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FEATURED EVENTS
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“Tartuffe,” Molière’s most famous comedy, runs from Feb. 16-25 MORE
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“DNA and the Mind,” Free Lecture, Feb. 13, 3 p.m., 4016 Bren Hall Behavioral genetics professor Robert Plomin, of King’s College, London, studies the developmental interplay between genes and environment.
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Leonardo Da Vinci & Modern Robotics, Free Lecture, Feb. 15, 3 p.m., 1001 Engineering Science Author and mechanical designer and engineer Mark Rosheim, known for his reconstruction of Leonard Da Vinci’s machines and credited with writing the technical description of the robot knight in “The Da Vinci Code,” discusses his work in a free lecture. MORE INFO
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| Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Performance, Feb. 15, 8 p.m., Granada Theatre Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, resident company of Sadler’s Wells, London, is distinguished by its radical approach to new technology. MORE INFO |
| “The Witches of Gambaga,” Free Screening, Feb. 16, 5 p.m., 1701 Theater and Dance-West This documentary is an extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. MORE INFO |
| Jane Hirshfield, An Evening of Poetry, Feb. 16, 8 p.m., Campbell Hall Award-winning poet and translator Jane Hirshfield elegantly speaks to the core issues of existence in her poetry. MORE INFO |
| U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West, Free Performance, Feb. 17, 7 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall The Band of the Golden West is a select group of professional Airmen-musicians who present outstanding musical performance for the military and community events to foster our national heritage. MORE INFO |
| The Chieftains, Performance, Feb. 17, 8 p.m., The Granada Theatre The Chieftains celebrate 50 years as Ireland’s “inadvertent prophets of the world-music boom.” MORE INFO |
| “Tartuffe,” Feb. 17-25, Performing Arts Theater “Tartuffe” is Molière's most famous comedy. MORE INFO |
| Fred Ormand, Free Clarinet Master Class and Seminar, Feb. 18, Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250) Fred Ormand, esteemed educator, school, and renowned performer presents this free, public event. MORE INFO |
| “Alice Neel” and “Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow,” Double Feature, Feb. 19, 1 p.m., Pollock Theater The Art|Architecture on Film series continues with a searing portrait of American painter Alice Neel and an acclaimed portrait of artist Anselm Kiefer. MORE INFO |
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| “Out of Our Minds – Learning to Be Creative,” Lecture, Feb. 21, 8 p.m., Campbell Hall Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson is renowned for his radical ideas on education reform and innovation in the classroom. MORE INFO |
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Genetics, Learning Abilities and Disabilities, and Education, Free Lecture, Feb. 22, 3 p.m., 4016 Bren Hall Robert Plomin, professor of behavioral genetics at King’s College London and Sage Center Distinguished Fellow for February, talks about genetic research on school-related learning abilities such as reading and mathematics, and their relationship to cognitive abilities including spatial ability and memory. MORE INFO
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| An Evening with Tom Colicchio, Lecture, Feb. 22, 8 p.m., Campbell Hall Tom Colicchio, 2010 James Beard Award-winner for outstanding chef, is one of the culinary world’s most celebrated figures. MORE INFO |
| “U.S.-China Innovation Dialogue: Boom or Bust,” Free Lecture, Feb. 23, 1 p.m. 2135 SSMS Denis Simon, vice-provost for China Initiatives and Strategy at Arizona State University will discuss the dialogue between the U.S. and China, including potential benefits to be gained for both countries from smoothing over differences and finding common ground regarding ways to promote more effective and sustained innovation performance. MORE INFO |
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Building a Sustainable Good Life Through Technology and Yoga, Free Lecture, Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m., 1601 Broida Dr. Jasprit Singh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of Michigan, founder of the RussaYog style of yoga and operator of several RussaYog studios and training centers nationwide, examines the combined use of “mindful” technologies and yoga concepts to attain “the good life.” MORE INFO
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| Bassoonist Leslie Ross, Free Performance, Feb. 23, 7 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Leslie Ross, sound-installation artist, and instrument-maker, entertains with solo works. MORE INFO |
| Violinist Julia Fischer, Performance, Feb. 23, 8 p.m., Campbell Hall Gramophone Artist of the Year Julia Fischer makes her Santa Barbara debut with Milana Chernyavska on piano. MORE INFO |
| Pianist Sophia Vaillant, Guest Artist Recital, Feb. 25, 8 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250) French pianist Sophia Vaillant is celebrated for her solo and chamber music playing, and also for the tango. MORE INFO |
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Genetics and Experience: The Interface between Genes and Environment, Free Lecture, Feb. 27, 3 p.m., 4016 Bren Hall Robert Plomin, professor of behavioral genetics at King’s College London and Sage Center Distinguished Fellow for February, talks about an active model of the environment in which individuals shape their own experiences in ways correlated with their genetic propensities. MORE INFO
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| Banff Mountain Film Festival, Feb. 27 and 28, 7:30 p.m., Arlington Theatre The best of the 36th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival screens with two spectacular programs. MORE INFO |
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Art Exhibitions
Faces and Places
MultiCultural Center Lounge
Jan. 18-Mar. 23
Conversation with the Artist, Michael Massenburg, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. |
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| Creating art with a social purpose, Michael Massenburg combines mixed media representation and abstraction with an array of colors and found materials. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums and in public projects throughout the country and abroad. MORE INFO |
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Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch Exhibition
Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Feb. 26-June 17 |
O. U. Miracle
Cliff May House, San Diego, 1932
Rendering by Starling Watson |
Carefree California explores the phenomenal rise of the ranch house, casual living, and the western mystique, as promoted by Cliff May, the designer of thousands of modern California ranch houses. The exhibition will concentrate on the modernization of the ranch tradition and its transition from a low-slung luxury recollection of historic adobe, brick, tile, and stucco, to the modest wood and glass tract house of the forties, to the near-minimal system-built ranches May designed and sold in the late 1950s.
The exhibition is part of “Pacific Standard Time,” a collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California that tells the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene. MORE INFO |
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