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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
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
Blackbox (UCR)

Playwright sets sights on Broadway for 'Blackbox'

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...

By J.D. Mathes | November 2, 2023 | Arts / Culture
“Gangsters Don’t Die” by Tod Goldberg- book cover

Tod Goldberg’s fictional crime world feels so real

On Sunday, Nov. 5 the author of “Gangsters Don’t Die” will be in conversation with authors Lee Goldberg and Susan Straight at UCR ARTS in downtown Riverside.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | October 31, 2023 | Arts / Culture
"Spooks: A Black Horror Film Series" poster by John Jennings.

Halloween: Black horror films at UCR ARTS

All films are free and open to the public. Screenings run through Oct. 28.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | October 20, 2023 | Arts / Culture
Actors at UCR's University Theatre "Blackbox" rehearsals. (UCR)

On stage: Magic, gospel music, and an escape from enslavement  

Rickerby Hinds, UCR playwright and professor, transforms the true story of Henry Box Brown’s harrowing escape from enslavement in 1849 America into a magic show in the first full production of “Blackbox,” October 5-14.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | October 2, 2023 | Arts / Culture
UCR Orchestra will perform this weekend with soprano Patricia Caicedo. The concerts feature Spanish and Latin American music. (UCR)

Classical repertoire celebrates Spanish, Latin American music

UC Riverside’s Orchestra has weekend performances focusing on Spanish and Latin American music, featuring soprano Patricia Caicedo. The May 20-21 concerts called “Canción con todos” (“A Song With Everyone”) are open to the public. General entrance tickets are $10; $8 for seniors and students; and $6 for children. Performances will...

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | May 16, 2023 | Arts / Culture
"Raft" cover.

Stu Krieger publishes new book, ‘Raft’

It’s a laugh-out-loud fictional novel about a family with a patriarch that suddenly woke up in the body of a penguin.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | April 25, 2023 | Arts / Culture
UCR Orchestra (UCR/Delmy Castillo)

UCR Orchestra honors Black History Month with concerts this weekend 

Performances also include Pedro Rubio, a Spanish virtuoso clarinetist conducting research at UCR.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | February 23, 2023 | Arts / Culture
KD Ganaway, Untitled self-portrait, 1929. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, William Harmon boxes 

KD Ganaway exhibition coming to the California Museum of Photography

UCR’s California Museum of Photography will showcase the work of King Daniel (KD) Ganaway, one of the earliest Black photographers in the U.S. The exhibition runs Feb. 25 - Aug. 6.

By UCR News | February 21, 2023 | Arts / Culture
Primera Generación Dance Collective performing "Nepantla" at The Odyssey. (Photo by Bobby Gordon)

Primera Generación Dance Collective to perform on Saturday 

The group, founded by UCR alumni, also brings in UCR, RCC, and A.B. Miller High School dancers. The event is free and open to the public.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | February 16, 2023 | Arts / Culture
Writers Week 2023 at UC Riverside.

Writers Week honors authors Percival Everett and Mike Davis

The 46th annual UC Riverside event is scheduled for Feb. 13-17. Writers Week is free and open to the public.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | January 4, 2023 | Arts / Culture
Joanna Szupinska, senior curator of exhibitions at UCR Arts, stands in front of the Christina Fernandez exhibition at the California Museum of Photography on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. (UCR/Sandra Baltazar Martínez)

UCR ARTS: Christina Fernandez’s photo exhibition captures life

This is Fernandez’s first major solo museum show. The images reflect on various social issues and explores her Mexican American identity.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | September 30, 2022 | Arts / Culture
The Anxiety of Laughing- poster

‘The Anxiety of Laughing’ will be screened at Dances With Films festival in June

The film was directed by UCR Professor Robin Uriel Russin and written by UCR alum Andrew Justvig.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | May 12, 2022 | Arts / Culture
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s new book, “Look at This Blue,” is set to release on March 29 by Coffee House Press. (UCR/Stan Lim)

New book by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, ‘Look at This Blue,’ is a tough love letter to California 

Poetry collection captures the author's own life, as well as many of the golden state’s overlooked truths: genocide, environmental degradation, and climate change.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | March 24, 2022 | Arts / Culture
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