Over 125 years old, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine is the largest cathedral in the world. It is the “mother church” of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the seat of its Bishop. The church is chartered as a house of prayer for all people and as a unifying center of intellectual light and leadership.
While Cathedrals traditionally do not have their own congregations, St. John the Divine is home to the Congregation of Saint Saviour, which operates independently from the Cathedral. The congregation has approximately 400 members. Information about services and times can be found below. Furthermore, all those who would like to attend worship services and anyone seeking a place for prayer or meditation will be welcomed without charge. For sightseeing, visit the admissions page to learn more.
Like the great Medieval cathedrals and churches of the world, St. John the Divine is unfinished and will continue to be constructed over many centuries. Currently, funding is mostly directed towards maintaining the architectural integrity of the Cathedral and prioritizing serving the community through programming and social initiatives.
Some of St. John’s community initiatives include the soup kitchen (which serves roughly 25,000 meals annually), the distinguished Cathedral School (which prepares young students to be future leaders), Adults and Children in Trust (a renowned preschool, afterschool and summer program), and the outstanding Textile Conservation Lab (which preserves world treasures). The Cathedral also organizes several yearly concerts, exhibitions, performances and civic gatherings to allow for conversation, celebration, reflection and remembrance—such is the joyfully busy life of this beloved and venerated Cathedral.
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Cathedral Events
Beyond the Bars Conference 2023: Seeding Justice

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Center for Justice at Columbia University
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Website
https://centerforjustice.columbia.edu/

Movements for justice have increasingly looked for ways to cultivate healing, accountability and transformation, for people and communities, as well as to hold harmful carceral systems to account. Beyond the Bars 2023 is bringing together people, organizations and movements working on indigenous peacemaking, and restorative, transformative, healing and reparative justice to develop solidarity, share analysis, exchange strategies and practices, and together build power to create the world we need. There is more interest in these approaches than ever before yet relatively limited opportunities to learn, connect and grow about them. BTB 2023 will be an opportunity to learn about how people and communities are taking up these approaches in their own communities, about the tensions and possibilities of working in relationship to systems, and to build connections between and among those already doing this work.
The conference will focus on these guiding questions in the hopes of strengthening our collective work:
- How do we understand the similarities and differences between indigenous peacemaking, restorative, transformative, healing and reparative justice?
- How are people and organizations taking up these approaches in their own communities? What is working? what is not?
- How do we ensure that these approaches to justice between people and communities are connected to movements for broader social transformation?
- What are the tensions, limitations and possibilities in working in relationship to systems?
- How can we think about the question of scale? Should we be scaling up these approaches? Or is there another way to think about this?
- How do these approaches help us to address conflict and harm within movements?
COVID Precautions and Accessibility Information
COVID Precautions
Masks will be required at the conference except when eating and everyone will be asked to test before attending and show proof of a negative test.
Accessibility Information
- Friday night and Saturday and Sunday plenaries will be livestreamed for anyone who prefers to attend virtually
- Friday night and Saturday and Sunday plenaries will include an ASL Interpreter for in-person attendance
- Please be in touch if you have any access needs and we will do our best to secure the necessary accommodations.
The Philosophy of Deep Learning

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Columbia University
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Phone
212-854-1754 -
Website
http://www.columbia.edu/

Venue
- New York University - 19 West 4th Street
- 19 West 4th Street Room 101 New York, NY 10012
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Website
https://www.nyu.edu/
EVENT LINK
A two-day conference (March 25-26) plus pre-conference debate (March 24) on the philosophy of deep learning, exploring current issues in AI research from a philosophical perspective. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about deep learning systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities, their limitations, and their relationship to human cognition.
Organizers: Ned Block (New York University), David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University), on behalf of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University and the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University.
Program
Friday, March 24th (Cantor Film Center, Room 200)
5:30-7:30pm • Debate: Do Language Models Need Sensory Grounding for Meaning and Understanding?
Speakers: Jacob Browning (NYU), David Chalmers (NYU), Brenden Lake (NYU), Yann LeCun (NYU / Meta AI), Gary Lupyan (Wisconsin), Ellie Pavlick (Brown / Google AI)
Saturday, March 25th (19 West 4th Street, Room 101)
9:00-9:30am • Coffee/Registration
9:30-10:40am • Lecture: Cameron Buckner (Houston) – “Moderate Empiricism and Machine Learning”
10:40-11:00am • Coffee Break
11:00am-12:10pm • Lecture: Rosa Cao (Stanford) – “Are (apparently) successful DNN models also genuinely explanatory?”
12:10-1:20pm • Lunch Break
1:20-3:00pm • Symposium: Representation in Deep Learning Systems
Speakers • Tony Chen (MIT), Jacqueline Harding (Stanford), Fintan Mallory (Oslo), Anders Søgaard (Copenhagen).
3:00-4:15pm • Poster Session
Presenters: Atoosa Kasirzadeh (Edinburgh), Wai Keen Vong (NYU), Sreejan Kumar (Princeton), Will Merrill (NYU), Julia Minarik (Toronto), Jared Moore (Washington), Emin Orhan (NYU), Stephan Pohl (NYU), Hokyung Sung (MIT), Justin Tiehen (Puget Sound)
4:15-6:15pm • Panel: What Can Deep Learning Do for Cognitive Science and Vice Versa?
Speakers: Ishita Dasgupta (DeepMind), Niko Kriegeskorte (Columbia), Tal Linzen (NYU / Google AI), Robert Long (Center for AI Safety), Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research)
Sunday, March 26th (19 West 4th Street, Room 101)
9:30-10:00am • Coffee
10:00am-11:10pm • Lecture: Nick Shea (London) – “The Importance of Logical Reasoning and Its Emergence in Deep Neural Networks”
11:10-11:30am • Coffee Break
11:30am-12:40pm • Lecture: Raphaël Millière (Columbia) – “Compositionality in Deep Neural Networks”
12:40-2:10pm • Lunch Break
2:10-3:20pm • Lecture: Grace Lindsay (NYU) – “Developing Neural Systems Understanding”
3:20-4:00pm • Coffee Break
4:00-5:40 pm • Symposium: Linguistic and Cognitive Capacities of Large Language Models
Speakers • Nuhu Osman Attah (Pittsburgh), Patrick Butlin (Oxford), Philippe Verreault-Julien (Eindhoven), Anna Ivanova (MIT)
ADIFF New York Film Festival

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African Diaspora International Film Festival
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Phone
212-864-1760 -
Website
http://www.nyadiff.org/

Venue
- Teachers College, Columbia University
- 525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027
EVENT LINK
This March, catch ADIFF New York’s in-person screenings commemorating Women’s History Month. The films presented are all stories centring women from all walks of life.
Ludi
Directing Thesis: Botticelli in the Fire

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Columbia University - Lenfest Center for the Arts
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Website
https://lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/

By Jordan Tannahill
Directed by Dmitri Barcomi
Showtimes
Thursday, March 23, 8pm
Friday, March 24, 8pm
Saturday, March 25, 2pm
Saturday, March 25, 8pm
Sunday, March 26, 2pm
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Botticelli in the Fire, a directing thesis production by current student Dmitri Barcomi.
“They’re going to kill you. They’re going to worship you, don’t get me wrong. But they are going to kill you.”
Playboy painter Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear – and the wife – of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as Florence’s hottest young apprentice, Leonardo.
While working on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli’s devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival.
Content Warning
Violence, Nudity, Homophobia, Filthy Queer Sex
Run Time
2 hours, with intermission
Featuring
Noah Pizyk – SANDRO BOTTICELLI
AJ Dresdale – CLARICE ORSINI / MADRE MARIA
Logan Clingan – LORENZO DE MEDICI
Mari Mariaty – LEONARDO DA VINCI
R. Jahan – POGGIO DI CHULLU
Adin Lenahan – GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA
Nancy Nogood – VENUS
Production Team & Crew
Director Dmitri Barcomi (current student)
General Manager Zhiwei Ma
Production Stage Manager Sage Spitz
Assistant Stage Manager Morgan Grant
Company Manager Ruby Wang
Scenic Designer Mengyi Liu
Costume Designer Karen Boyer
Lighting Designer Willem Hinternhoff
Sound Designer Liam Bellman-Sharpe
Video Designer Andrew Freeburg
Props Designer Seth Majnoon
Court Composer Dexter Driscoll
Choreographer Calvin Atkinson
Venus Choreography Jorge Guevara
Props Run Crew Srujanee Mishra
Light Board Operator Calvin Atkinson
Wardrobe Anastasia Ellis
Backstage Dacyl Acevedo
Sound/Video Board Operator Yejia Sun (current student)
TICKETING
Register for free tickets here.
There is a limit of one (1) reservation per person and each reservation must be held in the name of the guest attending the event. Unfortunately, we are not able to accommodate late seating.
The 38th Annual Harmony Sweepstakes a Cappella Festival

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Columbia University - Miller Theatre
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Phone
212-854-1633 -
Email
miller-arts@columbia.edu -
Website
http://www.millertheatre.com/

Now in its fourth decade, the Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival has been the melting pot of top-notch a cappella talent from around the nation (and some from overseas!).
This annual national competition draws from hundreds of vocal groups with regional competitions in eight cities. The winning group from each festival is flown to perform in front of celebrity judges and a sold out house of enthusiastic a cappella fans at the National Finals. The competition embraces all styles of music performed a cappella, from the traditional forms of doo-wop & barbershop, gospel & jazz to the exciting and innovative new directions of contemporary vocal music. You will be amazed at the versatility of the human voice on display in this most exhilarating evening of vocal harmony singing.
The Understudy, by Theresa Rebeck

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Morningside Players Theater Co.
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Phone
646 200 5089 -
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morningsideplayers@gmail.com -
Website
https://www.morningsideplayers.org/

Venue
- Morningside Players Theater Space
- 100 La Salle St.--lower level New York, NY 10027 United States
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Website
https://www.morningsideplayers.org/
EVENT LINK
Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) Workshop
Online
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Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College is a New York State approved provider of the DASA workshop, which is required for many teaching, administrative, and pupil-personnel certification areas. Our Spring 2023 DASA workshops will include a 3 hour self-directed module followed by a 3 hour interactive Zoom session.
Zoom Session: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Open to TC students, TC alums, & the general public. Registration is required and closes 10-14 days prior to the Zoom session, so that all participants have ample time to complete their asynchronous module. Please register at www.tc.edu/cps.
- Sunday, March 26, 2023 – 10:00am – 1:00pm EST – Registration Closed
- Sunday, April 16, 2023 – 10:00am – 1:00pm EST
- Saturday, April 29, 2023 – 10:00am – 1:00pm EST
- Saturday, May 13, 2023 – 10:00am – 1:00pm EST
To request disability-related accommodations, contact OASID at oasid@tc.edu, (212) 678-3689, as early as possible.
Orchestral Performance Master Class: Jennifer Choi, cello

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Manhattan School of Music
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Phone
917-493-4428 -
Email
boxoffice@msmnyc.edu -
Website
http://www.msmnyc.edu

MAR 26 | SUN
10:30 AM
Orchestral Performance Master Class: Jennifer Choi, cello
Master class with Dallas Symphony Orchestra Cellist Jennifer Choi
Bossi-Comelli Studio
130 Claremont Ave
New York, NY 10027
Class of 2024 Visual Arts First Year MFA Exhibition

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Columbia University - Lenfest Center for the Arts
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Website
https://lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/

Venue
- Lenfest Center for the Arts
- 615 W. 129 Street
EVENT LINK
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2024 First Year Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Curated by Amy Sadao.
March 25 – April 9, 2023
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12 pm–6 pm
Participating Artists
Sound Artists
A.M. DeVito, Colm Keady-Tabbal, and Julian Zehnder
Visual Artists
Candela Bado, Andie Carver, Olivia Drusin, Erica Enriquez, Laurena Finéus, Sasha Fishman, Aristotle Forrester, Krista Gay, Valeria Guillén, Ian Ha, Jing Harren, Sharon Yaoxi He, Nima Jeizan, JOHANNA, Roxana Kadyrova, claudia yeejae kim, Kristian Kragelund, Chuqiao (Chloe) Li, Yiwei Lu, Kai Oh, Youngmin Park, Benjamin Salesse, SÉAN, Sofya Shpurova, Steven Stallings, Tk (Taekyung) Suh, and Zhiqian Wang
ADIFF New York Film Festival

Organizer
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African Diaspora International Film Festival
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Phone
212-864-1760 -
Website
http://www.nyadiff.org/

Venue
- Teachers College, Columbia University
- 525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027
EVENT LINK
This March, catch ADIFF New York’s in-person screenings commemorating Women’s History Month. The films presented are all stories centring women from all walks of life.
Ludi
Augustine Residency: Sergio Assad, Guitar Master Class

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Manhattan School of Music
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Phone
917-493-4428 -
Email
boxoffice@msmnyc.edu -
Website
http://www.msmnyc.edu

MAR 22 — MAR 24 | WED — FRI
4 PM
Augustine Residency: Sergio Assad, Guitar Master Class
Learn more about Augustine Strings
Sergio Assad, Guitar Master Class is made possible with support from The Augustine Foundation.
MAR 22 | WED
4 PM
MAR 23 | THURS
4 PM
MAR 24 | FRI
4 PM
Miller Recital Hall
130 Claremont Ave
New York, NY 10027
Sunday Organ Recital: Raymond Nagem

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Cathedral Church of St John the Divine
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Phone
212-316-7540 -
Website
http://stjohndivine.org/

Venue
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine
- 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at W. 112th Street
EVENT LINK
Following Choral Evensong on select Sundays in the fall and spring, the Cathedral hosts distinguished organists from around the world in performance. These 5 pm recitals are free to the public and 45 minutes in length.
Entry to this performance is included with admission to the Cathedral. Read more on COVID-19 guidelines for all those joining us for in-person programs and events.