Institutional Equity and Belonging (IEB) is delighted to announce that this semester’s Antiracist Book Club (ABC) selection is Wandering Stars (2024) by Tommy Orange.

Orange’s second novel brings readers deeper into the lives of characters introduced in his New York Times bestselling debut, There There, while also standing powerfully on its own. Spanning generations, Wandering Stars explores the enduring legacies of colonization in the U.S. alongside Indigenous perseverance, resistance, family, and community.

Orange, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, will visit CC on Monday, Nov. 9, for an evening event in Kathryn Mohrman Theatre. If you are teaching Wandering Stars in Block 3 and are interested in participating in a convergence class with Orange, please contact Nancy Ríos at nrios@coloradocollege.edu.

We encourage faculty, staff, and students to form reading circles and engage with the book throughout the semester. The ABC MS Team offers a space to share resources and connect with others, and IEB will also host several opportunities for shared learning and reflection.

In Block 2, Professor Amy Kohout will lead a Sand Creek Massacre Teach-In focused on the 1864 attack on a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people at Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado. The following week, students, staff, and faculty are invited to participate in Truth and Remembrance: The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, a day of learning, reflection, and prayer in Eads, Colorado.

As you read, we encourage care for yourself and one another. Wandering Stars addresses American Indian genocide, imprisonment, forced assimilation, erasure, U.S. Indian boarding school policy, generational trauma, and addiction. It is also a story of perseverance, resistance, hope, and futures.

Complimentary copies of Wandering Stars are available at the CC Bookstore with a CC ID, while supplies last.

Block 2
Thursday, Sept. 24, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Interfaith House
ABC Sand Creek Massacre Teach-In with Professor Amy Kohout

Saturday, Oct. 3, 7 a.m.-6 p.m.
Eads, Colorado
Truth and Remembrance: The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

Block 3
Monday, Nov. 9, 6 p.m.
Kathryn Mohrman Theatre
An Evening with Tommy Orange

Block 4
Thursday, Dec. 3, 2-3 p.m.
Fine Arts Center Museum
ABC Discussion—Ledger Art and Storytelling

Special thanks to the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies, Tutt Library, History Department, Comparative Literature, Visiting Writer Series, Native American Student Union, NEH Professorship Humanities in Partnership Grants, and the President’s Office Cultural Attractions Fund for making Tommy Orange’s visit possible.

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In MU227: Songwriting, Dr. Ever Reyes’s extraordinary group of CC songwriters took on the ambitious challenge of writing multiple songs in just three weeks. Students had the opportunity to record their original pieces as demos and perform them for their peers. Along the way, students explored both Western music theory and the philosophical side of creativity, learning that songwriting is an iterative process, never quite finished and always becoming. Rather than just focusing on a final product, students learned that the struggle of engaging in the creative process is part of the journey and magic of creativity. 

Check out the recent Catalyst article on the Music Initiative of Colorado College’s open mic night. If you want to get involved, contact micc@coloradocollege.edu.

STUDENTS: Sign up now for Urinetown auditions! Prepare 32 bars or less of a song in the style of the show, memorized if possible. Humorous, pop musical theater or something similar encouraged. You must provide piano/vocal sheet music with clearly marked cuts for the pianist. You will be asked back at 7 p.m. on Sept. 28 to read/sing from the show.

Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1-3 p.m., Cornerstone Flex Room

Explore the body as the artist’s instrument in this experiential workshop focused on
alignment and postural control, psycho-physical positioning, mindfulness, and quieting the mind with the aim of enhancing the artist’s well-being. Designed specifically for performers in theatre, dance, and music, guest artist/scholar Dr. Larissa Kelloway offers practical tools for cultivating greater presence, freedom, awareness, responsiveness in performance, and self-care. 

MU162: The Collegium Musicum is welcoming new members who read music and are interested in exploring the world of Baroque and Renaissance music. The ensemble meets on Mondays from 4-5:30 p.m. in Packard, Room 9, and boasts a low stress environment with great performance opportunities. Collegium explores both large ensemble and chamber music. Open to string, wind, and brass players and vocalists. Come join the fun! Contact Elisa Wicks for more information.

Norbert, Keith, and Keith’s son at a recent Zach Top concert.

Norbert McGettigan ’19 began playing bass at CC and joined the Bluegrass Ensemble during his sophomore year. According to Bluegrass Director Keith Reed, “He practiced all the time!” Apparently, it paid off, because Norbert is now the bassist for Grammy Award winner Zach Top. Norbert also met his fiancé Clare Ende ’19 in the Bluegrass Ensemble. Clare is a Licensed Master of Social Work and therapist in Nashville. Both Norbert and Clare were music minors at CC proving that you just never know where music can take you!

Norbert and Clare performing at Steve’s Guitars as part of the CC Bluegrass Ensemble back in the day.

All performances are FREE and in Packard Hall unless otherwise indicated

United States Air Force Academy Chamber Recital
Monday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m.

Music at Midday
Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 12:15 p.m.
Come hear the variety and talent of our student musicians!

Summer Music Festival Intermezzo Series: Katarina Quartet
Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m.
The Katarina String Quartet, Grand Prize winners of the 2025 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, will delight you with Schubert, Gourzi, and Schumann.
Tickets: Free with CC ID, $5 for students and children, $25 for SMF donors, $30 for general public

Homecoming Music Ensembles Showcase
Friday, Oct. 9 at 4 p.m.
Don’t miss this sampling of four of our beloved ensembles:
Tiger Jazz, Collegium Musicum, Indonesian Gamelan and Bluegrass

Many thanks to our outgoing chair, Ryan Bañagale, for his incredible service over the last four years! And, a big welcome to our new chair Iddo Aharony. Iddo is an experimental musician, sound artist, and listener, exploring within the myriad intersections of sound, environment, culture, and technology. His body of work spans a wide variety of instrumentations and media, from a fully-staged opera to various projects utilizing live electronics and environmental sound. These projects are often created together with visual artists, theatre creators, poets, and scientists, as well as other musicians and sound-makers. His CC course offerings include Digital Music Production, Environment and Sound, Experimental Music, Projects in Digital Music, and experimental courses in which students get to collaborate with creators in other disciplines as well as with various communities in Southern Colorado. Don’t miss the chance to experience his work, which will be featured in the upcoming Fine Arts Center exhibit “Here and Now, Then and Always,” opening Oct. 2. In collaboration with Theatre & Dance professor Pallavi Sriram, NY-based artist Jessica Segall, and musician Matthew Langford, Iddo captured field recordings and gathered materials from a very windy, five-day visit to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Together they have created a large-scale audiovisual installation for the exhibit titled “does the wind ever get tired”. 

Follow the Music Department on Instagram and Facebook!

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Please be advised that, as part of the planning and design process for the New Science Building Project, a geotechnical survey crew will be conducting soil test borings around Olin Hall to evaluate subsurface conditions.

Work Schedule:

Saturday, September 26: All-day drilling operations

Monday, September 28–Friday, October 2: Daily work beginning after 1:00 p.m.

Test borings will be conducted on the east, west, and south sides of Olin Hall. Survey and drilling crews will access the work areas from Armstrong Lot, areas north of Barnes Science Center, and Nevada Avenue.

Community members may notice drilling equipment and support vehicles, survey stakes and utility markings, and temporary activity around the designated work areas.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation while this work is underway.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact Capital Planning & Construction x6570.

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Spring Conference is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 15, 2027, from 8 a.m.-1p.m.

There’s still time to submit a workshop proposal for Spring Conference 2027! The Academic Events Committee (AEC) welcomes proposals from faculty and staff on a wide range of topics related to academia, higher education, and the Colorado College community.

Interested in leading a session? Submit your Spring Conference workshop proposal by 5 p.m. next Friday, Oct. 2.

We look forward to building a conference program that reflects the ideas, expertise, and interests of our campus community.

If you have questions about Spring Conference or the proposal process, please contact events@coloradocollege.edu.

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On Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 10-11:30 a.m., the Academic Freedom Temporary Operating Group will host a staff feedback session in the Tim Fuller Event Space on the second floor of Tutt Library. The session will provide an opportunity for staff to discuss academic freedom and share their experiences at Colorado College. If you have any questions please contact Chelsea Walter, <a href="mailto:cwalter@coloradocollege.edu" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #4764af;" target="_blank" title="cwalter@coloradocollege.edu“>cwalter@coloradocollege.edu or Dustin Fife, <a href="mailto:dfife@coloradocollege.edu" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #4764af;" target="_blank" title="dfife@coloradocollege.edu“> dfife@coloradocollege.edu.

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The Department of Theatre & Dance is excited to welcome Abi Walls back to Colorado College as our Block 2 Alumni Resident, Sept. 21-Oct. 5!

Walls is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist based in New York City with roots in Colorado and California. Their work as a playwright explores memory, history, speculative fiction, fear and grief, and the ways we care for one another and the planet. Their work is informed by a queer, disabled lens and often examines themes of complacency, survival, resistance, and imagining alternatives to oppressive systems.

Walls studied writing for performance at CC with Idris Goodwin and Monica Sanchez and has since built a wide-ranging career as a

playwright, performer, lighting designer, stage manager, producer, dramaturg, and literary collaborator in New York’s new-work theatre and dance community.

As part of the department’s Alumni Residency Program, Walls will return to campus to reconnect with the Theatre & Dance community, share their professional experience with current students, and spend focused time developing their own creative work.

Stay tuned for more information about a staged reading of Walls’ new work during their residency!

Performers spend countless hours developing their craft, but what about the physical and mental tools that make that work possible? The Artist’s Instrument, led by guest artist and scholar Larissa Kelloway, is an experiential workshop 

designed for performers in theatre, dance, and music.

Through alignment, body awareness, mindfulness, and psycho-physical practices, participants will explore practical ways to cultivate greater presence, freedom, responsiveness, and self-care in performance. Kelloway brings experience as a conservatory-trained performer, director, vocal director, educator, and specialist in singing voice, bodywork, and performing arts health.

Sept. 29 | 1-3 p.m. | Cornerstone Flex Space

The Department of Theatre & Dance welcomes Casey Avaunt back to CC for You Dance You: Choreographing Your Autobiography, a contemporary dance workshop.

Avaunt is a dance artist-scholar and Assistant Professor of Dance and Movement Studies at Hamilton College whose work explores

contemporary dance, choreography, Asian and Asian American performance, and the role of culture in shaping movement. After graduating from CC, she earned an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts and an MA and PhD from UC Riverside.

During the workshop, participants will investigate choreographic strategies for representing and performing their culturally coded selves while developing an autobiographical solo.

Friday, Oct. 9 | 1-2:30 p.m. | Cossitt Hall Gym

What exactly is TH202: Theatre Think Tank and Play Reading Group? Think of it as part play-reading club, part dramaturgical advisory team. Students discover new and classic plays, choose what they want to explore, and consider work that could be a fit for future CC Theatre & Dance seasons. It’s casual, collaborative, low-pressure, and open to students regardless of theatre experience.

Come to the Think Tank Planning Lunch to meet the group, learn how it works, and enjoy lunch while you’re there!

RSVP to Ryan Platt at rplatt@coloradocollege.edu.

Tuesday, Sept. 22 | 12:15-1 p.m. | Cornerstone 308

What happens when creative practice becomes part of how we think about health and well-being? In DA200: The Power of Arts for Health and Well-Being, students will explore that question through daily movement, discussion, and hands-on creative workshops with health professionals.

The course reaches beyond dance, 

connecting arts and health with fields including psychology, education, economics, and the health sciences. Students will bring those experiences together in a final creative project in an art form of their choice, whether that’s dance, theatre, music, visual art, writing, or something else.

A raised fist. A handshake. A protest march. The way a politician moves across a stage. DA200/PS203: Embodied Politics: Gesture, Movement, and the Construction of Power asks students to look at politics through something we don’t always think about: the body.

Bringing together dance and political science, students will explore how movement and gesture can communicate power, build

solidarity, influence public perception, and challenge authority. They’ll approach those questions through five ideas shared across both disciplines: collaboration, deconstruction, repetition, reaction, and listening.

Looking for a way to be more active during the week without adding another trip to the gym? Dance Studio and Physical Conditioning courses let you build strength, balance, coordination, and physical skills while earning academic credit.

DS103: Introduction to Ballet  | Aoi Koenig
No dance background? Start here. Learn the fundamentals of ballet while developing balance, coordination, alignment, flexibility, and body awareness. No prior dance experience required.

Mondays and Wednesdays | 2:30-4 p.m.

DS214: Ballet  | Aoi Koenig
Already have some ballet experience? Keep your body active while building technique, coordination, alignment, and a stronger connection between music and movement. Designed for intermediate to advanced dancers.

Mondays and Wednesdays | 4-5:30 p.m.

DS206: Contemporary Dance | Adam Dickerson
Get your whole body moving while building strength, balance, coordination, and new physical skills through floorwork, inversions, rhythm, and spatial exploration.

Tuesdays and Thursdays | 3:15-4:45 p.m.

TH200: Stand-Up Comedy | Christie Buchele
Try your hand at writing and performing stand-up while learning joke structure, stage presence, delivery, and how to develop your own performance persona. Already have material? Bring it. Never tried stand-up? That’s okay too. All experience levels are welcome.

Tuesdays and Thursdays | 3-4:30 p.m.

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In compliance with federal Clery Act requirements, Colorado College Campus Safety has completed the 2026 Campus Safety and Fire Safety Annual Report. The report provides information about campus safety policies and procedures, crime prevention and reporting, and statistics concerning certain crimes reported on or near campus. Institutions participating in federal student financial aid programs are required to compile and distribute this information annually.

New for 2026, Colorado law establishes requirements for institutions of higher education when a student is reported missing. Under Senate Bill 26-120, Missing Persons Training & Higher Education Reporting, an institution must either immediately notify law enforcement or conduct a preliminary wellness assessment lasting no more than six hours. If the student is not located within that period, or if there is evidence of a credible risk to the student’s safety, the institution must notify the appropriate law enforcement agency. The law also requires institutions to adopt and publish a preliminary wellness assessment policy outlining the steps used when responding to a report of a missing student.

If you would like to receive a hard copy of the Campus Safety and Fire Safety Information Handbook, which contains the same information, you can stop by the Campus Safety Office, located at 1106 N. Cascade Ave., or request that a copy be mailed to you by calling (719) 389-6707.

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