Arts

A little piece of Hollywood is coming to downtown Hamilton this summer thanks to the efforts of Grant Slater ’91 and his two brothers, Wade and Todd. They are the sons of the late Colgate men’s hockey coach Terry Slater, and founders of Slater Brothers Entertainment (SBE). SBE will hold its first-ever Hamilton Film Festival […]

Artists and film professionals and enthusiasts from around the globe discussed a wide range of documentaries at the recent Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, hosted for the second year in a row at Colgate University.

For the second year in a row Colgate University will host the prestigious Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The seminar, now in its 55th year, will run June 20-26. “We are thrilled to once again be holding the Flaherty at Colgate,” said the seminar’s executive director, Mary Kerr.

While many budding musicians venture to locales such as New York City and Los Angeles to get a taste of the entertainment industry, Sophia D’Addio ’06 found the perfect opportunity right here in Hamilton. D’Addio, who plans on pursuing a doctorate in art history, jumped at the chance to spend a month as senior intern […]

Hard work has its rewards. Just ask seniors Amy Elizabeth Long and Theresa Kevorkian. 

The Colgate community will be seeing some familiar sights on the big screen this Thursday night when the Hamilton Movie Theater shows Placebo, a new short film by Henry Prince ’07 and Jacob Lindauer ’08. Directed by Prince and produced by Lindauer, Placebo was filmed on and around Colgate’s campus last October. It was a […]

Eight students from the WRCU radio station and Colgate Activities Board have taken what they learned at a major conference in Texas and adapted it to their organizations on campus. The group attended the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas, which is actually a triad of three separate festivals: music, film, […]

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 […]