LECTURE Carl Wilkens World Outside my Shoes As a humanitarian aid worker, Wilkens moved his young family to Rwanda in the spring of 1990. When the genocide was launched in April 1994, Wilkens refused to leave. He was the lectures only American to remain in the country, and his actions saved the lives of 100s. His experiences were included in the 2004 PBS documentary Ghosts of Rwanda. Wilkens has dedicated his life to speaking out against hatred, prejudice, and genocide. Spring 2011 FFEBRUARY Co-sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation. THURS FEB 3 @ 7 PM CMLARKAE Y113 MEDIA ART/DEMO MUSIC MDANCE LECTURE Dr. Caitlin Fisher Haresh Gobin – CSUSM Alumnus Locally Grown Dance Series presents Spatial Initiatives Bhajan/Kirtan/Indian Spiritual Music Refrigerate After Opening Dr. Fisher will perform a University of California San reading/demo of "Circle", Experience a musical Diego MFA Dance Theatre a table theatre fiction journey of soulful Indian candidates present an evening of piece that tells small Bhajans & Kirtans. This innovative dance theatre and stories about three genre of music uses dance-for-camera works. Witness generations of women, ancient Sanskrit mantras Alicia Peterson Baskel, Anya and “Requiem,” a and poetry to awaken Cloud, Janet Hayatshahi, Rebecca narrative poem, built the listener. Featuring Salzer and Kyle Sorensen engage using computer-vision- Bhajan/Kirtan Singer with the moving/speaking body based augmented reality. Haresh Gobin and through humorous inquiry and Come experience a unique internationally serious investigation. Refrigerate authoring environment and learn about the expressive software renowned Tabla After Opening applies pressure Dr. Fisher built. These flash-based reality solutions are used as Maestro, Ustad Rahis to not knowing within a physical Ahmed Khan. landscape. creative mediums for literary and visual experimentation. Photo credit: Colin McGurk

WED FEB 9 @ 6 PM ARTS 111 TUE FEB 15 @ 7 PM ARTS 111 WED FEB 16 @ 7 PM ARTS 111 DANCEAAPRIL ART LECTURE ART TALK/WORKSHOP Lunar New Year Celebration: Dr. Renate Dohmen TerMrilynn Quick MARCH San Diego Lucky Lion Dancers Collage, Memory and Femininti y: Women’s Artist Albums in the Victorian Age Books Come ring in the The practice of collecting and Lunar Year of the arranging autographs, watercolors, Rabbit with the photographs, and ephemera in San Diego Lucky ‘albums ornés’ was an important Lion Dancers, the aspect of Victorian women's culture oldest and largest and sociability. Dr. Dohmen will lion dance troupe discuss the history of women’s in San Diego. The albums with a particular focus on traditional Chinese lion dance is an elaborate martial arts ritual two albums of women traveling Artist Terrilynn Quick will share the history of artist books involving mythical lion costumes to frighten evil spirits and in British India, exploring their and examples of her own handmade works. A bookmaking summon prosperity. Join us as we celebrate the Lunar New Year! representation of empire and workshop follows her talk. (Bring your own materials see experience of travel. the website for details.) Co-sponsored by BAPS, APIFSA and USUAB-CAT. THURS FEB 17 @ 12 PM UNIVERSITY PLAZA TUE FEB 22 @ 6 PM ARTS 111 WED FEB 23 @ 5:30 PM ARTS 342

JEWISH LATINO FILM FESTIVAL MUSIC Concert by Martin Chalifour Did we mention all CSUSM and the Jewish Latino Film Festival Proudly Present the First & Dana Burnett Annual "Jewish Latino Film Series" Martin Chalifour is a The San Diego Latino Film Festival brings a four-month celebration of films Arts & Lectures Events by Jewish Latino filmmakers about the Jewish Latino experience. principal concertmaster and Professor at University 5 Dias sin Nora of Southern California’s Thorton School of Music. are A heart warming story of love, doubt, faith, and the He is accompanied by importance of family. concert pianist Dana Guest introduction by Lizet Benrey, Artist Burnett. This evening features highlights of the For more info contact: Media Arts Center San Diego at 619-230-1938 violin repertoire with music or visit www.sdlatinofilm.com. FFEBRUARY of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Fritz Kreisler and others. MCo-sponsored by the LeichtMag FamilAy FouYndation. Co-sponsored by Funes Foundation FREE? WED FEB 23 @ 5:30 PM ARTS 111 THURS FEB 24 @ 7 PM ARTS 111

THEATER LECTURE hereandnow ANDREA SMITH Indigenous Peoples and White Supremacy: From humble Rethinking Racial Justice Organizing beginnings at East Los Angeles College, Andrea Smith is a Cherokee feminist ac- hereandnow has grown tivist. She co-founded INCITE! Women Of in the size of its cast Color Against Violence and the Boarding which has toured over School Healing Project. She is the author of 200 different colleges, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American theatres, and Indian Genocide and Native Americans and festivals since 1990. the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics hereandnow uses the collective voices of its diverse cast to reach Of Unlikely Alliances. She is also editor of out to audiences through a universal theme: everyone comes from The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond a unique experience, everyone has a story to tell. the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and The Color Of Violence: The Incite! Anthology. Co-sponsored by SLL Multicultural Program, the Ethnic Studies Program and APRIL the Asian Pacific Islander Faculty Staff Association A Co- sponsored by the Social and Justice Equity Project MARCH MTUE MAR 1 @ 7 PM ARTS 111 TUE MAR 8 @ 12 PM ACD 102 PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT LECTURE THEATER PORTRAITS AND STORIES OF Gerda Weissmann Klein Inmaculada Alvear HOLOCAUST Survivors One Survivor Remembers Mi vida gira alrededor de 500 metros Author, Academy Award Winner, Holocaust Authored by contemporary Spanish playwright Survivor and Human Rights Activist Inmaculada Alvear, this award-winning play confronts domestic For over six decades, Gerda violence head-on, as Weissmann Klein has captivated the characters wade “Multiply by Six Million: Portraits and Stories of Holocaust audiences worldwide with her through a troubled mix Survivors” presents a visually arresting and powerful first-person powerful message of hope, inspiration, of love, jealousy, and history of one of the defining events of the 20th century through love and humanity. From surviving the violence. This event photographic portraits and personal stories of Holocaust survivors. Holocaust to her journey to the United States, and accepting features a dramatic The exhibition showcases contemporary photographer Evvy Eisen’s an Oscar and Emmy for a documentary based on her life, she reading of the play 15-year-long project to create portraits of survivors living in shares her life story of her commitment to promote tolerance, under the direction of California and to collect their personal histories. encourage community service and combat hunger. President Fulbright Scholar Dr. Andrea Liss, Professor of Art History and Cultural Theory, CSUSM and Obama named Gerda Klein as one of the recipients of the 2010 Rafael Rodriguez. author of Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Medal of Freedom—the nation’s highest civilian honor. This reading will be Holocaust F(Univ.FEBRUARY of Minnesota Press) will give a walkthrough tour of the in Spanish. exhibition on March 9, 1-2pm. Co-sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation.MAY FEB 18-APR 18 KELLOGG LIBRARY WED MAR M9 @ 6 PM ARTS 240 WED MAR 16 @ 7 PM ARTS 111 DANCE LECTURE/ARTIST TALK Salsa y Mas Showcase Maureen Drdak The Visual Syntax of

Providing a glimpse into Contemplative Touchstones and the rich culture of San Archetypal Paradigms Diego's local salsa scene, this showcase features an Maureen Drdak is a painter of array of exciting talent, “contemplative touchstones” and including dancers who extended meditations on Western and have traveled, performed, Eastern archetypal paradigms. Ms. Drdak and competed across the will discuss the significance of her artwork, US and internationally. which investigates global cross-cultural Come see these exciting myths, history, and the psychological performers showcasing "bones" of these archetypal paradigms their art here on campus! and their visual syntax. Drdak’s work as been described as “ravishingly beautiful,” “sensitive and dazzling,” and “visionary” AAPRIL by critics and scholars. MONMAPR 11 @ 7 PMMARCHCLARKE 113 TUE APR 12 @ 7 PM CLARKE 113 MUSIC FESTIVAL LECTURE Naruwan Taiko Drums The New Mexican Literary Canon: Celebrating Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Earth Day Concert An Evening with Cristina Rivera Garza Celebrate EARTH DAY at CSUSM Taiko, meaning "drum" in Japanese, Join us for an evening of stems back over 1000 years in Japan, was with performances, art exhibits, and music concerts. This event will conversation with Mexican originally used as military instruments writer Cristina Rivera Garza. and village time keeper. North American include students from High Tech High North County and the Born in Tamaulipas, México, Taiko is now a popular art form, fusing Ms. Rivera Garza is a historian traditional drumming with modern Visual & Performing Arts Department. The event by training and a novelist of styles of music with power and international acclaim. She has dynamism. Enjoy the headliner Naruwan culminates with music by an ensemble led by award twice won the Sor Juana Inés Taiko as CSUSM celebrates Asian Pacific de la Cruz Prize, a prestigious Islander heritage along with enthusiastic winning artist Yale Strom. Bring lawn chairs and a picnic! literary award in Mexico. She student performances. currently teaches Creative Writing at University of Co-Sponsored by APIFSA , USUAB Clarke Activities Team, BAPS and KPDL. Co-sponsored by the City of San Marcos and the Funes Foundation. California San Diego. WED APR 20 @ 7 PM CLARKE 113 THURS APR 21 @ 4-8 PM FORUM PLAZA WED APR 27 @ 7 PM ACD 102 aRtsand aRts THEATER MEDIAMAKERS & Donald Mosher & Michael Palmieri October Country (2009) - 2/15 @ - 5:30 PM in ACD 102 lectures October Country is a beautifully rendered portrait of an American family struggling for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse. Heide Solbrig: Man and the Middle Class: The Work and Vision of Henry Strauss 2/22 @ - 5:30 PM in ACD 102 The film reflects Solbrig's scholarly research into the history In 1990, in the town of and development of the industrial film genre and her interest in telling personal stories about the complex experience of El Mozote, El Salvador, liberalism and modern capitalism. Rufina Amaya Marquez witnessed the destruction of her family, and escaped – by Kim Stringfellow aRts miracle, believing she had been spared for the express purpose Art, Environment and Place - 3/9 @ - 5:30 PM in ARTS 111 of witnessing the crimes. In this work-in-progress presentation Kim Stringfellow will present her installation, audio and book of Erik Ehn’s play Thistle, 3rd Space Theatre Collective present projects about marginalized landscapes within the western and LECTURES & FEBRUARY lectures her journey using an interdisciplinary approach to storytelling. United States where the built environment and wilderness areas F often converge. MAY For more info on this series, please contact: MTUE @ PM Kristine Diekman @ 760-750-4188 or Minda Martin @ 760-750-8012. MAY 3 7 ARTS 111 aRts FRENCH FILMS For parking fee information, please call 760.750.7500 March-April 2011 & or visit www.csusm.edu/guide/parking.html. Persepolis- Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical coming lectures (Parking Fees Apply) of age story, from Iran to Pairs. CSUSM is located at 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road in San Marcos. For directions or more information about Arts & Lectures events, For individuals who have special needs in order to attend these events, Ballerina– dance documentary by Bertrand Normand. please call 760-750-8889 or visit www.csusm.edu/al. please contact the Office of Arts & Lectures at (760) 750-8889. We request that individuals requiring auxiliary aids notify our office at Enjoy the show with post screening discussions. Stay tuned for least 10 working days in advance. Every reasonable effort will be made additional titles and showing times/places. Films in French with to provide suitable accommodations. English subtitles. The Tournées Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of AAPRIL Culture (CNC). MMARCH For more info contact: [email protected] or [email protected].