0 Comments“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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How Proust and Hockney Can Lift Your Spirits
- Tuesday, September 16, 6 to 7 pm (doors open at 5:30 pm), Maison Française.
- In this event, French novelist and essayist Catherine Cusset will be in conversation with Elisabeth Ladenson. Cusset has recently written a novel on British painter David Hockney and an essay on French author Marcel Proust, and will discuss what she has learned through their work: “that art is a life saver, and that you should only write, or paint, what matters to you.” Ladenson is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia.
Censored Film Series: Le Rendez-vous des quais (Rendez-vous of the Docks)
- Thursday, September 18, 6:30 to 8:30 pm (doors open at 6 pm), Maison Française.
- The Maison Française is hosting a Censored Film Series this fall, featuring eight films that were censored when they were released because of their critiques of the social and political order at the time. Many have never been screened in the U.S. This week’s film, Paul Carpita’s 1955 Rendez-vous des quais (Rendez-vous of the Docks), presents a “joyous [portrayal] of communal cooperation and successful resistance to social ills.” The film is in French with English subtitles.
The Library is Open: The New Design Museum
- Friday, September 19, 1 to 2 pm, Avery Hall 400.
- The Library is Open is a lunchtime series at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) where authors of recently published works present their work to the Columbia community. This edition welcomes Beatrice Leanza with her book The New Design Museum. The book “examines the critical role of cultural institutions as engines for knowledge production, where a democratic politics of mutual care and shared purpose can be explored and exercised.”
- Friday, September 19, 6 to 8 pm, Teatro, Italian Academy
- The Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender (ISSG) will present their first Drag Ball this week, hosted by drag queen Junior Mintt with sounds by DJ Sp3cial K. Students are welcome to compete or cheer on the performers. Categories will be: Queer Trailblazer, Queer Liberation Faceoff (top Hero vs. top Villain), Heroes, Villains, Supernatural Body, Campus Crush, Best Dance Performance, Lip Sync Extravaganza, and Dorm Room Couture. RSVP here.
- Saturday, September 20, 10 am to 7 pm, Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall.
- The Fitch Colloquium is an annual day-long colloquium presented by GSAPP to engage in a conversation about preservation. This year’s colloquium is in collaboration with Provenance Projected, an international research collective. The colloquium is titled “Fragments of the Imagination: Provenance, Preservation, and the Afterlives of Architecture,” and it will examine the practice of working with architectural fragments.
- The final part of the colloquium will be a concert from 5 to 6 pm in St. Paul’s Chapel of sixteenth-century Iberian choral music as a way to examine the afterlives of medieval chant.
14th Annual Morningside Lights: TIMEFRAME 1965
- Saturday, September 20, 8 to 9 pm, Morningside Park (116th Street and Morningside Drive).
- Morningside Lights is an annual Morningside Heights tradition that is a procession of handmade lanterns that travel from Morningside Park to College Walk. It “[reminds] us how myriad ways of seeing can cohabit and enrich one singular space.” This year’s theme is TIMEFRAME 1965, celebrating the year 1965, when a wave of experimentation in art happened and the School of the Arts was founded. Viewers may join anywhere along the route.
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