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Irvine Barclay Theatre: Garrison Keillor Tonight - A Love Affair with Language
Performance, Theatre, Sketch Comedy
UCI Students only! A 90-minute, one-man show, improvised from memory Mr. Keillor’s idea is simple and clear: no matter what vocational track a person pursues, the love of language is at the heart of a sound education and a crucial part of a good life. You don’t need to write a term paper on Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale to find this; you can do math, graphic design, dance, marketing, etc.,...
1/11/2025
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
UCI International Film Club: The French Connection (1971)
Film, Film Screening, Movie
Join us for a screening on 1/22/25 at 7:00pm! Considered one of the greatest films ever made, this neo-noir set in New York City stars Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider as detectives in pursuit of a French heroin dealer. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won five of them. Not to be missed for lovers of action/thriller and 1970s gritty realism.
1/22/2025
7:00pm
McCormick Screeni...
Twelve Angry Jurors
Theatre, Performance
UCI Drama Emergent Series presents Twelve Angry Jurors adapted by Sherman L Sergal based on the Emmy Award Winning Television Movie by Reginald Rose, is a tension driven drama that unfolds entirely within a confined jury room, where twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a young man accused of murder. As tensions rise and prejudices surface, the play explores themes of justice, prejudice, and the...
2/6/2025
7:00pm
UCI Little Theatr...
A Conversation with Yang Shuang-Zi, Author of Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel, and Translator Lin King
Author, Workshop, Talk, Culture
And with Translator Lin King! WINNER of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experienc...
2/18/2025
4:30pm
Humanities Gatewa...
UCI International Film Club: Jaws (1975)
Film, Film Screening, Movie
Join us for a screening on 2/26/25 at 7:00pm! A classic thriller from the 1970s, Jaws was shot on location in Martha's Vineyard. As much as it is about the hunt for a great white shark attacking beachgoers, this film is also about the shifting nature of American class society. Its record setting box office returns, along with those of Stars Wars released a year later launched Hollywood's pe...
2/26/2025
7:00pm
McCormick Screeni...
UCI International Film Club: Days of Heaven (1978)
Film, Film Screening, Movie
Join us for screening on 3/12/25 at 7;00pm! Terence Malick shot this film in natural light, using only the golden hour for filming. The film stars Sam Shephard, Richard Gere and Brooke Adams and is set in the Texas panhandle during the early 20th century. Gere and Adams are migrant workers who end up on Gere's farm. The love triangle that emerges is shaped by deception, betrayal and passion.
3/12/2025
7:00pm
McCormick Screeni...