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International Contemporary Ensemble
- Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 pm, St. Paul’s Chapel
- The International Contemporary Ensemble, “a multidisciplinary collective of musicians, digital media artists, producers, and educators,” will be performing pieces of original student work in partnership with the student club Columbia Composers, which showcases the work of doctoral composition students.
The Wolf Reading Series With Cornelius Eady
- Thursday, March 26, 7 pm, the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room (Lenfest Center for the Arts)
- Cornelius Eady is a poet, playwright, and retired Professor of English and the University of Tennessee. His poetry collection The Gathering of My Name was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and he has also won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He also wrote “Proof,” which was “a poem written for and read at the swearing in of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in January 2026.”
- Thursday, March 26, 9:30 pm, 54 Below (254 W 54th St. Cellar)
- 54 Below, a nonprofit cabaret venue, will host a series of performances from First Stages, which is a Columbia theater group that supports original student work. Spotlighted shows will include Inner Styles: A New Musical, Alive: the Mary Shelley Musical, and The Deerboro Ripper. This performance is directed by Kiana Mottahedan, with music direction by Dallin Attwooll.
Columbia University Players: The Moors
- Friday, March 27, 7 pm, Saturday, March 28, 2 and 7 pm, Glicker-Milstein Theater (the Diana Center)
- Presented by student theater group CU Players, The Moors by Jen Silverman is a “delightfully dark comedy” about the passions kindled by the arrival of a “hapless governess” into the lives of two secluded, “spinster sisters.” Gothic romance and power plays ensue in this homage to the work of the Brontë sisters, simmering its characters in both desire and menace. “The moors are a savage place,” the tagline reads, and they are yours for the taking the weekend after spring break.
- March 28, 6 pm, Roone Auditorium (Lerner Hall)
- B-Heights, an annual South Asian dance celebration, is hosted annually by Columbia Bhangra, a student group celebrating the “vibrant Punjabi folk dance form.” Gathering vibrant collegiate teams from across the US for a night of energetic performances, B-Heights promises to uplift “culture, community, and the contagious spirit of Bhangra.”
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