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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- Wednesday, October 8, 6 to 8 pm, Revson Plaza (Law Bridge)
- The Graduate Initiative and the International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) will collaborate to bring Sunset Salsa (which typically happens at Hudson River Park) to Columbia. Instructor Talia Castro-Pozo will teach a beginner salsa lesson and then host an open dance floor with a DJ. This event is open to anyone of any dance ability! Registration is required but is free.
Art + Life: Jennifer Hope Choi
- Wednesday, October 8, 7 to 9 pm, 511 Dodge Hall
- Columbia’s Art + Life series, organized by the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program, brings poets and writers to campus to discuss their work with students and faculty. This evening will feature author Jennifer Hope Choi, an award-winning writer and editor whose debut novel, The Wanderer’s Curse, was recently published. She will be in conversation with Professor Jaquira Díaz.
Censored Film Series: Octobre à Paris
- Thursday, October 9, 6:30 pm, East Gallery, Maison Française (Buell Hall)
- The Maison Française continues their Censored Film Series, 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 is Jacques Panijel’s 1962 Octobre à Paris (October in Paris). The film is in French with English subtitles, and there will be a post-screening discussion.
Helmut Lachenmann – Composer Portraits
- Thursday, October 9, 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre
- Miller Theatre’s latest Composer Portrait will feature Helmut Lachenmann, a German contemporary classical music composer. In honor of his 90th birthday, the JACK Quartet will perform Lachenmann’s complete string quartets.
- Friday, October 10, 9:30 to 11 am, 513 Fayerweather Hall
- Bertha Estrada Huipe, a dyer and weaver from Mexico, and her son Mateo, recently completed a residency at Columbia in the Making and Knowing Project’s laboratory seminar class, sharing techniques for dyeing and weaving and its embedded knowledge forms. At this showcase, they will give an introduction to the Purépecha dyeing and weaving traditions and their students will share their results. Audience members will also have the opportunity to try weaving on a backstrap loom.
- Registration is required here.
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