“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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Design Center and Being Barnard: Make Your Own SAAM Tote Bags

  • Tuesday, April 16, 1 to 3 pm, Design Center
  • Join the Design Center and Being Barnard for a free DIY event to highlight sexual assault awareness month. Design your own tote bag using printmaking!

Electroacoustic Music from Italy

  • Tuesday, April 16, 7 pm, Teatro of the Italian Academy
  • The piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire will premier a work by Andrea Agostini, and perform for the first time live a work by Zeno Baldi.

Zine Library and Being Barnard: Creating Zines for SAAM

  • Wednesday, April 17, 12 to 1:30 pm, Zine Library Space
  • Create zines to promote sexual assault awareness month this Wednesday with Being Barnard and the Zine Library.

Film Screening: Bawa’s Garden

  • Wednesday, April 17, 6:30 to 8 pm, Lehman Auditorium
  • Bawa’s Garden is a road movie set in Sri Lanka—a journey to search for the work of architect Geoffery Bawa. The film brings together fiction and history to explore the eclectic and quietly moving style of Bawa.

Theater Senior Thesis Festival I

  • Thursday, April 18, 7 pm, Minor Latham Playhouse
  • Two plays, Love and So and The Same, will make up the first weekend of the festival. Love and So features love and rhinoceroses, and The Same tells the story of intertwined timelines.

Carnatic Violin Duet Concert

  • Thursday, April 18, 7 pm, Wang Pavilion
  • Columbia Sur is partnering with Raaga to host two eminent Carnatic musicians, Sri. Lalgudi GJR Krishnan, and Srimathi Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi for a violin duet.

Latenite Theater’s Spring 2024 Anthology

  • Thursday, April 18-20, 11 pm, Lerner Black Box
  • Join the experimental sketch comedy group for a new set of student devised pieces, an outrageous and jaw-dropping atmosphere, and a night of laughter.

New Plays Festival: The World’s Most Boring Murder

  • Friday, April 19, 8 pm, Lenfest Center 
  • This farcical murder comedy, inspired by Commedia and Brazilian clown traditions, follows an inexperienced police inspector trying to solve his town’s very first crime, which happens to be a brutal murder.

Installation: The Ritual Self by Student Artist in Residence Nicole Balsirow

  • Friday, April 19, 2:30 to 6 pm, Movement Lab
  • Balsirow is interested in rituals surrounding culture, like prayers, New Years Celebrations, and the ways in which they interact with music. How can rituals interplay with identity?

Columbia University Orchestra

  • Friday, April 19, 7:30 pm, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
  • The Columbia University Orchestra is thrilled to be returning to Lincoln Center. The Orchestra will perform John Adams’ Doctor Atomic Symphony and Béla Bártok’s suite from The Miraculous Mandarin.

Raw Elementz: RAWCUS

  • Friday, April 19, 8:30 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium
  • Join Columbia’s oldest student-run hip hop dance group for their annual showcase.

Eurydice

  • Friday, April 19, 7 pm, Glicker-Milstein Theater
  • The CU Players perform a retelling of the timeless tale in a new light through this production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice—directed by Molly Greenwold.

Zabardast

  • Saturday, April 20, 6 pm, Earl Hall Auditorium
  • Columbia Sur’s annual spring concert, Zabardast, celebrates South Asian music and will feature a cappella performances.

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