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Harriman: Fragments from the Past: A Photography Exhibition by Yuri Shalamov
Date: From October 01, 2009 at 11:00 am EDT through November 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
The Harriman Institute and the Russian American Cultural Center are proud to present an exhibition of the works of Yuri Shalamov, a photographer who worked for top Soviet magazines and newspapers for over thirty years.
Kila Packett (Acting 2008) in MATTHEW TAKES MANHATTAN
Date: From October 17, 2009 at 11:00 am EDT through November 29, 2009 at 3:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Matthew and his sister Piper take into a magical adventure back in time, where they discover the Manhattan of the past held a very different Thanksgiving than the one we all know today.
Ashlin Knight's (Playwriting) BALATON directed by Kristjan Thor (Directing)
Date: From October 17, 2009 at 8:00 pm EDT through November 07, 2009 at 10:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Electric Pear kicks off its fourth season with the World Premiere of BALATON by Ashlin Halfnight. A Hungarian family must confront the post-communist, Americanized world that has drastically altered their lives...and their deaths.
Ken Rus Schmoll (Directing 2000) directs WHAT ONCE WE FELT at Lincoln Center Theatre 3 (LTC3) at The Duke
Date: From October 26, 2009 at 8:00 pm EDT through November 21, 2009 at 10:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Set in a darkening future, WHAT ONCE WE FELT follows a writer's journey through the political world of publishing, as her novel becomes the last print published novel ever.
Cynthia Croot (Directing '01) directs HER NAME IS VINCENT with Acting Alumni Margi Sharp ('99), Rachel Murdy ('99), Erika Iverson ('98), Frank Mihelich ('04),Thomas Piper ('02) and George Drance ('98)
Date: From October 28, 2009 at 8:00 pm EDT through November 14, 2009 at 10:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
This fall, Magis is investigating the work and life of the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay with a new piece called Her Name is Vincent. The work began with our interest in "Vincent" Millay's complex relationship with her sisters: close by necessity as children, but pulled apart by fame, competition and addiction. In the course of our work we discovered Vincent's early play Aria da Capo, written in the wake of the first World War and at the dawn of the avant-garde. We found striking parallels in her meditation upon conflict and greed and the issues that plagued her relationships during her adult life. Paired together, The Millay Sisters and Aria da Capo make a compelling evening of theatre. Her Name is Vincent will be performed this October in the heart of New York City's Theatre District just seven blocks from where Aria da Capo opened on Broadway in 1925.
Tracy Weller (Acting 2005) in DOWN RANGE at Theater Three
Date: From October 28, 2009 at 8:00 pm EDT through November 14, 2009 at 10:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Two twenty plus year veterans return home after their convoy is hit by an IED in Iraq. Torn between family and the call of duty, their war continues at home, opening old wounds of betrayal, fear, infidelity, and loneliness for them and their wives. In this touching, poetic, brutal and romantic commentary on current events, the veterans and their fractured families are forced into a surprising and bitter realism. And, only one thing is certain - the high cost paid by all.
Rachel Chavkin (Directing 2008) directs Act II of THE LILY'S REVENGE at HERE Arts Center
Date: From October 29, 2009 at 6:30 pm EDT through November 22, 2009 at 8:30 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
An uprooted lily goes on a quest to wed a human bride and destroy The God of Nostalgia. Genre squishing Taylor Mac and a company of 40+ unravel our national pastime of melancholy remembrances. The Lily's Revenge is a 5 part extravaganza featuring live music, wild costumes, vaudevillian theatrics, macabre entr'actes, a million sequins, and a few flowers.
Alex Lippard (Directing 2002) directs THE MISUNDERSTANDING at the Flea Theater
Date: From October 29, 2009 at 9:00 pm EDT through November 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
For Jan, it's been quite an eventful day. After twenty years absence, he has returned home to Europe to be reunited with his mother and sister. But as he anxiously awaits to reveal his identity to them, notions of love and family take on chilling new meanings in the hideous circumstances of his last few hours.
Aryeh Lappin (Acting 2007) in AIDA at the Metropolitan Opera
Date: From November 02, 2009 at 8:00 pm EST through April 03, 2010 at 5:00 pm EDT
Location: Off Campus: NYC
The Met has assembled a cast of powerful voices to match Aida’s epic scale, which in this grand production uses every stage lift in the house.
Adam Miller (Management 2004) provides company management, assisted by Liz Halakan (Management 2010), for BURN THE FLOOR at the Longacre Theatre
Date: From November 03, 2009 at 7:00 pm through January 10, 2010 at 10:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Burn the Floor, the electrifying Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular that has thrilled audiences in over 30 countries, will make its Broadway debut in a limited 12-week engagement in one of Broadway's most intimate venues.
David Skeist (Acting 2006) in Uncivil Wars: Moving with Brecht and Eisler at Peak Performances in Montclair, NJ
Date: From November 05, 2009 at 7:30 pm through November 08, 2009 at 5:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: Other
Come to the cabaret as hilariously brought to life by David Gordon in this grand interpretation of Bertolt Brecht’s anti-Nazi parable The Roundheads and the Pointheads, where leaders of the fictional town of Yahoo maintain control by instigating conflict between two groups of its own citizens.
Indika Senanayake (Acting 2007) in GRANADA presented by Polybe + Seats at Access Theater Gallery
Date: From November 05, 2009 at 8:00 pm through November 22, 2009 at 9:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Bringing together characters and storytelling from Sephardic Jewish folklore and history and weaving from Spain to Israel to Morocco and back again, Granada explores issues of identity, both religious and national, and the uncanny link among followers of a tradition separated by continents but united by a state of exile.
Alice Reagan (Directing 04) directs PLL15's THE VERGE featuring Sara Buffamanti (Acting 05), Tuomas Hiltunen (Acting 04), Rachel Jablin (Acting 05), Rebecca Lingafelter (Acting 05), and video design by Jeff Clarke (Acting 05) at The Ontologica
Date: From November 05, 2009 at 8:00 pm through November 21, 2009 at 10:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Claire, along with Tom, Dick, and Harry, are locked inside Claire’s greenhouse as she races to create a new botanical species, Breath of Life. Will Claire’s new creation be her salvation? Who will she destroy in the process?
MEI: Islam, Sufism, and the Heart of Compassion: Living the Teachings of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
Date: From November 06, 2009 at 6:00 pm through November 07, 2009 at 6:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
The Middle East Institute (MEI) and the New York Open Center present a conference entitled, "Islam, Sufism, and the Heart of Compassion: Living the Teachings of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi," with William C. Chittick, Stephen Hirtenstein, Salman Bashier, Sachiko Murata and Mohamed Haj Yousef.
Erin Moughon's (Playwriting 2011) PRETEND THAT YOU OWE ME..., directed by Carin Jean White (Directing 2011) at Schapiro Theatre
Date: From November 06, 2009 at 8:00 pm through November 08, 2009 at 6:00 pm EST
Location: Schapiro Residence Hall
What would happen if your imaginary friend was real? Now what would happen if that friend was also a modern day Mephistopheles? Putting unlimited power in the hands of a 9 year-old, what could be bad about that? Kate is about to find out.
Brian Kulick (Theatre Faculty) adapts and directs THE AGE OF IRON, associate directed by Tony Speciale (Directing 2008), featuring Luis Moreno (Acting 2006), at Classic Stage Company
Date: From November 06, 2009 at 8:00 pm through December 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
From William Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida and Thomas Heywood's Iron Age. Adapted & Directed by Brian Kulick
MEI: “Bab ’Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul”
Date: November 07, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
The Middle East Institute (MEI) and the New York Open Society present the film, “Bab ’Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul,” which will be followed by a Q&A with Director Nacer Khemir.
Composer Portraits: Galina Ustvolskaya
Date: November 07, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: New York (NY), Morningside Campus
Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) studied under the tutelage of Dmitri Shostakovich, who openly admired both her and her work. Like Shostakovich, she had a public musical style to meet the approval of the Soviet regime that was in stark contrast to her personal style. The Fifth House Ensemble highlights the fierce sound world of Ustvolskaya's music, most notably her Piano Sonata No. 6, full of raw, hammering, repetitive tone clusters.
The MFA Acting Class of 2012 performs THE ORESTEIA under the direction of Niky and Ulla Wolcz (Acting Faculty) at Columbia University's Miller Theatre
Date: November 08, 2009 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST
Location: Miller Theatre
All 18 members of the MFA Acting Class of 2012 will be performing this Greek trilogy by Aeschylus under the direction of their two of their acting faculty, Niky and Ulla Wolcz.
Harriman: The Economic Crisis and Russian Museums: Some Recent Observations
Date: November 10, 2009 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Kristen Regina, Chief Art Librarian at Hillwood Museum & Gardens.
FREE Lunchtime Concerts
Date: November 10, 2009 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm EST
Location: New York (NY), Morningside Campus
Miller Theatre is pleased to continue its free Lunchtime Concerts series, presenting informal, one-hour concerts featuring performances by exceptional classical musicians.
HARLEM ARTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Date: November 10, 2009 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
HARLEM ARTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Harriman: A Literary Evening with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Date: November 10, 2009 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST
Location: Sulzberger
Please join us for a literary evening with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, while she reads from her latest book, "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill her Neighbor's baby: Fairy Tales."
Can Human Action Be Explained?
Date: November 10, 2009 from 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
Charles Taylor returns to speak on the question, "Can Human Action Be Explained?".
Suzanne Gardinier, Matthea Harvey, & Katy Lederer
Date: November 10, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm EST
Location: Barnard Hall, Morningside Campus
Suzanne Gardinier’s four books of poetry include the long poems 'The New World' and 'Dialogue with the Archipelago,' as well as a forthcoming book of elegies entitled 'Iridium.' “Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that, in Keats’s words, every rift is laden with ore.” (Adrienne Rich) Matthea Harvey, “a master of the surprising, illuminating connection,” has written three books of poetry: 'Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form,' 'Sad Little Breathing Machine,' and 'Modern Life.' (Chicago Tribune) Katy Lederer is the author of two books of poetry, 'Winter Sex' and 'The Heaven-Sent Leaf,' which is “sparkling and strange, acrobatic but never evasive, clear-eyed about its own emotional life even as it takes semantics for a tumble.” (Stephen Burt)
FREE Lunchtime Concerts
Date: November 11, 2009 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm EST
Location: New York (NY), Morningside Campus
Miller Theatre is pleased to continue its free Lunchtime Concerts series, presenting informal, one-hour concerts featuring performances by exceptional classical musicians.
Andrea Zittel: Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators
Date: November 11, 2009 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm EST
Location: Avery Hall, Morningside Campus
IN COLLABORATION | Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Andrea Zittel: Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 pm Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
IAS: Timelines - New Perspectives on African Architecture & Urbanism Series
Date: November 11, 2009 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm EST
Location: Morningside Campus
This Institute for African Studies (IAS) series will explore contemporary African cities as unique built environments with Abosede George, assistant professor at Barnard College, specializing in African history, women’s history, urban history of Africa, and the history of childhood in Africa.
CAAL Night: Ragtime
Date: November 11, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
See this brand-new revival of the acclaimed musical Ragtime, which received rave reviews at the Kennedy Center in Washington during it's spring 2009 season.
Hunger
Date: From November 12, 2009 at 10:00 am through December 08, 2009 at 5:00 pm EST
Location: LeRoy Neiman Gallery
Art exhibition
FREE Lunchtime Concerts
Date: November 12, 2009 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm EST
Location: New York (NY), Morningside Campus
Miller Theatre is pleased to continue its free Lunchtime Concerts series, presenting informal, one-hour concerts featuring performances by exceptional classical musicians.
Marty Keiser (Acting '05) in From the House of the Dead at the Metropolitan Opera
Date: From November 12, 2009 at 8:00 pm through December 05, 2009 at 4:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
With this new production, voted Europe’s best opera staging for 2007, one of opera’s great visionaries makes his Met debut. Patrice Chéreau, renowned for his legendary centennial Ring cycle at Bayreuth, directs Janácek’s drama of human resilience inside a Russian prison. “The penal camp is a different society, parallel to ours, but there are many similarities between the two,” Chéreau declares. “Power, relationships, humiliation, passion—all those things exist in both worlds.” Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen also makes his Met debut, and Peter Mattei leads the ensemble cast.
Euripides' PHONECIAN WOMEN, the 2010 MFA Acting Thesis
Date: From November 12, 2009 at 8:00 pm through November 21, 2009 at 10:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
War is imminent. The city is held hostage by a conflict in its royal family. The overarching grasp of the individual has triumphed over the community. None of this is lost on the chorus, visitors from the East called Phoenicians. Civilization rests on the virtues of family and city. Featuring the MFA Acting class of 2010, directed by Karin Coonrod.
Bach and the Bohemian Gypsies
Date: November 14, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: New York (NY), Morningside Campus
Telemann encountered gypsy music in 1706 as he was leaving Poland, and the experience inspired him, notably in the last movement of his concerto for recorder, flute, and strings. Works by Telemann and Bach are paired with selections from the Uhrovska collection of 1730, a remarkable compilation of 18th century gypsy music that clearly displays the influence of these anonymous virtuosi on their famous colleagues.
Herskovitz at the Heart of Blackness
Date: November 15, 2009 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Who has the authority to tell another culture's history? Melville J. Herskovits, a second-generation Jewish-American, demonstrates the nuances of identity politics involved in anthropological study.
Harriman: 1989—Year of Miracles: Austria and the End of the Cold War
Date: November 16, 2009, All Day Event
Location: International Affairs Bldg
The Harriman Institute at Columbia University presents an exhibition curated by Günter Bischof and Lorenz Mikoletzky on the miraculous fall of the so-called Iron Curtain twenty years ago, and the impact and changes in Europe resulting from it.
Triump and Transformation: Life after Breast Cancer...by Wilhelmina Obatola Grant
Date: From November 16, 2009 at 10:00 am through January 14, 2010 at 5:00 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
Wilhelmina Obatola Grant - Triumph and Transformation: Life after Breast Cancer, A Found Objects, Assemblage Art Exhibition Focusing on Breast Cancer Awareness
Harriman: Observations on Publishing and the Book Market in Russia
Date: November 16, 2009 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Liudmila Evgen'evna Kalinova of the Rudomino State Library of Foreign Literature and Dr. Mikhail Veniaminovich Levner of the Library for Natural Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences with discussant Edward Kasinec, Harriman Institute.
IAS: The Great African War - Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006
Date: November 16, 2009 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm EST
Location: Morningside Campus
The Institute for African Studies (IAS) presents Filip Reyntjens, who will address causes, outcomes, and extraordinary human toll of the successive wars in the Great Lakes Region of Africa since the early 1990s.
A Poetry Reading by Robert Hass Followed by an Interview with Saskia Hamilton
Date: November 16, 2009 from 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm EST
Location: Morningside Campus
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He will read a selection of poems, to be followed by an interview with Saskia Hamilton of the Barnard College English Department.
Alana Karpoff (Management 2005) handles press for David Mamet's RACE at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Date: From November 16, 2009 at 8:00 pm EST through March 28, 2010 at 5:00 pm EDT
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Race is the riveting new play by America’s foremost playwright, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, November).
Pirronne Yousefzadeh (Directing 2009) directs JACK PERRY IS ALIVE (AND DATING) by Harrison David Rivers (Playwriting 2009) and Daniella Shoshan (Playwriting 2010) with Casey Robinson (Acting 2009), Josh Sauerman (Acting 2009), and Alison Weisgall (Acting
Date: November 17, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Barhop with Jack Perry as he pursues the source of a late night text message in this day-in-the-life alterna-rock musical. Written by Harrison Rivers, Daniella Shoshan. Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh.
Composer Portraits: Ralph Shapey
Date: November 17, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: New York (NY), Morningside Campus
Philadelphia-native Ralph Shapey (1921-2002) is truly a unique American voice. Also well-known as a conductor, he disregarded popular trends in composition and held the conviction that music, once created, should stand on its own. His music is tremendously difficult yet accessible, lyrical yet abrasive. A consortium of incredible artists join together to pay homage to this often-called "radical traditionalist."
Harriman: Screening of "Buben, Baraban"
Date: November 18, 2009 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Location: International Affairs Bldg
Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of Aleksei Mizgirev's film "Buben, Baraban."
Harriman: Screening of "Tale in the Darkness"
Date: November 18, 2009 from 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm EST
Location: International Affairs Bldg
Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of Nikolai Khomeriki's, "Tale in the Darkness."
Deborah Brevoort's (Playwriting Faculty) THE VELVET WEAPON at La Mama E.T.C.
Date: November 18, 2009 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
A staged reading of The Velvet Weapon, an original backstage farce written by Deborah Brevoort and directed by Pavel Dobrusky. The Velvet Weapon is a humorous examination of democracy told through a battle between high-brow and low-brow art.
Harriman: From the (Opera) House of the Dead: Leos Janacek's Dostoevskian Farewell
Date: November 19, 2009 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
The Harriman Institute presents a lecture entitled "From the (Opera) House of the Dead: Leos Janacek's Dostoevskian Farewell," with guest speaker David Shengold, journalist and independent scholar.
"Lipstick Traces: Live"
Date: November 19, 2009 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST
Location: Morningside Campus
A lecture as performance by Greil Marcus, marking the republication of "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century."
CAAL Night: Cabaret at Neue Galerie
Date: November 19, 2009 from 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
In keeping with the Vienna coffeehouse tradition, the cabaret shows at the Neue Galerie present Austrian and German music.
"What is Happening in History Now?"
Date: November 19, 2009 from 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm EST
Location: Schapiro CEPSR
Caroline Bynum, Professor of Western European Middle Ages at the Institute for Advanced Study will speak on "What Is Happening in History Now?" This event is free and open to the public. No Tickets, no reservations required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
Harriman: Post-Soviet Literary Rehabilitations—Revisiting Abai
Date: November 19, 2009 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
Please join us for Dr. Zifa-Alua Auezova's talk on the role of literature in the formation of Kazakh's national identity in the 1920s-1950s, through the prism of the legacy of the acclaimed Kazakh thinker and poet Abai Kunanbaev (1845-1904).
Barnard Writing Faculty: Mary Gordon '71, Saskia Hamilton, and Timea Szell '75
Date: November 19, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm EST
Location: Barnard Hall, Morningside Campus
Barnard Writing Faculty: Mary Gordon '71, Saskia Hamilton, and Timea Szell '75
Samantha Chanse (Playwriting 2012) performs a solo show, BACK TO GRAVEYARD, at Asian American Writers' Workshop
Date: November 19, 2009 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
A workshop performance of BACK TO THE GRAVEYARD, a solo show about the joys and perils of family dinner planning, bad art, drinking in public, and, of course, flesh-eating monsters.
Harriman: Dissident Acts
Date: November 19, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: Milbank Hall
The Harriman Institute presents Dissident Acts: three works by Samuel Beckett, a member of the WWII resistance, as well as by his political counterparts and dramatic inheritors, the Polish and Czech playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Václav Havel.
Dissident Acts: 3 Plays
Date: November 19, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm EST
Location: Milbank Hall, Morningside Campus
Dissident Acts: 3 Plays brings together work by Samuel Beckett and that of his political counterparts and dramatic inheritors, the Polish and Czech playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Václav Havel.
"Freedom, Law, and Academic Inquiry"
Date: November 20, 2009 from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm EST
Location: East Campus
This day long conference is free and open to the public. No Tickets, no reservations required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
James Ryan Caldwell's (Playwriting 2011) THE PRIVATE LIFE OF INGA SNYDER with dramaturgy by Emily Madison (Dramaturgy 2011) at Schapiro Studio
Date: From November 20, 2009 at 8:00 pm through November 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm EST
Location: Site information is unavailable
A middle-aged woman goes undercover to free her son from jail. As she slowly sheds her identity, she makes startling discoveries about her son ... and herself.
Harriman: Dissident Acts
Date: November 20, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: Milbank Hall
The Harriman Institute presents Dissident Acts: three works by Samuel Beckett, a member of the WWII resistance, as well as by his political counterparts and dramatic inheritors, the Polish and Czech playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Václav Havel.
Michael Rau (Directing 2008) directs BUTTERSCOTCH AND CREAM at Dixon Place
Date: From November 20, 2009 at 10:00 pm through November 21, 2009 at 11:00 pm EST
Location: Off Campus: NYC
Sex, Booze,'n Buttercream! AbFab meets the Odd Couple when a boozy divorcee invades her niece's apartment. Created & performed by PAIGE COLLETTE & TATIANA PAVELA. Directed by MICHAEL JAMES RAU.
Harriman: Dissident Acts
Date: November 21, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: Milbank Hall
The Harriman Institute presents Dissident Acts: three works by Samuel Beckett, a member of the WWII resistance, as well as by his political counterparts and dramatic inheritors, the Polish and Czech playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Václav Havel.
Hunger: Opening Reception
Date: November 22, 2009 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST
Location: LeRoy Neiman Gallery
Art exhibition opening reception
Composer Portraits: Kaija Saariaho
Date: November 22, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: New York (NY), Morningside Campus
Called "one of the most original compositional voices of our time," Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) is a prominent member of a group of Finnish composers making a worldwide impact. Her music is at once opulent and mysterious, with dense everchanging textures, often created by a combination of music and electronics. This Portrait features the dramatic Graal théâtre, a 25-minute violin concerto that juxtaposes the virtuosity of the violinist with the activity of the ensemble, which morphs from delicate calm to vibrant commotion.
Harriman: Poetry Reading with Vera Pavlova
Date: November 30, 2009 from 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm EST
Location: International Affairs Bldg
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Columbia Slavic Department for a bilingual poetry reading with poet Vera Pavlova.
The Italian Academy Fall Concert Series - Alex Lipowski
Date: December 02, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: Morningside Campus
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University presents its Fall 2009 concert series continuing December 2 featuring percussionist Alex Lipowski. Program to include works by Hurel, Billone, Francesconi, Ferneyhough, and Verlingieri. Open to public.
Special Film Event: Quand la ville mord
Date: December 03, 2009 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm EST
Location: Buell Hall, Morningside Campus
Special Film Event: Quand la ville mord
The Edward Said Memorial Lecture: "The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism"
Date: December 03, 2009 from 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm EST
Location: International Affairs Bldg
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returns to the Heyman Center to deliver the 5th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture.
Chamber Music of Germany: J.S. Bach and Friends
Date: December 04, 2009 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm EST
Location: Miller Theatre, Morningside Campus
Trio Settecento explores the magnificent chamber music of Bach and his German compatriots. The Chicago Tribune described the trio’s performance as "some of the most refreshing, life-enhancing Baroque playing heard in years."
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