Campus Life | Brehmer Theater
The Nutcracker is a classical ballet about a young girl named Clara. On Christmas Eve, Clara and her younger sister, Fiona, wait in excitement for their family’s holiday party. The festivities begin, and after much dancing, Clara’s favorite Uncle, the mysterious Drosselmeyer, arrives. He entertains the guests with stories and dolls that come to life. His most special present of all, however, he has reserved for Clara - a rare, wooden, Nutcracker doll. Later that night, Clara returns to where her beloved Nutcracker was left. However, Clara is in for a magical adventure. Clara realizes that she has shrunk to the size of a toy, and finds the fearsome Mouse Queen towering over her. The Nutcracker comes to life to protect Clara and faces off with the Mouse Queen. Upon his victory against the Mouse Queen, the Nutcracker is revealed to be a handsome prince, and rejoices with Clara, for she has broken his curse and restored him to his former glory. As a thank you, the Nutcracker Prince escorts Clara to the Kingdom of Sweets, leading her through a haze of dancing snowflakes and their majestic snow queen.Clara and the Prince continue their journey through the Kingdom of Sweets, where the queen of the land herself, the Sugar Plum Fairy, graciously greets them with her courtiers at the gates. After a recount of the battle, the Sugar Plum Fairy calls forward all the subjects of her realm to perform for Clara. As the celebration ends, the dream begins to slip away. Clara awakens to find her Nutcracker doll, fully mended and miraculously returned to its original form. She wonders if all the events of the night had actually occurred, or if it had all just been a dream.Please join us at any of our three shows in Brehmer Theater:Friday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.Saturday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.Sunday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m.

Campus Life | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse transited across central New York - its path of totality falling only a few miles from Colgate's campus. Spectating this astronomical phenomenon became a mass social event: nearly a million people flocked to the region.Watch Party, an immersive multi-channel video installation, recreates this event, capturing the scene on the ground rather than the skies.Co-sponsored by Alternative Cinema and Film and Media Studies

Campus Life | Brehmer Theater
The Nutcracker is a classical ballet about a young girl named Clara. On Christmas Eve, Clara and her younger sister, Fiona, wait in excitement for their family’s holiday party. The festivities begin, and after much dancing, Clara’s favorite Uncle, the mysterious Drosselmeyer, arrives. He entertains the guests with stories and dolls that come to life. His most special present of all, however, he has reserved for Clara - a rare, wooden, Nutcracker doll. Later that night, Clara returns to where her beloved Nutcracker was left. However, Clara is in for a magical adventure. Clara realizes that she has shrunk to the size of a toy, and finds the fearsome Mouse Queen towering over her. The Nutcracker comes to life to protect Clara and faces off with the Mouse Queen. Upon his victory against the Mouse Queen, the Nutcracker is revealed to be a handsome prince, and rejoices with Clara, for she has broken his curse and restored him to his former glory. As a thank you, the Nutcracker Prince escorts Clara to the Kingdom of Sweets, leading her through a haze of dancing snowflakes and their majestic snow queen.Clara and the Prince continue their journey through the Kingdom of Sweets, where the queen of the land herself, the Sugar Plum Fairy, graciously greets them with her courtiers at the gates. After a recount of the battle, the Sugar Plum Fairy calls forward all the subjects of her realm to perform for Clara. As the celebration ends, the dream begins to slip away. Clara awakens to find her Nutcracker doll, fully mended and miraculously returned to its original form. She wonders if all the events of the night had actually occurred, or if it had all just been a dream.Please join us at any of our three shows in Brehmer Theater:Friday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.Saturday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.Sunday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m.

Campus Life | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
Entangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion, and Memory is an exhibition inspired by the introductory course of the revised Africana and Latin American Studies curriculum (ALST 199), this exhibition highlights connections among coastal communities of the Atlantic and Pacific. Works from the Caribbean, West Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands feature shared themes of trans-oceanic communication, diasporas, transnationalism, colonialism, and resistance. This exhibition aims to provide space for multiple perspectives through public label submissions (ask a staff member!). Keep coming back, as new labels will be added throughout the semester.This exhibition is curated by Summer Frazier and Rebecca Mendelsohn.

Campus Life | Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, 2nd floor
War, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937–1948: The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese WoodcutsThis exhibition, an in-depth examination of the modern woodcut movement in the decades leading up to the founding of the People’s Republic of China, will be the first time that one of Picker Art Gallery’s most singular and important collections will be shown in its entirety.The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese Woodcuts contains over 200 works made in China between 1937 and 1948. They were given to The Picker Art Gallery by Professor Emeritus Theodore Herman, who lived in the country during this period, and his wife, Evelyn Mary Chen Shiying Herman. Professor Herman taught at Colgate from 1954 to 1981 in the Geography Department and was the founding director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the exhibition of the Herman collection is an extraordinary resource for the study of Chinese art and of pre-Liberation history. The prints in the exhibition can be seen as direct links to the historical events taking place in China in the years leading up to Liberation. Images made between 1937 and 1945 in areas controlled by the Chinese Nationalist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War chronicle the progress of the war and promoted good relations between the army and the people; others, produced in the areas controlled by the Communist Red Army, encourage resistance against the Japanese but also illustrate how Chinese society could be transformed through socialism; those prints produced during the Civil War expose many injustices amid the post-war social and political upheavals. Finally, many of the images in the exhibition explore wide-ranging subjects and a variety of techniques that offer glimpses into quotidian Chinese life during this period.This exhibition is curated by Leslie Ann Eliet.

Campus Life | Colgate Memorial Chapel
The Colgate University Orchestra, Marietta Cheng, Conductor will perform Schubert’s glorious Symphony No. 9 in C Major, “The Great” and Saint-Saens’ charming Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103 “Egyptian”, Aristo Sham, Piano, Winner of the Young Concert Artists International Competition. The Washington Post described Aristo Sham as a young artist with “boundless potential” who can “already hold his own with the best.” Carl Nielsen’s lively Maskarade Overture will open the concert. The concert will also be livestreamed at: https://vimeo.com/event/