PREVIEW Big Salsa Night Tonight, 8 p.m. ““ midnight Ackerman Grand Ballroom, FREE UCLA students walk a lot. Now it’s time to dance. Tonight in Ackerman Grand Ballroom, the Ballroom Dance Club and International Folk Dance Club are hosting their sixth annual Big Salsa Night and 19th annual New Student Welcome. UCLA students, staff, faculty […]
Author Archives: Vanessa Frigillana
The Son Also Rises
Sometimes things are just better left unsaid. For Andrew Dawson, who will perform his new play, “Absence and Presence,” tonight in the Macgowan Little Theater, laconicism came in handy in turning his real-life loss into art. “People say that when something terrible happens to them, they are lost for words,” Dawson said. “I figured I’d […]
Cultures converge in Fowler exhibit
An early 20th-century mask from the Southwest Pacific; a Chinese hand puppet; a 19th-century Nigerian headdress; an ancient portrait vessel from Peru; a mask by the Tsimshian peoples of British Columbia. Although these objects ostensibly have little in common, they share more than meets the eye. Each object exemplifies the themes of various galleries in […]
Hammer to host public interview
The Hammer Museum usually offers up art; this week, the showcase is a supermodel and a magazine editor. Eric Nakamura, editor of the magazine Giant Robot, and Asian-American model Jenny Shimizu will be speaking together at the museum on July 12. The two will be participating in Hammer Conversations, a series in which guest speakers […]
Winning words
Fathers, garbage men and seduction gurus are all people from different walks of life. But in UCLA’s English department, these characters are the subjects of three award-winning short stories written by fourth-year English students Aaron Fai and Mark Burnham and English graduate Erika Herman. Burnham and Herman both recently received the Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative […]
Family ties
To provide insight into the nature of human creativity, the world arts and cultures department has recruited an exclusive music group from western Rajasthan, India, that will demonstrate its unique culture through vibrant song and dance. RajRang, an ensemble of eight artists from the vast desert of western India, will be joining UCLA for a […]