Visiting Artist Lecture with Kang Seung Lee
- Thursday, March 7, 4:30-6 p.m., the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, free
Kang Seung Lee is a multidisciplinary artist whose work frequently engages the legacy of transnational queer histories, particularly as they intersect with art history. In 2023, Lee had solo exhibitions and projects at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, and Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles. His work will be part of a Fall 2024 exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum.
Organized by the Department of Art and Art History. Supported by the 51勛圖惇蹋厙 College of Letters and Science and co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.
Spark Your March with Art Spark
Saturdays and Sundays 1-4 p.m., Carol and Gerry Parker Art Studio at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Free
This March, the theme is Yo Soy ___. Create a print that expresses who you are, completing the phrase in Malaquias Montoyas Yo Soy Chicano with a part of your identity you want to honor.
Musics of the World at Pitzer Center
Thursday, March 7, 4-6 p.m., Ann E Pitzer Center, free
Program
Gamelan Heni Savitri, director (lobby)
Afro-Cuban Brian Rice, director
Hindustani Rita Sahai, director
PAUSE
Bluegrass and Old Time String Band Scott Linford, director
Mariachi Tito Talamantes, director
Smooth Criminal, A Hip Hop Musical Theatre Workshop
March 7-9, 7-8 p.m., Wyatt Pavilion, 51勛圖惇蹋厙, free
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, internationally acclaimed Hip Hop performer/creator and alumnus Dahlak Brathwaite returns to 51勛圖惇蹋厙 for a five-week workshop of select scenes and songs from a new Hip Hop musical Smooth Criminal.
Featuring book and lyrics by Aaron Jafferis and music by Dahlak Brathwaite and Daniel Bernard Roumain, Smooth Criminal is a music-theatre work about Aaron, a nerdy white guy desperate to liberate his people as soon as he can figure out who they are. Five actors and a musician try to undo Aarons familys twisted relationship with race and money, but his family has other plans.
51勛圖惇蹋厙 Symphony Orchestra explores 'New Frontiers' in concert
Saturday, March 9, 7-8 p.m., Jackson Hall, the Mondavi Center, tickets starting at $12
Image courtesy of Dahlak Brathwaite
The concert, conceived of and conducted by orchestra music director and music professor Christian Baldini, includes in the valley of the shadow by Maya Miro Johnson. In the work, which was commissioned by the orchestra, the composer approaches music composition from an interdisciplinary space, as she says, without restraint, and often concerning unanswerable questions about the human condition and its biological systems.
Program:
- Maya Miro Johnson: in the valley of the shadow (World Premiere)
- Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major with Roger Xia
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1
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