South Coast Repertory: Panel and Performance of The Heart Sellers

Play / Performance

UCI STUDENTS ONLY! **transportation not provided Join SCR’s Production Manager, an award-winning playwright and other theatre pros for a lively panel on bringing Asian American stories to life. Discover how they craft theatre—from writing to production—and the unique perspectives they bring to the stage. · 6–6:30 PM – Mingle in the Segerstrom Lobby and enjoy dessert with attendees...

Transfigurations

UCI's New Swan Shakespeare Center presents, in collaboration with UCI Illuminations, "Transfigurations" a series of sessions on the transformation of narratives through media. Hosted by guest scholar, Neah Lekan! At each session we'll welcome a guest artist who specializes in the performing arts, and together we'll answers questions about the adaptation of narratives across media, and how one a...

"I'm So Sorry" Film Screening & Q&A with Dir. Zhao Liang

Film Screening

We are excited to host a screening of acclaimed Chinese film director and visual artist Zhao Liang’s 2021 experimental documentary film I’m So Sorry. Known for his groundbreaking work documenting environmental issues in China and across the world, Zhao creates films that are as aesthetically beautiful as they are socially complex. The director describes I’m So Sorry as follows: “Anchored by a m...

UCI International Film Club: 24 Hour Party People

Movie, Film, Film and Media Studies

24 Hour Party People is a mockumentary biopic starring Steve Coogan (The Trip) and Paddy Considine (Game of Thrones) following the punk and post-punk club and music scene of a bleak and deindustrializing Manchester. Based loosely on the story of Joy Division and New Order, this tragicomic take on the Manchester sound reflects Winterbottom’s unique ability to draw laughs out of despair. No City...

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Theatre, Play / Performance

Ye Olde Theatre Eaters presents William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in the style of Mean Girls. This performance will be a 90-minute cut of the original play with no intermissions and will be put on in UCI's Nixon Theatre on Nov14th-16th. Our goal at YOTE is to make theater more accessible to everyone on campus, so while the cast and crew is entirely made up of undergraduate students, many ...

Harambee: Orality in Motion

Harambee: Orality in Motion is the culminating event of a two-day celebration honoring the life and legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a towering figure in world literature and global cultural history. Renowned for his lifelong commitment to decolonization through language, storytelling, and cultural reclamation, Ngũgĩ’s work has profoundly reshaped understandings of identity, power, and liberation. ...

Film Screening with Al'Ikens Plancher

Film Screening

**Please email fjeanlou@uci.edu to register! 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 B...

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...

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 indig...

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...