“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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Films at the Forum: WILD LIFE 

  • Tuesday, April 23, 6 pm, The Forum
  • The Forum is pleased to present another free film screening: 2023 National Geographic Documentary Film, by Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. 

Francophone Short Films Festival

  • Tuesday, April 23, 6 pm, Buell Hall
  • Enjoy nine short films from francophone countries for this on campus event as a part of the Harlem Francophone Short Films Festival.

MUDPIT

  • Thursday, April 25, 8 to 9 pm, Movement Lab
  • Movement Lab Post-Baccalaureate fellow Celia Krefter presents this devised theater-dance piece. MUDPIT is the peat bog from which we emerged and into which we will return. 

Scholastic Zine Fair 2024

  • Friday, April 26, 1 to 4 pm
  • The Barnard Zine Library is hosting an academic zine fair for anyone who made a zine for a class, club, or other reason. Zine makers will trade, sell, or show and tell their work.

Theater Senior Thesis Festival II

  • Friday April 26-27, 3:30 to 6 pm, Minor Latham Playhouse
  • Join the Barnard Theater Department for their final weekend of the Senior Thesis Festival! Senior Theater majors will present research, host play readings, and perform solo works.

New Plays Festival: IVERA

  • Friday, April 26, 3:30 pm, Lenfest Center
  • This play is a love letter to Puerto Rican womanhood and a condemnation of medical racism. As a woman falls into a coma after the medical negligence of her doctor, she grapples with the impending loss of self, and the decay of everyone around her.

130th Annual Varsity Show: MAYDAY

  • Experience the 130th year of Columbia’s oldest performing arts tradition, which celebrates and satirizes life here through a full length musical production.

New Plays Festival: Koi-Coy

  • Saturday, April 27, 8 pm, Lenfest Center
  • In a surreal version of Los Angeles in late spring, a group of young people are forced to contend with their inability to tell the truth while embracing their nostalgic obsession with the LA literary arts scene of the 90s.

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