Festival of Discovery

Festival of Discovery

Celebrate 50 Years of UCI

 

October 3, 2015
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Celebrate UCI’s Bright Past and Brilliant Future with a day in Aldrich Park. The Festival of Discovery will feature interactive explorations of how UCI students, faculty and UC Irvine Health are impacting the world around us. Join us for a community celebration including food trucks, cover bands, family friendly activities and more. For more information, visit www.festivalofdiscovery.uci.edu.

Grab your friends and lace up your high-top sneakers, it is time to run through the decades! Join UC Irvine as it celebrates its 50th Anniversary with the Anteater 5K & Family Fun Run. The race features throwback tunes, costume prizes, giveaways, fun, and festivities!

Register for the 5K here: Festival 5K Fun Run

Register for the FREE Festival: Festival of Discovery Registration

 

Performance/ Exhibitions hosted by Claire Trevor School of the Arts

ARTS +­ CULTURE PAVILION

Performance Schedule
9:00am – 3:00pm: Dance Brings the Light
10:00am – 2:00pm: Shaken Shakespeare Project (throughout the Park)
10:00am: Improvisation Innovation Illuminations
11:00am: Shaken Shakespeare Project – Jane Page intro and Q & A
11:30am: Man of La Mancha
1:00pm: Improvisation Innovation Illuminations
2:00pm: Ravel Unraveled

Dance Brings the Light
“Dance Brings the Light” is a social media public art project directed by Professor John Crawford, featuring artistic and technical contributions by students and alumni from the UCI departments of Dance, Music and Drama, responding to the University motto, "Fiat Lux," or “let there be light.”
Presentations will be intermittent between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm

Shaken Shakespeare Project
Shakespeare is about everyone, and for everyone! UCI Drama actors surprise and delight festival guests with a unique one-on-one or small group encounter from the Shakespearean Canon. “Congratulations! You’ve been Shakespeare’d!” Directed by Department of Drama Professor Jane Page.
Performances will be intermittent between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm

Join Director Jane Page on the Arts + Culture Pavilion Stage at 11:00 am for brief talk and Q & A

Improvisation Innovation Illuminations
Improvisation Innovation Illuminations is a comedic, interactive, and improvisational presentation that will highlight some of the artistic and cultural resources available at UC Irvine. Whatever your field of study, the arts open doors of creativity, inspiration, and discovery.  Directed by Department of Drama Professor Joel Veenstra.
Performances will be at 10:00am and 1:00pm on the Arts + Culture Pavilion Stage

Man of La Mancha
The UCI Dept. of Drama will mount the famed 1964 musical Man of La Mancha, directed by Don Hill and playing from November 14 – 22, 2015 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.  See a sneak peak of this five-time Tony Award winning production.  The performance will feature excerpts from the play including the most notable song, "The Impossible Dream."
Performance will be at 11:30am on the Arts + Culture Pavilion Stage

Ravel Unraveled
Outstanding string players from Claire Trevor School of the Arts perform Maurice Ravel’s Quartet in F Major (1903) and a new work for string quartet and live electronics by Anna Okunev, graduate student in the Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) program. Okunev’s string quartet explores new tonal and timbral possibilities with technology as a basis for extended techniques. Nina Kang and Jae No, violins; Remy Converse, viola; and Cynthia Tsai, cello.
Performance will be at 2:00pm on the Arts + Culture Pavilion Stage

 

INGENUITY +­ INNOVATION PAVILION

Dance Science
Explore the power of dance and science as a rehabilitative tool. Join Professor of Dance Science Dr. Kelli Sharp for an innovative demonstration including robotics and UCI dancers.
Demonstrations will be intermittent between 9:00am and 3:00pm

 

TEDxUCIrvine

Speakers include distinguished UCI professors and students who will showcase ideas that capture our university’s mind, body, heart, and soul. Doors will open at 9:30am with a formal program start time of 10:00am. (Registration is required. Limit 2 tickets.)

Session 1 | Mind: 10:00am-11:00am
Featuring Kelli Sharp
Dr. Kelli Sharp is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance. She is also co-director of I-move in the Stem Cell Research Center.

Dr. Sharp’s research embodies two pillars. The first pillar focuses on injury prevention and wellness for dancers using motion capture system and applying methods of analysis to determine the relationship of motion in space we can further reduce injuries. The second pillar focuses on the development of novel technologies to advance rehabilitation strategies for individuals with neurological disorders by incorporating tools, such as motion capture systems and functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) with dance/movement therapy.
 

JOIN US ON THE CTSA CAMPUS

A Performative Trigger: Radicals of Irvine
Curated by Juli Carson and Marilyn Nix
A Performative Trigger: Radicals of Irvine considers Chris Burden’s often dangerous early performance work as a moment of resistance in the climate of Nixonian conservatism in the early seventies. What was it about Irvine that produced such radical acts?
University Art Gallery (UAG)
Opening Reception: 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Libidinal Economies: Art in the Age of Bull Markets
Exhibition and Film Series Curated by Juli Carson and Michael Moshe Dahan
The Libidinal Economies Film series addresses the Wall Street crashes from the 1980s to present. Although the New York Stock Exchange and the art world constitute two distinct physical locations, they are connected through money and desire. Mirroring this, the exhibition exists in two forms – a curated film series and video installation.
Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery
Opening Reception: 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Objects of Wonder
Curated by David Familian and guest-curator Madeline Schwartzman
Objects of Wonder brings together a wide range of international artists whose work exhibits strange and unusual functions, engaging in conceptual phenomena like time, light, energy, evolution and changes of state. Artists deploy thermo dynamic explosions, asteroidal activity, fluid turbulence, insect behavior, natural selection and gravity to generate astonishing sculptures, drawings, paintings, videos, sound art and installations that  reveal the wonder of everyday phenomena.
Beall Center for Art + Technology
Opening Reception: 2:00pm – 5:00pm

 

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

The Art of the Cello
Los Angeles Philharmonic Principal Cellist Robert deMaine and Trio Céleste pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks in a special season-opening duo recital featuring Sergei Rachmaninoff’s passionate Sonata for Cello and Piano.
Winifred Smith Hall, 8:00pm. Tickets available at the Box Office.

Dates: 
Saturday Oct 3, 2015, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm