UCI Wind Ensemble

05-22-2012 - 05-22-2012

UCI, Claire Trevor School of the Arts

http://www.arts.uci.edu/event/uci-wind-ensemble-may-22-free-concert

University of California, Irvine - Winifred Smith Hall - West Peltason Drive Irvine CA 92617

Admission: <p>free</p>

(949) 824-2787

Start Time(s): <p>8:00 pm</p>

The UCI Wind Ensemble performs under the direction of Kevin McKeown.

May 22 @ 8:00 p.m.
Winifred Smith Hall

FREE ADMISSION -- PUBLIC IS WELCOME. First come, first serve seating.

Small Jazz Groups

05-23-2012 - 05-23-2012

UCI, Claire Trevor School of the Arts

http://www.arts.uci.edu/event/free-concert-small-jazz-groups-may-22

University of California, Irvine - Winifred Smith Hall - West Peltason Drive Irvine CA 92617

Admission: <p>free</p>

(949) 824-2787

Start Time(s): <p>8:00 pm</p>

Small Jazz Groups perform in a free concert.

First come, first serve seating.

Patchwork: Indie Arts and Crafts Festival

05-27-2012 - 05-27-2012

Grand Central Art Center

www.patchworkshow.com

Santa Ana Arts District - 207 North Broadway Santa Ana CA 92701

Admission: <p>Free!</p>

Start Time(s): <p>11am - 5pm</p>

Patchwork indie arts & crafts festival is a bi-annual event showcasing local emerging artists, crafts & designers.

You will get to peruse 100+ booths featuring local independent artists, designers & crafters at the show. these amazing creators will be showcasing their wares including clothing for men, women & kids, accessories, home goods like art, pottery & glassware, pet items, jewelry, soaps, candles & other bath & body items, craft kits & patterns, knit & crochet items, stationary & paper goods, plushies, purses, handbags and so so much more!

A Chorus Line

05-11-2012 - 05-27-2012

3-D Theatricals

http://www.3dtshows.com/3-dtheatricals.html

Plummer Auditorium - 201 East Chapman Avenue Fullerton CA 92832

Admission: <p>Adult Tickets:<br /> <br /> Front Orchestra $56<br /> <br /> Back Orchestra $52<br /> <br /> Lower Balcony $34<br /> <br /> Upper Balcony $28<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Children (13 and under) $22<br /> <br /> Students (with valid ID) $22<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Group Rates Available<br /> <br /> Box Office open Monday-Friday 11am-5pm</p>

(714) 589-2770 Ext1

info@3dtshows.com

http://3dtshows.com/ChorusLine_disclaimer.html

Start Time(s): <p>Performances are Thursdays, Fridays &amp; Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm (with added performances on Sunday, May 20 at 7pm &amp; Saturday, May 26 at 2pm) * Free Parking in Covered Parking Structure across the street</p>

A CHORUS LINE ran for 6,137 performances and is the longest running American Produced Broadway Musical ever! Based on the true stories of real Broadway dancers taped in two all-night sessions, this powerful metaphor for human inspiration features the classic songs “At the Ballet,” “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three,” “What I Did for Love,” and “One!”

WARNING: THIS SHOW CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE, ADULT TOPICS AND THEMES. THIS SHOW MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES.

Hands On Dance

05-26-2012 - 05-26-2012

Anaheim Ballet

http://www.anaheimballet.org

Anaheim Cultural Arts Center - 280 East Lincoln Avenue Anaheim CA 92805

Admission: <p>Free</p>

714-520-0904

Start Time(s): <p>3 - 5 pm</p>

"Hands on Dance" An interactive invitation to the art, crafts and athleticism of dance. Join dancers and faculty from the Anaheim Ballet for an afternoon of mini dance classes in ballet and jazz, along with performances and crafts.

A proud partner of Imagination Celebration. 

1000 Pieces of Art

05-16-2012 - 05-30-2012

Orange County Department of Education

http://www.ocde.us

Admission: <p>Free</p>

Start Time(s): <p>Mall hours</p>

Enjoy this show, which features the best of thousands of works of art from each level of students in grades K-12.  Reception for Students - May 19, 10 am -noon.

The Spoken World with Marc Bamuthi Joseph

06-16-2012 - 06-16-2012

Arts Orange County

www.ocgp.org

Orange County Great Park - Sand Canyon and Marine Way Irvine CA 92618

Admission: <p>Parking and admission are free</p>

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Start Time(s): <p>6:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>One Performance Only!</p>

The Orange County Great Park, in collaboration with Arts Orange County, presents The Orange County Premiere of "The Spoken World: Poetry in Motion with the Award-winning Marc Bamuthi Joseph"

The inaugural season of Arts Happenings at the Orange County Great Park’s new Palm Court Arts Complex concludes with an audacious and astounding “poetry in motion” program featuring United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award winner Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Using his signature art form of “choreopoetry,” a highly theatrical and mesmerizing blend of spoken word and dance movement, Marc Bamuthi Joseph articulates the story of achieving manhood in the United States through the lens of hip hop, global travel, and urban environmental health

The Spoken World is a three-part experience that includes an excerpt of the award winning Word Becomes Flesh, which examines pregnancy through the eyes of fatherhood. In five phases, the actor reflects on the moment of learning his child was male, the legacy of negativity among black boys, his own childhood, the practice of natural childbirth, and the relationship between his son and his grandfather.
Part two, taken from the 2008 premiere the break/s, is a travel diary across planet hip hop. The actor recalls voyages to Senegal, Haiti, Bosnia, and Japan, examining the way hip hop culture has transformed the perception of American citizenship across the world.
In part three, Joseph performs the first section of his 2011 premiere red black and GREEN: a blues. This section uses poetry and movement to connect the dots between a mourning mother at festival for life in Chicago and a motherless vocalist learning about environment in Sudan.
 

About the Artist
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of America’s vital voices in performance, arts education, and artistic curation. In the Fall of 2007, Bamuthi graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine after being named one of America’s Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences. He is the artistic director of the 7-part HBO documentary “Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices” and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, which annually recognizes 50 of the country’s “greatest living artists”. He is the 2011 Alpert Award winner in Theater and in April 2012, he was one of 21 artists to be named to the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artists. He currently serves as Director of Performing Arts at Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco.

After appearing on Broadway as a young actor, Joseph has developed several poetically based works for the stage that have toured across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa. These include Word Becomes Flesh, Scourge, and the break/s, which co-premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays and the Walker Arts Center in the Spring of 2008. Bamuthi’s Word Becomes Flesh was re-mounted in December 2010 as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ “American Masterpieces” series. Joseph’s current evening length project, red black and green: a blues documents the eco-equity movement towards green collar jobs in Black neighborhoods and is a featured project in the 2012 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the co-founder of Life is Living, a national series of one day festivals designed to activate under-resourced parks and affirm peaceful urban life through hip hop arts and focused environmental action.
 

Imagination Celebration: Art Off the Wall

04-20-2012 - 05-25-2012

Irvine Fine Arts Center

http://www.irvinefinearts.org

Irvine Fine Arts Center - 14321 Yale Avenue Irvine CA 92604

Admission: <p>Admission is free</p>

9497246881

Start Time(s): <p>Exhibition dates: April 20- May 25 (Closed Sundays)<br /> <br /> Opening Reception: Friday, April 20, 5-8 pm</p>

The Irvine Fine Arts Center is Orange County's exclusive host of this ingenious collection of sculptural art created by artists ages 5-18. This whimsical 3-d mixed media exhibition, with over 300 pieces, is in conjunction with the Imagination Celebration's countywide Festival of Arts.

Snow Angel

05-19-2012 - 05-27-2012

South Coast Repertory

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Admission: <p>All tickets are $10 each</p>

714-708-5555

http://www.scr.org/calendar/view.aspx?id=5398

Start Time(s): <p>Saturday 5/19, 4 and 7:30 pm<br /> Sunday 5/20, 1 and 4 pm<br /> Friday 5/25, 7:30 pm<br /> Saturday 5/26, 7:30 pm<br /> Sunday 5/27, 1 and 4 pm</p>

Presented by SCR's Teen Players, Snow Angel tells the story of a mysterious girl named Eva who steps from a snowbank and into the lives of a group of high school students in Deerpoint, Vermont. In their funny and often fractious attempts to solve the mystery of Eva's identity, the kids find new ways to understand themselves and deal with the pressures of teenaged angst.

Chicago

05-25-2012 - 06-11-2012

Camino Real Playhouse

http://www.caminorealplayhouse.org/chicago.php

Camino Real Playhouse - 31776 El Camino Real San Juan Capistrano CA 92675

Admission: <p>$24 - $34</p>

949-489-8082

http://caminorealplayhouse.tix.com/Schedule.asp?EventCode=358227,358234,358231,358235,358237,358232,358238,358239,358240,358233

Start Time(s): <p>Friday 5/25/2012 8:00 PM - $24-$34 (Preview)<br /> Saturday 5/26/2012 6:30 PM - $40-$50 (Gala)<br /> Sunday 5/27/2012 2:00 PM - $30-$40</p> <p>Friday 6/1/2012 8:00 PM - $30-$40<br /> Saturday 6/2/2012 8:00 PM - $30-$40<br /> Sunday 6/3/2012 2:00 PM - $30-$40</p> <p>Thursday 6/7/2012 8:00 PM - $24-$34<br /> Friday 6/8/2012 8:00 PM - $30-$40<br /> Saturday 6/9/2012 8:00 PM - $30-$40<br /> Sunday 6/10/2012 2:00 PM - $30-$40</p>

Chicago
Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by Stephen Gomer

CHICAGO has everything that makes a Broadway musical great. It is the universal tale of fame, fortune - and all that jazz. Be prepared for one show-stopping song right after another!