Don't Miss: Winter 2019
Eight UCLA Arts events you won't want to miss this winter quarter.
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.
Processing Community Day @ UCLA
Processing Community Day @ Los Angeles is an inclusive conference that will bring together people of all ages to celebrate and explore art, code, and activism. Presented by Processing and the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts.
Event Date: Saturday, Jan. 19, 10 a.m.–9 p.m.*
*Click here for a full schedule and to view the four themed-tracks
Venue: Broad Art Center, EDA
Price: Click here to view conference passes, available at various rates*
Candice Lin
Los Angeles-based artist Candice Lin works in large-scale installation and draws from multiple disciplines to unearth largely forgotten or disregarded histories and to highlight practices that have been marginalized or discredited. Lin is an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Art.
Event Date: Thursday, Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum
Price: Free*
*Free tickets are required and available at the Box Office one hour before the program on a first come, first served basis.
The Butterfly Effect: Activism & Transformation through the Arts, an Evening with Favianna Rodriguez
The UCLA Visual and Performing Arts Education Program presents “The Butterfly Effect: Activism & Transformation through the Arts,” a conversation about how art can empower and enlighten people about the migration experience in Los Angeles, featuring artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez. Co-presented with the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Event Date: Wednesday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m.
Venue: Glorya Kaufman Hall
Price: Free
Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018
Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018 is a major retrospective on the work of conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg, on view at the Hammer Museum at UCLA this winter. The artist’s first comprehensive U.S. survey in more than 30 years, the exhibition includes many works that have never before been exhibited in U.S. museums. On opening day, Ruppersberg will join Walker Art Center curator, Siri Engberg, who organized this major retrospective, in conversation.
Exhibition Dates: Feb. 10–May 12
Venue: Hammer Museum
Price: Free
Inheritance: Recent Video Art from Africa
Inheritance: Recent Video Art from Africa features video works by contemporary African artists who are contending with inherited political, social, and environmental realities in their respective countries. The Fowler Museum presents an opening program during which exhibition artists will introduce their work and join exhibition curator Erica Jones, in a conversation about the artist’s role as observer, commentator, and activist. Opening party to follow, 7 to 9 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: Feb. 17–Jul. 28
Opening Celebration: Saturday, Feb. 17, 6–9 p.m.*
*More information about the Opening Night program & party
Venue: Fowler Museum
Price: Free
You Self Help Me
The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance MFA3 Upstarts Series presents You Self Help Me by award-winning choreographer and M.F.A. candidate Pearl Marill. In this work, Marill uses dance, comedy, and improvisation to examine different methods for dealing with “stuckness.”
Event Date: Feb. 22 & 23, 8 p.m.
Venue: Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater, Room 200
Price: $15 General Admission; $8 Students
Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Alice Fung
The Department of Architecture and Urban Design presents a Distinguished Alumni Lecture by Alice Fung. Fung is a practicing architect and artist, principal of FUNG + BLATT Architects, and professor at USC Roski School of Art and Design. Raised in Hong Kong, Alice studied art and urban studies at Oberlin College and received her Master of Architecture from UCLA in 1986. In 1990 she co-founded FUNG + BLATT, an award-winning and internationally published firm that prioritizes connection to place and investigations into diverse patterns of habitation.
Event Date: Monday, Feb. 25, 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Perloff Hall, Decafe
Price: Free
Meredith Monk: Cellular Songs
Meredith Monk has spent more than five decades exploring and expanding the capacity of that most essential instrument—the human voice. CAP UCLA presents Cellular Songs at Royce Hall, Monk’s newest work in a series of her music theater pieces that explore our interdependent relationship with nature while seeking to evoke the ineffable.
Event Date: Saturday, Mar. 2, 8 p.m.
Venue: Royce Hall
Price: $26–$56*
*UCLA Students: $15, UCLA Faculty & Staff $25
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