Campus Life | Burke Hall, Burke Lobby
If you’re looking for a quiet space to be productive that’s not the library or your bedroom, join us for our weekly spring study sessions. Drop in anytime to work by yourself, in a group, or with the intention to connect with others.Look forward to treats, study resources, goal setting, and your judgment-free Res Fellow (optional) accountability buddy.All are welcome; Burke will be unlocked regardless of your Common’s affiliation.

Campus Life | WRCU
Join us for a free concert at WRCU, featuring Bloomsday.The way Bloomsday’s Iris James Garrison writes songs feels like somewhere between a mirror and a memory. Spacious, full-bodied folk songs, they are an ode to things that are good no matter how small; they sometimes feel like the ghost of a Mary Oliver poem. Bloomsday’s new record, 'Heart of the Artichoke', is a relic of unfettered creativity and community. They recount the miracles of the mundane, the memories that become sacred, an ode to all that is holy: nightswimming, songs plucked from the ether, the ways friendship can endure.Like earlier Bloomsday songs, the work here is threaded with warmth; it’s simmering, crisp and deeply human, an encapsulation of the present moment. Recorded across 10 days in June 2023 in upstate New York at duo Babehoven’s studio and co-produced by Babehoven’s Ryan Albert, with mixing by Henry Stoehr of Slow Pulp. The record was built out with a wide-ranging group of collaborators, including inventive drumming from Andrew Stevens (Lomelda, Hovvdy), Alex Harwood, Richard Orofino, Babehoven’s Maya Bon, Hannah Pruzinsky (h.pruz, Sister.), and Chris Daley. It was an insulated and collaborative experience: all family dinners on the back porch, bonfires, feeling a full sense of joy, of friendship, of purity in the artistic self.Collaboration is an integral part of Bloomsday’s musical process. Garrison is malleable in the studio, their songwriting generous and spacious. But in listening to the record, there’s a sense that Garrison leaves room for the players, for the listener; for songs to find the shapes they’re meant to take. Garrison’s role as maestro is crucial, singular – it’s a collaborative, exploratory spirit harnessed by Garrison’s intuition, and by an honest commitment to carve out creative space for play, to delve into what’s known – or pushing past that, into unknown.Garrison is a true-blue songwriter and their structured, earworm compositions have the tendency to get stuck in your head, sometimes reminiscent of the big alternative radio hits of the mid 90s, a la Joan Osborne. “Dollar Slice” is the sweeping centerpoint of the record – Garrison’s cavernous crescendoing vocals, the chaotic tapestry of New York the backdrop, a sort-of 2024-update of “One of Us.” “I'm not religious,” Garrison says, “But I am into the idea of mystical, higher power – whatever that means – and that power seeing me and calling it out. That’s kind of godly to me.”“The ghosts of the past still come up and haunt me,” Garrison says, “but I sit in what I have and see it. All of these songs are about loved ones, about personal struggles with getting out of my head and being present.” Heart of the Artichoke was written from a healed, matured place – written in a moment of safety from chaos. It’s a prayer for the present, an appreciation of tenderness and what happens once we give ourselves the space to really see, and really feel – becoming free and whole – an ode to the way healing allows us to bloom.

Campus Life | Center for Women's Studies
Join us for a wellness event for LGBTQIA+ students and allies centered around painting, tea, and snacks.Supplies will be provided.

Campus Life | Saperstein Jewish Center
All are invited to join the Colgate Jewish Union for a vibrant Shabbat service followed by a delicious dinner.

Campus Life | Dana Arts Center, Brehmer Theater
The Colgate University Department of Theater presents the spring 2024 production of The Good John Proctor by Talene Monahon. The producation is directed by Adrian Giurgea and performed by Colgate students.Step back in time to a world where innocence and fear collide in the gripping play, The Good John Proctor by Talene Monahon. In this evocative and thought-provoking reimagining of the Salem Witch Trials, the young women of Salem take center stage as they navigate the treacherous path of adolescence.Registration through Ticketleap is strongly encouraged to ensure seating.**This play acknowledges the reality of sexual violence/abuse, miscarriage/abortion, & substance abuse.** **This play uses atmospherics (haze) and real hay.**Co-sponsored by: ALANA Cultural Center, Brown Commons, Campus Culture and Inclusion, Ciccone Commons, Colgate Music Initiative, CORE Conversations, Department of Art, Department of English, Department of Music, Department of Religion, Division of Arts & Humanities, Film & Media Studies Program, Office of Equity and Diversity, Office of LGTBQ+ Initiatives, Office of the President, Robert H.N. Ho Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality StudiesFor any accessibility questions or concerns, please email theaterboxoffice@colgate.edu.

Campus Life | Ho Science Center
In 2017, Kristen T. Woodward was able to witness a total solar eclipse in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was moved by the dramatic planetary display. She is looking forward to viewing another eclipse in her hometown of Webster, New York in April, as we will be in that exquisite path of totality. Woodward marvels at how science has allowed us to countdown the minutes while other events in our lives appear random and chaotic. The experience leaves one to ponder what is pre-ordained. By including images inspired by solar eclipse, her encaustic paintings intend to capture this conflict and visual tension between chaos and natural order.Woodward received her BFA in Printmaking from Syracuse University, and her MFA in Studio Art from Clemson University. Her zoomorphic paintings combine encaustic and print processes, and often utilize found collage materials. Woodward is a professor in the department of art and art history at Albright College, teaching drawing, painting, printmaking, and gender and the visual arts. Currently, she is collaborating with an environmental biologist to explore tropical ecosystems in Costa Rica. Woodward serves as is Resident Curator for the online site Artists2Artists.