Manhattanville Community Day
Jun
8

Manhattanville Community Day

Join us on the Manhattanville campus on June 8, 2024, for a free fun-filled celebration of community! Immerse yourself in the arts through youth programming, indulge in Uptown cuisine with local vendors, have fun with science activities—plus so much more.

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Columbia University Film Festival
May
9
to May 12

Columbia University Film Festival

  • The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The 36th annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF) is a showcase of thesis-level work from students and recent alumni of the School of the Arts MFA Film Program. CUFF will offer its New York screenings May 9–13, 2024.

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Lenfest Kids: "For Heaven's Sake"
Apr
27

Lenfest Kids: "For Heaven's Sake"

Free screening of 1926’s For Heaven’s Sake as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. One of the great silent comedies, a wealthy playboy unintentionally funds a mission and falls for the preacher's daughter.

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Crisis and Desire
Apr
11

Crisis and Desire

How can crisis make us more attuned to the world in all its texture and strangeness? How can illness, silence, heartbreak, and hunger summon sharpened forms of attention and wanting? Featuring new books by Eliza Barry Callahan '22, Emmeline Clein '22, and Leslie Jamison, Writing. Moderated by Chloé Cooper Jones, Writing.

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Lenfest Kids: “Coco”
Mar
23

Lenfest Kids: “Coco”

Free screening of Coco as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. This Oscar award-winning animated film follows Miguel, a young boy with a deep passion for music in a family that has banned it for generations. Shown in Spanish with English subtitles.

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Class of 2025 First Year MFA Exhibition
Mar
23
to Apr 7

Class of 2025 First Year MFA Exhibition

  • The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the Class of 2025’s First Year Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

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"Analogue Sites"
Mar
21

"Analogue Sites"

Artist and preservation architect Jorge Otero-Pailos, GSAPP, presents his series of sculptures made from a fence that once surrounded the former U.S. Embassy in Oslo — a Saarinen-designed landmark — and that will be installed alongside other mid-century icons on Manhattan’s Park Avenue this spring. Response by Matthew Buckingham, Visual Arts.

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Speak Now: Claudia Rankine
Feb
29

Speak Now: Claudia Rankine

Celebrated writer Claudia Rankine '93 returns to Columbia University School of the Arts for the first of a new series of events, Speak Now, organized by Interim Dean and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Sarah Cole.

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Lenfest Kids: “The Wiz”
Feb
24

Lenfest Kids: “The Wiz”

  • The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Free screening of The Wiz as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. This cult classic, based on the Broadway hit of the same name, is an urban Wizard of Oz set and filmed in New York City. 

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