The Arts | Ryan Studio, 212
Charles Fuller’s ZOOMAN and the Sign is a story of a boy and a gun, a girl and a family, a neighborhood and a sign, all unfolding in the heat of summer. “These are strange and breathless days, dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after” (Babbitt).Auditions will be held in Ryan 212 on:January 22, 2025 from 4:30-7 p.m.January 23, 2025 from 8-9:30 p.m.January 24, 2025 from 3-6 p.m. This play has an all-Black cast.Directed by Xose Agbadan '25. Please email xagbadan@colgate.edu with any questions or for more information.

The Arts | Bernstein Hall, 102 (Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio)
dir. Micah Magee, 2015, 93 minutes, followed by Q&A with filmmaker in personSan Antonio, Texas. Petting Zoo is the portrait of a young woman coming into her own, in an environment that does not always present ideal circumstances.Micah Magee grew up in a family of contemporary dancers. Her first education in world cinema was as programming and managing director of Cinematexas International Short Film Festival in Austin, Texas. In 2001, she was awarded a Fulbright Journalism Fellowship from Austin to Berlin. She stayed in Berlin to study film directing at the national German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). In Berlin, Micah wrote and directed a number of award-winning short films, winning the documentary short film award in Oberhausen for Krankenhaus and the German Academy Award (Short Film Lola in Gold) for the fiction short Heimkommen in 2012. Her first fiction feature Petting Zoo, produced and repped by The Match Factory, premiered at the Berlinale Panorama in 2015 and picked up directing, acting, writing, audience, critics and ‘best film’ awards at international festivals before being exhibited in movie theaters in Europe and on Netflix. Micah also produces through Berlin directors' cooperative Makrorama. Productions include Johan Carlsen’s fiction feature Death on the Streets as producer/co-author, which premiered in Rotterdam in 2021, and Haris Raftogiannis’ experimental documentary feature Aeralandi, which premiered at Thessaloniki in 2022. She is currently in development with her sophomore feature, Grasshopper.

The Arts | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Space (EEP)
Wang Chong is recognized around the world as one of Beijing’s most significant theatre directors, celebrated for his visionary experiments with classic and contemporary plays. Wang creates Made in China 2.0 with Australian co-director Emma Valente to shine the light on his own experiences as an artist. In this insightful and unexpected solo, Wang takes us deep inside the mechanism of his creative risk-taking to share a personal manifesto for making trailblazing art back home and abroad. Since its premiere at Boston in 2023, it has been presented on five continents.Limited seating. Registration through Eventbrite is strongly encouraged.Presented by the Department of Theater. Co-sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson Fund.

The Arts | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Space (EEP)
Wang Chong is recognized around the world as one of Beijing’s most significant theatre directors, celebrated for his visionary experiments with classic and contemporary plays. Wang creates Made in China 2.0 with Australian co-director Emma Valente to shine the light on his own experiences as an artist. In this insightful and unexpected solo, Wang takes us deep inside the mechanism of his creative risk-taking to share a personal manifesto for making trailblazing art back home and abroad. Since its premiere at Boston in 2023, it has been presented on five continents.Limited seating. Registration through Eventbrite is strongly encouraged.Presented by the Department of Theater. Co-sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson Fund.

The Arts | Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall
Join the 2024-25 Christian A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence* Suchi Reddy for lunch and conversation about the Bias and Belonging project she is creating at Colgate University. Reddy visits Colgate this year to host a series of community conversations centered on how the dualities of bias and belonging, reflection and misreflection are amplified by the exponentially increasing presence of artificial intelligence in every aspect of our daily lives. We invite you to join in the conversation to share your lived experience of advanced technology and AI.Presented in collaboration with the Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series.*Presented by the Art Department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation. The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence was established in 1986 as a challenge grant in support of the arts at Colgate. The residency program permits one or more artists to become part of the Colgate community every academic year.

The Arts | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
How do transformations in technical imaging recast our experience of the corporeal? This film program gathers together short, experimental works exploring scenes of physical exhilaration and disintegration, probing the intimate interventions made by technology into the body: its appetites, its vulnerabilities, and its display. We are invited to consider the civilizational logics that organize human beings for combat, entertainment, and pleasure.Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies