Arts

Colgate students had a chance this week to meet with director, actor, writer, and producer Harold Ramis, who spent two days on campus talking shop and showing special previews of his upcoming movie. Ramis, whose son is a first-year at Colgate, is a veritable Hollywood heavyweight with many popular movies under his belt such as […]

Independent filmmaker Alan Berliner, who is not afraid to point the camera at himself for his experimental documentaries, will spend a week on campus teaching, showing his films, and discussing an exhibition of two of his installations. The film screenings, lecture, and exhibition are all free and open to the general public during Berliner’s visit, […]

Case Aiken III ’06, Adam Samtur ’06, and Matthew Kagen ’07 didn’t set out to start a theater company; they just wanted to produce a play from soup to nuts and see what happened. Now, under the production company Just ASK (Aiken, Samtur, Kagen), the trio is enjoying the success of their first show and […]

The 30 female cast members of The Vagina Monologues won over audiences at the Palace Theater with moving performances that showed the beauty, hilarity, and hardships associated with being a woman. Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues after interviewing 200 women across the world about their sexuality. More than 10 years later, the racy and […]

When Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States and founder of the Favorite Poem Project, opened the floor to questions during Thursday’s lunchtime talk with students, he promised to treat each one with respect. And why wouldn’t he? At the heart of his belief, shared in his 1984 book Poetry and the World, […]

As students, with paintbrushes in their hands, looked at blank canvases, members of the Colgate Christian Fellowship (CCF) asked, “Where do you see beauty in the world?” and “How do humans contribute to or detract from that beauty?” The 24 participants in the Open Canvas event, sponsored by CCF, were invited to reflect on those […]

The Department of English kicked off this semester’s lecture series Thursday with a reading by a new member of the Colgate community, author Patrick O’Keeffe. O’Keeffe, assistant professor of creative writing, won the prestigious Story Prize in 2005 for his collection of novellas, The Hill Road. “The Hill Road is a glorious work one would […]

Gary Carrion-Murayari ’02 will play a key role in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, the signature survey of contemporary American art by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Carrion-Murayari Carrion-Murayari, 28, a senior curatorial assistant at the Whitney, will serve as the associate curator, working with Francesco Bonami, 53, an Italian-born curator […]

The Colgate University Chamber Singers embraced an opportunity to move from concert stage to recording studio for a performance of holiday pieces that will be televised in areas of New York and northern Pennsylvania. Director James Niblock and the 12 student performers were asked to appear on Expressions: Holiday Harmonies, a program produced by WSKG, […]

You won’t see Marjorie Bradley Kellogg on stage, but you may have seen her stage work. The scenic designer, who teaches in Colgate’s theater program, has designed sets for high-profile Broadway shows, lavish operas, university productions, and regional and non-profit theaters across the nation. Kellogg talks about the creative process that occurs before the curtain […]