Wednesday, April 21
Occidental Dance: New Choreography from Students and Faculty
6:30pm, Dance Studio
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Occidental Dance presents an evening of dramatic new choreography and re-envisioned classics developed by students and faculty and spanning jazz and tap, ballet, Afro-Caribbean, and square dance.
Thursday, April 22
Bookmaking Exhibition
11:30am, The Braun Room in the Mary Clapp Library
Student printmakers will discuss the exhibition of the books they’ve created over the past semester.
Art History & The Visual Arts Honors Presentations
4:30pm, Fowler 302
laura rips tumbls about Luis Barragán here
The Art History & Visual Arts Department’s three honors candidates will present their original research. Madison Murphy will discuss a Web 2.0 version of the “Cinderella myth”—a narrative structure of transcendence where a woman surmounts her circumstances, often through male rescue, to achieve a happy ending. Carrie Meggs will present an argument about the erosion of Hollywood’s Production Code through a formal filmic analysis of Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity (1953) and its particularly sexually subversive aesthetic. Laura Rips will discuss Mexico’s most famous architect, Luis Barragán, and the exclusive mid-century residential developments he designed to the north of Mexico City during the country’s post-war industrialization boom.
Friday, April 23
Richard II (w/post-play lecture)
7:30pm, Keck Theater
Richard II, the most elusive of Shakespeare’s history plays, retells the strange story of the dissolution of the reign of King Richard and the ascendance of his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, to the English throne. A great historical struggle played out between the two cousins, Shakespeare’s play reveals the pursuit of power and the exercise of war—more clearly than in any of his other histories—as driven by secret, half-hidden political and, more importantly, personal desires. Join the director and the cast for a conversation about the play after the performance.
Tickets are available at the door and are $5 for students and $10 for visitors. Additional performances are on April 16-18 & 24 at 7:30pm, April 25 at 2:00pm, and May 15 at 8:30pm.
OXYFreewaves
7:30pm-10pm, The Quad
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preview ivan limas’ at the light of dawn
OXYFreewaves is an exhibition of experimental and documentary films, pairing 10 documentary works by Occidental students with 10 works by international artists fromLA Freewaves, an organization supporting innovative, relevant, independent new media from around the world. Mentored by renegade media artist and LA Freewaves founder Anne Bray, the students of Occidental’s Film & Media Studies Program will transform the campus’ main quad into a series of public screening venues, permitting visitors to move between 8 different themed media programs.
The Film & Media Studies Program and OCEAAN (The Occidental College Entertainment and Arts Alumni Network) invite students, alumni, and the Los Angeles community to participate in an evening of food, drink, light, sound, conversation, and cutting-edge videos addressing social issues on local and global registers.
Saturday, April 24
Lawrence Weschler’s Wonder Cabinet
10am-7pm, Thorne Hall
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PHOTOS FROM THE DAY’S WONDROUS EVENTS
Weschler’s program is a full day of uncanny presentations featuring a host of marvelous contributors bridging the artificial divide between the arts and sciences. Tentatively confirmed presenters include magician Ricky Jay, Jurassic technologist David Wilson, celebrated film editor Walter Murch, documentarian Jessica Yu and artist Lauren Redniss. Speakers subject to change, but any substitutions will be equally interesting.
Sunday, April 25
Composers Forum: New Work From Occidental’s Music Faculty and Students
3:30pm, Bird Studio (students)
7pm, Bird Studio (faculty)
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Occidental’s student and faculty composers will debut new work in musical theater, chamber music, and electro-acoustic improvisation.
Readings from Occidental’s Literary Magazine FEAST
5pm, Mullin Sculpture Studio
FEAST, Occidental’s annual student-run literary magazine, features new written work and illustrations from the college’s top writers and artists. Join editorial staff and writers for a readings of poetry and short fiction and an exhibition of artwork curated for this year’s issue.
