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New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience them 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.

Sunday, February 28

• NYC Feminist Zinefest 2016, 12:00 PM, James Room in Barnard Hall – “The NYC Feminist Zinefest showcases the work of artists and zinesters who identify as feminists, and whose politics are reflected in their work.”
• Harpya, De Man Die Zijn Haar Kort Liet Knippen (“The Man who had his hair cut short”) with Introduction by Professor Vito Adriaenssens, 7:30 PM, Lifetime Screening Room in Dodge Hall – A screening of a 1965 film that draws from the rise of surrealism in Belgium in the 1940s.

Tuesday, March 1

• “Liquid Highway” Revisited: Hispañola in Perspective, 6:30 PM, Schermerhorn Hall 612 – “A roundtable discussion featuring artists Firelei Báez, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful and Scherezade Garcia with remarks by Daily Guerrero, Abigail Lapin Dardashti and Deborah Cullen.” The discussion will “explore the connections between the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and contemporary art.” (Free, but RSVP here.)

Wednesday, March 2

• Mid-Day Music featuring Kira Daglio-Fine with Daniel Mesko, Andres Rovira, and Jack Aylor, 12:00 PM, Garden Room at the Faculty House – Jazz saxophonist Daglio-Fine, alongside Mesko (drums), Rovira (piano), and Aylor (jazz bass) will be performing as part of the Mid-Day Music recital series. (Specific program TBA.)
• Reading and Q & A with Diane Williams, 7:00 PM, Room 501 in Dodge Hall – “Diane Williams is the author of several collections of short stories, including Excitability, Romancer Erector, and many other. She is also the editor of the literary annual NOON.”
• 1948mm in the US: Zochrot Film Festival on Nakba and the Right of Return, 8:00 PM (doors open at 7:30 PM), Roone Arledge Auditorium – “Screening of 3 short films by Palestinians and Israelis about the ongoing injustices of the Nakba (Arabic word meaning “catastrophe”) of 1948 that began with more than 700,000 Palestinians expelled and 601 localities destroyed, and about reconceptualization of the Return of refugees as the imperative redress for the Nakba.”

Thursday, March 3

• Respect(ability), 7:00 PM, Glicker-Milstein Theatre in the Diana Center – “Barnard/Columbia V-Day was originally a group that staged an annual production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, a show that celebrated one marginalized identity. Over the past two years, Barnard/Columbia V-Day has evolved and expanded to include, emphasize, and uplift the voices of other marginalized identities. This year, V-Day will stage Respect(ability), a production centering on experiences of disability, ableism, and mental and physical dis/ability and illness, as well as their intersections with sexuality, in keeping with the tradition of the Vagina Monologues. The show is created from student submissions and collaborative writing.” (Tickets are $5 with CUID/BCID; additional shows on the 4th at 7:00 PM and the 5th at 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM)
• Latenite Theatre’s Spring 2016 Anthology!, 11:00 PM, Lerner Black Box – “Come one, come all, to Latenite’s Spring 2016 Anthology! Latenite is a theater group devoted to showcasing the greatest, latest, and strangest student written theatre. This year they’re serving you Star Wars Fantasies, Viking Epics, Spectacular Twins and much much more!” Bottom line: Latenite is weird, funny, and a good time. (Additional performances on the 4th at 11:00 PM and the 5th at 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM)

Saturday, March 5

• Composer Portraits: Iancu Dumitrescu, 8:00 PM, Miller Theatre – “Iancu Dumitrescu stands at the forefront of one of the 20th century’s most invisible avant-gardes: the spectral composers of Romania. Operating on the margins of a regime committed to Socialist Realism, his microscopic explorations of acoustics draw on both Western techniques and local traditions: the folk music research of Béla Bartók, Eastern Orthodox chant, and Byzantine mysticism. The resulting compositions break apart sonic conventions. They reflect, in Dumitrescu’s words, “the attempt to release or unveil the god that is living in every piece of base matter.” (Tickets are $7 with CUID/BCID)

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