“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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Music Monday: Every Voice Choirs

  • Monday, April 29, 6 pm, The Forum
  • This month’s performance for Music Monday will feature Every Voice Choirs as they celebrate Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday, Jazz Appreciation Month, and Earth Day.

Pops Orchestra Concert 2

  • Monday, April 29, 9 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium
  • Join Columbia Pops as they perform this showcase of student-arranged pieces that feature excerpts from Barbie, Godzilla, Laufey, and more! 

Film Screening and Discussion: Claustro

  • Monday, April 29, 6:30 pm, Harriman Institute Atrium
  • Claustro follows a duo stuck in a spacial loop inside one of their grandfather’s apartment. The film focuses on secrets and choices, which will be discussed following the film with director Olzhas Bayalbayev.

Orange Road String Quartet: Sonic Architect

  • Tuesday, April 30, 7 pm, St. Paul’s Chapel
  • Join this string quartet for a performance of interweaving structures at the intersection of secular and spiritual.

Installation: defuse

  • Tuesday, April 30 to May 2, 2 to 4 pm, Movement Lab
  • Student Artist-in-Residence Mangjistha Lakhotia presents this film and light installation which aims to represent fragmented thoughts momentarily converging to form an image, only to fragment again.

Installation: Mirrored Realities

  • Thursday, May 2 and 3, 10 am to 1 pm, Movement Lab
  • Student Artist-in-Residence Eris Gao is interested in how innovations such as AR and VR have influenced the ways in which humans view the world. Gao will explore these ideas in this exhibition using projection, sound, and cameras.

New Plays Festival: Leo’s Requiem

  • Friday, May 3 and 4, 3:30 pm and 8 pm, Lenfest Center
  • This play centers a young Black composer and conductor searching for the words to his next commission in a notebook of his late childhood friend, which sends him into a torrent of emotion and inspiration. Structured as a requiem mass, this play explores grief in young men of color, and the divine power of music to heal.

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