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Going Varsity in Mariachi
Music, Performance
***Please come in early to sign in at 3:30 Schedule: Live Mariachi performance: 3:30 to 5:00 Screening "Going Varsity in Mariachi" at 5:00 Q&A at 6:30 Reception at 7:00 Music has the ability to bridge culture and life experiences. Music can be uniting, we use it together to celebrate, mark milestones and to mourn. For Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, Mariachi mu...
4/26/2024
3:30pm
McCormick Theatre
Nameplates & Perreo: The Queerness of Chongas
Activism, Advocacy, LGBTQ
This webinar talk explores how working class aesthetics of excess are activated as a medium for performances of queer and femme of color pleasure and community. I explore the work of artist Joel Gaítan, activist, healer, and advice columnist Maria Pero No Santa (Maria Saldana), rapper and reggaetonera LaGoony Chonga, and drag performers Juliesy in Bed and Karla Croqueta. *This is an online ...
5/1/2024
1:00pm
Online Event
Luis Rodriguez: Award Winning Author, Journalist, Activist
Author, Chicano, Chicanx, Book Signing
Luis J. Rodriguez is an award winning writer, journalist, and activist. He is best known for his writings (novel, memoirs, short stories, and journalism) and activism in improving life in Chincanx communities throughout the U.S., particularly in Los Angeles and Chicago. Rodriguez is proud of his Native American, Mexican, and Chicano roots. Having witnessed and experienced poverty, gang viole...
5/2/2024
5:30pm
Crystal Cove Audi...
Love Boat: Taiwan
Taiwan, UCI Illuminations, Movie, Filmmaking, Film Screening
Please join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary Love Boat: Taiwan, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Valerie Soe. Tuesday, May 7th, 5:30PM, McCormick Screening Room LOVE BOAT: TAIWAN (63 min) looks at the Expatriate Youth Summer Formosa Study Tour to Taiwan, which was sponsored by the Taiwanese government every summer in Taipei for more than 45 years. Despite its high-min...
5/7/2024
5:30pm
McCormick Screeni...
DJ Rekha Workshop + Performance
Performance, Workshop, Music
DJ Rekha will discuss their art practice and provide a live DJ performance. DJ Rekha (born Rekha Malhotra) is a producer, curator, educator, and founder of Basement Bhangra, one of NYC’s longest-running club nights (1997-2017). They've performed in festivals, clubs, and community spaces worldwide. Their dynamic DJ sets incorporate South Asian Diasporic dance music with ears to a global sound th...
5/8/2024
7:00pm
Experimental Medi...
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir By Curtis Chin
AAPI, Author, Asian American, Chinese, Book Signing
Presented by Humanities Center and Humanities Core: Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning a...
5/9/2024
3:30pm
Humanities Gatewa...
Irvine Barclay Theatre: Bach Meets Bluegrass - Tessa Lark and Michael Thurber
Arts, Music, Performance
Students only! Part of Distinctive Experiences co-presented with Philharmonic Society of Orange County. Award-winning violinist Tessa Lark and virtuoso composer/bassist Michael Thurber have come together to create a duo unlike any other. By fusing their classical and American music influences, they have created a wholly original sound which they bring to audiences around the country in a c...
5/14/2024
8:00pm
Private Location ...
UCI International Film Club: Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson 2008)
Film, Film Screening, International
International Film Club 2024 McCormick Screening Room 7 pm Q and A discussion to follow Warning: these films are not appropriate for everyone and viewers should take into account their tolerance for explicit sexual and horror content. May 15 : Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson 2008) In a working class suburb of Stockhold in the 1980s, Oskar is bullied by his schoolmates and negl...
5/15/2024
7:00pm
McCormick Screeni...
Compton in My Soul – A Journey in Search of Racial Equality
Culture, History
Albert M. Camarillo Professor of American History, the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, and Haas Centennial Professor of Public Service, Emeritus, Stanford University This UCI Illuminations event centers on Albert M. Camarillo’s life journey from Compton, California to a diversity of academic and leadership pathways, roles, and spaces. It will provide an opportunity to learn more abo...
5/16/2024
12:30pm
Social and Behavi...
Irvine Barclay Theatre: Ballets Jazz Montréal Dance me- Music By Leonard Cohen
Arts, Dance, Performance
Students Only! Approved by Cohen during his lifetime, this riveting homage to the famed artist evokes the grand cycles of existence, as described in Cohen’s deeply reflective music and poems. Ballets Jazz Montréal is an internationally renowned contemporary dance company founded in 1972. With Alexandra Damiani as artistic director since 2021 and its troupe of high calibre dancers from arou...
5/17/2024
8:00pm
Private Location ...