For the second year in a row, the Columbia Maison Française will host its annual film series starting this Friday in the school’s new Lenfest Center for the Arts. This year’s theme? Resistance.

There is an unmistakable dearth of fashion clubs at Columbia, and Maria Sun, CC ’18, knows it. She launched Columbia University Fashion Society this past March as a resource for students interested in getting involved and one day working in the industry.

Glossier, a millennial beauty brand that shot to instant success since its creation in 2014, has not missed the far-flung corners of Morningside Heights. Aside from the widespread popularity that the “skin first, makeup second” company has garnered among Columbia students, there is also a small but substantial number of students who have gone from loyal customers to direct representatives and showroom editors for the beauty line.

The Diana Center’s Louise McCagg Gallery transformed into an artistic warehouse last Thursday, as family and friends attended Barnard’s annual visual arts senior thesis exhibition. Amid the strong smells of cheese and wine, paint and plaster, the atmosphere was quiet but buzzing with energy, with many of the student artists engaged in earnest conversations about their work with visitors.

Plays by students from Barnard’s Theatre Department were performed over the weekend of April 20 to 22, when four senior directors from Barnard and Columbia took the stage to conclude a year and a half of work. Each piece was performed multiple times over the weekend to allow theater-goers to enjoy the full range of theses, spanning genres from magical realism, to absurdist theatre, to political drama.

“It’s been so busy today—I went to go see Malala speak at the UN,” Phoebe Jones, BC ’18, said by way of introduction, with a wide grin. “I’m a history and human rights major, kind of surprisingly. Not art.”

Necks were craning as over 120 people strained to hear Ginger Mayo, BC ’20, speak about her first zine last February. The turnout was greater than expected, with students backed all the way against the wall in the small, softly pink-lit room of Sulzberger Tower.

When Sam Choi, CC ’19, first started learning how to do makeup, it was because of a strong interest in recreating “really heavy, intense drag makeup.” But after watching tutorials on YouTube by famous makeup artists like Lisa Eldridge and Charlotte Tilbury, the latter of whom he worships, Choi turned to more “natural” makeup as a way to give others a boost of self-confidence.

“This show is going to be heavily rooted in magic and resistance.”

“Cathartic entertainment” is much needed at Columbia right now, and this year’s 123rd Annual Varsity Show promises to deliver exactly that. The show’s West End Preview, which featured scenes cut from the final show so as not to reveal the plot, gave the audience a sample of what they can expect at the full show in April—plenty of singing, dancing, and columbia buy sell memes references.