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We recognize the pain, anger, and grief that may be experienced in response to the senseless killing of Daunte Wright. This, following the killings of George Floyd and Philando Castile also in the Minneapolis area, demonstrates the continued violence against the Black community by the police, not just in Minnesota but across the nation.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
Here, we talk with alumna and Assistant Professor of Writing Rivka Galchen '06 about teaching her hybrid seminar last fall, her forthcoming novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, and the fluidity of her writing practice.
On A Global Scale is a bi-weekly series about international co-productions by Columbia filmmakers.
Roundabout Theatre Company hired four Archives Fellows through the Columbia@Roundabout program. They are: playwriting student Devon Kidd, directing student Liz Peterson, and dramaturgy students Danielle Feder and Austin Tooley.
Playwriting alumna Callan Stout ’17 was named a winner of The Film Fund's 2020 Narrative Contest for a short film adaption of a play with her collaborators, current Columbia undergrads Arielle Friedman and Lucy Blumenfield.
In 2016, the Columbia University Trustees and the Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) established The Campbell Award, which is presented to a graduating student at each School who shows exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit as exemplified by the late Bill Campbell '62CC, '64TC, Chair Emeritus, University Trustee, and CAA co-founder.
Tickets are now on sale for the 33rd annual Columbia University Film Festival(CUFF).
Yesterday, the 2021 Guggenheim fellowships were announced, and several Columbia Faculty and Alumni are among the recipients.
In a virtual ceremony last night, PEN America announced the winners of their 2021 Literary Awards, conferring the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction to English and Comparative Literature Professor Saidiya Hartman for her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments(W.W. Norton & Company, 2020).
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
Nonfiction alumna Michele Herman '85 will publish her debut novel,Save the Village, in February, 2022 through Regal House Publishing.
Our Word, a student organization dedicated to enriching the Columbia University School of the Arts and the surrounding literary community with outreach, advocacy, and inclusion of new and old literary voices, recently hosted author and journalist Mariana Enriquez for a reading and evening of conversation.
Theatre alumnus Mark H. ‘18 was the latest featured speaker to visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Africa at Noon lecture series.
'Disclaimer', written and performed by alumna Tara Ahmadinejad ’14 returned to the Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival in January.