“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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Film Screening of LIP: Imagination in Power

  • Monday, October 23, 6:30 to 9:30 pm, Buell Hall East Gallery
  • This screening of the 2007 documentary LIP: Imagination in Power focuses on the LIP strike in Besançon, France, one of the biggest of 1968. Interviews with workers who led the strike and pushed the boundaries of our ideas of democracy are at the center of the film.

Pop-up Concerts: Vicky Chow, piano

  • Tuesday, October 24, 6 pm, Miller Theater
  • Vicky Chow, a Hong Kong and Canadian pianist will return to the Miller Theater for a solo performance of eclectic contemporary works.

MeMoSa: Collective Body

  • Thursday, October 26, 5:30 to 7 pm, Movement Lab LL020 Milstein
  • A collective movement experience, combining virtual reality and intuitive movement to create a grounding experience. The event will incorporate the research of Artist-in-Residence Sarah Silverblatt-Buser into physical movement games that inspire a strong sense of presence.

On Horror: “The Shining” and “The Changeling”

  • Thursday, October 26, 6:30 to 8 pm, Lenfest Center for the Arts
  • In this seasonally appropriate conversation, writing professors Dorothea Lasky and Victor LaValle discuss Lasky’s recent horror lyric, The Shining, and the Apple TV adaptation of The Changeling, Lasalle’s death-defying odyssey through New York City.

Artist Fight Back: Defying Anti-LGBTQ Legislation and Violence Globally

  • Friday, October 27, 6 to 8 pm, 304 Barnard Hall
  • A conversation with Achiro Olwoch, Weiss International Fellow and Scholar at Risk, including a student reading of Olwoch’s play The Survival. The panel, moderated by Shayoni Mitra, will include Adam Odess-Rubin, L.J. O’Connor, and Olwoch, and will be followed by a reception.

Broadway Haven Players Presents: Topeka or To-Not-Peka The Musical

  • Friday, October 27, 7 to 10 pm, Alumni Auditorium at the William Black Medical Research Building 
  • In their first performance in three years, the Broadway Haven Players will be performing a student written and directed show about a man in his 20s who navigates the love and loss of his mother’s funeral and progresses towards a new place where healing, drama, and nonsense ensues!

Fairy Tale Illustration via Picryl