Kanye is ready for the Morningside Lights

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.

Monday, September 19

• NYSAF Reading Series: Dido of Idaho by Abby Rosebrock, 7 PM, Glicker-Milstein Theatre in the Diana Center – “With the reluctant guidance of her estranged mother and mother’s girlfriend, an alcoholic musicologist competes with former Miss Idaho for the love of a married English Professor. Dido of Idaho is a comedy about how to win at life when you’re in deep despair, wildly out of control and addicted to love.” – Free, but RSVP to info@newyorkstageandfilm.org
• Vanishing Lines, Soluble Boundaries, Sliding Identities – Ananda Devi, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie, 6:30-7:30 PM, Maison Française East Gallery in Buell Hall – “Ananda Devi is a novelist and scholar born in Trois-Boutiques, Mauritius in 1957. She has lived in Ferney-Voltaire, France (near Geneva) since 1989, after having spent some years in Congo-Brazzaville. As an ethnologist and a translator, Devi is sensitive to the interconnection between identities and languages. Choosing to write in French, her novels and short stories also incorporate Creole and Hindi. Her incisive, lyrical and shrewd style offers the French language new cultural and linguistic scope linked to her native island.” – RSVP here

Saturday, September 24th

• Morningside Lights: TRAVERSE, 8 PM, Morningside Park – “For 100 years, the Pulitzer Prizes have celebrated the great writers and artists of our time. This fall, makers and marchers participating in our community-created lantern procession Morningside Lights will have a chance to literally illuminate favorite passages by great poets who’ve received this unique honor over the past century.” – Lantern building workshops from Sept. 17-23 – all associated events are free

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