Dr. Temple Grandin to Visit UC Riverside

The country’s leading animal behaviorist and autism expert, Dr. Temple Grandin will speak at the University of California, Riverside on Tuesday, May 21, at 7 p.m. in Highlander Union Building, Room 302. She will be introduced by Dr. Jan Blacher, Distinguished Professor and Director of SEARCH, the University of California’s first family autism resource center housed in the Graduate School of Education.  

This event is free and open to the public.  No tickets will be issued so arriving early is strongly recommended. Doors will open at 6pm. Parking for non-UC permit holders costs $5 in Lot 1.  

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David Wax Museum - March 7, 8pm

David Wax Museum’s sound tests the boundaries of easy categorization. Singer and guitarist David Wax and bandmate Suz Slezak (vocals and violin) have cultivated a Mexo-American aesthetic by fusing their knowledge of Mexican folk music with American roots and indie rock. The two crafted their unique sound in and around Boston clubs and in rural Veracruz, Mexico when Wax received a graduate fellowship to study regional musical styles including son jarocho. Slezak, who sings lead, also takes turns playing a fiddle and a traditional Mexican instrument called a guijada, which is fashioned from the jawbone of a donkey. The result is an irrepressible combination of harmonies, Mexican rhythms, and rootsy sound that has become an artistic triumph, earning the winsome duo a spot at the prestigious Newport Folk Festival and the 2010 Boston Music Award for Best Americana Artist. Learn more: www. http://www.davidwaxmuseum.com/

David Wax MuseumMarch 7, 2013, 8 pm
Culver Center of the Arts
Free

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VICTOIRE in concert JAN 23, 2013 [ free! ]

VICTOIRE, a Brooklyn-based band founded by composer Missy Mazzoli, has been dubbed an “all-star, all-female quintet” by Time Out New York. This quirky ensemble combines strings, clarinets, keyboards and lo-fi electronics (including samples of sewing machines and answering machine tapes) to create their “minimalist, post-rock bliss”. Victoire is as much a child of composer Philip Glass as of instrumental post-rock ensembles Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Sigur Rós. They’ve been making waves in New York’s downtown music scene for several years. Members of Victoire have performed at BAM, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and other prestigious venues around the world. Their debut album, Cathedral City, released on New Amsterdam Records was the hit-darling of 2010, making several top-ten lists including NPR’s best classical album and The New Yorker’s most memorable album lists.  

Unique to Victoire’s west-coast concert at the Culver Center is an exciting collaboration with UCR MFA dance students who will channel the free-spirited ensemble’s waves of sound in live performance. Their conceptualized choreography will provide a seamless conversation of movement matching the tone, structure, and imagery of Victoire’s immersive and imaginative soundscape.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 8 PM - FREE
Culver Center of the Arts
3834 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501

Seating is first come, first served.

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A dream world with a touch of blackness…The audience is cradled into an enchanting dream world in which they would have loved to linger much longer than the hour long concert allowed.” - Vasterbottens Kuriren, Umea, Sweden

VICTOIRE in concert - free at the Culver Center January 23, 2013 - 8 PM  

Missy Mazzoli, keyboards and compositions, Olivia De Prato, violin, Eileen Mack, clarinet,Lorna Krier, keyboards, and Eleonore Oppenheim, double bass

Josh Kornbluth, comic monologuist and filmmaker - April 21

JOSH KORNBLUTH: THE MATHEMATICS OF CHANGE

A comic monologue that recounts the uproarious experiences of a Princeton University would-be math whiz who discovers his limits in freshman calculus. 

April 21, 2013, 4pm
Culver Center of the Arts - 3834 Main Street, Riverside
Free   

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The Calder Quartet - February 17

 

BENJAMIN JACOBSON, violin
ANDREW BULBROOK, violin
JONATHAN MOERSCHEL, viola
ERIC BYERS, cello

Like the iconic mobiles, this superb quartet relies on the motion of interrelated shapes to balance one piece of music against another so that each reveals something new.

February 17, 2013, 4 pm
Culver Center of the Arts
Free   

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The emergence of the Calder Quartet as “quite possibly the finest - and definitely the most adventurous - American chamber ensemble” (Bloomberg News).

Inside NPR Journalism: Ari Shapiro shares a story about what it takes to get a story. Hear him in person at UC Riverside for FREE on Nov 12 at 7pm. He will recount the stories, people, and experiences that shaped his coverage of the 2012 Election while embedded with the Mitt Romney campaign. 

NPR’s ARI SHAPIRO: The Inside Scoop on the 2012 Election - November 12 

National Public Radio’s White House Correspondent
Award-winning journalist

For the last several months NPR White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro has been traveling with the Romney Campaign and reporting on the candidate’s every move in his quest for the White House. After months inside the press pool covering the resolutely coiffed candidate through the ups and downs of primaries, caucuses, and the general election, Shapiro will offer an insider’s account of everything Election 2012. Learn about the events, people, and experiences that defined the road to the Presidency for a nation of listeners.

November 12, 2012, 7 pm
Highlander Union Building, 302
Free | Parking $5 in Lot 1