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What Is Café Arts?
Café Arts is a series of informal discussions about the questions surrounding the arts field today, led by Columbia University's foremost professors. The discussions are held at the Picnic Market Café at 2665 Broadway (between 101st and 102nd streets).
Space is limited; $10 cover (cash only) includes one drink
Arts on Us, First Come, First Served
NO RSVP Necessary
To join our Café Arts event distribution list or for more information about Café Arts, contact us at cafearts@columbia.edu.
Fall 2009 Series on the Upper West Side:
Went to the Crossroads, Fell Down On My Knees
Theatre Director Gregory Mosher
October 5, 6–7 p.m.
Music in History, History in Music: A Musicologist's Challenge
Music Professor Walter Frisch
November 2, 6–7 p.m.
Writing a history of 19th-century music and serving as editor of a six-book history of music series poses particular challenges. In this talk we will discuss some of the difficulties faced by music historians trying to reconcile the aesthetic and intrinsic qualities of music with the broader cultural and historical contexts in which it was composed and heard.
Shifting Gears: The Challenges Writing for Both the Page and the Screen
Novelist and screenwriter Trey Ellis (SoA)
December 7, 6–7 p.m.
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December 7, 2009
Trey Ellis
Shifting Gears: The Challenges Writing for Both the Page and the Screen
Trey Ellis is an American Book Award Winning novelist, Emmy-nominated screenwriter, and assistant professor of Screenwriting in the Graduate School of Film at Columbia University. His most recent book is Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood. He is considered one of our most astute and witty authorities on a variety of subjects: from being a father, single or otherwise, in this new millennium, to U.S. politics, the black middle class, domestic race-relations and pop-culture. He is often requested to contribute on these issues at home and abroad.
Professor Ellis has been interviewed on The CBS Early Show with Harry Smith, NPR, KCRW’s acclaimed “Which Way L.A.?” and “The Treatment” with former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell as well as for the E! True Hollywood Story. He has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered and to such notable newspapers and magazines as The New York Times, Newsweek, Playboy, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and Salon.com. He was recently commissioned to write his first play, for the Lincoln Center Institute.
Trey is a regular blogger on Arianna Huffington’s popular political website HuffingtonPost.com and his own very popular blog, “Father of the Year” on Babble.com. More
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