Friday, May 8

Zhang Jizhong to speak at first UCLA-USC joint Media and Culture in Contemporary China conference

Inspired by Walt Disney's creation of Disneyland, Zhang Jizhong, one of the most acclaimed directors and producers in China, will partner with Disney to build a new theme park in Shanghai based on the popular Chinese legend of the Monkey King. Read more...

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Courtesy of ANDREW MCCALLUM
Zhang Jizhong plans to build a new theme park in China based on the Chinese legend of the Monkey King.



Sounds of South India

On Sunday, Ramamurthi will be playing the violin alongside mridangam player Nirmal Narayan and renowned south Indian artist D. Seshachary, a member of the Hyderabad Brothers band, at the Carnatic concert put on by UCLA's Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth Read more...

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Second-year business economics student Shiva Ramamurthi will be playing the violin this Sunday alongside mridangam player Nirmal Narayan and renowned south Indian artist D. Seshachary, a member of the Hyderabad Brothers band at the Carnatic concert put on by UCLA’s Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth.


UCLA alumni to perform in cemetery to celebrate classic horror literary works for “˜Wicked Lit’

A typical play rehearsal takes place indoors on a stage with decent lighting, but UCLA alumni Michael Perl and John Cogan have spent the last couple weeks running through graveyards, getting tangled in spiderwebs and slinking through underground vaults, all under the cloak of night. Read more...

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UCLA alumnus John Cogan, left, performs with co-star Michael Prichard in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Unnamable” at Mountain View Cemetery.


The Psykes, a band formed by UCLA students, to take the stage at Westwood Live

Before forming their band The Psykes, Nathan Kersey-Wilson, Eric Cappello and Nivedan Nayak were simply residents in Dykstra Hall with little knowledge of one another. Read more...

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Third-years Nathan Kersey-Wilson, a jazz performance student, left, Eric Cappello, a music composition student, center, and Nivedan Nayak, a communication studies student, right, play at Kerckhoff Coffeehouse.


L.A. Theatre Works explores modern love in its new radio theater production “˜Completeness’

"Completeness," the L.A. Theatre Works new radio theater production, attempts to answer questions about love and relationships through the story of a romance between a molecular biologist and a computer scientist. Read more...

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Jason Ritter and Mandy Siegfried star in “Completeness,” a new radio theater production by L.A. Theatre Works at the James Bridges Theater.