Students will wear large, patterned Sudanese wraps and light, white Ethiopian dresses at the first UCLA East African Student Association culture show. The show will feature traditional dances from six East African nations, trivia questions and a fashion show Sunday in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...

Photo: Students in the East African Student Association are working to put together the club’s first culture show highlighting the cultures of the various nations throughout East Africa. (Jenna Nicole Smith/Daily Bruin)

Editor’s note: Daily Bruin replaced Lena NW’s full name with their artist name because of concerns about their safety. This post was updated May 8 at 1:20 p.m.  Players can relive high school – and all the angst that comes with it – in an alternate reality within the video game “Super Super Rap Battle Temptation Nightmare Academy.” Students can play the game, along with another student-designed game, “Artifacts II,” in an exhibition Tuesday at Broad Art Center. Read more...

Photo: Graduate students in design media arts Lena NW and Christina Curlee, who also goes by PhaZero, both designed video games they will showcase Tuesday in Broad Art Center. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)

Characters inspired by Yoruban gods will layer with the gritty realism of an impoverished Louisiana town to create the mythical world of the upcoming play, “In the Red and Brown Water.” Jayongela Wilder, graduate student in directing and the play’s director, said the duality of magic and realism was one of the many ways that the show works to subvert the limited and stereotypical representation of women and people of color in conventional theater. Read more...

Photo: Second-year theater student Aliyah Turner portrays the main character Oya “In the Red and Brown Water.” While rehearsing for the production, Turner said she tried to give more agency to her character by making her movements the driving force in choreographed scenes. (Isa Saalabi/Daily Bruin)

The literary hub of Powell Library and performance space of Royce Hall will come together for an immersive, staged reading experience. The Saratoga International Theater Institute Company’s “the theater is a blank page,” which will run from April 29 to May 12, entwines literature and theater in three hours. Read more...

Photo: Lighting and set designer Brian H. Scott poses with some of the set materials from “the theater is a blank page.” During the performance, actors will lead audience members through various sets. One installation features five Saratoga International Theater Institute Company cast members simultaneously reading one of Virginia Woolf’s novels out loud. (Anna Moreno-Takegami/Daily Bruin)