Arts

Celebrate the opening of for the sake of dancing in the street with a live DJ, food, drinks and dancing along with special dance performances activating the exhibition.

The collective TCS (Téa Devereaux, Simrin Player, and Chryssa Hadjis) will perform an original dance piece commissioned in response to Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s installation, For Your Eyes Only. The performance will be set to the FYEO soundtrack composed by Carol Ohair. Live DJ set by Lara Sarkissian. 

This exhibition features original work by K-12 artists representing all 22 schools in our Eagle Rock / Highland Park Community of Schools. 

Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, May 13th from 11:00 a.m - 1pm.
The exhibition will be on view from May 15 - 18th, 11am - 4pm. 

Award-winning poet and sound artist, Jonah Mixon-Webster, will give a reading of his work, as part of Occidental College’s Visiting Writers Series. The reading will be followed by an interview and Q&A session with Occidental’s Writer-in-Residence, Chekwube Danladi.

All are welcome. Registration is required for this event, as space is limited. Masks are highly recommended.
 

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

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The program will feature a world premiere by Oxy Student composer Timothy Shortell, featuring the Occidental College Glee Club.

Program:

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula, Opus 75

Fanny Mendelssohn-Henselt: Overture in C Major

Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture

Timothy Shortell: Colliding Worlds (World Premiere)

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