UCI CTSA Open House

Celebrate the Arts and CTSA as we showcase the talents of our students and faculty.  Art exhibitions, musical concerts, dance performances, dress rehearsals and more take place in various CTSA venues. Join us for food, fun and festivities!

Art Galleries

Libidinal Economies: Art in the Age of Bull Markets
Curated by Juli Carson and Michael Moshe Dahan
Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, Room 1201

A Performative Trigger: Radicals of Irvine
Curated by Juli Carson and Marilyn Nix
University Art Gallery, Arts Plaza, Room 151

Objects of Wonder
Curated by David Familian and guest-curator Madeline Schwartzman
Beall Center for Art + Technology, Building 712

Open Studios

Contemporary Arts Center, 4th Floor
Arts, Culture and Technology 2nd and 3rd Floor

Open Rehearsals

For further information on dates, pricing and location for the following performances, please see the Season-at-a-Glance in the back of this program, or visit our website at www.arts.uci.edu

Embodiology Class – Dance
6:00-7:00pm, William Gillespie Dance Studio 1100
Join Professor of Dance Sheron Wray and students from the CTSA Department of Dance

Man of La Mancha
Book by Dale Wasserman; Music by Mitch Leigh; Lyrics by Joe Darion
Don Hill, Director
Sheron Wray, Choreographer
Dennis Castellano, Music Director
6:30pm-8:00pm, Claire Trevor Theatre

Miguel de Cervantes, aging and an utter failure as playwright, poet and tax collector, has been thrown into a dungeon in Seville to await trial by the Spanish Inquisition. There he is dragged before a kangaroo court of his fellow prisoners. Based on The Adventures of Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha is a comic tragedy of mankind’s struggle to better both himself and the world.

Join us on November 14 – November 22 for the full performance at the Irvine Barclay Theater. Tickets can be purchased at www.arts.uci.edu/tickets or directly through the Box Office at (949) 824-2787.

These Shining Lives
By Melanie Marnich
Sarah Butts, Director
6:30-8:00pm, Humanities Hall Little Theatre

Catherine Donohue and her friends have loving families and good jobs painting glow-in-the-dark watch faces at Chicago’s Radium Dial Company, and the 1920s seem full of promise. Tragedy comes when Catherine and her colleagues begin falling ill, and discover that the job they love has betrayed them. This is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense.

Please join us November 21 through December 6 for full performances. Tickets can be purchased online at www.arts.uci.edu/tickets or directly through the Box Office at (949) 824-2787.

UCI Symphony Orchestra
Maestro Stephen Tucker
Bright Future
7:00pm-8:00pm, Music and Media 220

The program includes Mozart’s Overture to Cosi fan Tutte and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, in G.
Join us on November 7, 2015 at the Irvine Barclay Theater as the UCI Symphony Orchestra kicks-off the 2015-16 season with special guest conductor Dr. Frank Restesan and piano virtuoso Vijay Venkatesh.

Tickets can be purchased at www.arts.uci.edu/tickets or directly through the Box Office at (949) 824-2787.

New Slate
7:00-8:00pm
Tong Wang, Artistic Director

New Slate is an exciting dance program featuring the diverse talents of graduate student choreographers. The program includes original works, and promises something for every dance enthusiast.

Enjoy the first UCI Dance Department concert of the season, New Slate, on December 3-December 5 at the Claire Trevor Theatre.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.arts.uci.edu/tickets or directly through the Box Office at (949) 824-2787.                               

Improv Revolution (iRev)
5:30-8:00pm, Arts Amphitheater
Faculty Mentor: Joel Veenstra
Performers: TBD

Brown Bag Theater Company
5:30-8:00pm, Arts Amphitheater
Faculty Mentor: Lonni Alcaraz

Performers:
Community Engagement Info Booth
5:30-8:00pm, Contemporary Arts Center Plaza
Director of Outreach Programs: Megan McDonald

Learn about our Creative Workshops and Summer Academies in the Arts, as well as the numerous ways in which CTSA engages with the community, both on and off-campus, making the creative experience accessible to as many area youth as possible.

Alumni Open Reception
5:30-8:00pm, Located in front of the Claire Trevor Theatre
Enjoy some appetizers, and reconnect with fellow Anteater alumni.

Live Jazz Provided by:
The Jason Jones Trio
5:30-8:00pm, Arts Plaza
Performers: Jason Jones, Devin Norris, Dylan Romaine

Catering Provided by:
Aramark/UCI Catering

Thank You to Our Volunteers:
Amy Soukhaseum
Nidhi Nayer
David Walker
CTSA Arts Ambassadors