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On Saturday, March 22, UCR ARTS held a reception heralding the California Museum of Photography's three exhibitions for spring

The National Book Foundation, or NBF, will bring the award-winning writer Claire Wahmanholm to campus on March 31 for a free event, “Eco-Poetics and the Modern Apocalypse.” The event is part of an NBF tour with 16 events across 10 cities, and marks the first time UCR has been selected...

When the name Ansel Adams is mentioned in conversation, people think of the romantic and mythic photographs he made throughout the American West, especially in Yosemite and the iconic shots of El Capitan and Half Dome. In 1963, in his mid-60s, Adams received a letter from Clark Kerr, president of...

The first performance of UCR's staging of “Macbeth” will be Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre. Additional performances of the play, written by William Shakespeare and directed by Miles Anderson, will run through Feb. 22.

Join the UCR Orchestra under the baton of Ruth Charloff for a concert on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. or on Sunday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m., at the University Theatre on the UC Riverside campus. “We’re playing some pretty extroverted repertoire,” Charloff said. The concert will begin with...

Students, faculty, and visitors can attend the Florence Bayz Music Series every Wednesday during the academic year at Noon. The events are free and held in the Arts Building, room 157. With the funding provided for the Florence Bayz Music Series, the Music Department can “bring in performers from other...

Join the UCR Orchestra and Wind Ensemble at the annual Fall Concert on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 8 p.m. at the University Theatre.

If you are ready for a fun-filled, and a little surreal, musical for some relief from the election, then do not miss UCR’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production staging of the Tony-winning “Peter and the Starcatcher” at the University Theatre. The play, which runs Nov. 7-16, is Rick...

Over five years in the making, the “ Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World” exhibition at UCR Arts California Museum of Photography, or CMP, is part of the Getty Foundation’s massive art event, PST Art (previously known as Pacific Standard Time). PST is a five-month long event...

The exhibition explores how the work of Eadweard Muybridge catalyzed a wave of depictions of motion in photography.

The UCR Chorale, Chamber Singers and Orchestra with guest soloists soprano Lindsay Feldmeth Westra and baritone Philip Meyer, conducted by Ruth Charloff, will feature Gabriel Fauré’s luminous and innovative “Requiem.”

UCR’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production will present Anton Chekhov’s “ Three Sisters” May 9-18 at the ARTS Studio Theatre. The story unfolds in a provincial Russian town during three-and-a-half years in the lives of three sisters: the schoolteacher Olga (28), the unhappily married Masha (23), and idealistic...

This weekend at the California Museum of Photography, the namesake artists will hold a discussion and screening for their current exhibition, “Telling Them Apart: Eileen Cowin and Jonesy.” The 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27 event is moderated by art and design historian Andy Campbell and, in addition to Cowin and...

Concertgoers will be treated to a high-spirited adventure when the UCR Orchestra and the UCR Chamber Singers, along with guest narrator Martha Demson, perform the world premiere of composer and UCR faculty member Tim Labor's “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” Concerts will be 8 p.m., Saturday Saturday, April...

Christina Fernandez’s monograph “ Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures,” produced in conjunction with her 2022-2023 exhibition of the same name at UCR Arts California Museum of Photography, or CMP, has been awarded the Association for Latin American Art, or ALAA, ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award. The book, co-produced by UCR’s Joanna...

UCR’s Concert Band Director Armando Dueñas will present “A Symphony of Service: UCR Concert Band and 300th Army Band Quintet Extravaganza” on Friday, March 8. This winter concert will be the first of this type, featuring the UCR Concert Band along with the 300th Army Band Woodwind and Brass Quintet...

UCR’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production is staging “Vietgone” by Qui Nguyen through Feb. 24. Nguyen described “Vietgone” as a “probably-mostly-true” and "zany, sex comedy” about how his parents met in a refugee camp at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, after the fall of Saigon in 1975. His future father...

The first exhibition in the New Acquisitions Series is the artist Zoe Crosher’s seven photographs that make up "LA Like: “Transgressing the Pacific (2008–10).” Alyse Yeargan, collections manager for the UCR Arts’ California Museum of Photography, or CMP, says she chose Crosher’s photographs for several reasons. The works are “emotionally...

Ruth Charloff, the conductor of the UCR Orchestra, says the upcoming performance of UCR’s orchestra will begin with Henri Büsser’s orchestral adaptation of Claude Debussy's “Petite Suite for four-hands.” The suite Charloff said, “is an intimate piece.” “Think about two people sitting next to each other on one piano bench...

When discussing the exhibition, “The Impact of Images: Mamie Till’s Courage from Tragedy,” Douglas McCulloh says, “Her decision to have an open casket and insist Black photographers be present wasn’t just courageous.” The casket was for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, “who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in...