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Shakespeare Trial 2025: Much Ado About Nothing?
Theatre, Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Trial is back! In Much Ado About Nothing, is Leonata, the mother of Hero, guilty of a crime when she publishes fake news about her daughter's death? Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law) will face off with Bernadette Meyler '06 (Stanford Law). New Swan actors will present the evidence (and preview our season). The Honorable Andrew Guilford will preside. There will be music, too! Y...
4/7/2025
5:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
A Conversation with Playwright Keiko Green
Play / Performance, Writing, Playwright
Keiko Green (she/her) is a playwright, TV writer, and performer based in Los Angeles. Plays include:Empty Ride (Old Globe), Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play (Old Globe; SF Playhouse; Porkfilled Productions - Upcoming), Hells Canyon (Theater Mu; WET - upcoming), The Bed Trick (Seattle Shakespeare Co), Sharon (Cygnet Theatre), Hometown Boy (Actors Express; Seattle Public Theater), and Nadeshiko (So...
4/9/2025
5:00pm
CAC Colloquium Room
SCR: You Are Cordially Invited To The End of the World!
Theatre, Play / Performance
You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! Take your seat for a comic, irreverent celebration of life! Since Greg’s terminal diagnosis, he’s felt a deep connection to the Earth—and to save himself, he’ll need to save the planet. Viv desperately wants to savor every last minute with her husband. Meanwhile M, our emcee, searches desperately to find meaning in the chaos of their final yea...
4/13/2025
2:00pm
Private Location ...
Thinking Like A Mountain: Contemplative Ecology in the Anthropocene
Lecture, Spiritual - Social Event, Visiting Scholar Program
The environmental thinker Aldo Leopold once asked: can we learn to "think like a mountain?" That is, can we learn to recenter our thinking, our ethics, our spiritual practice-beyond our own narrow concerns and within the living world. In this moment of global climate change, we are returning to this question with a new sense of urgency, asking ourselves what it will mean for us to relinquish co...
4/15/2025
5:00pm
Humanities Gatewa...
A Conversation With Geoff Dyer
Author, Writing, Conversation
Geoff Dyer is widely known as one of the greatest writers of his generation. For this event, he will discuss his most recent work "The Last Days of Roger Federer (and Other Endings)". Regarding The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff asks: How and when do artists and athletes know that their careers are coming to an end? What if the end comes early in a writer’s life? How to keep going e...
4/16/2025
5:30pm
Humanities Gatewa...
My Sweet Land: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Sareen Hairabedian
Film Screening, Movie
The event will involve a film screening of award-winning film MY SWEET LAND followed by a Q&A discussion with the Director, Sareen Hairabedian. The film is a coming-of-age story set against a multigenerational war in the post-Soviet Caucasus Mountains. The film follows an 11-year-old boy named Vrej, growing up in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) who dreams of becoming a dentist in his picture-postcar...
4/16/2025
6:30pm
McCormick Screeni...
Milaap- Starring L. Shenkar and Rakesh Chaurasia, with Pandit Abhijit Banerjee
Concert, Theatre
For the first time in history, master musicians L. Shenkar and Rakesh Chaurasia, with Pandit Abhijit Banerjee, join forces on stage for an unforgettable concert experience. The evening will feature solo performances from Shenkar and Chaurasia, featuring elements of Hindustani and Carnatic music, and will culminate with a lively ensemble segment that will include original new music. L. Shenk...
4/19/2025
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
UCI International Film Club Screening of Blue Collar (1978)
Movie, Film, Film Screening
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978) Paul Schrader's directorial debut, this film is set in Detroit and environs and focuses on the lives of blue collar and ex-con workers trying to survive in a fast changing world. Richard Pryor gives a performance of a lifetime playing one of a group of workers who are caught between a corrupt union and a punishing employer. They plan a robbery that leads the...
4/23/2025
7:00pm
McCormick Screeni...
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder
Concert, Performance, Piano
“One of jazz piano’s most brazenly virtuosic players.” — JazzTimes Jazz pianist Hiromi has electrified audiences with a creative energy that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication. Her new groove heavy project called Sonicwonder features a young and electrified 4-piece band inclu...
4/24/2025
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
UCI Face
Art, Health, Creative Arts, UCI Illuminations, Research
The CYFER Lab invites the UC Irvine campus and its community partners to celebrate the spirit of collaboration and meaningful community-engaged research through UCI FACE (Facilitating Authentic Academic Community Collaboration and Engagement). UC Irvine researchers will showcase their work through short and creative TED-talk style and Pecha Kucha sessions. During the student research poster...
4/26/2025
10:00am
First floor lobby...