“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 for Three Strings: In Memoriam – Wolfgang Rihm

• Tuesday, October 29, 6 pm, Miller Theatre
• This concert in Miller Theatre’s Pop-Up Concerts series will feature three musicians, Modney (violin), Kyle Armbrust (viola), and Michael Nicolas (cello). They will perform Wolfgang Rihm’s challenging Musik für Drei Streicher in memory of the composer, who passed away this summer.

Sing Sing: Screening and Panel

• Tuesday, October 29, 6 pm, Geffen Hall (Columbia Business School)
• The Columbia Business School presents a screening of the film Sing Sing, which follows incarcerated men acting in a theater group. A panel with staff and faculty from Columbia’s Center for Justice, including Dario Pena, an actor who was formerly incarcerated at Sing Sing, will follow the screening.

Harmonia Rosales: On the Rise of Orishas

• Tuesday, October 29, 6 to 8 pm, Sulzberger Parlor (Barnard Hall)
• Harmonia Rosales is a visual artist whose work focuses on Black female empowerment in Western culture, using Renaissance and Baroque lenses to explore West African deities, Orishas, and their stories. In this event, she is joined in conversation with Barnard professors Maja Horn and Abosede George.

Exhibit Opening Reception: “Children of the War”

• Tuesday, October 29, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Harriman Institute Atrium (IAB)
• The Harriman Institute presents their new exhibit Children of the War, which is focused on a new artist book, Boys Fight by Marina Tëmkina and Michel Gérard. The book uses drawings and text and exploring anxieties surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and US presidential elections, and the exhibit expands on the book with Gérard’s original drawings and further texts by Tëmkina about the experience of war.

“You Really Want to Know My Story?” — Tales of Incarceration and Death Row in India

• Wednesday, October 30, 4 to 5:30 pm, Movement Lab (Milstein Lower Level)
• Co-hosted by the Movement Lab and Columbia’s South Asia Institute, this event features a performance by Maya Rao followed by a conversation between Rao and Journalism School professor Alisa Solomon. The event centers around prisoners on death row in India, whose stories are told through Rao’s combination of movement, text, and music to create a dance-theater piece.

Speak Now: David Henry Hwang and Leigh Silverman on ‘Yellow Face’

• Wednesday, October 30, 7 to 8:30 pm, The Lantern (School of the Arts)
• Playwright and School of the Arts faculty member David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face recently opened on Broadway. This week, Hwang is joined by Yellow Face director Leigh Silverman to discuss the play in a conversation moderated by James Ijames.

Dogs in ghost costumes via Bwarchives.