“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 ft. the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program

  • Monday, September 23, 6 to 7 pm, The Forum
  • The Forum’s free, open-to-the-public music performances continue this month. Student musicians from the Columbia University Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program will perform.

Les paradoxes du comédien (The Paradoxes of Acting)

  • Monday, September 23, 6:30 to 8 pm, East Gallery (Buell Hall)
  • A conversation in French between Laurence Marie, Pascal Rambert, Audrey Bonnet, and Stanislas Nordey, in celebration of the publication of Marie’s Les paradoxes du comédien. They will consider how Diderot’s Paradox of Acting connects to current practices.

Film Screening & Discussion: “Lessons of Tolerance”

  • Wednesday, September 25, 6:30 to 9 pm, Harriman Institute Atrium (International Affairs Building)
  • A premiere of director Arkadii Nepytaliuk’s comedy, Lessons of Tolerance, hosted by Columbia’s Ukrainian Film Club. The film is about one family’s journey to overcoming their deep-seated prejudices and discover themselves along the way. 
  • Register here by 5 pm on September 24.

Coney Island, Spectacular

  • Thursday, September 26, 5 to 8 pm, Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Butler Library)
  • The opening reception for a new exhibition “Coney Island, Spectacular,” curated by Melina Moe, Curator of Literature, will take place in the Kempner Library. The exhibition showcases different perspectives on Coney Island, with historical archival material alongside new art by SoA students. 

‘American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous’

  • Thursday, September 26, 6:30 to 8 pm, Lenfest Center for the Arts
  • Professors Deborah Paredez and Margo Jefferson (JRN ‘71) discuss Paredez’ new book, which combines cultural criticism and memoir to explore the meaning of the diva, from Aretha Franklin to Celia Cruz to Venus and Serena Williams. 

MidDay Music Concert of the Rapaport Fellows      

  • Friday, September 27, 12 to 1:30 pm, East Gallery (Buell Hall)
  • This concert features the winners of the 2024 Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowship. The Fellowship provides funding for students to pursue studies at a summer music festival of their choosing. 

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