The Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego is proud to present the  “UCSD Arts in Action Festival,” on Friday, May 7, 2010. In response to the recent racial incidents and protests on the UCSD campus, this festival provides a forum for artistic responses featuring student and faculty work created especially for this event.  In the long-standing tradition of arts activism, the “art actions” include short one act plays, music compositions, dance performances, visual art displays, lectures, digitally interactive performance pieces, spoken word performances, and staged historical protest performance marches.  There will be a forum for critical discussion featuring members of both the university as well as artists from the San Diego community.  Undergraduate and graduate students from across the campus as well as UCSD faculty and alumni are participating in this one-day only arts and performance event.

Surprise performance works and arts in action dance flash mobs will take place through out the week of May 3-May 7 leading up to the main event.  Community art murals will be also by created by students at each college that week.  These murals will be collaged together on May 7, with a new “Arts in Action” mural, which will be created live by Chicano muralist Mario Torero during the keynote forum.

Students will be able to interact live online, uploading tweets and videos at www.ucsdsmashtv.com.

Arts in Action
Project Protest: Performance Marches

Creative Team:
Heather Ramey, Mary Plant-Thomas, Sarah Cogan, Zac Monday, Jessica Sledge, Justin O'Neill, Gabriel Lawrence, Matt Bovee, Bianca Harlow, and Lee Montgomery.

Women's Rights March:

Where: The Women's Resource Center ending at the Silent Tree on Library Walk
When: 2-3 pm

A performance march of the history of the women's movement, featuring suffragettes,
a voting box, the arrest of Elizabeth Caddy Stanton and a glass ceiling.


The Museum conceived by Long B. Tui
written by Edward Delos Reyes and Justin Song Chan
directed by Edward Delos Reyes

Viral conceived by Carol Cabrera
directed by Carol Cabrera

Letters to a Student Revolutionary
written by Elizabeth Wong
directed by Andy Lowe

LEARN MORE ABOUT IT!

Video History and Context See:

Global Issues:Women's Rights
http://www.globalissues.org/article/166/womens-rights

History of Women's Rights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0W8AXaHp1A

Women of You Tube Use your voice wisely!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSa29ZC08U&feature=related

Women's Suffrage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoRimeIhtEE&feature=related

Timeline of Key Events in the American Women's Rights Movement:
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html

Chicano Power March:

Where: The Chicano Legacy Mural at Peterson Hall ending at the Silent Tree on Library Walk
When: 2-3pm

A performance march of the history of the Chicano movement featuring a play by Luis Valdez.

LEARN MORE ABOUT IT!

Video History and Context See:

Cesar Chavez: Embrace the Legacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7GCCBIgFaQ

The Chicano Movement in Washington State 1967-2006
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/Chicanomovement_part1.htm

Timeline: Movimiento from 1960-1985
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/mecha_timeline.htm

Chicano Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eiJMMnQZUk&feature=related

Gay Rights March:

Where: The LGBT center ending at the Silent Tree on Library Walk
When: 2 - 3pm

A performance march of the history of the gay right's movement featuring
visual art works by Zac Monday “Surpass”

They turn aghast! & built to last-
stronger than their begrudged past.
how bold some are to throw a cast!
to catch a sneer & hold on fast!

LEARN MORE ABOUT IT!

Video History and Context See:

Gay Rights Change:
http://gayrights.change.org/

American Gay Rights Movement:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html

Gay Rights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS-6dlt_H8A

LADY GAGA Gay Rights Rally Washington DC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5nJ7uyc9LU

Civil Rights March:

Where: The Cross Cultural Center ending at the Silent Tree on Library Walk
When: 2-3pm

A performance march of the history of the civil right’s movement
featuring a “peace march” with staged opposition, and artwork by Jessica Sledge.

LEARN MORE ABOUT IT!

Video History and Context See:

Civil Rights Timeline
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

We Shall Overcome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ4W2VpqRjA

Negro National Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyS3HPInHtI

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Arts in Action
Interactive Online Events:

UCSD Smash TV

6th college project website that allows participants to view, upload and interact with all the
Arts In Action festival events as they unfold in real time.

TIME and PLACE:
Ongoing May 3-7, and Weiss Theater Lobby 4-8pm display on computer

www.ucsdsmashtv.com

Personae; A Number Of Accounts

Written and Directed by Bob Pierzak, Vincent Raikhel and Ryan Welsh

A semi-improvised interactive Facebook play that allows participants to view or join
a community of stories and relationships and watch as they unfold in real time.

Facebook play:

Personae; a number of accounts is an orchestrated multimedia play taking place on Facebook. Personae began on May 5th, culminatingon May 7.  For further instructions to observe and interact with Personae, type "Personae; a number of accounts" into Facebook's search bar, and it will navigate you to the main Facebook group created for the play.

Actors

(Emails are the most effective way to located a character on Facebook. )

Black, played by Dillon Kondor
Personalities (the name of the Facebook accounts: Jefferson Black (Jefferson.Black86@gmail.com), Jeffrey Onyx (Jeffrey.Onyx86@gmail.com), Jeff Jet (Jeff.Jet86@gmail.com), Jeb Ebony (Jeb.Ebony86@gmail.com)

Blue, played by Bethany Karbowski
Personalities: Jerome Teal (Jerome.Teal86@gmail.com), Jared Cyan (Jared.Cyan86@gmail.com), Jerold Sky-blue (Jerold.SkyBlue86@gmail.com), Jerrell Blue (Jerrell.Blue86@gmail.com)

Brown, played by Ian Power
Personalities: John Brown (JohnBrown8686@yahoo.com), Johnny Khaki (JohnnyKhaki86@yahoo.com), Johann Almond (JohannAlmond86@gmail.com), Jonathon Cocoa (JonathonCocoa86@yahoo.com), Jonas Tan (JonasTan86@yahoo.com)

Grey 1, played by David Broome
Personalities: Joan Grey (Joan.Grey86@gmail.com), Jody Smoke (Jody.Smoke86@gmail.com)

Grey 2, played by Clint McCallum
Personalities: Joanna Silver (JoannaSilver86@yahoo.com), Joanne Slate (Joanne.Slate86@gmail.com), Jo Ash (Jo.Ash8686@gmail.com)

Green, played by Chef Raymond
Personalities: Jennifer Olive (JenniferOlive86@yahoo.com), Jenny Green (JennyGreen8686@yahoo.com), Jen Lime (JenLime86@yahoo.com), Jenna Moss(JennaMoss86@yahoo.com)

Orange, played by Phil Skaller
Personalities: Joe Tangerine(aiaf.tangerine1@gmail.com) , Joseph Amber (aiaf.amber1@gmail.com), Joey Orange (aiaf.tangerine1@gmail.com)

Purple, played by Carolyn Chen
Personalities: Julianna Purple (JuliannaPurple86@yahoo.com), Julianne Violet (JulianneViolet86@yahoo.com), Julie Indigo (JulieIndigo86@yahoo.com), Juliet Magenta (JulietMagenta86@yahoo.com)

Red, played by Ryan Welsh
Personalities: Josh Crimson (JoshCrimson86@yahoo.com), Joshua Red (JoshuaRed86@yahoo.com), Josiah Vermillion (JosiahVermillion86@yahoo.com)

White, played by Drew Allen
Personalities: Jimmy Off-White (JimmyOffWhite86@yahoo.com), James Cotton (JamesCotton8686@yahoo.com), Jumbo White (JumboWhite86@yahoo.com), Jim Ivory (JimIvory86@yahoo.com)

Yellow, played by Kyle Sherman
Personalities: Jack Lemon, Jackson Gold

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Lobby 4 - 8 pm display on video kiosk

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Arts in Action
Theatre and Performance Art Events:

Anne Stella and Megan Robinson - Maya Angelou's

Still I Rise

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30pm program

Art Bridge Collaborative – "Hairpiece from The Colored Museum" by George C. Wolfe. Performers: Monique Gaffney, Faatima Harley, Charmen Jackson. Directed by Claudio Raygoza

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30pm program

A Collective Of Artists dedicated to bridging the dialogue gap between performers and the community they serve. ABC focuses on artistically collaborative events that promote inclusive and conclusive steps toward eradicating racial intolerance and bias-bred violence.

TIME/PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30pm program

Art Collective - Spectacle

A performance piece that engages common social expectations for bodies of color,
speaking to race and racial stereoptypes and how these images come to be
formed within our minds and furthermore into the public imagination.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

Daivee-Chantel Allen

The Black Ku Klux Klan and Black Mind

The Black Ku Klux Klan is a piece that urges Blacks, be it African-Americans or pure Africans to stop annihilating their culture through the adaptation of the stereotypes that have been bestowed upon them. Black Mind is a piece informs the general how Black's mind operate in attempt to understand its past and embrace its future.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

grace jun, Ant Black and Jesse Mills

Dear Janet

Performed as a letter in response to racist hate crimes, Dear Janet features the spoken word poetry of Ant Black. Weaving a blend of hip hop and contemporary movement, the performers braid together dance, poetry, and live vocals and guitar.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

Lou-Lou Ibokwe, Playwrite, directed by Robert Castro

Obamanation

A reading of the winner of this year's Dr. Floyd Gaffney's Playwrighting Competition on the
African American Experience. Cleo, a black woman, and, Peter, a white man,
wait for the Inaugural speech in our nation's capitol.  Two strangers, brought together by the
historic occasion, test the notion of a “post- racial” United States.

TIME and PLACE:
Cross Cultural Center, 1:00 pm and excerpt in Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

Macedonio Arteaga of Teatro Izcalli

U See SD
A UCSD alumna returns to read poems written about his experience as a
Chicano theater student at UCSD in the 1990s.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm

Ronald McCants, Playwite, Directed by Larissa Lury

Oyster

OYSTER is about a Black-American man reconnecting with the son he abandoned many years ago. As the two get to know each other, secrets from the past emerge that threaten to change everything. Can we ever know the truth of our own history? How can ghosts from our past destroy us? And how do we free ourselves from the demons that haunt us? OYSTER is an exploration of the Black-American experience through the prism of one father and son relationship.

Performed by Gabriel Lawrence and Mark Christine

TIME and PLACE:
Excerpt from Play in Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

Thoai Lu

It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop

The piece asks us how we might relate to individuals of different racial, gender,
and class backgrounds because only through disidentification can we eradicate hate.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

TOMA Teatro

Los Vendidos

Los Vendidos written by El Teatro Campesino, performed by Toma Teatro

Ms. Jimenez needs a Latino board member for the new
OMG-WE-LOVE- DIVERSITY-REALLY-WE-DO Committee at UCSD
so she goes to Honest Sancho's Used Mexican Lot to purchase one. 

Hilarity ensues.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Courtyard 5:45 pm

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Arts in Action Dance Events:

Arts in Action

Dance flash mobs

Be on the look out for dance flash mob dances, created by the department of dance,
and held all across the campus May 3-7.

LEARN HOW TO DO IT AND JOIN IN!!  ALL ARE WELCOME!
- Click ME to find out how -

Alexandra & Chloe Freeman

View From a Shoe

Dance work built around the concept of walking in another's shoes.

TIME and PLACE:
10 am Library Walk

Christine Herde, Morgan McGreevey, Calvin Tsang, Arthur Huang, Trixi Anne Agiao, Moae Ikeda

Anybody

Six dancers perform for 24 hours, inviting others to join in an exercise of awareness.

TIME and PLACE:
Library Walk Thursday 8pm to Friday 8pm, ending at the Weiss Theatre

grace jun's Hip-Hop Dance Class

Soobax

Performed by the hip hop dance class, Soobax, follows Somalian rapper K'naan's
invitation for youth to join in freedom struggle.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater 5:30 pm on stage following the panel discussion

Liam Clancy and Eric Geiger

City Corner

A short film made by Eric Geiger and Liam Clancy that represents their shared interest and practice of site influenced spontaneous performance. How does the imaginative moving body intersect with the expectations and assumptions of how and who we are in the world?

TIME and PLACE:
Dance Studio 3 - 6 pm and Weiss Theater Lobby on a video kiosk 4-8 pm.

Matthew Armstrong, Maria Yzábal, Sandra Rubio

Linkage

A border: A line used to separate citizens, countries, cultures...

TIME and PLACE:
6:00PM Dance Studio 3

Ona Fusté Cano and Phoebe Sanderson Osborne

Monocoque

A 20-hour performance investigating presence, repetition and gender-bending to explore gender issues, with available dress up opportunities.

TIME and PLACE:
5:45 pm Dance Studio 3

Patricia Rincon Dance Collective

The Myth Project: Latino Now-Landscape of Desire

A dance theatre video/film documentary directed by Patricia Rincon and Paula Zacharias
filmed in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico, Downtown Los Angeles, Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego.

Sandra Foster-King's West African Dance Class (with Ali Thompson drumming)

All For One, One For All

A celebration of life through West African dance and drumming; where all peoples are loved, respected, honored. Leading procession into the theatre.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater 4 pm

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Arts in Action Music Events:

Anthony Davis

Goddess Variations

Piano composition by renowned composer, UCSD Professor of Music

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

DJ Shammy Dee — After Party Dance

UCSD Alumna brings it all together with his great dj sounds.

TIME and PLACE:
After-party in Mandell Weiss Theatre 8-10 pm

Justin Zullo and Josh Weinstein

Human (t)races

An interactive audio collage exploring the dissonance that underlies racism in general, and the recent events on UCSD's campus. The recorded piece is only half the equation: your voice is an integral part of this critical exploration of racism and activism.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

Nina Sung

Desperately

An original melody inspired by the number of rallies held by those brave individuals who have never tired in advocating their desire for real change and action at UCSD.

TIME and PLACE:

Weiss Theatre 6:30 pm program

Phillip Skaller

Yesterday's News

Performance Opera Art piece.

TIME and PLACE:

11:15 -11:35 am Price Center

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Arts in Action Visual Art Events:

Arts in Action Colleges Community Murals

Create YOUR art! Speak out for your college! Canvas squares will be at each college
for a community mural to be created

TIME and PLACE:
Murals will be created at each college from May 3- May 7, and
assembled with the Arts In Action Mural by
Mario Torero and Fernando Vossa at the
Weiss Theater 4-5:30 pm on May 7.

ATTENTION SIXTH COLLEGE STUDENTS

Add YOUR voice to Sixth College’s Arts in Action 6’ x 6’ mural!
There will be two mural-painting events this week and you can get
CAT Events credit for one of them!

Tuesday, May 4: 5 - 7pm, The Lodge

The mural will be hosted in conjunction with Sixth College’s CHAOS.
*CAT credit for 1 hour or more working on the mural*
(note: no double credit for mural and attending CHAOS)

Wednesday, May 5: 1 - 5pm, The Lodge

More mural painting at The Lodge.
*CAT credit for 1 hour or more working on the mural*

Ash Smith

Video works and performance piece

http://va-grad.ucsd.edu/~drupal/node/1378

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Lobby 4-8pm display on video kiosk

Cutler Edwards

Photography Exhibit

A collection of images and footage from the protest events last quarter.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Lobby 4-8pm display on video kiosk

Fred Lonidier

Photography Exhibit

A collection of images from 40 year history of protest at UCSD.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Lobby 4-8pm display on video kiosk

Mario Torero and Fernando Vossa

live mural painting

Muralist of “Chicano Legacy” at Peterson Hall, creates a new mural for arts in action.

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater 4:00-5:30 pm

Mike Calway-Fagan

About which nothing is known

wood, grocery cart, speaker, electronics, bass.

www.mikecalway-fagen.com

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Lobby installation 4-8pm.

Monica Duncan

video works and performance

www.monicaduncan.net

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Lobby installation 4-8pm.

Peter Terezakis

Heart Beats Light

A light installation that flashes at the rate of the artist's heartbeat.

Wheel
a kinetic sculpture where participants can affix written wishes for hope and change.

Fence
an electro-acoustic sculpture memorial to Matthew Shepard.

A special performance on Fence will be given by Peter Polansky
from 6 to 6:30

http://www.terezakis.com

TIME and PLACE:
Throughout the UCSD Theatre District 5-10 pm.

Sheryl Oring

Letters to UCOP

Art installation and performance

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Lobby 4 - 8 pm display

Ted Shank

Teatro Campesino

Photography Exhibit

A collection of photographs of the history of famed Chicano theatre group Teatro Campesino

TIME and PLACE:
Weiss Theater Lobby 4-8pm photo prints on walls

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Arts in Action
Lectures and Exhibitions:

Welcome:

Allyson Green
Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance

Opening Remarks:

Marye Anne Fox
Chancellor

Speak out, take in, and think critically about arts activism and the intersections
between race, gender, sexuality, class and performance.

Moderator:
Jade Power
PhD Candidate, Department of Theatre and Dance

Panelists:
Robert Castro
Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, UCSD
Evelyn Cruz
M.F.A. Theatre Program, University of San Diego
Monique Gaffney
M.F.A., UCSD alumna
Dr. Grant Kester
Department Chair, Visual Arts, UCSD
Ronald McCants
M.F.A., Department of Theatre and Dance, UCSD 2010 graduate
Seema Sueko
Artistic Director, Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company
Dr. Jesse Mills
Department of Ethnic Studies, University of San Diego

With:
Live Mural Painting by
Mario Torero & Fernando Vossa
Soobax, Hip Hop dance performance

TIME/PLACE
4-5:30 Mandell Weiss Theatre

Arts in Action Forum Questions:

Is a racially themed party a performance?

What does "color-blind" mean to you? Are you "color-blind?"

How do you feel about the notion of "color-blind" casting?

What is the role of visual representation and comedy in perpetuating disparaging images of
women, people of color, gay people, poor people?

How can art be used to subvert racist, sexist, classist, homophobic representations?

Should art be ethically driven?

Is a protest an act of performance?

Grant Kester

Eminent Domain: Art and Urban Space

UCSD Visual Art Chair will discuss two recent collaborative art projects (in Texas and Germany)
based on research from his forthcoming book
The One and the Many: Agency and Identity in Contemporary Collaborative Art

TIME and PLACE:
1 - 2:30 pm, Visual Arts Facility Seminar Room (VAF #366)

UCSDCARE.UCSD.EDU

Mural Painting

Come by library walk to make your mark by helping us paint, draw, and
create a community canvas! (All materials provided).

( Click to find out more at http://www.ucsdcares.ucsd.edu )

TIME and PLACE:
11 am - 3 pm Monday -Thursday
Price Center/Library Walk

UCSDCARE.UCSD.EDU

Photography Contest

Submit a photo during UCSD Cares Week that best captures the essence of
UCSD Cares? mission. The winner will be able to showcase your artwork around campus.
( http://www.ucsdcares.ucsd.edu )

TIME and PLACE:
Saturday-Thursday all day

Fifth Annual UCSD Culture Conference Meaning and Media

Getting Sociology Across in the Public Sphere

TIME and PLACE:
10 am, International House Great Hall

CILAS International Conference

Philosophy of the Environment, and Environment:
Legislation, Politics and Culture: Andean Region and Brazil

TIME and PLACE:
10 am CILAS

University Art Gallery

T R A N S U R B A N I A C - art emotions and some city trances.

The exhibition, curated by Guillermo Santamarina, Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MuAC) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico brings together a number of important works from the museum's permanent collection along with additional work selected by the UCSD University Art Gallery with the intention of linking the concerns of artists working in Mexico and the United States around issues of urban space and the university campus.

http://uag.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/Transurbaniac/transurbaniac.shtml

Gallery@Calit2

A Light Green Light: Toward Sustainability in Practice

The gallery goes green this spring with an exhibition by Chicago-based artist Sabrina Raaf,
whose custom built robotic scultpures and site specific installations include a series of experiments
that address issues of sustainable practice, the construction of social spaces,
and protyping for modular green architecture.

http://gallery.calit2.net/portal/