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MeMoSa: Enter The Mind Chamber by Annelise Eileraas in Collaboration with Siyan Liu
- Sunday, April 13, and Monday, April 14, 3 to 5:30 pm, Movement Lab (Milstein Library Lower Level)
- The Movement Lab kicks off their spring MeMoSas (Media Movement Salons) with Student Artist-in-Residence Annelise Eileraas’s (BC ‘25) The Mind Chamber. The work deals with dreamscapes, memory, imagination, and what it could look like to “enter your mind.”
MeMoSa: The Mourning Room by Cate Mok
- Thursday, April 17, 5:30 to 8 pm, Movement Lab (Milstein Library Lower Level)
- This MeMoSa features the work of Student Artist-in-Residence Cate Mok (BC ‘26), The Mourning Room. The Movement Lab notes that “this immersive experience seeks to embody and spatialize love and connection across distance, loss, and time—your love story as told through a hallucinated sunset and sunrise, programmed and designed using one’s own sensory memory and generative and haptic technologies.” There will be a research presentation and performance from 6 to 6:45 pm, an audience demonstration from 6:45 to 7 pm, and finally an open installation from 7 to 7:30 pm.
Onyx Spring 2025 Showcase: Onyxtasy
- Friday, April 18, 7:30 pm, Roone Auditorium
- Onyx, one of Columbia’s hip-hop groups, will present their spring 2025 showcase of student choreography and dancing, Onyxtasy. The night will also feature guest performances from Raw Elementz, Ijoya, and Sabor, other Columbia dance groups.
- Friday, April 18, 7 pm, and Saturday, April 19, 2 and 7 pm, Glicker-Milstein Theater
- Nomads, Columbia’s student theater group dedicated to producing original student theater works, will present One-Armed Bandit, an original musical written and composed by Jack Rado (CC ‘27). The musical is “about love, history, escape, space, the Wild West, and betrayal.”
- Saturday, April 19, time and location TBA (follow their Instagram for updates!)
- Columbia Musical Theater Society will host their annual showcase featuring student performances of musical theater! This production casts all who audition and is a celebration of Columbia’s talented musical theater performers.
Studio 292 Film Festival: Low Light
- Saturday, April 19, 3 to 6 pm, and Sunday, April 20, 5:30 pm to 9 pm, location TBA (follow their Instagram for updates!)
- CU Studio 292, Columbia’s student-run film production house, will present their annual undergraduate film festival, Low Light. The weekend will feature film screenings, panel discussions, a dinner, and a closing awards ceremony.
MeMoSa: Watermelon Boy by Ghina Fawaz
- Saturday, April 19, 7 pm, and Sunday, April 20, at 4 and 7 pm, Movement Lab (Milstein Library Lower Level)
- Student Artist-in-Residence Ghina Fawaz (MFA Directing) presents her MeMoSa, Watermelon Boy, “a hybrid of fantastical storytelling and documentary theatre… [that] tells the story of a boy living under occupation who transforms into a watermelon after consuming the seed of the forbidden fruit.” This is a devised work that integrates the three performers’ backgrounds, all “shaped by histories of colonization and ongoing struggles against systemic oppression.”
Movement Lab via Bwarchives.
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