Lenfest Kids: Manhattanville Community Day Double Feature
Free screenings of A Hard Day’s Night and Yesterday as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series. Explore the music of The Beatles with these two films on Manhattanville Community Day.
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.
“RPBW Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Le fil rouge”
The Lenfest Center for the Arts is delighted to host an exhibit featuring Renzo Piano Building Workshop, developer of the Manhattanville Master Plan and designer of the Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Forum, and the Jerome L. Greene Science Center.
Lenfest Kids: “Blue Giant”
Free screening of Blue Giant as a part of the Spring 2024 Lenfest Kids series.
New Plays Festival: Scrubland
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Stephen Bush, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
New Plays Festival: Oil on Canvas
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Aditya Lal Chadha, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
Columbia University Film Festival
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.
New Plays Festival: The Queen of the Living Room
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Mijuan Ye, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
New Plays Festival: Leo's Requiem
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Darius Buckley, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
New Plays Festival: Koi-Coy
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Lillian Mottern, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
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.
New Plays Festival: IVERA
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Antonia Cruz-Kent, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
Class of 2024 Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.
New Plays Festival: Hermione
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Oded Gross, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
New Plays Festival: The World's Most Boring Murder
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Fernado Segall, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
New Plays Festival: Timmy
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Megan Rivkin, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
New Plays Festival: sorry sorry okay sorry
A new play written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Student Emily Elyse Everett, featured in the 2024 New Plays Festival.
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.
“Orlando: My Political Biography”
Screening of the acclaimed documentary — featuring more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
Directing Thesis: Far Away
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Far Away, a directing thesis production by current student Sam Gibbs.
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.
Class of 2025 First Year MFA Exhibition
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.
"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.
Directing Thesis: Meg
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Meg, a directing thesis production by current student Catalina Beltrán.
Art + Life: Bushra Rehman
Writer Bushra Rehman in conversation with Adjunct Assistant Professor Quincy Scott Jones.
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.
Lenfest Kids: “The Wiz”
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.
Legacies: Pema Tseden & New Tibetan Cinema – “Balloon”
Screening on Ballon, followed by a conversation with Shamo Thar, UMass Amherst, and Lauran Hartley, Columbia University.
Directing Thesis: "Phaedra's Love"
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Phaedra’s Love, a directing thesis production by current student Danica Selem.