Prebys Foundation has awarded $5 million to support The Depot, the University of California San Diego’s new multidisciplinary arts incubator and cultural hub in Downtown San Diego.
Two graduate design students in the Department of Theatre and Dance invited us behind the scenes as they created costumes for two recent plays that centered on power dynamics and societal expectations. Discover the research, collaboration and artistic talent required to bring these stories to the stage.
San Diego Museum Month returns February 1–28, 2025, marking its 36th year of making arts and culture more accessible to the community. For the second year running, UC San Diego Library is proud to serve as a partner for this highly anticipated program, which offers half-price admission...
Nancy Guy, an ethnomusicologist and professor of music at UC San Diego, has dedicated her career to studying the music of Taiwan. From the way environmental concerns seep into songs to how politics proliferate opera, Guy is passionate about discovering and sharing the diverse ways music shapes culture and society in Taiwan. Now, Guy has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Chiu-Shan and Rufina Chen Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities in support of her research and teaching activities.
This January a three-part series of events will be held in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Reed Family Concert, an annual showcase of musical innovation at the University of California San Diego led by Distinguished Professor of Music Steven Schick. The celebration also recognizes the 30-year tenure of red fish blue fish, a beloved and highly acclaimed percussion ensemble created and directed by Schick that performs, records and premieres work from the last 85 years of western percussion’s rich history.
Marco Barricelli, professor of acting, shines as “Scrooge” in a clever twist on Dickens’ holiday classic, written by MFA alumna Anna Ouyang Moench.
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