“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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Pop-Up Concerts: Ian Antonio, percussion, and Josh Modney, violin

• Tuesday, January 23, 6 pm, Miller Theatre
• Composer Linda Catlin Smith’s Dirt Road, an hour-long piece centers the unlikely combination of percussion and violin. At this free weeknight pop-up concert, listen to talented percussionist, Ian Antonio, and violin virtuoso, Josh Modney perform the piece, and imagine “the two instruments as two travelers, moving along a simple landscape, with all of its slight or grand changes”

Nonfiction Dialogues: Hua Hsu

• Wednesday, January 24, 7:30 pm to 9 pm, Dodge 501
• Staff writer for the New York Times, and Pulitzer Prize winning author Hua Hsu will have a conversation with Writing Program Professor Lis Harris.

Screening and Discussion: Histoires d’A

• Thursday, January 25, 6:30 to 9 pm, Buell Hall East Gallery
• Join the Maison Française in a viewing of Histoires d’A, Charles Belmont and Marielle Issatar’s 1973 landmark documentary about women struggling for abortion rights in France. The film will be in French with English Subtitles, and will be followed by a discussion with Axelle Ropert and Nicholas Elliott.

Films at the Forum: Ray

• Friday, January 26, 5:30 pm, The Forum
• The Forum’s newest public program will bring free movie screenings to the Forum monthly. Join moviegoers for January’s screening of Ray, the biographical musical drama about the life of legendary blues musician Ray Charles.

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