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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American Buffalo and post-show party with Gregory Mosher and the cast!

Experience the best of NYC culture through CAAL Nights! These evenings provide members the opportunity to meet fellow alumni over drinks, converse with artists about their work, and navigate the city's arts scene.

Next up see the revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo, starring John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer, and Haley Joel Osment and hear from Arts Initiative Director Gregory Mosher who directed and produced the premieres of twenty-three of David Mamet’s plays, beginning with American Buffalo in 1975.

See Renée Fleming perform at the Met Opera for $15!

Jules Massenet’s opera Thaïs, set in Roman Egypt, is about a Cenobite monk, Athanaël, who attempts to convert Thaïs, a courtesan of Alexandria and devotée of Venus. The radiant Renée Fleming plays the Egyptian courtesan in search of spiritual sustenance, and Thomas Hampson is the monk who falls from grace.

Huma Bhabha, SoA '89 @ Aldrich
Contemporary Art Museum

Winner of the 2008 Emerging Artist Award, Huma Bhabha creates monumental figurative sculptures reminiscent of classical Egyptian and Greek sculpture, except that they are made of out of chicken wire and car parts. Check out what other alumni artists are up to in our alumni artist event calendar.

ALUMNI ARTISTS IN THE NEWS

Those Who Traffic in Spin Can Get Caught in the Cycle
New York Times - Nov 14, 2008

“The projected images that flicker and fade like pale fireworks between scenes of Farragut North — Beau Willimon’s (CC ’99, SoA ’93) . . . play about spinmeisters on the campaign trail — are so immediately and overwhelmingly familiar that sensitive, CNN-watching theatergoers may flinch.”

Rick Hilles wins Whiting Writers' Award
Vanderbilt University - Nov 3, 2008

Rick Hilles (SoA ’96 ), an acclaimed poet and assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, was named one of 10 recipients of the 2008 Whiting Writer’s Award, which carries a $50,000 prize.

Rivka Galchen Among Nominees for Canada Governor General’s Literary Awards
Canadian Press - Oct 21, 2008

The 2008 Governor General's Literary Awards have been announced, and Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (SoA ’06) is an English-language finalist.