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January 14, 11:22 pm

Festival showcases klezmer to restore interest in Yiddish culture

Klezmer originated in Eastern Europe but finds its future in a new generation of American Jewish youth. UClezLA, which took place Sunday at Schoenberg Hall, is a Yiddish culture festival which included workshops on klezmer, a musical genre containing Jewish influences and a mixture of sounds from Romani music and Polish folk music. Read more...

Photo: Miri Koral, a professor of Yiddish culture and language at UCLA, read Yiddish poetry during a workshop Sunday while musicians from the band Klezmer Juice played music behind her. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)

Arts, Lifestyle

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January 14, 11:05 pm

Author examines shades of grief, aftermath of tragedy in new book at Hammer Museum

Evgenia Citkowitz met Mona Simpson around 35 years ago – she was the latter’s summer intern at The Paris Review. On Tuesday, Simpson, a novelist and English professor at UCLA, will moderate a book talk at the Hammer Museum centered around Citkowitz’s new fictional novel “The Shades,” which was released June 19. Read more...

Photo: Author Evgenia Citkowitz will discuss her novel “The Shades” at the Hammer Museum moderated by English professor Mona Simpson. Citkowitz will read an excerpt of her novel, which explores the anguish of a family following the death of their 16-year-old daughter. (Courtesy of Natalya Sands)

Arts, Arts Columns, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 13, 11:42 pm

Theater review: ‘The Great Tamer’ interprets historical art in balance of real and irrational

A performer was already standing on the Royce Hall stage as the audience shuffled toward their assigned seats. He emulated the frozen stride of an Egyptian hieroglyph while his head gently pivoted on its axis to scan the space. Read more...

Photo: “The Great Tamer,” a piece of dance theater created by Dimitris Papaioannou, premiered in the U.S. on Friday in Royce Hall through the Center for the Art of Performance. (Courtesy of Julian Mommert)

Arts, Film & TV

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January 13, 11:35 pm

Upcoming YouTube series ‘Wayne’ uses violence thoughtfully based in character

Shawn Simmons watched a child get beat up by about five other children, only to stand back up and throw a rock at his tormentors. Though he was only about eight years old at the time, the memory stayed with him and eventually inspired a scene in his YouTube Originals series, “Wayne.” Simmons said the scene was the first part he wrote for the show a few years ago, with the boy manifesting as the eponymous character, Wayne. Read more...

Photo: Mark McKenna and Ciara Bravo star in “Wayne,” an upcoming YouTube Originals story following the titular character as he searches for his deceased father’s stolen car. (Courtesy of Jacara Jenkins)

Arts, Lifestyle, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 13, 11:32 pm

Art show seeks to highlight diverse roles in the environmental justice movement

Repurposed trash will be the focus of UCLA’s upcoming art show: “Our Ecological Footprint: Expressions of Environmentalism.” The show will kick off the UCLA Renewable Energy Association’s Waste Awareness Week on Monday. Read more...

Photo: Liliana Epps, a third-year gender studies student, Kayli Masuda, a first-year chemical engineering student, and Ariana Mamnoon, a fourth-year geography and environmental systems and society student (left to right), helped organize an environmental art show to kick off the Renewable Energy Association’s Waste Awareness Week. (Axel Lopez/Assistant Photo editor)

Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV

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January 10, 10:23 pm

Movie review: ‘Ashes in the Snow’ lingers on the surface, failing to evoke sympathy or meaning

“Ashes in the Snow” director Marius Markevicius bites off more than he can chew in his underwhelming debut. Based on the novel “Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys, “Ashes in the Snow” follows 16-year-old Lina Vilkas (Bel Powley) and her family after they are exiled to Siberia under Stalin’s rule during World War II. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment)

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January 10, 10:21 pm

Documentary uses virtual reality to spotlight women confronting violence in Iraq

A pair of goggles allows audience members to join the Yazidi warriors as they load guns and march through the Iraqi desert in uniform. On Friday and Saturday, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television will feature creator Maria Bello’s virtual reality and performance piece “The Sun Ladies VR Project.” The show begins with Yazidi women training and sharing their stories of genocide and slavery in a virtual reality documentary, and is followed by UCLA students performing a spoken-word piece on violence against women in the U.S. Read more...

Photo: Ava Lalezarzadeh, a third-year theater student, will participate in a spoken-word segment during the showing of “The Sun Ladies VR Project.” The virtual reality and performance piece, which will be featured Friday and Saturday at UCLA, aims to discourage violence against women. (Xuxin Zhang/Daily Bruin)


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