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UCI International Film Club: Screening of Raw (2016)
Movie, Film
Julia Ducournau’s debut film Raw (‘Grave’) (2016) is a coming of age narrative in nauseating close-up. Starring Garance Marillier in her breakout role as Justine, a socially awkward but brilliant young veterinarian in training at an elite university, Raw’s narrative soon spirals into macabre horror when one of the school’s hazing rituals requires new arrivals to ingest rabbit kidneys, with no d...
3/11/2026
7:00pm
McCormick Screeni...
Irvine Barclay Theatre: Flamenco Arts International
Performance, Dance
UCI Students Only! FLAMENCO ARTS INTERNATIONAL: SONGS FROM A SINKING SHIP DIRECT FROM SPAIN Featuring legendary flamenco performers El Torombo, Juan Jose Amador, Eugenio Iglesias, Teresa Hernandez, Reyes Martin, Carlos Menchaca, and Marina Elana (Co-Artistic Director) Directed by Jose Maldonado A Fantastic Flamenco Voyage into the Unknown! A mysterious siren’s warning sets ...
3/13/2026
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
Irvine Barclay Theatre CATP: Connie Han
Concert, Piano
CONNIE HAN: A SOLO PIANO IMPROVISED CONCERT PROGRAM Hailed by DownBeat magazine as “The Jazz Warrior-Goddess,” 27-year-old pianist and composer Connie Han is redefining jazz with her bold, contemporary style. A Steinway Artist since 2019, Han blends technical mastery with emotional depth to captivate audiences worldwide. For Han, storytelling is at the core of her artistry. She channels t...
3/14/2026
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
Eileen Ivers & Universal Roots - St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Music, Concert
“Triumph... a musical magnus-opus of a journey.” -Irish Music Magazine Connecting the Roots Grammy-winning fiddler Eileen Ivers and Universal Roots unite Celtic soul and American spirit in a vibrant St. Patrick's Day concert. In this evening’s program, Eileen Ivers celebrates connecting the roots of Irish music, its influence on Americana music, and the growth of Bluegrass, Appalachia...
3/17/2026
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
Irvine Barclay Theatre: Pilobolus
Performance
UCI Students Only! PILOBOLUS: OTHER WORLDS COLLECTION Pilobolus: Other Worlds Collection traverses the spaces we inhabit—from the realms within ourselves, society, and the universe—with wit, wisdom, and whimsy. This collection features collaborations with visionaries who see the world through the lens of theatre, music, and dance, including award-winning playwright and director Aaron P...
3/25/2026
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
Irvine Barclay Theatre: Live Screening of A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre, Film Screening
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE SCREENING: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Filmed live at the Young Vic in London and screened in HD “Gillian Anderson gives a shatteringly powerful performance.” - Independent by Tennessee Williams directed by Benedict Andrews Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless...
3/29/2026
3:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
Oceanic Impressions: Cyanotypes of Cyanobacteria
Art, Science
This project brings together science, art, and community engagement to illuminate the beauty and biomedical potential of marine microorganisms. Oceanic Impressions: Cyanotypes of Cyanobacteria is a collaborative installation in which undergraduate students, artists, and scientists explore Southern California’s coastal environment through the 19th-century photographic process of cyanotyping—usi...
4/1/2026
12:00pm
UCI Falling Leave...
Blood Sugar, CA: 1903, A play by Javier Luis Hurtado
Performance, Playwright
This event will consist of a staged reading of a new play by playwright Javier Luis Hurtado entitled Blood Sugar, CA:1903. It is a queer retelling of the 1903 Oxnard strike, a labor dispute between in the city of Oxnard between Mexican and Japanese laborers and land owners. The strike involved sugar beet growers, the American Beet Sugar Company, the grower-controlled Western Agricultural Contr...
4/2/2026
6:30pm
Little Theater, R...
“Also Known as an Afro Samurai”: Yannick Hara in Concert
Concert, Conversation, Culture
Confronted with numerous slave rebellions, Brazilian elites started importing European immigrants during the nineteenth century to substitute Black labor. This trend persisted in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery in 1888, with Japanese immigrants joining the Brazilian workforce from 1908 onward. Those wishing to understand the complexity of these Afro-Brazilian encounters with Japan fro...
4/6/2026
5:00pm
Verano Community ...
Industrial Cultures: Cinema and Labor in China’s Modernization
Arts, Cinema, Asian American Studies
From China’s Great Leap Forward production campaign in the late 1950s, to the industrial reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of China as “the world’s factory,” Chinese cinema has long shaped how work, labor, and industry are imagined, organized, and experienced. In this public talk, Dr. Ying Qian explores selected Chinese films across these periods, discussing how they interpreted the s...
4/8/2026
5:30pm
McCormick Screeni...