Music Studies - Choi Auditorium (Johnson 200)
6:15 Eli Kaplan-Packer - “ 'I Know My Place, and This Is It!': Olivia Rodrigo and the Post-Anthropocenic Female Singer-Songwriter"
Performance - Bird Studio (Booth Hall)
7:00 Gianluca Nisimblat - Drumset Recital
These presentations are in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Music.
Join OXY ARTS and the Occidental College English Department for an evening reading by Iranian-American poet, writer, and librettist Sholeh Wolpé.
Join us for a special screening of Love & Basketball, followed by an interactive conversation about relationships, intimacy, communication, and self-growth. Together, we’ll unpack the highs and challenges of love, how ambition and identity shape relationships, and what it means to build healthy connections with others and with yourself.
Multi-media contemporary artist and filmmaker, Cauleen Smith, will discuss how she arrived at her recent work titled “The Warden,” featured in the exhibition MONUMENTS hosted by the Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She will be joined by Dr. Erica Ball (BLST) and Professor Will Power (TPS) for a conversation about her process of reappropriating a decommissioned monument for a contemporary audience and context.
Program:
Divertimento for String Trio (1788) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Menuetto
IV. Andante
V. Menuetto
VI. Allegro
Join us for an intimate in-gallery conversation between Roksana Pirouzmand and Candice Lin.
Both Pirouzmand and Lin have been Wanlass Artists in Residence at OXY ARTS, and this dialogue will reflect on their shared commitment to deep, reflective, materially driven work. The conversation will consider their shared approaches and influences, inherited histories, and reflections on pedagogy and mentorship.
Location: Choi Auditorium, Occidental College
Accessibility Notes: The Tuba Thieves always screens with Open Captions. This event will include ASL interpretation.
What if we could compost the multiple lives within our single lifetime to grow a world? Join sound artist Umi Hsu for an evening of artist talk and concept-based activities that explore mushrooms, mycelium, and trans temporality. Umi Hsu will give a performance lecture introducing their practice that combines oral history, biomaterials, and worldmaking, while playing sounds on a living fungi synthesizer that they built.
4757 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042.
Join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Roksana Pirouzmand: everything was once something else.