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American Women Quarters Program: Celia Cruz
Chicana, Chicanx, Culture, Women, Education
The 2024 Celia Cruz Quarter is the 14th coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program. Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer, cultural icon, and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Join us to learn more about the American Women Quarters program and the life and work of Celia Cruz. The event will take place in-person and via Zoom. In-person space is limited, registrat...
10/21/2024
11:30am
Online Event
ARTFLUENCE: Harnessing Creativity for Social Impact
Art, Conversation
Auctus Productions Presents... An engaging conversation on the transformative power of arts and storytelling on social change, with an emphasis on the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. The event is supported by the prestigious UCI Illuminations, Neiman Marcus, a committed supporter of women’s rights, and MacGillivray Freeman, an IMAX documentary film company. Our esteemed panelists are: Aloe...
10/23/2024
5:30pm
UCI Student Cente...
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Movie, Film Screening
Directed by Danny Wu (Canada 2022) Please join us for a special screening of the documentary American: An Odyssey to 1947! The film chronicles the artistic career of Orson Welles and his complex relationship to Hollywood and U.S. politics between the release of Citizen Kane (1941) and his sudden departure for Europe in 1947. Along the way, the film uncovers buried histories of Japanese-A...
10/23/2024
6:00pm
McCormick Screeni...
Irvine Barclay Theatre: Modigliani Quartet and Fabio Bidini
Concert, Cello, Music
*This event is for UCI students only, courtesy of Irvine Barclay Theatre* Famous for its energy and passion, Paris-based Modigliani Quartet brings a stylish precision to its performances of the most exquisite chamber music in the string quartet repertoire. Add in Italian pianist Fabio Bidini, known “as a master teacher, chamber musician, and among the best concert pianists of his generation”...
10/25/2024
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay
Electric Silk Road with Bei Ru: Presentation, Performance, and Reception
Armenian, Music, Education, Culture
Join us in welcoming Los Angeles-based music producer, composer, and artist Bei Ru on 11/6! The Middle East music of the 1960s-1980s is as complex and varied as its socio-economic and political developments. From classical and folk to pop, music in the multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic region encompasses a rich and vibrant world. During these decades, the Middle East was home...
11/6/2024
6:30pm
Private Location ...
Descent & Transformation, Vol. I: Voyages to the Americas - An Art Talk
Art, Art exhibition, Lecture
The UC MRPI project Routes of Enslavement in the Americas is presenting a series of events this Fall 2024 to showcase to the public the history of the movement of Africans and African-descended captives to the Caribbean, their reshipping to the Pacific, the ocean memory of those human cargo lost to these voyages, and how that loss reverberates into the present. The centerpiece is the art exh...
11/14/2024
4:00pm
Humanities Gatewa...
Beyond Prison Walls
Play / Performance, Law and Justice
When: Nov. 15, 8pm Nov. 16, 2pm & 8pm Where: 161 Humanities Hall Building #601, UC Irvine, CA 92697 (Also known as the Little Theater) Please note that the Little Theatre is not part of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts campus. Link to Directions: https://www.arts.uci.edu/directions-little-theatre The UC Irvine Drama Emergent Series, in collaboration with Playwrights...
11/15/2024
8:00pm
Private Location ...
Kristina Wong: Performance Artist & “Food Bank Influencer”
Activism, Advocacy, Cooking, Conversation Kitchen
Kristina Wong is an LA based performance artist, comedian, writer, activist, and self-acclaimed “food bank influencer”! She is also a Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama. Her most representative works include Mad Hatter Gin and Tea Party, the viral web series How Not to Pick up Asian Chicks, and Radical Cram School, The Wong Street Journal,...
11/19/2024
11:30am
Demonstration Kit...