WATERVILLE — The Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Colby College will premiere its first original work,”Of This Place,” this weekend. The project has been in the works over the last three years.
The free performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, at the at 4000 Mayflower Hill Drive center. The performance will include Colby students, faculty, staff, and alumni, it also will feature stories and performances from Waterville community members of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.
The production is an ambitious, multiyear, community-based performance project that surfaces and celebrates the entwined histories and stories of Waterville and Colby College and sheds light and gives a voice to those people and places — past and present — who have powerfully shaped these communities, according to a news release from Colby College.
This story begins with a question. What does it mean to be of this place? It will include stories of the Kennebec River, mill workers, townspeople, women, and more.
Cumbie, a performer and visiting educator at Colby, dedicated the last three years building bridges and forming partnerships through one-on-one interviews, movement workshops, artist residencies, and courses on campus. Waterville’s Albert S. Hall School and Beth Israel Synagogue, the Maine Arts Academy, Waterville Creates, and Colby academic departments, programs, and offices are among his collaborators. He also has hosted various community workshops, open to anyone in the public to assist in the creation of this piece.
To reserve a free ticket visit arts.colby.edu.
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