Events

An hour of performances by students and faculty from across the conservatory.

Grand Prize Winner at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, All We Imagine as Light offers a sensitive and woman-centered portrait of working-class life in Mumbai. Following the lives of two nurses and a hospital cook, director Payal Kapadia captures the complex mix of constraints, indignities, moments of transcendence and gestures of solidarity that characterize daily life in a South Asian megacity. 

Film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Professor Gaura Narayan.

Dinner is provided by Mumbai Katta Restaurant of Port Chester.

Each semester, weekly visiting artist lectures host noted artists, curators, critics, and historians to share their perspectives, expertise, and current work, and to give insight into contemporary issues facing artists and designers.

Professor Zeke Levine talks about how Yiddish song has been a fundamental aspect of cultural life within a variety of communities in the United States, from early 20^th century urban immigrant enclaves to Yiddish schools and summer camps. 

The tradition continues today with contemporary klezmer festivals and workshops. This talk introduces audiences to both the history and repertoire of Yiddish song in America and the communities who have fostered Yiddish music from the 1900s until the present day. “Let’s All Sing” was the title of a 1956 songbook, Lomir Ale Zingen.