“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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Mālama Hawaiʻi Lūʻau 2026: Nānā I Ke Kumu

  • Monday, April 6, 7-9 pm, Lerner Roone Auditorium
  • Mālama Hawaiʻi, a student group dedicated to sharing Polynesian culture, invites you to Columbia’s “largest showcase of Pacific Islander culture.” Dance showcases and dinner will be provided. This year’s theme of “Nānā I Ke Kumu,” which means “Look to the Source,” is meant to honor those invaluable teachers who helped us take care of our cultural roots.

Even When You Stand Still by Lynn Wilcox

  • Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11, 7:30 pm, the Movement Lab (Barnard College, Milstein Lower Level LL020)
  • Lynn Wilcox, a Student Artist in Residence at the Movement Lab, welcomes you to Even When You Stand Still, an interdisciplinary dance performance exploring the impossible yearning for home. When You Stand Still also investigates themes such as the excavation of items lost in “old homelands,” our preserved connection to the places that raised us, and how we strive to ground ourselves in “a shared truth.”

CU Payers Presents: Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

  • Friday, April 10, 8 pm, Saturday, April 11, 2 and 8 pm, Lerner Blackbox
  • Written by Alice Birch and directed by Arsh Vohra, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again premiered in 2014. The play is a “wildly experimental and inventive” cry that promises to defy the rules.

NOMADS Presents: Mountain Mountain Biking Biking

  • Friday, April 10, 8 pm, Saturday, April 11, 3 and 8 pm, Glicker-Milstein Theater (Diana LL200)
  • New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students (NOMADS), presents the new play Mountain Mountain Biking Biking, written by Clara Noggle and directed by Lucas Keeley. The play features Ivy and Becca, a couple who take the train upstate for a mountain bike ride. A journey of “moss, mycelium networks, and teal and purple band-aids” ensues.

John Jay Memorial Comedy Show

  • Friday, April 10, 8 pm, LeFrak Theater
  • Memento Mori, Columbia’s stand-up comedy group, presents the annual John Jay Memorial Comedy Show. A murderer’s row of campus comedy groups will perform, including Latenite Theatre, Chowdah Sketch Comedy, Third Wheel Improv, The Columbia Federalist, CU Sketch Show, and Fruit Paunch.

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