Colby-Sawyer College will present a variety of events open to the public during the month of April including a reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Harvard professor Jorie Graham, two spring musical concerts and the Faculty Colloquium Series featuring Colby-Sawyer Professor of Natural Sciences Ben Steele.
The following is a complete list of April events*:
N.H. Clothesline Project Returns to Colby-Sawyer
Monday, April 4 to Saturday, April 9 – Wheeler Hall, Ware Student Center
Open weekdays 9 AM to 5 PM and 6 PM to 8 PM, and Saturday from 9 AM to noon.
Campus Safety and AmeriCorps host the 21st Annual N.H. clothesline Project, a display of T-shirts created by violence survivors and their loved ones to demonstrate the impact of sexual, domestic and mental abuse. Free.
For more information, contact Donna Brennan at dobrennan@nullcolby-sawyer.edu or 603.526.3927.
Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Ben Steele
Tuesday, April 5 – Wheeler Hall, Ware Student Center, 4 PM
Join M. Roy London Endowed Chair and Professor of Natural Sciences Ben Steele for a discussion of his research on the social behavior of the common eider in Finland. Professor Steele’s close observation of this sea duck in the Baltic Sea reveals its surprising complexity and seemingly counterintuitive behaviors.
Professor Steele has taught biology, ecology and evolution at Colby-Sawyer since 1988. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.S. from Utah State University and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. Free.
For more information, contact Connor Delaney at connor.delaney@nullcolby-sawyer.edu or 603.526.3760.
Mimi Baird ‘58 Discusses Her Book He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter’s Quest to Know Him
Wednesday, April 6 — Archives Reading Room, Susan Colgate Cleveland Library, 3:30 PM
Colby-Sawyer alumna Mimi Baird ‘58 will discuss her memoir He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter’s Quest to Know Him. An autobiography that focuses on her father, a Harvard-educated physician who suffered from severe bipolar disease, and the effects of his illness on her and her family, the New York Times calls Moon “an extraordinary Mobius strip of a book… Autobiography, biography, science, history and literature all in one, as instructive as any textbook and utterly impossible to put down.” Free.
For more information, contact Noelle Bassi at nbassi@nullcolby-sawyer.edu or 603.526.3685.
Award-Winning Poet Jorie Graham Reads Selected Works
Thursday, April 14 – Archives Reading Room, Susan Colgate Cleveland Library, 4 PM
Colby-Sawyer hosts acclaimed poet Jorie Graham for a reading and discussion of her poetry. Graham is the author of 13 collections of poetry, including Place, which won the Forward Prize in 2012, and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Graham studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa. Graham’s many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 2013, she received the prestigious Nonino Prize. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, served as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003 and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, the first woman awarded this position. Free.
For more information, contact Connor Delaney at connor.delaney@nullcolby-sawyer.edu or 603.526.3760.
Fine and Performing Arts Department Presents Dance Ensemble ‘Arabesque’
Friday, April 15 – Sawyer Center Theater, Sawyer Fine Arts Center, 7 PM
Under the artistic direction of adjunct faculty member Laura Dunlop Shepherd, this two-act evening of dance features original choreography with genres ranging from classical ballet, jazz, contemporary and modern to hip hop and Bollywood. Twenty-seven of Colby-Sawyer’s finest dancers will be showcased in this production that promises to entertain the whole family.
Tickets are available at www.colby-sawyer.edu/tickets or through the Sawyer Center Box Office at 603.526.3670 or boxoffice@nullcolby-sawyer.edu. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children/students or free with a Colby-Sawyer ID.
For more information, contact Laura Dunlop Shepherd at laura.shepherd@nullcolby-sawyer.edu.
Susan Colby Colgate Scholars’ Symposium
Tuesday, April 19 – Various Campus Locations, 9 AM to 5 PM
The Colby-Sawyer community celebrates students’ commitment to scholarship at the annual symposium featuring interdisciplinary Capstone projects and undergraduate presentations. The schedule will be posted on the college’s Web site. Free.
For more information, contact Executive Assistant Sue Maurer at smaurer@nullcolby-sawyer.edu or 603.526.3889.
Annual Senior Art Exhibition
Friday, April 22 – Sawyer Center Theater, Sawyer Fine Arts Center, 5 PM
The Fine and Performing Arts Department hosts the annual Senior Art Exhibition, featuring an opening reception, awards ceremony, and students’ best work in ceramics, drawing, graphic design, mixed and new media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. The exhibition runs through Saturday, May 7. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM Free.
For more information, contact Bert Yarborough at byarborough@nullcolby-sawyer.edu or 603.526.3459.
CSC Singers’ Annual Spring Concert
Friday, April 22 – Sawyer Center Theater, Sawyer Fine Arts Center, 7 PM
Join the Colby-Sawyer Singers for a night of Broadway melodies and crowd favorites, including Stephen Sondheim’s “Anyone Can Whistle” and highlights from “Jersey Boys.”
General admissions is $5 and free with a Colby-Sawyer ID.
For more information, contact Jean Liepold at jean.liepold@nullcolby-sawyer.edu or 603.526.3787.
Colby-Sawyer College Players Present an Evening of Cabaret
Saturday, April 23 – Dining Hall, Ware Student Center, 7 PM
Join the student-led CSC Players for a variety of cabaret-style performances including monologues, song and dance theatrical scenes. Free.
For more information, contact Erin Bennett ‘16 at erin.bennett@nullmy.colby-sawyer.edu.
The Kearsarge Chorale’s Spring Concert
Sunday, April 24 – Sawyer Center Theater, Sawyer Fine Arts Center, 3 PM
Join the Kearsarge Chorale as it honors Robert Shaw and Alice Parker with a concert featuring their folk songs, hymns and spirituals. The concert will also feature Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata #4 with a chamber orchestra. A $10 donation is encouraged.
For more information, contact Linda L. Barnes at linda@nullconstantquilter.com or 603.648.6180.