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UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts and ‘Ignite Dance’ Reflect OC’s Dance Ecosystem
January 21, 2026
A 35th anniversary celebration at Irvine Barclay Theatre highlights how local institutions, including UC Irvine, sustain dance across the region
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The Mutable Archive Brings Arts Research into Dialogue with Medical Humanities
January 20, 2026
Organized by Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Jesse Colin Jackson and Director for the Center of Medical Humanities, Dr. Kelli Sharp, the Feb. 12–13 xMPL program features Patricia Olynyk and Adam Hogan in a two-day expanded cinema event
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Art Gallery
The Unworld to Come. Imagining an Otherwise…
January 15, 2026
The University of California, Irvine’s Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery is pleased to host The Unworld to Come. Imagining an Otherwise… featuring artists Marwa Arsanios, Ashley Hunt, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and virgil b/g taylor and curated by Juli Carson, Annika Haas and Sasha Ussef
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Bruce Yonemoto Named CSUN’s Orndorff Artist-in-Residence
January 15, 2026
Bruce Yonemoto has spent a lifetime exploring experimental cinema and video art and has developed a body of work that positions itself within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce.
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Now on Hammer Channel! Watch the Made in L.A. 2025 Artist Profile on Amanda Ross-Ho
January 13, 2026
"Time is both the subject and the material that I work with." Made in L.A. 2025 artist Amanda Ross Ho takes us inside a new installation of four monumental doors, modeled after the doors in her father's and aunt's nursing facility.
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Reed Wixson Blurs the Line Between the Natural and the Artificial Through Music
January 13, 2026
Medici Circle Scholar Reed Wixson and their Project Xylocyclos
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UCI Drama Alumni Chris Renfro ’14 and Justine Rafael ’21 Join Center Theatre Group’s Here Lies Love at the Mark Taper Forum
January 12, 2026
Center Theatre Group’s Here Lies Love brings an all-Filipino cast to Los Angeles, featuring UC Irvine drama alumni
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Charisse Pearlina Weston, M.F.A. ’19, named a 2025 Trellis Art Fund Stepping Stone Grantee
January 12, 2026
The Department of Art alumna is among 20 artists selected nationwide for the expanded two-year Stepping Stone grants program
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The Next Stage
January 7, 2026
A UC Irvine & South Coast Repertory collaboration ushers in a new era of O.C. theater
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Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa Confronts Injustice Through Performance
December 23, 2025
Medici Circle Scholar Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa and L’OPERA!
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