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All of UCI’s a stage for professor Julia Reinhard Lupton

UC Irvine’s Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative has brightened the UCI campus for 10 years with various events for students and community...

‘Aurora’ Art Exhibition Launches

Editor's Note: This article was updated on 6/13/23 with the correct names of the event's organizers. The “Aurora” art exhibition, a gallery of student artwork...

UCI Illuminations Asks ‘What’s in a Taco?’

Los Angeles Times food columnist Gustavo Arellano and Executive Chef Daniel Shemtob talked about the taco’s cultural roots and history in UCI Illuminations’ Conversation...

Father of Baby Groot Anthony Francisco Visits UCI

Creative Director at Dolphin Entertainment and Filipino American artist Anthony Francisco spoke about how he learned to embrace his culture through his art at...

UCI Illuminations Hosts Sixth Annual Poetry Symposium

UCI Illuminations hosted its sixth annual poetry symposium over Zoom on Feb. 23. The event, titled “Healing and Hope Through Diverse Journeys,” was co-sponsored...

Bread and Puppet Theater Visits UCI

The Bread and Puppet Theater returned to UCI with their fall 2022 show “Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Apocalypse Defiance.” The political puppet theater made...

UCI Illuminations Holds First of Four Part Event on Black Brazilian Cinema

UCI Illuminations hosted the first of four hybrid events centered around Black Brazilian Film in the Humanities Gateway Screening Room on April 6. This...

UCI Illuminations Hosts Author Viet Thanh Nguyen

UCI Illuminations, an arts and culture initiative established by Chancellor Howard Gillman, hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University of Southern California professor Viet Thanh...

Poetry Reading with Award-Winning African American Author Terrance Hayes

UCI Illuminations hosted a virtual poetry reading featuring multi-award-winning contemporary African American poet Terrance Hayes via Zoom on Jan. 14. In addition to being a...

UCI Illuminations Hosts Screening and Q&A ‘Born To Be’ Documentary with Director Tania Cypriano

UCI Illuminations and International Film Club held an online screening for the award-winning documentary “Born To Be” and a Q&A session with film director...

Experimental Jazz Quartet Amirtha Kidambi and Elder Ones Transcend Sound, Mind, and Body

Experimental musician Amirtha Kidambi and her jazz quartet Elder Ones performed in UCI’s first in-person music event of the year at Winifred Smith Hall...

The Comedy and Tragedy of Shakespeare Shorts Festival 2019

To give William Shakespeare a belated birthday bash, UCI Drama and UCI Illuminations put together multiple, free showings of two shortened productions, “Comedy of Errors” and “Romeo and Juliet.”

Colson Whitehead’s Road to Writing

UC Irvine students, faculty and Orange County residents filled Crystal Cove last Tuesday to see Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead discuss his book “The...

Experts Discuss American Identity and Democracy in the Trump Era

  UC Irvine’s Forum for the Academy and the Public presented their 4th annual conference titled “Who Do We Think We Are?” last Friday and...

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