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Celebrate your graduation with family and friends by taking advantage of New York City like never before.
Commencement Carnival 2009 brings you a festival of the city's best culinary arts and culture on the cheap.
11 days, 22 featured events, 44 restaurants.
In order to take advantage of Commencement Carnival events, graduating students and recent alumni must present their Columbia Alumni Arts League
membership cards at all venues to redeem their benefits. The Class of 2009 can sign up for a FREE one year membership online or in person at the
Ticket and Information Center located in the lobby of Lerner Hall on 115th and Broadway and open Monday 3-8PM, Tuesday - Friday 1-8PM, and Saturday 3-10PM.
| New York City Ballet |
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DATE:
May 15 2009 to May 16 2009 and May 22 2009 to May 23 2009
TIME:
Friday 5/15 8:00 PM, Saturday 5/16 Matinee 2:00 PM, Saturday 5/16 8:00 PM, Friday 5/22 8:00 PM, Saturday 5/23 8:00 PM
LOCATION:
David H. Koch Theater
WHAT:
New York City Ballet is offering graduating students and their guests discounts on Friday and Saturday performances during Commencement Carnival!
May 15
Romeo and Juliet
May 16 Matinee
The Four Temperaments
Toccata (New Bubeniček Ballet)
Firebird
May 16 Evening
Romeo and Juliet
May 22
Scotch Symphony
Quasi Una Fantasia (New Millepied Ballet)
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| SonicVision |
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DATE:
May 15 2009, May 16 2009 and May 23 2009
TIME:
Friday and Saturday 7:30 and 8:30 PM
PRICE:
$15 for 2 tickets (regularly $15 each)
LOCATION:
American Museum of Natural History
WHAT:
The American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with MTV2, has launched SonicVision, a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show. SonicVision takes audiences in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through fantastical dreamspace. With a mix by Moby and featuring tracks from Radiohead, U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, Prodigy, The Flaming Lips, Fischerspooner, Spiritualized, Audioslave, Stereolab, Boards of...
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| Megan Sprenger/mvworks: ...within us |
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DATE:
May 17 2009 and May 19 2009 to May 24 2009
TIME:
Tuesday - Saturday 7:30 PM, Sunday 5:30 PM
PRICE:
$15 for CAAL Members (regularly $20)
LOCATION:
P.S. 122
WHAT:
"...eruptions of movement burn themselves into your brain--the residue of lives you can't quite grasp but which you suspect might be your own."
- Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice, March 15, 2007
People experience aggression on a daily basis - in their homes, on their street corners, in their countries. Inspired by the images of violence in Jacob Landau's work and focusing on the repression that exists all over the world and across time periods, mvworks examines the raw unfiltered human...
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| West Side Story |
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DATE:
May 21 2009 and May 23 2009
TIME:
Thursday 8:00 PM, Saturday 2:00 PM
PRICE:
$42 Thursday - Balcony (regularly $46.50)
$109.50 Saturday - Orchestra (regularly $121.50)
LOCATION:
Palace Theater
WHAT:
"Enthralling and electric" -Ben Brantley, The New York Times
From the first notes to the final breath, West Side Story is one of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time. Arthur Laurents' book remains as powerful, poignant and timely as ever. The score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim - a collection of standards that includes "Tonight," "America," "Maria," "I Feel Pretty" and "Somewhere" - is widely regarded as one of the best ever written. And the...
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| Discounted Broadway shows through Givenik |
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DATE:
May 14 2009 to May 24 2009
WHAT:
Access great entertainment at great value while benefiting a cause you care about, the arts at Columbia! Givenik is a unique program that provides special discounts and offers for a variety of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. CAAL Members can purchase up to 8 discounted individual tickets or group tickets for 10 people or more. For every ticket you purchase through Givenik, the Arts Initiative will receive a 5% contribution of your total ticket purchase.
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Commencement Carnival Terms and Conditions
1.) Commencement Carnival 2009 is open to the Class of 2009 (students who expect to graduate in May 2009 and recent alumni with degrees conferred in October 2008 and February 2009) and their guests.
2.) All ticket purchasers must provide the name of the graduating student(s). The Arts Initiative reserves the right to confirm the student's graduation term.
3.) Class of 2009 Commencement Carnival participants will be registered in the Columbia Alumni Arts League (CAAL). Membership is free for one year from the date of purchase.
4.) The CAAL membership card must be presented at all box offices, venues, and restaurants in order to obtain tickets, benefits and discounts.
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