Lecture by Catherine De Wolf, Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), who conducts research on digital innovation—particularly the use of AI and machine learning—towards a circular built environment. Lecture is free & open to public.
Princeton's Bain-Swiggett Library of Contemporary Poetry hosts an open house and poetry reading with Professor of Creative Writing Patricia Smith. Open to University community.
Two dancers join Maho Ogawa to activate her Choreographic Score Mural, an abstract map of human bodies. This multipurpose installation exists as a public mural, sharing movement scores with viewers, and a performance that creates communication methods to bridge movement and visual language and acts to appreciate and challenge recording and ephemerality.
A reading and discussion with professors Ilya Kaminksy and Katie Farris, along with Maya Chabra, Andrew Janco & Olga Livshin —poets and translators from two new books that consider what it means to be Ukrainian during unthinkable times. No tickets required.
Italian filmmaker and actor Daphne Di Cinto (Bridgerton) screens her film, Il Moro (The Moor), which delves into the extraordinary life of the first Duke of Florence in 1530, Alessandro de' Medici, the first black man to ascend to the position of head of state in modern Western Europe. Screened in Italian with English closed captions. Audience Q&A follows with Di Cinto.
A special event to celebrate the opening of the Alma Concepción Collection and view a selection of documents from the archive. The collection documents Alma Concepción's career as an artist in the performing arts, the history of performing arts in Puerto Rico from 1950 to the early 1980s, and multiple other cultural aspects of contemporary Puerto Rican life in the island and its diaspora in the United States.
Caitlyn Min-ji Au, an artist working between sculpture, video, and food, will discuss her work as a visiting guest artist in the new Haptic Lab course in the Program in Visual Arts taught by Joe Scanlan. Open to University community.
Bodywork is a new dark comedy, written and performed by Juliette Carbonnier '24 and directed by Sabina Jafri '24, about chronic pain, women's bodies, and the connection between physical and emotional health. Bodywork follows the story of Maia, a young woman who suffers from inexplicable chronic pain, who becomes a test patient for a radical new surgery that would switch out her current body for a healthy, “pain-free” body. Open to public; free tickets required.
Guest artist Castro teaches a free, drop-in class on foundational hip-hop technique. All experience levels welcome. No registration required. Open to students, faculty, staff + alumni.
Sahra Motalebi offers the latest iteration of her ongoing project VOICE/S. Begun in 2018, these collaborative workshop sessions expand our definitions of the “voice,” inspiring a network of open-ended questions that consider our individual and collective vocalities. In doing so, we find unexpected resonances and a multiplicity of poetics—we learn that listening is an aspect of the voice itself.
Author, director, and actress Eva Doumbia, an Edward T. Cone Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian, joins in conversation with Professor of the Practice Florent Masse. Conversation in French. Free, but requires registration/RSVP.
As part of Eva Doumbia's Short-Term Scholar visit in the Council of the Humanities and Department of French and Italian, L'Avant-Scène presents her play "Le Iench" (2020) featuring L'Avant-Scène student actors. Free, but requires registration/RSVP.
Grief Work is an original choreopoem conceived, written, and directed by Princeton senior Kenza Benazzouz, that asks: What is grief? Through poetic monologues, scenes, and movements, Grief Work examines how we experience loss throughout our lives. Free tickets encouraged in advance through University Ticketing.
This original Public Works adaptation of The Winter's Tale, with music and new lyrics by Todd Almond, was originally conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet based on the play by William Shakespeare. Directed at Princeton by faculty member Shariffa Ali, our musical, set in dystopian Sicilia and utopian Bohemia and inspired by Afrofuturism, centers community participation through a story of love, betrayal and redemption. Featuring Princeton student actors alongside a local community ensemble cast. Tickets required.
Award-winning writer Louise Kennedy presents “Trespasses: Fact, Fiction and Memory,” a lecture and reading from her bestselling novel Trespasses (2022). Open to the public; no tickets required.
The critically-acclaimed Perfect Days will be screened for free to the University community, well prior to widespread North American release. Hosted by the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy. Free; registration required.
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Princeton Caribbean Connection (PCC) presents an academic conference, “Small Places, Big Futures: Unleashing the Potential of the Caribbean,” inspired by the influential literary work, “A Small Place” by esteemed Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid. Registration required.
The BirDiversity exhibition is a celebration of art, science and ornithology in the Princeton community. Gallery hours: Daily 10 AM - 8 PM.
Join Princeton scholars Jeff Whetstone (visual arts), Barbara White (music) and Karl Kusserow (High Meadows Environmental Institute) for an interdisciplinary discussion of the video installation migration (empire) by Doug Aitken, now screening daily on the north lawn of the Lewis Arts complex.
This Faber Lecture, presented by the Humanities Council's Committee for Film Studies, will examine Abbas Kiarostami’s 1979 film, "First Case, Second Case" and the role that cinema played in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution. No tickets or registration required.
Untitled (caretaker) is a livestreamed video performance by Xavier Cha where a performer, who wears a GoPro chest harness, can be seen moving alone in a rehearsal space. This work questions our roles as spectators and our familiarity with and access to modes of viewing and witnessing in our highly mediated cultures. Aiming to examine the experience many share of struggling in isolation, Untitled (caretaker) rethinks the performing body’s agency and questions the witnessing of bodies in times of crisis and collapse.
Award-winning Ukrainian journalist and international bestselling author Andrey Kurkov; Alan Lightman, an award-winning writer, physicist, social entrepreneur and Princeton alumnus; and alumnus Cara Reichel, co-founder of Prospect Theater Company, join Paul Muldoon in conversation to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world. No tickets required.
Man Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings and the bestselling Dark Star Trilogy, and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner and Professor of Creative Writing Patricia Smith read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. Tickets currently sold out.
In a Zoom conversation, filmmaker Anthony Lucero discusses his debut feature film East Side Sushi, available on PU Kanopy Streaming.
The Program in Visual Arts invites all sophomores interested in the visual arts minor and the Art & Archaeology major in the Practice of Art track to an info session. Students will have the opportunity to meet current faculty, majors, and students to ask questions about the program and application process.
Juniors and seniors in the Program in Visual Arts and Practice of Art Track in the Department of Art & Archaeology open their studios to the community. No tickets required; drop-in from 5:30-7 PM.
As part of Dyane Harvey-Salaam's dance course, "The American Experience and Dance Practices of the African Diaspora," guest artist Mickey Davidson gives a lecture/workshop on "Authentic Jazz and Swing Dance Practices." Open to University community.
In his new book, Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and its capacity to serve goals like peace and justice within and beyond its borders. Two eminent writers and thinkers — philosopher Pettit and journalist Fintan O'Toole — consider these questions and their answers. No tickets required.
Pushcart Prize-winning poet Sally Wen Mao, author of the collection The Kingdom of Surfaces (2023), and the debut fiction collection Ninetails (2024), reads from her work. In The Kingdom of Surfaces, Mao examines art and history — especially the provenance of objects such as porcelain, silk, and pearls — to frame an important conversation on beauty, empire, commodification, and violence.
The biennial Princeton Poetry Festival, organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, returns with a full day of readings, panel discussions and a lecture featuring poets from around the world: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Joyelle McSweeney, Valzhyna Mort, John Okrent, Roger Reeves, Padraig Regan, Philip Schultz, and Luci Tapahonso. Day-long festival runs 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM. Free and open to public; no tickets required.
Princeton Pianists Ensemble presents its fall concert featuring brand-new arrangements of music spanning four centuries, showcasing pieces by Mozart and Debussy, and songs from the Lord of the Rings, ET, and Mario franchises. Tickets required.
After Kane loses the love of his life, he thinks he might have found a second chance in Felix. He’s everything he could ever want, but his past threatens to turn his dreams of love into a nightmare. Tickets required.
Guest artist Cebo teaches a free, drop-in class on foundational hip-hop technique. All experience levels welcome. No registration required. Open to students, faculty, staff + alumni.
A remarkable true story of tenacity, friendship and the triumph of the human spirit, NYAD recounts a riveting chapter in the life of world-class athlete Diana Nyad as she attempts to swim the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida. Followed by conversation with filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi '00 and moderated by lecturer BJ Perlmutt. Tickets required.
This talk will explore the lives and labors of Asian immigrants and their impact on the often-miswritten film histories of the Owens Valley, a slender stretch of high desert in Eastern California. Open to public.
Theater lecturer Chesney Snow and students in his fall course, “The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William,” present a multimedia oral interpretation of literature installation that examines speech as an aspect of fine art. In collaboration with Firestone Library’s special collections exhibition, "In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison." Gallery open daily 10 AM - 8 PM.
Join us for a mesmerizing performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal work, The Great Gatsby, presented by Literature to Life with actor Bryce Foley. This compelling performance adapted and directed by Kelvin Grullon, promises to transport you to the Roaring Twenties—a time of opulence, jazz, and the complexities of the American Dream. In collaboration with Firestone Library’s special collections exhibition, "In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison." Free tickets required.
Critic, editor and poet Kwame Dawes, winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and author of the forthcoming collection Sturge Town, reads from his work along with six creative writing seniors. Free tickets required.
Join us for a deep dive into the art of adaptation and transforming The Great Gatsby into a theatrical treasure for the stage with Pulitzer Prize winner and 2018-19 Princeton Hodder Fellow Martyna Majok and theater lecturer Chesney Snow. In collaboration with Firestone Library’s special collections exhibition, "In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison."
The 2023 Princeton Dance Festival features new and repertory works by nationally and internationally recognized choreographers, performed by more than 50 Princeton dance students. The program includes choreography by Brian Brooks, Amy Hall Garner, Bill T. Jones staged by Catherine Cabeen, Ishita Mili, Shamel Pitts, and Donna Uchizono.
Award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes (The Wild Laughter) reads from her work, including an excerpt from her forthcoming novel, The Alternatives (Riverhead, April 2024). Open to the public; no tickets required.
