COMMENCEMENT CARNIVAL 2008 - THURSDAY MAY 15th THRU WEDNESDAY MAY 21st
Celebrate your graduation with family and friends by taking advantage of New York City like never before. Commencement Carnival 2008 brings you a week long festival of the city’s best culinary arts and culture on the cheap. 7 days, 14 featured events, 28 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 2008 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 - Saturday 12PM - 8PM, Sunday 2PM - 8PM.
Saturday May 17th
RELIVE THE ART TRAIN WITH GALLERY CRAWL IN THE L.E.S. LED BY COTTELSTON ADVISORS
LOCATION:
Saturday, May 17 in the Lower East Side
Crawl starts at Sunday
Sunday
237 Eldridge Street
South Storefront
New York, NY 10002
HOURS: Call 212.851.1879 Monday - Friday 10 – 5PM
Visit the Ticket and Information Center in Lerner Hall Monday - Saturday from 12 – 8PM, Sunday 2 – 8PM
DIRECTIONS: Take the F, V to 2nd Ave-LES, the J,M,Z to Bowery or the 6 to Bleecker.
DATE: Saturday, May 17 in the Lower East Side TIME: Saturday at 2:30PM PRICE: $10.00 for CAAL members HOW: Purchase tickets online or by calling 212.851.1879 or visiting the Ticket and Information Center in Lerner Hall. Members must present their CAAL membership card at the Box Office when picking up tickets.
WHAT: Take a journey through New York's fascinating art scene. Explore the Lower East Side, with its many young galleries centered around the New Museum. During the hour tour discuss the dynamics of the art market while experiencing exciting gallery shows for a behind the scenes look at the world of contemporary art. The tour will cover the following galleries:
Sunday
Smith-Stewart
Luxe
Lehmann Maupin
Eleven Rivington
Thierry Goldberg
Salon 94
WHO: Cottelston Advisors is a full service art advisory and lifestyle marketing company, which provides access and guidance. For corporate clients, Cottelston ensures proper brand positioning in the visual arts. For collectors, Cottelston assures that quality work is chosen, which will captivate and inspire. Cottelston's approach to the art world is born out of a passion for the fine arts and a deep knowledge of the business world.
LOCATION:
30 Lincoln Center Plaza
Between West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues.
HOURS: Call 212-362-6000 or visit the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center 10AM - 8PM.
DIRECTIONS: Take the No. 1 train to 66th Street (Lincoln Center) Station.
DATE: Saturday, May 17 TIME: 8:30PM PRICE: $42 (Family Circle) and $150 (Orchestra Balance) for CAAL members HOW: We are now SOLD OUT of tickets to this event. You can still purchase tickets directly through the Metropolitan Opera by calling 212.362.6000 or online.
Orchestra Standing Room tickets are available at the Metropolitan Opera's Box Office, through Met Ticket Service (212-362-6000), and via the Met's website (www.metopera.org) for $20 each beginning at 10am on the day of the performance. Family Circle Standing Room tickets are also available on the "day of" at $15 each for Saturday performances.
WHAT: Experience the final performance of the Metropolitan Opera's spring season! Director Adrian Noble calls Macbeth, “the greatest story Verdi ever told.” The composer’s longstanding affinity for Shakespeare is explored in Noble’s powerful new production of this gripping work, conducted by James Levine. The ferocious couple is portrayed by baritone Željko Lucic in the towering title role and soprano Maria Guleghina as his ruthless wife. Rising star John Relyea and the magnificent René Pape share the role of the doomed Banquo. In later performances, Carlos Alvarez and Lado Ataneli sing the title role, and Andrea Gruber plays Lady Macbeth.
Check out the recent NYTimes article, Verdi Versus Shakespeare: With ‘Macbeth’ It’s a Draw.
WHO: Known as a venue for the world’s great voices for well over a century, The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented artists working in the multidisciplinary field of opera, including singers, conductors, composers, orchestra musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
DIRECTIONS: Take the C or E to Spring Street, then walk east to Mercer and one block south to Broome. Take the N or R to Prince Street, then walk west to Mercer and two blocks south to Broome.
DATE: Thursday May 15 thru Wednesday, May 21
No performances Tuesday, May 20 TIME: Monday, Wednesday - Saturday at 8PM
Saturday and Sunday at 3PM PRICE: $26 (Standard Seating) and $46 (Premium Seating) for CAAL members (regularly $36 and $61) HOW: CAAL members can purchase discounted tickets by using the discount code during online, phone, and in person purchases. Members must present their CAAL membership card when picking up tickets. Discount codes are provided to members along with the membership card when signing up for CAAL. The Class of 2008 can sign up for a FREE one year membership online or in person at the Ticket and Info. Center located in the lobby of Lerner Hall on 115th and Broadway and open Mon. - Sat. 12 - 9PM, Sun. 3 - 9PM.
WHAT: In early 2007, George Packer published an article in The New Yorker about Iraqi interpreters who jeopardized their lives on behalf of the Americans in Iraq, with little or no protection or security from the U.S. The article drew national attention to the humanitarian crisis and the moral scandal. Based on Packer’s interviews in Baghdad, Betrayed tells the story of three young Iraqis—two men and one woman-who are motivated to risk everything by America’s promise of freedom. Betrayed explores the complex relationships among the Iraqis themselves and between them and their American supervisor, as they struggle to find purpose while a country collapses around them. Betrayed is directed by Pippin Parker and features Jeremy Beck, Aadya Bedi, Mike Doyle, Ramsey Faragallah, Sevan Greene and Waleed F. Zuaiter.
WHO: Culture Project's mission is to bear witness to injustice, to stimulate challenging conversation about the most profound and urgent matters of our time and to convert interest, energy and engagement into a motivational demand for progressive change. Blending prize-winning theater with urgent moral drama, Culture Project brings the national political conversation to life on the New York Stage.
DIRECTIONS: Take the No. 4, 5, 6, N, R or L trains to 14th Street/Union Square, walk south one block to 13th Street, and turn left. Classic Stage Company is located on the south side of the street, ground floor, just before you reach 3rd Avenue.
DATE: Tuesday, May 13 thru Saturday, May 31 TIME: Tuesday thru Friday at 8PM
Saturday at 3PM and 8PM
Sunday at 3PM PRICE: $33.75 - $37.50 for CAAL members (normally $45 - $50) HOW: CAAL members can purchase discounted tickets by using the discount code during online, phone, and in person purchases. Members must present their CAAL membership card when picking up tickets. Discount codes are provided to members along with the membership card when signing up for CAAL. The Class of 2008 can sign up for a FREE one year membership online or in person at the Ticket and Info. Center located in the lobby of Lerner Hall on 115th and Broadway and open Mon. - Sat. 12 - 9PM, Sun. 3 - 9PM.
WHAT: Classic Stage Company presents Target Margin Theater's production of Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs by David Greenspan and directed by David Herskovits. Target Margin’s recent collaboration with CSC on their critically acclaimed production of Goethe’s Faust Parts I & II garnered gifted artist David Greenspan an Obie Award. Don’t miss this latest installment of theatrical wondermaking as this much-celebrated downtown troupe turns their irreverent style to Aristophanes’ classic comedy, bringing the story of Dionysus’ trip to the underworld kicking and screaming into our own modern age. Chock full of music, dance and, of course, that famous chorus of frogs.
WHO: Classic Stage Company is the award-winning off-Broadway theatre committed to re-imagining the classical repertory for a contemporary American audience. Target Margin Theater is founded on the principle that works of art return us to real truths more powerfully by their divergence from a strict illustration of reality.
DIRECTIONS: Take the No. 7 to Vernon/Jackson (1st stop in Queens). Exit onto Vernon Blvd. Walk one block north to 49th Avenue. Make a left. The Chocolate Factory is on the right, a few doors in from Vernon Blvd.
DATE: Wednesday, May 14 thru Saturday, May 17
TIME: Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 8PM
Friday at 1PM
PRICE: $12 for CAAL members (regularly $20) HOW: CAAL members can redeem their 40% discount to any Dance Theater Workshop performance by mentioning the discount code when calling the Box Office, or by presenting their membership card at the Box Office at the time of purchase. Discount codes are provided to members along with the membership card when signing up for CAAL.
WHAT: Eleanor Bauer's work emerges out of a fearlessly playful and incisive penchant for a frank, disillusioned reflection on the relevance of dance and choreography in the world today. Traveling through various contexts and spaces for dancing, At Large engages photography, video, live performance, publication, and the internet to expand the limits of what is experienced as a "piece" in dance. At Large is a collaboration with performers Femke Gyselinck and Manon Santkin, and video-artist Inneke Van Waeyenberghe.
WHO: Dance Theater Workshop is New York’s center for new developments in dance and is dedicated to moving dance forward. For over 42 years, the organization has built platforms from which individual artists can develop and present new work in New York City and world-wide.
DIRECTIONS: Take the 6 to Astor Place, the R,W to 8th Street, or the L to 1st Avenue.
DATE: Thursday, May 15 - Sunday, May 18 and Wednesday, May 21 - Saturday May 24 TIME: 8:00PM PRICE: $8 for CAAL Members (regularly $25) HOW: CAAL Members can redeem their discount by entering the discount code online at checkout via www.ps122.org, mentioning the code during telephone purchases at (212) 352-3101, or by presenting the CAAL membership card at the Box Office at the time of purchase.
WHAT: "The most exciting young American company I have seen up here so far this century."
- The Financial Times
"Beauty and grotesqueness in one, this is a must see."
-The List
The Shalimar's smash hit LA FEMME EST MORTE or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son returns to New York for eight performances at PS122. Using found text, live music, frenetic dance, raw meat and eight wild performers writer/director Shoshona Currier delves deep into America's celebrity obsession. A savage send-up of a country hell bent on escapism even when all around it things are falling apart. Flash photography is encouraged.
With text compiled from speeches of General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur, Winston Churchill, interviews with Lizzie Grubman, Mary Kay Letourneau, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and works by Seneca, Georges Bataille, and Brett Easton Ellis, The Shalimar retells the timeless Phaedra myth. What happens at home when the men are away at war?
WHO: Since 2004 The Shalimar has produced new plays, short play festivals, and numerous readings. The Shalimar is committed to making collaborative new plays that are vital and relevant to a young generation and strives to strengthen the theatrical community.
LOCATION:
Fordham Road and the Bronx River Parkway
Bronx, New York 10460
HOURS: Call 212.851.1879 Monday - Friday 10 – 5PM
Visit the Ticket and Information Center in Lerner Hall Monday - Saturday from 12 – 8PM, Sunday 2 – 8PM
DIRECTIONS: Take the no. 2 or 5 train to East Tremont Ave/West Farms Square. At street level, walk straight ahead (follow train uptown) on Boston Road 2½ blocks to the Zoo’s Asia gate entrance (Gate A).
DATE: Friday, May 16 - Thursday, May 22 TIME: 10AM-5PM PRICE: $15 for CAAL Members (regularly $25, you save $10!) HOW: Purchase tickets online or by calling 212.851.1879 or visiting the Ticket and Information Center in Lerner Hall. Members must present their CAAL membership card at the Box Office when picking up tickets.
WHAT: Welcome to the world's greatest zoo - the Bronx Zoo! As the flagship of the largest network of metropolitan zoos in the country, the Bronx Zoo is the heart of the Wildlife Conservation Society and its work to save wildlife and wild places around the globe.
The special Pay One Price Passes provide seven admissions to any of the special attractions at one low price.
WHO: With award-winning, cutting-edge exhibits featuring over 4,000 animals, there is no other zoo in the world that offers the diversity, superb viewing, and world-renowned expertise that assures a rewarding experience and the knowledge that visitors can make a difference in the world around them. Whether you're nose-to-nose with Western lowland gorillas in the famous Congo Gorilla Forest , spotting snow leopards in the naturalistic Himalayan Highlands Habitat, or experiencing almost an acre of an indoor Asian rain forest, you're always within roaring distance of the world's most amazing wildlife.
Commencement Carnival Terms and Conditions
1.) Commencement Carnival 2008 is open to students who expect to graduate this May, recent alumni who had degrees conferred in October 2007 and February 2008, and their guests.
2.) All ticket purchasers must provide the name of the graduating student(s). The Columbia Alumni Arts League reserves the right to confirm the student’s graduation term.
3.) Students participating in Commencement Carnival 2008 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.
