Two sopranos will meow in perfect tune at the Getty Center on Saturday evening. The performance will take place as a part of the free lecture-concert series “Sonnets and Sonatas,” led by French language and culture professor Laure Murat. In Saturday’s lecture-concert entitled “Animals!” Murat will explore the role of animals in music and literature, […]
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Graduate student incorporates Spanish romance into self-composed song
Guillermo Ojeda began writing his three-minute romantic guitar solo with just seven notes. Ojeda, a graduate student in social welfare, submitted his song “Soledad” to “7 Notes Experiment,” a global contest that encourages musicians from across the world to compose a song of any genre from a given set of seven notes. Ojeda is one […]
Freshman guard Kris Wilkes talks Indiana roots, experiences at UCLA
Rarely had Kris Wilkes struggled to score. A five-star recruit who tore through Indiana high school basketball, the freshman guard started the year looking like he might do the same at the college level, averaging 16.8 points a game in his first four outings. Then the shots stopped falling. Over the next seven games, Wilkes […]
Common Book zine workshop revives medium, sparks student creativity
Julia Glassman picked up the first two chapters of Thi Bui’s “The Best We Could Do” when they were being sold at the L.A. Zine Fest four years ago. Now, the short 32-page zine has turned into a 329-page novel, serving as this year’s Common Book. Powell Library hosted a zine-making workshop Tuesday to celebrate […]
Campus’ LGBTQ community spotlighted in UCLA Pride Parade 2018
Maria Hammett said she never had a community where she felt accepted as a queer individual until she came to UCLA. “UCLA has been really helpful in me exploring my identity and being my authentic self,” said Hammett, a third-year environmental science student. She added she decided to come to UCLA because she felt it […]
Pakistani ambassador discusses importance of US relationship
The Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. said he thinks it is important for Pakistan and the U.S. to maintain a mutually beneficial relationship at an event Monday. Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry talked about the need to improve relations between the two countries, despite President Donald Trump’s criticism of Pakistan, at an event hosted by the UCLA […]
Alumna’s art questions authenticity of human interaction amid technology
Screaming in public is rarely acceptable. But at alumna and assistant professor Lauren McCarthy and collaborator Kyle McDonald’s exhibition, that’s exactly what visitors will do. For McCarthy and McDonald’s latest project, “How We Act Together,” visitors to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts stand in front of a large video projection on the wall […]