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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...

As you enter “ Every Day We Must Make the Reality of This World: AI Post Photography,” you step from a darkened, industrial space into a bright white room that curves around to an exit. It’s like stepping into the Discovery One spaceship in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”...

At an orchestra’s rehearsal, a listener can get a sense of the relationship between the conductor and the musicians. With Ruth Charloff, the conductor of the UCR Orchestra, we discover she is more than a conductor. She educates her students in performance expertise, while also showing them the rich history...

The stage of the ARTS Building’s Studio Theatre is a floor with seating on three sides. For the theatre department’s latest production, “Airness,” the stage is converted to a Staten Island bar, with the bar and stools set back to the right and tables and chairs to the left. Downstage...

On the second floor of the California Museum of Photography, a catwalk leads to the exhibition, “Jon Henry, Stranger Fruit.” At the end you see a portrait lit on either side by chrome light tubes on a purple wall. Below the shadowy catwalk, light shines up from the first-floor exhibition...

A mist shrouds the stage, and the angled light creates shadows and mystery. It could be dawn or dusk. At center stage sits a large wooden box with a lock hung on the hasp as if ready for an escape artist to perform his act. Crates, a lamp, and other...