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SUMMARY:For a Resilient US Theater\, Post-Pandemic: A Panel Featuring Barbara Fuchs
DESCRIPTION:Livestream available via HowlRound TV on Wednesday\, April 3 at 1 p.m. PDT. \nFor a Resilient US Theater\, by UCLA researchers Barbara Fuchs and Rhonda Sharrah\, is part of Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts\, a comparative transnational study on the resilience of theatre post-COVID funded by the British Academy. Between April 2023 and January 2024\, a team of researchers from the United States of America\, United Kingdom\, Canada\, Germany\, France\, Italy\, and Japan examined the lessons learned from the responses of the live performing arts sector and governments to COVID-19 in the G7 countries. The study’s aim is to support sector preparedness for future crises\, whether caused by new pandemics\, climate-related disasters\, demographic changes\, economic pressures or the impacts on the live performing arts of national and international politics. \nThe US report examines the lessons to be learned from the pandemic\, while highlighting longer-term trends exacerbated by the COVID crisis. Its conclusions and recommendations speak to theatremakers and stakeholders across the theatre ecosystem\, focusing on key issues of sector-wide strategizing\, advocacy\, and long-term thinking. \nVisit HowlRound Theatre Commons for full event information.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/for-a-resilient-us-theater-post-pandemic-a-panel-featuring-barbara-fuchs/
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SUMMARY:SLAM - Restoration premiere with director Marc Levin & poets Beau Sia and Saul Williams
DESCRIPTION:In-person:\n\nQ&A with director Marc Levin\, actors and poets Beau Sia and Saul Williams\, moderated by Sundance Film Festival Director Eugene Hernandez.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdmission is free. No advance reservations. Seats are available on a first come\, first served basis. Hammer Museum members will have reserved seating available at the box office. The box office opens one hour before the first program of the day.\n \nSLAM\nU.S.\, 1998 \nLos Angeles restoration premiere  \nAfter being charged with drug possession\, small-time marijuana dealer and rapper Ray Joshua (Saul Williams) must navigate the Washington\, D.C.\, criminal justice system. Though he faces a long imprisonment\, his dreams for his future are ignited by writing instructor Lauren Bell (Sonja Sohn)\, who introduces him to the slam poetry world. \nFilmed by documentarian Marc Levin in “drama-vérité” style\, the fictional story is fused with the real-world backdrop of the nation’s capital\, including the Dodge City neighborhood as well as an actual D.C. prison. Levin developed the story in collaboration with journalist Richard Stratton and the leads Williams and Sohn. Dialogue was mostly improvised by the actors\, and the poetry recited is their own. \nSLAM premiered to considerable festival success\, receiving the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Caméra d’Or and Prix du Public at Cannes. The film capitalized on the growing popularity of poetry slams\, where participants recite spoken word poetry in a competitive setting. Saul Williams\, a trained actor with an M.A. in acting from New York University\, had previously won the Grand Slam Championships. He went on to release several critically acclaimed albums of both music and spoken word poetry. Artists and poets including Bonz Malone and Beau Sia populate the cast of SLAM\, along with individual guards and incarcerated persons. \nLike the powerful poetry in the film\, SLAM uncompromisingly tackles critical issues of criminal justice reform\, institutional racism\, societal expectations and violence. When Ray is booked into jail\, a guard rattles off the rates of Black men imprisoned in the District of Columbia\, followed by\, “Welcome to the D.C. prison. You might make it out\, you might not.” But\, as Ray begins to learn\, freedom is something that can never be taken from you.—Jillian Borders \nDCP\, color\, 104 min. Director: Marc Levin. Screenwriters: Sonja Sohn\, Marc Levin\, Bonz Malone\, Saul Williams\, Richard Stratton. With: Saul Williams\, Sonja Sohn\, Beau Sia\, Bonz Malone\, Lawrence Wilson. \nRestoration funded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, Sundance Institute\, UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with Sundance Institute from a 35mm interpositive\, a 35mm magnetic track\, DA-88s and an MO Disk. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment\, Inc.\, Deluxe Media Audio Services\, DJ Audio\, Inc. Special thanks to Marc Levin\, Lionsgate. \nPart of: 2024 UCLA Festival of Preservation \n\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to our community partners: UCLA Department of English\, UCLA Hip Hop Initiative.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/slam-restoration-premiere-with-director-marc-levin-poets-beau-sia-and-saul-williams/
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-32/
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SUMMARY:XR for Poetics & Play: A Pedagogical Inventory w/ Danny Snelson
DESCRIPTION:Join the XR Spring Summit 2024 for a hybrid event featuring UCLA English and Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Danny Snelson. This presentation will focus on recent trends in AI production of 3D-generative assets and environments for VR play. XR platforms and tools covered include: LUMA Genie\, Sketchfab\, Pistol Whip\, Beat Sage\, Mozilla Hubs\, New Art City\, and WebXR. As part of a larger project on the ways in which speculative gaming environments might illuminate otherwise invisible or emergent aspects of network culture\, Snelson aims to think through generative systems for XR experiences. \nVisit XR Spring Summit 2024 for more information and to register for the event.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/xr-for-poetics-play-a-pedagogical-inventory-w-danny-snelson/
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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SUMMARY:On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi’s film\, “R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity\,” followed by a panel discussion featuring UCLA Professors Saree Makdisi\, Robin Kelley\, and Shannon Speed. The film centers on the growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980\, which was supported by left-wing movements worldwide\, including Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries\, dubbed and screened in Japan. Our discussion engages with the promise\, challenges\, and limits to solidarity commitments with Palestine\, while touching on the seminal role solidarity has played in the shaping of and discourse around uplifting Palestinian struggle. \nRegister here to attend. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/on-solidarity-reflect-and-restore/
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SUMMARY:The “General Library\,” or\, Minority Piracy for Survival
DESCRIPTION:Why do non-wealthy minority students pirate academic textbooks? In this talk\, Professor Gail De Kosnik will discuss her interviews with Black\, brown\, and Indigenous internet users about their pirate practices\, and will analyze their conceptualizations of illicit media and information access as connection\, cultural participation\, and upward mobility—in other words\, as survival. \nRegister here to attend. A light lunch will be provided. An RSVP is required to attend. \nAbigail De Kosnik is an Associate Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Department of Theater\, Dance\, and Performance Studies\, and is an affiliated faculty member of Gender & Women’s Studies\, Film & Media\, and Folklore. She researches histories and theories of new media\, film and television\, social media\, fan studies\, piracy studies\, cultural memory\, and archive studies\, through the lenses of critical race theory\, gender and sexuality studies\, and transnational studies. She is the author of Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press\, 2016)\, the co-editor of #identity: Hashtagging Race\, Gender\, Sexuality\, and Nation (University of Michigan Press\, 2019)\, and the co-editor of The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era (University Press of Mississippi\, 2011). Prof. De Kosnik is the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-general-library-or-minority-piracy-for-survival/
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SUMMARY:Material Poetics of Post-Digital Poetry w/ Holly Melgard
DESCRIPTION:This event will include a reading and talk by Holly Melgard that will explore how the post-digital conditions of her textual environment play an integral part in shaping her creative practice as a poet. \nRegister here to attend. \nHolly Melgard is the author of Read Me: Selected Works (Ugly Duckling Presse 2023) and Fetal Position (Roof 2021)\, the later of which was named by Jackie Ess as one of Artforum’s “Best of 2021.” She has self-published ten books of poetry on Troll Thread press\, a publisher which she co-edits and designs with friends. Having performed her work at such sites as the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, her work has also appeared in BOMB Magazine\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, and translated in the German journal Merkur. A recent faculty member at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, she currently teaches writing at NYU and CUNY\, freelance book designs\, and lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/material-poetics-of-post-digital-poetry-w-holly-melgard/
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