Hunter Underground is a three-night showcase of original student artwork: music, short plays, poetry and fiction readings, short films, art installations, and more. These events also included time for students to meet the artists.

5 pm - Mixer
6 pm - Show Begins

Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.

Join for a photoshoot on March 28th from 1 pm – 4 pm. The theme is SPRING! This studio session will provide a photoshoot and modeling experience. Don't miss this opportunity to access studio equipment and flex your creative muscles.

Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.

Tessa Brinckman, flute & Kathleen Supove, piano

Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.

Hunter Underground is a three-night showcase of original student artwork: music, short plays, poetry and fiction readings, short films, art installations, and more. These events also included time for students to meet the artists.

5 pm - Mixer
6 pm - Show Begins

Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.

Join us for this one-woman show with 11 characters played by Zlata Godunova. Directed by Stephen Foglia.

Free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.

Hunter Underground is a three-night showcase of original student artwork: music, short plays, poetry and fiction readings, short films, art installations, and more. These events also included time for students to meet the artists.

5 pm - Mixer
6 pm - Show Begins

Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.

“Breaking and Remaking the Character-Driven Documentary“

Empathy for individual protagonists, and their story arcs, are the lifeblood of many documentary films. What are some drawbacks of character-driven storytelling, and how can we expand documentary vocabulary and form to convey complex stories of power and collectivity? Stephen Maing will draw on his own films and experiences to explore these timely and critical questions.

Free for the Hunter community. Click here to RSVP.

Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, NY. Winner of the US Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change, Sundance Film Festival 2024.

Documentary screening followed by Q&A with Stephen Maing

Moderated by Prof. Ricardo Miranda, Film and Media Studies

Free for the Hunter community. Click here to RSVP.

Hunter Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Vocal Workshop
Directed by Ryan Keberle and Priscilla Owens

Free for the Hunter community. Click here to RSVP.

Join us for Iris Wang’s flute recital.

Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.

Join us for Wendy Powell’s MFA Thesis Presentation.

$25 in advance; $30 at the door. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu to RSVP.

Join us for Wendy Powell’s MFA Thesis Presentation.

$25 in advance; $30 at the door. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu to RSVP.

Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year’s theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, Archives, and Arts, dedicated to Arturo Schomburg and produced in collaboration with PR-AFRO at UPR, is an opportunity to celebrate afrolatinidad memory in the age of divisiveness; a reminder of our shared experiences as Black Diasporic peoples. By recognizing the privilege of academics in universities and non-profit organizations, the Afro Summit makes resources available to communities to form alliances, establish networks, and share historically invisibilized and marginalized experiences. 

This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.

Join us for Mar Talavera-Tejeda’s MFA Thesis presentation.

$25 in advance; $30 at the door. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu to RSVP.

Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year’s theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, Archives, and Arts, dedicated to Arturo Schomburg and produced in collaboration with PR-AFRO at UPR, is an opportunity to celebrate afrolatinidad memory in the age of divisiveness; a reminder of our shared experiences as Black Diasporic peoples. By recognizing the privilege of academics in universities and non-profit organizations, the Afro Summit makes resources available to communities to form alliances, establish networks, and share historically invisibilized and marginalized experiences. 

This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.

Join us for Pauline Jean Oliver’s vocal recital.

Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.

Join us for Mar Talavera-Tejeda’s MFA Thesis presentation.

$25 in advance; $30 at the door. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu to RSVP.

Hunter students and alum are proud to share with you The Yiddish Shakespeare Project! We take Shakespeare’s work and perform them in Yiddish, with English captioning.

After working primarily on film, we are doing our first ever LIVE performance next month, which will feature scenes from Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear. Performances will take place at Under Saint Marks Theater, Hunter College, and in Westchester, New York.

Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Click here to RSVP.

Student instrumental & vocal performances.

Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.

Latin GRAMMY Award winner Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet represents the evolution of tango, from its roots in the traditional Orquesta típica, then to tango nuevo as epitomized by Astor Piazzolla, and now to a contemporary sound that respects the past and looks to the future. Pedro Giraudo, who has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina, brings something new and exciting to the form while retaining all the lushness and beauty of tango.

Free for Hunter Students. Click here to RSVP.

Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays, including Duppy Conqueror; Wheels; Back of Mount Peace; Hope's Hospice; Wisteria, finalist for the Patterson Memorial Prize; Impossible Flying; Gomer's Song; Progeny of Air, winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection in the UK, as well as the collections Resisting the Anomie; Prophets; Jacko Jacobus; Requiem; and others. His book Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. His most recent collection is City of Bones: A Testament. Dawes is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program, Director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.

This event is free for Hunter students, staff and faculty. No RSVP necessary.

 Join CENTRO on the opening night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the CENTRO Gallery in El Barrio from March 13th, 2025 to September, 2025. This exhibition honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. The Puerto Rican diaspora can be understood as a collage of overlapping histories of colonialism, resistance, and survival, and Diasporic Collage engages with collage as both practice and metaphor. Countering the concept of a melting pot, which emphasizes assimilation and loss of culture, the idea of a collaged community allows for the celebration of roots and relations. This exhibition also considers the close relationship between photography and collage, both notable 20th-century art forms. It takes the first major documentary initiative on the Puerto Rican diaspora as a point of departure to examine the enduring legacy of survival and migration. The artists featured in this exhibition consider the Puerto Rican diaspora in a fluid and expansive way. While several focus on the diaspora in the traditional sense—Puerto Ricans who migrate to the United States—many honor the different diasporas that intersect with the archipelago of Puerto Rico, documenting their communities with care and showing us a collage of Puerto Rican and Caribbean experiences. 

This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.

Join the graduating MFA class of 2025 in our thesis show opening. The show opens March 6th at 6 pm, and will continue through to March 16th. Come by anytime! A group show by 7 artist featuring Ceramic installation, Photography, Found object masterpieces, VR, Painting, and more!

This event is FREE and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.

Adam Haslett is the author of Imagine Me Gone, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award; You Are Not a Stranger Here, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; and Union Atlantic, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. His books have been translated into thirty languages, and his journalism on culture and politics have appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He has been awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Winship Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He currently directs the MFA Program at Hunter College. His new novel, Mothers and Sons, will be published in January 2025.

This event is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.

Robert Lopez is the author of three novels, Part of the World, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, which was named one of twenty-five important books of the decade by HTML Giant, All Back Full, and two story collections, Asunder and Good People. His novel-in-stories, A Better Class Of People, was published by Dzanc Books, and Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere, his first nonfiction book, was published by Two Dollar Radio. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in dozens of publications, including Bomb, The Threepenny Review, Vice Magazine, New England Review, The Sun, and the Norton Anthology of Sudden Fiction – Latino. He teaches at Stony Brook University and has previously taught at Columbia University, The New School, Pratt Institute, and Syracuse University. He lives in Brooklyn.

This event is free for Hunter students, staff and faculty. No RSVP necessary.

Sankofa is the 3rd annual Black History Month student-led art showcase and the 2nd annual film festival, Black Joy, created by Zara Cimone in collaboration with the Black Student Union. All CUNY students can submit any medium of art including paintings, sculptures, photography, dance, singing/rap, poetry, and more! Black owned vendors are welcome to sell their work as well!

This year, we have featured performances such as a student written short play, Black to the Future, as well as Baruch's step team, the Star Steppers.

The deadline to submit is Monday, February 17th at 7pm. Click here to submit.

Free for the CUNY community. No RSVP necessary.

Please join us for a book launch and conversation with San Francisco-based artist and educator Lindsey White. White will be joined in conversation by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Professor of Art and Ruth Stanton Chair, Hunter College Department of Art and Art History.

What? Is? Art? (Colpa Press, 2024) is a collection of photographs made on the pandemic-empty campus of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), where White taught for over a decade as an Adjunct, Assistant, and finally Associate Professor and Photography Department Chair. Alongside the images, What? Is? Art? includes writings by nine professors who teach in private art schools or public art departments across the country who were invited to share recent feelings and experiences in higher arts education. Learn more HERE.

This event is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.

This concert is free for CUNY students and instructors and will run approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes and will not include an intermission.A post-concert discussion with the artists, including a Q&A session with the audience, will follow the performance.

Click here to book your ticket in advance.
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About the Program

"Music and Migration" unites the Aizuri Quartet with Syrian-American composer Kinan Azmeh in a powerful exploration of migration as both a journey and a state of mind. Featuring a new commission by Layale Chaker and works by Azmeh, Wang Lu, and Michi Wiancko, the program reflects themes of displacement, resilience, and cultural identity.

With pieces by Komitas and Rhiannon Giddens capturing the sorrow and strength of uprooted communities, and Paquito D’Rivera’s vibrant music bridging cultures, this concert offers a profound celebration of the human spirit through music.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Aizuri Quartet
Praised by The Washington Post for “astounding” and “captivating” performances that draw from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet was named the recipient of the 2022 Cleveland Quartet Award by Chamber Music America, and was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition.

The Quartet’s debut album, Blueprinting, was released by New Amsterdam Records to critical acclaim (“In a word, stunning” —I Care If You Listen), nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY Award and named one of NPR Music’s Best Classical Albums of 2018. Aizuri’s follow-up album, Earthdrawn Skies, was released in 2023 and praised by NPR as an album that “convincingly connects the dots in wildly diverse music stretching over eight centuries…arousing solemn contemplation, cosmic curiosity, folksy delight and introspective scrutiny.”

The Aizuri believes in an integrative approach to music-making, in which teaching, performing, writing, arranging, curation, and role in the community are all connected. Formed in 2012 and combining four distinctive musical personalities into a powerful collective, the Aizuri Quartet draws its name from “aizuri-e,” a style of predominantly blue Japanese woodblock printing that is noted for its vibrancy and incredible detail. www.aizuriquartet.com

Kinan Azmeh, Clarinet
Hailed as a “virtuoso, intensely soulful” by The New York Times, Kinan Azmeh is a Syrian-born, Brooklyn-based clarinetist and composer blending classical, jazz, and Middle Eastern traditions. A Grammy-winning artist with Yo-Yo Ma's Silkroad Ensemble, he has collaborated with renowned musicians and premiered his first opera, Songs For Days To Come, in 2022. A graduate of The Juilliard School and a doctoral holder from CUNY, Kinan was recently appointed to the National Council for the Arts by President Biden.

Hunter College Theatre Department and Hunter College Japanese Department presents 
Rio Kishida’s Thread Hell
Directed by Alex Rogals

FREE Hunter ID Tickets: If you are a Hunter College Student, Staff, or Faculty Member, please use the code Hunter for a FREE ticket. You must show your on-line ticket and your Hunter ID at the door. Seats will be released to the waitlist 10 minutes before curtain. Arrive at least 10 minutes before curtain to secure your seat.

Warning: 
This production contains simulated nudity and deals with violent death, sexual violence/assault, physical abuse, and suicide.
This production will utilize strobing or flashing that lights that may affect photosensitive audience members. 

Click here to RSVP.

Hunter College Theatre Department and Hunter College Japanese Department presents 
Rio Kishida’s Thread Hell
Directed by Alex Rogals

FREE Hunter ID Tickets: If you are a Hunter College Student, Staff, or Faculty Member, please use the code Hunter for a FREE ticket. You must show your on-line ticket and your Hunter ID at the door. Seats will be released to the waitlist 10 minutes before curtain. Arrive at least 10 minutes before curtain to secure your seat.

Warning: 
This production contains simulated nudity and deals with violent death, sexual violence/assault, physical abuse, and suicide.
This production will utilize strobing or flashing that lights that may affect photosensitive audience members. 

Click here to RSVP.