Film Screening with Al'Ikens Plancher

Film Screening

Film Screening November 19, 2025 Please join us in screening several short films along with a talk back with their creator Al’Ikens Plancher. Plancher is a writer-director who has worked on “The Chi” and “Yellowstone” series. His award-winning short films have been screened at several film festivals such as The Tribeca Film Festival and HBO Best Short Film. Additionally, his work has been...

Ashley Eckstein: Finding Balance in the Force

Ashley Eckstein is an actress, author, and entrepreneur best known for voicing Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Beyond her acting career, she is the founder of Her Universe, a groundbreaking fashion brand that pioneered “geek couture” for women and fans of all kinds. A passionate advocate for mental health awareness, Ec...

Food & Thought - All About Potatoes: Celebrating Indigenous Food, Culture, Land, & Music

Cooking, Food, Peru

UCI Students only! Friday, November 21 12-1:30pm Anteater Demonstration Kitchen, ARC *PLEASE bring your own utensils/bowls/plates/to-go containers in an effort to be more sustainable! (There will be soup this time). Imagine this: Burgers without fries, fish sin “chips,” a latke-less Hanukkah or a mashed potato free Thanksgiving—a world without potatoes seems very sad! The indige...

Call For Submissions: Food Stories

Contest

In this series, we choose one ingredient that is common in many cultures and invite students to share their recipes which use the key ingredient. Selected students will speak about their recipes and the Demonstration Kitchen chef will create a multicultural meal of dishes with the same key ingredients but different culinary traditions. Selected students will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. Se...

Call for Submissions: Family Recipes Show & Tell (& Eat)! 

Food, Contest

. Family Recipes Show & Tell (& Eat)! Do you have a favorite family recipe? What’s the signature dish of your parents, (great) grandparents, or other family members? What is the food you miss most when you are away from home? We invite you to submit your favorite recipe. The chosen students will tell us their food stories and cook the dish at the Demonstration Kitchen at the Anteater Recre...

The Green Knight: Post Performance Panel

Panel, Theatre

Post-performance panel: It's Christmas at Camelot and a mysterious Green Knight appears, offering a lethal challenge . . . The panel will be a lively discussion between two medieval scholars and a theater practitioner about the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the joys and challenges of faithfully adapting it for the stage. Medievalists Laura Hatch (Assistant Professor, Brig...