May 3-May 7: Your Arts in Action Colleges Community Murals

All over YOUR college campus
Create YOUR art! Speak out for YOUR college!
Add YOUR voice to YOUR community’s mural!

Speak out for your college!
Canvas squares will be at each college for a community mural to be created by students and then collaged together for the UCSD Arts in Action mural.

TIME/PLACE:
Murals at each college from May 3-May 7, and assembled with the Arts In Action Mural by Mario Torero and Fernando Vossa at the
Weiss Theater 4-5:30 pm on May 7.

May 3-May 7: Arts in Action surprise performances and dance flash mobs

Be on the lookout for multiple surprise events that will be happening across the UCSD Campus, including arts in action dance flash mobs and site specific performance art. Tweet and upload what you discover at ucsdsmashtv.com

Friday, May 7th, 2010 • 10am - 10pm • Admission FREE

10 am - 2 pm: Arts in Action Across UCSD

Multiple events will be happening across the UCSD Campus, including lectures, play readings, site-specific performances and flash mob dances!

2 - 3:30 pm: Project Protest: Performance Marches

Four performance marches will invoke the tradition of arts activism creating change for Civil Rights, Women?s Rights, Gay Rights, and Chicano Rights. They will all culminate in a silent protest at the Silent Tree on Library Walk, and then process to the Mandell Weiss Theatre in the UCSD Theatre District.

Locations:
Cross Cultural Center
LGBT Resource Center
The Women's Center
Chicano Legacy Mural at Peterson Hall

Ending at
the Silent Tree on Library Walk

3:50 pm: Gather, Dance and March In

All for One. One for All. West African Dance and Drumming

Location:
Mandell Weiss Court Yard

Welcome:

Allyson Green
Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance

Opening Remarks:

Marye Anne Fox
Chancellor

Speak out, take in, and think critically about arts activism and the intersections
between race, gender, sexuality, class and performance.

Moderator:
Jade Power
PhD Candidate, Department of Theatre and Dance

Panelists:
Robert Castro
Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, UCSD
Evelyn Cruz
M.F.A. Theatre Program, University of San Diego
Monique Gaffney
M.F.A., UCSD alumna
Dr. Grant Kester
Department Chair, Visual Arts, UCSD
Ronald McCants
M.F.A., Department of Theatre and Dance, UCSD 2010 graduate
Seema Sueko
Artistic Director, Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company
Dr. Jesse Mills
Department of Ethnic Studies, University of San Diego

With:
Live Mural Painting by
Mario Torero & Fernando Vossa
Soobax, Hip Hop dance performance

TIME/PLACE
4-5:30 Mandell Weiss Theatre

Arts in Action Forum Questions:

Is a racially themed party a performance?

What does "color-blind" mean to you? Are you "color-blind?"

How do you feel about the notion of "color-blind" casting?

What is the role of visual representation and comedy in perpetuating disparaging images of
women, people of color, gay people, poor people?

How can art be used to subvert racist, sexist, classist, homophobic representations?

Should art be ethically driven?

Is a protest an act of performance?

5:30 - 6:30 pm: Arts in Action Interact

Discover multiple site-specific art actions and installations and
refresh with food from the taco truck!

Location:
Mandell Weiss Lobby and Courtyard

Visual Art installations by
Theodore Shank • Fred Lonidier • and others

View, upload and interact at ucsd.smashtv.com

Location:
Mandell Weiss Courtyard

Toma Teatro performs Luis Valdez's Los Vendidos

Fence- for Matthew Shepard
Real Art for Real Change Prayer Wheel

Location:
In and Around the Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building

Contemporary Dance works and videos

and

Heart Beats Light

6:30 – 8 pm: Arts in Action Performances

Theatre, performance art, dance, spoken word, music and audience interaction

Location:
Mandell Weiss Theatre

8 – 10 pm: Arts in Action After Dance

Create the community, talk, reflect, place a wish on the prayer wheel, upload on ucsdsmashtv.com and DANCE with DJ Shammy Dee

Location:
Mandell Weiss Theatre

Your Host: UC San Diego, Department of Theatre and Dance

This event is generously supported by the Chancellor, Senior Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs; Deans; Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs; Vice Chancellor, Research; College Provosts; Alumni Affairs, Division of Arts and Humanities Chairs; and La Jolla Playhouse.