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Events
Ongoing November December 2010
Through November 21, 2009
Theatre and Dance presents Sexual Selection:
Darwin and Shakespeare Ponder Love
Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre
Director Kim Rubinstein and Choreographer Yolande Snaith collaborate in this original dance theatre melding of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Don’t miss this celebration of the mating rituals of the human species seen through the lens of our greatest playwright and evolutionist!
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Through November 22, 2009
Zirk Ubu: Adrift
November 19 - 22 at 8:00 pm
November 22 at 7:00 pm
SUSHI Performance and Visual Arts
390 11th Avenue @ J Street, downtown San Diego
Featuring UC San Diego Professors Richard Cohen (Literature), Nancy Caciola (History), and Liam Clancy (Dance), Sushi Performance and Visual Art will present Zirk Ubu’s “Adrift” on November 19-22, 2009. Part circus and part mystery cult, Zirk Ubu brings together a visionary amalgam of performance genres. The diverse, eleven-member collective embraces skills ranging from aerials and acrobatics, to masking, puppetry, and object improvisation, as well as video and performance art. These elements kaleidoscopically recombine into tableaux that are, by turns, sensual, absurdist, and surreal. The final result is a theater of urban inversion, where the possible and the unimaginable dance together in the night air.
Zirk Ubu is honored to have “Adrift” produced by Sushi Performance and Visual Art. Founded in 1980, Sushi is a San Diego-based nonprofit multi-disciplinary presenting organization, which cultivates alternative voices in the contemporary arts. Contact Sushi at http://sushiart.org/, (619) 235-8466.
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Through November 25, 2009
gallery@calit2 presents Tijuana/San Diego:
Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface
gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall
The show brings together works by seven artists who draw upon the cultural landscape of the border region linking Tijuana and San Diego. While most of the artists are based in Tijuana, two of them – Lea Rudee and Fred Lonidier – are UC San Diego faculty members. The works in “Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface” range from digital prints to interactive multimedia.
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Through November 29, 2009
Theatre and Dance presents The House of Bernarda Alba
Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre
After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba, a domineering Spanish matriarch, imposes a period of mourning on the five adult daughters. Tension mounts within the household where morality is dictated by the fanatical tyranny of ideology. Menial daily rituals are the only thing that makes the daughters lives bearable while they are slowly eaten alive by their own repression. The House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca's last play, was completed mere months before he was assassinated by the Nationalists in 1936.
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Through December 12, 2009
University Art Gallery presents Off the Beaten Path:
Violence, Women, and Art
University Art Gallery
For the new exhibition season the University Art Gallery presents an international exhibition entitled Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art. The exhibition brings together artists from around the world to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. The exhibition hopes to help create a new conversation on this important topic. The exhibition explores multiple aspects of violence against women and girls organized within several thematic categories: Violence and the Individual; Violence and the Family; Violence and the Community; Violence and Culture; Violence and Politics. The organizers hope the audience leaves the exhibition with a better understanding of the roots of abuse, a feeling of empathy, and an awareness of choice in their actions and beliefs.
The exhibition, curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg executive director of Art Works For Change, features twenty artists from twenty-five countries.
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Through December 20, 2009
La Jolla Playhouse presents Bonnie & Clyde
Mandell Weiss Theatre
Stuck in a dead-end job in Texas in the 1930s, young Bonnie Parker falls in love with Clyde Barrow, a charismatic criminal on the run from the law. Their love affair soon spirals out of control, as Bonnie & Clyde commit a series of bank robberies while staying one step ahead of the authorities. But as their notoriety — and body count — rises, the ill-fated lovers find themselves racing to the top of the Public Enemies list…with a bullet.
From the creative team of Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde), Don Black (Sunset Boulevard) and Ivan Menchell (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) comes this world premiere musical — with a thrilling new score that combines rockabilly, blues and gospel music.
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Fall Quarter 2009
Philosophy presents Colloquia Program
4:00 - 6:00 pm
H&SS 7077 in John Muir College
Nonmember 20: Christian Wuthrich
December 4: Rick Grush
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November 20, 2009
Literature presents Almudena Grandes
Roundtable Discussion
"El Corazon Helado and the struggle for the recuperation of Historical Memory in Spain: A Conversation with Almudena Grandes"
Seuss Room at Geisel Library
4:00 pm
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November 20, 2009
Music presents 201F
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
8:00 pm
Professor Charles Curtis's students perform new and experimental music.
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November 20, 2009
ArtPower! presents Crown City Rockers
The Loft
9:00 pm
Crown City Rockers are bringing their energetic and virtuosic brand of live hip-hop to The Loft fresh from performances where they've shared stages with such legendary crews as Blackalicious, Living Legends and Ozomatli. XLR8R magazine calls them “a way funkier version of the Roots.”
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November 21, 2009
University Art Gallery presents Violence and Politics
Pepper Canyon Hall, Room 106
1:00 pm
The last discussion associated with the current exhibition entitled Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art that to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. “Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb,” explains Randy Jayne Rosenberg curator and executive director of Art Works For Change. “The stories that underlie these artworks return us imaginatively to the event of violation and allow it to affect us.”
This program examines the laws that keep women in compromised positions around the world as well as within the US.
Patrick Anderson, Assistant Professor of Communication, UCSD will facilitate the discussion with Carmen Chavez from Casa Cornelia Law Center, Steve Bush who created the legislation know as Jenny’s Law, Summer Stephan who is the District Attorney of North County, San Diego.
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November 21, 2009
ArtPower! presents Eighth Blackbird
The Loft
8:00 pm
Described by The New Yorker as “friendly, unpretentious, idealistic and highly skilled,” the Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird is widely lauded for its kinetic performing style that ignores the once-bold line between contemporary, chamber, indie, and popular music. The sextet extends the Tentacle. Grab back and hold on!
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Fall Quarter 2009
Science Studies presents Colloquium Series
4:00 pm
H&SS 3027 in John Muir College
November 23: Charles Thorpe, UC San Diego
"Participation as Post-Fordist Politics: Demos, New Labour, and Science & Technology Studies"
November 30: Jacob Stegenga, UC San Diego
"Amalgamating Evidence with Consensus Conferences and Meta-Analysis"
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November 23 - December 5, 2009
Theatre and Dance presents Camino Real
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Camino Real takes place in an imaginary police state at the end of the road where dreams come to die. The terminal end of the Camino Real is the torturous home of broken down heroes, withered beauties, lost lovers, blocked poets, and a boxing champ whose heart no longer works. The play is their struggle to escape: their struggle with whether or not they should even try. It is a paean to hope and despair in all of its forms, and to the eternal forces that drive us always to seek the light.
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November 23, 2009
Music presents Jazz Concert
Conrad Prebys Recital Hall
8:00 pm
Jazz performers from UCSD's Department of Music swing and improvise their way through their fall concert.
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November 24, 2009
Music presents Gospel choir
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm
Ken Anderson directs hundreds of voices in a concert of African-American spirituals, gospel, and blues.
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November 25, 2009
Arts Library presents Turkey Calling Show
Geisel Library, lower level - west wing
12:30 pm
The UCSD Arts Library presents their annual Turkey Calling Show at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 (yes, that is their official Short Attention Span Series offering for the day before Thanksgiving). Lower level, West Wing, Geisel Library, UCSD.
About the show: come to the exhibit case area of the UCSD Arts Library to see an artful turkey calling exhibit. Hear UCSD undergraduate performance artist Lazaro Rabago recite an Aztec poem about our native turkey. Perform a slapstick tone poem with old-time radio sound effects artist Scott Paulson and learn how to turkey call. Story lady Melanie Treco will read a new family-friendly turkey story. The Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra will perform some appropriate tunes. What to expect: part performance art and part old-time radio show, hosted by Scott Paulson, outreach coordinator of the UCSD Arts Library. Free show.
Call (858)822-5758 for info or visit http://artslib.ucsd.edu
November 30, 2009
Music presents Chamber Ensembles
Conrad Prebys Recital Hall
8:00 pm
János Négyesy directs the Department of Music's chamber ensembles in their fall concert.
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November 30, 2009
ArtPower! presents upright citizens brigade tourco
The Loft
9:00 pm
The LA/New York based sketch comedy troupe that birthed improv lords Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz is giving the Loft a hefty dose of hysterics. Whether you want to wet your pants or whet your comedic appetite, the madcap company whose "only friend is chaos" will have you laughing into the wee hours.
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December 1, 2009
Visual Arts presents Visiting Artists Series
Literature presents New Writing Series
Eileen Myles
6:30pm
Visual Arts Performance Space, VAF
Eileen Myles is a poet, playwright and performance artist. Her books include Skies (2001) and Cool for You (2000). She is a frequent contributor to Art in America, The Village Voice, The Nation and other periodicals, and is Professor Emeritus of Writing at UCSD.
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December 2 & 4, 2009
Music presents Lilith
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
7:00 pm on Dec. 2nd and 8:00 pm on Dec. 4th
Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: World premiere of a new opera by Guggenheim Award-winning composer Anthony Davis, with an original libretto by Thurgood Marshall Provost and Theatre Faculty Allan Havis. With an additional performance December 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. Davis is a critically acclaimed composer of operas including Tania and X: The Life and times of Malcolm X.
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December 2, 2009
ArtPower! presents Build
The Loft
8:00 pm
Led by composer/violinist and Carlsbad Music Festival Artistic Director Matt McBane, Build is a fresh and exciting alternative classical band that throws you Lewis Carroll-style through the looking glass into a fascinating musical landscape. Their driving rock rhythms and thorny counterpoint “could change the way you think about contemporary composition” (Blogcritics.com). Build helped ArtPower! inaugurate The Loft last season and it’s a thrill to bring them back for more.
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December 3, 2009
Music presents Wind Ensemble
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm
Maestro Robert Zelickman leads the Wind Ensemble through a challenging program that typically ranges from classical and cutting-edge and occasionally humorous.
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December 3, 2009
ArtPower! presents Jenny Scheinman
The Loft
8:00 pm
A world-renowned violinist and strikingly honest singer, Jenny Scheinman embraces both epic orchestral compositions as well as intimate narrative, the dance and the meditation, the raw and the rocking. Acoustic folk, Gypsy swing, and country can all crop up in her music, in ways that elude classification. Her closest cohorts include cutting-edge guitar icon Bill Frisell and pop-jazz diva Norah Jones.
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December 4 - 6, 2009
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus presents (E)merging Voices
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm on Dec. 4th and 5th
3:00 pm on Dec. 6th
Get your tie-dyes and your love beads and come back with us to the Age of Aquarius as we present Bernstein’s stunning, often controversial Mass, one of the icons of the 1970s. Commissioned by Jackie Kennedy for the opening of The Kennedy Center, Mass follows the liturgy through the Celebrant, portrayed by UCSD Gospel Choir Director Ken Anderson, with frequent interruption and commentary from the “congregation.” We offer three performances of this rarely-heard theater-piece.
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December 4, 2009
ArtPower! presents Girls
The Loft
9:00 pm
Heading up The Loft's second Club NME and seeing the quarter out with a bang is a band that SPIN magazine recently declared as the best new band of 2009!
Joining the bill will be old friends of The Loft, The Morning Benders.
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December 7, 2009
Music presents Camera Lucida
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
8:00 pm
- UCSD Department of Music's prestigious chamber music series continues with the
second concert of its six-concert season. The program features music by Andrieu,
Bach, Webern, and Ravel. Camera Lucida is a collaboration between members of the
UCSD music faculty and principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony. The
series is made possible by a generous contribution from the Sam B. Ersan Chamber
Music Fund.
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December 8, 2009
Helen Edison Lecture Series presents Athanasios Moulakis
Faculty Club
7:00 pm
Dr. Athanasios Moulakis joined the American University of Afghanistan at the beginning of 2008 after serving as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and as Onassis Foundation Fellow in Athens, Greece. Previously, he was director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the University of Lugano.
Over an 11-year period Dr. Moulakis was Herbst Professor of Humanities and Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, where he was also Founding Director of the Herbst Program of Humanities. His publication list includes a large number of books and articles on topics in the humanities, political theory, public policy, higher education, international relations, and other scholarly fields. With a Doctorate in Philosophy (magna cum laude) degree from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Dr. Moulakis has published and lectured in five languages. He has received numerous academic honors and awards, including the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ prize for best book on liberal education.
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January 14, 2010
ArtPower! presents Grupo de Rua
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm
Considered one of the most creative choreographers in a new generation of Brazilian dance-makers, Artistic Director Bruno Beltrão investigates the intersections of hip-hop technique with contemporary dance. In H3 the nine dancers tackle the limits of their coordination and skill as they collide and balance against each other, blending elements of krumping, popping, and breakdance in their duets.
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February 1, 2010
ArtPower! presents Bowerbirds
The Loft
9:00 pm
Bowerbirds' debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse, was nearly one hundred percent focused on the thesis that the earth is a sacred place with merit beyond us, and that humans are just visitors here. Its contrapuntal harmonies documented a moment in the life of the songwriter and the life of the band – Beth Tacular and Phil Moore living in an airstream in rural North Carolina, building a cabin of reclaimed boards by hand in the woods – but did so without, as far as we could tell, delving into their lives at all. While these weren't protest songs, per se, they had the wry anger of a "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." The songs were interconnected, both musically and thematically, a musical whitepaper of the very best, most listenable kind.
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February 2, 2010
ArtPower! presents Siren of the Tropics
The Loft
8:00 pm
Legendary performer Josephine Baker made her feature-film debut in this rags to riches tale about a free-spirited, animal-loving girl who falls in love with a sophisticated young man from Paris—and follows him back to the City of Lights. Though silent, Siren of the Tropics abounds with musical energy, aided in no small part by your participation and the musical talents of Scott Paulson and his Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra for Silent Films. [1927, France, 86 min.]
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February 3 - 28, 2010
La Jolla Playhouse presents Aurélia's Oratorio
Mandell Weiss Theatre
Behind the red velvet curtain lies Aurélia’s Oratorio’s topsy-turvy world of surreal surprises, tricks, and transformations, where dreams come to life and the impossible happens before your very eyes. Aurélia Thierrée was first seen on stage as a young girl, performing with her parents Jean-Baptiste Thierrée and Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, creators of the famous Cirque Imaginaire and Cirque Invisible, which enjoyed a successful run at La Jolla Playhouse during the 1995 season. Now an actress in her own right, Ms. Thierrée has charmed audiences around the world with this dazzling display of stage illusion, inspired by the magic of music hall and circus, co-created with her mother Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, and performed with Jaime Martinez.
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February 4, 2010
ArtPower! presents Portland Cello Project
The Loft
8:00 pm
A self-described “indie cello orchestra,” the Portland Cello Project (or, PCP, as their fans affectionately call them) has a deep-rooted philosophy of building a stronger music community through collaborations across all genres. Their performances are unique and eclectic—one might hear hip-hop mixed with Bach or a haunting cover of Britney Spears. PCP combines grace and gravitas to bring you the cello as you’ve never heard it before.
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February 6 & 7, 2010
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus presents (E)merging Voices
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm on Feb 6th
3:00 pm on Feb. 7th
A program of perspectives on and from America. Charles Ives offers three snapshots of symbolic places in New England, while California composer Lou Harrison looks to China for inspiration in his concerto for pipa (Chinese lute) that blends West Coast with the Far East. Our soloist is internationally-renowned Wu Man, for whom the concerto was written. We conclude with Dvorak’s great symphony, which he described as “Greetings from America.”
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February 9, 2010
ArtPower! presents Justin Townes Earle
The Loft
9:00 pm
Justin Earle comes from good stock. His father (legendary and ground-breaking singer/songwriter Steve Earle) must have taught him well. But don’t be so quick to compare him to his father. Whatever he may have learned from his old man, he continues to prove himself as an individual- always forging his own path no matter where the others are going. Maybe that is the most important lesson he learned from his father (as well as being the main thing they have in common artistically).
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February 11 - 20, 2010
Theatre and Dance presents The Revenger's Tragedy
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Directed by Christopher Ashley
Quinn Martin Guest Chair in Directing
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February 18 - 27, 2010
Theatre and Dance presents The Seagull
Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre
How much whiplash can the heart endure? In love or art, what is the cost of
taking a risk? And should that risk meet with rejection or failure, how do we
choose to respond?
The Seagull is Chekhov’s great romance, his symphony on love, desire, heartbreak, creativity, and the power of art. We hope you will join us.
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