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3rd Annual Sight/Sound/Spoken showcases Hamilton’s various artistic talent

December 8, 2016

On Sunday, Dec. 4 the Departments of Music, Art, and Literature & Creative Writing presented Sight / Sound / Spoken, a series of diverse performances including chamber music, poetry and video art. The show included a menagerie of instruments and types of poems and over forty performers. The performances took place in the Linda Johnson Gallery in KTSA, which proved itself to be a magnificent space with strong acoustics that complemented the performers. More ...

Women to Watch: Powerful Female Characters on Television

December 8, 2016

TV Show: Westworld (2016-) Network: HBO Seasons: 1 Actress: Thandie Newton More ...

Masterworks Chorale brings Hamilton and surrounding community of musicians together

December 1, 2016

On the night of Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m., The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale and Symphor!a performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass In B Minor. The concert took place in Wellin Hall, in the Hans H. Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The audience, consisting of students, faculty, community members and people from Clinton and neighboring towns, nearly filled the seats of Wellin. More ...

F.I.L.M. to bring Rob Moss for final screening of the semester this weekend

December 1, 2016

F.I.L.M.’s next and last screening this semester, Containment is directed by Harvard Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Rob Moss and Harvard Pellegrino University Professor of History of Science and Physics Peter Galison. Moss, who directed landmark personal documentaries such as Riverdogs (1978) and The Same River Twice (2003), will be at the screening in-person to talk about Containment this upcoming Sunday, December 5th. More ...

Poet Alok Vaid-Menon charms audience in reading for the Voices of Color Lecture Series

December 1, 2016

Alok Vaid-Menon wore an absolutely gorgeous outfit for their reading ––a pretty floral dress and fabulous teal platform heels, paired with a bold white lip. Their hair gleamed. In the shifting reds and yellows of the spotlight, they put on a truly spectacular show with nothing but their voice and an incredible towering charisma that had the entire audience enthralled. At the end of the show, we all rose as one to give a raucous standing ovation the likes of which the Fillius Events Barn only sees once every while. More ...

Weldon focuses on promising music career after medical scare

December 1, 2016

Watching House or Scrubs, I feel as though I’ve become familiar with hospital terms and the disasters that can occur—comas, coding, crash carts and charts fill the subtitles, but the reality of these experiences escaped me. What does it mean for someone to go into a coma or require a crash cart? Musician and actor Julia Weldon recently found out for themselves. Performing in the Fillius Events Barn on Oct. 17, Weldon followed a student opener, Aaron Collins ’19. Beginning with songs from their previous album, “Light is a Ghost,” they mentioned briefly the financial setback to their plans to release a new album this year—a coma. Strikingly, Weldon managed to relay this information while maintaining the tone of a conversation. More ...

The Mowgli’s perform impressive, energetic show for Fall CAB Concert

November 17, 2016

Hamilton was in for a treat on Friday night, Nov. 11, with a concert presented by the Campus Activities Board (CAB). The Mowgli’s were in town and rocked Tolles Pavilion. The sextet from Los An- geles––consisting of singer Katie Jayne Earls, guitarists Colin Louis Dieden and Josh Hogan, bassist Matthew Di Panni, keyboardist Dave Appelbaum and per- cussionist Andy Warren––are known for their sunny, feel-good, anthemic indie rock brand of music. On Friday they were joined by opening act Vinyl Theatre, another indie rock outfit from Milwaukee comprised of drummer Nick Cesarz, singer and guitarist Keegan Calmes and keyboardist Chris Senner. More ...

Rita Lombardi’s work examining the reading experience on display at local art institute

November 17, 2016

On Libraries, a current exhibition at the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Insti- tute in Utica, explores the values reading adds to our lives. The exhibition opened last October and will remain on view until April 2017. Artist Rita Lombardi composed On Libraries from a series of photographs she took of different sections in libraries, such as corners, gates and outside views, around the nation. Through her skillfully taken photographs, Lombardi urges viewers to contemplate their reading ex- perience at different libraries. More ...

Hedda Gabbler opens with electrifying exploration of freedom and gender

November 10, 2016

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is considered one of the most prolific female characters in modern drama. On the outside, Hedda is sharp, poised and biting, yet on the inside, she is stubborn, complex and incredibly bored. Catherine Daigle ’17 brings incredible life and nuance to the character in the Hamilton Theatre Department’s Fall Mainstage, Hedda Gabler. Her hard work and dedication to the role is apparent to anyone who attends the production, even as she, at only 21, plays a character considered to be the height of many actors’ careers. More ...

Hamilton faculty and students fill Events Barn for Vuong’s poetry reading

November 10, 2016

Ocean Vuong came to Hamilton College on a shockingly warm day in November when we all got an extra hour of sleep and believed in our own progress, and in democracy in general. Daylight Savings quickly turned the bright day soft and vaguely purple, and it was in this stillness that Vuong entered the DMC living room for a preliminary craft talk (Vuong once compared the dusk to a strip of honey between two shadows, draining). Vuong talked for a long time, in a gentle and insistent murmur, and when people started asking questions, they couldn’t help but moderate their voices to match the volume of his near-whisper. What a lovely cadence to imitate! It is soft and sudden. The man who came with Vuong sat in the back of the room, wearing a leather jacket, eyes intent on Vuong’s face. More ...