Even though there's no snow outside, let the arts bring you holiday spirit!

Even though there’s no snow outside, let the arts bring you holiday spirit!

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.

Sunday, December 4th

Tuesday, December 6th

  • Curtis on Tour Chamber Ensemble, 6:00 PM, Miller Theatre– “The orchestral nature of Brahms’s G minor piano quartet, No. 25, along with its irresistible Gypsy-style final movement, makes it one of the finest of the genre. Emerging stars from the Curtis Institute of Music perform alongside their mentor, Ayane Kozasa, as they take on this multifaceted piece in our final Pop-Up Concert of 2016.” – Free tickets here.


Wednesday, December 7th

  • Mid-Day Music @ Columbia featuring Evan Tarrh on jazz piano, 12:00 PM, Garden Room 2 in Faculty House– Evan Tarrh will be performing a program of selections to be announced at the performance. This event is free.
  • Creative Writing Lecture: Brian Evenson, 7:00 PM, Room 501 in Dodge Hall– “Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses. His collection Windeye and his novel Immobility were both finalists for the Shirley Jackson Award.Last Days won the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel of 2009 and The Open Curtainwas a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property and Altmann’s Tongue. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship.” -Free and open to the public.
  • Columbia Undergraduate Film Productions – “Collegetown Screening,” 8:00 PM, Lerner Hall Cinema– “CUFP will be screening Hugo Genes’s new documentary film “Collegetown.” Collegetown is a feature length narrative-documentary hybrid (creative nonfiction). The film illuminates the social and financial situations that determine choices made by debt-ridden U.S. college students. Through the lives of five students Collegetown depicts the modern college student’s experience with student debt & heavy campus recruitment from the financial industry. The film conveys parallels between college recruitment, Fraternity and Sorority recruitment and on-campus career recruitment.” –Tickets $5 with CUID.

Thursday, December 8th

  • Gay Wagner: Wagnerism and Homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany, 2:30 PM, Deutsches Haus – “Noted New Yorker music critic Alex Ross will speak about Wagner, Thomas Mann and homosexuality at the end of the nineteenth century.” -This event is free.
  • Columbia Musical Theatre Society presents “First Date,” 8:00 PM, Minor Latham Playhouse – “CMTS is proud to present First Date, a musical comedy. Come spend the evening with Aaron and Casey as they navigate the humor and awkwardness of a blind first date.” –Tickets are $7.50 with CUID. Additionally shows at 8:00 PM on Friday, December 9th and Saturday, December 10th
  • CUBE presents: Alice in Wonderland, 9:00 PM, Roone Arledge Auditorium – “Join Columbia University Ballet Ensemble for their fall performance, Alice in Wonderland! Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, CUBE tells the story of a curious young girl named Alice, her adventures in the strange world of Wonderland, and her entanglements with the volatile Queen of Hearts.” –Tickets are $5.50 with CUID. Additionally shows at 8:00 PM on Friday, December 9th
  • Latenite Fall 2016 Anthology, 11:00 PM, Lerner Black Box – “Latenite Theatre presents its Fall 2016 anthology of short plays. Latenite is a theatre group devoted to showcasing the greatest, latest, and strangest student written theatre.” -Tickets are free. Additionally shows at 11:00 PM on Friday, December 9th, and 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM on Saturday December 10th

Picture via Wikimedia Media Commons by olekinderhook