Pink bubble wrap, plastic water bottles, empty cereal boxes and the staff shirt of a Facilities Management employee were strewn across the lawn as students gathered around a UCLA garbage bin. Read more...
Photo: In Honors Collegium 44, professor Maite Zubiaurre teaches students about the subject of trash. The course examines waste management, its cultural significance and its environmental consequences through an artistic lens.
The process of Jonathan Coria’s filmmaking began with online YouTube tutorials and an assembly of gadgets from the local hardware store. He needed camera equipment for his new film but didn’t have the hundreds or thousands of dollars needed to buy one. So, Coria decided to make one himself. Read more...
Photo: Jonathan Coria, a second-year English student and devoted filmmaker. Coria saved thousands of dollars by using inexpensive materials like plywood to make his own filmmaking equipment.
Traditional plays give actress Kelly Lester two hours to find her character’s arc. “Ionescopade” gives her a couple of minutes. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Lester has to utilize all of her acquired performing talents in the Odyssey Theatre’s production of “Ionescopade,” a musical revue created as a tribute to the playwright Eugéne Ionesco, one of the foremost figures of the theater of the absurd. Read more...
Photo: Kelly Lester, UCLA Theater, Film and Television alumna and actress, performs in the Odyssey Theatre’s production of “Ionescopade.”
Sometimes, it’s necessary to blaze a new trail to get to one’s destination in an efficient manner. Read more...
Perhaps the most perplexing thing about Lenka’s latest release is the album’s title, for there is nothing dark or even slightly shadowy about the Australian singer-songwriter’s latest batch of songs. Read more...
Post World War II, Spain is still under the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco. And apparently everyone’s speaking Shakespearen English as well. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year theater student Phoebe Singer and third-year international development studies student Benjamin Siegel appear in Shakespeare at UCLA’s production “The Winter’s Tale,” a five-act tragicomedy.
In becoming a musician, the ultimate pass or fail is the live show. On stage, beneath the lights, is where burgeoning performers realize their true skills and discover that indeed, this is the path they will follow. Read more...
