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February


February 10, 2010


12 pm


Culture Fix

Fowler curator Patrick Polk discusses the painting Thank you Dear Virgin for healing my deadly heart problem. Pedro Morales, on view in the exhibition Fowler in Focus: X-Voto—The Retablo-Inspired Art of David Mecalco.


February 11, 2010


6 pm


Fowler Out Loud: The Funeral Variations

Jeffrey King, an MFA student in the department of Theater, Film, and Television, performs a collection of short plays and monologues that explore the lighter side of death and the darker side of life.


February 18, 2010


6 pm


Fowler Out Loud: American Primitive

This quartet of well-mannered gentlemen offers an amalgamation of country, samba, French cafe, bluegrass, and foot-tappin' jazz sure to satiate even the most selective musical palate.


February 21, 2010


2 pm


Artist’s Choice, Artist’s Voice: Alison Saar

Alison Saar’s sculptures, paintings and installations using cast-off objects address themes of the African diaspora and spirituality. Join Saar for a discussion of selected works by Nick Cave, exploring parallels to her own work and working process.


February 25, 2010


6 pm


Fowler Out Loud: Choreo-cinema

Enjoy a special screening as choreographer/filmmaker and first-year UCLA Dance MFA student Heather Coker and fellow dance film artists premiere a pastiche of works.


February 28, 2010


12–5 pm


Family Festival: Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA

Come one come all for a day of musical performances, art workshops, poetry readings and gallery discussions celebrating forty years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA.


March


March 4, 2010


6 pm


Fowler Out Loud: An Evening of Taiko Drumming

Fowler Out Loud booms to a close for the quarter with two dynamic UCLA Taiko drumming groups, Kyodo Taiko and Yukai Daiko. These groups will get your heart racing as each performs a blend of modern and traditional Japanese drumming.


March 10, 2010


12 pm


Culture Fix

Fowler director Marla C. Berns reads between the lines, dots, and other decorative aspects of Nigerian gourds featured in Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives.


March 14, 2010


1–4 pm


Kids in the Courtyard: Little Boxes, None the Same

Create miniature worlds in little boxes made of tin and found materials, inspired by Fowler in Focus: X-Voto—The Retablo-Inspired Art of David Mecalco.


March 14, 2010


2 pm


Artist’s Choice, Artist’s Voice: Malik Gaines

Malik Gaines is a Los Angeles-based writer and performer with the groundbreaking experimental theater group My Barbarian. Gaines examines a group of Nick Cave’s Soundsuits, linking the works to his own experiences as an artist and a scholar of theater and performance.

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