College students are often running from classes to meetings to rehearsals to their dorms, just to do it all again the next day. Nestled within their tight schedules are small pockets of time for an expedited lunch or a quick coffee break, but Columbia Dining’s annual Battle of the Dining Halls asks students to slow down with their food for a change.

Before TikTok dances, online classes and Youtube tutorials, there was Kelly Peters. Moving from basements to his own studio, he built his identity as hip-hop transitioned from an underground subculture to a mainstream phenomenon. Today, Peters is preserving the authenticity of an art form he grew up alongside, teaching this generation to be grounded in hip-hop’s roots.

As the lights dimmed in Roone Arledge Auditorium, Sabor, Columbia’s Latine dance troupe, invited the audience to dream with them. Sabor hosted its fall showcase, “Soñando con Sabor,” on Nov. 23, featuring 15 dynamic, student-choreographed pieces. The showcase brought members of the Columbia community together to celebrate the rich cultural backgrounds of its Latine members.

As the lights dimmed and the dancers leapt into motion, Columbia Repertory Ballet’s fall gala became a tapestry of sensation—classical ballet melding with a neoclassical and contemporary edge. Tutus floated, leaps soared, and each movement held the audience in anticipation, blurring time and style into a celebration of dance.

Laughter, applause, and gasps echoed throughout the theater as students attended an advance screening of “Anora”, director Sean Baker’s latest feature film, presented in NEON’s newest collaboration with Columbia.

The South Asia Institute, in collaboration with Artists at Risk Connection—an organization that protects the artistic freedom of artists under the threat of autocratic regimes—and the department of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures at Barnard College, organized a screening of “Maadathy: an unfairy tale” and “Kaali” by filmmaker Leena Manimekalai in Schermerhorn Hall on Friday. The event consisted of film screenings and a moderated Q&A.