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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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." |
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. |
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