In true Colgate fashion, the Barge Canal Coffee Co. celebrated its 13th birthday with 13 hours of music and 13 performers on Saturday.

When the celebration started at 10 a.m. at the university-run coffeehouse in downtown Hamilton, Colgate students, faculty both past and present, and families from the area started to fill the place that many call the "living room of the community."

As students, with paintbrushes in their hands, looked at blank canvases, members of the Colgate Christian Fellowship (CCF) asked, "Where do you see beauty in the world?" and "How do humans contribute to or detract from that beauty?"

The 24 participants in the Open Canvas event, sponsored by CCF, were invited to reflect on those questions and through painting, respond.

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