“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

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The Simon Suites

  • April 7 at 7 pm and April 8 at 2 pm and 7 pm, Glicker-Milstein Theatre
  • CUPAL presents an original contemporary-theatrical dance show set to music by Paul Simon, choreographed by Julia Ruth Patella (BC ‘25). Register for tickets via Eventbrite.

Nonfiction Dialogues: Honor Moore

  • April 5, 7:30 pm, Dodge 501
  • The School of the Arts’ Nonfiction Dialogue Series continues with a conversation with Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury, as well as The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir. She teaches in the New School MFA Program. 

Installation: Everything Left Unsaid by Student Artist-in-Residence Grace Li

  • April 3 through April 7, 2:30 pm to 7 pm, Movement Lab, Milstein Center LL020
  • Student artist-in-residence Grace Li has curated an installation focusing on their experience growing up as a first-generation Chinese-American in Nashua, New Hampshire. The installation incorporates scans of the family archive, their own photography, and old videos, and explores themes of growing up and the unreliability of memory.

Play Lab by Student Artist-in-Residence Rosie Elliot

  • April 5, 1 pm, Movement Lab, Milstein Center LL020
  • Student artist Rosie Elliot has curated an interactive installation that focuses on play as an important, non-productive, free pastime. This installation will take over the Stillness Lab every Wednesday in April.

Building Alternative Worlds with Ariana Brown and Alan Palaez Lopez

  • April 3, 7 pm, Virtual

Register for this virtual writing workshop led by writers Ariana Brown and Alan Palaez Lopez, where the work of two poets, Sonia Guiñansaca and Franny Choi, will be discussed through a guided conversation about hope and hopelessness leading toward the production of original speculative fiction. 

Literary Translation at Columbia Spring Reading

  • April 4, 6:30 pm, Dodge 413
  • Current students at the School of the Arts will present and read from their recent works of translation.

CU Generation Presents Genesis 2023

  • April 8, 8 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium
  • CU Generation, Columbia’s hip-hop dance team, presents its spring showcase in a two-hour show on Saturday night. 

CU Raqs Sharqi presents Night at the Bazaar

  • April 8, 7 pm, Lerner Black Box
  • Columbia’s Middle Eastern and World Fusion Dance Troupe presents a showcase performance this Saturday night.

Pop-Up Concerts: Olivia de Prato

  • April 4, 6 pm, Miller Theatre
  • Enjoy a free concert featuring violinist Olivia de Prato, performing new works for violin and electronics from her recent albums, I A.M. – Artistic Mother Project and Panorama.

Lecture by Dr. Kellie Jones, Hans Hoffman Professor of Modern Art

  • April 4, 5 pm, Pulitzer Hall
  • Dr. Kellie Jones will give a lecture on “Ecologies of Abstraction” in an event that celebrates her position in the newly established Hans Hoffman Professorship of Modern Art. 

Scribbling and Doodling from Leonardo da Vinci to Cy Twombly

  • April 5, 6 pm, Buell Hall
  • Diane Bodart and Maria Stavrinaki will present on the exhibition “Gribouillage de Léonard da Vinci à Cy Twombly,” currently on view at the Museum of Beaux-Arts in Paris, discussing the productive challenges that scribbles and doodles offer to the field of art history.

Paul Simon via Creative Commons