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.
Through Feb. 20, 2010
Interior Life: Photography Exhibition
Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Sawyer Fine Arts Center
The Colby-Sawyer College Fine and Performing Arts Department will host “Interior Life,” an exhibition featuring work by seven photographers who know that the personal is often on display if we choose to look. They throw open closet doors, look under the bed, and peer into spaces both familiar and neglected to examine the stuff of life – the things that accumulate in the places we inhabit and that ultimately create and represent our interior lives.
Learn more about this exhibit here.
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010
Documentary "Kilowatt Ours" Promotes Energy Conservation
8 p.m. Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
“Kilowatt Ours” is a documentary by Jeff Barrie that has become a national movement to promote energy conservation, efficiency and renewable energy. Kilowatt Ours is also a non profit organization advocating for conservation power plants in every community in America. It provides resources for homes, businesses, schools and communities to begin their journey to energy savings.
This screening, sponsored by the Students for a Greener Campus, is free and open to the public. Learn more the event here.
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010
Film "Raise the Red Lantern" Depicts Life in 1920s China
7 p.m. Clements Hall, Curtis L. Ivey Science Center
Director Yimou Zhang's film “Raise the Red Lantern,” based on novelist Su Tong's book Wives and Concubines, depicts life in a rich family compound in China during the 1920s. The film was released in China in 1991 to immediate political controversy; officials feared the story would be taken as an allegory against Chinese communist authoritarianism.
“Raise the Red Lantern” was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1991 Academy Awards. It is rated PG and contains violence (murder) and sexual situations.
This film, sponsored by Dr. Ai-Li Sung Chin '39 and the Cultural Events Committee, is free and open to the public. Learn more here.
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
'The Great Debaters' Celebrates Determination in the Face of Racism
7 p.m. Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
Directed by and starring Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington, this 2007 drama is based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at the historically black Wiley College in Texas. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge the nation's reigning (white) debate team for the national championship. Admission to this Black History Month event is free.
Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010
Black History Month Celebration
7 p.m. Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
The Christian Fellowship at Colby-Sawyer is sponsoring a Black History Month Celebration to recognize and celebrate the heroes of Black History in America. The Gospel Choir, part of the Christian Fellowship, will be on hand, and an audio-visual component will help bring history alive.
Organizer Jeramey Winfield '13 describes the event this way: "The idea of Black History Month derived from Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who introduced Negro Week in 1926 to educate the public on the contributions African Americans have made to American society and culture. In 1976, Negro Week was renamed Black History Month and at this event we are going to take you back a few years to meet some people who made Black History month possible and why it is important today. When this is finished, we will show you how, through Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it was made possible for people from different races and cultures to join together in unity singing songs like 'Victory Is Ours!'"
Admission to this Black History Month event is free.
Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010
Langston Hughes' "Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz" Featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet
7 p.m. Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes' kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite. Ask Your Mama is Hughes' homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s. It is a twelve-part epic poem which Hughes scored with musical cues drawn from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop and progressive jazz, Latin "cha cha" and Afro-Cuban mambo music, German lieder, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming -- a creative masterwork left unperformed at his death.
This Black History Month event sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee is free and open to the public. Learn more here.
Thursday - Saturday, Feb. 25-27, 2010, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, 2 p.m.
Colby-Sawyer and S.K.I.T. Present: "Spoon River Anthology"
Sawyer Center Theater
What would you say if you could say anything? The stage adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters' “Spoon River Anthology” is set in a cemetery where the ghosts of the townspeople, free in death, share their stories and the secrets they guarded in life.
Josh Galligan, adjunct professor in the Fine and Performing Arts Department, makes his directorial debut at the college with this second collaboration between Sunapee-Kearsarge Intercommunity Theatre (S.K.I.T.) and Colby-Sawyer. S.K.I.T. is the Theatre Company in Residence for the 2009-10 academic year.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students/children and free with a Colby-Sawyer I.D. The box office is open 4-6 p.m.; for reservations, please call 526-3670.
Learn more about this production here.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
“Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude”: A Film with Co-Producer Don Coonley
7 p.m. Clements Hall, Curtis L. Ivey Science Center
Colby-Sawyer College will host a screening of “Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude,” the first full-length film made about one of America's greatest painters.
The screening will be introduced by the film's co-producer, New London resident and former Colby-Sawyer Humanities Professor Don Coonley, who will also lead a discussion after the film.
Coonley, a former professor in Colby-Sawyer College's Communication Studies Program, worked on the Homer documentary for six years and has collaborated with the director, Steve Ross, on film projects over the last 30 years. In addition to his work as co-producer, Professor Coonley was also a sound recorder and the on-screen and voice-over actor representing Homer in re-creation sequences filmed at the artist's studio on Prout's Neck, Maine.
“Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude” premiered on March 6, 2007, in Memphis, Tenn., and has since been screened at various universities, museums and art centers across the country. The film chronicles Homer's artistic evolution, from his early life amid a lively and cosmopolitan New York City art scene to his gradual withdrawal into a reclusive lifestyle.
This event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Gladys Greenbaum Meyers Juried Student Art Exhibition Opening Reception
6 p.m. Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Sawyer Fine Arts Center
Colby-Sawyer's Fine Arts Department will host The Gladys Greenbaum Meyers Juried Student Art Exhibition featuring students' recent work in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, printmaking and graphic design.
Admission is free and community members are welcome to attend. This exhibit will be on display through April 2.
The art faculty at Colby-Sawyer College juries this exhibition, which is made possible through a gift from Gladys Greenbaum Meyers '39, an avid and longtime supporter of the arts program at the college.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Tartan Terrors
7 p.m. Sawyer Center Theater
Taking the Celtic scene by storm, the Tartan Terrors, North America's premiere Celtic event, features the best in music, comedy and dance. Bolstered by the blistering piping of a two-time world champion bagpiper, the driving tones of drums from around the world, and a guitar played unlike any you've ever heard, standing room only audiences understand why Dig This Magazine declares "(The Terrors) are one act to keep an eye on!"
This program is sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee, the Campus Activities Board and the Helen L. Eberle Endowment in Music Performance.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students/children and free with a Colby-Sawyer I.D. The box office is open 4-6 p.m.; for reservations, please call 526-3670.
Learn more about The Tartan Terrors here.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Hope For Haiti Benefit Concert and Silent Auction
Wheeler Hall and Hicks Alumni Lounge, Ware Campus Center
The Class of 2012 is joining forces with more than 10 campus clubs to present a night of music and Hope for Haiti. The 80s dance party band Orange Crush will play throughout the night and between its sets, elements of the evening will be contributed by the Colby-Sawyer Gospel Choir, Colby-Sawyer Players and Dance Club; a time of Christian fellowship will be offered, and open mic segments will invite all to take the stage.
Simultaneously, the Hicks Alumni Lounge will hold a Silent Auction.
This event is open to the public and while admission is free, it is a fund raiser and donations will be gratefully accepted.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
“The Journey of the Lost Boys”
7 p.m. Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
Imagine you're a young boy - maybe three or four - separated from your family by civil war and forced to walk over a 1,000 miles in search of refuge with little food or water and no protection from wild animals and enemy soldiers. To most of us, it is unimaginable, but for "The Lost Boys of Sudan," it was reality.
Joan Hecht is the award-winning author of "The Journey of the Lost Boys," founder and President of "Alliance for the Lost Boys of Sudan," and the chair of Education for The Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan: The National Network, based in Washington, D.C.
This event is free and open to the public. Learn more about "The Lost Boys" here.
Friday-Saturday, March 25-27, 2010
True West: Theater Production
8 p.m., Sawyer Center Theater
The Colby-Sawyer Players present "True West," a play by Sam Shepard about estranged brothers who are reestablishing their relationship.
After years with no interaction, the unsavory Lee shows up at his mother's place while his younger, Hollywood-screenwriter brother Austin is there house sitting. Good intentions give way to rivalry and violence, and the end leaves plenty of room for wondering what might have come next.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Wesley McNair Presents "My Life as a Poet, a Multimedia Memoir"
7 p.m. Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center; free admission
Renowned New England poet Wesley McNair will offer a presentation on the evolution of his life and poetry. He uses a combination of slides derived from his archive at Colby College in Maine, along with photographs, report cards, early poems, letters from mentors, and drafts from notebooks to tell the story of his life as a poet.
McNair's themes will include his hardscrabble beginnings in New Hampshire; his long struggle to balance work, family and the writing life; and the help he received in times of discouragement from friends and mentors. His talk will conclude with slides from manuscripts that reveal his creative method. The presentation is intended for a general audience and will be particularly inspiring to anyone interested in the writing life.
Wesley McNair has written or edited 18 books. His recent collections of verse are Talking in the Dark, Fire, and The Ghosts of You and Me, published in 2006. A volume of new and selected poems, Lovers of the Lost, was published in 2009. Praised by Maxine Kumin as "a master craftsman" and Philip Levine as "one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry," McNair has selected for this volume a wide range of narratives, lyrics and meditations.
His subjects, as always, are ordinary people and the lives they lead; their hopes and sorrows, their struggles and triumphs, all providing insight into New England, America and the more obscure geography of the human heart. McNair's verse – whether about the trauma of family conflict, the humor of popular culture, or the solace of place – represents a singular achievement, providing what the Ruminator Review called "one of the most individual and original bodies of work by a poet of his generati
McNair has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship; Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships; two, National Endowment for the Arts fellowships; and the Robert Frost Prize. He has twice served on the nominating jury of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
He is the editor of four anthologies of contemporary Maine writing: The Quotable Moose: A Contemporary Maine Reader; The Maine Poets; Contemporary Maine Fiction (which won the 2006 Independent Publishers Award for the anthology category); and, A Place Called Maine.
McNair is currently professor emeritus and writer in residence at the University of Maine at Farmington, where he directed the creative writing program and received the Distinguished Faculty Award and the Libra Professorship.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Workshop with Italian Guitarist Emanuele Segre
If you are interested in participating in this workshop please register with the Campus Activities Office by calling 526-3759. Space is limited.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Italian Guitarist Emanuele Segre in Concert
7 p.m. Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
This concert is sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee and paid for by the Olivetti Series Endowment Fund.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
UFOs – The Secret Story by UFO researcher Robert Hastings
7 p.m. Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
The subject of UFOs has intrigued millions of people for decades. Newly declassified government files now provide important and astonishing answers to many questions. This lecture draws together Mr. Hastings' work and the findings of numerous other researchers and presents the facts as they are now emerging, about what has been kept secret and why. In essence this program is a sneak preview of information that the government itself will one day reveal to the public. All information is based on documents legally obtained from the secret files of the U.S. Government.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Senior Art Exhibition Opening Reception
7 p.m., Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Sawyer Center
The Senior Art Exhibition reception will include a chance to meet the artists and presentation of scholarships and awards from the college and local individuals and businesses. Admission is free and community members are welcome to attend. This exhibit will be on display through April 2.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Scholars Symposium
All Day, Various Locations on Campus
The 2010 Susan Colby Colgate Scholars' Symposium is a celebration of student scholarship, highlighting senior students' research in their majors, known as Capstone projects, in academic areas including biology; child development; business administration; communication studies; environmental studies; English; exercise and sport sciences; fine and performing arts; history, society and culture; nursing; and psychology. Presentations by Wesson Honors Program students, teaching interns in education, and select undergraduates will also be featured during the day.
“The Scholars Symposium is one of the most exciting and significant events of the academic year, showcasing our undergraduate research and other forms of scholarly and creative work," says Deborah Taylor, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty. "It is an opportunity for our students to present their culminating senior projects to the college community and the public."
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Colby-Sawyer Singers Spring Concert
7 p.m., Sawyer Center Theater
Community members are welcome to attend this event, and admission is free
For Alumni
To learn about alumni events, visit the Alumni & Friends Web site.
Colby-Sawyer, founded in 1837, is a comprehensive liberal arts and sciences college located in the scenic Lake Sunapee Region of central New Hampshire. Students from 23 states and five foreign countries learn in small classes through a select array of programs that integrate the liberal arts and sciences with pre-professional experience. Visit us on the World Wide Web at www.colby-sawyer.edu.
