Senior musicians prepare for a final bow
After four years in practice rooms and on stage, students prepare for their last performances
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Students show off their skills in This Time
Theater and Dance Department closes season with impressive performances.
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Get ready to Move with new original show
Student leads team to produce a show, incorporates dance and music to tell story of Civil Rights Movement.
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Spark, Sadoff present new works to the Hill
The evening was a wonderful way to remember and to celebrate the accomplishments of the English Department’s incredibly talented faculty.
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BMR features songs, staff and sequins
"The unique thing about BMR...is the strong sense of community."
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Coming to a theater (very) near you
When I came [to Colby] in 2008, I had a mandate that we would offer a season of work which would excite the community and benefit the students.
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Bringing funk to the Hill
We just want to spread the message of love through funk.
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Senior explores the art of home brewing
When faced with tight budgets and a troubled economy, why buy beer when you can make it yourself?
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Inspired by music, senior discovers his voice
I was really amazed by the kind of things you can do with an instrument.
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Beyond the playlist, DJ makes his own sounds
A member of Colby DJs and the Techno Director for Colby’s radio station WMHB, Blinkhorn brings a new perspective to what it means to appreciate and make music.
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First year makes noise in quiet dorm
“While I had never intended it to be any kind of controversy,” Kalasky said, “the Coburn community got really into it and left messages to the guy. I figure it’s best to laugh about it, and needless to say, he stopped.”
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The Music Man
“My process is, I watch a bunch of films with no sound, and I am going for whatever is most visually striking, whatever I think I can create music to, and then I just start from scratch,” he said.
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A senior's world of art in negative space
“I like art because when I’m creating something, I’m really focused, and it makes everything else fall away,” Kirsten Stray-Gundersen'12 said. “I like to make things—mostly painting, primarily with oil paints, but acrylics are fine.”
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Slam poetry Junior
“[In poems], you can say ‘I woke up today and had a good time,’” Brown said, “but you are also on a podium. People are paying attention to you, and you should make good use of that attention.”
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First-year plays many roles
First-year Kyle Rogacion made his memorable theater debut at the College as Jimmy Harper, the lead in this year’s Powder and Wig one-week musical Reefer Madness. With his priceless facial expressions and inexhaustible energy both on and off stage, Rogacion has the unique ability to make people laugh until they cry.
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A senior printmaker inspired by science
As an environmental science major, printmaker Anna Leavitt ’12 of Holliston, Mass. is not your typical art student.