WATERLICHT, a site-specific, large-scale light installation, by Daan Roosegaarde, presented at the Lenfest Center for the Arts on the evenings of October 22, 23, and 24, 2019
© Joel Jares
Past Events
Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997) and Post-Screening Conversation. Due to the passing of Chilean exile director Patricio Guzmán Tuesday, September 15, in Paris, Columbia University will be honoring the monumental legacy of one of the world’s foremost documentary filmmakers.
Acclaimed Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams '03 presents his work that celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. Response by David Antonio Cruz, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts. Introduced by Kellie Jones, Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Art History and Archaeology.
For over 500 years, Venezuela's Araya peninsula has been mined for its salt by hand. Benacerraf's poetic documentary captures three families of salineros across the arid marshes. Shot in black and white, Araya captures a labor and trade preserved since salt was traded like gold, continuing as an embattled way of life on the peninsula. Lenfest is excited to share this film in 35mm.
Carlos Barragán '24 discusses his astonishing work of immersion journalism about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and the moral dilemmas they face, with Wendy S. Walters, Associate Professor, Writing.
When teenager Marty McFly is accidentally blasted back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean, he finds himself tangled in his own parents' high school love story—and if he can't get them back together, he'll erase his own existence. With the help of Doc Brown, Marty races against time to fix the past and find his way home.
Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 discusses her creative process, Kpoto Patchwork, and her stunning exhibition We be the luminous blues… with Professors of English and Comparative Literature, Farah Jasmine Griffin and Shana L. Redmond.
School of the Arts Film and Media Studies and the Maison Française present a screening of Lumière Co. film footage - 1895–1905 as part of Cinema Across Continents: Rediscovering the Lumière Brothers Film Footage.
When two teenage girls defy expectations to pursue their dreams of playing professional soccer, they hatch increasingly elaborate schemes to keep their matches a secret from their families. In this British cult classic starring Parminder Nagra and Kiera Knightley, a shared love for the game inspires friendship, independence, and self-belief–proving that determination and a little creativity can make even the biggest dreams possible.
When all canines are banished to Trash Island, Atari sets out on a daring journey to find his lost dog, Spots. In this star-studded stop-motion animation adventure, a courageous pack of dogs proves that loyalty, courage, and teamwork can overcome even the most outrageous challenges.
The 38th annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF) is a showcase of thesis-level work from students and recent alums of the School of the Arts MFA Film Program.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Mo Holmes, featured in the 2026 New Plays Festival.
This stunning animated film follows a lone cat navigating a flooded world, forming unexpected bonds with dogs, birds, lemurs, capybaras, and more as they struggle to survive their new world.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Silma Sierra Berrada, featured in the 2026 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Flavie Philipon, featured in the 2026 New Plays Festival.
Based on the novel by James Jones, Some Came Running is a sweeping, emotionally charged drama about a troubled WWII veteran returning home to confront family wounds, love, and his own restless soul.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Zoe Stanton-Savitz, featured in the 2026 New Plays Festival.
This is part of the two day event “Foundations of Mexican Independent Cinema.” Learn more.
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2026 Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Tim Lucey, featured in the 2026 New Plays Festival.
Join us for a screening and discussion of Daughter of the Light (2024), a deeply moving feature documentary by Tibetan filmmaker Khashem Gyal.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Edison Hong, featured in the 2026 New Plays Festival.
Assistant Professor of Writing Jaquira Díaz discusses This is the Only Kingdom, her “powerful love letter to mothers, daughters, and the barrios that make them” with Edwidge Danticat, African American and African Diaspora Studies. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
A newcomer to a London alley is swept into a mysterious feline celebration, the Jellical Ball, in this live action adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway classic. This playful, high-energy spectacle is full of song, dance, and larger-than-life feline personalities, featuring an all-star cast including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Idris Elba and Taylor Swift.
The Swimmer is a haunting, surreal journey through suburban America, starring Burt Lancaster as a man determined to swim his way home through a chain of backyard pools. As his odyssey unfolds, sunlit affluence exposes the fractures beneath a carefully constructed life. Adapted from John Cheever’s celebrated short story, this 1968 classic is a bold, unsettling meditation on identity, denial, and the cost of illusion.
Join us for an evening with Olga Ravn as part of Columbia’s Art + Life series, a programme of intimate conversations with poets and writers organized by Columbia’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Program for majors and aficionados.
How does one study memory? How do we use it to reconstruct the past in stories, memoir, and dramatic work? Playwright and Alan Kanzer Writer-in-Residence Sarah Ruhl in dialogue with Daphna Shohamy, Neuroscience, and Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker. Introduced by Brian Kulick, Chair of the MFA Theatre Program.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Into the Woods, a directing thesis production by student Brennan Urbi.
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the Class of 2027 First Year MFA Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Teenage Haru dives to save a stray cat on a busy road, and is surprised to learn that she rescued the Cat Prince. She is showered with rewards, and unexpectedly spirited away to the magical Cat Kingdom. Can Haru summon her courage and rely on her new cat friends to find her way back home?
Story I/O, or “Input/Output,” is an interactive one-day exploration of new forms and functions of storytelling, led by Lance Weiler, Film and Theatre, and co-presented by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Narrative Intelligence Lab.
This all-day conference is part of “MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context.” See the rest of the events in the series.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Is God Is, a directing thesis production by current student Brittany Vi-King and written by Aleshea Harris.
“Inspired by the harrowing true story, Lucy Liu transforms in a riveting, career-redefining performance as an ailing woman who takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son.” Screening followed by a conversation between Screenwriter Marilyn Fu '03, Director Eric Lin, and Producer Mynette Louie, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice of Film. Moderated by Qin Gao, Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative.
Originally advertised as “The Greatest Airplane Mystery Thriller Ever Produced,” The Flying Ace is a testament to the enduring cultural significance of silent-era race films. The film will be presented with live accompaniment by internationally-acclaimed DJ Parlé, whose eclectic music style will span the century since the film’s release, bringing The Flying Ace into the here and now.
Laurie Anderson '72 (BC '69) and Ocean Vuong in conversation. Moderated by Dominique Townsend, Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies, Department of Religion. Introduced by Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker.
In the wintery town of Smeerensburg, a young postman named Jesper discovers a talented but grumpy toymaker. Can Jesper convince the reclusive Klaus to bring his magical toys to the feuding village before it’s too late?
Columbia University School of Arts MFA Acting Cohort of 2026 presents Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, a Shakespearean tragedy turned upside down, inside out, and shaken vigorously. Directed by Devin E. Haqq.
This event honors the founder of the School of the Arts Film Division on the occasion of the School’s 60th Anniversary.
The only member of the Madrigal family without magical powers, Mirabel must discover the reason that the family’s magic is fading and their casita is crumbling. Can she save the encanto that protects her home and family by helping them to love one another as they are?
Twenty-four year old Syd (Radha Mitchell) is working her way up the editorial ladder at a New York art magazine. When she befriends her neighbor, the famous photographer Lucy Berliner (Ally Sheedy), Syd is drawn into the risky professional and romantic world of high art.
Columbia University School of Arts MFA Acting Cohort of 2026 presents Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fairview, directed by Jasminn Johnson.
Writing Professor Gary Shteyngart reads from and discusses his latest book, Vera or Faith: A Novel.
Hsiao Chu-chen’s A Chip Odyssey is an epic documentary tracing Taiwan’s transformation into a global semiconductor leader—a journey that began half a century ago with bold bets and quiet builders who shaped the future. A panel discussion will precede the screening.
Ferris Reel Film Society and the School of the Arts invite you to a Halloween double bill on Thursday, October 30, 2025 at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Free and open to all with a valid CUID.
Francis Ford Coppola’s star-studded adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age novel. The privileged Socs and the streetwise Greasers are crosstown rivals and antagonists, whose ongoing conflict erupts and changes the lives of everyone, on both sides of the tracks.
Years after his adventures in Neverland, the whimsical Peter Pan has forgotten the magic of childhood and grown up into a grouchy, middle-aged lawyer named Peter Banning. But when his old rival Captain Hook kidnaps Peter’s young children, he must journey back to Neverland and rediscover his childhood wonder to save them.
As the youngest son of the Rana family, Haider feels the traditional pressure to fulfill his elderly father’s wishes for him to find a job and provide a grandson. But when Haider starts working as a backup dancer at an erotic theater in Lahore, his new life and love threaten to tear his family apart.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents The Skriker, a directing thesis production by current student Delia Dumont and written by Caryl Churchill.
Celine Song '14, the celebrated Writer and Director of films such as Materialists and Past Lives, returns to the School of the Arts for a conversation about her creative practice with her teacher Anne Bogart, Theatre. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Please join us for an evening with short films made by kids from the past and the present in celebration of Children Reinventing Cinema, new book by Adjunct Professor Wanda Strauven and Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). Introduced by Professor Rob King.
Join us for a special double feature screening of films by Theatre alum Celine Song '14, including Past Lives and Materialists.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Measure for Measure, a directing thesis production by current student Dennis Oliveira.
Elsa has hidden her magic from the world, and her sister Anna, since she was a child. When she is made Queen of Arendelle, and her icy powers are released, Anna must make a perilous journey to find Elsa and save their kingdom from being frozen forever.
When new FBI recruit (Keanu Reeves) goes undercover to investigate a series of dramatic bank robberies, he is drawn in by the gang’s enigmatic leader, a surfer named Bodhi (Patrick Swayze).
Join us for an evening with Katie Kitamura as part of Columbia’s Art + Life series, a programme of intimate conversations with poets and writers organized by Columbia’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Program for majors and aficionados.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, a directing thesis production directed by current student Talia Feldberg and written by Caryl Churchill.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents (un)belonging*, a powerful new documentary theatre project that archives the voices of New York City’s Community Land Trust members.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II (Excerpts) by illustrious alum Joan Jonas '65 as a highlight of its yearlong 60th anniversary celebration.
The 37th annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF) is a showcase of thesis-level work from students and recent alumni of the School of the Arts MFA Film Program.
Chaplin's first full-length feature is a masterpiece about a tramp who takes-in an orphaned child. Chaplin directed, produced and starred in this film, and also composed the score. Ben Model returns to perform live musical accompaniment for this silent comedy classic.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Andrew Reid, featured in the 2025 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Dacyl Acevedo, featured in the 2025 New Plays Festival.
The 37th annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF) is a showcase of thesis-level work from students and recent alumni of the School of the Arts MFA Film Program.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Leah Plante-Wiener, featured in the 2025 New Plays Festival.
Live-action and stop-motion animation tell the story of Marcel (Jenny Slate), a one-inch-tall shell who is discovered by a documentary filmmaker amid the clutter of an Airbnb. A survivor of a mysterious tragedy, Marcel sees a chance to find his long-lost family with the help of his new human friend.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Amalia Rojas, featured in the 2025 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Jonathan Barbee, featured in the 2025 New Plays Festival.
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2025 Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Srujanee Mishra, featured in the 2025 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student D-Davis, featured in the 2025 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Drew Mindel, featured in the 2025 New Plays Festival.
Fantastic Voyage follows a team of medical scientists who are reduced to the size of microbes and injected into the bloodstream of a patient whom they must save before the miniaturization wears off.
Osmosis Jones blends live action and animation to tell a story about an unhealthy zookeeper, Frank (Bill Murray), and a white blood cell, Osmosis “Ozzy” Jones (Chris Rock), who helps battle the consequences of Frank’s not-so-hygenic habits.
Lenfest: Film, Faculty Spotlight presents a screening of Marathon Man, with introduction by Professor Rob King, Film & Media Studies.
Hundreds of royal artifacts were looted from the African kingdom of Dahomey by French colonial troops during the invasion of 1892. This powerful documentary by Mati Diop follows twenty-six of these objects as they are repatriated from Paris to their homeland — now located within the Republic of Benin.
Every Work Has Several Faces: A Conversation with Yoko Tawada about Writing and Translation, Co-Moderated by Writing Professor Rivka Galchen ‘06 and Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Director, Susan Bernofsky.
Arrietty is a tiny teenager, living with her family in the walls and floors of a country house. As she ventures forth for sugarcubes and other supplies, she befriends a human boy, but will this friendship risk her family’s safety? From Japan’s famed Studio Ghibli, The Secret World of Arrietty invites us into a miniature world that might be hiding within our very homes.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents The Visit, a directing thesis production by current student Marina Montesanti.
Photographer Diana Matar traversed the United States for ten years, documenting locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers, to ask: “What does it mean to live in a land where the people responsible for protecting its citizens can so often be involved in their deaths?” Introduced by Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker. Responses by Lisa Sutcliffe, Curator in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Kendall Thomas, Columbia Law School.
A special event celebrating Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?, the latest book by renowned scholar Hamid Dabashi, exploring the legacy of one of cinema’s greatest visionaries.
In the context of the exhibition Cities and Eyes, on view at Fridman Gallery until March 30th, Anouk Focquier in collaboration with Columbia University organizes a panel discussion on the theme of artistic generosity—the act of being generous in a highly competitive artistic landscape.
Columbia University Film and Media Studies Memorial to Fredric Jameson honors his work on the science fiction genre in film and literature. Screening one of his favorite films returns us to his lesson: how to read the politics of our historical moment in the products of mass culture.
One-Night Only Performance!
Celebrated visual and performance artist Karen Finley looks back at New York City upended by the COVID-19 pandemic in a moving, one-night only performance that “pierces the heart” with “rawness that feels like a jolt,” according to the New York Times. Performed to mark the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic and the launch of Finley’s titular new book of poetry.
In New Orleans, hard-working and independent Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) dreams of opening a restaurant. When an evil witch doctor casts a spell on a visiting prince, turning him into a frog, Tiana, mistaken for a princess, is also transformed. The two journey through the bayou searching for someone with the magic to change them back. One of Disney’s last hand-drawn animated feature films, The Princess and the Frog is an American fairy tale adventure.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Sweeney Todd, a directing thesis production by current student Miles Sternfeld.
Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker discusses her new memoir about the complexity of a father/daughter relationship that will “resonate with anyone whose family has come undone when a member refuses to adhere to conventional expectations, whether around gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, politics, or culture” with Gideon Lester, Artistic Director of the Fisher Center at Bard College.
Zoom-In is a dynamic thesis showcase presented by the MA Film and Media Studies Class of 2025. The eighth annual conference will be held at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. This year’s program features a rich lineup of individual presentations, a special keynote speaker, interactive Q&As, and special film screenings.
Seaman Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked on the shores of Lilliput, a kingdom of tiny people, whom he supports when their neighbors in Blefuscu declare war. The second-ever full-length American animated feature, following Disney’s Snow White, Gulliver’s Travels is a beautiful hand-drawn allegory of small societies in a big war.
Columbia University School of Arts MFA Acting Cohort of 2025 presents Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play directed by Rory McGregor.
A screening of Searching for Mr. Rugoff, followed by a discussion with the film's Producer, Director and Columbia Professor Emeritus Ira Deutchman. Moderated by Griffin Dunne.
A girl no bigger than a thumb yearns for someone small, like her, to love. Against her mother’s wishes, she ventures outdoors, and falls in love with a fairy prince. But when she is kidnapped, Thumbelina encounters all kinds of colorful small characters, some who want to possess her, and some who want to help her find her way home.
“Leo, a trans man, and his cisgender and straight friend Eleanor go on a weekend trip, during which they uncover some old secrets, new challenges, and find the answer to the age-old question: can good friends and bad sex mix?” Screening followed by a conversation between Writer, Director, and School of the Arts alum Noah Schamus ’21 and Ron Gregg, Film and Media Studies, positioning Summer Solstice within the history of queer cinema.
Join us in celebrating the life and legacy of Antonio Skármeta (1940-2024), an acclaimed Chilean writer, director, scriptwriter, diplomat and Columbia University alumnus, who passed away in October.
Join us on “The Plaza” for Columbia University’s annual Manhattanville winter tree lighting ceremony. Enjoy refreshments and live music with your neighbors before we begin the lights countdown promptly at 5:45 PM.
Columbia University School of Arts MFA Acting Cohort of 2025 presents George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum directed by Nigel Semaj.
Celebrated visual artist Shahzia Sikander — Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute and Mentor in the MFA Visual Arts Program — discusses work including Witness, which was recently vandalized. “I have chosen not to repair it. I want to leave it beheaded, for all to see. The work is now a witness to the fissures in our country.” Response by Betti-Sue Hertz, Director and Chief Curator, Wallach Art Gallery.
Playwright and faculty member David Henry Hwang and director Leigh Silverman discuss Yellow Face, Hwang’s acclaimed and “laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.” Moderated by playwright and director James Ijames.
While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a strange fog. At first, nothing happens; but soon he realizes that he is beginning to shrink, little by little, all the way down to the size of an insect.
While living with his cruel aunts, young orphan James is mysteriously given a bag of magical crystals. When he accidentally spills them in the garden, small things begin to grow to enormous proportions.
The Lenfest Center for the Arts is thrilled to partner with our Manhattanville neighbors to present Fall Fun Day! Join us for activities on The Plaza and surrounding buildings on the Manhattanville campus.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents The Threepenny Opera, a directing thesis production by current student Benjamin Viertel.
Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker leads a conversation with writer Jennifer Homans — author of “Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet” and the monumental recent biography of George Balanchine, “Mr. B” — and Zuckerman Institute neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert whose research focuses on experimental approaches to human movement.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Sally, a directing thesis production by current student Calvin Atkinson.
Following his success making things shrink, scientist Wayne Szalinski has invented a machine that makes things grow. But challenges arise when his two-year-old is exposed to the ray, causing him to gradually grow — to over 100 feet tall!
What does it mean to be a “diva”? Writing professors Deborah Paredez and Margo Jefferson discuss Paredez’s “powerful blend of incisive criticism and electric memoir” that touches on the work of Celia Cruz, Venus and Serena Williams, Divine, Aretha Franklin, and other icons. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.
A roundtable discussion with Tibetan filmmakers Tenzin Sedon, Jigme Trinley, and Tenzin Dazel.
A screening of Royal Cafe as a part of LEGACIES: Pema Tseden & New Tibetan Cinema Series Finale—Films by the Next Generation.
A screening of One and Four as a part of LEGACIES: Pema Tseden & New Tibetan Cinema Series Finale—Films by the Next Generation.
A screening of A Road of Prayer as a part of LEGACIES: Pema Tseden & New Tibetan Cinema Series Finale—Films by the Next Generation.
Screenings for day two of the Cine-Memoria: Past and Present in Latin American Cinemas Conference.
US Premiere followed by a Q&A with Director Abdenour Zahzah, Madeleine Dobie, and Camille Robcis.
Free screenings of A Hard Day’s Night and Yesterday as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. Explore the music of The Beatles with these two films on Manhattanville Community Day.
Join us on the Manhattanville campus on June 8, 2024, for a free fun-filled celebration of community! Immerse yourself in the arts through youth programming, indulge in Uptown cuisine with local vendors, have fun with science activities—plus so much more.
The Lenfest Center for the Arts is delighted to host an exhibit featuring Renzo Piano Building Workshop, developer of the Manhattanville Master Plan and designer of the Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Forum, and the Jerome L. Greene Science Center.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Stephen Bush, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Aditya Lal Chadha, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
The 36th annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF) is a showcase of thesis-level work from students and recent alumni of the School of the Arts MFA Film Program. CUFF will offer its New York screenings May 9–13, 2024.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Mijuan Ye, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Darius Buckley, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Lillian Mottern, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
Free screening of 1926’s For Heaven’s Sake as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. One of the great silent comedies, a wealthy playboy unintentionally funds a mission and falls for the preacher's daughter.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Antonia Cruz-Kent, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Oded Gross, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Fernado Segall, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Megan Rivkin, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Emily Elyse Everett, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
How can crisis make us more attuned to the world in all its texture and strangeness? How can illness, silence, heartbreak, and hunger summon sharpened forms of attention and wanting? Featuring new books by Eliza Barry Callahan '22, Emmeline Clein '22, and Leslie Jamison, Writing. Moderated by Chloé Cooper Jones, Writing.
Screening of the acclaimed documentary — featuring more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Far Away, a directing thesis production by current student Sam Gibbs.
Free screening of Coco as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. This Oscar award-winning animated film follows Miguel, a young boy with a deep passion for music in a family that has banned it for generations. Shown in Spanish with English subtitles.
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the Class of 2025’s First Year Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Artist and preservation architect Jorge Otero-Pailos, GSAPP, presents his series of sculptures made from a fence that once surrounded the former U.S. Embassy in Oslo — a Saarinen-designed landmark — and that will be installed alongside other mid-century icons on Manhattan’s Park Avenue this spring. Response by Matthew Buckingham, Visual Arts.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Meg, a directing thesis production by current student Catalina Beltrán.
Writer Bushra Rehman in conversation with Adjunct Assistant Professor Quincy Scott Jones.
Celebrated writer Claudia Rankine '93 returns to Columbia University School of the Arts for the first of a new series of events, Speak Now, organized by Interim Dean and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Sarah Cole.
Free screening of The Wiz as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. This cult classic, based on the Broadway hit of the same name, is an urban Wizard of Oz set and filmed in New York City.
Screening on Ballon, followed by a conversation with Shamo Thar, UMass Amherst, and Lauran Hartley, Columbia University.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Phaedra’s Love, a directing thesis production by current student Danica Selem.
Columbia University School of Arts MFA Acting Cohort of 2024 presents Suzan-Lori Parks Fucking A, directed by Benton Greene.
December 14–17, 2023
Richard Peña will discuss his career as a film programmer and educator in conversation with MoMA curator Josh Siegel as a part of the Richard Peña Selects festival.
Screening of The Day I Became a Woman (Roozi ke zan shodam) as a part of the the Richard Peña Selects festival.
Screening of My Sex Life … or How I Got into an Argument (Comment je me suis disputé … ma vie sexuelle) as part of the Richard Peña Selects festival.
Screening of Law of Desire (La ley del deseo) as a part of the the Richard Peña Selects festival.
Free screening of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and Steven Spielberg’s The BFG as a part of the Fall 2023 Lenfest Kids series.
Columbia University School of Arts MFA Acting Cohort of 2024 presents Craig Lucas’ Small Tragedy, directed by Danny Sharron.
November 16–19, 2023
Celebrated visual artist María Magdelena Campos-Pons presents work on the occasion of her multimedia survey at the Brooklyn Museum. Introduced by artist and faculty member David Antonio Cruz.
Join us on “The Plaza” for Columbia University’s annual Manhattanville winter tree lighting ceremony.
Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Hernan Diaz in conversation with adjunct assistant professor Hilary Leichter '12.
A screening of Radical, a film written and directed by alum Christopher Zalla ’04 and produced by alum Ben Odell ’04, followed by a Q&A with Zalla and Odell.
Writing professors Dorothea Lasky and Victor LaValle discuss recent work — Lasky’s ekphrastic horror lyric, The Shining; and the Apple TV+ adaptation of The Changeling, LaValle’s death-defying odyssey through New York City — with Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies and English.
Free screening of Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas as a part of the Fall 2023 Lenfest Kids series.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, a directing thesis production by current student Miguel Bregante.
October 19–22, 2023
Artist and faculty member Adama Delphine Fawundu discusses her solo exhibition spanning video, sculpture, photography, and printmaking with art historian Kellie Jones. The exhibition is now at the Newark Museum of Art.
Screening of My Name Is Andrea — a provocative and experimental documentary about feminist icon Andrea Dworkin — followed by a conversation between Writer and Director Pratibha Parmar and filmmaker and faculty member Tom Kalin.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Andrew Bovell’s When The Rain Stops Falling, a directing thesis production by current student Ares Harper.
October 5–8, 2023
For over a decade, poet Don Mee Choi has been translating the poetry of Kim Hyesoon, one of the foremost poets of South Korea. The two will read from their works and speak about their writing and collaboration with LTAC Director Susan Bernofsky.
Writing professors Shane McCrae and Timothy Donnelly discuss McCrae’s new memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping.
Free screening of The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman and Zendaya as a part of the Fall 2023 Lenfest Kids series.
Visit the Wallach Art Gallery to view the third edition of the Uptown Triennial presents work by artists from Upper Manhattan and beyond that is representative of the history, culture, and contemporary issues of Harlem and spans the visual arts, media, and sound.
Join our friends at the Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, The Forum, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia’s Wellness and Employment Centers, and others for free and fun programming in Manhattanville. We’ll be showing The Phantom Tollbooth and The Karate Kid!
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Justin Halle, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Emma Schillage, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
The 35th annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF) is a showcase of thesis-level work from students and recent alumni of the School of the Arts MFA Film Program. CUFF will offer its New York screenings May 11–15, 2023. With 43 films this is our largest CUFF yet.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Sam Kressner, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Blake Bonilla, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
Acclaimed filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents a series of shorts made between 2005–2022, followed by a conversation with Richard Peña, Film and Media Studies. Introduced by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Film.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Goldie E. Patrick, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
In this classic comedy, three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at New York City university, where they studied the paranormal. They set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, and poltergeists for money.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Ellis Abigail Stump, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
April 23–May 21, 2023
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Curated by Jasmine Wahi.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Alle Mims, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Catt Filippov, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
A screening and performance of composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra’s ambitious Water Rhythms: Listening to Climate Change (2020).
Poet, novelist, and art journalist Eileen Myles in conversation with James Yeh '09. Myles's practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Luz Lorenzana Twigg, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student DeAndre Short, featured in the 2023 New Plays Festival.
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2024 First Year MFA Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Curated by Amy Sadao.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Botticelli in the Fire, a directing thesis production by current student Dmitri Barcomi.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Cuck, Cuck, Bull, a directing thesis production by current student Spencer Whale.
Zayd Ayers Dohrn ('06 GSAS), Jamal Joseph, and Carol Becker discuss the making of the podcast Mother Country Radicals, a “family history of the Weather Underground.”
Screening of Ride the Pink Horse as a part of the 2023 Kit Noir Film Festival. Introduced by James Schamus, Columbia University.
Screening of Gilda as a part of the 2023 Kit Noir Film Festival. Introduced by Ann Douglas, Columbia University.
Screening of Clash by Night as a part of the 2023 Kit Noir Film Festival. Introduced by Ron Gregg, Columbia University.
Crime novelists Megan Abbott and Sarah Weinman in conversation, followed by a screening of Strangers on a Train, introduced by Hilary Hallett, Columbia University, as a part of the 2023 Kit Noir Film Festival.
Screening of In a Lonely Place as a part of the 2023 Kit Noir Film Festival. Introduced by Dana Polan, New York University.
Screening of Bande à part as a part of the 2023 Kit Noir Film Festival. Introduced by Rob King, Columbia University.
Double Bill: “The Director” featuring The Bigamist and The Hitch-Hiker as a part of the 2023 Kit Noir Film Festival. Introduced by Julie Grossman, Le Moyne College.
Double Bill: “The Screenwriters” featuring The File on Thelma Jordon and Sudden Fear as a part of the 2023 Kit Noir Film Festival. Introductions by Soheil Rezayazdi, Gotham Film & Media Institute, and Hilary Hallett, Columbia University.
When her family moves to the suburbs, 10-year-old Chihiro wanders into a supernatural realm ruled by gods, witches, and spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, Chihiro must be brave as she works to reunite with her parents in the human world.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Asphyxia, a directing thesis production from current student Jorge Schultz.
After a wish turns a 12-year-old boy into a 30-year-old man, he heads to New York City and gets a low-level job at a toy company. But the pressures of living as an adult begin to overwhelm him, and he longs to return to his simple life as a boy.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents The Sea Does Not Reach Naples, a directing thesis production from current student Elena Vannoni.
Celebrated visual artist Tania Bruguera presents work in conjunction with the exhibition Sin Autorización: Contemporary Cuban Art at the Wallach Art Gallery.
Join Columbia University School of the Arts, Columbia Climate Imaginations Network, and NRDC’s Rewrite the Future for a panel discussion on climate storytelling in film and TV. Hear from Hollywood creators and climate experts, then join the conversation with an audience Q&A.
Renowned visual artist Duke Riley presents work on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents the MFA Acting class of 2023 in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven.
Double feature as part of Manhattanville Community Day, a day full of campus-wide activities. Feature films include Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Hidden Figures.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents the MFA Acting class of 2023 in ORLANDO.
Writing professors Susan Hartman and Lis Harris discuss Hartman’s portrayal of refugees in Utica, New York.
Screening of La Sirène des Tropiques/Siren of the Tropics and Fireman of the Folies-Bergère/Hallucinations of a Fireman, introduced by Terri Francis.
Acclaimed writer Marina Warner presents new research on the role of storytelling in “living through exile and dislocation, and surviving somewhere that is not home.”
Writing professors Margo Jefferson and Deborah Paradez discuss Jefferson’s new memoir, Constructing a Nervous System.
After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn poses as a substitute teacher at an elite elementary school. He introduces his students to the music he loves, and brings out their rock ‘n’ roll souls.
A biennial international conference sponsored by Women and Film History International (WFHI), that brings together researchers focused on women’s pivotal roles in the first decades of motion picture history.
Lenfest Kids is excited to return to in-person screenings for Manhattanville Community Day on May 21st! The theme for the day is “The Future in Mind,” featuring the films “WALL-E” and “E.T.”
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
An Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Antony and CleopatraAdapted by Liz Peterson and Alexis Williams
The second in a series of roundtables for the Zip Code Memory Project, featuring María José Contreras Lorenzini, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Kamau Ware.
2022 Kit Noir Film Festival presents ‘Sweet Smell of Success’ introduced by Jason Stevens
2022 Kit Noir Film Festival presents ‘Scandal Sheet’ introduced by Matthew Rivera '18 CC
2022 Kit Noir Film Festival presents ‘He Ran All the Way’ introduced by Stuart Wienstock
A period noir about a serial killer who practices eugenics by preying upon disabled women, Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase has been read as an anti-Nazi allegory.
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2023 First Year MFA Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present She Walks The Air IX by current student Chaesong Kim.
This talk will explore the historical circumstances in which Jewish artists decisively stamped classic Hollywood noir with their own thematic preoccupations and visual techniques.
This film will be available to stream for free over two days as a preview to the Third Annual Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Indian Summer by playwright Gregory S. Moss and directed by current student Jacob Sexton.
Director Eriberto Gualinga in conversation with Amalia Córdova, Mother Tongue Film Festival, Smithsonian. Introduced by Ron Gregg, MA in Film and Media Studies.
Playwright Lynn Nottage, Theatre, and composer and musician Ricky Ian Gordon, discuss their transformation of Nottage’s 2003 play Intimate Apparel into opera, as well as other recent collaborations. Introduced and moderated by Christian Parker '98, Theatre.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Der Ring Gott Farblonjet by playwright Charles Ludlam and directed by current student Phoebe Brooks.
Director Tom Kalin, Film Program, and Executive Producer Alex Stapleton, in conversation with George Chauncey, Department of History, and Kendall Thomas, Columbia Law School.
Jana Winderen and Tony Myatt discussed The Art of Listening: Under Water, Winderen's immersive, site-specific, 360° spatial audio installation on display in The Lenfest Center for the Arts.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present the MFA Acting Class of 2022 in their thesis production of DANCE NATION by playwright Clare Barron and directed by Colette Robert.
Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program is proud to present The Trojan Women, an adaptation of Euripides’ tragedy, directed by current student Rebecca Miller Kratzer.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present the MFA Acting Class of 2022 in their thesis production of MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW.
Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program is proud to present The Trojan Women, an adaptation of Euripides’ tragedy, directed by current student Rebecca Miller Kratzer.
Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program is proud to present MUD and SPRINGTIME by playwright María Irene Fornés, directed by student Colm Summers.
Playwrights Asiimwe Deborah Kawe (Uganda), Nick Makoha (England), and Dima Mikhayel Matta (Lebanon), in conversation with Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival Co-Founder David Henry Hwang, Theatre Program.
Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program is proud to present The Trojan Women, an adaptation of Euripides’ tragedy, directed by current student Rebecca Miller Kratzer.
In this roundtable, Michael Arad, Susan Meiselas, Doris Salcedo, Hank Willis Thomas, and Mabel O. Wilson each present one of their visionary memorial projects.
Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program is proud to present The Trojan Women, an adaptation of Euripides’ tragedy, directed by current student Rebecca Miller Kratzer.
Renowned visual artist Mark Dion presents recent work, including a forthcoming project on Governors Island.
Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program is proud to present MUD and SPRINGTIME by playwright María Irene Fornés, directed by student Colm Summers.
RenownFarah Jasmine Griffin, Daphne Brooks and Imani Owens discuss Griffin’s new book, which investigates the work of Toni Morrison, Malcolm X, Phillis Wheatley, Stevie Wonder, and many others.
A dance that considers the instability and malleability of water as a way of framing constant change.
"What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?" Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham, and Margo Jefferson ’71 (JRN) in conversation.
Faculty members Phillip Lopate and Brenda Wineapple discussed Lopate’s new anthologies, The Glorious American Essay: 100 Essays from the Colonial Times to the Present.
A Tzotzil filmmaker documents the unexpected encounter between a grandfather and his granddaughter.
Ramin Bahrani (CC '96) discusses his new film, The White Tiger, with Hamid Dabashi, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies.
Aliza Nisenbaum, Visual Arts, and Tom Kalin, Film, discuss the solo exhibition, Aliza Nisenbaum, on display at Tate Liverpool. Introduced by Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
The film Restless River follows Elsa, a young Inuk woman, as she navigates motherhood after being assaulted by a soldier in post-WWII Canada.
Artists Sam Van Aken and Jorge Otero-Pailos discuss experimental approaches to historic preservation.
This conversation explores the history, form, and process behind the creation of the powerful new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.
A panel that brings together some of the most widely acclaimed and adventurous Irish writers of the twenty-first century to discuss the way forward for Irish fiction in a time of migration, right-wing populism, and increasing demands for gender, racial, economic, and climate justice.
In this symposium, poets explored the symbol of water, and its many ramifications in their lives.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present the production of GASP!, by Anna Rebek '20.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Terrorism, by Velani Dibba '20.
Critics, philosophers and artists have long debated the relationship between ethics and art. This panel of black women artists and scholars explored the ways in which an "ethic of love" directs and influences art practice.
Eric Fan Feng, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Betti-Sue Hertz, Director and Chief Curator of the Wallach Art Gallery, discuss the far-reaching influence of the ancient concept of shan shui—“mountain water painting”—for ecologically sensitive contemporary Chinese artists.
Environmental lawyer Jim Olson, Founder and President of the Traverse City-based FLOW (For Love of Water), in conversation with medical anthropologist Nadia Gaber, a member of We The People of Detroit Community Research Collective, and an advocate for access to clean water as a human right.
Malcolm Hansen '14 and Professor Victor LaValle '98, both mixed race authors, tackled questions of authenticity and inclusion; self-policing in the black community and exceptionalism in the white community.
A screening of the film will be followed by a panel discussion reuniting much of the creative team, including writer-director Kimberly Peirce '96, co-writer Andy Bienen '96 and Associate Professor, Film, producers Christine Vachon and Eva Kolodner, actor Chloe Sevigny, cinematographer Jim Denault, editor Lee Percy, and casting director Kerry Barden.
Produced by the Vídeo nas Aldeias collective, Antonio and Piti explores the love between a Peruvian-born indigenous man and the daughter of Chico Coló, a white rubber tapper soldier.
Zoom-In is a screening series and thesis showcase presented by the MA Film and Media Studies class of 2020.
We had the third installment of the Woman in Language series. This year we explored the embattled relationship between women and wisdom.
Screening followed by a conversation between Writer-Director Kitty Green, Producers Scott Macaulay '84 CC and James Schamus, Film, and Denise Cruz, English and Comparative Literature.
A conversation about the relationship between mental illness, psychic suffering, addiction, and creativity, focused particularly on the poets Robert Lowell and John Berryman.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present the MFA Acting Class of 2020 in their thesis production of Where Do We Live that will premiere this fall at The Lenfest Center for the Arts at 615 W. 129th St.
Featuring original short play readings by Columbia playwrights Kanika Vaish '22, Greg Nanni '21 and Zizi Majid '20, and by international artists Caridad Svich and Peterson Toscano.
Screening of Atlantics (Atlantique) followed with responses by Mamadou Diouf, History and African Studies, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne, French and Philosophy.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present the MFA Acting Class of 2020 in their thesis production of ‘In the Blood.’
Reading followed by a conversation between Lis Harris, Writing, and Ted Conover, NYU. Introduced by Margo Jefferson, Writing.
Propelled by LED lights and lenses, WATERLICHT was installed in the Public Plaza of Columbia's Lenfest Center for the Arts on October 22, 23, and 24, 2019.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Jonathan Seinen’s production of ‘Cabaret.’
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Jen Pitt’s production of Big Love.
Screening of ‘Ushui’ followed by a conversation with Amalia Córdova, Smithsonian Institution, José Gregorio Mojica Gil, Researcher, and Rafael Mojica Gil, Photographer. Organized by Ron Gregg, Film and Media Studies, and Ana Ochoa, Music.
Pulitzer finalist (Yellowman) and Obie winner Dael Orlandersmith looks at how the boxes around gender, orientation, race, and ethnicity that were intended to foster inclusion, complicate theatre-making.
Paola Antonelli claims that “our only chance at survival is to design our own beautiful extinction.” She will present the potentials of restorative design in the Anthropocene and her curation of over 100 projects for the 22nd edition of the Milan Triennial.
A free screening of the documentary Land Hacks: Masculine Media Anxiety Disorder (or 55 Film Locations Near Bakersfield).
As part of the Digital Storytelling Lab’s ongoing Story I/O (“Input/Output”) initiative, an interactive one-day exploration of new forms and functions of storytelling. Led by Lance Weiler, Film and Theatre. Application at arts.columbia.edu.
Banville and Ford, authors of many novels (The Book of Evidence, Independence Day), winners of many prizes (Booker, Pulitzer, Princess of Asturias, Prix Femina) and decades-long friends, engage in (it's hoped) a spirited, un-theoretical back 'n forth about the supposed pleasures of the text.
Free screening of John Carpenter’s cult classic ‘They Live’ on Thursday, September 5th, starting at 7pm at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Playwrights Blanca Domenech (Spain), Pablo Manzi (Chile), Blandine Savetier (France), and Waddah Saab (France) in conversation with Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival Director David Henry Hwang, Theatre.
In this brief conversation, Taylor Gaines (translator of Snow by Blandine Savetier and Waddah Saab) and Caridad Svich (playwright and translator of many plays from Spanish) will speak about the challenges of bringing the Festival’s three plays into English.
In the near future, a group of facilitators in the surgical community build a presentation about how to break down the cultural and racial bias against Amenites—a newly-arrived alien species.
Blanca Domenech is an award-winning Spanish playwright. She is the recipient of the Calderón de la Barca National Award and the Spanish Playwrights Association Prize (AAT).
When Ka, a respected poet and journalist living in exile in Germany, returns to his homeland in Kars, Turkey to report on the increase in suicides among young Muslim women, he is swept into a cascade of conflict, corruption, and zealotry among competing factions of the region.
A thousand years ago, Madame Huarui was the Chinese version of Helen of Troy, with her life beyond her control. In 2019, Kiki, a New York-based stage manager, is hired to work on a new Beijing Opera featuring Madame Huarui, while her professional and personal life is deeply affected by her uncertain Visa status. Chinese Opera and A Modern Drama explores patriarchy in both historical times and nowadays, as well as new immigrants living under the current political climate between the US and China.
A man and a dancing bear roam a desolate Alaska. Three women spread across the country claim what's theirs. A young boy fights his unquenchable thirst. Traversing a landscape of unpredictable weather, crumbling infrastructure, and uncertain survival, The Historical Range of Ursus Americanus explores what remains after the climate has changed.
Ann Hamilton is internationally acclaimed for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Chorus, a marble mosaic of text from the Declaration of Independence and the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was recently installed in New York City’s Cortlandt Street subway station — destroyed on 9/11 and reopened in 2018.
Hadrian & Antinous unearths an ancient story, adds a modern voice and speaks to what it is to love, to mourn, and to remember those who have been forgotten.
The annual Max Ritvo Poetry Series is organized in memory of Max Ritvo ’16, author of Four Reincarnations and The Final Voicemails, and co-author of Letters from Max.
Columbia University School of the Arts was proud to present Mikhaela Mahony’s (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2019) production of As You Like It.
Richard Axel, Neuroscience, and Sarah Sze, Visual Arts / Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute, discussed the construction of reality in the first of a new series of conversations between artists and neuroscientists on the Manhattanville campus.
Screening followed by a conversation between Writer, Director, and Editor Shelly Silver, Visual Arts, and Kadambari Baxi, Barnard College.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Jeffrey Page’s '19 production of The Woman / The Man.
The Woman / The Man is a theatrical double feature comprised of two Obie-winning plays: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro and Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead.
What happens when we combine films we had never previously thought to combine? Is there something to be gained from unusual unions? Zoom-In is a screening series curated by Columbia University's Film and Media Studies MA class of 2019 that asks these very questions and more.
Told in present-day times with an international cast representing over nine countries, this highly physicalized staging of Euripides' Medea explores gender roles, citizenship, and justice in a divided world.
Kena helps her father John Mwaura run a small convenience store in Nairobi as he campaigns for a local election. Kena lives with her mother, who isn't really on speaking terms with John. Kena starts flirting with Ziki, a neighbourhood girl with colourful hair, who also happens to be the daughter of Peter Okemi, John's political rival. Kena and Ziki have a number of romantic dates, and quickly become very close, but there are tensions about displaying their affection in public because homosexuality is illegal in Kenya.
‘In the Red and Brown Water’ is Tarell Alvin McCraney’s highly-acclaimed modern retelling of Federico Garcia Lorca’s ‘Yerma,’ that places a woman between familial duty and unfulfilled dreams.
Considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents the MFA Acting class of 2019 in Middletown. Directed by Manoel Felciano.
The film The Price of Everything features a range of collectors, dealers, and artists, exploring the role of art in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society: Mary Boone, Gavin Brown, Connie Butler, Amy Cappellazzo, Jeffrey Deitch, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, Holly Peterson, Larry Poons, Simone de Pury, Gerhard Richter, Barbara Rose, Jerry Saltz, and many others.
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, the film What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
Gary Shteyngart, Writing, and Bruce Robbins, English and Comparative Literature discuss Shteyngart’s new novel, Lake Success.
What is vernacular photography? Generally defined as the most ordinary or utilitarian form of imagery, vernacular photography ranges from early ethnographic records to family photo albums to today’s social media. The aim of this symposium is to reconsider the uses and meanings of these frequently overlooked photographic practices, ones that often reinforce conventions of social identity but can also become crucial sites of creative resistance and transformation. Speakers from a wide range of academic disciplines will consider vernacular representations of everyday life, offering new ways to think about photography in relation to our political communities, cultural identities, social agency, and daily personal rituals.
Written by Gethsemane Herron-Coward & Katherine Wilkinson
Directed by Katherine Wilkinson
Director of the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre Arts in Los Angeles, Brent Blair presents a postcolonial guide for cultural fieldwork, based on the techniques and methodologies of Augusto Boal.
On the eve of the New York premiere of their opera Proving Up, composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek join writer Karen Russell ’06 for a conversation with Miller Theatre Executive Director Melissa Smey.
This discussion is part of NY Indie Guy: Ira Deutchman and the Rise of Independent Film.
A panel of film industry experts and historians will provide an overview of specialty and indie films from the 1960s-2000s, and contextualize how Ira Deutchman has made significant contributions to the marketing and distribution of these films.
International Playwrights Raeda Taha (Palestine), Rinat Tashimov (Russian), and N. Riantiarno (Indonesia) in conversation with Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival Director David Henry Hwang, Theatre.
In this brief conversation, Bela Shayevich (translator of Shaitan Lake by Rinat Tashimov), Cobina Gillitt (Indonesian theater translator and dramaturg), and Mais Taha (who oversees the translation of Raeda Taha’s plays) will speak about the challenges of bringing each of the Festival’s three plays into English.
By Rinat Tashimov (Russia)
Translated from Russian by Bela Shayevich
Directed by Brian Kulick, Theatre
By N. Riantiarno (Indonesia)
Translated from Indonesian by Barbara Hatley
Directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar
About how we prevail despite the language we grew up with, that surrounds us, that has been integrated into the conversations with our selves.
River Rouge tells the story of the year that followed in a dizzying collage-inspired style mixing vaudeville, docudrama, folk music, protest theatre, and magical realism. It asks a question as relevant today as it was in 1932: how can we use art to remake the world?
As a group of friends approach adulthood, three love stories unfold in a small apartment in Washington Heights.
The sport of Kings is a contest of fair and foul play. Richard, the underdog, is spurned at court for his physical condition but eyes the crown with bloody determination. No bond is too sacred to betray as he manipulates his way to glory.
This screening was part of The Inaugural Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival–The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir
This screening was part of The Inaugural Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival–The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir
This screening was part of The Inaugural Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival–The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir
This screening was part of The Inaugural Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival–The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir
This screening is part of The Inaugural Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival–The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir
This screening was part of The Inaugural Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival–The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir
This screening was part of The Inaugural Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival–The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir
Poetry Symposium featuring Ken Chen, Anaïs Duplan, Ariel Goldberg, Myung Mi Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Tracie Morris, Raquel Salas Rivera, Brandon Shimoda, and Cecilia Vicuña. Keynote address by Fred Moten, NYU.
Directing Thesis production of ‘Broken April’ directed by Arthur Makaryan. Based on the novel by Ismail Kadare and adapted by Ned Moore.
Sophie Treadwell’s extraordinary 1928 play insists on the necessity of conceiving a different future for women. 90 years later, the violence of that imagination remains provocative and radical.
Screening of “Risk” followed by a conversation with director Laura Poitras discussed the film with Alex Abdo, Knight First Amendment Institute, and Maureen A. Ryan, Film.
Carolee Schneemann discussed her boundary-breaking practice and creative process, on the occasion Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting at MoMA/PS1, the first comprehensive retrospective of her work.
Playwright David Henry Hwang, Theatre, and director Julie Taymor discuss their collaboration on the new M. Butterfly, reimagined and remounted for the Broadway stage.
Screening followed by a discussion with Professor Richard Peña, and Emeritus Professor Robert Paxton. Moderated by Shanny Peer.
Kaveh Akbar, Lucie Brock-Broido, Timothy Donnelly, Dorothea Lasky, Herb Leibowitz, Elizabeth Metzger, Sarah Ruhl, and Don Share read the poetry of Max Ritvo '16, author of Four Reincarnations.
The visionary work of artist Tomás Saraceno traverses art, engineering, the natural sciences, architecture, and social theory.
Columbia University School of the Arts presented an unprecedented and rare opportunity to hear one of the most legendary bands of all time, the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Kellie Jones, Art History and Archaeology, and Farah Jasmine Griffin, English and Comparative Literature, discuss Jones’ work on “South of Pico.”
Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl discussed art, leadership, institutions, and how to create change at the scale of the city, including CreateNYC, the first-ever comprehensive cultural plan for the City of New York.
