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Taking the Long View: Design and the Nonprofit
Wed, Nov 03, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Most of todayâs positive design solutions focus on green design. Although issues such as efficiency and sustainability are critical, one canât ignore equally pressing issues like humanitarian aid, education and healthcare. Often overlooked, nonprofit groups tend to take on the burden in areas where government agencies fail. This event will feature presentations by landscape architect Lily Jencks from Maggieâs Cancer Caring Centres and Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanityâtwo international nonprofit organizations that use design in exceptional, and human, ways.
Maggieâs Cancer Caring Centres are auxiliary cancer-care facilities that landscape architect and writer Maggie Jencks established before her death in 1995. First Lady Michelle Obama toured the London branch on a recent trip. Notable architects such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Sir Richard Rogers and Rem Koolhaas have donated designs for several of the centers. Landscape architect Lily Jencks will discuss the work of the centers and her work with Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas on their newest additions in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
Architecture for Humanity was founded by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr in 1999. Based in San Francisco, AfH relies on volunteer architects and designers to deliver humanitarian aid at disaster sites around the globe. AfH doesnât provide disaster response; they provide disaster relief for the long term and community rebuilding for two to ten years into the future. Sinclair has received the TED Prize for Innovation and was named one of the âWorldâs Most Influential Designersâ by BusinessWeek magazine.
Organized by R. Scott Mitchell (Architecture).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Karsh Is History: Yousuf Karsh and Portrait Photography
Thu, Nov 04, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Join us for a festival of music and films presented in conjunction with the exhibit Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes, on display at the USC Fisher Museum of Art from August 19 through November 23. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh, one of our greatest portrait photographers, whose portrait subjects include such political, social and literary figures as Nelson Mandela, Audrey Hepburn, Winston Churchill and Robert Frost.
Karsh Is History: Yousuf Karsh and Portrait Photography is a documentary that celebrates Karshâs prolific career with the voices of critics, curators, philosophers and subjects of his portrait photography. The film won the 2009 FIFA Award for Best Canadian Film and has been presented at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and at the National Portrait Gallery in Ottawa. The screening will be accompanied by a discussion with USC photography professor Robbert Flick. Flick has been exhibiting his photographs for over 30 years, and his work has been shown and collected at numerous private and public venues both nationally and internationally. He has received two NEA fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship and a County of Los Angeles grant. He was a scholar at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. A retrospective of his work was held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2004.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Chinatown with Robert Towne and Kevin Starr
Thu, Nov 11, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Screenwriter and director Robert Towne mined the bitter conflicts over land and water rights that raged in Southern California during the early twentieth century to fashion Chinatown, an American cinema classic for which he won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film will be screened as part of a two-part series entitled "Itâs All True?," which will explore how filmmakers have translated true stories into feature films and how those films have impacted our sense of history, events and politics. Following the screening, Towne and USC university professor Kevin Starr, the preeminent historian of California, will join cinematic-arts professors Mark J. Harris and Ted Braun to discuss the interplay between fact and fiction and Chinatownâs complex relationship to our sense of Los Angeles as a place.
In addition to Chinatown, Towne has written numerous film scripts, including Chinatownâs sequel, The Two Jakes; the Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo; and the first two Mission: Impossible films. Towne also wrote and directed Personal Best, Without Limits and Tequila Sunrise, starring Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Organized by Ted Braun and Mark J. Harris (Cinematic Arts).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School of Cinematic Arts 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980Fri, Nov 12, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reservations required. Please check the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873336 for festival schedule and reservation information.
Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of experimental cinemas: avant-garde and art films; films by people of color, women and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community; psychedelic and structural films; and many other radical alternatives to the commercial feature-film industry. Including filmmakers, scholars and programmers, this avant-garde extravaganza will explore the vibrant history of alternatives to mainstream Hollywood with screenings of important and amazing filmsâmany of which have been newly preservedâas well as a conference and exhibits.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School of Cinematic Arts and Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
Sat, Nov 13, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reservations required. Please check the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873336 for festival schedule and reservation information.
Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of experimental cinemas: avant-garde and art films; films by people of color, women and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community; psychedelic and structural films; and many other radical alternatives to the commercial feature-film industry. Including filmmakers, scholars and programmers, this avant-garde extravaganza will explore the vibrant history of alternatives to mainstream Hollywood with screenings of important and amazing filmsâmany of which have been newly preservedâas well as a conference and exhibits.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School of Cinematic Arts and Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
Sun, Nov 14, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reservations required. Please check the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873336 for festival schedule and reservation information.
Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of experimental cinemas: avant-garde and art films; films by people of color, women and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community; psychedelic and structural films; and many other radical alternatives to the commercial feature-film industry. Including filmmakers, scholars and programmers, this avant-garde extravaganza will explore the vibrant history of alternatives to mainstream Hollywood with screenings of important and amazing filmsâmany of which have been newly preservedâas well as a conference and exhibits.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School of Cinematic Arts and Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Pianist Daniel Pollack in Concert
Sun, Nov 14, 2010 @ 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Pre-concert lecture at 2:30 p.m.
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, visit our event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873337 beginning Monday, October 18, at 9 a.m.
Internationally renowned pianist and USC Thornton faculty Daniel Pollack, a child prodigy who performed with the New York Philharmonic at the age of nine, has performed for audiences worldwide. In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, Pollack traveled to Moscow for a new-music competition named after Tchaikovsky, one of Russiaâs most famous composers. It was there that Pollack, in the words of the New York Times, âforged a kind of soulful bond with Russia during one of the most momentous cultural events of the Cold War.â
Pollack mesmerizes concertgoers and critics, who have praised âhis astonishing pianismâ (Washington Post) and âhis dramatic tension, poignant lyricismâ (Diapason magazine, Paris). Pollack will celebrate the births of two composers, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Barber and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Chopin. The concert will also feature works by Ferruccio Busoni and Claude Debussy. Tim Page, professor in the USC Thornton and Annenberg schools, will present a pre-concert lecture.
Organized by the USC Thornton School of Music.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Eyes on the Middle East
Sat, Nov 20, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
See the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873338 for event schedule.
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is complex and controversial. Filmmakers on both sides are using cinematic media to express a variety of perspectives about struggles in the Middle East and the quest for peace. This two-day event will feature screenings of dramas and documentaries that offer diverse insights and alternatives to violence. Filmmakers from Israel, Palestine and the United States, including Hany Abu-Assad, Adi Arbel, Ronit Avni, Joseph Cedar, Barak Heymann, Ibtisam Maraâana, Eran Riklis and Ari Sandel, will discuss their work, the issues that they are engaging and the powerful role cinema can play in increasing international awareness and understanding.
Organized by Jeremy Kagan (Cinematic Arts), John Odell (International Relations), Dave OâBrien (Cinematic Arts) and the USC Change Making Media Lab.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Eyes on the Middle East
Sun, Nov 21, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
See the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873338 for event schedule.
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is complex and controversial. Filmmakers on both sides are using cinematic media to express a variety of perspectives about struggles in the Middle East and the quest for peace. This two-day event will feature screenings of dramas and documentaries that offer diverse insights and alternatives to violence. Filmmakers from Israel, Palestine and the United States, including Hany Abu-Assad, Adi Arbel, Ronit Avni, Joseph Cedar, Barak Heymann, Ibtisam Maraâana, Eran Riklis and Ari Sandel, will discuss their work, the issues that they are engaging and the powerful role cinema can play in increasing international awareness and understanding.
Organized by Jeremy Kagan (Cinematic Arts), John Odell (International Relations), Dave OâBrien (Cinematic Arts) and the USC Change Making Media Lab.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
