The Fairy Who Cried Gems is a cross-cultural, sometimes verbatim folk-tale, memoir, and celebration of identity, created and performed by Lily Abha Cratsley. She serves as a storyteller, employing dialogue, music, and movement to transport the audience through the oral histories of Desi American women. Through this piece, Lily explores her contradicting identities and discovers how Desi joy can be built out of legacies of trauma.
A cross-cultural, sometimes verbatim folk-tale, memoir, and celebration of identity, created and performed by Lily Abha Cratsley. She serves as a storyteller, employing dialogue, music, and movement to transport the audience through the oral histories of Desi American women. Through this piece, Lily explores her contradicting identities and discovers how Desi joy can be built out of legacies of trauma.
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Mckenzie Locke Accessing an Invisible Installation: Time, Space and Post 3/11 Memory in Fukushima
Alex Kawawaki Untitled [Senior Thesis]' - Body Art and Constructions of Women's Bodily Autonomy
Directed by Jamie Angell
Stage Managed by Avery Jones
What happens when there’s a knock on the door Nora slammed 15 years ago? Having left behind her domestic “prison” to become an independent self-actualized woman, Nora is now forced to return in order to finish what she started. Lucas Hnath's A Doll’s House, Part 2 stays true to the characters Ibsen created while contemporaneously investigating the meaning and underlying impulses behind Nora’s slammed door.
Please join the English Department for a presentation by Jonah Mixon-Webster.
A poet, educator, scholar and art activist from Flint, MI
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Kay Rhie is a composer of contemporary classical music which often explores the issues of belonging and the science of acoustics. She is inspired by a wide-ranging palette of classical, film, and European avant-garde music as well as various literary and artistic traditions. Her opera Quake will premiere in June at UCLA Freud Playhouse. A commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Five Petals, about displacement from home and a desire to belong, will be premiered during the 2024-2025 season at Disney Hall.
Music production seniors Alex Prichett, messyroom*, Bond., Wils, Mon, Téa, and Kiarra Young perform a set at OXY ARTS - don't miss it!
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