“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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A journey through film – Three short films, one filmmaker
- Wednesday, March 27, 7 to 8:30 pm, Barnard Hall
- Join Achiro P. Olwoch, Weiss International Fellow and Scholar At Risk at Barnard, for a screening of three of her short films, The Surrogate, In Plain Sight, and Breaking the Fourth Wall followed by a conversation and some refreshments.
Music Monday: The Harlem Chamber Players
- Monday, March 25, 6 pm, The Forum
- In honor of Women’s History Month, this month’s Music Monday will feature the Harlem Chamber Players performing a selection of woman-composed works.
Three Evenings with Alexander Zhurbin: Russian Musicals
- Monday, March 25, 6 pm, Harriman Institute Atrium
- Celebrated Russian composer Alexander Zhurbin will focus on a number of contemporary Russophone musicals such as Peter the Great, The Mousetrap, and Anna Karenina, concluding with an introduction of his latest production, Dibbuck, based on Yiddish folklore.
- Friday, March 29-30, 7 to 9 pm, the Movement Lab
- Student Artist-in-Residence Lily Selthofner presents Ultimate Catharsis 1, an experimental, interdisciplinary, multimedia performance art piece. The participating actors, musicians, and dancers will lead the audience through a reclamation of Justice and Truth.
- Thursday, March 28, 8 pm, Lenfest Center
- Columbia School of the Arts presents Far Away, a directing thesis by current student Sam Gibbs. Far Away is a thriller about the end of the world and the dark deeds that bring it about.
Midday Music at Maison Française
- Friday, March 29, 1 pm, Maison Française
- Join the Columbia University Music Performance Program for a concert featuring a selection of works by Beethoven, Grieg, Mozart, Handel, and Mendelssohn performed by MPP musicians.
- Friday, March 29, 7:30 pm, Glicker-Milstein Theater
- Choreographed by Annika Vorhees and Pimprenelle Behaeghel, the MaMa Project is an evening length dance show heavily inspired by bugs.
- Friday, March 29, 8 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium
- Kick off your Sunday shoes and go see Footloose this Friday, presented by the Columbia Musical Theater Society!
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