The Jewish holiday, Purim, and the Hindu festival of colors, Holi, were celebrated in the Great Hall in a joint event filled with music, skits, dancing, and good food.

The male dance troupe Halau Kiawekupono O Ka Ua presented an evening of authentic traditional Hula dance and music in the Carleton College Weitz Center for Creativity.

As part of Carleton’s spring term exhibit, “Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art,” the College sponsored a reception and community open house that included a presentation by the exhibit curator along with a special Family Day at the Weitz Center, featuring hands-on art projects, including a museum treasure hunt and tours.

While it’s been a mild winter in Minnesota during Winter Term 2012, these past few weeks of the term have been bustling with a wide variety of student activities, ranging from the play performance “Farragut North” to an indoor carnival and the traditional Midwinter Ball.

Ebony II is a student-run dance company open to beginners, experienced dancers, and everyone in between. All dance styles are welcome, and each term the company performs student choreography in a performance open to the entire campus.

This past Friday, Carleton presented the Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater performance as 2012’s first event in the Weitz Center for Creativity.

Carleton christened the new Weitz Center for Creativity’s theater this week with the Carleton Players’ presentation of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”

Carleton student photographers captured images from various events during the week, including a concert by the Kronos Quartet, Carls participating in Northfield’s CROP Walk and an outdoor showing on the Bald Spot of Toy Story 3.

Opening Convocation melded with the newest part of Carleton—the Weitz Center for Creativity—to open the 2011-12 academic year.

The annual student activities fair provides an opportunity for Carleton’s vast number of student clubs, organizations and groups convene on the Bald Spot and give students a chance to check out what sort of activities they might like to try in the coming school year.