MARK YOUR CALENDARS for the Annual CCE MEDIA NETWORKING NIGHT (now with a pre-night workshop!)

Networking (Practice: Role Play) Workshop
March 26th, 1pm, 413 Dodge Hall
Get some hot tips for leaving a lasting impression when networking.

followed by:

MEDIA NETWORKING NIGHT
Wednesday, March 26th, 7pm, Low Memorial Library
It’s your chance to shine, come to this event and get to know the media industry’s movers and shakers.

This is a HUGE event, attended by some of the largest names in many industries. DO NOT MISS THIS!

For a rundown on the success of last year’s event, click here.
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Life After the MFA Panel featuring Editors from Major Publishing Houses
Tuesday, March 25th (the Tuesday after Spring Break): 8 pm

Come gaze on the face of the editor who will publish your best-selling
memoir/novel/masterpiece; editors from Random House, Harcourt,
Ecco/HarperCollins, and FSG will be participating, among others.

Life After the MFA
Independent Publishers’ Panel
Tuesday, March 4th
413 Dodge Hall, 8PM

featuring

Rob Spillman
TIN HOUSE BOOKS

Matvei Yankelevich
UGLY DUCKLING PRESS

Martha Rhodes
FOUR WAY BOOKS

Jill Schoolman
ARCHIPELAGO PRESS

Richard Nash
SOFTSKULL PRESS

Also see the attached flyer.

And mark your calendars for our next Life After the MFA event:
Tuesday, March 25th
Dodge 413, 8PM
Panel featuring Editors from Major Publishing Houses
Come gaze on the face of the editor who will publish your best-selling memoir/novel/masterpiece;
editors from Random House, Harcourt, Ecco/HarperCollins, and FSG will be participating, among others.
Independent Press Panel pdf

THE NAKED LENS FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, February 23
511 Dodge Hall (Lifetime Screening Room)

The first ever Columbia University GLBTQ film festival.  Sponsored by the Columbia University School of the Arts student group QuArt (Queer Art) and the Office of the University Chaplain.

Saturday, February 23 at 3pm, join us for a panel discussion with award winning filmmakers Tom Kalin (Swoon, I Shot Andy Warhol) and Rose Troche (Go Fish, The Safety of Objects) and Columbia University faculty member Mark J. Huisman on the current state and future of gay and lesbian cinema.

Then, at 7pm, join us for screenings of several short films by SoA students and faculty, followed by a reception. Both events take place in the Lifetime Screening Room (511 Dodge Hall).

Tickets are free, but please RSVP for a seat to nakedlensfilmfestival@gmail.com as seating is very limited.

For a complete schedule of the day’s events, click here—> (more…)

The Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Division is pleased to announce its remaining 2007-2008 Creative Writing Series Lectures. So far this year, lecturers have included Judith Thurman, James Wood, Francine Prose, Sven Birkerts, Jorie Graham, Lee Abbott, Philip Gourevitch and Jonathan Lethem:

We invite you to join us for our next lecturer: Kurt Anderson.

Thursday, February 21
7:00 pm
413 Dodge Hall
Kurt Anderson

Co-founder of Spy magazine and Inside.com, former editor-in-chief of New York magazine; award-winning journalist, host of Studio 360 on WNYC-FM; author of Heyday, and New York Times Notable book of the year, Turn of the Century.

Upcoming lectures: (more…)

Careers in Arts Management / Arts Administration
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, CCE Conference Room
Register to attend: http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/events

The panelists include:
Rachelle Anthes, Associate Director of Programs, Young Audiences New York
Joanne Bernstein-Cohen, General Manager, Little Orchestra Society
Brian Matthew Blattman, Owner/Producer, Entertainment Industry Expo; and Assistant Director, US touring production of My Fair Lady
Sally Block, Executive Director, Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC)
Courtenay Burley, Senior Strategy Manager, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lane Harwell, Director of Development, Alliance for the Arts
Caroline Wall, Director, Robert Mann Gallery

Contact Beth Olson (bo2145@columbia.edu)or Chandlee Bryan (cb2573@columbia.edu) for more information.

From Black Liberation to Hip-Hop:
A Film Festival Celebrating the Past, Moving Forward to the Future

You are invited to a free film festival that explores the culture and politics of the Black Liberation Movement and the Hip-Hop Generation.  View films and participate in unique inter-generational discussion with panelists from both the Civil Rights and Hip-Hop Generations.
See the long anticipated movie on George Jackson: Black August.

When: Saturday, Feburary 16th – Noon to 10pm
Where:  COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 511 DODGE HALL, BET 116TH & B’WAY

Also, View & Discuss Screenings of:  Letter to the President,  HipHop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes, The Spook Who Sat By the Door, Eyes of the Rainbow and many more.

Directions: Take the 1/9 train to 116th Street
Voicemail & Text: 347.262-6385 & 917.224.3493
eMail: nyhiphop3000@yahoo.com

Sponsored by
FOCUS-Filmmakers of Color United in Spirit-Columbia University, School of the Arts, and the ASC-Arts Student Council
The Safiya Bukhari- Albert Nuh Washington Foundation &
The National Hip-Hop Political Convention (NY)

For More Info:
http://www.safiyanuhfoundation.org or http://www.myspace.com/safiyanuh
http://www.nhhpc.org or http://www.myspace.com/hiphopconvention_nyloc

The Columbia University Center for Career Education presents a series of presentations entitled: Career Essentials for Masters Students.  The first is entitled:  Career Exploration. 

Date: February 12, 2008 from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Location: Center for Career Education, Conference Room
Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Chandlee Bryan at cb2573@columbia.edu or by calling 212-854-5484.
Info & Registration: http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/events

NOTE: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT ONLINE BY VISITING THE URL ADDRESS SHOWN ABOVE.

February 12, Part 1: Career Exploration: Career fields of interest to liberal arts students; how to explore and identify appropriate industries

February 19, Part 2: Tools for the Job Search: Writing effective resumes and cover letters

February 26, Part 3: Job Search: Techniques, strategies, networking skills, timeline

March 4, Part 4: Interviewing: Interview process, interviewing techniques, negotiating (more…)

The Writing Division is pleased to present:

Tobias Wolff
October 11th at 8:00 pm
Dodge Hall room 413

The SoA Writing Division extends a warm welcome to Tobias Wolff, the first guest of the 2007-2008 Nonfiction Dialogues.  The Nonfiction dialogues are a student-initiated program now in their third year.  They bring distinguished writers to the school for informal colloquies with nonfiction professor Lis Harris. The Tobias Wollf event will be held in  on Thursday, October 11 at 8pm in 413 Dodge Hall.

Upcoming writers participating in the Dialogues include Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family, on November 29th, and a third writer to be announced.

Tobias Wolff is best known for his short fiction and memoirs, although he has written several novels.   Best known works include This Boy’s Life (1989), In Pharaoh’s Army (1994) and Old School (2003).  In 1989 Mr. Wolff was chosen as recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story.

A Foundation Center event presented in collaboration with Fractured Atlas:

How You Can Afford to Be an Artist:
Ideas for Creating a Sustainable Career
Free Admission
This event is offered free of charge, but advance registration is required. Please go to the Foundation Center website for details.

Thursday, October 4, 2007, 3:00-5:00 pm,
2:30 pm: Check-in and refreshments
The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue/16th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

A special "Funding for Arts Month" program. It takes more than hard-to-get grants to survive and sustain your work over time. The panel presentation will focus on resources available to individual artists and emerging arts organizations working in various disciplines of the arts. Topics will include accessing space, insurance, materials and other non-cash resources. Come to share your own experiences and tips.

Please join us for the opening reception of the new exhibition at Columbia’s LeRoy Neiman Gallery (310 Dodge Hall) this THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 FROM 6-9PM:

‘Dead End’

a project by Sara Serighelli
with works by Carla Bobadilla (Chile), Dana Levy (Israel) and Lidia Sanvito (Italy). Catalogue available.

This exhibition runs from October 4 – 22 from 9am – 5pm, Monday through Friday.

Artist’s talks:  7pm in the LeRoy Neiman Gallery
Lidia Sanvito:  Friday,  5 October
Dana Levy:   Monday,  22 October 

The works  and text in the show have a tension in common: the fear of not having deeply understood, of being in a system that is going towards short circuit, that pushes to find a way out a solution that might not exist. (more…)

THE HEYMAN CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
Schedule of Events, Fall 2007

Admission to all Heyman Center events is free and open to the general public on a first come, first served basis.
For more information, please visit www.heymancenter.org.  or read on… (more…)

The Field http://www.thefield.org/
FREE! Meet the Funders, May 23, 6-8pm
79 Fifth Ave, 2nd Floor, between 16 & 15 Streets, Manhattan

Meet representatives from the different borough arts councils. Learn about their artist services and different grant opportunities.
Bronx Council on the Arts
Brooklyn Arts Council
Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Queens Council on the Arts

The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University presents:

Gerald Edelman, Nobel Laureate
Lorraine Daston

"The Origins of Norms:
The Place of Value in a World of Nature"

Thursday, April 26, 2007  8pm
501 Schermerhorn Hall
This event is free and open to the general public.
Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.
No tickets, no reservations necessary.
Co-sponsored by the Philoctetes Center (more…)

QUeer ARTists of Color Panel:  "Double the Trouble."

Thursday April 26th 8pm – Dodge 413

Discuss identity and work with

Reggie Cabico, poet
Mariana Romo-Carmona, fiction
Steven G. Fullwood, essayist and publisher

The Event was made possible by the Kraft Family Fund, co-sponsored by Our Word.

QUART (SoA QUeer ARTs) presents
BEYOND BROKEBACK: QUEER ART FOR THE MAINSTREAM
April 23rd, Monday night 8pm
in Dodge 413

Can a queer writer focus on gay characters in plays, movies, musicals, and TV scripts and still achieve mainstream success?

Join us for tasty panini sandwiches and hear the scoop from Jeff Baron and Tim Acito, two of the most talented playwrights (not to mention composers, directors,and entertainers) working in theater today. (more…)

Columbia University Center for Career Education presents:

Inside the Academic Search Committee -  Faculty Panel

April 17, 2007 at 6:00pm
Philosophy 301

What are the expectations of faculty hiring committees for entry-level candidates?  What preparation is critical to a successful academic job search? If you are interested in how to prepare for an academic, research, or scholarly career, this panel is for you. (more…)

ON THE EDGE: New Independent Cinema From China starts TOMORROW at Columbia University!

This just in: a rare live-painting performance "TRACES" by renowned painters and Chinese "National Treasures" the Zhou Brothers will mark the opening of ON THE EDGE: New Independent Cinema From China TOMORROW in Roone Arledge Auditorium at Columbia University. Also on hand to celebrate the occasion will be readings by acclaimed poet BeiDao and live accompaniment by award-winning musicians Yang Lu and Hsia-Ling Lin.

ON THE EDGE: New Independent Cinema From China (Thursday April 12 – Sunday April 15) Roone Arledge Auditorium at Lerner Hall on Columbia main campus and Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.

And don’t forget the film: "THE WORLD", Jia Zhangke’s lyrical and moving depiction of life in contemporary Beijing, which plays following the performance!

Other films in the festival include "Blind Shaft", "The Orphan of Anyang", "Walking On the Wild Side", and "The Silent Holy Stones".

All of the directors are expected to be in attendance.  There will be a panel discussion with the directors set for Saturday April 14 moderated by esteemed film critic and Columbia University School of the Arts faculty member Richard Peña. This discussion will be free and open to the public.

For a more detailed description of the films please check out the website: http://www.cuarts.com/ontheedge/

Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for non-students. Opening night tickets and performance are $7 for students and $10 for non-students.

For further information please contact Professor Lydia Liu, who is one of the festival organizers: ll2410@columbia.edu.