WATERVILLE — Colby College announces the following October events. All events are open to the public and are free unless otherwise noted:

* Hail the Lowly Trombone: Colby Symphony Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Lorimer Chapel.

For more information, email vlemieux@colby.edu.

* “Colby on Stage” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sunday and Saturday, Oct. 29, at Strider Theater, Runnals Building.

This high-energy variety show by student performers features song, dance and drumming from Broadway Musical Revue, Colby Dancers, Hypnotik Dance Team, Powder and Wig

For more information, call 859-4521.

* The Get Up Downtown: Taste the Harvest event will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at Barrels Community Market, 74 Main St.

Local farmers will showcase the bounty of their harvest at the event.

For more information, email bspangle@colby.edu, or call 859-5319.

* Nosferatu, Les Sorciers Perdus will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center.

Les Sorciers Perdus is a modern chamber ensemble dedicated to the organic synergy of world folk traditions and Western classical music.

For more information, email vlemieux@colby.edu.

* The Halloween Extravaganza is planned from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, in residence halls on Roberts Row, East and West Quads, Averill, and AMS.

Buses will pick up students at the South End Teen Center in Waterville and drop them off at the Roberts parking lot. Check-in at the Roberts Building.

For more information, email vc@colby.edu.

* “The Supreme Court and Civil Rights: The Promise Unfulfilled?” will be presented at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, in Room 122, Diamond Building.

Nancy Gertner, winner of the 2010 Morton A. Brody Award for Distinguished Judicial Service, recently left the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to join the faculty of Harvard Law School. For more information, email bspangle@colby.edu.

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