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Columbia Arts Groups and Resources A-Z ALL

[Literature and Writing ]

Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society (Literature and Writing)
Location: 526 W 114th St
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/adp
E-Mail: mjm2120@columbia.edu
Contact: Michael Magdaleno, President
As one of the University's few student groups with both an express dedication to literature and its own house on campus, the ADP Literary Society fills dual roles. First, we are committed to supporting the arts both through our bi-weekly open-mic "Lit Nights," where the members of the community at large are encouraged to bring and read their favorite works, original or otherwise, and through our monthly Coffee Haus music series, one of the few outlets on campus for student bands to perform publicly. Second, the ADP Literary Society is a place for members of the Society and their friends to congregate and socialize during both private and public events throughout the year.

Anime Club (Film)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anime/
We are Columbia University anime club. What we do: we are a group of students who like to get together to watch, discuss, or play anime shows or games. We are not limited to Japanese anime. The club gives you an opportunity to meet like-minded students, and watch or discuss some of the latest and greatest anime out there. We show anime on a schedule which will be announced to our mailing list.
To join our mailing list, send an email to majordomo@columbia.edu with the text:
subscribe anime-list as the only text in the email.

Art History Underground (Art)
Art History Underground is a student led club in Columbia University. It organizes events for Art History and Archaeology majors, concentrators, and other students with interest. It also has a biannual journal with the same name. Its primary mission is to create a community which consists of prospective and current art historians along with artists, who want to participate in the artistic scene of New York City both by publishing in its biannual Art-journal (also online at the club's website) and by meeting others in their field. In addition to these, Art History Underground sponsors Collision, the famuous annual art fair in NYC which is organized by students only.

Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery (Art)
Affiliation: GSAPP
Location: Buell Hall
Phone: 212-854-3414

Artist Society (Art)
E-mail: stt2104@columbia.edu
Contact: Sonia Tycko
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2233982842
The Artist Society is a fine-arts creating group that runs weekly informal figure drawing sessions in 501 Dodge Hall each Friday from 6-8pm. We run some larger events every semester, including the Drawathon and Models on the Sundial. The Artist Society hires student models for $15/hr: e-mail hdh2105@columbia.edu to sign up.

Arts Administration Program (Art)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Phone: 212-678-3271
Website: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/arad/
E-Mail: arad@columbia.edu
Contact: Joan Jeffri, Director
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)
E-Mail: Latelier@barnard.edu
Contact: Jon Brilliant
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.

Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library (Art)
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: 300 Avery Hall
Phone: 212-854-3501
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/index.html
The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library collects books and periodicals in architecture, historic preservation, art history, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts, city planning, real estate, and archaeology. The scope of the Avery collection in architecture is outstanding; it ranges from the first Western printed book on architecture, De re aedificatoria (1485), by Leone Battista Alberti, to the classics of modernism by Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Avery's drawing and manuscript collection holds 400,000 drawings and original records.

Bacchantae (Music)
Website: www.barnard.edu/club/sing
E-Mail: as2566@barnard.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200176371
Contact: Adrienne Stillman, Co-President
Bacchantae is the official all-female a cappella group of Barnard College. We sprang forth from Barnard College 23 years ago to begin a tradition of spunky, soulful, silly, sexy, and stunning self-arranged pop, folk, and R&B from the last 5 decades of American music. As we are Barnard's only official a cappella group, Bacchantae is also privileged to sing Barnard's dear alma mater for many formal Barnard College events.

Bach Society (Music)
Website: http://www.bachsociety.com
E-Mail: bach@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200023068
Since its founding in 1999 by a group of Columbia University musicians, the Bach Society (orchestra and chorus) has become a major part of musical life both at Columbia and throughout Manhattan. Composed of Columbia students as well as young musicians from around New York, the Bach Society presents several concerts both on and off campus during each academic year. The primary focus of the Bach Society's performance activities is the music, legacy, and influence of J.S. Bach.

Barnard College Musical Theatre (Theatre)

Barnard/Columbia Architecture Society
Barnard/Columbia Architecture Society is a student run group providing architectural awareness to undergraduate students at Columbia University. Our activities include: field trips, gallery and office tours, display of student work, the publication of monthly calendars, alternative career night, exploring New York, newsletters and a journal at the end of the academic year. The Architecture Society provides a forum for students interested in architecture as a field of study to ask questions, learn about graduate schools and the profession within the context of New York City. It is a loosely structured group; one more for social and intellectual gatherings than a strictly run political organization.

Barnard-Columbia Chamber Singers (Music)
E-Mail: garcher@barnard.edu
Contact: Gail Archer, Director

Barnard-Columbia Chorus (Music)
E-mail: garcher@barnard.edu
Contact: Gail Archer, Director

Barnard Library Zine Collection (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Barnard College Library
Location: Barnard College, Lehman Hall, 2nd Floor
Phone: 2128544615
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/library/zines
E-Mail: zines@barnard.com
Contact: Jenna Freedman
IM: BarnardLibJenna
Short for magazine or fanzine, zines are self-publications, motivated by a desire for self-expression, not for profit. Although zines, a rich and democratic form of self-expression that range from scholarly treatises on diverse issues to wildly creative artworks, have been around for a long time, few libraries have yet to begin collecting and preserving them. Our collection development policy provides both contemporary and future researchers a unique insight into today's feminist culture. Barnard's zines are primarily in the area of women's studies, featuring personal and political publications on activism, anarchism, body image, feminism, gender, lesbians, menstruation, parenting, sexual assault, and other topics. They are created by women of color, NYC and other urban women. The term "woman" applies to anyone who self-identifies as such.

cuBHANGRA (Dance)
E-Mail: bhangra@columbia.edu
Contact: Hans Sahni, President
Established in 2002, cuBHANGRA is a Punjabi Folk dance team representing Columbia University. The team's dance is first and foremost inspired by a passion for Punjabi culture. cuBHANGRA prides itself in its high energy and creative dancing style. Most recently, they have placed 1st at Bhangra Blowout 13 and 3rd at Bhangra Blizzard 3. Forged in the heart of Punjab and brought together by the great city of New York, prepare yourself for the sensation that is cuBHANGRA.

The Birch (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.thebirchonline.org
E-Mail: editor@thebirchonline.org
Contact: Mark Krotov, Editor-in-chief Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200209582
The Birch is the first student-run undergraduate journal in America dedicated specifically to Slavic studies. It is a biannual publication and accepts submissions pertaining to Slavic culture and politics, literary criticism, and creative writing.

Black Box Theatre (Theatre)
Affiliation: Lerner Hall
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall

Black Theatre Ensemble (BTE) (Theatre)
E-Mail: sl2038@columbia.edu
Contact: Stephanie Louis-Charles, President
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2223235771
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.

The Blue and White (Literarature)
Website: http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=print
The Blue and White is a magazine written by undergraduates at Columbia University, New York City. Founded in 1890, the magazine has dedicated itself throughout its existence to providing students an outlet for intellectual and political discussion, literary publication, and general parody.
In 2006, The Blue and White established the Bwog, an online blog counterpart to the magazine, which aims to bring its readership gossip and other Columbia news around the clock.

Blue Notebooks (Literature)
Website: http://thebluenotebooks.com
We interview/harrass established writers, artists, thinkers. Our new website is rife with interviews with writers, feature essays, and blogs detailing libidinous activities, either engaged in or dreamt about by our own demented BN members.

Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture (Art)
Affiliation: GSAPP
Location: 400 Avery Hall
Phone: 212-854-8165
Website: http://www.arch.columbia.edu/buell/
E-Mail: buellcenter@columbia.edu

Butler Library (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: Butler Library, 3rd Floor North
Phone: 212-854-7309
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html
Butler Library houses 2 million volumes which comprise the University's collections in the humanities, with particular strengths in history (including government documents and social science materials published before 1974), literature, philosophy and religion, as well as one of the country's most extensive collections of materials pertinent to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity. The 3rd floor Circulation area features numerous cases with rotating exhibitions spotlighting aspects of the University's history and highlighting library collections.

C.U.M.B. (Columbia University Marching Band) (Music)
Website: http://www.cumb.org
E-Mail: majordomo@columbia.edu
Contact: Will Schuessler, Head Manager
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200010175
In the 50s, our great country was going through a lot of changes. Disco was at its peak, little Shirley Temple was charming the hearts of Americans everywhere, Jesus was walking the earth, and Ronald Reagan was pushing hard for the new women's suffrage movement. The Columbia University Marching Band, which had always been slightly wacky, took a good look at itself. "How," we asked ourselves, "could we make being in a marching band even more fun?" Well, we decided that the whole marching around and forming rhombi thing had gone out of style with World War II. So we introduced the world to the "scramble band" concept--so named for the way bandies would scramble from one interesting formation to the next. As Band became more popular, people who didn't play stuff started to join solely as an outlet for their cleverness.

C.V. Starr East Asian Library (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: 300 Kent Hall
Phone: 212-854-4318
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/index.html
The C. V. Starr East Asian Library is one of the major collections for the study of East Asia in the United States, with over 783,000 volumes of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Mongol, Manchu, and Western-language materials and over 5,000 periodical titles. The Library also features rotating exhibitions.

Center for Comparative Literature and Society (Literature and Society)
Affiliation: Dept. Anthrop., Art His., Classics, EALAC, Eng, Fr., Ger, His, Ital, MEALAC, Music, Phil, Poli Sci, Re., Sl. Lang, Soc, Span, Port.
Location: Heyman Center, HB1-1
Phone: 212-854-4541
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/icls/index.html
E-Mail: ccls@columbia.edu
Contact: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Director
The Center for Comparative Literature and Society (CCLS) was founded at Columbia in 1998 to promote a global perspective in the study of literature, culture, and its social context. It houses the interdepartmental undergraduate and graduate programs in comparative literature and society. It draws its faculty from the humanities, the social sciences, and the Schools of Architecture and Law.

Center for Ethnomusicology (Media)
Affiliation: Department of Music
Location: 701A and 701C Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-7185
Website: http://www.ethnocenter.org
E-Mail: aaf19@columbia.edu
Contact: Prof. Aaron A. Fox, Director
The Center for Ethnomusicology is a unique institution in the discipline and at Columbia University. Founded in 1967 by Professor Willard Rhodes and Prof. Nicholas England, the Center was an institutional home to the prominent mid-century music collector Laura Boulton during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Center is more than an archive of tapes and instruments. It is also the hub of the graduate program in ethnomusicology at Columbia, and of musical activity on the Columbia campus. We support the work of our graduate students and enrich the content of our undergraduate classes by sponsoring talks and performances by major scholars and musicians. We sponsor a regular slate of talks and performances of vernacular and traditional musics.

Center for Jazz Studies (Music)
Affiliation: Department of English
Location: Prentis Hall, 4th Floor
Phone: 212-851-1633
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjs/
E-Mail: jazz@columbia.edu
The mission of Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies is to include jazz as a part of Columbia University's core curriculum for the twenty-first century. In keeping with the great mission of Columbia University as a whole, the Center for Jazz Studies is committed to offering students a "broad range of innovative multidisciplinary programs, and through the earnest exploration of difficult questions," to provide "students from the United States and around the world with the depth of understanding and intellectual flexibility they need to respond to the challenges in the years to come."

Center for Korean Research (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ckr/
The Center for Korean Research was established within the East Asian Institute in 1988 with the generous support of the Korean Committee for the Promotion of Korean Studies at Columbia University, and continued to expand with the support of the Korean Foundation. In cooperation with other organizations from inside and outside the East Asian Institute, the Center has sponsored visiting scholars and research associates as well as cultural events such as movies and concerts, monthly Contemporary Korean Affairs Seminars, and noon lecture series on Korea-related topics. Among the most important goals pursued by the Center has been the expansion of Korean instructional resources in history, political science/international relations, sociology, anthropology, business, economics, and literature. Visiting Professors from Korea affiliated with the institute have included Dr. Sung-joo Han, Dr. Sang-jin Han, Dr. Roy Kim, and others, who have offered a variety of courses at Columbia in their specific fields.

Chamber Ensemble (Music)

Chowdah (Comedy)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chowdah/
E-Mail: chowdah@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200010410
Established in 1843 as a means to subvert the authority of Italian silk merchants, Chowdah has been an integral part of the Columbia campus for centuries. Due to a clerical error in 2004, Chowdah abandoned its original goals of hate mongering and refocused its efforts toward sketch comedy. Although disappointed at the resulting political equality, Chowdah took a liking to the craft of comedy and quickly became the most talented sketch comedy group this campus has ever seen.

Citizen: The Campus Talk Show (Media)
E-Mail: talkshow@columbia.edu
Cornel West, Gloria Steinem, Bell Hooks, Hyun Kyung Chung, and Eddie Palmieri anchored the first season of Citizen: The Campus Talk Show. Hosted by Teachers College adjunct lecturer and doctoral candidate Kelvin Shawn Sealey, Citizen features celebrated guests in dialogue with the host on issues of social consequence. Each show runs approximately one hour and tickets are free to the public.

Clefhangers (Music)
Website: http://www.clefs.net
E-Mail: clefhangers@columbia.edu
Contact: Rebecca Marcyes
The Clefhangers (a.k.a. "Clefs") are students at Columbia University who form a shockingly hot contemporary coed a cappella group in NYC. Since 1988, they've been singing their heads off from California to Georgia to Paris. Last Fall they took first place in the Quarterfinal Round of the ICCAs, winning the award for Best Choreography and Best Vocal Percussion! Check out their latest album, 47 Doors.

The Collection (Literature and Writing)
E-Mail: thecollection@gmail.com
The Collection is Columbia's student-run magazine of serial fiction. Our writers create characters who are somehow related - either directly or tangentially - to the Columbia campus or Morningside Heights, and continue their stories throughout each issue. The stories are then illustrated by a talented group of student artists. We also have limited space for one-off submissions of fiction or poetry.

Collegium Musicum (Music)
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/collegium/
E-Mail: columbiacollegium@yahoo.com
The Collegium Musicum is one of Columbia University's leading choral ensembles. While traditionally maintaining a lean, intimate chamber choir size of 16 to 40 members, the repertoire of the last 10 years of the Collegium has included ventures into such ambitious repertoire as the Brahms Requiem, in collaboration with the Manhattan School of Music choir and Columbia University Orchestra. Founded in the mid-1950s, the Collegium was first conceived as an opportunity for graduate students in musicology to experience early music in a performance context that was tightly integrated with the academic curriculum. It soon developed into an ensemble featuring instruments as well as singers (with world renowned music scholar Richard Taruskin as its first gambist). The staple repertoire of the Collegium has been Medieval and Renaissance composers such as Machaut, Josquin, Palestrina, Ockeghem, Tallis, and Byrd as well as Baroque composers such as Monteverdi and Bach. The Collegium also has a commitment to perform works which are not frequently performed, as well as 20-th century and contemporary music. Recent examples of this are concerts featuring the works of John Cage and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. The Collegium has served as a springboard for former directors, some of whom have founded notable ensembles including Capella Nova (Richard Taruskin), Pomerium (Alexander Blachly), and Anonymous 4 (Susan Hellauer), and Eric Rice (the Collegium Musicum of University of Connecticut). Historic recordings of the Collegium can still be found at http://minstrelrecords.com/Coll_Des.htm

Columbia Architecture Society (Art)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/architecturesociety/
E-Mail: architeturesociety@gmail.com
Architecture Society is not a club you "join," but rather one in which the board members are the decision makers and event planners and the rest of the society (a.k.a. anyone who gets arch. soc. emails) reaps the benefits of those decisions. Some popular events that Architecture Society sponsors are Grad School Information Night, Portfolio Night, Pumkin Carving, and Model Shoot Night. Some new programs we're hoping to put together this year are organized tours to notable New York City Buildings and tours to faculty's own architecture firms. Architecture Society holds meetings weekly, and anyone in the Columbia Community is welcome to attend. Currently meetings are on Wednesday evenings, 10PM in the Digital Architecture Lab (DAL) on the 3rd floor of Barnard Hall.

Columbia Ballet Collaborative (Dance)
Contacts: Lydia Walker (Artistic Director) lrw2105@columbia.edu and Ashley
Flood (Executive Director) amf2146@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5100800255
Founded by professional ballet dancers who are students at Columbia University. Seeking to combine our movement vocabulary with the ideas we are coming into contact with on campus. Desiring to articulate the continued relevance of our art form. Inviting artists of other media in the university community to join with us in our artistic endeavors

Columbia Ballroom Dance Team (Dance)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ballroomteam/
E-Mail: ev2154@columbia.edu
Contact: Liza Volkova, President
The Columbia University Ballroom Dance Team brings the beauty and excitement of ballroom to the University community. We are a competitive dance team that offers instruction in international Latin and standard with top coaches in New York City for those interested in competition, as well as classes in social dancing for those who just want to know a little something for parties and fun. In addition to classes and competitions, CUBDT co-sponsors one of the largest amateur competitions in the country, the Manhattan Amateur Classic, participates in a variety of University and city performances and events, and provides opportunities to pursue interest in ballroom through activities like ballroom social events and trips to amateur and professional performances. CUBDT is a great way to take your interest to ballroom dancing to any level you want - contact us if you want information on the team, or other ballroom resources. Happy Dancing!

The Columbia Business School Art Association (Art, Theatre)
E-mail: Min Santandrea - mkl2108@columbia.edu
Karen Adam - kba3@columbia.edu
This social club's mission is to foster an ongoing relationship between professional and academic arts institutions and the Columbia Business School. Its purpose is to lead and coordinate regular events in both the visual and performing arts so that students find it fun, easy and affordable to enjoy the arts in New York City. The Association also seeks to develop a network of current and former B-school students who are artistically inclined.

Columbia Classical Performers (Theatre)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccp/
E-Mail: crh2109@columbia.edu
Contact: Christopher Haas, Co-President
Columbia Classical Performers is a new student-run club on campus. Their mission is to help musicians at Columbia have accessible solo performance opportunities on campus. This year, they will have four recitals per semester, with a one and a half hour cap per concert. They also help musicians plan their own solo recitals by assisting them in finding performance venues on campus.

Columbia Composers (Music)
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/%7Ecc/
E-Mail: cc@music.columbia.edu
Columbia Composers is a non-profit student-run organization created in the 1950's to perform musical works by Columbia graduate students.

Columbia Concerts (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/concerts/
E-Mail: concerts@columbia.edu

Columbia Daily Spectator: Arts & Entertainment (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=section/3
E-Mail: arts@columbiaspectator.com
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200021166
The Columbia Daily Spectator is the second-oldest college daily paper in the country and has been financially independent form the University since 1962. The newspaper is published five days a week during the academic year and weekly during the summer. The Columbia Daily Spectator is written and edited by Columbia University undergraduates. It serves the communities of Columbia University and Morningside Heights as a forum for the expression of diverse viewpoints, a top source for in-depth and comprehensive news and features, and a rewarding extracurricular opportunity for their staff. Serving a community of over 60,000 students, faculty, administrators, and Morningside Heights residents, the Columbia Daily Spectator is the most widely read newspaper in Morningside Heights and Harlem.

Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/cjlc/
E-Mail: cjlc@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200303236
The Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism aims to provide undergraduate students with a forum in which they can both read each other's work and develop their own critical writing. This effort incorporates the essays students compose into an ongoing academic conversation, by encouraging students to view themselves as vital members of the intellectual community they inhabit. The journal wishes to strengthen the physical undergraduate community, as well, by providing a space for students to meet, befriend, and learn from each other.

Columbia Music Presents (Music)
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200337908
E-Mail: columbiamusicpresents@gmail.com

Columbia Musical Theatre Society (Theatre)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cmts/
E-Mail: cmts@columbia.edu
Contact: Jeff Julian, President
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200045625
Columbia Musical Theatre Society strives to bring the highest quality theatrical performances, large and small, both musicals and straight plays, 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 New Music (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cnm/
E-Mail: mail@columbianewmusic.com
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10536800391
Contact: Joe Rubinstein
Columbia New Music provides a venue to join student composers and performers who are interested in new music. Showcasing the talents of both groups, we attempt to present "new music" to a broad range of listeners in order to portray the beauty and diversity of music that is informed by our modern age. Columbia New Music supports all forms of new musical creativity, from classical composition, to electronic music, to noise, experimental jazz, and other popular mediums.

Columbia Review (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/review/
E-Mail: columbiareview@columbia.edu
Contact: Robert Kohen
The Columbia Review is published twice a year. The Fall 2004 press run was 1600 copies, which were made available free of charge on the Columbia campus. Unlike other campus magazines, The Columbia Review does not specialize in the work of any particular gender, ethnic group, or university division.

Columbia Stages (Theatre)
Website: www.ColumbiaStages.com
Email: pr@columbiastages.com
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 Television CTV (Media)
Phone: 212-854-8100
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ctv/
E-Mail: ctv-news@columbia.edu
Contact: Bradley Blackburn
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200151918
CTV is flushing out our schedule with brand-spanking-new original programming. From short films, to original series; from Basketball to political speakers; CTV is your place to find it all.

Columbia University Archives (Media)
Location: 210 Low Library
Phone: 212-854-3786
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/uarchives/index.html
E-Mail: sgh2105@columbia.edu
Contact: Susan G. Hamson
Collection consists of over 7,000 linear feet of records that document the history of Columbia University; King's College Room museum features furniture, memorabilia, and paintings celebrating Columbia's 18th century roots.

Columbia University Dance Team (Dance)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dance/
E-Mail: columbiadanceteam@gmail.com
Contact: Alexandra Stylianos
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200034144
The Columbia University Dance Team performs dance routines in hip-hop, jazz and pom styles. The Team competes both regionally and nationally, and performs campus-wide at events such as Midnight Mania and the home games of Columbia Men's Basketball team. The Team also performs throughout New York City, most recently at a Seventeen Magazine event. The Team's next performance will be at the 2005 ING New York City Marathon.

Columbia University Film Festival (Film)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Website: http://www.cufilmfest.com
The Columbia University Film Festival is a weeklong festival of new student thesis work--film screenings and screenplay readings--presented annually by the Columbia University Graduate Film Division in the School of the Arts, one of the nation's leading academic training programs for filmmaking. The Film Festival has earned an international reputation as a launching pad for emerging talent. Columbia Film Division students have won top Student Academy Award Medals in seven out of the last eight years.

Columbia University Film Productions (Film)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cufp/index.html
E-Mail: cufilmproductions@columbia.edu
Contact: Kishori Rajan, President
Columbia University Flim Productions (CUFP) is the leading undergraduate resource for filmmaking at Columbia University. This student organization supports all film related needs for the Columbia undergraduate community. CUFP supplements the theoretical courses in the Columbia film division and offers undergraduate students the opportunity to master the art of filmmaking. CUFP is recognized by the Activities Board of Columbia (ABC), the General Studies Student Counsel (GSSC), as well as the Film Department, which works hand in hand with the organization. With over 330 active members, CUFP organizes guest lectures, training seminars, and other educational film related events. CUFP also organizes independent film screenings with some of the leading films and filmmakers in the NY independent scene. CUFP has an annual film festival showcasing some of the finest films from the undergraduate community at Columbia.

Columbia University Gospel Choir (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gospel/
E-Mail: via WebPage
Contact: Wendy Francois
The purpose for the Columbia University Gospel Choir is to rejoice in the name of God through song as well as minister to the Columbia community. They are a Christian ministry dedicated to spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They seek to lead others to the wonderful love and grace of Jesus Christ. The Gospel Choir relays the message of the Gospel through musical performances throughout the year. They meet to fellowship and sing praise to God.

Columbia University Jazz Ensemble (Music)
Location: 621 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-9862
E-Mail: cjw5@columbia.edu
Contact: Prof. Chris Washburne
This ensemble offers advanced level jazz musicians in Columbia's student body an opportunity to perform in a small jazz group setting playing variety of jazz styles including straight ahead, Latin jazz, and bebop. Performances will take place at Smoke, one of New York's premier jazz clubs. The ensemble is directed by Prof. Chris Washburne. The group will be limited to eight musicians. The ensemble will meet every Friday from 1-3 PM in 112 Dodge Hall. Two Sunday afternoon performances at Smoke each semester and other additional campus performances will be required (1 credit hour). The ensemble will also perform at various social events around the campus.

Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival (Film)
Website: http://www.cufestival.com/
E-Mail: calvin.sun@columbia.edu
Contact: Calvin. D Sun, Co-Director
The National Undergraduate Film Festival of Columbia University endeavors to discover and realize the talent of fellow student filmmakers as well as to support and exhibit outstanding independent films created by students across the country. Founded by Columbia students and filmmakers Brian Foo '08 and Calvin Sun '08, the festival gives students a means to appreciate independent filmmaking created by their peers nationwide, hoping to inspire them with the art of independent filmmaking. This event will be held on the Columbia University campus, featuring ten to twelve short student films selected for their distinction and excellence among a pool of submissions from across the country.

Columbia University Orchestra (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cuo/index.html
Contact: Luke Rinderknecht at cuoluke@gmail.com
The Columbia University Orchestra was founded by composer Edward MacDowell in 1896, and is the oldest continually operating university orchestra in the United States. As a course within the Department of Music, the principal mission of the Orchestra is to give students the opportunity to perform in an ensemble of the most challenging nature possible.

Columbia University Performing Arts League (Theatre)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cupal/
E-Mail: cupal@columbia.edu
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.

Columbia University Wind Ensemble (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wind/
E-Mail: wind-exec@columbia.edu
The Columbia Wind Ensemble is comprised of 55 woodwind, brass and percussion players who are undergraduate students, graduate students, and community members from all academic fields. The group performs the best of the wind ensemble repertoire which vary in instrumentation and style. On average the Wind Ensemble plays four formal concerts per school year in different venues around the Columbia University campus. Membership is by audition.

Columbia University Glee Club (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/glee/
The Columbia University Glee Club is the oldest student organization at Columbia and one of the oldest in the country. Each semester, the Glee Club performs one large concert, in addition to singing at other functions throughout the year. The Glee Club welcomes new members, even those with minimal singing experience; auditions are not necessary.

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/journal/
E-Mail: info@columbiajournal.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21414116528
Columbia is a journal of literature and art, which prides itself on variety in the issues it produces and the writers it includes. The magazine is edited by a team of writers with a keen eye for quality new writing and a strong sense of what they want to see in a journal.

Communique
Website: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/sipa_publications/communique.html
Communiqué is a student-written, student-run newspaper of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. The editors are solely responsible for its content.

Computer Music Center (Media)
Affiliation: Department of Music
Location: Prentis Hall, 3rd Floor
Phone: 212-854-9266
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/
E-Mail: cmc@music.columbia.edu
The Computer Music Center at Columbia University is an innovative and exciting music and arts technology facility with a long history of creative excellence. The CMC maintains workspaces in two separate locations: one in Dodge Hall on the main Columbia campus (1/9 train to 116th Street), and another, larger facility on the third floor of Prentis Hall (1 train to 125th Street). There are many opportunities for involvement in CMC activities. Students, researchers and creative artists working at the Center come from many different divisions within Columbia University. The primary mission of the CMC is to operate at the intersection of musical expression and technological development, and as a result the Center has become involved in a broad range of interesting projects. The CMC has also produced events aimed at reaching out to a wider community, both locally in New York and globally in a number of different international venues.

CU Journal of American Studies
CJAS is the peer-reviewed annual print publication of Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and parent of CJAS online.

CU Players
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cuplayers/
straight theatre. no musicals. no shakespeare. since 1906.

CU Raas Team (Dance)
E-Mail: abs2025@columbia.edu
Contact: Aarti Surti

CU Records (Media)
E-Mail: curecords@gmail.com

CU Step (Dance)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/stepteam/
E-Mail: custep@columbia.edu

Columbia University Swing Dance Club (Dance)
(Formerly known as CU Swing)Contact: Frank Nestor, fpn2102@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/swing
Columbia University Swing Dance club exists to unify the swing dance community of Columbia University. Strong ties with America's unique sub-culture of jazz music and movement allow us to promote the dance as an exciting social endeavor. The CU Swing Dance Club is dedicated to providing events and instruction in Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Charleston. Our members organize and attend events throughout New York City.

The Current (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/
The Current is a journal of contemporary politics, culture and Jewish affairs at Columbia University. Launched in December 2005, The Current publishes essays on a broad range of subjects, with letters to the editor, an editorial, and book reviews appearing in each issue.

The Current's Spring 2007 issue was the first-ever Columbia publication to be printed in a 'green'--environmentally friendly--manner. The Current's paper is 100% Forest Stewardship Council certified, and 50% of it comes from recycled sources, of which 25% is post-consumer waste. Additionally, no chlorine or acids were used to bleach the paper or publish the journal.

Current Musicology (Media)
Location: Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-1632
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/~curmus/
E-Mail: current-musicology@columbia.edu
Contact: Karen Hiles
Current Musicology (CM) is a leading forum for scholarly music research, seeking to reflect the forefront of thought in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, as well as music cognition, philosophy of music, and interdisciplinary studies. CM was founded in 1965 by graduate students at Columbia University as a semiannual review that would primarily serve the needs of musicologists who are about to undertake, are presently engaged in, or have recently completed their graduate studies. From its inception, the aim of the journal was to publish short articles of research, criticism, and opinion, predominantly by younger authors. The term 'musicology' in the journal's title is to be understood in the broadest sense possible. The wide scope of the journal is evident in special issues devoted to specific topics, in the broad range of scholarship encouraged, and in the variety of books reviewed.

Department of Architecture (Art)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Location: 310 Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-8430
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archprogram/
E-Mail: architecture@barnard.edu
The major in architecture provides students with the opportunity to explore the discipline of architecture within the context of the College's commitment to liberal arts. The major is introduced through a series of studio and academic courses that explore the multiple relationships between architectural design, history, theory, and criticism. Students are expected to develop technical skills, design excellence, and a critical understanding of architecture as part of our visual, social, and political history and culture. The major is designed to prepare our students to work in architecture and related disciplines or pursue graduate study. Most of our students take advantage of the resources of New York City and the teaching faculty by working in internships in the city while majoring in the field.

Department of Art History – Barnard (Art)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Location: 301 Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-2118
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/arthist/
E-Mail: esher@barnard.edu
Art History, which is devoted to the study of the visual arts, is one of the broadest of the humanistic disciplines. It is concerned not only with the nature of works of art -- their form, style, and content, but also with the social, political, and cultural circumstances that shape them. The department, fortunate in being located in New York City, one of the world's great art centers, takes full advantage of the rich resources of the city's museums and galleries in its course of study.

Department of Art History and Archaeology (Art)
Affiliation: GSAS
Location: 826 Schermerhorn Hall
Phone: 212-854-4505
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/
The Art History and Archeology Department was founded in conjunction with the special resources in archaeology and architecture at the Avery Memorial Library as inspired by great European traditions of archaeology, connoisseurship, and iconology. Well before recent advances, Columbia art historians transcended the geographical and cultural boundaries of the West. Since Paul Wingert expanded the Department's curriculum in the 1930s, coursework in the study of the arts of Africa, Oceania, Native America, the Near East, East Asia is a staple of the Columbia University curriculum, and like Columbia's great teachers of the past--Meyer Schapiro, Rudolf Wittkower, Rober Branner, Howard McP. Davis, Julius Held, Howard Hibbard, Edith Porada, and William Bell Dinsmoor--today's faculty continue to apply art historical methods to illuminate particular works of art, even as they place their works in the broadest cultural context.

Department of Comparative Literature – Barnard (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Phone: 212-854-5539
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/complit/
Contact: Peter Connor (Chair) at ptc4@columbia.edu
Barnard's Department of Comparative Literature attracts students and faculty with a wide range of interests, stretching from Antiquity to Postmodernism, and from Asia through Europe to the Americas. Both students and faculty engage in study across national boundaries and from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective.

Department of Dance (Dance)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Phone: 212-854-2995
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/dance/
E-Mail: dance@barnard.edu
The Barnard College Department of Dance offers an exceptional dance program that is solidly based on the integration of dance as an art form within a liberal arts curriculum. Its core consists of courses designed to link the development of a dancer's artistic skills with techniques of analysis, problem solving, and critical thinking. The faculty, composed of artists and scholars, encourages a dual approach to the art of dance, promoting the development of artistry and personal style through the performance of historical and contemporary dance texts.

Department of English – Barnard (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Phone: 212-854-2116
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/english/
E-Mail: english@barnard.edu
The major in English is designed to foster good writing, effective speaking, and heightened understanding of texts that enrich our culture. Students majoring in English are encouraged to develop their responsiveness to the literary imagination and their sensitivity to literary form through disciplined attention to language and to critical and scholarly methods.

Department of English & Comparative Literature (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: GSAS
Location: 602 Philosophy Hall
Phone: 212-854-3215
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/
With a large faculty of renowned scholars and dedicated teachers, the Department of English and Comparative Literature offers a wide range of courses, recognizing traditional values in the discipline yet reflecting its changing shape.

Department of Music (Music)
Affiliation: GSAS
Location: 621 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-3825
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/
Uniquely among the arts at Columbia, Music has its home in a Department, where its creators, interpreters, and scholars work together. For more than one hundred years, the Department of Music has supported musical study ranging from professional training in composition and scholarship to the criticism and appreciation of music as a liberal art, including a course in the Core Curriculum. Scholarship in Music includes the theoretical, analytical, historical, and ethnographic, combined and reconfigured by renowned faculty who also make close connections to philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, comparative literature, linguistics, computer science, and other disciplines. Opportunities for solo and ensemble performance are likewise offered at every level, with and without academic credit, in the Music Performance Program. The Department sponsors a variety of concerts, lectures, and colloquia, all open to the public, most free of charge. Some of the Department's work is concentrated in the Center for Ethnomusicology and the Computer Music Center (formerly the Electronic Music Center), two of the most important institutions in their fields. The Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music supports the regular concerts of new work given by Columbia Composers and the Columbia Sinfonietta, presentations by visiting composers, and other projects. The Department's performing ensembles include the Columbia University Orchestra, Columbia University Wind Ensemble, Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Chamber Singers, Collegium Musicum, Jazz Ensembles, World Music ensembles (among them bluegrass and klezmer), and many chamber groups. Music scores and audio and video recordings, as well as listening and viewing facilities, can be found in the Gabe M. Wiener Music and Arts Library. Department students edit and publish the interdisciplinary journal Current Musicology.

Department of Music – Barnard (Music)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/music/
E-Mail: ga61@columbia.edu
Contact: Gail Archer, Director

Department of Theatre (Theatre)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Location: 404 Milbank Hall
Phone: 212-854-2080
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/theatre/
E-Mail: hseltzer@barnard.edu
Contact: Heather Seltzer, Departmental Assistant
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.

Deutsches Haus (Media)
Affiliation: Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
Location: 420 W 116th St
Phone: 212-854-1858
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/german/
E-Mail: deutsches-haus@columbia.edu
Deutsches Haus at Columbia University was the first foreign language house established at an American university in 1911. Initially dedicated to preserving Germany's unique literary tradition, Deutsches Haus today wishes to encourage academic, cultural, and social exchange between members of the Columbia community and the public with programs not only in German, but in Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, and Yiddish as well. Events include academic lectures, film series, conferences, plays, recitals, and informal gatherings. At Kaffeestunde (German coffee hour), Koffieuurtje (Dutch coffee hour), and Kave Sho (Yiddish Coffee Hour) students at all proficiency levels can practice their language skills. Deutsches Haus programs are free and open to the public and provide a cultural resource for the wider intellectual and professional community of New York City.

Digital Media Center (DMC) (Media)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 301 Dodge Hall
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/dmc/
E-Mail: dmc-info@columbia.edu
The Digital Media Center's resources serve the graduate students of School of the Arts, allowing students to develop new aesthetic directions in their work. The Center is an affirmation of Columbia University's dedication to providing a creative and intellectual center for artistic achievement using emerging technologies. The Digital Media Center provides training in 3-D modeling, graphic design, physical computing, motion graphics, programming, sound editing, video editing, video effects, web animation, and web design. Facilities and instruction are geared primarily to the needs of students in the Film and Visual Arts divisions.

The Fed (Writing, Comedy)
Website: http://www.the-fed.org/index.php
The Fed is Columbia's alternative newspaper. We print stories that either profoundly shake our complacent and familiar thought patterns, or else stories that make us chuckle. It's easier to make us chuckle, admittedly. But we really hope to be like one of those drugs that does both.

Ferris Reel Film Society (Film)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/frfs/
Contact: Don Struckle at dts2105@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8913492013
Ferris Reel Film Society is a student-run club activity supported by the Activity Board at Columbia (ABC). Considered a "major programmer" by the Office of Student Activities, the club organizes a feature film screening every Thursday night in Roone Arledge Cinema in Lerner Hall on the Columbia University campus. The films chosen are usually mainstream works from both the US and abroad, and range across all genres, including action, suspense, drama, romance, fantasy, and comedy

Film Division - School of the Arts (Film)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 513 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-2815
Website: http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/film/index.jsp
E-Mail: film@columbia.edu
The Film Division at Columbia offers a uniquely integrated curriculum centered around film as a storytelling medium, an emphasis reflected to varying degrees in every course offered. The course of instruction combines directing, writing, and producing with technical training and history/theory to provide students with a deep understanding of the principles and practice of dramatic narrative. Our faculty combines veteran and new members of the New York and Hollywood film communities. Our student work wins awards and recognition for its energy, honesty, clarity, and vision. Our alumni produce, write, and direct films that help to set the standard for independent cinema.

Follies (Theatre, Comedy)
Affiliation: Columbia Business School
Website: http://www.cbsfollies.com/
Columbia Business School Follies has enjoyed the longest run of any production of a professional school of business located between 120th and 110th streets in New York City. CBS Follies traces its origin back to 1773 when Alexander Hamilton staged the first show entitled "Tea Party for King George." With that auspicious start Follies has persevered through the good and the not so good times of CBS.

Flute Choir (Music)
E-Mail: flutechoir@barnard.edu
Contact: Stephanie Paciulla

The Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music (Music)
Affiliation: School of the Arts

Fruit Paunch (Comedy)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/fruitpaunch/
E-Mail: paunch@columbia.edu
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.

Goldsmith Gallery (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: JTS
Location: Jewish Theological Seminary
Phone: 212-678-8000

Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (Art)
Location: Avery Hall
Phone: 212-854-3414
Website: http://www.arch.columbia.edu/

Harriman Institute (Media)
Location: International Affairs Building, 12th Floor
Phone: 212-854-4623
Website: http://www.harriman.columbia.edu/
E-Mail: harriman@columbia.edu
The Harriman Institute is the oldest and largest academic center of its kind in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Russia and the other successor states of the former Soviet Union, East Central Europe, and the Balkans. The Institute's mandate is to advance scholarly knowledge and public understanding of the polities, economies, societies, and cultures of the Eurasian landmass extending from the Elbe to the Pacific, and from the Arctic to Afghanistan. In addition, the Institute promotes advanced research and publicly disseminates information, analysis, and opinion generated by its faculty, fellows, students, and other affiliated scholars. The Institute sponsors many conferences, special lectures, and other events for the University community, the private sector, media, policymakers, secondary school educators, alumni, and other constituencies.

Heyman Center for the Humanities (Media)
Affiliation: A&S
Location: East Campus, Morningside
Phone: 212-854-4270
Website: http://www.heymancenter.org
E-Mail: mrh2101@columbia.edu
Contact: Rebecca Hanger
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.

Ho-Heup (Music)
Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/hoheup
E-Mail: via WebPage
Ho-Heup is a traditional Korean drum troupe at Columbia University. A multiethnic group comprised of students, alumni, and other members of the Columbia community, its mission is to promote awareness and appreciation of Korean culture through teaching, learning, and performing poongmul (Korean folk drumming).

Hillel Art Group (Art)
Affiliation: Hillel
Location: Kraft Center
Phone: (212) 854-5111
Website: http://www.hillel.columbia.edu
The Hillel Art Group is a student-run art collective which organizes events for the wider Barnard/Columbia community. Based at the Kraft Center, the group seeks to engage in a pluralistic discussion about the arts and to use them as a cultural bridge. We curate student-produced art shows, bring speakers to campus, and engage in community building art initiatives.

Horace Mann Auditorium (Media)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: Horace Mann Hall

Horace Mann Theatre (Theatre)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: Horace Mann Hall

The Italian Academy (Media)
Location: Casa Italiana
Phone: 212-854-2306
Website: http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/
E-Mail: itacademy@columbia.edu
The Academy was created in 1991 on the basis of a charter signed by the President of the Republic of Italy and the President of Columbia University. It was conceived as a center for advanced research, particularly in areas relating to Italian culture, science and society. It was also intended to provide a locus for collaborative projects between senior Italian and American scholars, particularly those open to interdisciplinary research.

Jester (Writing, Comedy)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/jester/
The Jester of Columbia, or simply the Jester, is a humor magazine at Columbia University in New York City. Founded on April Fool's Day, 1901, it is one of the oldest such publications in the United States. In addition to publishing the magazine, the group puts on comedy events, containing sketches and improvisational comedy.

Journal of Politics and Society (Writing)
Website: http://www.helvidius.org/
The Journal of Politics & Society is an annual magazine distributed to Ivy League universities and to members of Congress and encompasses international affairs, economics, history, sociology, anthropology, and urban studies. The Journal is not affiliated with or sponsored by any political organization, and it remains staunchly nonpartisan. Now in its nineteenth year, the Journal only considers academic papers submitted by undergraduates. Past contributors include former President Bill Clinton, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former New Jersey Governor and EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Senator Elizabeth Dole, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn, Anthony Marx, and Kenneth Waltz.

Jubilation! (Music)
Website: http://www.jube.org/
E-Mail: via WebPage
Formed in 1991, Jubilation is Columbia University's original Christian a cappella group.

King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe (Theatre)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/shakespeare/
E-Mail: krc2101@columbia.edu
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.

Kingsmen (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/kingsmen/
E-Mail: via WebPage
Founded in 1959, the King's Men of Columbia College is one of the most famous a cappella groups in the United States. Consisting of no more than 11 highly talented, highly motivated young men, their repertoire encompasses barbershop, gospel, traditional school songs, Christmas tunes, contemporary selections, and some witty songs that they wrote themselves.

Klaritin (Comedy)
Contact: Annie Berke
E-Mail: afb2001@columbia.edu
Klaritin Improv Ensemble dedicates itself to the performance of contemporary theater, an intense training in long form improv, especially the Harold form, and building the actors’ physical awareness. The plays we perform must either be original student-written works, composed by living playwrights, or be deconstructed versions of historical and classical plays. By adopting the term "Ensemble," Klaritin wants to create a group of theatrical colleagues who have trained and rehearsed together, and who can collaborate on theater as artistic equals. We promote the Ensemble as an alternative to the "star system" of mainstream theater. We do not believe in "leading parts," since it is the job of actors to be simultaneously aware of themselves and their fellow actors, and to make the other actors "look good."

LateNite Theatre (Theatre)
Contact: Peter Mende-Siedlecki
E-Mail: latenitetheatre@gmail.com
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200056621
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.

The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies (Art)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 310 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-7641
Website: http://arts.columbia.edu/neiman/
E-Mail: hjk54@columbia.edu
Contact: Hye Joeng Kim
The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies was founded to promote printmaking through education, production and exhibition of prints. The Center provides students, as well as established artists, a rich environment to investigate and produce images through a myriad of printmaking techniques which include intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, relief, photography, and digital imaging.

Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: JTS
Location: Jewish Theological Seminary
Phone: 212-678-8082
Website: http://www.jtsa.edu/Library.xml
The exhibitions program at the JTS Library enables the general public to become better acquainted with the vast treasures of Jewish heritage collected by the Library. Exhibitions are mounted three times a year showcasing the collections of manuscripts, incunabula, rare printed Hebrew books, Genizah fragments, broadsides, ketubbot, megillot and prints. Exhibitions are on view in the Goldsmith Gallery and on the first and fifth floors of the Library building. All exhibits are free and open to the public.

Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program (Music)
Phone: 212-854-9862
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/%7Ececenter/JazzConcentration/
E-Mail: cjw5@columbia.edu
Contact: Chris Washburne
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Department at Columbia University offers both undergraduate and graduate students jazz performance experience and private lessons.

Low Library Rotunda
Location: Low Memorial Library
Phone: 212-854-2877

Macy Gallery (Art)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: 444 Macy Hall
Phone: 212-678-3681

La Maison Française (Media)
Affiliation: Department of French and Romance Philology
Location: Buell Hall, 2nd Floor
Phone: 212-854-4482
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/maison/
E-Mail: maisondirector@columbia.edu
Contact: Priya Wadhera, Director
Founded in 1913, La Maison Française of Columbia University is the oldest French cultural center established on an American university campus. It is a meeting place for students, scholars, business leaders, policy-makers and all persons seeking a better understanding of the French-speaking world.

Metrotones (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/metrotones/
E-Mail: metrotones-acappella@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200353584
The Metrotones are Columbia University’s all female a cappella group, founded in 1983, when Columbia became a coeducational institution. Waxing eloquence, they are dedicated to developing into a premier singing institution, sharing and spreading their musical talent and entertainment value to as many audiences as possible in a variety of venues in and outside New York. They perform at a wide variety of venues and events all over New York City, holding informal study breaks with other university a cappella groups, raising money for Hurricane Katrina victims, entertaining middle school children, celebrating Women's History Month, and spreading Easter cheer in Central Park.

Middle East Institute (Media)
Location: International Affairs Building
Phone: 212-854-2584
Website: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/mei/
E-Mail: amb49@columbia.edu
Contact: Astrid Benedek- Assistant Director
The Middle East Institute of Columbia University, founded in 1954, has helped to set the national pace in developing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the present, with a primary focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Fostering an inter-regional and multi-disciplinary approach to the region, the Institute focuses on the Arab countries, Armenia, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Central Asia, and Muslim Diaspora communities.

Miller Theatre (Theatre)
Location: 116th & Broadway
Phone: 212-854-1488
Website: http://www.millertheatre.com
E-Mail: cp2234@columbia.edu
Miller Theatre, the performing arts center of Columbia University, is one of the country's leading innovators in performing arts presentation. Miller Theatre presents an annual season of international performers in music, dance, and opera, as well as public events that draw on the intellectual resources of Columbia University. Established in 1988 with funding from Brooke Astor, John Goelet, and the Kathryn Bache Miller Fund, Miller Theatre is a thriving urban arts presenter attracting over 30,000 audience members annually.

Minor Latham Playhouse (Theatre)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Location: Milbank Hall

Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery (Art)
Affiliation: Department of Art History and Archaeology
Location: Schermerhorn Hall, 8th Floor
Phone: 212-854-7288
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach/
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery aims to contribute to Columbia's long-standing tradition of historical, critical, and creative engagement in the visual arts. Open to the public and operating under the auspices of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, the gallery presents exhibitions and related programming that complement the educational mission of the university. The exhibitions, held during the academic year, reflect a diversity of interests and approaches to the arts and embody the university's high standards for research and instruction.

Mobius Strip (Literature and Writing, Media)
E-Mail: mobiusmag@gmail.com
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200032533
The Mobius Strip was founded in the Fall of 2003 at Columbia University in response to a lack of enthusiasm over printed literary magazines, and only exists online. The mobius strip as a symbol of endless connectivity and fluidity informs the philosophy of the project. Mobius Strip strives to be an organization that provides a forum for displaying all kinds of creative work, ranging from poems by fourth-graders to wood cuts by university students. The site hopes to illuminate some of the provocative (and problematic) aspects of experiencing art and literature online. The Mobius Strip Gallery juxtaposes visual art and writing, producing new combinations of works with each cycle, bringing to light different aspects of each work by framing them in a variety of ways.

Museo (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/museo/
E-Mail: shirls.wong@gmail.com
Contact: Shirley Wong
MUSEO is Columbia University's undergraduate journal of contemporary art. Students are encouraged to submit essays, reviews, interviews, polemics, and portfolios this upcoming winter. This year we will be accepting a broader variety of articles that is no longer limited to the visual arts; students are strongly encouraged to submit work in anthropology, film/literary criticism, cultural studies, and other fields. If submission passes review of the editorial board, writers will work with editors on their submissions to improve or re-angle their work. MUSEO 9 will be published in the spring of 2006.

Music & Arts Library, Gabe M. Wiener (Media)
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: 701 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-4711
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/music/index.html
Located in Dodge Hall, the Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library's onsite collection totals over 60,000 printed items, including monographs and serials on western and non-western music, as well as music scores; 20,000 sound and video recordings in multiple formats; CD-ROM indexes and multi-media titles; and several hundred microforms of scholarly interest.

Music at St. Paul's (Music)
Affiliation: Earl Hall Center
Location: St. Paul's Chapel
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/earl/music.html
St. Paul's Chapel, with its wonderful acoustics, is a landmark treasure of Columbia University. One of the finest architectural spaces on campus, it is an ideal place for diverse musical programs. Consistent with the Office of the University Chaplain's mission to help welcome Columbia's neighbors onto campus the Office of the University Chaplain has established the Music at St. Paul's program. Music at St. Paul's will increase the variety of performances of sacred music in St. Paul's Chapel and provide an on campus venue for stellar musicians from our New York City community to be heard in concert. Music at St. Paul's provides an opportunity to hear sacred music and music appropriate to the University Chapel outside of the context of a worship service in a setting for which much of the music was originally composed.

Music Department Ensembles (Music)
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/undergraduate/courses/ensembles.html
The Department of Music at Columbia is one of the oldest and most distinguished at any American university. Their teachers are among the best musicians in New York. The opportunities for music performance at Columbia and Barnard are rich and diverse. Instruction is given in all the principal keyboard and orchestral instruments, in a variety of Renaissance and Baroque instruments, and voice. There is also a symphony orchestra, a large chorus, a smaller vocal ensemble, a jazz orchestra and a wide range of instrumental ensembles that can be taken for credit. All of these are available to students of Barnard College, Columbia College, the School of General Studies and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

N.O.M.A.D.S. (New & Original Musicals Authored & Directed by Students) (Theatre)
Phone: 212 266-5525
Contact: Dana Everitt at de2116@barnard.edu
NOMADS encourages the creation of original musicals by students of Barnard College and Columbia University. NOMADS promotes artistic expression and collaboration through the composition and performance of original musicals. Through writing, directing, and/or performing, students gain knowledge of music and theatre through experience.

Nonsequitur (Music)
Website: http://www.nonseq.info
E-Mail: nonsequitur@columbia.edu
Founded by five a cappella enthusiasts, Nonsequitur represents the effort to better themselves and the Columbia community through song. They take pride in their varied repertoire and unique performing style.

Notes and Keys (Music
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/notesandkeys/
E-Mail: notesandkeys@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200045010

The Observer (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/observer/
E-Mail: observereditor@columbia.edu
The Observer is the literary, art and features magazine of the School of General Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. Although The Observer focuses on topics pertinent to the GS student body, submissions from all Columbia University Students are encouraged and will be considered for publication. The Observer is published biannually during the academic year, at the end of the fall and spring semesters. They publish a variety of work, including but not limited to fiction, features, poetry, short prose, artistic reviews, essays, columns, satirical comics, creative nonfiction, letters to the editor, and original artwork including photography. The Observer has a circulation of 1500 copies per semester.

Onsite (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archprogram/bca_osite_frm.html
Onsite is the annual journal of undergraduate work produced by the Barnard-Columbia Architecture Program. The journal is created by a different team of graduating senior students every year.

Orchesis (Dance)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/orchesis/
E-Mail: orchesis@columbia.edu
Orchesis is the one and only student-run dance organization here at Columbia University. We offer performing, non-performing and social opportunities alike. We host master classes, both by professional dance teachers and by our own dancers from the Columbia University community, plan affordable field trips to concerts in New York City such as Alvin Ailey, The New York City Ballet and The Donkey Show, and produce major dance concerts of our own every semester.

Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies (Theatre)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 601 Dodge Hall

Philolexian Society (Literature and Writing)
Website: www.philo.org
E-Mail: philo@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200038780
The Philolexian Society is Columbia University's oldest and sexiest student organization. Established in 1802 by associates of Alexander Hamilton, the Society promotes literary awareness and the art of rhetoric among its members, who have ranged from Allen Ginsberg to Jacques Barzun. Over the years, Philo has evolved significantly. While we honor our predecessors, we don't believe we're living in the 19th century. We just think it might be fun to pretend.

The Photography Institute (Art)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Phone: 212-854-5688
Website: http://www.thephotographyinstitute.org/
Contact: Cheryl Younger (Director) at cyounger@gmsc-soho.com
In today's global community, visual images are the primary form of communication. Images have the presence to communicate what thousands of words cannot. They must be analyzed and understood because they embody historical and psychological viewpoints used to determine cultural norms and political climates. To be unable to decipher a photograph's construction, implications and power is to be fundamentally illiterate. The Photography Institute brings together today's noted and emerging artists, scholars and critics to provide a forum where they can explore contemporary issues in visual imagery and photographic image making.

Postcrypt Art Gallery (Art)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/artgallery/
E-Mail: postcryptart@columbia.edu
Contact: JD Stetton
Postcrypt Art Gallery is a unique space on the Columbia University campus designed to provide student artists and curators with the opportunity to create, curate and exhibit their work. Since its inception in 1989, when an enterprising group of Columbia undergraduate students took the initiative to transform the unused basement space of the St.Paul's Chapel into an exhibition space, the Postcrypt Art Gallery has been the artistic pulse of the Columbia campus. The gallery serves as the only gallery space exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of undergraduate art, and student artists from CC. BC GS and SEAS are provided with the opportunity to exhibit their work, regardless of their involvement with the Visual Arts Department. (Last updated a Jan. 06)

Postcrypt Coffeehouse (Music)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/coffeehouse/
E-Mail: postcryptcoffeehouse@columbia.edu
The Postcrypt coffeehouse, established in 1964, features professional, amateur, and student performers every Friday and Saturday night throughout the academic year from 9:00pm to midnight. Admission is always free and open to all and our shows and regular open-stages bring in a diversity of music and artists. From blues, folk, jazz, rock, country, a capella, and performance arts such as poetry, comedy, and storytelling -Postcrypt has it all- with the strict rule that everything has to be acoustic. We believe in an accessible and friendly atmosphere for artists to share their craft, so, our artists (local as well as from around the country) perform for small audiences without microphones. Some of the more well-known artists who have graced our stage include: David Bromberg, Jeff Buckley, Shawn Colvin, Ani DiFranco, John Gorka, Patty Larkin, Lisa Loeb, Ellis Paul, Martin Sexton, Tony Trischka, Suzanne Vega, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Dar Williams. The Postcrypt is completely student run and non-profit, and is the only free venue of its kind in the New York area. Our devoted volunteers listen to demos, book artists, manage the business, work in the bar, and interact with our guests who range from age 10 to age 80. Many of these guests come from Morningside Heights and have been with the Postcrypt for decades. Known nationally as a fantastic folk music site, the Postcrypt was recently listed in the Lonely Planet Guide to New York City. All-in-all, the Postcrypt is a key way for Columbia University to interact with neighborhood residents, for students to discover new (and old) music, and for aspiring musicians to come into their own.

Proxy Magazine (Literature and Writing)
Website: www.theproxyproject.org
E-Mail: theproxyproject@gmail.com
The Proxy Magazine is dedicated to capturing the voices that emerge out of the African Diaspora, with the acknowledgment that there is no singular or definitive perspective or experience. We are searching for stories ranging from the hip-hop scene in Europe to the shifting faces of Harlem to the Afro-Latino experience of the Caribbean. We feel very strongly about combining different kinds of cultural and creative forces to articulate a fresh voice on campus. The Proxy Magazine features short stories, poetry, news articles, academic essays, paintings, drawings, photography--anything that will question, reveal, enliven, and illuminate…the stories that beg to be told.

Quarto (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/quarto/
E-mail: tq8@columbia.edu
Columbia University's oldest undergraduate student-run literary journal, Quarto has remained in publication for over 51 years, presenting the finest works of fiction, poetry and other creative writings of Columbia students and alumni. The list of previous Quarto contributors is distinguished and includes acclaimed writers such as J.D. Salinger, Carson McCullers, Mario Puzo, Richard Yates, William Carlos Williams, Louise Gluck, Melissa Bank, Joseph Connelly, Edwidge Danicat, Kim Wozencraft, and Joseph Ferrandino.