Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States and critically acclaimed author, spoke about her latest collection of poetry, “The Hurting Kind,”...
UCI Illuminations hosted a Q&A session and book signing with author, activist and journalist Keri Blakinger at Winifred Smith Hall in the Claire Trevor...
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, an arts and culture initiative established by Chancellor Howard Gillman, hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University of Southern California professor Viet Thanh...
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 and International Film Club held an online screening for the award-winning documentary “Born To Be” and a Q&A session with film director...
UCI Illuminations held their own virtual version of the Food Network original, “Chopped,” on Nov. 17.
During the event, participants’ dishes were displayed anonymously and...
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones engaged in a virtual Q&A session to discuss the importance of her 1619 Project and her...
The importance of these masks is not just within the level of detail and care that went into crafting them, but also the faces of those who wore them in illustrative performances.
Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” was recently performed at the Claire Trevor Theater, from Feb. 21-25. The director, Andrew Borba, made an ambitious attempt at incorporating Shakespearean prose in the style of a 1930s newsroom. The play’s original setting of Navarre is transformed into a newspaper publication, with King Ferdinand as the editor-in-chief.
UCI Illuminations welcomed special guest Nicholas Meyer — director of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and, “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” — to discuss the influence of William Shakespeare's work on the latter film last Tuesday, May 15.
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UCI Illuminations presented a performance of Acts I and II of Anton Chekhov's play “Three Sisters,” beginning March 8 and running through...
