One man’s trash is another Bruin’s treasure – the proof is in campus sculptures fashioned from old T-shirts, dental floss and mason jars. On Monday, students in the design media arts class “Word + Image” presented their artwork made entirely out of trash found on campus. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year design media arts student Mina Malloy utilized mason jars and letters she made out of plastic cups wrapped in fabric for her sculpture, created for the design media arts class Word + Image. Malloy said she wanted viewers to think critically about using single-use plastic products. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)

Stories can be passed around a campfire, be told across generations and unite communities, said Irvin Mason Jr. It was this notion that led him to direct the musical “Once on This Island.” Based on a 1985 novel by Rosa Guy, the story takes place in the Caribbean Islands and follows Ti Moune, a girl who falls in love with a Frenchman of higher social standing. Read more...

Photo: Color Box Production Company will put on a production of “Once on This Island,” premiering Saturday at the Northwest Campus Auditorium. The play follows a girl who falls in love with a Frenchman of a higher social standing and focuses on Caribbean traditions. (Courtesy of Irvin Mason Jr.)

Fried fish and post-World War II cultures will collide onstage to brew trouble in Macgowan Hall this weekend. UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television’s production of “The Kitchen” will run from Friday to Saturday and from March 5 to 9. Read more...

Photo: Graduate students Su Castillo (left) and Ernest Gardner Jr. (right) worked on the production “The Kitchen.” Castillo acts in the show while Gardner constructed the set that portrays a 1958 London restaurant. (Courtesy of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television)