“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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Art + Life: Bushra Rehman

  • Tuesday, March 5, 7 pm, Lenfest Center for the Arts
  • As a part of the Art + Life intimate conversation series organized by the Columbia Undergraduate Creative Writing Program, acclaimed author and editor Bushra Rehman will speak with Adjunct Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Creative Writing Advisor in Poetry Quincy Scott Jones.

Tabla recital by Mir Naqibul Islam with Shreyas Ravi and Elliot Cole

  • Tuesday, March 5, 7 pm, St. Paul’s Chapel
  • Trained in the traditional guru-shishya style of Indian classical music by Pt. Ashoke Paul, disciple of the great tabla guru Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Mir Naqibul Islam, will play the tabla. He will be accompanied by Shreyas Ravi, senior disciple of sitarist Pt. Ravi Chary, as well as composer, and “charismatic contemporary bard” who studies Hindustani singing with Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, Elliot Cole.

Film Screening and Discussion. “Magic Mountain”

  • Wednesday, March 6, 6:30 to 9 pm, International Affairs Building
  • Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of Magic Mountain (2023), a film about tuberculosis patients in a sanitarium in southwest Georgia. The site becomes host to fantasies and nightmares in this dynamic film, which will be followed by conversation with filmmakers Mariam Chachia and Nik Voigt.

Creative Writing Lecture: Ayşe Papatya Bucak

  • Wednesday, March 6, 7:30 to 9 pm, Dodge Hall 501
  • Author of The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories and associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, Ayşe Papatya Bucak will come to discuss creative writing as a craft as a part of the Creative Writing Lecture Series.

Directing Thesis: Meg

  • Thursday, March 7-10, 8 pm, Lenfest Center
  • Columbia School of the Arts student Catalina Beltrán presents a directing thesis production of Meg by Paula Vogel. This play focuses on the beloved daughter of the famed Sir Thomas More, Meg, as she explores the complications of her future as a scholar. This cutting and feminist story questions how we construct histories, and who we include in them.

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