COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS PRESENTS THE YEAR OF WATER IS PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH: The Year of Water Arts Initiative International Students and Scholars Office Barnard and Columbia College Architecture Department Jerome L. Greene Science Center Center for Climate and Life “Artists, writers, and thinkers working globally Joe Coffee Company Center for Ethnomusicology Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in multiple creative forms are deeply involved Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies in issues surrounding water and climate Center for the Study of Social Difference Mailman School of Public Health change. It is exciting for the School of the Arts Columbia Aquanauts Miller Theatre Columbia Business School The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery PUBLIC to spearhead the Year of Water and to play a Columbia Global Centers Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute Columbia Law School central role in convening the institutes, schools, Office of Communications and Public Affairs Columbia Maison Française Office of Government and Community Affairs PROGRAMS faculties, and programs at Columbia engaged Columbia School of Social Work Office of the President Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning Office of University Life in important research and action around these and Preservation Rare Book and Manuscript Library Columbia University School of the Arts vital concerns.” Sabin Center for Climate Change Law AND Columbia Water Center School of International and Public Affairs Columbia Wellness Center –CAROL BECKER, DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities Columbia World Projects Sustainable Columbia ENGAGEMENT Data Science Institute Tamer Center for Social Enterprise Department of Anthropology The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture Department of Music World Leaders Forum SPRING 2020 Digital Storytelling Lab The Earth Institute TO SEE THE FULL YEAR OF WATER PROGRAM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, PLEASE VISIT ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU The Forum LENFEST.ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science YEAROFWATER.COLUMBIA.EDU YEAROFWATER.COLUMBIA.EDU Institute for Latin American Studies COMPLEX ISSUES The Wild I: An Arturo O’Farrill Treasure Island The Assistant Exploration of Poetry Transposing Genres – SATURDAY, MARCH 14 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 6:30 PM and Water Fluidity in the Arts Directed by Byron Haskin, 1950 / UK / PG The Assistant follows one day in the life of SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 11 AM–5:30 PM THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 6:30 PM Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring Stevenson, Disney’s first all live-action film film producer, who has recently landed her Jordan Abel, Abigail Chabitnoy, CAConrad, Arturo O’Farrill, composer, pianist, and takes you to the high seas in search for buried dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful Timothy Donnelly, Matthea Harvey, Professor of Global Jazz Studies at UCLA’s Herb treasure. Join young Jim Hawkins, Long John entertainment mogul. As she grows increasingly Douglas Kearney, Luna Miguel, Shane Alpert School of Music will discuss several Silver, and their ragtag crew of pirates for the aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every McCrae, Celina Su, Cecilia Pavon, and aspects of his music, including (but not limited adventure of a lifetime. aspect of her workday, Jane decides to take a Phillip B. Williams. Organized by to): stand. Dorothea Lasky, Writing. 1. How a classically trained musician with an Screening followed by a conversation between In this symposium, poets will explore the Irish-Mexican-Cuban-German heritage and a WALL-E Writer-Director Kitty Green, Producers Scott symbol of water, and its many ramifications in propensity toward the avant-garde became the SATURDAY, APRIL 18 Macaulay ’84 CC and James Schamus, Film, their lives. Water, both ephemeral and timeless, poster boy for Afro Latin Jazz. and Denise Cruz, English and Comparative carries with it its own history. It connects FREE as part of Manhattanville Community Day Literature. 2. The creative process in his music, his us to our ancestors and to our future. Most Directed by Andrew Stanton, 2008 / USA / G importantly, it is a form that is intrinsically influences, process, and his newest composition, Co-presented by the Department of English and connected to poetry, with poetry’s watery Mundoagua. It is the 29th century and Earth has become Comparative Literature; Institute for Research and associative, fluid, electrified, and occult uninhabitable by humans, who now live in on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; and The Co-presented by the Department of Music; properties. During this daylong event, we will space. WALL-E is the last robot on Earth and Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Institute for Latin American Studies; Miller consider: What is a poetry of water? What does spends his days cleaning the planet one piece of Humanities Theatre; and the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind a world look like without water? How can poets Brain Behavior Institute trash at a time. When a fancy new robot named LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS save the planet? EVE arrives, WALL-E is smitten, and he follows LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS her on a quest to save the planet. LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Water, Sound, and Arturo O’Farrill & Moana Water is Life SATURDAY, MAY 9 Indigenous Film: the Afro Latin Jazz Antonio and Piti MONDAY, MARCH 9, 6:30 PM Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, 2016 / USA / PG THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 6:30 PM Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Orchestra Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 8 PM Moana is chosen by the sea to prove herself a The Amônia River runs near the border Netherlands, discusses how water connects key masterful navigator and to save the people of of Brazil and Peru, where both indigenous “Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra is domains—health, economy, biodiversity, food her island. On her quest to reunite an ancient Ashaninka people and white settlers live in one of the best jazz orchestras in existence,” security, conflict, and power. Our fragilities relic with the goddess Te Fiti, she meets the the municipality of Marechal Thaumaturgo. declares the New Yorker. The ensemble makes are laid bare by dependency on water even as demigod Maui. Together, the two journey the Produced by the Vídeo nas Aldeias collective, their Columbia debut in this special appearance water-focused solutions enable transformative, ocean and discover that not everything is what Antonio and Piti explores the love between featuring the world premiere of Mundoagua, a comprehensive interventions that cascade it seems. With original songs by Lin-Manuel a Peruvian-born indigenous man and the across scales, sectors, silos, and borders. new commission from the School of the Arts in honor of Columbia University’s Year of Water. Miranda. daughter of Chico Coló, a white rubber Response by Alex Halliday, The Earth Institute. tapper soldier. The film tells the story of their Tickets starting at $25; Columbia University community-led reforestation project and Organized by Columbia World Projects. faculty and staff starting at $15; Students with the pressures of a predatory and extractive Co-presented by the Earth Institute and the valid ID starting at $7. millertheatre.com economy. Asháninka and Portugese, 78 minutes, School of International and Public Affairs. 2019. MILLER THEATRE Plastic Bottle-Free Pledge THE FORUM, 601 WEST 129TH STREET The School of the Arts has stopped using With Co-Directors Vincent Carelli and Wewito single-use plastic bottles at its facilities and Piyãko. Response by Esther Hamburger, Arts. events. We encourage the Columbia community Organized by Ron Gregg, Film and Media THE THIRD ANNUAL DR. SAUL AND Max Ritvo Poetry to pledge to do the same: Studies, and Ana Ochoa, Music. DOROTHY KIT FILM NOIR FESTIVAL Series: Featuring • Ask the cafes in your facilities to stop selling Co-presented by the Center for Film Noir & the Jewish single-use plastic water bottles Ethnomusicology; Center for the Study of Louise Glück Ethnicity and Race; Center for the Study of Experience: From TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 6:30 PM • Deauthorize orders of single-use plastic Social Difference; Institute for Latin American water bottles from vendors Studies; and The Society of Fellows and WWII to the Blacklist Louise Glück is the author of The Triumph of • Heyman Center for the Humanities WEDNESDAY–SUNDAY, MARCH 25–29 Achilles, which won the National Book Critics Purchase carafes and filtering pitchers for Circle Award, and The Wild Iris, which was use in office suites and at events LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS Jewish filmmakers played a pivotal role in the awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent • Encourage the use of glasses and refillable creation of classic Hollywood film noir. The collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, received water bottles Third Annual Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film the National Book Award. She was the United Water Activism: Noir Festival will highlight the work of Jewish States Poet Laureate from 2003–2004. • Replace vending machines that sell single- artists and noir films that speak to the Jewish LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS use plastic water bottles Detroit, Flint, and the experience. The festival will include films by émigré directors (Edgar G. Ulmer, Billy Wilder), • Recycle, and take care not to co-mingle Great Lakes films that address anti-Semitism (Crossfire) and materials THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 6:30 PM World War II (The Spiral Staircase, The Stranger), Hydra Learn more at yearofwater.columbia.edu and films on the blacklist and the media SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 7:30 PM Environmental lawyer Jim Olson, Founder and (Scandal Sheet, Sweet Smell of Success).