HOOLIGAN member pursues public health, theater passions

When her mother gave her an ultimatum between soccer and theater in elementary school, Catherine Yount had no doubts as to which path she would choose. But years later, as a first year, making the choice between theater and another passion was not as easy. Active in theater most of her life but also invested […]

TransUP, SANAA launches first ‘art TRANSforms us’ event

This week, a group of artists and students will come together, united in their efforts to further understand and relay the experience of being a transgender individual. Monday through Wednesday, Transgender UCLA Pride, known as TransUP, and Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art, or SANAA, will co-host “art TRANSforms us,” the first three-day event […]

Competition held to decorate Wooden Center with UCLA community art

After the art in the John Wooden Center was damaged by the campus-wide flood in July, Elizabeth Palmer spotted a way to engage the UCLA community. The John Wooden Center Art Commission competition, created by Palmer, seeks to fill the wall space left empty after the flood damaged multiple works. Open to anyone in the […]

Hooligan to perform comedic rock musical ‘The Wedding Singer’

This weekend, crimped side-swept hair and pastel leggings will no longer be relics of a forgotten past. Hooligan Theatre Company’s “The Wedding Singer” transports audiences to the ’80s, an era defined by the big and bold. Running Friday through Sunday in the Freud Playhouse, “The Wedding Singer” presents the classic binary of love versus money […]

Art Exhibit Review: ‘Plastic’

In a technologically-driven society where attention spans are increasingly conditioned by the immediate fulfillment of our digital devices, there exists a group of dancers whose languid movements challenge the contemporary human. This is a challenge posed to not only divide the viewer’s attention in the singular space of performance but also hold it there in […]

arTistic Attention: TA Adrien Forney cements his passions for teaching and architecture

When a campus-wide email posting called for French teaching assistants, Adrien Forney thought the position would be a perfect fit. With a life lived mainly within the confines of Perloff Hall’s architectural studio, he needed a job that would help pay the rent as well as complement his workload as a second-year architecture graduate student. […]

Hammer Museum, PBS SoCal event to speak up for endangered languages

For one night, the hum of an Aboriginal didgeridoo, the Hawaiian chants of hula dancers and poetry ranging from Wales to Mexico will join together and render an array of culture, heritage and knowledge housed within the fading edifice of the endangered tongue. On Tuesday, the Hammer Museum will host “Endangered Languages: The Mother Tongue […]