Sanaz Toossi: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama

Drama, Theatre

*Held in the Emerald Bay event room at the UCI Student Center* Sanaz Toossi is an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, California. She received her MFA in playwriting from NYU Tisch School. Her plays include the critically acclaimed ENGLISH and WISH YOU WERE HERE. Sanaz Toossi will speak about these two plays as well as how her upbringing as a second-generation bilingual and bicul...

Going Varsity in Mariachi

Music, Performance

***Please come in early to sign in at 3:30 Schedule: Live Mariachi performance: 3:30 to 5:00 Screening "Going Varsity in Mariachi" at 5:00 Q&A at 6:30 Reception at 7:00 Music has the ability to bridge culture and life experiences. Music can be uniting, we use it together to celebrate, mark milestones and to mourn. For Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, Mariachi mu...

Nameplates & Perreo: The Queerness of Chongas

Activism, Advocacy, LGBTQ

This webinar talk explores how working class aesthetics of excess are activated as a medium for performances of queer and femme of color pleasure and community. I explore the work of artist Joel Gaítan, activist, healer, and advice columnist Maria Pero No Santa (Maria Saldana), rapper and reggaetonera LaGoony Chonga, and drag performers Juliesy in Bed and Karla Croqueta. *This is an online ...

Luis Rodriguez: Award Winning Author, Journalist, Activist

Author, Chicano, Chicanx, Book Signing

Luis J. Rodriguez is an award winning writer, journalist, and activist. He is best known for his writings (novel, memoirs, short stories, and journalism) and activism in improving life in Chincanx communities throughout the U.S., particularly in Los Angeles and Chicago. Rodriguez is proud of his Native American, Mexican, and Chicano roots. Having witnessed and experienced povety, gang violen...

DJ Rekha Workshop + Performance

Performance, Workshop, Music

DJ Rekha will discuss their art practice and provide a live DJ performance. DJ Rekha (born Rekha Malhotra) is a producer, curator, educator, and founder of Basement Bhangra, one of NYC’s longest-running club nights (1997-2017). They've performed in festivals, clubs, and community spaces worldwide. Their dynamic DJ sets incorporate South Asian Diasporic dance music with ears to a global sound th...

Irvine Barclay Theatre: Bach Meets Bluegrass - Tessa Lark and Michael Thurber

Arts, Music, Performance

Students only! Part of Distinctive Experiences co-presented with Philharmonic Society of Orange County. Award-winning violinist Tessa Lark and virtuoso composer/bassist Michael Thurber have come together to create a duo unlike any other. By fusing their classical and American music influences, they have created a wholly original sound which they bring to audiences around the country in a c...

UCI International Film Club: Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson 2008)

Film, Film Screening, International

International Film Club 2024 McCormick Screening Room 7 pm Q and A discussion to follow Warning: these films are not appropriate for everyone and viewers should take into account their tolerance for explicit sexual and horror content. May 15 : Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson 2008) In a working class suburb of Stockhold in the 1980s, Oskar is bullied by his schoolmates and negl...

Compton in My Soul – A Journey in Search of Racial Equality

Culture, History

Albert M. Camarillo Professor of American History, the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, and Haas Centennial Professor of Public Service, Emeritus, Stanford University This UCI Illuminations event centers on Albert M. Camarillo’s life journey from Compton, California to a diversity of academic and leadership pathways, roles, and spaces. It will provide an opportunity to learn more abo...

Irvine Barclay Theatre: Ballets Jazz Montréal Dance me- Music By Leonard Cohen

Arts, Dance, Performance

Students Only! Approved by Cohen during his lifetime, this riveting homage to the famed artist evokes the grand cycles of existence, as described in Cohen’s deeply reflective music and poems. Ballets Jazz Montréal is an internationally renowned contemporary dance company founded in 1972. With Alexandra Damiani as artistic director since 2021 and its troupe of high calibre dancers from arou...

"The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor

This talk examines the figure of the Latino day laborer in recent queer cinema. Focusing on Lane Shefter Bishop's The Day Laborers/Los Jornaleros (2004) and John Butler's Papi Chulo (2018), it maintains that film fantasies of undocumented workers rely on the entwinement of sexuality and labor to narratively consolidate normative forms of desire.