You in the Morningside bubble. Since you’re not getting out, culture yourself with an art event this week.

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.

Saturday, March 26

• Barnumbia Regional Poetry Slam, 7:00 PM, Room 405 in Milbank Hall – “5 teams from colleges in the greater New York area will be competing for glory, fun, and practice. . .” Visiting teams include Rutgers, NYU, Montclair State University, and Brown. ($5 tickets)

Wednesday, March 30

• Mid-Day Music featuring Cindy Liu and David Newtown, 12:00 PM, Garden Room 2 at the Faculty House – Liu (piano) and Newtown (cello) will be performing an all-Brahms program as part of the Mid-Day Music recital series.
• A Conversation with Wendy Whelan, 7:00 PM, Julius Held Lecture Hall (304 Barnard Hall) – Wendy Whelan, the inaugural Lida Orzeck Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, looks back at her 30-year career with the New York City Ballet. . . Don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of America’s finest dance artists discuss her experiences during a lifetime of exploration within the dance world.”
• Marilyn Hacker Reading, 7:00 PM, Sulzberger Parlor in Barnard Hall – “Marilyn Hacker and Deema Shehabi read from their poetry as part of the Barnard Women Poets Series.”

Thursday, March 31

• Seeing the Forest: Analyzing Hidden Patterns Using (Mostly) Public Data about People Killed in Syria, 2011-2015, 6:00 PM, Brown Institute for Media Innovation in Pulitzer Hall – “This event is 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.”
• “Cento” presented by the Columbia University Performing Arts League, 8:00 PM, Lerner Black Box – “Cento, a CUPAL Special Project, is a devised play set during a single session of an improv class. Entirely made up of quotes from outside sources, the script of Cento in performance asks its audiences a simple question: what makes something original or unoriginal?” (Second show on Friday at 8:00 PM)
• Sophocles’ “Trachiniae”, 8:00 PM, Minor Latham Playhouse – “The Barnard Columbia Ancient Drama Group is pleased to present Sophocles’ “Trachiniae” (“The Women of Trachis”). . . The production is in ancient Greek with English supertitles and includes a chorus of 11, who will be singing and dancing to a live, original score by Melody Loveless.” (Additional shows Friday at 8:00 PM and Saturday at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM)
• “Hilaryous” by NOMADS, 8:00 PM, Glicker-Milstein Theatre in the Diana Center – “Hillaryous is a coming of age musical about a woman of a certain age. Featuring the music of self-proclaimed feminist Taylor Swift, follow Hillary Clinton as she struggles to balance her first real friendship with the pressures of the upcoming Wisconsin primary, the powerful Cheese lobby, and vanquishing a certain formidable large-handed opponent.” (Additional shows Friday at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM)

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