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.
Wednesday May 21st
SEE MORGAN FREEMAN AND FRANCES MCDORMAND DIRECTED BY MIKE NICHOLS!
LOCATION:
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
242 West 45th Street
between Broadway and 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10036
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 1, 2, 3, B, D, F, V, N, M, Q, R or 7 to 42nd Street and walk North to 45th Street.
DATE: Wednesday, May 21 TIME: 8:00PM PRICE: $70 for CAAL members (regularly $100, you save $30!) 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: See three extraordinary stars in a one must-see production. Mike Nichols returns to Broadway to direct Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher in Clifford Odets's The Country Girl. The first major New York production in more than thirty years, The Country Girl is a classic backstage story. The title character, Georgie (Frances McDormand), is married to actor Frank Elgin (Morgan Freeman), once a great theatre star, now down on his luck. When Frank is offered a major role by hotshot director Bernie Dodd (Peter Gallagher), he has the chance to make a major comeback.
WHO: Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman last appeared on Broadway in The Gospel at Colonus in 1988, and Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand last appeared on Broadway the same season in A Streetcar Named Desire. Peter Gallagher was last seen on Broadway in Noises Off in 2001 and was nominated for a Tony award for Long Day's Journey into Night. Director Mike Nichols is an Academy Award-winner and eight-time Tony Award-winner, most recently for the smash hit musical Monty Python’s SPAMALOT. His most recent film is Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts.
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.
LOCATION:
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
Just below Astor Place
HOURS: The Public Theater Box Office
425 Lafayette Street
Box Office Hours: Sunday - Monday 1PM -6PM, Tuesday - Saturday 1-7:30PM
DIRECTIONS: Take the R or W train to the 8th Street Station or the No. 6 train to Astor Place Station.
DATE: Tuesday, May 20 thru Saturday, May 31
TIME: Tuesday - Friday at 8PM
Saturday at 2PM and 8PM
Sunday at 2PM and 7PM PRICE: $10 for CAAL members HOW: Tickets can be ordered online, by phone 212.967.7555 (Monday - Sunday 10AM - 9PM), or in person at The Public Theater Box Office
WHAT: In a constantly shifting landscape, a trio of emerging black leaders tries to conquer their individual demons. The local KKK fights for its old way of life and everyday black men and women must overcome their fears, all under the ever-watchful eye of the FBI. Tracey Scott Wilson recently won the prestigious 2007 Weissberger award for this play.
WHO: Founded by Joseph Papp as the Shakespeare Workshop and now one of the nation's preeminent cultural institutions, The Public Theater produces new plays, musicals, productions of Shakespeare, and other classics.
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 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.
