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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The Year Between: Screening & Talk-Back with Writer, Director, and Star Alex Heller
- Thursday, February 12, 5 to 7:30 pm, LeFrak Theatre (Barnard Hall).
- Join filmmaker Alex Heller for a screening of her movie The Year Between, which tells the story of college sophomore Clemence Miller, who after a “mental breakdown” returns home to the Illinois Suburbs, where she struggles with an unexpected bipolar diagnosis. A talk-back with Heller will follow. To participate, please RSVP at the link above or email lefrakcenter@barnard.edu.
Eastern European songs, with the Barnard Music Faculty
- Thursday, February 12, 6 pm, St. Paul’s Chapel.
- Starring the Barnard Music Faculty comes a rich performance of Eastern European music, which will feature the works of classic composers like Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff, as well as “traditional Bulgarian folk song and dance.”
Max Ritvo Poetry Series: Forrest Gander
- Thursday, February 12, 6:30 to 8 pm, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room (Lenfest Center of the Arts).
- Forrest Gander, who won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for his book Be With, will read from his work, and a conversation with Associate Professor in Writing Dorothea Lasky will follow. As a “writer, translator, and editor,” Gander has published numerous books and received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and more. His latest book, Mojave Ghost, captures an intimate, profound journey that processes “grief and loss” to travel “towards a renewal that never sidesteps the wholeness of experience.”
- Friday, February 13, 11 am to 3 pm, LL001 (Milstein Library, Lower Level).
- “Yarn artists” of all levels are welcome to join this knit-a-thon, where they will be knitting hats, scarves, and other cozy gifts for a “Valentine’s Day giveaway with community partners in Harlem.” All knitting supplies, as well as snacks, will be provided.
- Friday, February 13, 1 pm, Maison Française (Buell Hall).
- Come for an afternoon study break enriched by the works of “Dukov, Ernst, Franck, Paganini, and more,” all played by Columbia students. Put on by Columbia’s Music Performance Program, this event is free and open to the public.
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