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08 September 2011
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Campus Affairs Updates
MARCH
Transactivation: Revealing Queer Histories in the Archive
Thursday, March 1, 2012 : 6:00pm
Join us for a series of live performances and video projects inspired by the collections at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The artists that will be featured explore trans content in their multidisciplinary work and will look at the Ts and Qs that are often missing from LGBTQ historical records.
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Friday, March 2, 2012 : 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Join us for a screening of home movies gathered and remixed by USC students as part of a Homegrown History contest. An awards ceremony announcing the winning entries will be facilitated by Michael Renov, a documentary theorist and associate dean in the School of Cinematic Arts.
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L.A. Conservancy Walking Tour: Broadway Theatres
Saturday, March 3, 2012 : 9:45am - 2:00pm
A fascinating walking tour of the Broadway Historic Theatre and Commercial District will explore the social, cinematic and architectural history of this unique street. Home to twelve movie palaces built between 1910 and 1931, Broadway was once the entertainment epicenter of Los Angeles.
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Letters from Zora: In Her Own Words
Saturday, March 3, 2012 : 7:30pm
A provocative multimedia performance will feature actress Vanessa Bell-Calloway as Zora Neale Hurston. Written by Gabrielle Pina and directed by Anita Dashiell-Sparks, Letters from Zora will illuminate Hurston's prose, her life, her distinctive array of friends and foes and her unique view of a jazz-age world.
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The Metropolitan Opera in HD: Götterdämmerung
Sunday, March 4, 2012 : 12:00pm
Following a pre-opera discussion, a satellite broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will feature Wagner's Götterdämmerung. With its cataclysmic climax, the Met's new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012 : 7:00pm
A fascinating evening of performance and conversation will explore issues raised by blindness. The event will feature the West Coast premiere of Do You Dream in Color?, composed by Bruce Adolphe and sung by blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin, followed by a conversation with USC professors Antonio Damasio and Mark Humayun.
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SEVEN: Art at Work for Human Rights and Social Justice
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 : 7:00pm
Based on personal interviews, SEVEN is a collaborative documentary theatre piece that tells the stories of seven incredible women who are campaigning for human rights around the globe. From Pakistan, Russia, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Nigeria and Guatemala, the women share their struggles to end corruption, illiteracy and violence against women.
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An Afro-Classical Evolution within the Revolution
Friday, March 23, 2012 : 7:30pm
Explore the unique contributions of African Americans to the literature of classical music, focusing on orchestral works by African American composers past and present. The event will include a discussion with distinguished artists and scholars as well as performances by the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles.
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Shelf Life 2: A Big Day for Small Press
Saturday, March 24, 2012 : 11:00am - 4:00pm
Independent publishers, writers, artists and designers will come together for a unique, vital and historically charged event that will push the boundaries of popular culture. The event will include presentations, workshops and a fun and festive bazaar!
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A Tribute to Dino De Laurentiis
Friday, March 30, 2012 - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Hollywood icon and international legend Dino De Laurentiis was one of the most prolific and respected producers in film history. We will pay homage to the exceptional variety and longevity that marked his career with screenings of his films, including Barbarella, Conan the Barbarian and Bitter Rice, and discussions featuring his friends, family, scholars and colleagues.
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Women Composers of the Present
Sunday, April 1, 2012 : 4:00pm
The USC Thornton Wind Ensemble will present a concert highlighting the work of contemporary women composers. The program will feature the work of two USC composers, Veronika Krausas and Erica Muhl, as well as several other distinguished composers, including Jennifer Higdon (2010 Pulitzer Prize winner), Joan Tower, Kathryn Salfelder and Susan Botti.
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APRIL
At Home in the World: New Directions in Writing from the Asia Pacific
Monday, April 2, 2012 : 7:00pm
Celebrate the arrival of Kaya Press at USC with award-winning authors Brian Castro (Australia), Sia Figiel (Samoa) and Shailja Patel (Kenya). Performance meets poetry meets experimental fiction in this exploration of the creative forces behind the next wave of cutting-edge transnational literature from the Asian and Pacific Island diasporas.
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On Stage with LisaGay Hamilton
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 : 7:00pm
Accomplished theatre, film and television actor LisaGay Hamilton, best known for her role as attorney Rebecca Washington on the ABC drama The Practice, will present a solo performance addressing her struggles and triumphs as an African American woman working in the visual and performing arts.
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Woody Guthrie's Los Angeles: A Centenary Celebration
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Woody Guthrie was the nation's most recognizable and important folk singer before the folk revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. To mark the centennial of his birth and his lasting significance, scholars, journalists and musicians will come together for a day-long symposium commemorating Guthrie's life, legacy and impact on American politics, music and culture.
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THE FACE by Donald Crockett and David St. John
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 : 7:30pm
Created by composer Donald Crockett and poet David St. John, THE FACE is a multidisciplinary chamber opera featuring music, film and choreography. The passionate narrative offers an insightful view of the human condition. This semi-staged performance will be produced by Parisian stage director Paul Desveaux and European choreographer Yano Iatrides.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 : 6:45pm - 11:30pm
Direct from Broadway, FELA! is the Tony Award–winning story of legendary Nigerian Fela Kuti, a musical dynamo who used his supercharged Afrobeat sound and charismatic spirit to ignite a generation. FELA! is a triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, featuring Fela Kuti's captivating music and the visionary direction of choreographer Bill T. Jones.
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