South Asian heritage week kicks off today
UCLA’s first-ever South Asian Heritage Week begins today,
with events starting at 11 a.m. every day except for Thursday.
The week includes dance performances in Westwood Plaza at noon,
with styles ranging from Hindi and Bharatnatyam to Bhangra.
Performers include the Fantastic Char Fusion, Raas Team and Bhangra
Team dance troupes.
Tonight, members of the community can gather for a cultural
dance instruction at Kerckhoff Grand Salon at 8 p.m. Tuesday, there
will be a forum on the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent backlash at
the South Bay Conference Room on the second floor of Covel Commons
at 7 p.m.
On Wednesday, there will be a film screening in Knudsen 1200B at
7 p.m. A closing banquet will he held Friday at 7 p.m.
The week will culminate on Saturday with the Indian Student
Union’s third annual Navrati Raas/Garba at 7:30 p.m. Anyone
interested in the events can e-mail [email protected] for
further information.
Alumnus honored for 300th platelet donation
UCLA alumnus Ulysses S. Griggs will be honored today for his
300th donation of blood and platelets to the blood donor center in
the Children’s Hospital at UCLA.
In 1986, after learning that a friend’s child was being
treated for cancer at the hospital, he began donating platelets. He
has been doing it monthly since, and today he will be recognized in
a reception at the hospital for his 300th donation.
According to Griggs, donating provides him “a natural high
because I know it helps someone in need.”
Griggs received his bachelor’s degree in business
administration and went on to study at the University of Southern
California, California State University-Los Angeles and the Command
and General Staff College for the Armed Forces. He is a retired
colonel for the U.S. Army Reserves.
Symposium will honor UCLA ethnomusicology
“Found Sound: University Sound Archives in the 21st
Century,” a symposium featuring leading scholars from the
United States and abroad, will take place 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 9,
and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Jan Popper Theater in the
Schoenberg Music Building.
The program commemorates the 40th anniversary of the UCLA
Ethnomusicology Archive.
In conjunction with the symposium, “A Celebration of World
Music at UCLA” will be presented in Schoenberg Hall at 8 p.m.
Nov. 10.
Participants from UCLA include the Department of World Arts and
Cultures, the Film and Television Archive, the Folklore Archive and
the Music Library, as well as past and present administrators and
students.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Violin prodigy comes to UCLA with pianist
UCLA Live presents 24-year-old Young Concert Artists violinist
Stefan Milenkovich in a recital at 4 p.m. Nov. 18, at Schoenberg
Hall. Pianist Adam Neiman will accompany Milenkovich.
Yugoslavian-born Milenkovich started playing violin at the age
of three, with his first appearance as soloist with an orchestra at
the age of five. By the time he was eight, he was making more than
100 appearances a year. He has played for such noted figures as
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II.
Reports from Daily Bruin staff and wire services.