Friday, February 13

GOVAN and Kiarah Davis aim for healing, authenticity with acoustic arrangement

After a dark year, GOVAN and Kiarah Davis want to share warmth and sunshine with their audience. Under the stage name GOVAN, third-year theater student Michael Hackett will be making his Spring Sing debut with fourth-year theater student and Spring Sing veteran, Kiarah Davis. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year theater student Kiarah Davis and third-year theater student Michael Hackett, who performs under stage name GOVAN, will perform GOVAN’s song “Shady Sunshine.” (Photo illustration by Anika Chakrabarti/Daily Bruin staff and Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)


Student jazz band ‘Silva’ hopes to bring joy amid pandemic blues

Silva, a band of 14 jazz musicians, hopes their original song “Dance in Your Love” gets listeners up and dancing amid the pandemic. Third-year global jazz studies student Emily Silva, who the band is named after, wrote the original lyrics of “Dance in Your Love” after returning from a Fourth of July party in 2019. Read more...

Photo: Headed by third-year global jazz studies student Emily Silva, jazz band Silva will perform its original song “Dance in Your Love.” (Photo illustration by Anika Lillie Yazdi/Daily Bruin staff and Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)



Chinese American Culture Night to highlight community’s resilience through adversity

UCLA’s 32nd annual Chinese American Culture Night hopes to spotlight the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience until the next lotus blooms. Hosted by the Association of Chinese Americans, preparing CACN has been a yearlong effort that has led to the debut of the film “Until the Next Lotus Blooms” tomorrow on Zoom and Discord. Read more...

Photo: (Isabella Lee/Daily Bruin)