Columbia’s student-run dance performance group, Orchesis, hosted their early 2000s-themed end-of-year performance, a culmination of all of the hard work the dancers and choreographers put into running this show. The group even included this strange device on their merchandise—it might be called a flip phone???—and called on the Juicy Couture gods to bless their show.

“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

On April 14th, Staff Writer Monisha Gunasekera attended a conversation hosted by Art + Life with Eileen Myles, poet, novelist, and art journalist.

 Two Bwog veterans took on this year’s Latenite coverage…. and loved it

This past weekend, the Columbia University Performing Arts League (CUPAL) presented The Simon Suites, an original contemporary-theatrical dance performance with music by Paul Simon.

“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

Student Artist in Residence Grace Li (BC ‘24) revealed their installation everything left unsaid this week, an immersive peek into their childhood as a first-generation Chinese American in New Hampshire. The installation centers themes of nostalgia, memory, and growing up. Staff Writer Catherine Sherman reviews.

On Thursday, March 30, Deputy Editor Sophie Conrad and Social Media Editor Talia Bloom attended Humble Boy in the Glicker-Milstein Theater, produced by the Columbia University Players.

On March 25, Former News Editor and Folk enthusiast Victoria Borlando attended Postcrypt’s first Folk Fest since 2017 at St. Paul’s Chapel. The festival was hosted as a fundraiser for WE ACT Harlem, an environmental justice non-profit based in New York.

“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

On March 29th, staff writers Tara Terranova and Alison Hog assisted a Columbia School of the Arts Creative Writing Lecture led by novelist and journalist Hari Kunzru on the delicate relationship between research and fiction writing.

Barnard’s Student Artist in Residence Nami Weatherby (BC ‘23) showcased her installation They Never Told Us These Things, an audio-visual historiography centering indigenous and colonized people affected by the United States’ nuclear weapons program, in the Movement Lab this week. Deputy Arts Editor Marino Bubba reviews.

On Friday, March 24th, I attended the 8:00 pm sold-out opening night showing of NOMADS’ newest musical, John & David.

Arts Editor Grace Novarr and Deputy Arts Editor Marino Bubba attended Memento Mori’s Crowd Work, a stand-up-comedy-show-within-a-play written, directed, and produced by Jane Walsh (CC ‘23) and Sophie Simons (BC ‘25), which ran in the Glicker-Milstein Theatre on March 7 and 8.

“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.