“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 at the Lee C. Bollinger Forum: Morrisania Band Project

  • Monday, February 24, 6 to 7 pm, The Forum’s Atrium (Manhattanville campus)
  • In this month’s edition of The Forum’s Music Monday events, the Morrisania Band Project will return to campus. They were voted Best Cover Band in the Bronx for two years running. The concert is free and open to the public. 

Pop-Up Concert – Wael Farouk 

  • Tuesday, February 25, 6 pm (doors open at 5:30 pm), Miller Theatre 
  • Egyptian-American pianist Wael Farouk returns to Miller with a selection of solo piano works by Bach, Rachmaninoff, and more. As part of Miller’s Pop-Up Concert series, this performance is free and has an opportunity for limited onstage seating as well as conversation after the show.

A Calligraphy of Days 

  • Thursday, February 27, 4 to 5:30 pm, Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room International Affairs Building
  • The East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute will hold a reading and conversation with award-winning Polish poet Krzysztof Siwczyk and translator Piotr Fiorczyk in honor of Siwczyk’s debut in English, “A Calligraphy of Days: Selected Poems.” The sixty-four post-Holocaust poems in “A Calligraphy of Days” reflect Krzysztof Siwczyk’s wide-ranging and variegated style.
  • Register before 4 pm on Wednesday, February 26 here.

Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco 

  • Thursday, February 27, 7 pm, Lenfest Center for the Arts Flexible Performance Space
  • This performance art piece by Karen Finley is a mix of performance and visual art inspired by and created during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finley processes the pandemic through her performance, exploring our “collective coping strategies” and our “absurd new habits.”

Bundle Dyeing with Natural Materials Workshop

  • Friday, February 28, 2 to 4 pm, Milstein 104
  • Learn how to dye bandanas using plant materials. This workshop will teach you to use the steam-transfer method of bundle dyeing to create dye patterns on bandanas using natural materials.

Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio – Jazz 

  • Saturday, March 1, 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre
  • Miller Theatre welcomes jazz alto-saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa with his collaborators, bassist François Moutin and drummer Timothy Angulo, for a night of music spanning genres and eras. Tickets are required.

MaMa Project 2025: Mythics

  • Friday, February 28, 7 pm, and Saturday, March 1, 2, and 7 pm, Glicker-Milstein Theatre
  • The MaMa Project is a satellite project of Orchesis that is a two-semester choreographic project resulting in an evening-length dance work. This year’s choreographer/director is Grace Petrusek (BC ’25), whose project focuses on “Greek mythology,… ethereal bodies, and human nature.”

Performance via Bwarchives.