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Camilo Zamudio plays marimba behind a drum kit as co-leader Wilfrido Terrazas gestures beside a cajón and a table of singing bowls and frame drums during a rehearsal in a wood-paneled studio.

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Cauces Sónicos to Perform at UC Irvine

October 21, 2026

The concert will feature music from artists in Southern and Baja California that explores life on the borde

On a sunlit wooden stage dressed as a beachside boardwalk, with signs for “Windsor Cove” and “Shallow’s Surf Shack,” a laughing man in an open white shirt dips a smiling woman in a yellow polka-dot top and full yellow skirt as she kicks one leg high. Audience members seated around the stage edge look on and smile.

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At New Swan Latine Artists Bring Themselves to Shakespeare

October 12, 2026

A fall panel looks back at The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove and the artists who shaped it

Kurt Kana, wearing a plaid shirt over a white tank top, speaks on stage with his hands open beside a camera on a tripod. A projection behind him shows a black-and-white close-up of a face and the words "Mr. Ken Narasaki, Actor, Playwright, 'No-No Boy' (2007)."

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Artists to Watch Series: Kurt Kana

October 6, 2026

A Q&A with the Drama M.F.A. candidate ahead of his third solo show

About a dozen students and faculty stand smiling in a row in front of a large screen reading "Boundless Entertainment."

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Drama Students Reimagine La Llorona in an Immersive Experience designed for Noguchi Gardens

June 23, 2026

Lighting and scenic designers in the Digital Imaging course collaborated on a digitally rendered installation that honors the legend's cultural roots and the Costa Mesa sculpture garden that inspired it

Collage of 17 headshots of student awardees above text reading Medici Circle 2026 Scholarship Awardees on a blue background

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2026 Medici Circle Scholars

June 11, 2026

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts names 17 new Medici Circle Scholars

Promotional poster for "at the very bottom of a body of water," a play by Benjamin Benne, directed by Juliette Carrillo. Features a white origami crane against a dark blue underwater background. Labeled "a developmental production."

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A New Play Finds Its Form at UCI Drama

May 22, 2026

Benjamin Benne’s at the very bottom of a body of water, receives a developmental production at the Robert Cohen Theatre ahead of its world premiere

Installation view at Home in Sunlight at UC Irvine Langson

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At Home in Sunlight, A State in Motion

April 28, 2026

Second-year M.F.A. student brings an artist-researcher lens to yearlong curatorial initiative at UCI Langson Museum

Rebecca Larkin smiles while holding a flute beside a laptop displaying a colorful virtual landscape, in a sound-treated studio space.

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Playing in Real Time

April 28, 2026

Rebecca Larkin, Ph.D. ’26 builds music that responds in the present

Image: Contemporary Arts Center. Photo by Elena Zhukova.

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UCI Arts Awards the 2025–26 Research & Innovation Grants

April 3, 2026

Now in its fifth year, the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Research and Innovation continues to prioritize projects that feature cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary collaborations

Image: Installation view of William Fastenow's, Ph.D. 25 capstone recital, Art of the Unheard in the xMPL. Photo by Micah Sechler.

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The Artists’ Laboratory

March 31, 2026

In the Experimental Media Performance Lab, technology blends with art to offer immersive, boundary-pushing experiences for audiences