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Adjunct Assistant Professor Alex Strada ’16 and Tali Keren ’16 continued their lecture-performance series, Fictive Witness, with a presentation from interdisciplinary scholar Noliwe Rooks called Accounting for Integration. Strada is an artist and educator based in New York City.
Ana Ochoa, Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology, recently kicked off a conversation with Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Lucy Tulugarjuk, two of the filmmakers behind Restless River, and Amalia Cordova, Mother Tongue Film Festival, Smithsonian, moderated by filmmaker and curator Cass Gardiner.
It’s been wonderful to get back into production these last several weeks, between exercise work, project-level films heading into principal photography, and everyone’s Thesis-level plans in preparation for the Production Grant deadline.
Co-founders Adjunct Assistant Professor T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, along with Executive Strategist Afton Battle and Marketing Strategist Tamica Clanton, announced a partnership between Black Theatre Coalition (BTC), the organization aiming “to build a sustainable, ethical roadmap to increase employment opportunities for Black theatre professionals,” and Professors Steven Chaikelson (Head of Theatre Management & Producing) and Michael J. Passaro (Head of Stage Management) at Columbia University’s School of the Arts to provide a weekly webinar series…
Acting Student Katherine George stars in the long awaited digital series #LoveMyRoomie.
Film student Ivan Durovic directed the Life Stream at EXIT Music Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Planting Fields Foundation recently hosted its first ever “slide slam” between Visual Arts Mentor Mark Dion and Alumnus David Brooks ’09 as part of their The Great Bird Blind Debate Exhibition.
Alumna Gina Stevenson ’18 was announced as a finalist for the 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award. Stevenson was nominated alongside Ayad Andrews, Pravin Wilkins, Safaa Benson-Effiom and Zoe Ashford Cooper.
Playwriting student Ellis Stump’s one-act play series The People’s Toast has been published in print by Vaclav Havel Library Foundation as the winner of their 2019 Playwriting Competition. Copies are available at Vaclav Havel’s New York City library and in local bookstores.
Theatre alumna Mikhael Tara Garver ’10 created Rio Reveals, a series of immersive entertainment experiences that will raise funds for River L.A., a nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing the Los Angeles River and encouraging community engagement with it.
Alumna Patrice Renee Washington ’14 is in the group exhibition Barring Freedom at the San José Museum of Art.
Music’s biggest night will feature the works of many Columbia faculty and alumni.