Articles tagged with 'arts' | CSUSM

Merryl Goldberg was at a birthday party in La Jolla several years ago when she struck up a conversation with a married couple whom she didn’t know.As often happens, the talk turned to careers. Goldberg told the couple (their names turned out to be …

An event showcasing the cultural consultants who helped bring the live-action “Moana” to life highlights the fall lineup of the longstanding Arts & Lectures series at Cal State San Marcos.This season boasts a diverse selection of eight events as …

The Cal State San Marcos art, media and design department will host a new exhibit, “[DIS]COMFORT,” with an opening reception in the Arts Building lobby from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, May 7. The exhibition will be available to view through May …

Creativity plays a vital role in how we understand the world and one another. At Cal State San Marcos, President Ellen Neufeldt has turned that conviction into a tradition, …

Jason Magabo Perez, a Cal State San Marcos associate professor of ethnic studies, served on the creative production team as poet and scholar for “Burden of Proof,” a multimedia dance-theater production recently presented by Kularts, a Filipino arts …

The Dance Studies department is hosting a series of workshops throughout the spring, including two upcoming events featuring Daunté Fyall, a dance instructor, performing artist, choreographer, motivational speaker and founder of the West African …

Two members of the Cal State San Marcos community have been nominated for the Craig Noel Award for “Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play.” Hosted annually by the San Diego Theatre Critics …

The event that inspired the class project was imaginary. But for Sonia Ellis and fellow Cal State San Marcos art students, the payoff was very real.Last year, Ellis was a student in AMD 409: Advanced Graphic Design and Visual Arts, an upper-division …

The Arts & Lectures series returns to Cal State San Marcos this spring with concerts, performances and talks aimed at sharing music, dance, science and history. Events will take place across campus from January through April. All events are free …

After he stopped touring full-time as a musician several years ago, Aaron Humble increased his pace of sending out feelers to conductors of groups that fly in musicians for a week-long project that often ends in a CD-quality recording.As it often …

The Cal State San Marcos theatre arts program will bring the complexities of teenage girlhood to the stage with “The Wolves.”The play, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah DeLappe, is a coming-of-age tale that follows a high school girls soccer …

Cal State San Marcos next month will host its third annual workshop to introduce students to the path to becoming an elementary or secondary school arts teacher.“Become an Arts Teacher Day” will take place on Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. …

For Judit Hersko, a two-week voyage to the Arctic Circle last summer was more than a bucket-list adventure.It was the continuation of a two-decade career turn toward venturing to – both physically and emotionally – some of the coldest, most remote …

When Jonathan Berman came to Cal State San Marcos as a film professor in 2004, he was close to finishing a documentary about a Northern California commune during the counterculture era.The documentary was released the following year. Now, 20 years …

Cal State San Marcos’ Blue Light Student Theatre Club is presenting a performance of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” The play will be Oct. 2-4 at 7 p.m. in Arts Building 111. Tickets are $7 for students and $10 for the community.The …

Cal State San Marcos professor and award-winning pianist Ching-Ming Cheng will take the stage on campus as part of her fall concert series.The concert will be held Oct. 23 at noon in Arts 111. Cheng will perform with cellist Paul Tseng, music …

Cal State San Marcos welcomed more than 17,000 students, including the largest freshman class in university history of more than 2,700, to kick off the fall semester Monday. Official enrollment numbers will be available following the 2025 fall …

A paintbrush, a stage, a story — the arts inspire innovation, evoke empathy and spark thoughtful conversations. Now, thanks to a generous three-year investment from the David T. and Dorris E. Staples Foundation, Cal State San Marcos students are …

An event showcasing two first-generation UCLA students who share their struggles in navigating medical school highlights the fall lineup of the longstanding Arts & Lectures series at Cal State San Marcos.  This season boasts a diverse …

It’s a tough time to be a scientist.The National Science Foundation has made drastic cuts to research funding, with hundreds of grants terminated and the proposed budget slashed by more than half. The National Institutes of Health has been hit …

Cal State San Marcos lecturer Rajee Ranpathi Samarasinghe has been named a Class of 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, one of the most selective and prestigious fellowships in the nation.From a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, Samarasinghe is one of 198 …

Through poetry, performance and video, Jason Magabo Perez – the most recent poet laureate for the city of San Diego – will explore the poetics of memory as an act of anticolonial future-making at the sixth Arts & Lectures event on April …

On March 19, Cal State San Marcos hosted a powerful and memorable event to celebrate an initiative titled “Veterans History Project: An Unveiling of the Journey.”The event, which drew more than 350 registered attendees, was a blend of heartfelt …

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The fourth Arts & Lectures event of the spring semester features a film screening of “Bad Child.”  The event is March 4 at noon in Arts 111. Reserve tickets online via the Arts & Lectures website. The film is a short …

The second Arts & Lectures event of the spring semester will feature “Songs of the Wayfarer,” a reading of select poems of Rabindranath Tagore, India’s Nobel laureate.  Translations from Bengali to English were created by Jayanta …

The spring Arts & Lectures series will open with a day-long cypher and battle led by two notable hip-hop artists, Johnny Lopez (Johnny 5) and Quentin Robinson (SpecialFX). Born in Oakland, Johnny5 is a Latino professional turf dancer and …

For most of her life, Patrice Amon has bristled at the popular notion that Latino people vote as one monolithic bloc.So when she came across a script last year that delves into that very subject, she knew she had to make it her next stage …

An event showcasing the oral histories of military veterans highlights the spring lineup of the longstanding Arts & Lectures series at Cal State San Marcos.  This season boasts a diverse selection of eight events as the university hosts …

The Art, Media and Design Department will host a new exhibit, “(RE)GENERATION,” with an opening reception in the arts building lobby on Dec. 5 from 3-6 p.m. The exhibition will be available to view through Jan. 24. “(RE)GENERATION” explores …