With each performance, Canadian puppeteer Ronnie Burkett returned to a single stage to select from more than 30 handmade marionettes on standby for the night’s audience. Read more...
Photo: The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA presented “Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes: The Daisy Theatre” Sunday. The show featured Canadian puppeteer Burkett’s marionettes as well as his improvisational style. (John Lambert and Associates)
Listening to One Direction’s aptly named album “Four” feels like being the star of a playfully romantic music video. The pop band gained popularity when it won third place on the hit British television series “The X-Factor,” where the members met. Read more...
Photo: (Columbia Records)
Bohemian artists and beatniks flocked to San Francisco in droves during the 1950s and 1960s. At the height of this wave of migration, legendary avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Conner made the city his home and began creating filmic assemblages that juxtaposed snippets of archived footage set to music. Read more...
Photo: “Crossroads,” a 1976 film directed by Bruce Conner, utilizes footage of nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. The film, scored by Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley, will be screened Tuesday at the James Bridges Theater as part of Melnitz Movies. (Magnolia Editions)
The campus felt empty, dark and cold on Saturday night. It seemed like nothing could be happening except dull, intensive studying, and something in the air suggested that the ratio of frowns to smiles on campus was probably leaning heavily toward frowns. Read more...
Photo: Comedian Mike Menendez performed at the Shenanigans Comedy Club’s BruinFest: Stand Up Comedy Night in Kerckhoff Grand Salon on Saturday. (Hugh DeFrance/Daily Bruin)
AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, took off at Hollywood Boulevard once more. Over the past week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, made appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with numerous awaiting fans in tow. Read more...
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Coed pre-med fraternity Phi Delta Epsilon hosted the first UCLA Anatomy Fashion Show in Ackerman Grand Ballroom to raise money for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Watch some sights and sounds of this philanthropic event. Read more...
Photo: Rebecca Noble, a third year theater major walks the runway. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Students poked cacti and put on virtual reality goggles to go to class, while librarians encouraged loud noises. All of these were part of UCLA’s third annual International Games Day Saturday in the Powell Library rotunda. Read more...
Photo: The third annual International Games Day at UCLA returned Saturday to the Powell Library rotunda with brand new games and old favorites, such as The Settlers of Catan (above). In addition to board and card games, the Design | Media Arts department and UCLA Game Lab featured games created by UCLA students and alumni. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
