Take some time this week to get your sketch on!

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. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined on campus.

Tuesday, April 4th

  • From Heaven to Hell: The Drama of the French Baroque, 7:00 PM, East Gallery, Buell Hall – “This program presents the rich, sublime, sometimes terrifying extremes of French music in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Soprano Marguerite Krull is joined by period instrumentalists Dongmyung Ahn (baroque violin), David Bakamjian (baroque cello), and Rebecca Cypess (harpsichord) in performing little-known cantatas and instrumental music with spoken commentary. The program includes works by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Johann Jacob Froberger, Jean Bodin de Boismortier, and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault.” – Free RSVP here

Wednesday, April 5th

  • Creative Writing Lecture | Eileen Myles, 7:00 PM, Room 501 in Dodge Hall – “Eileen Myles is the author of nineteen books including I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a reissue of Chelsea Girls in 2015. Upcoming is Afterglow (a memoir) a fantastic book about a pitbull named Rosie (1990-2006). Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’ grant, a Creative Capital nonfiction award, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from The Poetry Society of America and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. Their Inferno was named to the Slate/Whiting novel list and in 2015 they received the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. They live in Marfa, TX and New York.” – Free and open to the public

Thursday, April 6th

  • Silent Matinees: Another Avant-Garde, 12:00 PM, Dodge Hall, Room 511 – “Professor Vito Adriaensens presents a five-part silent cinema matinee series with live music by Belgian jazz musician Adriaan Campo and friends. In this final installment, we dive into a lesser-known avant-garde with a stunning cinematic adaptation of Belgian Nobel Prize Maurice Maeterlinck’s Symbolist play The Blue Bird, in which two poor children travel to strange fairytale lands to search for the blue bird of happiness, accompanied by a motley crew of household characters.” – Free and open to the public
  • Masters of the Graphic Novel: Blutch and Charles Burns in conversation with Françoise Mouly, 6:00 PM, Maison Francaise East Gallery, Buell Hall – “French cartoonist Blutch and American Charles Burns are both known for their poignant graphic storytelling, distinctive mastering of black and white and exploration of art forms such as illustration and animation. New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly will discuss their similarities but also the differences of creating graphic novels in France and the USA.” – Free RSVP here
  • Work work work work wORCHESIS, 10:00 PM, Roone Arledge Auditorium – “Orchesis is completely student-run, from the production to the choreography to the dancing. They perform all styles of dance, and take all levels of dancers.” – Tickets here; CUID tickets $6, regular tickets $10

Friday, April 7th

  • Friday Night Sketch, 6:00 PM, Roone Arledge Auditorium – “Artist Society invites everyone to come and take advantage of the invaluable artistic reference a live model provides at our weekly figure drawing sessions. Artist Society runs studio sessions in an open environment to encourage experimentation, collaboration, and constructive criticism among members. Feel free to borrow from a limited supply of paper, charcoal, pencils, and markers for the duration of each session. The board members and models are constantly trying to develop new poses, scenery, and music playlists, so please speak with any of them about your ideas for future sketch sessions.” – Free admission; also on April 14th and April 21st
  • CMTS Presents: Senior Showcase, 7:00 PM, Glicker-Milstein Theatre, Diana Center – “Come watch your favorite performers take the Columbia stage one last time before they graduate! For many seniors in the theatre community here on campus, the performing arts world has been their home at Columbia for four years. CMTS celebrates the accomplishments of the seniors in this group and gives thanks for the arts at Columbia, which have given them so much.” – Reserve free tickets here
  • The Marriage of Figaro, 8:00 PM, Glicker-Milstein Theatre, Diana Center – “The Marriage of Figaro continues the plot of The Barber of Seville several years later, and recounts a single “day of madness” in the palace of Count Almaviva near Seville, Spain.” – Free tickets with CUID; $12 non-CUID tickets

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