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14th Annual Morningside Lights

TIMEFRAME 1965
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 8PM
Procession - Morningside Park to Columbia's Campus
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The 14th annual Morningside Lights, a procession of awe-inspiring handmade lanterns floating through Morningside Park to Columbia’s campus, returns this fall with TIMEFRAME 1965, a celebration of the images, icons, and influences of the year 1965. That transformative year—also the year Columbia University's School of the Arts was founded—sparked a wave of experimentation and social consciousness that still fuels contemporary life and art-making.

Learn more or sign up to help create lanterns at www.morningside-lights.com.

Morningside Lights is led by the directors of Processional Arts Workshop, Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles, and produced by Columbia University's Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre.

Morningside Lights by Cherylynn Tsushima 960x1446
Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima
  • This event has ended

The 14th annual Morningside Lights, a procession of awe-inspiring handmade lanterns floating through Morningside Park to Columbia’s campus, returns this fall with TIMEFRAME 1965, a celebration of the images, icons, and influences of the year 1965. That transformative year—also the year Columbia University's School of the Arts was founded—sparked a wave of experimentation and social consciousness that still fuels contemporary life and art-making.

Learn more or sign up to help create lanterns at www.morningside-lights.com.

Morningside Lights is led by the directors of Processional Arts Workshop, Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles, and produced by Columbia University's Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre.

Performers

  • Alex Kahn artistic director
  • Sophia Michahelles artistic director
  • Processional Arts Workshop

Presented in collaboration with the Friends of Morningside Park

Morningside Lights 2022 - The Reimagined Monument

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