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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 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.

Wednesday, November 9th

• Mid-Day Music with Kira Daglio-Fine on Jazz Saxophone, 12:00 PM, Garden Room 2 in Faculty House – Kira Daglio-Fin will be performing a program of unannounced selections. This event is free.
• Opening Reception: residues, 6-8 PM, Louise McCagg Gallery on the 4th floor of the Diana Center – “Of childhood, sexuality, process, and corporeality—residues index activity. The exhibition features works that are linked not by textual but by textural references to hybrid materialities and states of becoming.”
• Creative Writing Lecture: Ottessa Moshfegh, 7:00 PM, 501 Dodge Hall – “Ottessa Moshfegh is the author of McGlue, Eileen, and a forthcoming collection of short stories, Homesick for Another World. She lives in California.” – Enter through the 3rd floor entrance on Columbia’s campus

Thursday, November 10th

• Recounting | Tim Munto, 8 PM, Miller Theatre – “Until recently, Tim Munro was the charismatic flutist of Grammy-winning new music group eighth blackbird. In this evocative program, he makes his New York solo debut, combining music, storytelling, and song with dreamy lighting and a bevy of new works. The composers featured run the gamut stylistically, from post-punk guitarist to literature buff to Pulitzer Prize finalist. Through their works, Munro explores the time between sleep and waking, that fertile moment when we remember and tell our tales, before drifting off to dreaming.” – Tickets $7 with CUID
• William Kentridge: Enough & More Than Enough, 6:30 PM, Altschul Auditorium in the International Affairs Building– “Acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge has worked in a variety of media, from printmaking and opera to animation and film. Here, he muses upon drawing, posing questions such as: Why draw? What so artists do when they make drawings, and how do drawings emerge? What leads, prompts, and shapes a drawing into what it becomes? What does it mean to draw? What is the relation of a drawing to the world? What does the drawing—and the artist—do when they leave the studio? Featuring a screening of a new small film made for this lecture, Soft Dictionary.”

Friday, November 11th

• CoLab Fall 2016 Showcase, 7:30 PM, Glicker-Milstein Theatre in the Diana Center – “CoLab Performing Arts Collective is a student dance group focused on creating, developing, and workshopping multi-disciplinary projects. The group provides an outlet on campus to showcase process-based works that challenge current genre distinctions and promote creative collaboration amongst university peers. CoLab’s Fall Showcase will present eight new pieces created by students of the Barnard and Columbia community.” Additional show on Saturday, November 12th at 7:30 PM – Tickets are free, but reserve here
• “Uncle Vanya” directed by Nana Dakin, 8:00 PM, Schapiro Studio – “Act I & II of Anton Chekov’s classic play, “Uncle Vanya” adapted by Annie Baker, directed by 2nd-year MFA Director, Nana Dakin. Drawing from her background as a half-Thai, half-American, director Nana Dakin explores Anton Chekov’s classic play with an all Asian/Asian American cast in relation to her experiences in Thailand. This fresh interpretation of “Uncle Vanya” invites audiences to contemplate what prevents us from changing the circumstances of our unhappiness.” -Additional Shows on Saturday, November 12th at 8 PM and Sunday, November 13th at 2 PM – RSVP in advance, space limited to 32 guests per performance
• Third Wheel Presents: The Spare Tires Improv Festival, 8:30 PM, Lerner Black Box – “Come join Third Wheel Improv for their inaugural Spare Tires Improv Festival! They will be joined by your other favorite Columbia/Barnard improv groups, Control Top and Fruit Paunch, in addition to improv teams from: NYU, Bowdoin, Oberlin, Fordham, University of Delaware.” – Additional show on Saturday, November 12th at 8:30 PM – Performance is free, but a $5 donation is suggested.

Photo provided by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons