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.

Book Talks

On September 28 at 6:30 pm at the Lenfest Center, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Margo Jefferson will discuss her latest memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, with professor Deborah Paredez.

On September 29 in Pulitzer Hall, comedian Joanna Hausmann and professor Frances Negron-Muntaner will host The Art of the Latinx Rant, a conversation on identity, humor, and more, at 5 pm. 

Screenings

On September 30 from 7 to 8:30 pm, the latest installment of the People and the Planet in French and Francophone Cinema will be held at Teachers College. Director Julie Gautier will present four short films, Narcisse, One Breath Around The World, Ama, and Narcose, followed by a discussion with professor Gabri Christa. 

At the Lenfest Center on October 1st, go to the Otto-Bernstein screening room between 10 am and 5:30 pm for an all-day event on Lebanese cinema. The schedule includes screenings of the films Erased, Ascent of the Invisible (dir. Ghassan Halwani), 1982 (dir. Oualid Mouaness), and the shorts Once Upon A Revolution (dir. Soha Shukayr) and Us. Lebanon (dir. Elijah Ghossein). Around 3:30 pm, the directors will converse in a filmmaker’s roundtable. 

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