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Electric Silk Road with Bei Ru: Presentation, Performance, and Reception

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

Humanities Gatewa...


An Evening with Author Rabih Alameddine

An Evening with Author Rabih Alameddine

Author

Please join us for a reading and Q&A with award-winning novelist and artist Rabih Alameddine. Introductions will be made by Jonathan Alexander and Ghada Mourad. Alameddine's most recent book is Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art (University of Virginia Press, 2024), which Publishers Weekly called "essential reading" in a starred review. He is also the author of six critically ac...

11/8/2024

5:00pm

Humanities Gatewa...


Descent & Transformation, Vol. I: Voyages to the Americas - An Art Talk

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

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

UC Irvine Little ...


Kristina Wong: Performance Artist & “Food Bank Influencer”

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...


Juliette Carrillo & Nataki Garrett in Conversation

Juliette Carrillo & Nataki Garrett in Conversation

Theatre, Conversation, Community

Nataki Garrett is an accomplished writer, director and producer of Stage, Opera, Film and XR/VR. Garrett has a passion for new and innovative work. She co-wrote and directed The Carolyn Bryant Project which premiered at REDCAT. She has directed and produced world premieres by some of the most important playwrights of our time, including Katori Hall, Branden Jacobs- Jenkins, Karen Zacarias, Domi...

11/21/2024

5:30pm

UCI, CAC Colloqui...


Asian Shakespeare: A Global Conversation with Bi-qi Beatrice Lei and Judy Celine Ick

Asian Shakespeare: A Global Conversation with Bi-qi Beatrice Lei and Judy Celine Ick

An Exciting new Global Conversations online event! Please RSVP for tracking purposes and to receive zoom link. What is Asian Shakespeare? Is it about Shakespeare in Asia, Shakespeareans in Asia, or Shakespeare Studies in Asia? Do you know that Asia has forever changed the study and performance of Shakespeare around the world? Can anyone study global Shakespeare theatre today without consi...

11/22/2024

5:30pm

Online Event


UCI International Film Club: The French Connection (1971)

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.

12/22/2024

7:00pm

McCormick Screeni...


Twelve Angry Jurors

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...


UCI International Film Club: Jaws (1975)

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...