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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

From William Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida and Thomas Heywood's Iron Age. Adapted & Directed by Brian Kulick

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Come and support your Columbia volleyball team as they take on Princeton in the Lions' final home game of the season. For details, visit gocolumbialions.com!

Come support your Columbia men's soccer team as they take on Harvard in the last game of their regular season. For details, visit gocolumbialions.com!

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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.

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.

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

Charles Taylor returns to speak on the question, "Can Human Action Be Explained?".

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)

Miller Theatre is pleased to continue its free Lunchtime Concerts series, presenting informal, one-hour concerts featuring performances by exceptional classical musicians.

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

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.

The Department of Italian at Columbia University in the City of New York is pleased to announce Beyond Futurism: F.T. Marinetti, Writer, a two-day international symposium at Italian Cultural Institute in New York. Open to public.

Jacqueline Olvera, Term Assistant Professor at Barnard College, examines how migrants, who are constructed as socially invisible yet physically present, negotiate the complexities that illegality introduces in their everyday lives. The BCRW Lunchtime Lecture Series allows Barnard faculty to share their most up-to-date research in a relaxed and informal setting. So brown-bag your lunch and join us in 101 Barnard Hall!

Miller Theatre is pleased to continue its free Lunchtime Concerts series, presenting informal, one-hour concerts featuring performances by exceptional classical musicians.

The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies (CCHPS) is pleased to welcome Dr. David Holtgrave, professor and chair, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as Grand Rounds speaker on "Economic Evaluations of the Housing & Health Intervention Study."

A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH DAVID SMILEY, CIVIC LEADERS, ACTIVISTS, AND CITY PLANNERS With the recent turn to pedestrian zones, bike lanes and greenways in New York and in many cities around the world, there is a growing sense that a new kind of urbanism is possible, one no longer dominated by the culture and politics of the automobile. “Rights of Way” will examine the issues surrounding bikes and pedestrianization, and will explore sustainability, finance, public health, and the ways in which the street can serve as a fulcrum in debates about public space and urban life.

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.

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.

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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.

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Wilhelmina Obatola Grant - Triumph and Transformation: Life after Breast Cancer, A Found Objects, Assemblage Art Exhibition Focusing on Breast Cancer Awareness

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.

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.

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).

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."

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.

Join the Institute for African Studies (IAS) for a Brown Bag welcoming Elsadig Elsheikh, one of nine human rights leaders currently in residence at Columbia University for the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP).

Join us on a 150-year journey that begins in the mighty Pyrenees and wends its way into such cities as Chino, Fresno, and Bakersfield, California. Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, who writes extensively on French Pyrenean migration to the New World, takes us from Basque country to "The Golden State," and paints a valuable portrait of domestic and political power by examining how family structures, and women’s positions in them, changed (or failed to) in the wake of the great crossing. Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga is an Associate Professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, an Associate member of the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and presently a Fulbright Scholar in the United States.

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.

The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies (CCHPS) welcomes Dr. Kenneth Prager, chairman, Medical Ethics Committee, Columbia University Medical Center, to its grand rounds, speaking on Ethical Dilemmas in Treating the Homeless Patient.

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.

Barnard Writing Faculty: Mary Gordon '71, Saskia Hamilton, and Timea Szell '75

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.

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.

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.

The African Diplomatic Forum is an annual conference that gathers African diplomats, academics, students and activists to discuss the continent's interests and role in international affairs.

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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.

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.

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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.

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Come out and cheer for your Lions as they take on Bucknell in a pre-Thanksgiving showdown. For more information visit gocolumbialions.com!

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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.

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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."