Edxie Betts is a Black BlackFoot Filipina/Trans/Queer liberation artist, writer and autonomous organizer based in Los Angeles. Their work is centered around advocating for queer and trans communities, bringing support and attention to political prisoners and restorative-mediation work. They emphasize art as cultural production for the sake of inspiring healing, bringing awareness, counter narrative, oppositional alternatives, collective liberation through self-organizing, and direct action.
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 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.
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
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.
In support of the new Music Production track in the Music major, the Music Department is hosting industry professionals in a series of guest lectures, each followed by a Q&A and reception.
Want to learn more about Oxy Arts on York Blvd? Join us at our Creative Exchange Workshop in Lower Herrick at Occidental College. These workshops are an opportunity to dialogue about ideas for future Oxy Arts programming and to develop a collective vision for the Oxy Arts space on York Blvd (at Armadale Blvd.), which will open as early as Fall 2018.
This workshop is free and open to the public.
