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Freud's Last Session
Thu, Jan 17, 2013 @ 06:00 PM - 11:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Open to USC Students only. Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/899652 beginning Thursday, December 20, at 9 a.m. See below for details.*
*This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. RSVP at the link above beginning Thursday, December 20, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 5:15 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 6 p.m. and return to campus at 11:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.
By Mark St. Germain
Starring Judd Hirsch and Tom Cavanaugh
ââ¬ÅA show you donââ¬â¢t really want to end.ââ¬Â - Chicago Tribune
ââ¬ÅSpirited, witty, and eminently engaging.ââ¬Â - Entertainment Weekly
God, love, sex and the meaning of life. Itââ¬â¢s all up for discussion on the Santa Monica shore in the West Coast premiere of Freudââ¬â¢s Last Session. Best Play winner of the 2011 Off-Broadway Alliance Award, this provocative and witty play centers on a tension-filled encounter between Sigmund Freud and the young Oxford professor C.S. Lewis on the day Britain enters World War II. Enthusiastic word-of-mouth has propelled this profound and deeply touching play from Chicago and New York to international popularity.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: The Broad Stage, Santa Monica
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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ASBME Welcome Back Social
Wed, Jan 23, 2013 @ 07:15 PM - 08:15 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
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All potential and current members are invited to ASBME's welcome back social! We'll have ice cream sundaes and board/card games. We'll also be distributing club t-shirts, so don't miss it!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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An Evening with Trimpin, Sound Artist
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 @ 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Trimpin, an internationally acclaimed artist, kinetic sculptor, sound artist, musician, engineer, inventor, composer and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, is one of the most stimulating one-man forces in music today. A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional acoustic instruments, he has developed a myriad of methods for playing trombones, cymbals and pianos with Macintosh computers. An evening with Trimpin will explore his work and the world of sound art. The evening will incorporate a lecture, a musical/sound-art performance and an excerpt from the film Trimpin: The Sound of Invention.
Trimpin was born in southwestern Germany, near the Black Forest. His early musical training began at the age of eight, learning woodwinds and brass instruments. In later years he developed an allergic reaction to metal that prevented him from pursuing a career in music, so he turned to electro-mechanical engineering. Afterwards, he spent several years living and studying in Berlin, where he received his master's degree from the University of Berlin. Eventually he became interested in acoustical sets while working in theatre productions with Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey, director of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. From 1985 to 1987 he co-chaired the electronic music department of the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Trimpin now resides in Seattle, where numerous instruments that defy description adorn his amazing studio. In describing his work, Trimpin sums it up as 'extending the traditional boundaries of instruments and the sounds they're capable of producing by mechanically operating them. Although they're computer-driven, they're still real instruments making real sounds, but with another dimension added, that of spatial distribution. What I'm trying to do is go beyond human physical limitations to play instruments in such a way that no matter how complex the composition of the timing, it can be pushed over the limits.
Organized by Karen Koblitz (Fine Arts) and Veronika Krausas (Music). Co-sponsored by the USC Thornton School of Music and the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) - Alfred Newman Recital Hall
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Music Festivals: Creating New Communities for a New Generation
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 10:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free.
Each generation creates venues where music can be shared. In recent years, music festivals such as Coachella, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and South By Southwest have drawn hundreds of thousands of people to listen to cutting-edge bands from the United States and abroad. Coachella has grown from 25,000 people during two days in 1999 to crowds of 85,000 a day over two three-day weekends in 2012. This growth raises interesting questions about the meaning of these communal spaces in the age of social media, virtual friendships and a decline in the traditional music industry. What do these events say about youth culture and its social and political links to concerts in the 1960s and â70s? Can the transformative potential of music mobilize a culture?
The music-festival phenomenon will be addressed in a panel featuring Dawes lead singer Taylor Goldsmith, music critic Ann Powers, USC professor Josh Kun and a music festival representative. Documentary screenings throughout the day will further reveal the power and impact of music festivals today and historically.
Schedule of Events:
12:30 p.m.: Screening of Monterey Pop (1968)
Directed by D.A. Pennebaker, 79 minutes.
A concert film from the June 1967 festival held at the county fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Camera operators include famed documentarian Albert Maysles. The film includes incredible performances by Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, Simon & Garfunkel, Otis Redding, The Who and Jimi Hendrix, who set his guitar on fire in an unforgettable performance.
2:30 p.m.: Screening of Wattstax (1973)
Directed by Mel Stuart, 98 minutes.
âThe Afro-American answer to Woodstockâ was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and focused on the community of Watts. Jesse Jackson gave the invocation, and musical performances by Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers and others are interspersed with notable interviews, including one with Richard Pryor.
4:30 p.m.: Music Festivals: Creating New Communities for a New Generation
Panel discussion with Taylor Goldsmith, Ann Powers and others TBA, moderated by Josh Kun
A panel of experts will discuss the music-festival phenomenon: Taylor Goldsmith, the lead singer/songwriter of the rock group Dawes, which has played numerous festivals in the U.S. and abroad; Ann Powers, an author and critic who covers rock, rap and pop and is a contributor to NPR and the Los Angeles Times; and moderator Josh Kun, a professor at USC Annenberg who directs the Popular Music Project at the Norman Lear Center.
6 p.m.: Reception, Queenâs Courtyard
7 p.m.: Screening of Electric Daisy Carnival Experience (2011)
Directed by Kevin Kerslake, 150 minutes.
Followed by a Q&A with Kevin Kerslake
This techno and house music rave was the last one held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Featured acts included Deadmau5, will.i.am and Moby.
About the Panelists:
Taylor Goldsmith is the songwriter and lead singer for Dawes, a four-person Los Angeles rock band. The band is embraced by well-known musicians such as Jackson Browne, who has frequently performed with Dawes and who has called Goldsmith âa brilliant songwriter,â and Robbie Robertson, who chose Dawes as his backup band for several television appearances. Esquire magazine calls Goldsmith âthe best young songwriter in America,â and says his songs âdonât just speak for themselves but accomplish something far rarerâthey speak for us.â The bandâs first album, North Hills, included one of Rolling Stoneâs top 25 songs of the year. Their latest CD, Nothing Is Wrong (2011) landed on many âbest ofâ lists. Dawes has toured nearly nonstop for the past several years in the U.S., Australia and Europe, performing at music festivals such as Coachella, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Bonnaroo, SXSW and the Newport Folk Festival. (Dawes official website)
Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, director of the Popular Music Project at the Norman Lear Center and a Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities fellow. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America and co-author (with Roger Bennett) of And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost. He is a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles. He is also a co-founder of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, a nonprofit Jewish record label and digital archive, and speaks often on topics ranging from cross-border Mexican music to the political and social history of rock music in Los Angeles, about which he curated a recent Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the GRAMMY Museum. (Twitter, bio)
Ann Powers is an author and pop-music critic who has been writing about popular music and society since the early 1980s. She is the author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America and co-editor of Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap. In 2005, Powers co-wrote the book Piece by Piece with musician Tori Amos. The book discusses the role of women in the modern music industry, and features information about composing, touring, performance and the realities of the music business. Powersâs writing also has appeared in the New York Times, Blender and The Village Voice. She currently writes for NPR Music and is a contributor to the Los Angeles Times. (NPR, Twitter)
Organized by the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, USC Libraries and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Naked Island Benicio Del Toro Presents the Work of Legendary Japanese Filmmaker Kaneto Shindo
Sat, Jan 26, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Wednesday, January 9, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here.
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897838
Dessert reception to follow.
Join us in a unique opportunity to celebrate legendary Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo with a rare 35mm screening of Naked Island, followed by a Q&A with Benicio Del Toro and Jiro Shindo, the directorâs son.
Kaneto Shindo has been a pioneer of independent filmmaking in Japan for over 80 years, engaging in radical experiments with cinematic forms that seem innovative even today. Shindoâs Naked Island, described by Time Out as âperhaps the ultimate poetic-ruralism masterpiece by someone not named Malick,â is a nearly dialogue-free film that follows the struggles of a young family living as farmers on an island that lacks a natural water source. The resulting cinematic poem has become a landmark of Japanese cinema that, according to the New York Times, manifests âthe eloquence with which a movie can be made to convey, without words, the qualities and endurance locked in the lives of human beings.â Despite having won numerous international awards, Shindoâs work has only recently been reintroduced to non-Japanese audiences, largely through the championing of Academy Awardâwinning actor Benicio Del Toro, who has called Shindo âone of the great filmmakers that the world has produced.â
Organized by Sunyoung Lee (Kaya Press), Akira Lippit (Cinematic Arts) and Stanley Rosen (Political Science). Co-sponsored by American Studies and Ethnicity (Asian American Studies), the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, East Asian Languages and Culture, the East Asian Studies Center and the USC School of Cinematic Arts (Critical Studies and Outside the Box [Office]).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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South Coast Repertory: Chinglish
Wed, Jan 30, 2013 @ 06:00 PM - 11:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Open to USC students only. Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897932 beginning Thursday, January 10, at 9 a.m. See below for details.*
*This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. RSVP at the link above beginning Thursday, January 10, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 5:15 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 6 p.m. and return to campus at 11:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.
Named by TIME as Best New American Play of 2011, David Henry Hwangâs Broadway hit Chinglish comes to Southern California. Daniel is an American businessman whose sign company is in trouble. But he has a great idea: score a fat contract in China, where signs for English-speaking tourists are mangled by hilarious mistranslations. Unfortunately, he forgets the most important rule: always bring your own translator because business deals involve much more than wining and dining. When Daniel falls in love with a beautiful bureaucrat, even feelings take on different meanings. The repartee is fast and funny in this acclaimed comedy that embraces both sides of the cultural divide.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Segerstrom Stage, Costa Mesa
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Scrapbooks, Army Surplus, Comics and Other Stuff A Conversation with Graphic Storyteller C. Tyler
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free. Reservations recommended. To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897840
Reception to follow.
One night, the underground cartoonist C. Tyler received a phone call from her usually taciturn 90-year-old father, a World War II veteran, who suddenly wanted to unload memories of long-ago experiences which until that moment fell into what Tyler calls âthe category of âleave it the hell aloneâ or âitâs none of your goddamn business.ââ Tyler tried to capture her fatherâs memories first with a video camera and later through a trilogy of graphic novels, which expand to tell the story of her familyâs history. Sometimes she uses the printed book like a scrapbook, incorporating a yellowed news clipping documenting the childhood death of her sister, or wartime letters from her father to the woman he would marry. She incorporates maps, charts and graphs designed to explain aspects of her familyâs experience. Often they are used in a less than naturalistic manner, as when she offers a blueprint of her fatherâs surgery. Ultimately, the finished product, Youâll Never Know: A Graphic Memoir, is, as Tyler told one interviewer, about âthe stuff that gets passed down to the next generation,â with âstuffâ meant to describe material culture stored away in the basement, as well as the emotional baggage that her repressed and sometimes overbearing father passed to her generation.
In this illustrated conversation with Henry Jenkins, USC Provostâs Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts, C. Tyler will talk about comics, family memories, material culture, gender, generations and the stuff that gets exchanged between members of a family. She will dig into her family archives and share the raw materials, including the home movies and photographs, through which she reconstructed her parentsâ stories.
Organized by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Co-sponsored by the USC Gender Studies Program and the USC Comic Book Club.
Image: C. Tyler
Courtesy of Fantagraphics
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) - Annenberg Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
