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The Activities Board at Columbia (ABC) (All)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/abc/index.html
The Activities Board at Columbia (ABC) currently governs 155 undergraduate student organizations at Columbia University.The membership of student clubs under the ABC generally consists of students from the four undergraduate schools at Columbia: Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of General Studies and Barnard College.
Arts Administration Program (Art, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Phone: 212-678-3271
Contact: Joan Jeffri, Director
Website: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/arad/
E-Mail: arad@columbia.edu
Facebook Group for Class of 2009
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The Arts Administration program reflects the conviction that the management of cultural institutions and arts organizations requires strategic planning, artistic creativity and social commitment. The arts managers capable of responding to the challenges and responsibilities of the arts must possess integrated management and financial skills, knowledge of the artistic process in which they are involved and sensitivity to the dynamics and educational needs of the communities they serve. The Program, which offers a Master of Arts degree, represents an alliance of four disciplines: arts, education, business, and law. It is designed to help professionals meet the challenges of the next decade. These challenges include questions about the long-term health of arts organizations; their missions, governance and management; sources of income, and tax regulations. Such issues as freedom of expression, First Amendment rights, censorship and government intervention in the arts have important implications for international, educational, and cultural policy, and are integral to the Program. Today, arts administration training in the United States is a model in the field that addresses worldwide concerns.
L'Atelier: A French Performance Troupe (Theatre)
Contact: Jon Brilliant
E-Mail: Latelier@barnard.edu
L'Atelier (French for "the studio" or "the workshop") is Columbia's first and only French language performance group. Founded in 2003, the club aims to offer a creative outlet for French language studies. Actors learning French or French speakers eager to perform are all welcome, regardless of level. L'Atelier strives to create a creative community as well as a highly dynamic language environment. Members from Columbia College, SEAS, and GS work hand-in-hand with graduate students and occasional faculty participants. Additionally, we focus on more experimental performance, rather than the traditional canon of French theater. Previous shows include works by Ionesco, Tardieu, Claudelle, as well as a rendition of /Hiroshima Mon Amour/ and several original short films. L'Atelier also offers party events, such as a French karaoke night
and a Cabaret.
Black Box Theatre (Theatre)
Affiliation: Lerner Hall
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall
Black Theatre Ensemble (BTE) (Theatre)
Contact: Javonni Judd, President
Email: jsj2106@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bte/
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Black Theatre Ensemble is intent on establishing a diverse environment for theater on Columbia's campus. We seek to promote minority playwrights and actors, thus giving students of color on campus, and in NYC, an outlet for creative expression that was previously void. Black Theatre Ensemble has a show every semester, and these shows range from musical theater to straight plays to student written sketches. Our choices are as diverse as our casts. We welcome suggestions for plays, and submissions of screenplays for our fall and spring shows.
Club Zamana (Dance, Music, Theatre)
Contact: Varun Gulati, President- vrg2104@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/zamana
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Club Zamana is the largest undergraduate South Asian organization at Columbia University, and a functional umbrella for the South Asian groups on campus. We cater to over 800 general body members and strive to foster harmony, promote cultural awareness, and highlight the South Asian presence at Columbia. Throughout the year, we hold a wide range of events for our members and the community. These events range from political forums, movie nights, community service days, semi formals, career panels, and educational activities. In the spring semester, Zamana puts on a cultural show, Tamasha, featuring performances from all four South Asian dance troupes at Columbia, other student performances, and outside acts.
Columbia Musical Theatre Society (Music, Theatre)
Contact: Claire Halberstadt, President- ch2344@barnard.edu
E-Mail: cmts@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cmts/
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Columbia Musical Theatre Society strives to bring the highest quality theatrical performances, large and small, to the Columbia University community. CMTS is committed to giving students an opportunity to work in any aspect of a production regardless of their major or school. Each semester, CMTS produces a number of shows, in which students independently direct, design, act, and serve in all other roles of the production. By utilizing all the talent of the Columbia community, CMTS aims to produce amateur shows on a level with the surrounding professional scene. Any affiliate of Columbia University who has participated in a CMTS-sponsored production in any capacity within the last twelve months or as Production Head at any date is considered a member.
Columbia Stages (Theatre)
Email: pr@columbiastages.com, info@columbiastages.com, anjili.pal@gmail.com
Website: www.ColumbiaStages.com
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Columbia Stages is the producing arm of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies of Columbia University's School of the Arts. Columbia Stages presents a season of graduate actor and director productions as well as an annual festival of new plays by emerging playwrights. The theatre division offers M.F.A. degrees in acting, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy/script development, stage management and theatre management & producing. The goal of the division is to provide each student with the foundation for a career in professional theatre as well as the tools to embrace an ever-changing theatrical landscape and shape the future of the theatre.
Columbia University Performing Arts League (Theatre)
Contact: Molly Braverman, President- mjb2136@columbia.edu
E-Mail: cupal@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cupal/
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As an umbrella organization, the Columbia University Performing Arts League facilitates discussion between groups regarding the Columbia University theatre community as a whole, encourages the sharing of resources between groups, and serves as an advisory board to any newly formed theatre groups or special projects. CUPAL aims to unite diverse performing groups in open dialogue for common causes. Its collective endeavors aim to improve relationships with administration, increase collaboration and communication across campus, and develop new avenues for otherwise unsupported artists.
CU Players (Theatre)
Contact: Ameneh Bordi, President- amb2208@columbia.edu
Email: cuplayers@gmail.com
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cuplayers/
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Straight theatre. No musicals. No Shakespeare. Since 1906.
Department of Theatre (Theatre)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Location: 404 Milbank Hall
Phone: 212-854-2080
Contact: Heather Seltzer, Departmental Assistant- hseltzer@barnard.edu
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/theatre/
The Barnard College Theatre major, a joint program with the Columbia College major in Drama and Theatre Arts, teaches students to create and interpret drama and theatre in the context of a liberal arts curriculum.
Fruit Paunch (Comedy)
Contact: President, Colin Patrick Drummond
E-Mail: paunch@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/fruitpaunch/
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Are YOU Ready-2-Improv? The ladies and gentlemen of Fruit Paunch. Columbia's longest-running and most prestigious comedy improv troupe, live by this mantra--and they let their enthusiasm and talent for their craft take them all over New York City, where they regularly perform everywhere from Caroline’s On Broadway to CU's very own Furnald Lounge. Some of the Paunch's favorite annual events include their Formal Show in the Black Box, the bi-annual West End show, and their most daunting event of the year, The 24 Hour Show. Fruit Paunch rehearses a healthy mix of short form and long form twice a week, and auditions for the group are held at the beginning of every school year.
Heyman Center for the Humanities (Media, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: A&S
Location: East Campus, Morningside
Phone: 212-854-4270
Contact: Rebecca Hanger
E-Mail: mrh2101@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.heymancenter.org
The newly reconfigured Heyman Center is Columbia University's central site for the Humanities. It brings together the interests not only of the various departments in the Humanities but also the broad conceptual, methodological and value-laden issues that are of interest to the natural sciences and the professional schools of Law, Medicine, Journalism, Arts, and International Affairs. The Heyman Center presents several events on various themes in the Humanities throughout the Fall and Spring semesters each year, which are open not only to all at Columbia but to everyone in New York City and beyond. It also has eight post-doctoral fellows at any given time, each holding a two-year Mellon fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. It plans to have various other levels of fellowship over the next few years for junior and senior faculty both at Columbia and from other universities, as well as some 'New York City Fellows' who are distinguished artists, writers, musicians, and journalists living in the city. Every week of each semester it has a lunch for a group of Columbia faculty fellows who present their work to each other for discussion. The Heyman Center also houses Columbia's Center for Comparative Literature and Society, the Human Rights Center, a group of Columbia's emeritus faculty known as the "Society of Senior Scholars," who teach in the Core Curriculum, and The Friends of the Heyman Center, all of which host seminars and colloquia of their own throughout the year. The Lionel Trilling Seminar (once a semester) and the Edward Said Memorial Lecture (once a year) are also based at the Heyman Center. Notices for these can be found in our Events section on our website.
Horace Mann Auditorium (Media, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: Horace Mann Hall
Horace Mann Theatre (Media, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: Horace Mann Hall
King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe (Theatre)
Contact: Dan Blank, President- dmb2126@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/shakespeare/
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King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe of Columbia University is a not-for-profit group recognized by the Activities Board at Columbia and committed to the ideal of Shakespeare for the simple folk and the simple minded. Their particular brand of Shakespeare has sometimes been called "nomadic", but they prefer to think of it as "too big for the stage". All performances are free, including their trade-mark spring show, which takes place in the great outdoors, staged at different locations around Columbia's Morningside Heights campus. This roving art form requires audiences to be quick of foot and of mind in order to follow the show. In addition to an annual Spring Shakespeare show, they also produce Fall shows which are not necessarily Shakespeare nor necessarily outdoors; however they are necessarily free, and still embodies the commitment to tasteful, quality theatre for which the group is famous.
LateNite Theatre (Theatre)
Contact: Alice Mottola, President- afm2108@barnard.edu
E-Mail: latenitetheatre@gmail.com
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LateNite Theatre maintains a ten-year commitment to the Columbia/Barnard playwright community. We have a simple purpose: to offer our playwrights the opportunity to see their work on stage, giving them a freedom to experiment, to take artistic risks, and above all, to have fun in a non-competitive environment. Each Semester, we bring to life an anthology of new student-written works with these goals in mind.
Minor Latham Playhouse (Theatre)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Location: Milbank Hall
NOMADS
New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students (Theatre)
Phone: 212 266-5525
Email: nomads.columbia@gmail.com
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/nomadscolumbia/
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NOMADS produces original student-written theatre each semester, and is one of only two clubs at Columbia University that presents student-writing for the stage. From playwrights and composers, to actors, directors, designers, and technicians, NOMADS is dedicated to fostering artistic growth and collaboration among Columbia University theatre artists. Through producing and developing original student theatrical works , we aim to encourage emerging theatre artists to explore their creativity and develop their own particular crafts for the stage. We seek to present challenging, entertaining, and thought-provoking material for audiences at Columbia and in the wider New York theatre world. In addition to full productions, NOMADS programs include: The NOMADS Theatre Workshop and The PlayPen. Wander no more! Join NOMADS!
Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies (Theatre)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 601 Dodge Hall
Roone Arledge Auditorium (Media, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: Lerner Hall
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lernerhall/index.html
School of the Arts- Student Affairs (Media, Music, Theatre)
Whether you're a continuing student or new to the School of the Arts, the Office of Student Affairs is designed to make your time in the M.F.A. program easier and enrich your School of the Arts experience as whole. Aside from providing information to students regarding registration, financial aid, housing, student activities, general orientation and graduation (among others), we also serve as a bridge to the rest of Columbia University.
Southern Asian Institute (Media, Music, Theatre)
Location: International Affairs Building, 11th Floor
Phone: 212-854-3616
Contact: Vidya Dehejia, Director
E-Mail: southasia@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/sai/
The Southern Asian Institute coordinates the many activities at Columbia University that relate to Southern Asia -- mainly the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. Its conferences, seminars, exhibits, films, and lecture series bring together faculty and students with widely varying interests and backgrounds. It works with many South Asia groups on campus and off. Because of its location in New York City, the Institute has lively ties with persons serving in the United Nations, the diplomatic community, and many international agencies. It is also in the midst of the largest South Asian ethnic community in North America, with all its cultural richness.
Student Development & Activities (Media, Music, Theatre)
Phone: 212-854-3611
E-mail: activities@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/sda/
Student Development and Activities (SDA) is committed to helping students enhance their leadership skills and explore the co-curricular opportunities available at Columbia. SDA forges a sense of community by providing opportunities for social interaction and student participation in community life and governance. Whether you are looking for advice in running your organization, planning an event, organizing your financial records, starting a group, or if you just want to brainstorm, the SDA staff is here to support you.
Theatre Division- School of the Arts (Theatre)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 601 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-3408
E-Mail: theatre@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.app.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/theatre/index.jsp
The Theatre Arts Division attracts students of acting, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, and management who have the talent, vision, and commitment to become exceptional artists. At Columbia they interact with some of the leading creators, practitioners, producers, and analysts of today's theatre, acquiring disciplines rooted deeply in the classics while branching out into new forms and exploring the cutting edge of theatrical art. The best theatre in every culture and in all eras has not only reflected its time but also shaped its society and often helped point it toward the future. We believe we can restore the theatre to a place of influence in our culture by reminding audiences of the parts they play in forming a civilization that aspires to the highest ideals of human endeavor.
The Varsity Show (Theatre)
E-Mail: varsity@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.thevarsityshow.com/
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The Varsity Show, founded in 1894, is one of the oldest traditions at Columbia University, and certainly its oldest performing arts tradition. The long list of alumni includes such distinguished names as Rogers '23. Hammerstein '16, Hart '18, and I.A.L. Diamond' 41. Each year, the Varsity Show attracts some of Columbia and Barnard's finest actors and creative talents. Dedicated to producing a unique full-length show that skews and satirizes many dubious aspects of life at Columbia, the Varsity Show is often written and inspired by a long list of contributors, including the cast, production and creative teams.
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