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 screening of Daniel Roher’s 2022 documentary, Navalny.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A screening of the powerful short documentary focusing on patients trying to get help in healthcare deserts as rural hospitals close. Followed by a conversation between the film’s Writer and Director, Film Professor Ramin Bahrani (CC '96) and Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine.

Renowned artist, filmmaker, and cinematographer Arthur Jafa discusses recent work with art historian and curator Kellie Jones, African American and African Diaspora Studies and Art History and Archaeology.

Presented in Dolby Atmos, a screening of Jonathan Demme’s newly restored Talking Heads concert film, Stop Making Sense.

Writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah in conversation with Adjunct Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Creative Writing Advisor in Fiction, Molly McGhee ‘20.

Free screening of 1961’s West Side Story as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. In this cinematic masterpiece, with music by Leonard Bernstein, two rival teenage gangs fight for control of New York’s West Side.