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Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the 13^th Annual Aster Film Festival on Saturday and Sunday, February 21-22, from 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM on each day, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Screenings will take place at 1:00 PM and 3:30 PM on each day. This ticketed event is free and open to the public. Get Your Free Tickets Here.

This unforgettable two-day celebration of creativity, storytelling, and community, formerly known as the Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is organized by Delta Kappa Alpha (DKA) at Cornell University. This spring event showcases the best short films from emerging student filmmakers across the United States.

Experience a diverse lineup of narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental films—all under 20 minutes—curated by a dedicated team of Cornell students. Beyond the screenings, enjoy opportunities to network with filmmakers, engage with industry professionals, and savor great food in a vibrant, welcoming atmosphere. With a panel of non-student judges selecting and awarding the top films in each category, Aster Film Festival is your chance to connect, celebrate, and be inspired by the next generation of filmmakers.

Content Warning: For mature audiences only. Films may contain material that may be triggering to some audience members.

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Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the 13^th Annual Aster Film Festival on Saturday and Sunday, February 21-22, from 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM on each day, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Screenings will take place at 1:00 PM and 3:30 PM on each day. This ticketed event is free and open to the public. Get Your Free Tickets Here.

This unforgettable two-day celebration of creativity, storytelling, and community, formerly known as the Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is organized by Delta Kappa Alpha (DKA) at Cornell University. This spring event showcases the best short films from emerging student filmmakers across the United States.

Experience a diverse lineup of narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental films—all under 20 minutes—curated by a dedicated team of Cornell students. Beyond the screenings, enjoy opportunities to network with filmmakers, engage with industry professionals, and savor great food in a vibrant, welcoming atmosphere. With a panel of non-student judges selecting and awarding the top films in each category, Aster Film Festival is your chance to connect, celebrate, and be inspired by the next generation of filmmakers.

Content Warning: For mature audiences only. Films may contain material that may be triggering to some audience members.

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This spring, PMA will be holding open auditions in preparation for the 2026-27 academic year's theatre productions. Join us on February 24, from 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, in the Black Box Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Additional auditions and callbacks will be held on February 26 at the same time and location.

Open auditions are a great opportunity to get involved in upcoming theatrical productions directed, designed and built by our professional theatre faculty and staff. Auditions are open to all undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff of Cornell University. 

For the audition, students can do any combination from the below list. Prepare something for us that makes you feel comfortable and allows you to shine. 

• Perform a one-minute acting monologue, or a reading from a script of your choice 
• Perform a song and/or play a musical instrument  
• Perform a dance or choreography 

SIGN UP for an audition.

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Kimi Takesue is the 2025 Carol B. Epstein Visiting Artist in the Department of Performing and Media Arts

Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: 95 and 6 To Go with Filmmaker Kimi Takesue on Wednesday, February 25, at 5:00 pm, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. After the screening of 95 and 6 To Go, Kimi Takesue will participate in a talkback. The event will be moderated by PMA Associate Professor Jeffrey Palmer and Associate Professor Kelly Gallagher, Film and Media, Syracuse University, and is free and open to the public.

In 95 and 6 To Go, a resilient widower’s memories become intertwined with the fictional screenplay his granddaughter is writing, revealing the fine line between life and art, rumination and imagination.

This event is part of Seeing and Looking Across Cultures: The Films of Kimi Takesue, Cornell Cinema’s retrospective of her three award-winning feature documentary films. The 3-day program will feature screenings of Where Are You Taking Me? (2012), on Tuesday, February 24, at 6:00 pm, at Cornell Cinema; 95 and 6 To Go (2016), on Wednesday, February 25, at 5:00 pm, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts; and Onlookers (2023), on Thursday, February 26, at 6:00 pm, at Cornell Cinema. Read the complete program information here.

Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker working in documentary, narrative, and experimental genres. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Film, the Rockefeller Fellowship in Media Arts, and the internationally competitive “Breakthrough Award” and fellowship from Chicken and Egg Pictures honoring women making significant contributions to the documentary field. Her films have screened extensively at festivals and museums internationally including Sundance, Locarno, New Directors/ New Films, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, Mar del Plata, SXSW, the Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) and have aired on PBS, IFC, Comcast, and the Sundance Channel. She is Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers University-Newark.

Sponsored by the Minority, Indigenous, & Third World Studies Committee.

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The Professional Directions series invites industry experts to speak about their career journeys as screenwriters, playwrights, actors, editors, producers, directors, theatre critics, dramaturgs, and more. These Q&A sessions are free and open to the public.

Description

This spring, PMA will be holding open auditions in preparation for the 2026-27 academic year's theatre productions. Join us on February 24, from 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, in the Black Box Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Additional auditions and callbacks will be held on February 26 at the same time and location.

Open auditions are a great opportunity to get involved in upcoming theatrical productions directed, designed and built by our professional theatre faculty and staff. Auditions are open to all undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff of Cornell University. 

For the audition, students can do any combination from the below list. Prepare something for us that makes you feel comfortable and allows you to shine. 

• Perform a one-minute acting monologue, or a reading from a script of your choice 
• Perform a song and/or play a musical instrument  
• Perform a dance or choreography 

SIGN UP for an audition.

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"Chats with the Chair" invites PMA majors, minors, and those interested in the department to join the chair for food and fellowship. 

Come learn more about the department, give feedback, and talk about everything performing and media arts at Cornell and beyond! Lunch provided! 

Mark your calendar for: 

• Friday, February 27, 1pm – 2pm (Please RSVP by February 25 to pma@cornell.edu)
• Friday, April 10, Noon - 1pm (Please RSVP by April 8 to pma@cornell.edu)

Location: Room 220, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

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Join PMA for Ladies of Manila Sound Presented by PMA 1183 FWS: Hip-Hop’s Global Vibrations (NYC, LA, Southeast Asia). This event will take place on Zoom on Monday, March 9, from 11:40 am - 12:55 pm.  There will be a short DJ turntablist performance, followed by a Q&A session.

Join on Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/97871338956?pwd=jkVtNRwYV9DOw8MtoeQ9Sf5vYgyLQY.1

DJ COLLECTIVE MANILA SOUND:

DJ Wee Jay, Thatflypinay, and January are Los Angeles based DJs who each bring their own eclectic style and unique perspective to the Manila Sound. Together, they create a harmonious blend of sound that reflects both individuality and unity. At the heart of their sets is the mission of Manila Sound: amplifying Filipino and Philippine diaspora music and artistry. Their music is rooted in cultural learning and intention, inviting the community to come together in celebration. Whether it is your Tita finding songs she grew up with or the community joining in chorus, their sets are a reminder that culture and community belong at the center of every dance floor.

Description

"Chats with the Chair" invites PMA majors, minors, and those interested in the department to join the chair for food and fellowship. 

Come learn more about the department, give feedback, and talk about everything performing and media arts at Cornell and beyond! Lunch provided! 

Mark your calendar for: 

• Friday, February 27, 1pm – 2pm (Please RSVP by February 25 to pma@cornell.edu)
• Friday, April 10, Noon - 1pm (Please RSVP by April 8 to pma@cornell.edu)

Location: Room 220, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts