs and his unique approach to the art.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: The Ceramic Art of David Ernster
Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center, Ceramics Studio, 12-1 p.m.
Colby-Sawyer Visiting Professor of Art David Ernster demonstrates his creative and technical virtuosity in clay for all attendees.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Colby-Sawyer College Artist and Scholar Lecture Series 2010-2011: Colby-Sawyer Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Brandy Gibbs Riley Presents "Graphic Design: National Visions within a Global Dialogue"
Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center, Gordon Hall, 12-1 p.m.
College and area community members are encouraged to attend this series of lectures by artists and scholars, which was created both to inspire people and raise awareness of the arts at Colby-Sawyer College and the college's proposed new fine and performing arts center.
Admission is free.
For Alumni
To learn about alumni events, visit the Alumni & Friends Web site.
Colby-Sawyer College is a comprehensive college that combines the liberal and arts sciences with professional preparation. Located in the scenic Lake Sunapee Region of central New Hampshire, Colby-Sawyer was founded in 1837.
