Pictured: student performers right before finals trying to get you to come to their show.

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.

On Campus:

• Columbia’s Pops Orchestra is performing today at 2:30 in Wien Lounge and 8:30 in Lerner 555. Come for free admission and delightful selections from Black Panther, Princess Mononoke, Lord of the Rings and more.
• At 6:30 PM today, head over to the Ella Weed Room in Milbank for KCST Presents: Shakescenes! an exciting sample platter of scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Macbeth, and other plays. Refreshments and holiday cheer provided.
• Once you’ve had your fill of Shakespeare, slide on over to Lerner at 8 PM for the final performance of Black Theatre Ensemble’s Booty Candy! by Robert O’Hara. The show is a series of vignettes grappling with “religion, revenge, queerness, commodification, language, and family (or lack thereof)”. Tickets $3.50 with CUID.
• On Monday at 7 and 10 PM, head to Roone for the 13th annual XMAS: Columbia’s full-length, student-written holiday musical! Tickets $5.50 with CUID.
• Tuesday at 8 PM, check out SHARP A Capella’s 7th Annual Winter Performance in the Lerner Black Box. SHARP promises it will be “bringing the heat” with soulful tunes and new and exciting stuff.
• On Friday at 7:30, Earl Hall hosts the Vivace Chamber Singers’ Good Vivbrations! Columbia’s contemporary choral group will be singing pieces by Moretn Lauridsen, Josef Rheinberger, and many more.

Off Campus:

• This Tuesday at 6:30 PM, the New York Transit Museum hosts Drawing Inspiration: New York City History in Comics. Columbia professor Karen Green will join curator Jodi Shapiro and comic artists Stan Mach and Peter Kuper to discuss how comics bring the people and stories of New York to life. There’s also a visual exhibit, of course. Tickets $10.
• Thursday through Saturday at 8 PM, snap up your student tickets for Doubleplus: Fana Fraser + Burr Johnson at the Theater at Gibney 280 Broadway. Curated by Kimberly Bartosik, this evening of experimental theater splits the bill between Fana Fraser’s “new formula for power” BBB, and Burr Johnson’s Chimera, a “study on the textures of movement.”

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