Repair:
Fall 2021 Public Programs and Engagement
Image: Prairie plant roots reach deep into soil teeming with the life of nematodes, protozoa, fungi, and bacteria that carry out the work of converting minerals into nutrients. Built up over millennia, the soil becomes a natural carbon sink of enormous proportions.Virgin Prairie Soil Profile, Kansas. Photo by Jim Richardson.
Traversing media and disciplines, the Fall 2021 Public Programs and Engagement season at Columbia University School of the Arts will focus on the concept of Repair.
Conversations, theatrical presentations, podcasts, and performance will explore creative practices that engage social and political initiatives committed to reimagining and transforming frayed relationships between humans, other species, the planet, and ourselves.
Produced in collaboration with:
- African American and African Diaspora Studies Department
- Center for Jazz Studies
- Center for the Study of Law and Culture
- Center for the Study of Social Difference
- Columbia Global Centers
- Columbia World Projects
- Department of History
- Department of Music
- The Forum
- Institute for Latin American Studies
- Institute for Research in African-American Studies
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
- The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities & the Arts at the City College of New York
- The Trust for Governors Island
Schedule of Events
Tuesday, September 14, 7:30 pm ET
Celebrated composer, pianist, and educator Arturo O’Farrill discusses his creative process and newest composition, Mundoagua.
Saturday, September 18, 4 pm ET
World premiere of Mundoagua by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Commissioned by Columbia University School of the Arts and livestreamed from the Miller Theatre stage.
