New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art and now with so much of it 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:

• The Columbia School for the Arts MFA Playwrights will be presenting a vitual digital audio festival called PLAYSONOS from November 8 to 17.
• https://arts.columbia.edu/events/playsonos-digital-audio-play-festival
• Columbia NOMADS will be presenting their MainStage production Scars of Metamorphosis in the Glicker-Milstein Theatre on November 12 at 6 pm and November 13 at 2 and 9 pm. Tickets are $5 at the door for CUID holders and there will also be a livestream option to view the show.
• https://artsinitiative.columbia.edu/event/nomads-presents-scars-of-metamorphosis/

Music:

• On November 10 at 12 pm, the Columbia Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies will partner with Fordham’s Jewish Studies program to virtually host Jeremiah Lockwood in a discussion on Chassidic singers and the cantorial revival in the digital, “surfacing sounds of the Jewish sonic past as a means of aesthetic self-cultivation.”
• https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=%2Fpublic%2Fcals%2FMainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb7c-7cda85c7-017c-dd5249b8-00003929events@columbia.edu&recurrenceId=
• A streamed option to watch piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire perform in the Miller Theatre will become available November 9 at 7 pm.
• https://artsinitiative.columbia.edu/event/live-from-columbia-yarn-wire/

Film Screenings:

• The Mauvaise Genres French Film Festival will continue this week in the Cowin Auditorium on November 11 at 7 pm with Djibril Drop Mambéty’s Hyenas.
• https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=%2Fpublic%2Fcals%2FMainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb70-7c023a84-017c-03c27976-0000613fevents@columbia.edu&recurrenceId=
• The NYC documentary premiere of Ladies of the Wood by Claus Drexel will be presented in the Cowin Auditorium on November 9 at 7 pm.
• https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=%2Fpublic%2Fcals%2FMainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb70-7c023a84-017c-03b95a38-00005de1events@columbia.edu&recurrenceId=

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