COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS PRESENTS THE YEAR OF WATER IS PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH: The Year of Water Arts Initiative Jerome L. Greene Science Center Barnard and Columbia College Architecture Department Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory “Artists, writers, and thinkers working globally Center for Climate and Life Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Center for Ethnomusicology MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial in multiple creative forms are deeply involved Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes Studies Mailman School of Public Health in issues surrounding water and climate Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Center for the Study of Social Difference Miller Theatre change. It is exciting for the School of the Arts Columbia Aquanauts The Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute Office of Communications and Public Affairs PUBLIC to spearhead the Year of Water and to play a Columbia Business School Columbia Global Centers Ofiice of Government and Community Affairs central role in convening the institutes, schools, Columbia Law School Office of the President Sabin Center for Climate Change Law faculties, and programs at Columbia engaged Columbia Maison Française PROGRAMS Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning School of International and Public Affairs in important research and action around these and Preservation The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities Columbia University School of the Arts Sustainable Columbia vital concerns.” AND Columbia Water Center Tamer Center for Social Enterprise Columbia Wellness Center The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American –CAROL BECKER, DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Columbia World Projects Architecture ENGAGEMENT Data Science Institute World Leaders Forum Department of Music FALL 2019 Digital Storytelling Lab The Earth Institute The Forum ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science TO SEE THE FULL YEAR OF WATER PROGRAM AT LENFEST.ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU Institute for Latin American Studies COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, PLEASE VISIT YEAROFWATER.COLUMBIA.EDU YEAROFWATER.COLUMBIA.EDU Tales from the Mano River Paola Antonelli COMPLEX ISSUES Song of the Sea SEPTEMBER 2019–JUNE 2020 Broken Nature: Design In Jerusalem: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 Comprised of composited images of the Mano River Takes on Human Survival Three Generations of Directed by Tomm Moore in Western Africa, this site-specific mural by Adama THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 6:30 PM an Israeli Family and a 2014 / Ireland / ages 7+ Delphine Fawundu ’18 extends the artist’s research into the African water deity, Mami Wata. Paola Antonelli claims that “our only chance at Palestinian Family survival is to design our own beautiful extinction.” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 6:30 PM Commissioned by Miller Theatre and curated by She will present the potentials of restorative design Finding Dory Kalia Brooks Nelson Reading followed by a conversation between in the Anthropocene and her curation of over 100 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Lis Harris, Writing, and Ted Conover, NYU LOBBY, MILLER THEATRE projects for the 22nd edition of the Milan Triennial. Directed by Andrew Stanton Followed by a conversation with Amale Andraos, Shuttling back and forth over ten years between Dean of Columbia University Graduate School of East and West Jerusalem, Lis Harris, a former staff 2016 / US / ages 6+ Lessons from Rebuild by Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). writer for The New Yorker, learned about the lives of two families: the Israeli Pinczowers/Ezrahis and Co-presented by Barnard and Columbia College Design: Urban Ecologies the Palestinian Abuleils. Combining a decade of Architecture Department; Columbia GSAPP; and March of the Penguins historical research with political analysis, Harris in the Era of Climate MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14 creates a moving portrait of one of the most Curatorial Studies (MODA) Change complicated and controversial conflicts of our time. Directed by Luc Jacquet TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 6:30 PM LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Books will be available for purchase. 2005 / France / ages 6+ Shaun Donovan, former United States Secretary LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS of Housing & Urban Development, and Kate Orff, Water, Sound, and Founder of the landscape architecture firm SCAPE and Director of the Urban Design Program, in Indigenous Film: Ushui David Adjaye: conversation. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 6:30 PM On Urban Ethics Organized by the Center for Resilient Cities and Spring 2020 Ushui is about Sagas—women shamans—and their THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 6:30 PM Landscapes and Columbia World Projects Stay tuned for more Year of Water wisdom and relation to water; how to give birth and The architect of the National Museum of African programming in Spring 2020, including: THE FORUM, 601 WEST 125TH STREET raise children, to sing to the spirits, and what to do American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. when they turn against us like Shekuita, the bad • Water and activism and the forthcoming Studio Museum in Harlem thunder that destroyed the town of Kemakúmake. • A commissioned musical composition by reflects upon his work as well as questions of design, Produced by the Bunkuaneyuman Communications Arturo O’Farrill The Novel and Its ethics, and urbanism. How can architecture lift up Collective of indigenous Wiwa people of the Sierra • A choreographed performance by visual communities, encourage exchange, and prompt Discontents: A Conversation Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. artist Phoebe Osborne ’18 recognition of underrepresented voices? Followed • The Wild Lyric I: An Exploration of Poetry Between John Banville and With José Gregorio Mojica Gil, Rafael Mojica Gil, by a conversation with Amale Andraos, Columbia and Water, a symposium of poets and thinkers Richard Ford and Pablo Mora Calderón. Organized by Ron Gregg, GSAPP, and Thelma Golden, Studio Museum in convened by Dorothea Lasky, Writing Film and Media Studies, and Ana Ochoa, Music. Harlem. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 7 PM Co-presented by the Center for Ethnomusicology; Organized by Columbia World Projects and “Banville and Ford, authors of many novels (The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; Center co-presented by Columbia GSAPP Plastic Bottle-Free Book of Evidence, Independence Day), winners of many for the Study of Social Difference; Institute for Latin THE FORUM, 601 WEST 125TH STREET Pledge prizes (Booker, Pulitzer, Princess of Asturias, Prix American Studies; and The Society of Fellows and Femina) and decades-long friends, engage in (it’s Heyman Center for the Humanities The School of the Arts pledges to stop using hoped) a spirited, un-theoretical back ‘n forth about single-use plastic bottles at its facilities and LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS the supposed pleasures of the text.” Organized by Atlantics (Atlantique) events, with the aim of being fully plastic Sam Lipsyte, Writing. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 6:30 PM bottle-free by January 2020. Co-presented by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Designing a Decent City: Cannes Grand Prix award-winning film by Center for the Humanities and the Writing Program Reflections on Beauty, Mati Diop. Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be- Columbia University School of the Arts’ Lenfest LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 615 WEST 129TH STREET inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Center for the Arts is a hub for cultural and Function, and Experience Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young civic exchange in Upper Manhattan, named construction worker. But she has been promised TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 6:30 PM in honor of H.F. “Gerry” and Marguerite Liquid Futures: to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co- Lenfest. Featuring four flexible venues and Renzo Piano, celebrated architect of The Forum, workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better a public plaza, this state-of-the-art facility Envisioning a World with Jerome L. Greene Science Center, and Lenfest Center future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding offers unprecedented opportunities for the Water for All for the Arts; Lee Bollinger ’71 Law, President of and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does presentation and generation of contemporary Columbia University; and Ira Katznelson ’66 CC, Ada know that Souleiman has returned. art across disciplines. 615 West 129th Street, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 10 AM–6 PM Columbia World Projects, History, and Political 2019 / France - Senegal - Belgium / Wolof / 104 minutes between Broadway and 12th Avenue. Science. As part of the Digital Storytelling Lab’s ongoing Responses by Mamadou Diouf, History and Story I/O (“Input/Output”) initiative, an interactive Organized by Columbia World Projects and African Studies, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne, one-day exploration of new forms and functions of co-presented by Columbia GSAPP Support for visiting artists and thinkers is French and Philosophy. Organized by Columbia storytelling. Led by Lance Weiler, Film and Theatre. provided by the Morris and Alma Schapiro THE FORUM, 601 WEST 125TH STREET Maison Française and Nora Philippe. Application at arts.columbia.edu. Fund. LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Co-presented by Columbia Aquanauts and the Columbia Water Center at the Earth Institute WATERLICHT Complex Issues explores difference, visibility, LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY, Creativity, Addiction, and and representation through recent work by OCTOBER 22, 23, AND 24, 7:30–11 PM faculty of Columbia