Twelve figures will sit around a dinner table and play a game of chance. As the cards are played, the genetic game proceeds to inform each player about his or her connection to each other and the animals around them. On Thursday, the Art | Sci Center’s gallery will host the very first Hox Zodiac […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
UCLA student makes his mark as tattoo artist
Juan Garces used to think tattoos were taboo. Now, he has tattooed more than 150 students. Garces, a fifth-year Spanish and community and culture student, has been tattooing students at UCLA since he transferred here three years ago. After his younger brother pursued a tattooing apprenticeship and began working at Cali Life Tattoo in Newport […]
‘Through Positive Eyes’ advocacy project to commemorate World AIDS Day
When Professor David Gere began showing students a book, “A Broken Landscape,” he was met with a visible reaction, seen in their tears and heard in their responses. Compiled by South African, London-based photographer Gideon Mendel, the book pairs together images of people living with HIV with their first-person narratives. Gere said his students couldn’t help […]
Fifth annual KnockOut Poetry Jam to speak on mental health
For student poets like Eunice Gonzalez and Kevin Yang, writing poetry has a therapeutic value. On Tuesday in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon, seasoned and beginning poets alike will take the stage at the fifth annual KnockOut Poetry Jam, a noncompetitive performance organized by the Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art, a student group that […]
World Music and Movement Festival comes to Bruin Plaza
The semi-annual World Music and Movement Festival was held Sunday. The event was full of traditional instruments and music, along with dancing that represented different cultures. Vendors were also at the event selling traditional Tibetan and Mexican jewelry and clothing, along with a mobile museum exhibition that brought unique instruments from countries like Japan and […]
Alum Michael Soll self-publishes first novel, ‘Scorched’
Between classes, UCLA alumnus Michael Soll navigated the stories that unfolded in his imagination. These thoughts often progressed to the next phases of Soll’s writing processes, into his phone, then to his computer, on which he would write from his dorm room desk.
Hooligan embraces history, culture with production of ‘Hair’
During the whirlwind of the 1960s hippie movement, a show opened on Broadway that ushered in a new era of rock musicals, one that Hooligan Theatre Company has now taken on the task of producing – “Hair.” The show, with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot, opens Friday in […]