Members of the Cheese Club of UCLA celebrated Thirsty Thursday by sipping white wine while gathered around a plate of Europe’s most flavorful cheeses. Becca Quist unwrapped each European cheese and carefully placed the circular and triangular slices on a wooden board as members settled into plush earth-toned couches. They chatted, occasionally taking bites of […]
Author Archives: Lisa Aubry
Alumni launch website, fax protest art to lawmakers to save arts funding
Los Angeles design studio Use All Five is bringing back the old-fashioned fax machine with its latest project “Artifax.” Participants select a work of art displayed on the Artifax website and fax a print of it to a local representative or member of Congress along with a personal message, said Levi Brooks, a co-founder of […]
ISG culture show presents traditions, heritage of diverse community
Belly dancers rehearsed to the beat of traditional Arab doumbek drums in Freud Playhouse. This year’s iteration of the Iranian Student Group’s annual culture show Friday and Saturday will showcase such traditional and modern Iranian dances, along with singing and comedy skits displaying customs reaching as far back as A.D. 1100. The show brings together […]
Concert to honor musical, teaching legacy of flutist Sheridon Stokes
Flutist Sheridon Stokes has performed in every Annual Woodwind Faculty Concert since 1972, except for in 2008. That year, he was performing for the Academy Awards instead. Stokes, a senior music lecturer, will perform in his last Annual Woodwind Faculty Concert on Monday because he is retiring this year after 45 years at UCLA. Stokes, […]
Former student performs in Grammy-nominated opera “The Ghosts of Versailles”
UCLA faculty, staff and alumni have contributed musical works that are nominated for the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12. Their talents, ranging from playing the saxophone to composing songs to performing in an opera, have been recognized with nominations in five different categories. Joshua Guerrero had five days to learn the role of […]
Alum Kalil Wilson uses operatic roots to rise in jazz world
Kalil Wilson sat on a black wooden stool, crooning the jazz tune “I Get a Kick Out of You” by Cole Porter fora singing competition at UCLA. It was the first time in his life singing jazz, but he finished the 2007 José Iturbi Competitionas a finalist. Wilson, a 2006 alumnus, is now performing jazz in […]
Collecting Creatives: Student fuses ceramics, dance to unveil the complexities of identity
Timna Naim wears masks during dance performances not to hide but to celebrate self-identity. A fourth-year world arts and cultures/dancestudent, Naim has combined dance and ceramics as a vehicle for expressing their self-identity as an Israeli-American genderqueer gay male-bodied individual, they said. Naim tries to generate conversations about individual identitiesby combining visual arts like clay […]