Colby Arts

Songs From Here is a Maine-based initiative that supports locally-written art song, melodies for voice and piano designed to be shared in intimate performance settings. Founded in 2021 by vocalist Sarah Tuttle, Songs From Here has ...

In celebration of the third Maine Lit Fest, award-winning poet and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs reads from and discusses her newest book, Primary: After and With Alma Thomas, about the twentieth-century modern artist best known fo ...

Celebrate the joy of books, art, and community! Stop by the Paul J. Schupf Art Center for free books from the Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival and enjoy a special reading of Saturday by Oge Mora presented by the Waterv ...

Kick off this year's Colby Arts Jazz Series with jazz guitarist Peter Bernstein, who has played on festival, concert, and club stages all over the world and has appeared on more than 300 recordings, with 14 under his own name.

Steinway Artists and Eastman School of Music faculty, the Lomazov/Rackers Piano Duo highlight the expressive power of piano collaboration, performing masterpieces of the duo piano repertoire, including works by Brahms, Mozart, Fau ...

Step away from your desk and explore language with your whole body. This gentle one-hour workshop is designed for writers of all backgrounds. No formal dance experience is necessary; open to everyone with a willingness to court th ...

Fullness: June Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Alma Thomas and a Poetics of Nourishment To set the tone and vision for us writers in these political times, award-winning poet and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs opens the Festival with a po ...

The term “broadside” in this workshop draws on the history of the term, grounded in the field of poetics, and serves as a placeholder for all writing that is an easily disseminated, creative, public response. Participants will stu ...

HINGE Collaborative and artist Elizabeth Jabar present a screen-printing workshop inspired by the writings of Alexis Pauline Gumbs and adrienne maree brown. Using their words as a starting point, participants will create layered p ...

Zahir invites workshop participants to explore what their stories look and sound like when they remember they are the ones in power. Through poems and podcasts, learn to craft non-reactive stories that set the agenda.