New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art and now with so much of it online for free, there’s never been a better time to experience it first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

Performances:

• Kicking off the Columbia School of the Arts annual International Play Reading Festival on October 6 at 6:30 pm is Ugandan playwright Asiimwe Deborah Kawe with her play Appointment with gOD that follows “a group of nervous visa applicants in an unnamed country..trading stories and tips on how to best present themselves before US consuls – the ‘gODs.'”
• On October 7 at 8 pm, the Lenfest Center for the Arts will be presenting The Trojan Women, a new chamber opera adaptation of Euriphides tragedy following the widowed women of Troy as they shelter in the aftermath of their defeat.

Exhibits and Discussions:

• The current Barnard Momvemnt Lab Artist-in-Residence, LaJuné McMillian will be presenting The Black Movement Library Portrait Series featuring 2D video representations of peoples’ movements. The installation will be open from October 4 to October 8 from 12 to 5 pm, Monday thru Friday.
• The Barnard College Library and Digital Humanities Center will be launching the English digital translation of Nos Cambió la Vida/Our Lives Transformed: Stories of Statelessness in Dominican Republic on October 8 at 3 pm.
• In remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Embassy of the Federal republic of Germany has partnered with Columbia to present The Way We Remember, an exhibit tribute looking into public monuments and “the power of art to represent the past.” The exhibit will be open with prior registration until November 13.

Music:

• The Chamber Music Society will be hosting composer and pianist Vijay Iyer and his inspiration, violinist Kristin Lee, to discuss their careers and perform an original piece by Iyer inspired by The Diamond Sutra. The performance will take place online on October 6 at 6:30 pm.
• On October 7 at 7 pm, the Museum of Jewish Heritage will be presenting a virtual livestream of Wallenberg: A Musical Tribute, a musical chronicling the life of Raoul Wallenberg.
• The Morgan Library & Museum Online will be streaming a concert featuring the works of Stravinsky, Wynton Marsalis, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich performed by members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the National Symphony Orchestra on October 8 at 8 pm.

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