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Music department hosts spring concerts

This spring is filled with live events from the UC Riverside Department of Music. The series will showcase the talents of UCR students and feature everything from Dvořák’s popular “New World Symphony” to chorale music from Japan and West Africa.

By J.D. Mathes | May 28, 2025 | Arts / Culture
A scene from the play A Doll's House.

UCR Theatre presents ‘A Doll’s House’

Thursday, May 8, at 8 p.m. is opening night for UCR’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production’s interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House."

By J.D. Mathes | May 7, 2025 | Arts / Culture
Barry Lam and his book "Fewer Rules; Better People"

Antidote to criminal system? 'Fewer rules, better people'

In his first book, UC Riverside Professor of Philosophy Barry Lam broaches widespread criminalization and argues to return decision-making power to “the street level.” “The proliferation of rules and mandates is making us dumber, less moral, more deceptive, and less able to govern important institutions,” Lam argues in “ Fewer...

By J.D. Mathes | April 25, 2025 | Social Science / Education
Writers Week

Writers Week returns to in-person-only format

Join The University of California, Riverside’s Department of Creative Writing for the 48th UCR Writers Week Festival May 5-8. The free and open-to-the-public festival is the longest-running free literary festival in California. All events will be held in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1113. Featured writers this year include: Geoffrey Dyer, a...

By J.D. Mathes | April 22, 2025 | Arts / Culture
A woman views the "Shadow Archive" exhibition at UCR ARTS

UCR ARTS unveils its three spring exhibitions

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

By J.D. Mathes | March 26, 2025 | Arts / Culture
National Book Award event

UCR to host its first National Book Awards event

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...

By J.D. Mathes | March 18, 2025 | Arts / Culture
Lost in the Wilderness exhibition at UCR Arts

Exhibition contrasts Ansel Adams’ orderly world, chaotic ’60s

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...

By J.D. Mathes | March 12, 2025 | Arts / Culture
A scene from UCR's performance of Macbeth

UCR Theatre Presents 'Macbeth'

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.

By J.D. Mathes | February 12, 2025 | Arts / Culture
UCR Orchestra

Orchestra to host 'extroverted' weekend concerts

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...

By J.D. Mathes | January 29, 2025 | Arts / Culture
Florence Bayz music series artists

On Wednesdays, a music series for community & campus

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...

By J.D. Mathes | January 15, 2025 | Arts / Culture
orchestra

Join the UCR Orchestra and Wind Ensemble for the Fall Concert 

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

By J.D. Mathes | November 13, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Peter and the Starcatchers

'Peter and the Starcatcher' offers fun, with purpose

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...

By J.D. Mathes | November 6, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Digital Capture exhibition

UCR Arts' 'Digital Capture' spans space race to AI

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...

By J.D. Mathes | September 24, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Photograph by Eadweard Muybridge “Animal Locomotion” on display in the exhibit Movement Exercises (After Muybridge) at UCR Arts, California Museum of Photography, running from March 2-July 7, 2024.  (UCR/Stan Lim)

In ‘Movement Exercises,’ photographs capture motion frozen in time

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

By J.D. Mathes | June 10, 2024 | Arts / Culture
UC Riverside's orchestra performing a concert.

UCR Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Orchestra to perform Fauré’s 'Requiem'

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.”

By J.D. Mathes | May 29, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Cast members rehearse a scene of the play “Three Sisters” at the UCR ARTS Studio Theatre.

UCR Theatre presents ‘Three Sisters’

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...

By J.D. Mathes | May 8, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Telling Them Apart exhibition

'Telling Them Apart': Two artists' dialogue in photos

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...

By J.D. Mathes | April 24, 2024 | Arts / Culture
UC Riverside's orchestra performing a concert.

This weekend, a home-grown orchestra concert for families

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...

By J.D. Mathes | April 17, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Christina Fernandez book

Book based on UCR Arts exhibition wins four awards

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...

By J.D. Mathes | March 27, 2024 | Arts / Culture
concert band

Friday UCR Concert Band event features U.S. Army quintet

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...

By J.D. Mathes | March 6, 2024 | University, Arts / Culture, Students
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