Back by popular demand!  CAAL Members were invited to FREE All-Pro Standup Showcase performance at Comix. As an added perk, the first round was free.

CAAL Members were also given a wrist-band at check-in that allowed them happy hour prices in the main bar both before AND after the... | Learn More

Severe Clear is based on the memoir by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti, and consists of video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Through their cameras we see the raw sounds of war, capturing the harrowing three hundred mile... | Learn More

The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during... | Learn More

PULSE is the leading U.S. art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. PULSE New York featured a diverse list of 60 premiere, international galleries and new installations and performances as part of its critically acclaimed series of cultural programming.

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Swan Lake
Choreography by Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine

Swan Lake, the last of the great 19th-century Russian ballets, is a work of emotional intensity, inventive choreography and glorious music, a lyrical and moving musical/psychological dance... | Learn More

CAAL Members participated in a night at Time Stands Still, hosted in partnership with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  After the performance, they took part in a talkback with Columbia Journalism professor Helen Benedict, a specialist on the Iraq War and women's... | Learn More

Nearly 200 alumni gathered with the cast of Broadway's newest hit A View From the Bridge (directed by Columbia Arts Initiative Director Gregory Mosher) at the Glass House Tavern. Gregory, Scarlett Johansson, Liev Schreiber, Jessica Hecht, and the rest of the cast took photos with CAAL members,... | Learn More

Oleanna is Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's most controversial drama. This gripping production, directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes, had Los Angeles critics raving during its run.  Oleanna has electrifying dialogue, blazing emotion and an ending that will leave you... | Learn More

CAAL Members will had a private docent-led tour of the Neue Galerie exhibition, "From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection;" a three-course prix-fixe gourmet dinner at the Café Sabarsky, prepared by celebrated New York chef Kurt Gutenbrunner; and a cabaret... | Learn More

CAAL Members saw this brand-new revival of the acclaimed musical Ragtime, which received rave reviews at the Kennedy Center in Washington during it's spring 2009 season.  After the show, CAAL Members had access to a private talkback with the cast.

For many, New York City was the... | Learn More

Columbia alumni Michael Pettis (’81SIPA, ’84BUS) and Charles Saliba (’00CC) discussed current events in China, from financial markets to rock and roll, over a private brunch* with an intimate group of fellow Columbians and Asian Cultural Council... | Learn More

A new wave of Chinese musicians is taking Beijing by storm. Revolving around four venues spread across the city, this burgeoning group of performers are working outside government-controlled media channels, and in the process, capturing the attention of the international music community. They now... | Learn More

CAAL Members toured the private underground cheese-curing caves at Murray's Cheese Shop (New York's oldest) with an affineur (or cheese ager), who cares for hundreds of cheese wheels, turning and washing them regularly to distribute the butterfat and improve flavor while they ripen. They tested... | Learn More

The equally charming divas Joyce DiDonato and Diana Damrau brought their distinct interpretations to the role of Rosina in The Barber of Seville. Rodion Pogossov played the swaggering barber.

The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile... | Learn More

To Duke Ellington, music was his mistress: a sophisticated lady, a clothed woman and a tattooed bride. This special concert presented some of the most sensuous, romantic music from jazz's all-time number one ladies man. Unchallenged in his accomplishment as jazz's greatest composer, Ellington's... | Learn More

Since 1940, the American Ballet Theatre has performed in the greatest theatres around the world, creating a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. CAAL Members attended the premieres of three... | Learn More

Performing arts institutions enrich our lives and drive our economy. But for the first time in a half-century, audiences are dwindling. Are these great institutions on the path to obsolescence? And if that’s the case, can the path be turned in time?

On Monday, October 5th at 6pm,... | Learn More

The critically acclaimed Donmar Warehouse production of William Shakespeare's HAMLET with Jude Law in the title role, directed by Michael Grandage, came to Broadway this fall, following sold out runs in London's West End and a special engagement at Elsinore Castle in... | Learn More

Film enthusiasts congregated at Symphony Space for the inaugural night of the CAA Film Series, which was sponsored by the Columbia Alumni Association, the Columbia Alumni Arts League, and the School of the Arts. The film series, which highlighted alumni achievements in film,... | Learn More

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Joshua Bell, world-renowned master of the violin, joined Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra for Mozart's Adagio and Rondo and Mendelssohn's passionate Violin Concerto.

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CAAL Members were invited to FREE All-Pro Standup Showcase performance at Comix. As an added perk, the first round was free!

CAAL Members were also given a wrist-band at check-in that allowed them happy hour prices in the main bar both before AND... | Learn More

Located on the Hudson River in Beacon, New York, Dia:Beacon occupies a nearly 300,000-square-foot historic printing factory.  The permanent collection is comprised of major works of art from the 1960s to the present, rarely seen by the public. CAAL Members had an hour-long guided tour... | Learn More

CAAL Members attended the kick-off performance of Midsummer Night Swing, now in its 21st season, which heats up Damrosch Park with the rhythms that keep New York dancing. CAAL Members and guests had a dance lesson taught by Paolo "P Lindy" Lanna from Lindy Hop All-Stars with DJ'd tunes by... | Learn More

CAAL members saw the new "brave, breathtaking" rock musical next to normal and met the two Columbians who created it, composer Tom Kitt '96CC and lyricist Brian Yorkey '93CC. The duo first collaborated 15 years ago when they wrote the music, lyrics, and book to the 100th Annual Varsity Show,... | Learn More