Culture on Campus

With just a few weeks left to the fall term, the end is in sight. The Strand knows that despite your good intentions to prepare your essays before the week they are all due, you will start hiding under a rock hoping for it all to go away. It's okay, we won't tell anyone. However, I will suggest that you hide out at some of the cool happenings on campus. All listings are free, unless indicated otherwise.The True Tragedy of Richard the Third
Nov. 15th-24th: 8pm
Studio Theatre, (4 Glen Morris Street)
Student tickets: $10

Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS) and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama are putting on the play that arguably inspired Shakespeare to write his own version of Richard III. The production aims to keep as close to the performance and staging techniques that would have been employed in the late 1580s.

Textbooks for All? Negotiating the textbook controversy in Israel Today
Nov 19th: 4pm-6pm
Munk Centre, 108N (North House)
RSVP here

The school history curriculum and textbooks used in schools have made their mark in establishing a sense of Israeli national identity. Aron Shai, a current Member of the State's Council for Higher Education, will talk about impact and problems of David Ben-Gurion and Ben-Zion Dinur's views and policies.

Julius Caesar
Wed. to Sat. from Nov. 21-Dec 8: 8pm
Hart House Theatre
Student tickets: $12

Director Anthony Fury stages the Shakespearean classic, Julius Caesar. This historical drama finds its narrative in the plotting and subsequent assassination of Julius Caesar, and the Civil War that followed it.

New Films and New Names from Ukraine
Nov. 22: 7pm-10pm
Innis Town Hall
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The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University at UofT presents a program of recent and never screened before in Canada films. These include Bozhychi by Anastasia Kharchenko, Prison Mama by Taras Tomenko, Heaven by Nadia Koshman, and Taxi Driver by Roman Bondarchuk. Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, the founding director of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, will be introducing the films and mediating the post-screening Q&A.

Free Friday Films
Every Friday: 7pm
Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Ave.)

Why pay to see a movie when you can go see one for free? The Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) hosts movies every Friday. The next showings include: Ping-Pong (Nov. 23rd) and The Taste of Tea (Nov 23rd @ 9pm).