UCLA’s Pilipino Council of the Mabuhay Collective is celebrating culture and community through the Mabuhay Benefit Festival. The 15th annual benefit festival will take place Friday in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...
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This post was updated Feb. 29 at 8:56 p.m. Viewers will forget reality exists with the new student production, “You Never Existed.” The original play, which is heavily inspired by Latin media, will take place Friday through Sunday at the Kerckhoff Charles E. Read more...
Photo: Sheldon Skoboloff, Isa Underdahl, Gabe Bate and Tyler Neufeld (left to right) rehearse for their production of Skoboloff’s original play, “You Never Existed.” Co-directed by Skoboloff and Underdahl, the show will run March 1-3 at the Kerckhoff Charles E. Young Grand Salon. (Courtesy of Sheldon Skoboloff)
Connecting students, the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition gives an insight into the diverse talent of UCLA’s student artists. For the annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, the UCLA Department of Art invites its students to submit a piece of work that may be selected by the exhibition’s curator and juror, said exhibition artist Luke Godinez. Read more...
Photo: A section of Luke Godinez’ “cousinsgiving” depicts the artist’s family in pastels. The second-year art and sociology student’s piece is on display as part of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, which runs until Feb. 29. (Anna Dai-Liu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Feb. 29 at 9:13 p.m. Warning: spoilers ahead. “Black Cypress Bayou” poignantly dives into a chilling river of ancestral history. Written by Kristen Adele Calhoun and directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene, the contemporary drama follows a mother and her two daughters as they grapple with the ghostly horrors of the present, the past and the future. Read more...
Photo: Brandee Evans (left) and Angela Lewis (right) play LadyBird Manifold and RaeMeka Manifold-Baler in “Black Cypress Bayou.” The drama play will run at the Geffen Playhouse’s Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater through March 17. (Courtesy of Jeff Lorch)
“Dis-topia” questions if Disneyland is really the happiest place on earth. Robby Good, a graduate student in music composition for visual media, is presenting his original musical and master’s thesis “Dis-topia” on Saturday and Sunday at Hart High School in Santa Clarita. Read more...
Photo: The cast of “Dis-topia” rehearses together. Co-created by graduate student Robby Good, the musical will be staged at Hart High School in Santa Clarita on Saturday and Sunday. (Courtesy of Robby Good)
This post was updated Feb. 19 at 8:28 p.m. With the ever-growing surge of the female gaze, the era of the “Girl Crush” has begun. Held at Heavy Manners Library in Echo Park, “Girl Crush” was the debut event for Heart House – alumnus Maya Man’s newly established curatorial endeavor. Read more...
Photo: Design media arts alumnus Maya Man stands before a crowd as the “Girl Crush” event graphic is projected behind her. The inaugural Heart House event took place at the Heavy Manners Library on Thursday night. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Feb. 21 at 8:11 p.m. Abdulkareem Agunbiade is healing the world, one laugh at a time. An assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Agunbiade’s academic pursuits started out focused on medicine. Read more...
Photo: Abdulkareem Agunbiade holds a microphone. Agunbiade balances his stand-up comedy work with his role as a physician at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. (Renee Rubanowitz/Daily Bruin)
