Morningside Lights at Columbia University

Sat Sep 13, 2025 - Sat Sep 20, 2025
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Repeating every days through September 20, 2025.
Various times
Age: Ages 10 and up
Price: FREE
Location:
Miller Theater at Columbia University

Morningside Lights returns for its 14th year, illuminating the night in a procession of awe-inspiring handmade lanterns floating through Morningside Park to Columbia's campus.

This year’s Morningside Lights, TIMEFRAME 1965, honors an important milestone—the vibrant 60-year history of Columbia’s School of the Arts—and explores the extraordinary artistic energy of that time, out of which a generation of influential artists, filmmakers, performers, scholars, and writers emerged.

The free neighborhood tradition includes a week of community arts workshops prior to the procession to create the lanterns.

Daily Lantern-Building Workshops: Saturday, September 13-Friday, September 19
Miller Theatre at Columbia University (116th St. and Broadway)
Register online in early September.

Illuminated Procession: Saturday, September 20, 8pm.
Begins in Morningside Park (116th St. and Morningside Ave.)

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