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Fall 2017 School of the Arts Presents THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 6:30 PM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 6:00 PM A Cultural Plan for All New Ai Weiwei THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 6:30 PM In conversation with Dean Amale Andraos, Columbia Complex Issues: M. Butterfly Yorkers GSAPP, and Dean Carol Becker, Columbia University David Henry Hwang, Theatre, and Julie Taymor Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl, School of the Arts Department of Cultural Affairs Co-presented by Columbia GSAPP THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Co-presented by the Arts Administration Program, MILLER THEATRE Teachers College; Mailman School for Public Health; THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 6:30 PM Columbia GSAPP; and the Urban and Social Policy Concentration, School of International and Public Affairs. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 7 PM Carolee Schneemann THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Response by Branden Joseph, Art History and The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Archaeology SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 10 AM Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Co-presented by the Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Institute for Research on Women, Story I/O Famoudou Don Moye, Junius Gender, and Sexuality. Story Input/Output is an interactive one-day exploration Paul, Hugh Ragin, and Tomeka THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS of new forms and functions of storytelling, with Maggie Breslin, The Patient Revolution, Rita Charon, Columbia Reid THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 6:30 PM University Medical Center and the Program in Narrative Tickets: $25; $15 for students with CUID Medicine, Nicholas Fortugno, Playmatics, Desmond Co-presented by Miller Theatre Patton, Columbia School of Social Work and SAFE Lab. Led Risk with Laura Poitras by Lance Weiler, Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab. THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Laura Poitras in conversation with Alex Abdo, Knight First Application required. lenfest.arts.columbia.edu Amendment Institute, and Maureen A. Ryan, Film Co-presented by the Knight First Amendment Institute THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 6:30 PM THE KATHARINA OTTO-BERNSTEIN SCREENING ROOM, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 6:30 PM Fall 2018 Artist in Residence Tomás Saraceno MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 6:30 PM Complex Issues: South of Pico: Co-presented by the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of International and African American Artists in Los Public Affairs Orhan Pamuk In conversation with Bruce Robbins, English and Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Comparative Literature, to mark the publication of The Kellie Jones, Art History and Archaeology, and Farah Red-Haired Woman. Jasmine Griffin, English and Comparative Literature WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 8 PM Co-presented by the Department of English and Co-presented by the Department of Art History and Comparative Literature and the Heyman Center for the Archaeology; the Center for Jazz Studies; the Institute for Humanities Research in African-American Studies; and The Miriam & The Inaugural Max Ritvo Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. Poetry Series MILLER THEATRE This event is preceded by a special opportunity to view Kaveh Akbar, Lucie Brock-Broido, Timothy Donnelly, Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem and Modern Mark Doty, Louise Glück, Dorothea Lasky, Herb SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 12:30 PM Housing, Wallach Art Gallery, 5:30–6:30 pm. Leibowitz, Shane McCrae, Elizabeth Metzger, Sarah Young Writers Present THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Ruhl, and Don Share read the work of Max Ritvo. Writing by New York City high school students in the THE KATHARINA OTTO-BERNSTEIN SCREENING ROOM, Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T) Program. LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 8 PM Organized by Dorothea Lasky and Alan Zeigler, Writing THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Opening Night: Bach + Glass THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 7:00 PM The opening night of Miller Theatre at Columbia University’s 2017–18 season features the New York Cinema of Resistance: MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 7:00 PM premiere of a new piano concerto by iconic American composer Philip Glass, written for pianist Simone Army of Shadows Introducing Bangsokol: Dinnerstein and the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Response by Richard Peña, Film Studies Far Cry. Co-presented by Columbia Maison Française A Requiem for Cambodia Rithy Panh, Phloeun Prim, Him Sophy, and Trent Walker. Tickets: $35-$65 | millertheatre.com THE KATHARINA OTTO-BERNSTEIN SCREENING ROOM, Moderated by Dean . Discounts available for Columbia students, faculty, and LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Carol Becker staff Co-presented by Columbia Maison Française MILLER THEATRE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 10 AM Codes 3:30 PM Columbia University School of the Arts’ Lenfest Center for the Arts is a dynamic An Uneventful Story 7:15 PM new hub for cultural and civic exchange in Upper Manhattan. Featuring four flexible Symposium: Living in America: venues and a public plaza, this state-of-the-art facility offers unprecedented Presented by Annette Insdorf, Film Studies, to mark her opportunities for the presentation and generation of contemporary art across Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and 30 years of full-time teaching at Columbia University and disciplines. 615 West 129th Street, between Broadway and 12th Avenue. the publication of Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Complex Issues explores difference, visibility, and representation through recent work by faculty of Columbia University and Columbia University School of the Arts Modern Housing Has. in particular. Conversations invite challenging questions of racial, ethnic, gender, Shiben Banerji, Jana Cephas, Brian Goldstein, Jennifer economic, sexual, religious, and cultural complexity, and how they are articulated THE KATHARINA OTTO-BERNSTEIN SCREENING ROOM, across discipline and genre today. Gray, Jennifer Hock, Catherine Maumi, Kevin McGruder, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS and Joseph Watson, preceded by a keynote lecture by Support for visiting artists and thinkers provided by The Morris and Alma Schapiro Dianne Harris held at The Museum of Modern Art, New Fund. York, on Thursday evening, September 28, 7 pm. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7:00 PM ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU Living in America has been curated by The Temple Hoyne LENFEST.ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Cinema of Resistance: Swagger Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Co-presented by Columbia Maison Française Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), and is co-presented by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and The Avery THE KATHARINA OTTO-BERNSTEIN SCREENING ROOM, Architectural and Fine Arts Library, in correlation with LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition is on view through Sunday, December 17. THE LANTERN, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Fall 2017 Columbia University School of the Arts Core Events

FILM VISUAL ARTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 7 PM

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 5 PM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5–FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29; Literary Translation at Columbia: OPENING: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 5 PM The Sun Island Words Are Bodies Up Against Response by Thomas Elsaesser Art of “Whose” People Borders: A Conversation about ROOM 511, DODGE HALL Setareh Arashloo, Cati Bestard, Delphine Fowundu, Adam Liam Rose, Rocio Olivares, Shahzia Sikanda, and Translation and Race with Zou Zhao (Xi Xi) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12–THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 Curated by Yasi Fetrati ’18 Jennifer Hayashida Cinema of Resistance THE LEROY NEIMAN GALLERY, DODGE HALL Organized by Susan Bernofsky, Writing Francophone films presented by Nora Philippe with ROOM 413, DODGE HALL Columbia Maison Française. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6–THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2; Army of Shadows, response by Richard Peña, Film OPENING: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 5 PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 7 PM Studies; The Assembly; The Battle of Algiers; The Commune (Paris, 1871); Mustang; Swagger; and Tahrir: Revolt, Defiance and Nonfiction Dialogues: Liberation Square, response byJane Gaines, Film Studies. EAST GALLERY, AND THE KATHARINA OTTO-BERNSTEIN Resistance in Prints! Molly Haskell SCREENING ROOM, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Polly Apfelbaum, Barnaby Furnas, Ellen Gallagher, in conversation with Lis Harris, Writing Brad Kahlhamer, Dinh Q. Lê, Kara Walker, and Tomas Vu, ROOM 501, DODGE HALL Visual Arts Organized by Marie Tennyson WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 7 PM SOUND ART THE LEROY NEIMAN GALLERY, DODGE HALL Creative Writing Lecture: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 6 PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10–FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1; OPENING: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 5 PM Lucy Corin Sound Art MFA in the Library Series organized by Ben Marcus, Writing Organized by Nick Patterson and Miya Masaoka, Sound Art Do We Dream Under the ROOM 501, DODGE HALL GABE M. WEINER MUSIC & ARTS LIBRARY, DODGE HALL Same Sky? Curated by Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Visual Arts WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 7 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 3–6 PM THE LEROY NEIMAN GALLERY, DODGE HALL Nonfiction Dialogues: Sound Art Open Studios SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 3–6 PM Michael Kimmelman Second-year MFA students show work in process in conversation with Lis Harris, Writing PRENTIS HALL Visual Arts Open Studios ROOM 501, DODGE HALL Second-year MFA students show work in process SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 4–8 PM PRENTIS HALL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 7 PM Columbia Composers and Sound THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7–FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15; Creative Writing Lecture: Art Concert OPENING: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 5 PM Rachel Cusk Sound Art MFA students, Composition DMA students, and Series organized by Ben Marcus, Writing Rage Thormbones Visual Arts Undergraduate Fall ROOM 501, DODGE HALL ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, 22 BOERUM PLACE, BROOKLYN Thesis Exhibition Organized by Emily Henretta and Nicola López, Visual Arts WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 7 PM THEATRE THE LEROY NEIMAN GALLERY, DODGE HALL Creative Writing Lecture: Charles Yu WEDNESDAY–SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11–14 AND WRITING 18–21, 8 PM; SATURDAY MATINEES, 2 PM Series organized by Ben Marcus, Writing ROOM 501, DODGE HALL Acting Thesis: The Seagull THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, OCTOBER 5, Directed by Andrei Serban NOVEMBER 2, AND DECEMBER 7, 7 PM Acting Thesis: Mad Forest Columbia Selects: Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh ’07 Alumni of the Writing Program Free and open to the public FLEXIBLE PERFORMANCE SPACE, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS KGB BAR, 85 EAST 4TH STREET ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU WEDNESDAY–SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8–11, 8 PM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 7 PM LENFEST.ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU SATURDAY MATINEE, 2 PM Fiction Reading: Gabe Hudson Directing Thesis: The Tempest Organized by Ben Marcus, Writing Directed by Njideka Agwuna ’18 ROOM 413, DODGE HALL FLEXIBLE PERFORMANCE SPACE, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 7 PM WEDNESDAY–SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13–16, 8 PM Poetry Reading: Terrance Hayes SATURDAY MATINEE, 2 PM Organized by Timothy Donnelly, Writing Directing Thesis: Machinal ROOM 501, DODGE HALL Directed by Isabelle Kettle ’18 FLEXIBLE PERFORMANCE SPACE, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS