“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

Did we miss your event? Send us an email at arts@bwog.com and we’ll be sure to include you! Throughout the year, we do our best to promote arts at Columbia and Barnard to the entire student community, and the best way to make sure your event gets promoted and covered is by reaching out to us.

Welcome back to campus! It’s a light week as we dive back into arts events. On behalf of Bwog’s Arts Team, break a leg to all of those auditioning this week! We can’t wait to see all of your wonderful performances this semester. 

Black, Brilliant and Free: An Interactive Installation

  • Tuesday, January 21, 2025, Milstein Library Floor 2
  • This interactive installation is presented as part of the Zora Neale Hurston (BC 1928) Centennial at Barnard. It opens on January 21 and will close on May 5. Presented by OlaRonke Akinmowo, an interdisciplinary artist and literary scholar, the installation and the centennial invite students to engage with Hurston’s legacy. Book talks and arts events will be held later in the semester, but for now, check out this installation!

Tour of Trigger Planting 2.0

  • Friday, January 24, 2025, 12:30 to 1:30 pm, Milstein Lobby
  • Trigger Planting 2.0 is an exhibition in the lobby of Milstein Library that explores the changing conditions of reproductive rights in the US and across the world. On Friday, and later on February 15th, collaborators Kadambari Baxi (Barnard architecture professor), Maureen Connor, and Landon Newton will lead public walkthroughs of the exhibition.

Screening Lumumba: Death of a Prophet

  • Thursday, January 23, 2025, 6:30 to 8 pm, Buell Hall
  • Albertine Cinematheque and Columbia’s Maison Française will present a screening of the film Lumumba: Death of a Prophet. The film, by legendary Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, follows revolutionary Patrica Lumumba’s tenure as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the machinations behind his shocking assassination. 

Snowy campus via Bwarchives.