Arts

Hamilton will be abuzz with award-winning filmmakers and stars when the Hamilton International Film Festival returns to the village from Aug 5-8. Filmmakers will host discussions, several major features and short fiction films will be screened, and closing night will bring red-carpet arrivals and a dance party to the Palace Theater.

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) Two dramatically different exhibitions in the Picker Art Gallery each deal with the common theme of challenging conventional stereotypes. In Of Someone and Something, associate art and art history professor Linn Underhill displays selections from seven major photographic series that she has created since the […]

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger ’83 hoped to open some eyes with his documentary Crude, but the commotion he has sparked may be more than he bargained for. The critically acclaimed Crude tells the story of Ecuadorians who sued Texaco (owned by Chevron) over operations at an oil field that they say contaminated local water sources. Nearly […]

Slater Brothers Entertainment will again bring Hollywood to Hamilton with its second annual Hamilton Film Festival, Aug. 5-8. This year, local talent will be showcased in a special screening of short films made in central New York. The local short competition is open to anyone who is a resident or student in Madison, Herkimer, Chenango, […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Eileen O’Brien ’10) Friends, family members, and supporters of The Oz Project (TOPs) recently filled the Palace Theater to watch an inspiring production of The Wizard of Oz. On stage, children with and without special needs performed their hearts out in the culmination of an eight-week theater program […]

Her voice was characteristically scratchy and barely louder than a whisper. Yet, true to form, Louise Glück, the Pulitzer Prize-winning lyric poet, held students and faculty spellbound for 45 minutes Wednesday as she read nine poems from her latest collection, A Village Life. The former poet laureate of the United States made history at Colgate […]

Two highly regarded filmmakers will visit campus this week, presenting four films over four nights and meeting with students in several classes. James Benning and Sharon Lockhart, who both just returned from the Berlin Film Festival, will personally present each of their films at the 7 p.m. screenings at Golden Auditorium, Little Hall. The films […]

Francesca Zambello ’78, an internationally renown director who has worked at many of the world’s major opera houses, will assume the reins of Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY. Zambello’s appointment to general and artistic director of the 35-year-old summer opera festival made headlines this week in regional and national media.

(Editor’s Note: This story was written by Kiki Koroshetz ’10) At Wednesday’s opening reception of Shapes for Hamilton, the collaborative project led by visiting artist Alan McCollum, students stood on scaffolds in Clifford Gallery, filling empty plastic slips on the walls with white pieces of paper on which black images were printed. McCollum quietly walked […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) Members of the Colgate community who visit the Picker Art Gallery during the next week can experience an exhibition unlike anything the space has hosted before. Broadcast includes 13 works by an international group of artists who have engaged, critiqued, and, in some cases, inserted […]