Don't Miss: Fall 2018
8 UCLA Arts events you won't want to miss this Fall.
A destination for the arts, UCLA Arts provides opportunities for the public to experience the full depth and diversity of the institution's activities and creative programming. Don’t miss your chance to engage with the next generation of cultural leaders. Read on for fall highlights, and visit our calendar for the season’s complete listing.
10 Questions
Every Tuesday through Dec. 4, UCLA faculty members from across the university are joining Brett Steele, dean of UCLA Arts, to explore a fundamental question such as: What is space? What is failure? What is freedom? This new hybrid academic course and public event series brings together leading minds from across campus and gives community members a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at UCLA.
Event Dates: Tuesdays through Dec. 4, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Venue: Glorya Kaufman Hall, Rm 200
Price: Free, RSVP required
Design Media Arts M.F.A. Fall Preview Exhibition: Convolution
UCLA Design Media Arts presents Convolution, the fall preview show, featuring new works from the 2019 M.F.A. candidates, on view at the New Wight Gallery at the UCLA Broad Art Center. Participating artists include Hye Min Cho, Kit Kirby, Sara Drake, Isabelle Chen, Lena NW, Phazero, Maru Garcia, L05, Sam Congdon, Julian Stein, and Paul Carlo Esposito.
Exhibition Dates: Oct. 18–25
Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct. 18, 5–8 p.m.
Venue: Broad Art Center, New Wight Gallery
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.– 4:30 p.m.
Price: Free
Opening Night: World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean, which features more than 150 artworks from eastern and central Africa and the western Indian Ocean rim. On Oct. 20, co-curators Prita Meier and Allyson Purpura will give a lecture, followed by an opening party featuring DJ Afro Funké.
Event Date: Saturday, Oct. 20, 6–9 p.m.
5–6 p.m. Fowler Member Preview
6–7 p.m. World on the Horizon: The Curators’ Backstory
7–9 p.m. Opening Party
Venue: Fowler Museum
Price: Free
Salia Sanou Presentation
Salia Sanou, the inaugural recipient of the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Alma Hawkins Memorial Chair, is a renowned choreographer and dancer from Burkina Faso. He is co-founder and co-director of the Center for Choreographic Development La Termitière in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The first of its kind in Africa, this initiative is dedicated to creation and training worldwide.
Event Date: Thursday, Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Kaufman Hall, Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, Room 200
Price: Free
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Analogy Trilogy
Analogy Trilogy, a new and ambitious three-part work from the acclaimed Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, searches for the connection between three varying stories, focusing on memory and the effect of powerful events on the actions of individuals and on their often unexpressed inner life. CAP UCLA brings all three works to Royce Hall to be presented in one seven-hour marathon performance that includes dinner and a post-show Q&A.
Event Date: Nov. 3–4, 2 p.m.
Venue: Royce Hall
Price: $66–$146*
*UCLA Students: $15, UCLA Faculty & Staff $25
UC Regents’ Lecture: Monika Baer
The UCLA Department of Art presents a UC Regents’ lecture by Monika Baer, a Berlin-based painter whose work engages with both the legacy and present state of painting at the threshold of figuration and abstraction.
Event Date: Thursday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Price: Free
Theaster Gates
On November 13, the Hammer Museum will present a conversation with Theaster Gates. Gates’s practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, and urban interventions that aim to bridge the gap between art and life. In his work as an artist, curator, urbanist, and facilitator, Gates engages cultural communities through projects that have the potential to lead to political, social, and spatial change.
Event Date: Tuesday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum
Price: Free
Richard Weinstein Lecture: Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi
The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design presents a lecture by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi of WEISS/MANFREDI, a multidisciplinary, New York City-based design practice that combines landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art.
Event Date: Monday, Nov. 26, 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Perloff Hall, Decafe
Price: Free
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