The Hangover, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, aka us

New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience it all first-hand. “This Week in the Arts” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/ theatrically-inclined on campus.

Tuesday, April 5

• Feminist To The Core: Gayatri Spivak, 12:00 PM, Columbia Maison Française at 515 W 116th St, 2nd Floor of Buell Hall – “Feminist to the Core puts feminists in conversation with the Columbia Core, inspiring new ways of seeing and thinking about the texts that are at the heart of the Columbia Experience.”
• Trisha Brown & the Staging of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, 7:00 PM, Julius Held Lecture Hall in 304 Barnard Hall – A documentary on Trisha Brown’s 1998 staging of the 1607 opera, L’Orfeo. 

Wednesday, April 6

• Mid-Day Music featuring Andres Rovira, 12:00 PM, Garden Room 2 at the Faculty House – Jazz pianist Andres Rovira will be performing as part of the Mid-Day Music recital series. Program TBD.
• Columbia Law Revue Presents: Show Title Vacant Pending Confirmation of the Senate, 8:30 PM, Lerner Hall Party Space – “Join Columbia Law Revue for another installment of our popular show! This time, we will stumble about in confusion and sadness as we wait fruitlessly for the United States Senate to confirm our show title for us. We may have to wait until 2017, which is a right bummer.” (Tickets are $15; additional showings on April 8th at 8:30 PM and April 9th at 10:00 PM)

Thursday, April 7

• Urbanity and Mercantile ‘Taste’: the Houses of Aleppo, 6:00 PM, 612 Schermerhorn Hall – “Part of ‘Islamic’ Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, a series of lectures to address the historiography of the field ‘Islamic Art’ by scoring the particular moments of ruptures that fractured its foundations. This semester, the focus is on the city of Aleppo from the medieval to the contemporary.”
• Composer Portraits: Hannah Lash, 8:00 PM, Miller Theatre – “The emotional intensity of Romanticism marries disciplined technique in the music of Hannah Lash. . . The night also includes two world premieres, one of them a new piece for a surprising chamber group: trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice.” (Tickets are $7 with CUID)
• CMTS presents Sweeney Todd, 8:00 PM, Lerner Black Box – CMTS’s presentation of Stephen Sondheim’s work “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” which “tells the tale of righteous revenge gone horrifically wrong.” (Sold out, but nightly waitlists are available; additional shows on April 8th at 8:00 PM and April 9th at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM)
• SpotifOrchesis, 10:00 PM, Roone Arledge Auditorium – “Please join us for Orchesis’s semesterly production, SpotifOrchesis! Watch Columbia University’s largest performing arts group of over 100 dancers take the stage and dance jazz, tap, modern, hip hop and everything in between!” (Tickets are $6 with CUID; one additional showing on April 9th at 10:30 PM)

Friday, April 8

• CoLab Spring 2016 Showcase, 7:00 PM, Glicker-Milstein Theatre in the Diana Center – “CoLab is an interdisciplinary student art group. . . made up mostly of dancers and choreographers, but [they] love to incorporate art of all disciplines into [their] showcases” including “live music, visual art, photography, film, spoken word, and more.”

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