Saturday March 10, 2018, 1:00pm This week is your final chance to see Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Trailblazer at the Wallach Gallery in the Lenfest Arts Center. The exhibition closes on March 11th. But on March 10th, you can learn more about key works in the Arthur Mitchell archive from Preeti Vasudevan, choreographer, movement analyst, and founder […]
Event | How to Listen
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, 606 W 122nd Street, Knox Hall 509, Columbia University In its continuing series of workshops on Oral History and the Arts, the Center for Oral History Research presents author Daniel Alarcón. He’ll discuss the relationship between journalism, literature and oral history, and showing how interviews and lived experience can […]
All about the 1960s
You may have noticed that the entire city marking 1968’s social movements and social change efforts. Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library is taking part in the city-wide events for The ‘60s: The Years that Changed America festival. Some happenings on now and coming up this spring: Conference | New Perspectives on 1968: 50 Years After […]
Puzzling and amazing pieces that fit in Dance Theatre of Harlem exhibition
A centerpiece of our exhibition, Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Trailblazer, is a dazzling, eight foot long puzzle. Handcrafted and painted from wood, the puzzle details the DTH’s history, Mitchell’s influence, luminaries who’ve supported the company, landmark performances and homages to ballet casts. As puzzle maker Frank Bara notes in a video tour of the puzzle, shot […]
Exhibition | Yiddish at Columbia
As part of the launch of a new digitization project, an exhibition called “Yiddish at Columbia” will be on display in the Chang Octagon Gallery in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library from March 5 – June 15, 2018. The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry is a two-year project funded by the National Endowment for […]