Columbia and New York City are 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.

Your event wasn’t included in Where Art Thou? Send us an email at arts@bwog.com and we’ll be sure to include you! Throughout the year, we do our best to promote arts at Columbia and Barnard to the entire student community, and the best way to make sure your event gets promoted and covered is by reaching out to us.

Discussions and Book Talks 

In an event presented by Literary Translation at Columbia, Valzhyna Mort joins School of the Arts Professors Susan Bernofsky and Matvei Yankelvich for a discussion of her work as a poet and translator working with English, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish. This event will take place in Dodge 501 at 7:30 pm on September 21.

Julie Stone Peters’ new book Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe will be celebrated with a panel at the Heyman Center for the Humanities on September 20 at 6:15 pm. Attend in person or online. 

Screenings and Performances

On September 24 at 1 pm in the Lenfest Center, go to the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening room for a screening of Richard Linklater’s classic 2003 film School of Rock. 

On September 22 at 7 pm at the Barnard Movement Lab, Collin Kelley and Alexandria Giroux will present “therapy,” an “invitation to question the toxic positivity run rampant in new-age wellness culture.” RSVP required. 

Processions and Workshops 

The Morningside Lights Procession, themed The Reimagined Monument, will happen at 8 pm on Saturday, September 24. 

At the Barnard Zine Library on September 20 at 6 pm, join comics journalist and author Sarah Kirk for a workshop on creating DIY journalism with zines and comics.

Zines via Wikimedia Commons