New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, and now that so much of it is online for free, there’s never been a better time to experience it first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

Performances and Readings:

  • On February 6th at 9:00 pm EST, Latenite Theatre will be presenting their Virtual Anthology featuring the student-written shows Ad Reads, Group Chat, Cats Cast Cats, and Teridaklololol.
  • The CUIMC theatre group Broadway Haven Players will be hosting The BHP Winter Revue: A Virtual Rotation of Scenes and Songs, a medley of short scenes, original sketches, musical and dance numbers, Shakespeare, and modern plays featuring 9 directors and cast members from across the CUIMC campus. The show will be running on February 6th at 8:00 pm EST and February 7th at 1:00 pm EST and 8:00 pm EST.
  • The Columbia University School for the Arts will be presenting part three of the Fifth Annual Alumni Poetry Reading Series featuring the work of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Campbell McGrath. The reading will take place on February 10th at 7:30 pm EST.

Films and Discussions:

  • On February 11th at 6:30 pm EST, Columbia College alum Ramin Bahrani will join Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies professor Hamid Dabashi as they discuss Bahrani’s new film The White Tiger that follows the “epic journey of a poor Indian driver who uses his wit and cunning to break free from servitude to his rich masters and rise to the top of the heap.”
  • Sponsored by The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Sustain What host Andy Revkin will join director Matt Wolf to discuss his latest film Spaceship Earth, “a documentary chronicling the strange and newly-relevant back story of the team of obsessive counterculture entrepreneurs, visionaries, and scientists who built and occupied Biosphere 2 – a glass-encased experiment in sustainability in the Arizona desert.” The discussion will be streamed on February 12th at 1:00 pm EST.

Some well traveled tigers via Maya’s insane mind’s creation