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Irvine Barclay Theatre: Pilobolus
Performance
UCI Students Only! PILOBOLUS: OTHER WORLDS COLLECTION Pilobolus: Other Worlds Collection traverses the spaces we inhabit—from the realms within ourselves, society, and the universe—with wit, wisdom, and whimsy. This collection features collaborations with visionaries who see the world through the lens of theatre, music, and dance, including award-winning playwright and director Aaron P...
3/25/2026
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
Irvine Barclay Theatre: Live Screening of A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre, Film Screening
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE SCREENING: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Filmed live at the Young Vic in London and screened in HD “Gillian Anderson gives a shatteringly powerful performance.” - Independent by Tennessee Williams directed by Benedict Andrews Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless...
3/29/2026
3:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
Oceanic Impressions: Cyanotypes of Cyanobacteria
Art, Science
This project brings together science, art, and community engagement to illuminate the beauty and biomedical potential of marine microorganisms. Oceanic Impressions: Cyanotypes of Cyanobacteria is a collaborative installation in which undergraduate students, artists, and scientists explore Southern California’s coastal environment through the 19th-century photographic process of cyanotyping—usi...
4/1/2026
12:00pm
UCI Falling Leave...
Blood Sugar, CA: 1903, A play by Javier Luis Hurtado
Performance, Playwright
This event will consist of a staged reading of a new play by playwright Javier Luis Hurtado entitled Blood Sugar, CA:1903. It is a queer retelling of the 1903 Oxnard strike, a labor dispute between in the city of Oxnard between Mexican and Japanese laborers and land owners. The strike involved sugar beet growers, the American Beet Sugar Company, the grower-controlled Western Agricultural Contr...
4/2/2026
6:30pm
Little Theater, R...
“Also Known as an Afro Samurai”: Yannick Hara in Concert
Concert, Conversation, Culture
Confronted with numerous slave rebellions, Brazilian elites started importing European immigrants during the nineteenth century to substitute Black labor. This trend persisted in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery in 1888, with Japanese immigrants joining the Brazilian workforce from 1908 onward. Those wishing to understand the complexity of these Afro-Brazilian encounters with Japan fro...
4/6/2026
5:00pm
Verano Community ...
Industrial Cultures: Cinema and Labor in China’s Modernization
Arts, Cinema, Asian American Studies
From China’s Great Leap Forward production campaign in the late 1950s, to the industrial reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of China as “the world’s factory,” Chinese cinema has long shaped how work, labor, and industry are imagined, organized, and experienced. In this public talk, Dr. Ying Qian explores selected Chinese films across these periods, discussing how they interpreted the s...
4/8/2026
5:30pm
McCormick Screeni...
UCI International Film Club: Screening of Nomad (1982)
Movie, Film Screening
Beautifully restored and re-edited by its director after years of heavy censorship for its political and sexual content, Patrick Tam’s Nomad is glittering example of the Hong Kong New Wave at its best. The film follows four listless young people — Louis (Leslie Cheung), his cousin Kathy (Pat Ha), and new friends Pong (Kent Tong) and Tomato (Cecilia Yip) — whose intertwined, hedonistic lives of ...
4/15/2026
7:00pm
McCormick Screeni...
An Evening of Dance: Exploring Power and Wellness Through Capoeira and Embodiology
Dance, Creative Arts
This event explores how different communities use art and wellness practices such as dance and movement to empower themselves. Through an integrated panel workshop with a dance professor and a capoeira (Afro-Brazilian martial arts) instructor, participants will explore the intersection of creative expression, wellness entrepreneurship, and social change, engaging with these creative entrepreneu...
4/29/2026
4:00pm
Humanities Gatewa...
What's up with the taco? A conversation with Gustavo Arellano.”
Culinary, Culture, Food
Gustavo Arellano is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, covering Southern California everything and a bunch of the West and beyond. He previously worked at OC Weekly, where he was an investigative reporter for 15 years and editor for six, wrote a column called ¡Ask a Mexican! and is the author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America and co-author of A People's Guide to Orange County....
5/7/2026
12:30pm
Humanities Gatewa...