CAAL NEWS

The first 1,500 CAAL membership donations have been used to match the Gatsby Charitable Foundation's $50,000 Challenge which supports extracurricular student arts projects on campus, student ticket subsidy, and web development.

Thank you for supporting the Arts Initiative!

ABOUT CAAL MEMBERS

• The average age of CAAL members is 31.5 but member graduation years span 2008 to 1945!
• Graduates of all CU schools have joined including Columbia College, Business, GSAS, and SEAS.
• More than 2,200 tickets have been sold to 50 CAAL Nights since our first event on 04/12/2007.

CAAL TESTIMONIALS

"CAAL gives a nice lineup of
special events and highlights
an incredible network of
participating institutions, along
with a great network of young
alumni!"
-Peggy Hannon (CC '05)

"'My Trip to Al-Qaeda' is the best
Columbian event I've been to
since my daughter graduated
SIPA! It was terrific."
-Jack Mendelsohn (SIPA '77)

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Thursday 01/29/09

See Oliver Sacks interview Eric Kandel at the 92nd Street Y

Following a screening of Petra Seeger's film, In Search of Memory: The Neuroscientist Eric Kandel, Oliver Sacks interviews Kandel about his role in the discovery of how memory works. Kandel is a Nobel Prize-winner and the author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. Oliver Sacks, University Artist, is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and the author of many books, including Awakenings and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Filmmaker Petra Seeger introduces the film.

Experience the timeless musical on Broadway!

Originally produced in 1957 and based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. The story follows two rival teenage gangs and the young love that gets caught in its midst.

Dancer Marjorie Folkman
(BC '91) in Garden of Earthly Delights

Martha Clarke brings Hieronymous Bosch's provocative painting to life in a breathtaking flight of fancy about heaven, hell, and the beauty and sins in between. The New York Times calls this production "a jolting spectacle of flesh," and the AP describes Folkman's performance as "memorable." Through Jan. 18th. See what other alumni artists are up to in our alumni artist event calendar.

ALUMNI ARTISTS IN THE NEWS