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2010-07-21T21:36:47Z

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[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
ArtsLink represents the efforts of the Arts Initiative, its colleagues at Columbia, and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that makes NYC arts and cultural events available to students as an extension of the classroom.

Before each semester, the Arts Initiative compiles a list of performances and exhibits from the upcoming NYC cultural season, which may be pertinent to the curricula of that semester's classes. They provide all interested faculty with the details of each event. Professors may assign an event to their class syllabus simply by sharing the link from the [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center's]] [http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets online event calendar] with his class via e-mail or [[CourseWorks]].
Students can click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner Hall.

Since the tickets are secured via the Ticket and Information Center, professors do not have to negotiate with venues, and students receive considerable discounts on their tickets.

The Arts Initiative began testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and successfully launched it in the Fall 2009. Past events that students attended via ArtsLink include the Donmar Warehouse production of ''Hamlet,'' starring Jude Law, as well as ''In the Heights, Next to Normal,'' and the 2010 revival of ''A View from the Bridge.''

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Some themes from past semesters' series include:
''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus'', ''Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering'', ''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects'', ''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*'''Columbia Arts Groups and Resources:''' A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*'''Gatsby Student Arts Support Fund:''' The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*'''The Columbia Arts Experience:''' Run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Columbia Arts Experience (CAE) provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*'''Arts Jobs and Internships:''' A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*'''Rehearsal and Performance Space:''' A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Detailed descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*'''Guides to producing events on campus:''' Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.facebook.com/CUArts CUArts on Facebook]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]
* [http://www.youtube.com/cuartstube CUArts on YouTube]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:36:41Z

CUArts: /* Current Programs */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
ArtsLink represents the efforts of the Arts Initiative, its colleagues at Columbia, and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that makes NYC arts and cultural events available to students as an extension of the classroom.

Before each semester, the Arts Initiative compiles a list of performances and exhibits from the upcoming NYC cultural season, which may be pertinent to the curricula of that semester's classes. They provide all interested faculty with the details of each event. Professors may assign an event to their class syllabus simply by sharing the link from the [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center's]] [http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets online event calendar] with his class via e-mail or [[CourseWorks]].
Students can click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner Hall.

Since the tickets are secured via the Ticket and Information Center, professors do not have to negotiate with venues, and students receive considerable discounts on their tickets.

The Arts Initiative began testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and successfully launched it in the Fall 2009. Past events that students attended via ArtsLink include the Donmar Warehouse production of ''Hamlet,'' starring Jude Law, as well as ''In the Heights, Next to Normal,'' and the 2010 revival of ''A View from the Bridge.''

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Some themes from past semesters' series include:
''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus'', ''Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering'', ''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects'', ''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.facebook.com/CUArts CUArts on Facebook]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]
* [http://www.youtube.com/cuartstube CUArts on YouTube]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:31:14Z

CUArts: /* ArtsLink */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
ArtsLink represents the efforts of the Arts Initiative, its colleagues at Columbia, and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that makes NYC arts and cultural events available to students as an extension of the classroom.

Before each semester, the Arts Initiative compiles a list of performances and exhibits from the upcoming NYC cultural season, which may be pertinent to the curricula of that semester's classes. They provide all interested faculty with the details of each event. Professors may assign an event to their class syllabus simply by sharing the link from the [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center's]] [http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets online event calendar] with his class via e-mail or [[CourseWorks]].
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Since the tickets are secured via the Ticket and Information Center, professors do not have to negotiate with venues, and students receive considerable discounts on their tickets.

The Arts Initiative began testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and successfully launched it in the Fall 2009. Past events that students attended via ArtsLink include the Donmar Warehouse production of ''Hamlet,'' starring Jude Law, as well as ''In the Heights, Next to Normal,'' and the 2010 revival of ''A View from the Bridge.''

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Some themes from past semesters' series include:
''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus'', ''Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering'', ''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects'', ''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.facebook.com/CUArts CUArts on Facebook]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]
* [http://www.youtube.com/cuartstube CUArts on YouTube]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:30:10Z

CUArts: /* External links */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
ArtsLink represents the efforts of the Arts Initiative, its colleagues at Columbia, and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available to students as an extension of the classroom.

Before each semester, the Arts Initiative compiles a list of performances and exhibits from the upcoming NYC cultural season, which may be pertinent to the curricula of that semester's classes. They provide all interested faculty with the details of each event. Professors may assign an event to their class syllabus simply by sharing the link from the [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center's]] [http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets online event calendar] with his class via e-mail or [[CourseWorks]].
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Since the tickets are secured via the Ticket and Information Center, professors do not have to negotiate with venues, and students receive considerable discounts on their tickets.

The Arts Initiative began testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and successfully launched it in the Fall 2009. Past events that students attended via ArtsLink include the Donmar Warehouse production of ''Hamlet,'' starring Jude Law, as well as ''In the Heights, Next to Normal,'' and the 2010 revival of ''A View from the Bridge.''

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Some themes from past semesters' series include:
''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus'', ''Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering'', ''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects'', ''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.facebook.com/CUArts CUArts on Facebook]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]
* [http://www.youtube.com/cuartstube CUArts on YouTube]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:29:33Z

CUArts: /* Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
ArtsLink represents the efforts of the Arts Initiative, its colleagues at Columbia, and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available to students as an extension of the classroom.

Before each semester, the Arts Initiative compiles a list of performances and exhibits from the upcoming NYC cultural season, which may be pertinent to the curricula of that semester's classes. They provide all interested faculty with the details of each event. Professors may assign an event to their class syllabus simply by sharing the link from the [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center's]] [http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets online event calendar] with his class via e-mail or [[CourseWorks]].
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Since the tickets are secured via the Ticket and Information Center, professors do not have to negotiate with venues, and students receive considerable discounts on their tickets.

The Arts Initiative began testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and successfully launched it in the Fall 2009. Past events that students attended via ArtsLink include the Donmar Warehouse production of ''Hamlet,'' starring Jude Law, as well as ''In the Heights, Next to Normal,'' and the 2010 revival of ''A View from the Bridge.''

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Some themes from past semesters' series include:
''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus'', ''Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering'', ''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects'', ''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]
* [http://www.youtube.com/cuartstube CUArts on YouTube]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:27:43Z

CUArts: /* ArtsLink */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
ArtsLink represents the efforts of the Arts Initiative, its colleagues at Columbia, and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available to students as an extension of the classroom.

Before each semester, the Arts Initiative compiles a list of performances and exhibits from the upcoming NYC cultural season, which may be pertinent to the curricula of that semester's classes. They provide all interested faculty with the details of each event. Professors may assign an event to their class syllabus simply by sharing the link from the [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center's]] [http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets online event calendar] with his class via e-mail or [[CourseWorks]].
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Since the tickets are secured via the Ticket and Information Center, professors do not have to negotiate with venues, and students receive considerable discounts on their tickets.

The Arts Initiative began testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and successfully launched it in the Fall 2009. Past events that students attended via ArtsLink include the Donmar Warehouse production of ''Hamlet,'' starring Jude Law, as well as ''In the Heights, Next to Normal,'' and the 2010 revival of ''A View from the Bridge.''

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]
* [http://www.youtube.com/cuartstube CUArts on YouTube]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:11:29Z

CUArts: /* ArtsLink */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]
* [http://www.youtube.com/cuartstube CUArts on YouTube]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:09:23Z

CUArts: /* External links */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]
* [http://www.youtube.com/cuartstube CUArts on YouTube]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:03:51Z

CUArts: /* Columbia Arts Experience */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T21:02:40Z

CUArts: /* Student Resources */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==
The Arts Initiative offers a wealth of resources for student artists and their projects, whether they are working within or outside the purview of the university. Among the resources available on [http://cuarts.com CUArts] are:

*A comprehensive list of all Columbia University arts groups, including film, new media, multicultural, publication, theater, dance, comedy, and music organizations. [http://www.cuarts.com/cagroups]
*The application and all the eligibility rules to apply for the [[Arts Initiative#The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund|Gatsby Charitable Fund]]. [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Apply2]
*The Columbia Arts Experience, run in conjunction with the [[CCE|Center for Career Education]], provides selected students with a New York-based internship in the arts industry. Opportunities include marketing, administration, arts education, and programming at various NYC production companies, theaters, museums, and publications. [http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/findajob/cce-internship/cae]
*A page that lists internships and jobs in architecture, arts administration, dance, film, literature/journalism/publishing, media, music, radio, theater, and TV. [http://cuarts.com/jobs]
*A comprehensive list of all rehearsal and performance spaces on campus, including theaters, studios, and classrooms. Thorough descriptions of each space, as well as their price, location, and contact person are all listed. [http://www.cuarts.com/spaces]
*Three thorough guides for helping students produce arts events within Columbia's notoriously complex bureaucracy. The guides include instruction and advice on the process of planning, preparing, funding, marketing, and producing a student event at Columbia. [http://www.cuarts.com/guide/events]

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T19:58:08Z

CUArts: /* CUArts */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/ CUArts home page]]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T19:55:20Z

CUArts: /* The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, [[Follies Student Comedy Review|Follies]], an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[Columbia Business School]], the photography installation [[99 Columbians]], and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:51:46Z

CUArts: /* The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]], [[99 Columbians]], a massive photography project, and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:51:16Z

CUArts: /* The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets.

Previous recipients of Gatsby funds include Project Bluelight, Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]], [[99 Columbians]], a massive photography project, and an off-off-Broadway play produced by student theater troupe [[Latenite Theatre]].

The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:47:42Z

CUArts: /* The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|left|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the [[CUArts]] website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts [http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby/ here].

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:41:41Z

CUArts: /* Ticket and Information Center (TIC) */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb|[http://cuarts.com/calendar/tickets Ticket and Information Center]]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Ticket and Information Center

2010-07-20T18:38:15Z

CUArts: /* Location */

[[Image:tic3.gif|thumb]]The '''Ticket and Information Center (TIC)''' is a project of the Office of the [[Provost]] and the [[Arts Initiative]] at Columbia University. The TIC is a full-service online and live box office and information center located in the lobby of Lerner Hall. Since opening in January 2008, the TIC has sold over 40,000 discounted tickets to Columbia students.

==Services==
[[Image:Tic.jpg|thumb|The TIC at Lerner Hall]]Through the TIC, Columbia students, faculty, and staff can:

* Buy tickets and/or RSVP to free on-campus events, performances, lectures and symposia.

* Sell tickets to an organization's on-campus event, performance, lecture or symposia either through the live ticket center in Lerner, the online system, or both.

* Buy discounted tickets to performances, films, and events in and around New York City.

* Get information about all the resources that the Arts Initiative, the TIC, CUArts, and Columbia University at large has to offer regarding getting involved with the arts on and off campus.

The TIC website also has a calendar feature with cultural events listings in an easily searchable format.

===Broadway Shows===
[[Image:Chicago.gif|thumb]][[Image:spring_awakening.gif|thumb]]By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance. In the past, the TIC has provided discount tickets to Broadway and off-Broadway shows including ''A Chorus Line'', ''August: Osage County,'' ''Avenue Q,'' ''Boeing Boeing,'' ''Chicago,'' ''Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy,'' ''Cry Baby,'' ''Curtains'', ''Gypsy,'' ''Hairspray'', ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses'', ''Mamma Mia!,'' ''My First Time,'' ''Passing Strange,'' ''The Phantom of the Opera,'' ''Rent,'' ''Spamalot,'' ''Spring Awakening,'' and ''Sunday in the Park with George.'' Discount student tickets normally fall between $20 and $30. Students can log in to a secure site through the TIC website to check the availability of shows and dates with tickets for purchase. Tickets purchased through Telecharge may be picked up at the theater's box office only by showing one valid CUID for each ticket purchased.

===Movie Vouchers===
The TIC offers discount movie vouchers for various theaters throughout the city. Voucher prices range from $5.50 to $8.50, compared to a normal ticket price of $12. Theaters offering vouchers or student tickets include AMC Loews Theaters, City Cinemas/Angelika Film Center, Clearview Cinemas/Angelika, the Film Society at Lincoln Center, Regal Cinemas, and Sunshine/Landmark Cinemas.

===Registering Events with the TIC===
Recognized students groups, organizations, and departments can all register on-campus and sanctioned off-campus events through the TIC through a request form found on the TIC website. The TIC will help groups sell tickets or keep track of event attendees through a RSVP list. The TIC requests that groups give notification of an event at least two weeks prior to its start date.

===Group Tickets===
Individuals, student organizations, classes, departments, and other groups wishing to purchase group tickets may do so through the TIC. Interested groups can select an event from a TIC calendar listing or another resource and submit a Group Ticket Request form, available on the TIC website. TIC staff will then try to find a price and date suited to the group's needs.

==Past Events==
Some of the events made available to students in collaboration with the TIC include:
[[Image:iliad.jpg|thumb|Staged reading of the ''Iliad'' by Aquila Theatre Company]]
*On-campus
** [[The Varsity Show]]
** Bacchanal Concert 2008 featuring The National with special guest Grizzly Bear
** Concerts by the CU Orchestra and the CU Wind Ensemble
** Mainstream film series by Columbia's Ferris Reel Film Society, including ''There Will Be Blood,'' ''3:10 to Yuma,'' ''No Country for Old Men,'' and ''Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' in the spring 2008 term
** Theater productions by on-campus groups like CUPlayers, NOMADS, the Black Theatre Ensemble, the Columbia Theatre Musical Society, [[Latenite Theater|Latenite Theatre]], and more
** Lectures by Columbia University Artist Oliver Sacks
** The Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival (CUNUFF) for student filmmakers across the country, and the Columbia University Film Festival for student thesis work from the Columbia University Graduate Film Division in the School of the Arts
**Staged reading of Books One and Two of the ''Iliad'' by Aquila Theatre Company
** A variety of events from on-campus cultural, student life, political, dance, music, and Greek organizations

[[Image:fuerzabruta.jpg|thumb|Performers at Columbia Night at Fuerzabruta]]
*Off-campus
**Tickets to a number of Off-Broadway plays during Columbia's Off-Broadway week
**Performances at the Metropolitan Opera, including productions of ''Peter Grimes,'' ''Ernani,'' ''La Fille du Regiment,'' and ''Satyagraha,'' and at the New York City Opera, including productions of ''Tosca,'' ''Madame Butterfly,'' and ''Candide''
**Columbia nights at ''Fuerzabruta'', Lincoln Center, and the New York City Ballet
**New York Philharmonic performances
**Film screenings, including ''Young @ Heart'', ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', ''Fool's Gold'', ''Man on Wire'', and ''Dog Day Afternoon''
**Free tickets to a speaker series event at Radio City Music Hall featuring Tucker Carlson, Ariana Huffington, and James Carville, moderated by Anderson Cooper

==Hours, Location, and Contact Information==

===Hours===
Starting August 25, the TIC will be open Monday through Saturday from 12 pm - 9 pm.

===Location===
The TIC is located in the main lobby of Alfred Lerner Hall to the right of Café 212. Its mailing address is:

:Ticket and Information Center
:Prentis Hall
:632 W. 125 St., Suite 206
:New York, NY 10027

===Contact Information===
For more information, the TIC can be reached by phone at (212) 851-1872 or by email at ticketinfo@columbia.edu.

==External Links==
* [http://www.tic.columbia.edu TIC website]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts website]

[[Category:Arts Initiative]]

Ticket and Information Center

2010-07-20T18:36:44Z

CUArts: /* Past Events */

[[Image:tic3.gif|thumb]]The '''Ticket and Information Center (TIC)''' is a project of the Office of the [[Provost]] and the [[Arts Initiative]] at Columbia University. The TIC is a full-service online and live box office and information center located in the lobby of Lerner Hall. Since opening in January 2008, the TIC has sold over 40,000 discounted tickets to Columbia students.

==Services==
[[Image:Tic.jpg|thumb|The TIC at Lerner Hall]]Through the TIC, Columbia students, faculty, and staff can:

* Buy tickets and/or RSVP to free on-campus events, performances, lectures and symposia.

* Sell tickets to an organization's on-campus event, performance, lecture or symposia either through the live ticket center in Lerner, the online system, or both.

* Buy discounted tickets to performances, films, and events in and around New York City.

* Get information about all the resources that the Arts Initiative, the TIC, CUArts, and Columbia University at large has to offer regarding getting involved with the arts on and off campus.

The TIC website also has a calendar feature with cultural events listings in an easily searchable format.

===Broadway Shows===
[[Image:Chicago.gif|thumb]][[Image:spring_awakening.gif|thumb]]By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance. In the past, the TIC has provided discount tickets to Broadway and off-Broadway shows including ''A Chorus Line'', ''August: Osage County,'' ''Avenue Q,'' ''Boeing Boeing,'' ''Chicago,'' ''Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy,'' ''Cry Baby,'' ''Curtains'', ''Gypsy,'' ''Hairspray'', ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses'', ''Mamma Mia!,'' ''My First Time,'' ''Passing Strange,'' ''The Phantom of the Opera,'' ''Rent,'' ''Spamalot,'' ''Spring Awakening,'' and ''Sunday in the Park with George.'' Discount student tickets normally fall between $20 and $30. Students can log in to a secure site through the TIC website to check the availability of shows and dates with tickets for purchase. Tickets purchased through Telecharge may be picked up at the theater's box office only by showing one valid CUID for each ticket purchased.

===Movie Vouchers===
The TIC offers discount movie vouchers for various theaters throughout the city. Voucher prices range from $5.50 to $8.50, compared to a normal ticket price of $12. Theaters offering vouchers or student tickets include AMC Loews Theaters, City Cinemas/Angelika Film Center, Clearview Cinemas/Angelika, the Film Society at Lincoln Center, Regal Cinemas, and Sunshine/Landmark Cinemas.

===Registering Events with the TIC===
Recognized students groups, organizations, and departments can all register on-campus and sanctioned off-campus events through the TIC through a request form found on the TIC website. The TIC will help groups sell tickets or keep track of event attendees through a RSVP list. The TIC requests that groups give notification of an event at least two weeks prior to its start date.

===Group Tickets===
Individuals, student organizations, classes, departments, and other groups wishing to purchase group tickets may do so through the TIC. Interested groups can select an event from a TIC calendar listing or another resource and submit a Group Ticket Request form, available on the TIC website. TIC staff will then try to find a price and date suited to the group's needs.

==Past Events==
Some of the events made available to students in collaboration with the TIC include:
[[Image:iliad.jpg|thumb|Staged reading of the ''Iliad'' by Aquila Theatre Company]]
*On-campus
** [[The Varsity Show]]
** Bacchanal Concert 2008 featuring The National with special guest Grizzly Bear
** Concerts by the CU Orchestra and the CU Wind Ensemble
** Mainstream film series by Columbia's Ferris Reel Film Society, including ''There Will Be Blood,'' ''3:10 to Yuma,'' ''No Country for Old Men,'' and ''Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' in the spring 2008 term
** Theater productions by on-campus groups like CUPlayers, NOMADS, the Black Theatre Ensemble, the Columbia Theatre Musical Society, [[Latenite Theater|Latenite Theatre]], and more
** Lectures by Columbia University Artist Oliver Sacks
** The Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival (CUNUFF) for student filmmakers across the country, and the Columbia University Film Festival for student thesis work from the Columbia University Graduate Film Division in the School of the Arts
**Staged reading of Books One and Two of the ''Iliad'' by Aquila Theatre Company
** A variety of events from on-campus cultural, student life, political, dance, music, and Greek organizations

[[Image:fuerzabruta.jpg|thumb|Performers at Columbia Night at Fuerzabruta]]
*Off-campus
**Tickets to a number of Off-Broadway plays during Columbia's Off-Broadway week
**Performances at the Metropolitan Opera, including productions of ''Peter Grimes,'' ''Ernani,'' ''La Fille du Regiment,'' and ''Satyagraha,'' and at the New York City Opera, including productions of ''Tosca,'' ''Madame Butterfly,'' and ''Candide''
**Columbia nights at ''Fuerzabruta'', Lincoln Center, and the New York City Ballet
**New York Philharmonic performances
**Film screenings, including ''Young @ Heart'', ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', ''Fool's Gold'', ''Man on Wire'', and ''Dog Day Afternoon''
**Free tickets to a speaker series event at Radio City Music Hall featuring Tucker Carlson, Ariana Huffington, and James Carville, moderated by Anderson Cooper

==Hours, Location, and Contact Information==

===Hours===
Starting August 25, the TIC will be open Monday through Saturday from 12 pm - 9 pm.

===Location===
The TIC is located in the main lobby of Alfred Lerner Hall to the right of Café 212. Our mailing address is:

:Ticket and Information Center
:Prentis Hall
:632 W. 125 St., Suite 206
:New York, NY 10027

===Contact Information===
For more information, the TIC can be reached by phone at (212) 851-1872 or by email at ticketinfo@columbia.edu.

==External Links==
* [http://www.tic.columbia.edu TIC website]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts website]

[[Category:Arts Initiative]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:35:39Z

CUArts: /* Ticket and Information Center (TIC) */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
[[image:ticb.jpg|thumb]]
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:34:43Z

CUArts: /* Ticket and Information Center (TIC) */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
''Further information: [[Ticket and Information Center]]''
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Passport to New York

2010-07-20T18:33:58Z

CUArts:

'''Passport to New York''' is a program sponsored by the [[Arts Initiative]] that allows undergraduate and graduate students to get into the following 28 museums for free. Some of these are a fantastic value. MoMA ($12), the Guggenheim ($15), and the Whitney ($10) charge an exorbitant amount even at their student rates. The MoMA discount is particularly nice since Columbia students can enter via the VIP line.

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Museum'''
| '''Location'''
| '''Phone'''
|-
| [http://www.folkartmuseum.org/ American Folk Art Museum]
| 45 West 53rd Street
| 212-265-1040
|-
| [http://www.numismatics.org/ American Numismatic Society]
| 96 Fulton Street
| 212-571-4470
|-
| [http://www.asiasociety.org/ Asia Society]
| 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
| 212-288-6400
|-
| [http://www.bronxmuseum.org/ Bronx Museum of the Arts]
| 1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th Street)
| 718-681-6000 (ext. 120)
|-
| [http://www.brooklynhistory.org/ Brooklyn Historical Society]
| 128 Pierrepont Street (at Clinton St)
| 718-222-4111
|-
| [http://www.cccadi.org/ Caribbean Cultural Center/Africa Diaspora Institute]
| 408 West 58th Street
| 212-307-7420
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ The Cloisters]
| Fort Tryon Park
| 212-923-3700
|-
| [http://www.cooperhewitt.org/ Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum]
| 2 East 91st St (at 5th Avenue)
| 212-849-8400
|-
| [http://www.daheshmuseum.org/ Dahesh Museum]
| 580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets)
| 212-759-0606
|-
| [http://www.elmuseo.org/ El Museo del Barrio]
| 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
| 212-831-7272
|-
| [http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]
| 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
| 212-423-3500
|-
| [http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm Goethe-Institute]
| 1014 Fifth Avenue (between 82nd and 83rd St)
| 212-439-8700
|-
| [http://www.icp.org/ International Center of Photography]
| 1133 Sixth Avenue
| 212-857-0000
|-
| [http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/index.php?MERCURYSID=f860f1e972b6f768c5eb8f843da7dcf3 Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum]
| Pier 86, 12th Ave. & 46th Street
| 212-245-0072
|-
| [http://www.africanart.org/ Museum for African Art]
| Varies by exhibit, check website
| 718-784-7700
|-
| [http://www.moca-nyc.org/MoCA/content.asp Museum of Chinese in the Americas]
| 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor
| 212-619-478
|-
| [http://www.mcny.org/ Museum of the City of New York]
| 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St
| 212-534-1672
|-
| [http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm Museum of Jewish Heritage]
| 39 Battery Park Place
| 646-437-4200
|-
| [http://www.moma.org/ Museum of Modern Art]
| 11 West 53 Street
| 212-708-9400
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ Metropolitan Museum of Art]
| 1000 Fifth Avenue
| 212-535-7710
|-
| [http://www.mtr.org/ Museum of Television & Radio]
| 25 West 52 Street
| 212-621-6800
|-
| [http://www.nationalacademy.org/ National Academy Museum]
| 1083 Fifth Avenue at 90th Street
| 212 369-4880
|-
| [http://www.nmcah.org/ National Museum of Catholic Art and History]
| 443 East 115th Street (1st Ave and Pleaseant Ave.)
| 212-828-5209
|-
| [http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org/ New York City Police Museum]
| 100 Old Slip
| 212-480-3100
|-
| [https://www.nyhistory.org/web/ New York Historical Society]
| 170 Central Park West, at 77th St
| 212-873-3400
|-
| [http://www.roerich.org/ Nicholas Roerich Museum]
| 319 West 107th Street
| 212-864-7752
|-
| [http://www.ps1.org/ PS1/MoMA]
| 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
| 718-784-2084
|-
| [http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]
| 515 Malcolm X Boulevard
| 212-491-2200
|-
| [http://www.studiomuseum.org/ Studio Museum in Harlem]
| 144 West 125th Street
| 212-864-4500
|-
| [http://www.whitney.org/ Whitney Museum of American Art]
| 945 Madison Avenue (at 75th Street)
| 1-800-WHITNEY
|}

=External links=
[http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums/ Passport to New York]

[[Category:Exploring the city]]
[[Category:Arts Initiative]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:12:26Z

CUArts: /* Passport to New York */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
''Further information: [[Passport to New York]]''

[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:10:26Z

CUArts: /* Passport to New York */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
{{further|[[Passport to New York]]}}
[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Passport to New York

2010-07-20T18:09:37Z

CUArts: /* External links */

'''Passport to New York''' is a program sponsored by the [[Arts Initiative]] that allows undergraduate and graduate students to get into the following 28 museums for free. Some of these are a fantastic value. MoMA ($12), the Guggenheim ($15), and the Whitney ($10) charge an exorbitant amount even at their student rates. The MoMA discount is particularly nice since Columbia students can enter via the VIP line.

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Museum'''
| '''Location'''
| '''Phone'''
|-
| [http://www.folkartmuseum.org/ American Folk Art Museum]
| 45 West 53rd Street
| 212-265-1040
|-
| [http://www.numismatics.org/ American Numismatic Society]
| 96 Fulton Street
| 212-571-4470
|-
| [http://www.asiasociety.org/ Asia Society]
| 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
| 212-288-6400
|-
| [http://www.bronxmuseum.org/ Bronx Museum of the Arts]
| 1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th Street)
| 718-681-6000 (ext. 120)
|-
| [http://www.cccadi.org/node/83 Caribbean Cultural Center]
| 408 West 58th Street
| 212-307-7420
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ The Cloisters]
| Fort Tryon Park
| 212-923-3700
|-
| [http://www.daheshmuseum.org/ Dahesh Museum]
| 580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets)
| 212-759-0606
|-
| [http://www.elmuseo.org/ El Museo del Barrio]
| 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
| 212-831-7272
|-
| [http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]
| 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
| 212-423-3500
|-
| [http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm Goethe-Institute]
| 1014 Fifth Avenue (between 82nd and 83rd St)
| 212-439-8700
|-
| [http://www.icp.org/ International Center of Photography]
| 1133 Sixth Avenue
| 212-857-0000
|-
| [http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/index.php?MERCURYSID=f860f1e972b6f768c5eb8f843da7dcf3 Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum]
| Pier 86, 12th Ave. & 46th Street
| 212-245-0072
|-
| [http://www.africanart.org/ Museum for African Art]
| Varies by exhibit, check website
| 718-784-7700
|-
| [http://www.moca-nyc.org/MoCA/content.asp Museum of Chinese in the Americas]
| 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor
| 212-619-478
|-
| [http://www.mcny.org/ Museum of the City of New York]
| 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St
| 212-534-1672
|-
| [http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm Museum of Jewish Heritage]
| 39 Battery Park Place
| 646-437-4200
|-
| [http://www.moma.org/ Museum of Modern Art]
| 11 West 53 Street
| 212-708-9400
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ Metropolitan Museum of Art]
| 1000 Fifth Avenue
| 212-535-7710
|-
| [http://www.mtr.org/ Museum of Television & Radio]
| 25 West 52 Street
| 212-621-6800
|-
| [http://www.nationalacademy.org/ National Academy Museum]
| 1083 Fifth Avenue at 90th Street
| 212 369-4880
|-
| [http://www.nmcah.org/ National Museum of Catholic Art and History]
| 443 East 115th Street (1st Ave and Pleaseant Ave.)
| 212-828-5209
|-
| [http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org/ New York City Police Museum]
| 100 Old Slip
| 212-480-3100
|-
| [https://www.nyhistory.org/web/ New York Historical Society]
| 170 Central Park West, at 77th St
| 212-873-3400
|-
| [http://www.roerich.org/ Nicholas Roerich Museum]
| 319 West 107th Street
| 212-864-7752
|-
| [http://www.ps1.org/ PS1/MoMA]
| 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
| 718-784-2084
|-
| [http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]
| 515 Malcolm X Boulevard
| 212-491-2200
|-
| [http://www.studiomuseum.org/ Studio Museum in Harlem]
| 144 West 125th Street
| 212-864-4500
|-
| [http://www.whitney.org/ Whitney Museum of American Art]
| 945 Madison Avenue (at 75th Street)
| 1-800-WHITNEY
|}

=External links=
[http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums/ Passport to New York]

[[Category:Exploring the city]]
[[Category:Arts Initiative]]

Passport to New York

2010-07-20T18:09:16Z

CUArts: /* External links */

'''Passport to New York''' is a program sponsored by the [[Arts Initiative]] that allows undergraduate and graduate students to get into the following 28 museums for free. Some of these are a fantastic value. MoMA ($12), the Guggenheim ($15), and the Whitney ($10) charge an exorbitant amount even at their student rates. The MoMA discount is particularly nice since Columbia students can enter via the VIP line.

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Museum'''
| '''Location'''
| '''Phone'''
|-
| [http://www.folkartmuseum.org/ American Folk Art Museum]
| 45 West 53rd Street
| 212-265-1040
|-
| [http://www.numismatics.org/ American Numismatic Society]
| 96 Fulton Street
| 212-571-4470
|-
| [http://www.asiasociety.org/ Asia Society]
| 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
| 212-288-6400
|-
| [http://www.bronxmuseum.org/ Bronx Museum of the Arts]
| 1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th Street)
| 718-681-6000 (ext. 120)
|-
| [http://www.cccadi.org/node/83 Caribbean Cultural Center]
| 408 West 58th Street
| 212-307-7420
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ The Cloisters]
| Fort Tryon Park
| 212-923-3700
|-
| [http://www.daheshmuseum.org/ Dahesh Museum]
| 580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets)
| 212-759-0606
|-
| [http://www.elmuseo.org/ El Museo del Barrio]
| 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
| 212-831-7272
|-
| [http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]
| 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
| 212-423-3500
|-
| [http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm Goethe-Institute]
| 1014 Fifth Avenue (between 82nd and 83rd St)
| 212-439-8700
|-
| [http://www.icp.org/ International Center of Photography]
| 1133 Sixth Avenue
| 212-857-0000
|-
| [http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/index.php?MERCURYSID=f860f1e972b6f768c5eb8f843da7dcf3 Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum]
| Pier 86, 12th Ave. & 46th Street
| 212-245-0072
|-
| [http://www.africanart.org/ Museum for African Art]
| Varies by exhibit, check website
| 718-784-7700
|-
| [http://www.moca-nyc.org/MoCA/content.asp Museum of Chinese in the Americas]
| 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor
| 212-619-478
|-
| [http://www.mcny.org/ Museum of the City of New York]
| 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St
| 212-534-1672
|-
| [http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm Museum of Jewish Heritage]
| 39 Battery Park Place
| 646-437-4200
|-
| [http://www.moma.org/ Museum of Modern Art]
| 11 West 53 Street
| 212-708-9400
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ Metropolitan Museum of Art]
| 1000 Fifth Avenue
| 212-535-7710
|-
| [http://www.mtr.org/ Museum of Television & Radio]
| 25 West 52 Street
| 212-621-6800
|-
| [http://www.nationalacademy.org/ National Academy Museum]
| 1083 Fifth Avenue at 90th Street
| 212 369-4880
|-
| [http://www.nmcah.org/ National Museum of Catholic Art and History]
| 443 East 115th Street (1st Ave and Pleaseant Ave.)
| 212-828-5209
|-
| [http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org/ New York City Police Museum]
| 100 Old Slip
| 212-480-3100
|-
| [https://www.nyhistory.org/web/ New York Historical Society]
| 170 Central Park West, at 77th St
| 212-873-3400
|-
| [http://www.roerich.org/ Nicholas Roerich Museum]
| 319 West 107th Street
| 212-864-7752
|-
| [http://www.ps1.org/ PS1/MoMA]
| 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
| 718-784-2084
|-
| [http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]
| 515 Malcolm X Boulevard
| 212-491-2200
|-
| [http://www.studiomuseum.org/ Studio Museum in Harlem]
| 144 West 125th Street
| 212-864-4500
|-
| [http://www.whitney.org/ Whitney Museum of American Art]
| 945 Madison Avenue (at 75th Street)
| 1-800-WHITNEY
|}

=External links=
[http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums/ Passport to New York]

[[Category:Exploring the city]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T18:04:57Z

CUArts: /* Passport to New York */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants undergraduate [[CUID]] holders free admission to 32 New York City museums and institutions, including The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], [[The Cloisters]], The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, The [[Guggenheim]], The [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need to present their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (which CU and Barnard students may obtain by visiting the ID Center in [[Kent Hall]]). Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs. A complete list of the participating museums is available [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums here].

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T16:47:55Z

CUArts: /* Passport to New York */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] [[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left| [http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums Passport to New York]]]is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T16:40:45Z

CUArts: /* Passport to New York */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb|left]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T16:36:56Z

CUArts: /* ArtsLink */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb| [http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]]]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T16:35:37Z

CUArts:

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
[[image:Alink_ai_logo.gif|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/artslink ArtsLink by CU Arts Initiative]
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Student Resources==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

File:Alink ai logo.gif

2010-07-20T16:33:15Z

CUArts: ArtsLink logo via CU Arts

ArtsLink logo via CU Arts

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T16:15:17Z

CUArts: /* Featured Events */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Upcoming Projects==

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T16:14:58Z

CUArts: /* Discount tickets */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Upcoming Projects==

===Featured Events===

On May 30th, the Arts Initiative, in association with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's (WEAI) 60th Anniversary event in Beijing, presented, "Kind of Red: An Evening of New Jazz," featuring players from Columbia University's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, Beijing's Red Hand Jazz Band, and special guests Wu Na and Zhang Hongyan. A reception and jam session followed after the concert at D-22. More than 300 Columbia alumni and guests took part in the event:

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T16:14:40Z

CUArts:

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===ArtsLink===
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Upcoming Projects==

===Discount tickets===
Now available through the TIC!

===Featured Events===

On May 30th, the Arts Initiative, in association with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's (WEAI) 60th Anniversary event in Beijing, presented, "Kind of Red: An Evening of New Jazz," featuring players from Columbia University's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, Beijing's Red Hand Jazz Band, and special guests Wu Na and Zhang Hongyan. A reception and jam session followed after the concert at D-22. More than 300 Columbia alumni and guests took part in the event:

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T16:13:32Z

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[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Upcoming Projects==

===Discount tickets===
Now available through the TIC!

===ArtsLink===
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, the Arts Initiative Global project has hosted numerous events, bringing artists from abroad and home into collaboration.

===Featured Events===

On May 30th, the Arts Initiative, in association with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's (WEAI) 60th Anniversary event in Beijing, presented, "Kind of Red: An Evening of New Jazz," featuring players from Columbia University's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, Beijing's Red Hand Jazz Band, and special guests Wu Na and Zhang Hongyan. A reception and jam session followed after the concert at D-22. More than 300 Columbia alumni and guests took part in the event:

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

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[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
[[Image:Gatsby_web_large.gif‎|thumb|[http://www.cuarts.com/page/gatsby#Overview The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund]]]
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
''
Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Upcoming Projects==

===Discount tickets===
Now available through the TIC!

===ArtsLink===
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman.

===Featured Events===

On May 30th, the Arts Initiative, in association with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's (WEAI) 60th Anniversary event in Beijing, presented, "Kind of Red: An Evening of New Jazz," featuring players from Columbia University's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, Beijing's Red Hand Jazz Band, and special guests Wu Na and Zhang Hongyan. A reception and jam session followed after the concert at D-22. More than 300 Columbia alumni and guests took part in the event:

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

[[Category:Arts Initiative|*]]

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2010-07-20T15:37:23Z

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Logo of Gatsby Charitable Fund via CU Arts Initiative

Arts Initiative

2010-07-20T15:36:01Z

CUArts: /* CUArts */

[[Image:Ai_large_logo.gif|thumb]]The '''Arts Initiative at Columbia University''' was created in [[2004]] by President [[Lee Bollinger]] to promote "the role of the arts in the university, and the university's role in the arts". Part of the [[Office of the President]], the initiative's Director is [[Gregory Mosher]]. The Arts Initiative's website of campus-wide and city-wide cultural resources is [[CUArts]]. Its offices are located in [[Prentis Hall]].

== Mission ==
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University was created in 2004 by President Bollinger to re-invent the role of the arts in the university, and the university’s role in the arts. This effort now spans the campus, unconstrained by venue, department, field, or program, and reaches out into a diverse international culture. Among its aims are to make the arts part of the experience of every Columbia student's education and to promote a life-long involvement in the arts.

This enterprise rests on three pillars. The Initiative nurtures the vast artistic energy – nearly 150 groups, departments, and programs - on Columbia’s campus. It creates and strengthens links between Columbia and the wider culture. It connects the arts with other ways of understanding and acting in the world.

== Current Programs ==

===Ticket and Information Center (TIC)===
The [[Ticket and Information Center|Ticket and Information Center]] (TIC) opened in January 2008 and has since dispensed over 135,000 free and discounted tickets to the Columbia community. Operating both in the [[Lerner]] lobby and online, the TIC features campus events of all sorts, NYC cultural events, and discount movie vouchers. By special arrangement with Telecharge and select Broadway producers, the TIC has at last created an alternative to student rush by selling student-priced tickets in advance through the Collegetix program. The Ticket and Information Center staff fields questions ranging from Carnegie Hall's address to when the [[Columbia Orchestra]] holds auditions. TIC operates in partnership with the [[Provost]]'s office, with additional support from Columbia College and [[Student Services]].

===Passport to New York===
[[Image:passport-logo.gif|thumb]][[Passport to New York|Passport to New York]] is a program that grants student [[CUID]] holders free admission to 31 New York City museums and institutions, including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[MoMA]], the [[Guggenheim]], the [[Whitney]], and more. Students only need their CUID with a valid sticker for that school term (i.e. Fall 2009) for admission. Passport to New York is one of the Arts Initiative's most popular programs.

===CUArts===
[[Image:CuartsLogo_2008.gif|thumb|]][[CUArts]], the University's web compendium of campus and NYC arts information and resources, is now accessible directly from the Columbia University homepage. Sixty thousand visitors a month visit the site to link to Columbia's major arts schools, programs, organizations and venues, the Ticket and Information Center, and the Columbia Alumni Arts League, as well as listings of jobs/internships, arts libraries, campus rehearsal and performance venues, and much more. Through CUArts, site visitors can sign up for the Arts Initiative's weekly newsletter, which goes out every Friday and provides a short list of on-campus and city-wide events for the upcoming week, normally for $20 or less.

===The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Fund===
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation fund, made possible by the generosity of [[Lord David Sainsbury|Lord David]] (MBA '71) and Lady Susie Sainsbury, continues its extraordinary support for student arts projects. Grantees span Columbia's schools, with projects ranging from [[Project Bluelight]], Columbia's first undergraduate film production company, to Follies, an original musical composed and performed by graduate students in the [[SIPA|School of International and Public Affairs]]. Gatsby funds also support the CUArts website and subsidize student tickets. The Gatsby application form is now online at CUArts.

===The Columbia Alumni Arts League===
[[Image:CAAL.JPG|thumb]]The [[Columbia Alumni Arts League]] was established in late 2006 to make it possible for Columbians from all schools to stay involved in the arts – and with each other - after graduation. The Columbia Alumni Arts League provides member discounts and perks at 70 leading NYC cultural organizations, while CAAL Nights bring alumni together several times a month at a dazzling variety of arts events. In 2007, President Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger began a tradition of presenting the graduating class with complimentary one-year memberships; in 2009 over 4,000 graduates took advantage of this opportunity. CAAL also maintains a web listing of local arts events featuring alumni and sends a weekly newsletter featuring exclusive and affordable cultural opportunities to over 6,000 members.

===Columbia Arts Experience===
With Center for Career Education, the Arts Initiative now co-sponsors a new paid internship program, the Columbia Arts Experience, which recently placed 14 students with arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Harlem Stage, New York City Ballet and the Sundance Channel.

===Networking and the Lunch With The Arts Initiative Series===
[[Image:Lunch2.jpg|thumb|Students participate in a Lunch With The Arts Initiative Event]]Lunch With The Arts Initiative is a networking lunch series that provides graduate and undergraduate Columbians with opportunities to collaborate and discover more about the Arts Initiative and the arts throughout Columbia.

Need funding for your own arts-related project? Interested in joining a campus performance group or working in an arts admin internship in Manhattan? Want to learn how to buy cheap tickets to on campus events, as well as to Broadway, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center and more? Sell tickets to your own campus event? Market your events in fresh ways that are also environmentally friendly? Lunch With The Arts Initiative provides students a forum to discuss and discover answers to these questions and more.

Students can join the Arts Initiative for the semester-long series to network with other students who are also passionate about the arts. Students can come to an individual session, or join the Arts Initiative for all four. The Arts Initiative has your questions--and lunch--covered. Listed below are past themes from the Fall 2008 Series for students interested in visiting. Fall 2009 Series coming soon.

''Arts Smarts: How To Get Connected On Campus''
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Marketing Your On-Campus Event: Life After Flyering''

''The Gatsby Charitable Foundation: A Novel Way To Fund Your Arts-Related Projects''

''Arts Smarts: Spring Into The Arts By Networking and Sharing Resources''

==Past Programs==

===Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party===
[[Image:MET_CUArts_NSOP_32.jpg|thumb|{50}x{75}|Columbia students at the Met]]At the first annual Metropolitan Museum Orientation Party in 2007, nearly 1600 incoming students from [[Columbia College]], [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] , [[Barnard]], and the [[School of General Studies]] were welcomed to Columbia with exclusive access to the Egyptian, African, and Greek and Roman galleries for a reception and viewing. The Arts Initiative, Provost's office and New Student Orientation Program hosted. The event will take place again in 2008 and will hopefully remain an annual event.

===Preview Screening of Li Yang's ''Blind Mountain''===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights presented a preview screening of ''Blind Mountain'', a film by Visiting Columbia Artist Li Yang. The film, which drew standing ovations at Cannes and around the globe, explores China's problem of human trafficking due to the One Child Policy. Following the screening the filmmaker took part in a conversation with the audience which was led by Professor Carole Vance, Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, and Professor [[Andrew Nathan]], Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department. This event was part of the Arts Initiative's wider China project which seeks to enrich mutual understanding by linking China's vibrant contemporary arts and culture to a wide range of academic disciplines and professions within the Columbia community.

===Václav Havel at Columbia===
[[Image:Havel14.jpg|thumb|Václav Havel, President Bollinger, and Bill Clinton]]At the invitation of President Bollinger, [[Václav Havel]] arrived at Columbia University on [[October 26]], 2006, for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. The visit was organized by the Arts Initiative at Columbia University.

Václav Havel's visit to Columbia focused on an exploration of the connection between art and citizenship. In addition to the events with President Havel, the Arts Initiative organized a series of symposia on specific art forms (theatre, msuic, architecture, art, film, literature) and citizenship. Each of these were moderated by Columbians; several were presented in partnership with some of New York's leading cultural institutions.

===New Yorker nights===
A series of events at [[Miller Theater]] in 2005-2006 featuring speakers like Joan Didion, [[Oliver Sacks]], Malcolm Gladwell, [[Simon Schama]], and others.

===Peter Brook's production of ''Tierno Bokar''===
Renowned director [[Peter Brook]] and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT), spent a month in residence at Columbia University in the spring of [[2005]]. During their residence they mounted the U.S. premiere of ''Tierno Bokar'', a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance.

With this residence, Brook for the first time integrated his work into the life and culture of a large urban university. The company worked with the resources of Columbia University, Barnard College and the Harlem community and encouraged students, faculty, and the public to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the social, political, religious, and historical questions raised by performances of ''Tierno Bokar''. Events included symposia, lectures, workshops, and class work. All programs were sponsored by the Arts Initiative in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance and Barnard College.

==Upcoming Projects==

===Discount tickets===
Now available through the TIC!

===ArtsLink===
For the past year, the Arts Initiative has been working with Columbia colleagues and leading New York City cultural institutions to create a program that will make NYC arts and cultural events available as an extension of the classroom, as accessible as textbooks or other teaching tools. In brief, here is how the program will work:

*Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide all interested faculty with a list of events or exhibits, including detailed information, chosen from the NYC cultural season.
*The professor can assign an event simply by sharing the event's link from the TIC website, either in [[Courseworks]] or via email.
[[Image:yang.jpg|thumb|Director Li Yang speaks at the Columbia screening of his film ''Blind Mountain'']]
*Students will click to buy a discounted ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the venue or at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Thus, professors will not have to negotiate with venues or buying and disbursing tickets.

The Arts Initiative will be testing this program in the Spring 2009 semester and launching in the Fall 2009.

===Arts Global===
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Global project establishes a cultural arm for President Bollinger's wide-ranging efforts to increase what he often refers to as "global literacy." The effort is growing in tandem with the establishment of the University's Regional Centers, and will begin in China.

Because young people live in an increasingly global environment, they have an urgent need to learn about other countries and cultures. Joseph Stiglitz has made the point that successful international relations are built on mutual understanding and respect, not just trade deals. Film, art, music, literature, and other art forms are an invaluable, indeed indispensable, way of gaining the crucial cultural knowledge that Stiglitz implies is essential.

While the project will of course connect artists, arts students, educators, and arts institutions with each other, the primary goal is to educate all Columbia students - not only its filmmakers, but also its physicists and financiers. The Arts Initiative works with schools, departments, and programs across the university, using arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers, and business people.

The Arts Initiative collaborates with numerous Columbia partners, including the newly-established Regional Centers in Beijing and Amman.

===Featured Events===

On May 30th, the Arts Initiative, in association with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's (WEAI) 60th Anniversary event in Beijing, presented, "Kind of Red: An Evening of New Jazz," featuring players from Columbia University's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, Beijing's Red Hand Jazz Band, and special guests Wu Na and Zhang Hongyan. A reception and jam session followed after the concert at D-22. More than 300 Columbia alumni and guests took part in the event:

==Contact Information==
By telephone: (212) 851-1872

By email: cuarts@columbia.edu

By fax: (212) 851-1876

By mail: 206 Prentis Hall
:: 632 W. 125 St., Mail Code 5011
:: New York, NY 10027

==External links==
* [http://www.cuarts.columbia.edu CUArts]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=20250159408&ref=ts CUArts - The Arts Initiative at Columbia University Facebook group]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/New-York-NY/Ticket-and-Information-Center-at-Columbia-University/33969221872?ref=ts TIC fan page]
* [http://www.cuarts.com/signup Arts Initiative weekly newsletter sign-up]
* [http://www.twitter.com/cuarts CUArts @ Twitter]

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