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James “Sparky” Rucker and Rhonda Rucker will perform Civil War music in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the war in a performance titled “Blue and Grey in Black and White” on Monday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The event is free and open to the public.

Three award-winning Hamilton poets will read in “Winning Words” on Saturday, April 16, at the Kirkland Art Center. Readings by William Billiter, Naomi Guttman and Jane Springer will follow a reception at 7:30 p.m. The event marks National Poetry Month and is free and open to the public.

As a child, Spike Lee admits he “wasn’t even aware people made films.” He recalled spending entire Saturdays at the Leto Theatre in Brooklyn, N.Y., while he was growing up, but said he wasn’t thinking about a career in filmmaking until the beginning of his junior year in college. “Film discovered me,” as Lee described it.

Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting two works in the exhibition PXL at Anka Gallery in Portland, Ore. "A Microcosmic View of the Dot" and "Cyclical Perspective" will be on view for the month of April. The exhibition features the work of 11 American artists whose work is influenced by the pixel. The show was inspired by Russell A. Kirsch, the progenitor of the pixel and the new variable shaped pixel.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the Spring Theater Production, Wet, or Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes, by Liz Duffy Adams. Performances will run  Thursday, April 14 –  Saturday, April 16, at 8 p.m., and Wednesday, April 20 – Saturday April 23 at 8 p.m. There is an additional performance at 2 p.m. on Sat., April 16. All performances take place in Minor Theater.

Galia Slayen ’13, who with and Perry Ryan ’12 provided the impetus for Hamilton’s participation in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (NEDAW), will be featured on NBC’s Today Show on Thursday, April 14, in a segment that will air in Utica on WKTV in the 11 a.m. hour. An essay by Slayen was also featured on Huffington Post titled “The Scary Reality of a Real-Life Barbie Doll” on April 8.

Ilana Gershon, author of The Break-Up 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media (Cornell University Press, 2010),will lecture at Hamilton on Thursday, April 14, at 4 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Burke Library will hold a formal re-opening of the Emerson Rare Book Room, honoring Patsy Couper W'44 and Walter Brumm, with a dedication of the Patricia Pogue Couper Research Room on Thursday, April 14, at 4:15 p.m. on the second floor landing of the library. The public is invited to attend.

Alexandria Nicholson-Dotson ’11 has been awarded Hamilton’s prestigious Bristol Fellowship. The Bristol Fellowship was begun in 1996 as part of a gift to the college by William M. Bristol Jr., (Class of 1917).  Created by his family, the fellowship is designed to encourage Hamilton students to experience the richness of the world by living outside the United States for one year and studying an area of great personal interest.

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann presented a paper titled “Anglo-American-Dutch Collusive Bargaining against Japanese Oil Autonomy in the post-World War One Era,” at the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Honolulu on March 31.