The week of May 8 brings to a close the Spring Semester at Columbia College. That means its Book Buyback time, finals, Fashion Columbia, Manifest, Alumni College, Commencement, and good times had by all. Unless you've been living in a cave for the past month, you already know that Manifest is Columbia's year-end showcase and celebration of our student's work. On Friday, May 12, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Columbia's campus will be bursting with an unbelievable level of creative energy and activity.
The Artwalk and Sale will stretch from one end of the campus to the other with 15 different exhibitions, including BA/BFA Photography Exhibition, MFA Photography Exhibition, Product Design, MFA Interior Architecture Exhibition and MFA Architectural Studies Exhibition, Advertising Art Direction, Graphic Design and Illustration Senior Portfolio Show, BFA Fine Art Show, Fasion Columbia, Art of the Library, Theater Designers Gallery, and much more.
There will be 17 different performances, of one sort or another, taking place throughout the day, including the TicToc Performance Art Series, CCAP Community Schools Showcase, the Audio Arts Installation, performances of the musical Ragtime, 18 Feet of Theater and Caravan of Confidences, Sur Taal (Rhythms and Beats), Combat Finals, Lulu, Manifest Improv, Senior Music Theater Club, African American Club Performance, Senior Showcase, Adrenaline Dance Troop, and more.
Student Music Performances include The Lavellas, the Youngz Blvd, The Bullet that Breathed, Heather Perry, Mathew Santos with Try "Tombone Shorty," Sherry Armour, Ill Legit, and Lambic 3.
On the Manifest Mainstage you'll find the Columbia College Jazz Ensemble Meets the Vocal Jazz Ensemble (featuring internationally-celebrated Greg Osby), the R&B Ensemble, featuring Buddy Guy, the Changes, the Pharcyde, and headliners The Detroit Cobras.
There will be a variety of readings, including the Cultural Studies Forum, Senior Art History Symposium, BA and BFA Poetry Graduation Readings and Receptions and Fiction Writing Readings and Open Mic.
Additionally, there will be the Film on the Run, Portfolio Manifestations, the Clothesline Project, Educational Studies Learning Booths, Student Organizations CORE, Manifest Oasis Tent, a Reception for Graduating Asian Students, an Afternoon with film critic Richard Roeper, Media Tent in Grant Park with WCRZ, Frequency TV and the Columbia Chronicle, the AEMMY Awards, TV Department Senior Showcase, Interpreters for Practicum II, an Alumni Party, Senior Party, and much more.
Manifest concludes with Spectacle Fortuna, a collaboration of music, large scale puppets, street spectacle and community ritual as well as the Blessing, a raucus celebration for graduating seniors, including cascarones (a confetti-filled egg smashing).