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.

Bwogger Sydney Contreras went to CU School of the Arts’ podcast launch this Friday evening. The podcast and festival schedule are both available for free online.

Staff Writer Julia Tolda attended “The Fifth Annual Alumni Poetry Reading”, the event’s first-ever online edition. She writes about the breathtaking experience below. (Content warnings: death, suicide.) 

New Staff Writer Anna Eggers attended a book talk by Nicole Fleetwood about her new book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration sponsored by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Updates from this weekend’s Kickoff, hosted by Columbia University Performing Arts League.

Arts Editor Maya Campbell and Deputy Arts Editor Adam Kluge virtually attended WKCR’s Charlie Parker Centennial Festival celebrating the life and work of the jazz icon.

Let’s be honest, all STEM stuff seems like magic to me.

As I headed to the kitchen to fix myself a drink, my mother eyed me with suspicion. “Where are you going?” she asked as I poured gin into my glass already half-filled with cool tonic water, lemon slices, and rosemary. “To Bacchanal!” I responded, my face shining with way too much highlighter for someone who […]

MFA Directing candidate Velani Dibba presents the latest Lenfest show.

Daily Editor Lillian Rountree attended the Friday morning performance of the Columbia MFA Acting Class of 2020’s rendition of Twelfth Night, co-produced with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and the Young Company, and relived the excellent experience of discovering Shakespeare for the first time among an audience of high schoolers.

Bwog Staffer Amrita Banerji attended The Athena Festival’s screening of Carmen y Lola at 9 pm on February 29th at the Lehman Auditorium, directed by Arantxa Echevarría and produced by Arantxa Echevarría and Pilar Sánchez Díaz. It stars Rosy Rodriguez as Carmen, and  Zaira Morales as Lola.

Sophocles’ tragic heroine becomes a modern-day teenager in director Sophie Deraspe’s Antigone (2019). Staff writer Julia Tolda attended the screening at the 2020 Athena Film Festival, below is her review. (Content warnings: police brutality, murder) 

As a part of the past weekend’s Athena Film Festival, Bwogger Solomia Dzhaman attended and was deeply moved by Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency.

Columbia School of the Arts’ Year of Water initiative continues with a symposium held by the Wallach Art Gallery on Saturday.