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.

Film Screenings:

• The Mauvais Genres: French Cinema Takes on Gender Film Festival will continue this week in the Cowin Auditorium at Teacher’s College with Denis Parrot’s Out on October 12 from 7 to 9:30 pm and Callisto McNulty’s Delphine & Carole on October 14 from 7 to 9:30 pm.
• On October 15 and 16 at 7 pm, The Met Museum will be hosting an outdoor screening in the West Facade of Central Park (near the Obelisk) of Central and Eastern European Films in celebration of the new “Surrealism Beyond Borders” Exhibit.

Performances:

• On October 12 at 7 pm in the Miller Theatre, Columbia School of the Arts will be hosting pianist Simone Dinnerstein as she performs a new piece by Richard Danielpour filmed in Butler Library.
• The International Play Reading Festival will continue virtually on October 13 at 6:30 pm with Nick Makoha’s The Dark, in which “in the heat of a November night in 1978, after eight years of civil war, four-year-old Nick and his mother flee their homeland of Uganda…as told through a series of voices.”

Discussions and Workshops:

• As a part of Barnard’s Milstein Center MeMoSa series, there will be a poetry open-mic night on October 14 at 5:30 pm in the Movement Lab. Come share and workshop your piece with former NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ramya Ramana or join as an audience member!
• In honor of Relationship Violence Awareness Month, Columbia’s Sexual Violence Response will be hosting “Hope, Heal, Inspire,” an online trauma-informed poetry workshop, on October 13 from 6 to 7 pm led by Dr. Jaunita Kirton.
• On October 14 at 6:30 pm Columbia’s School of the Arts and the Graduate School of Architecture will be virtually hosting the Zip Code Memory Project in their public launch, “Practices of Justice and Repair.” This roundtable discussion seeks to answer the questions “How can the devastating but radically disproportionate losses caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic be memorialized?” and “What aesthetic memorial forms and strategies of engagement best foster the work of Repair?”

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