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Office of the Dean
Division of Arts and Humanities
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive # 0406
La Jolla, CA 92093-0406
tel: (858) 534-6270
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Events
March 8 - June 22 , 2008
San Diego Museum of Art presents
Inside the Wave
Exhibit features six artists and artist collectives from the San Diego/Tijuana region working within
spheres of alternative cultures to produce works that combine material, culture, and everyday life.
Participating artists include bulbo, Brian Dick, Adriene Jenik, particle group (Ricardo Dominguez,
Nina Waisman, Robert Twomey, Caleb Waldorf), Zlatan Vukosavljevic, and Allison Wiese - and
all produce art that engages ideas about how societies construct meaning through material objects. They
create works that allow for interaction with the art object, either by the artist or the viewer, in order
to express their personal explorations of social and political issues. The artists achieve this by manipulating
existing cultural materials or by creating a physical environment through digital technology.
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March 29 - May 17, 2008
University Art Gallery presents Revolutions
A selection of 18 video works from the collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaitre. For the last seven years, these London-based French collectors have been collecting almost exclusively video work. The collection includes artists from all over the world and at the latest count numbers 80 works. This selection includes work by artists originating from Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States.
Revolutions will occupy six especially created rooms, which will house both projected works and pieces shown on monitor. Each work, ranging from 80 seconds to 30 minutes in length, will be shown sequentially creating a complete cycle lasting almost three hours, and require the visitor to complete three rotations of the gallery.
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April 10 - June 6, 2008
gallery@calit2 presents Exposure
"Exposure" is a projection-based installation consisting of images of
X-rayed vehicles juxtaposed with architecture. The installation was developed in 2001 as the fifth and last installment in a series of video-based work that explores how X-ray imagery was used for surveillance, pre-9/11. The artist, Marie Sester, is interested in the evolving role of surveillance in culture.
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May 8-17, 2008
Music presents Spring Festival of New Music
UCSD Department of Music's Spring Festival of New Music 2008 includes "Apparitions" - a concert at Warren Studio A featuring the West Coast premiere of Philippe Manoury's Cruel Spirals. The festival continues through May 17, showcasing UCSD's best new and experimental music.
Whether you are a composer, performer, music lover, educator, movie star, tax collector, rocket scientist, mortician, student or simply a standard human being --- you owe it to yourself to check out this fine and flavorful sampling of music from the edge.
All festival events are free except red fish blue fish.
More info: 858.534.4830.
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May 13, 2008
Music presents red fish blue fish
8pm, Mandeville Auditorium
red fish blue fish is the resident ensemble of percussionists of the University of California, San Diego. The group serves as a laboratory for the exploration of new work for percussion and tours this work regularly.
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May 13-17, 2008
Theatre and Dance presents Surf Orpheus
Directed by Corey Madden
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Surf Orpheus blends music, movement, and myth into a contemporary musical theatre experience. Researched and developed over two years, the creators have re-envisioned this ancient love story through the lens of Southern California's surf culture, the sounds of contemporary music, and images of the beach, the sea, and our dreams.
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May 14, 2008
Program for the Study of Religion presents Eliza Slavet
"Secret Inclinations and Implications"
12pm, Student Services Center, Room 40
A presentation by Eliza Slavet, PhD in Literature from UC San Diego, on her book Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham University Press, 2009). Free and open to the public.
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May 14, 2008
Literature presents Camille Forbes
4:30pm, Visual Arts Facility Performing Space
Camille F. Forbes, historian and performer, is the author of Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star. Her life in performance has taken her from stand-up comedy acts in Boston to her ever-evolving one-woman stage piece, Tales of Suburban Squalor, in San Diego. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Literature.
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May 14-15, 2008
Theatre and Dance & UAG present Revolutions 1 and 2
7pm, University Art Gallery
Students from the Department of Theatre and Dance under the direction of Yolande Snaith will present dance pieces created in response to the works in the University Art Gallery's current show, Revolutions.
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Spring Quarter 2008
Visual Arts presents Visiting Artist Series
| Thurs May 15 |
Colleen Asper |
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May 21, 2008
ArtPower! presents May Movie Month: Press Rewind
7pm, Porter's Pub
In partnership with the Video Production Club, ArtPower! Film presents a night of famous student filmmaker's films. The event will start with live music by Matt Swagler, followed by our feature presentation of eight films by eight famous directors. Please stay for a post-screening discussion with Filmmaker Tara Knight and a special guest speaker.
Films:
Electronic Labyrinth: HX 1138 4EB by George Lucas (15 minutes)
Field of Honor by Robert Zemeckis (15 minutes)
Jama Masjid Street Journal by Mira Nair (18 minutes)
The Killers by Andrei Tarkovsky (19 minutes)
The Oval Portrait by Richard Bare (19 minutes)
Six Men Getting Sick by David Lynch (1 minute)
The Alphabet by David Lynch (5 minutes)
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May 23, 2008
Philosophy presents Carl Craver
"Mechanisms and Natural Kinds"
4pm, 7077 Humanities and Social Science Bldg
According to one popular view, natural kinds are homeostatic property clusters (HPCs) maintained by a similarity generating mechanism. This view has been used to argue that putative kinds that fail to match the mechanistic structure of the world (for example, concepts, emotions, and memory) should be eliminated in favor of kinds that do. I discuss two related challenges for this view. The first is that there are no clear criteria for individuating mechanisms. The second is that many scientifically respectable kinds seem cut the world at nonmechanistic joints. These challenges show that the connection between natural kinds and the mechanistic structure of the world is more complex than the HPC view suggests. I close by considering how the HPC view would have to be supplemented to meet these challenges and whether the HPC view, so modified, remains a viable account of natural kinds.
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May 27, 2008
Music presents Gospel Choir
8pm, Mandeville Auditorium
Gospel maestro Ken Anderson inspires his hundreds-strong choir through a program
of gospel, spirituals, blues and other African-American music. Tickets available
at UCSD Box Office (858-534-TIXS) or at the door.Cost: $10 General/$5 Student/Free UCSD Students w/ID.
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May 30-31, 2008
Visual Arts presents Senior Art Show: Transparency
Mandeville Center, 2nd floor
In a department overshadowed by traditional academics, the arts are unseen and transparent. On a broader range, we as people are no more of an individual as our names claims to be. We are in essence just among the masses of identities. Therefore we become transparent in the normalcy of daily routine, transparent in our calculated gestures and interactions.
Transparency is a show about recreating individuality through an exploration of self interconnected and plugged into the system as a whole.
For the past two years, the graduating class of the Visual Arts Department has provided a unique opportunity for young artists to exhibit their work in a celebration that invites the UCSD community, local gallery and museum curators, and the general public.
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June 3, 2008
Music presents Singers & Chamber Orchestra
8pm, Mandeville Auditorium
A Grand Choral Spectacular presented by UCSD Chamber Orchestra and Singers, directed by Geoffrey Gartner and Philip Larson. The All-American first half will feature Aaron Copland's Music for Movies and Leonard Bernstein's famed Chichester Psalms. The second half showcases two great works from the classical period: Haydn's Te Deum and Beethoven's rarely played Fantasia for Piano, Choir and Orchestra, with featured piano soloist John Mark Harris. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858-534-TIXS) or at the door.Cost: $10 General/$5 Student/Free UCSD Students w/ID.
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June 5 -7, 2008
Theatre and Dance presents Highly Sprung
Directed by Yolande Snaith
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Faculty artists select original works by student choreographers for performances by our top dancers in this thoroughly enchanting evening.
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June 7-8, 2008
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus presents ...And ending in light
Conducted by Steven Schick
Mandeville Auditorium
A season that began in light concludes in light with Strauss' moving tone-poem about the transfiguration of a human soul. The program opens with one of the energetic symphonies Haydn composed for London audiences and also offers the La Jolla Symphony's first performance ever of music by that great American maverick, Edgard Varése.
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June 30 , 2008
ArtPower! presents David Sedaris
8pm, Copley Symphony Hall
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.
Patrons with tickets to the postponed October 31st event will use their original tickets to attend the June 30th performance. For patrons who can no longer attend due to the rescheduled date, you may request a ticket exchange, refund or ticket donation by contacting the vendor you purchased from.
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July 1-27, 2008
La Jolla Playhouse presents The Night Watcher
Mandell Weiss Forum
Los Angeles, 2007...Charlayne Woodard has a wonderful husband, a well-dressed dog named Atticus Finch and a glowing career as an actress and playwright. She also has 30 kids.
As their beloved "Auntie," Charlayne shepherds her brood of children through the perils of modern childhood with an open heart and a ready ear. Overloaded with information in a world that challenges them to grow up too quickly, Charlayne's kids find a safe haven in which to open up, give themselves a break and just be themselves. Meet these remarkable kids through Charlayne's delightful and touching stories of their greatest fears and personal triumphs. Acting as their confidant, number one fan and coach, Charlayne provides what all children should have in their lives - a loving mentor who puts dreams in their heads, keeps their secrets and protects them in an uncertain world.
Following in the Playhouse tradition of presenting original and moving one-person shows, Charlayne enlivens the stage in this magical, crazy and funny ride. You'll feel like a part of the family in this high-octane, engaging one-woman performance.
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