“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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An Ode to Zora: Cut & Conjure Session (Collage) 

• Tuesday, March 11, 6 to 8 pm, Milstein Center 225 
• This event is part of B.O.S.S. and Barnard Library’s collaborative installation, discussion, and workshop series honoring Zora Neale Hurston (BC 1928). This community collage session will be led by artist and scholar OlaRonke Akinmowo, inviting participants to make collages exploring and responding to the themes in Hurston’s memoir, Dust Tracks On a Road. 

Art and Heart: The World of Isaiah Sheffer 

• Wednesday, March 12, 12 to 2 pm, Jerome Greene Annex
• This is a film screening celebrating Isaiah Sheffer’s life and work, followed by a discussion with his wife, Ethel Sheffer. Sheffer’s work placed him in many different roles within the arts, including writing and producing for TV, acting and directing, hosting Selected Shorts on public radio, acting as the artistic director of Symphony Space, and teaching at Columbia. 

The Bel Canto Piano, with Marc Peloquin 

• Thursday, March 13, 7 to 8:30 pm, Italian Academy Teatro
• Bel canto is an Italian phrase meaning “beautiful singing” that has become the name for a sustained, melodic style of music. This program features solo piano works in the bel canto style, including by Schubert, Mozart, and Bellini. Acclaimed pianist Mark Peloquin will play five works. 

Italian Academy via Bwarchives.