512px-A_small_cup_of_coffee

Perfect for balancing late nights in Butler after attending all these arts events!

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.

Saturday, April 16

  • Balm in Gilead, 7:00 PM, Schapiro Theatre – A play centered on a cafe which patrons include addicts, prostitutes, and thieves. “The coffee shop is a swirling maelstrom where its inhabitants go on desperately seeking the joy, release and purpose in life that will, most certainly, continue to escape them.” (Tickets are sold out; waitlist available)

Sunday, April 17

  • TapChat, 2:00 PM and 4:30 PM, Streng Dance Studio in the Barnard Annex – UnTapped, Columbia’s Tap Club, presents its annual spring tap dancing showcase!

Monday, April 18

  • Peter Arno and The New Yorker, 6:00 PM, Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Butler Library – “Join author Michael Maslin and artist Edward Sorel as they discuss the life and career of New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno, subject of Maslin’s new biography Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of the New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist.”
  • Pacific Rim Music Festival: Ensemble Korea, 7:30 PM, The Italian Academy – A concert of Korean traditional court music and folk music.

Tuesday, April 19

  • International Tourism (film), 6:30 PM, Maison Française – “International Tourism (2014) has been shot as a recording of a show on the scale of a whole country, North Korea. The film questions the way the nation fabricates its images, between politics, mythology and imagination.”

Wednesday, April 20

Thursday, April 21

  • Composer Portraits: Francesca Verunelli, 8:00 PM, Miller Theatre – “An electroacoustic composer based in Paris, Verunelli is quietly becoming an artist to watch, with commissions from many of Europe’s top ensembles. In this Portrait, we’ll introduce her music to the United States, featuring the fruits of her close collaboration with the International Contemporary Ensemble.”

Friday, April 22

  • Artist Society: Gallery Night!, 6:00 PM, Room 501 in Dodge Hall – “Join the Artist Society for a gallery exhibition of everybody’s work! Bring your own and put it up if you like, or just browse through the different perspectives of our participants.”
  • Black Theatre Ensemble presents “Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine” by Lynn Nottage, 7:00 PM, Lerner Black Box – “‘Fabulation’ tells the story of Undine Barnes Calles, a successful business woman who gave up her roots for a fast-paced life in Manhattan. When she learns that her money has been embezzled by her husband, Undine must return to her childhood home in Brooklyn pregnant and broke.” (Additional shows on April 23rd at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM)
  • CBGT Spring Series on Physical Theater: (re)MAKING, 7:30 PM, Glicker-Milstein Theatre in the Diana Center – Columbia Blue Glaze Theatre presents two original student works. (Additional show on April 23rd at 1:30 PM)
  • CoffeeHouse: Showcase, 9:00 PM, Lerner 555 – The Red Cross is hosting a showcase fundraiser that includes performances by “Columbia performers, from musicians to comedians and everything in-between.” There will be Insomnia cookies, Oren’s coffee, and Hungarian pastries!

Note: Previously, Bwog used the heading “This Week In The Arts” for our weekly lineup of arts events. However, this is the same title as the weekly arts newsletter that the Columbia Arts Initiative sends out to subscribers. In order to avoid confusion and overlap, Bwog’s “This Week In The Arts” will now be called the “Where Art Thou” series.

A small cup of coffee by Julius Schorzman via Wikimedia