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Author Isabel Quintero

Author Isabel Quintero is a Mexican-American acclaimed young adult author of literature, poetry, and fiction. She has written a young adult fiction novel Gabi, A Girl in Pieces (2014), and two books for younger children, Ugly Cat and Pablo (2017) and Ugly Cat and Pablo and the Missing Brother (2017).  She will share with us her struggles and successes. 

Playback Theater Workshop

Playback Theater is a form of improvisational theater where an audience member tells a true story and then watches it enacted on the spot by a group of trained actors and musicians. It was developed by Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas in the 1970s and is now practiced internationally in schools, corporations, peace and conflict work, and more.

Lecture Recital - Olga Perez Flora, mezzo soprano

Please join MUSC107 (Voice Class) for a guest lecture-recital by mezzo-soprano Olga Perez Flora, who will demonstrate and discuss classical singing, from the oratorio and opera repertoire to Cuban art song. Come learn about what sets classical vocal technique apart from other genres.

Oratorio Repertoire

He shall feed his flock - George Frideric Handel
O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion (From Handel's Messiah)

Operatic Repertoire

Habanera (From Carmen) - Georges Bizet

Prospective Theater Student Workshop

Occidental College is offering a workshop and optional audition for prospective Theater majors and minors.

We are looking for all students with an interest in theater: actors, directors, playwrights, designers, stage managers, and technicians. Students will have the opportunity to work with faculty, meet some of our majors, and get firsthand experience of life at Oxy.