Monthly Archives: June 2015

Jerry’s Pick Single 15.19

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June 26 – 27
The Heyman Center for the Humanities | Morningside Opera | Harlem Opera Theater | The Harlem Chamber Players
Restaging the Harlem Renaissance
A collaborative concert performance of the 1914 opera, Voodoo, by composer-librettist Harry Lawrence Freeman (purchase opera tickets here).Voodoo is at the heart of this two-day conference on African-American performing arts with panel topics on Harlem Renaissance Opera, Aesthetics, and Theater, including an exhibit of Freeman’s manuscript of Voodoo in Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. List of speakers and schedule here. RSVP at [email protected]. Butler Library, Rooms 522 and 523.

Also see the June 28 Walking Tour: Harry Lawrence Freeman’s Harlem—High Art from Common Ground, led by Eric K. Washington, local historian and a fellow in Columbia’s Community Scholars Program. Purchase tickets here.

Picks are campus or NYC events of high general interest to alumni, donors, and prospects. I always appreciate hearing from you about future events!

 

Jerry’s Pick Single 15.18

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Here is a special summer event worth noting. Not free, but invaluable. 

June 9
8:45 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Columbia University | United States Department of Commerce
Entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics, government officials, and other innovation thought leaders will discuss how universities and city, state, and federal government entities are promoting new initiatives to boost startups in NYC and other major cities. Introduction by President Lee Bollinger and keynote speech by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. Speakers also include Vikram Pandit (University Trustee and chair, TGG Group); Tom Maniatis (director, University-wide Precision Medicine Initiative and chair, biochemistry and molecular biophysics); Sam Sia (founder,Harlem Biospace, vice dean for entrepreneurship, associate professor of biomedical engineering); Chris Wiggins (engineering faculty, co-founder of hackNY, chief data scientist for The New York Times); Marc Tessier-Lavigne (president, The Rockefeller University); Congressman Charles Rangel (U.S. representative for New York’s 13th congressional district); Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and co-founder of Epibone). Tickets: $175. Purchase tickets here. Alfred J. Lerner Hall.
 
Picks are campus or NYC events of high general interest to alumni, donors, and prospects. I always appreciate hearing from you about future events!