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2017-2018 SEASON



WELCOME

Welcome to the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA!

It is my distinct honor to present to you the 2017-2018 season. With artists
from around the world coming to our venues, this exciting line-up is certain
to intrigue a broad spectrum of arts enthusiasts.

Abeacon of artistic discoveryand an oasis of culture, the Luckman has enriched
the lives of countless people from all walks of life in our community.  We
create and curate unique opportinities that bring access to the arts for all.

As I reflect of the tremendous legacy that the Luckman has built over the years,
I cannot help but be moved by the volume of magical moments witnessed on
these stages. History is made within these walls, and creative wicks ignited. 

I am proud to be at the helm of such a vitally important service to the
community and am so humbled by the enthusiastic support and appreciation
expressed year after year. I am of the firm belief that the arts have the power to
inspire, to save lives, to give hope, to open minds, and to foster progress. The
arts are a reflection of ourselves and give us a platform on which to challenge,
motivate, galvanize, and encourage. 

A strong focus on the arts is an integral part of any thriving community, and I
am proud that the Luckman contributes to this paradigm in such a profound
way. 

It is my hope that this season you discover yourself in the arts, and that you
discover yourself at the Luckman. 

Wendy A. Baker
Executive Director
The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA

OUR SEASON

PRESENTATIONS
August 12: Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet
October 7: Bodytraffic, Bounce
October 14: Jad Abumrad, Gut Churn
November 11: Eddie Palmieri, Eddie at 80
December 1: Aaron Neville Duo
December 9 & 10: The Nutcracker
January 20: Yemen Blues
February 3: Peking Acrobats
Febraury 18: Noa
April 21: Los Lonely Boys
April 28: Ethan Russell, The Best Seat In The House
June 2: John Waters

EXHIBITIONS
September 9 - January 14: Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

How To Read El Pato Pascual: Latin America’s Disney and Disney’s Latin America

February 4 - April 4: Robert Hudson

A Retrospective

April 14 - May 14: Ethan Russell

The Best Seat In The House Exhibition

LUCKMANPLUS
September 27: Dance & Dialogue
October 4: World Arts Day
January 24: Dance & Dialogue
May 10: Global Arts

FILM SCREENINGS
November 9: Stratford Festival’s Hamlet
January 24: Dance Film Festival
February 9: Stratford Festival’s Macbeth
March X : Festinema Junior French Youth Film Festival
April 6: Stratford Festival’s King Lear



RAIFORD ROGERS

Modern Ballet

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, August 12, 2017

8:00 PM

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA will present the Raiford Rogers
Modern Ballet and the Jacaranda Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere ballet
Joshua Tree Symphony by Czech composer Zbynek Mateju. Igor Stravinsky’s
Concerto in D for Strings and Zbynek Mateju’s Still Life will complete the program.
Joshua Tree Symphony is the second ballet from Mateju and Rogers. A tour to the
Czech Republic is planned for 2018 including a performance at the prestigious
international festival Forum: Hradec Kralove with full orchestra, and at the National
Theatre in Prague. Jacaranda will give the first U.S. performance of Still Life for strings
and percussion that opened the Prague Festival at the National Theatre in 2015.
Zbynek Mateju is one of the most prolific Czech composers of his generation, known
mainly for his collaborative works in ballet, opera and film. His extensive repertoire
includes major works for orchestra and chamber music. Mateju is the recipient of
numerous international honors for composition including the UNESCO Prize, the
Donauballet International Composers’ Competition, and the Prix Radio Bohemia. He
is celebrated for his wide-ranging musical oeuvre.
Accompanying the ballet dancers is Jacarada.....

Event Partner:



PST: LA/LA

How To Read El Pato Pascual:

Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney

The Luckman Gallery
September 9, 2017 - Janaury 14, 2018

Opening reception: September 10, 2017, 4:00-6:00 PM

How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney is
an attempt to engage with the idea that there are no clean boundaries in art, culture,
and geography, and to deconstruct how such notions are formed and disputed.
For over seventy-five years, the Walt Disney Company has continuously looked
to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America for content, narratives,
and characters, beginning with Donald Duck’s first role in the Mexican-themed
Don Donald (1937). The 1971 text by Chilean scholars Ariel Dorfman and Armand
Mattelart—Para leer al Pato Donald—considered Disney comic books as a form of
cultural imperialism, and the curators have used its arguments as a starting point
to show that Disney cannot be seen as something simply exported to the rest of
the Americas, and passively received. Like any other cultural force or mythology in
Latin America, Disney imagery has always been quickly reinterpreted, assimilated,
adapted, cannibalized, and subverted in popular culture and the fine arts.

Spanning painting, photography, graphic work, drawing, sculpture, and video, as
well as folk art and vernacular objects, joint exhibitions at the MAK Center for Art
and Architecture at the Schindler House and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal
State LA explore this history and the ways Latin American artists have responded to,
played with, re-appropriated, and misappropriated Disney iconography.

Gallery Hours
Monday-Thursday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Saturday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Event Partners:



DANCE & DIALOGUE

A LuckmanPlus event

The Luckman Complex
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Wednesday, October 4, 2017
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

The Dance and Dialogue program at the Luckman enriches our community by
fostering opportunities where everyone is encouraged to approach dance with an
open heart and gain empathetic understanding for others. Dance and Dialogue brings
emotional openness into a workshop dance class and allows students to explore the
deeper meanings of dance. Students explore dance as a way to communicate through
movement and voice human concerns.
Under the direction of Dance and Dialogue founder Ricka Glucksman Kelsch, this
LuckmanPlus program is an opportunity for students to put dance in a context and
grow as an individual by channelling emotional honesty through movement. Dance
and Dialogue brings students together to learn empathy through dance and uses
movement and expression as vehicles for teaching kids social-emotional skills.

Event Partners:



WORLD ARTS DAY

West Africa & India

The Luckman Complex
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Wednesday, October 4, 2017
12:00 PM- 4:00 PM

World Arts Day at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex is designed to give the community
an opportunity to experience and interact with various art forms from around the
world. Los Angeles is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, and this dynamic
interaction has made it a vibrant and rich community. World Arts Day is designed
to give the community an opportunity to experience and interact with various art
forms from around the world. Los Angeles is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities,
and this dynamic interaction has made it a vibrant and rich community. This year,
we celebrate the diverse traditions of the African continent. All events are hands-on,
interactive, and free of charge.

Event Partner:



BODYTRAFFIC

Bounce

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, October 7, 2017

8:00 PM

BODYTRAFFIC is helping establish Los Angeles as a major center for contemporary
dance. Founded in 2007 by Lillian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett,
BODYTRAFFIC has surged to the forefront of the concert dance world. Named “the
company of the future” by The Joyce Theater Foundation, Dance Magazine’s 25 to
Watch in 2013 and Best of Culture by the Los Angeles Times, the young company is
already internationally recognized for their high quality of work.
BODYTRAFFIC uniquely reflects the diverse landscape of Los Angeles with its warm
energy, athleticism, and eye toward aesthetic innovation. Since it was founded by
Lillian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett in 2007, the company has surged to the
forefront of the concert dance world and has been instrumental in establishing Los
Angeles as a major center for contemporary dance. BODYTRAFFIC’s ever-growing
repertory represents many distinctive choreographic voices; it is versatile and
accessible but also inspiring and challenging.

Event Partner:



JAD ABUMRAD

Gut Churn

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, October 14, 2017

8:00 PM

Jad Abumrad, the host and creator of Radiolab, which reaches roughly 2 million
people per month, makes his debut at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State
LA with his new lecture Gut Churn. The lecture thread begins with a simple question:
what does it mean to “innovate?” How does it feel to make something new in the
world? On one level, it’s the personal story of how Jad invented a new aesthetic. On
another, it is a clinic in the art of storytelling. On a third and more profound level,
the lecture is the result of a three-year investigation into the science, philosophy and
art of uncertainty, which all began with the two words that are the title of this talk,
Gut churn. What use do negative feelings have during the creative process? Do those
feelings get in the way, or do they propel us forward?

Jad has been called a “master of the radio craft” for his unique ability to combine
cutting edge sound-design, cinematic storytelling and a personal approach to
explaining complex topics, from the stochasticity of tumor cells to the mathematics
of morality.

Jad studied creative writing and music composition at Oberlin College in Ohio. He
composes much of the music for Radiolab, and in the past has composed music for
film, theater and dance. In 2011, Radiolab received a PeabodyAward, the highest honor
in broadcasting, and Jad received the prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.

Event Partner:



HAMLET

Stratford Festival Film Screening

The Luckman Theatre
Thursday, November 9, 2017

2:00 PM

Filmed live on stage at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada as part of the Stratford
Festival HD Series.

A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated by loss, a deadly duel
and the most famous question in all of drama: Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy will hold
you spellbound. Jonathan Goad is witty and courageous in the title role, but also
deeply human. The film excites and surprises at every turn, with a cast of some of
the world’s finest classical actors bringing to life the most intense and heart-breaking
relationships the stage has ever seen.

Canada, 2016, 1 hour 56 minutes
Directed by Antoni Cimolino (stage), Shelagh O’Brien (screen)

Cast:
Jonathan Goad as Hamlet
Seana McKenna as Gertrude
Geraint Wyn Davies as Claudius
Tim Campbell as Horatio
Adrienne Gould as Ophelia
Thomas Olajide as Voltemand

Mike Shara as Laertes

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EDDIE PALMIERI

Eddie at 80

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, November 11, 2017

8:00 PM

Celebrating his 80th year, 10-time Grammy Award-winner and National Endowment
for the Arts Jazz Master, Eddie Palmieri hosts a party for the ages featuring some of
the finest musicians around.

What he will do at the Luckman: 3 sentences.

Regarded as one of the top pianists of the past 60 years, Palmieri is a celebrated
bandleader, arranger and titan of salsa and Latin jazz. By skillfully fusing the rhythms
of Puerto Rico with the melodic and harmonic complexity of his jazz influences—
Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner—Palmieri has established
himself as a musical innovator whose work is both bold and downright danceable.

Palmieri has received numerous honors: Eubie Blake Award (1991); Most Exciting
Latin Performance, presented by the BBC in London (2002); Yale University’s Chubb
Fellowship, usually reserved for international heads of state, but given to Palmieri
in recognition of his work building communities through music (2002); Harlem
Renaissance Award (2005); Jay McShann Lifetime Achievement Award (2008),
induction into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame (2008). A year later, the Library of
Congress added Palmieri’s composition “Azucar Pa’ Ti” to the National Recording
Registry, which at the time only included 300 compositions documenting the history
of all of recorded music history in the U.S. With his widely popular eight-and-a-
half minute “Azucar Pa’ Ti” Palmieri changed the format of the recording industry,
breaking the three-and-a-half minute barrier imposed by the recording industry.

Event Partner:



AARON NEVILLE

The Aaron Neville Duo

The Luckman Theatre
Friday, December 1, 2017

8:00 PM

One of the most distinctive voices in music today, Aaron Neville is the master of
many styles. Coming to the Luckman with his intimate duo performance alongside
keyboardist Michael Goods, this intimate performance is a rare opportunity to see
this iconic American vocalist in a back-to-basics setting that allows his legendary
voice to shine. Throughout the concert, Neville will share inspirational stories about
his family and influences growing up.

The audience at an Aaron Neville concert can expect to hear doo-wop and gospel
from his recent albums, as well as blues, jazz, soul, pop, blues, with some country
and even reggae thrown into the mix. It’s a playlist that reprises and celebrates his
remarkable career – one of the great success stories in American music.

During his career, which stretches across more than 50 years, he has been nominated
for 12 Grammys awards. His nominations have come in the soul, gospel, jazz, country/
western, R&B, and pop categories; winning four times. His albums of Christian, R&B,
jazz and adult contemporary music have also consistently topped the charts earning
hims 4 platinum records and multiple number 1 charting hits. In 1993, Rolling Stone
Magazine’s Critics’ Poll named him the best male singer in the world. Neville was
inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2010.

Event Partner:



THE NUTCRACKER

Marat Daukayev Ballet

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Sunday, December 10, 2017

8:00 PM

The Marat Daukayev Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker features dancers whose
artistry and poise belie their young ages. A full-length ballet complete with battling
mice and soldiers, an enchanting snowy forest, and Tchaikovsky’s beloved score.
With over 150 dancers and 500 costumes, acclaimed former Kirov ballet star Marat
Daukayev dances the role of Drosselmeyer with his amazingly accomplished students
in this iconic and magically festive holiday favorite.
This restaging of the 1934 St. Petersburg production features more than 130 dancers,
ages 3 to 21, and more than 500 costumes. Director Marat Daukayev danced for
20 years with the Kirov Ballet, including the role of the Nutcracker Prince, before
founding his Mid Wilshire ballet school in 2001.

Event Partner:



YEMEN BLUES

Israel’s world fusion ensemble

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, January 20, 2018

8:00 PM

The passionate Israeli singer Ravid Kahalani leads a roaring group of improvising
brass, string and percussion players making intoxicating music that merges West
African rhythms and ancient Jewish Yemeni melodies, mambo and funk. Ravid
creates a canvas printed both with deep emotions when his rasping laments tear
open the heavens, but also with popular jubilation when the percussions, the oud, the
cello and the brass instruments interweave in a harmonious dance that is complex
and resolutely modern.

The group has been making huge waves of late, appearing in Paste magazine’s list of
10 International Acts to Watch and performing a captivating, star-making set at the
2012 globalFEST, the most prestigious world music festival in America. The band is
currently working on the follow-up to their stellar 2011 debut. With members hailing
from Israel, Finland, Uruguay and the U.S., Yemen Blues captures myriad global
influences, blending them in to a seamless, soulful and raucous stew.

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DANCE FILM FEST

A celebration of dance on film

The Luckman Intimate Theatre
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

A celebration of the best in recent cinematic triumphs that focus on the art of dance.
All screenings are free and open to the public.

Pina

Germany, 2011, 1 hour 43 minutes
Directed by Wim Wenders

First Position

USA, 2011, 1 hour 35 minutes
Directed by Bess Kargman

STEP

USA, 2011, 1 hour 23 minutes
Directed by Amanda Lipitz

Dancing Across Borders

USA, 2010, 1 hour 28 minutes
Directed by Ann Bass

Dancing in Jaffa

Israel, 2013, 1 hour 30 minutes
Directed by Hilla Medalia

Visit luckmanarts.org/film for showtimes

Event Partner:



WORLD ARTS DAY

LuckmanPlus

The Luckman Complex
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney is
an attempt to engage with the idea that there are no clean boundaries in art, culture,
and geography, and to deconstruct how such notions are formed and disputed.
For over seventy-five years, the Walt Disney Company has continuously looked
to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America for content, narratives,
and characters, beginning with Donald Duck’s first role in the Mexican-themed
Don Donald (1937). The 1971 text by Chilean scholars Ariel Dorfman and Armand
Mattelart—Para leer al Pato Donald—considered Disney comic books as a form of
cultural imperialism, and the curators have used its arguments as a starting point
to show that Disney cannot be seen as something simply exported to the rest of
the Americas, and passively received. Like any other cultural force or mythology in
Latin America, Disney imagery has always been quickly reinterpreted, assimilated,
adapted, cannibalized, and subverted in popular culture and the fine arts.

Spanning painting, photography, graphic work, drawing, sculpture, and video, as
well as folk art and vernacular objects, joint exhibitions at the MAK Center for Art
and Architecture at the Schindler House and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal
State LA explore this history and the ways Latin American artists have responded to,
played with, re-appropriated, and misappropriated Disney iconography.

Event Partner:



ROBERT HUDSON

Works: 1968-1971

The Luckman Gallery
February 3, 2017 - April 7, 2018

Opening reception: September 10, 2017, 4:00-6:00 PM

Robert Hudson has been a primary force in sculpture for the past 50 years.
Uncharacteristic of the complex, illusionistic, polychrome constructions for which
he is well known, this historic body of minimalist work demonstrates the broad
scope of his art.

While an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, Hudson was given access to a
nearby government surplus yard. The facility was stocked with every imaginable
object: massive convex mirrors from ships, thick discs of glass, navigation devices,
beautifully machined equipment parts, steel eye beams, aluminum tubing, sheets
of stainless steel, squares of black rubber, slabs of magnesium. He worked alone at
the UC Berkeley metal shop, crafting the sculptures by hand and using equipment
available in the shop. The yard became his main source of material from 1968 to 1971.

His work is included as part of the collections in The National Gallery of Art, the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden in Washington DC; the de Young Museum and the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art in San Francisco; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston; the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art in
New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art;
and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Gallery Hours
Monday-Thursday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Saturday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Event Partner:



PEKING ACROBATS

China’s premier acrobat troupe

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, February 3, 2018

8:00 PM

Coming to the Luckman stage for the very first time are the world renowned
Peking Acrobats. For the last 30 years, the Peking Acrobats have redefined audience
perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious
pagoda of chairs; they are experts at trick-cycling, precision tumbling, somersaulting,
and gymnastics. They defy gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility,
and control. They push the envelope of human possibility with astonishing juggling
dexterity and incredible balancing feats, showcasing tremendous skill and ability.
Records of these acrobatic acts can be found as early as the Ch’in Dynasty (221 B.C. -
207 B.C.) and Chinese acrobats through the ages have continued to perfect what has
become an evolving folk art form.

The Peking Acrobats have been featured on numerous television shows and TV
Specials including Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous, Ellen’s Really Big Show, The Wayne
Brady Show, That’s Incredible, ABC’s Wide World of Sports as well as NBC’s Ring
in the New Year Holiday Special. The Peking Acrobats are on the cutting edge of
technology, having appeared on HDNet TV’S In Focus series. They set the world
record for the Human Chair Stack on Fox’s Guinness Book Primetime TV show
where they astounded audiences with their bravery and dexterity as they balanced
six people precariously atop six chairs 21 feet up in the air without safety lines.

A performance by The Peking Acrobats, therefore, brings with it the opportunity
to view the epitome of a rich and ancient folk art tradition, highlighted by today’s
technology melding the ancient and traditional with the modern wonders of the 21st

Event Partner:



MACBETH

Stratford Festival Film Screening

The Luckman Theatre
Friday, February 9, 2018

2:00 PM

Filmed live on stage at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada as part of the Stratford
Festival HD Series.

Surrender to a haunting story of ambition and its dark consequences as Macbeth,
the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will
become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife,
the two conspire to seize the throne of Scotland.

Canada, 2017, 2 hours 51 minutes
Directed by Antoni Cimolino (stage), Shelagh O’Brien (screen)

Cast:
Ian Lake as Macbeth
Krystin Pellerin as Lady Macbeth
Scott Wentworth as Banquo
Michael Blake as Macduff
Sarah Afful as Lady Macduff
Antoine yared as Malcom
Tim Campbell as Angus
Brigit Wilson as First Witch
Diedre Gilalrd-Rowlings as Second Witch
Lanise Antoine Shelley as Third Witch

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NOA

Achinoam Nini

The Luckman Theatre
Sunday, February 18, 2018

7:00 PM

Achinoam Nini, known internationally as Noa, is one of Israel’s leading singer-
songwriters, having shared the stage with superstars such as Sting, Pat Metheny,
Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, and Andrea Bocelli, among many others. Noa makes
a rare concert appearance on the Luckman stage showcasing songs from her prolific
recording career that have galvanized a range of emotions from audiences worldwide.

She was the only leading Israeli artist to agree to perform in the historic peace rally
where prime minister Yitzchak Rabin was murdered, and has since become Israel’s
most outstanding celebrity advocate for the two state solution. Noa has collaborated
with numerous artists in the Arab world, including Khaled from Algeria and Nabil
Salameh from Lebanon, but most notably with Israeli/Palestinian artist Mira Awad,
with whom she represented Israel in the 2009 Eurovision, singing before and
audience of many millions in Arabic, English and Hebrew. Noa also wrote lyrics
to and recorded the hugely successful theme song for the 1998 Academy Award-
winning Italian film “Life Is Beautiful” starring Roberto Benigni.

Along with her musical accolades Noa is active on the public board of the Um El
Fahem Museum of Art, the Arava Desert Institute, the Polyphony Music project of
Nazareth and the New Israel Fund. She is also involved in the Israel Peace Initiative,
Yalla Young Leaders, and IsraAid. Noa has also been given the honorary title of
Cavalliera de la Republica Italiana by Italy’s former President Napolitano, and among
her many accolades is the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum, where she
was also chosen a Global Leader of Tomorrow.

Event Partner:



FESTINEMA

French Youth Film Festival

The Luckman Intimate Theatre
Tuesday, March X, 2018

Wednesday, March X, 2018
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

To celebrate the Francophonie festival, the Luckman will host the Alliance Française’s
Festinema Junior French Youth Film Festival. Inspired by a program developed in
France by the Ministry of Education in order to discover, understand, and promote
an appreciation for cinema among young people.

In addition to being part of the Francophonie celebration, Festinema Junior also
aspires to make cinema an educational option, familiarize young audiences to French
speaking independent cinema and teach young people to develop critical thinking by
film analysis.

This unique opportunity offers students of all ages and socioeconomic status to
expand their international horizons through cinema and culture. The Festinema
Junior program aims to introduce young audiences to world cinema and international
culture, integrate film as a teaching tool, offer children of all backgrounds an
opportunity to see a foreign language film in a theatre, and to teach young people to
think critically through film analysis.

The Institut Français, the Fondation Alliance Française, the French Cultural Services
of the Embassy of France, the Délégation Générale of the Alliance Française in the
US, TV5 Monde, Kids Trail are the main sponsors of this Festival.

Event Partner: Alliance Française de Pasadena
French Cultural Center and Language School



KING LEAR

Stratford Festival Film Screening

The Luckman Theatre
Friday, April 6, 2018

2:00 PM

Filmed live on stage at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada as part of the Stratford
Festival HD Series.

An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with
consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion
that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has
defined him as a king - and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.

Four hundred years after it was written, King Lear resonates as never before. Starring
the incomparable Colm Feore in the role of a lifetime.

Canada, 2014, 2 hours 36 minutes
Directed by Antoni Cimolino (stage), Joan Tosoni (screen)

Colm Feore as King Lear
Maev Beaty as Goneril
Evan Buliung as Edgar
Sara Farb as Cordelia
Jonathan Goad as Kent
Brad Hodder as Edmund
Stephen Ouimette as the Fool
Liisa Repo-Martell as Regan
Scott Wentworth as Gloucester

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LOS LONELY BOYS

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, April 21, 2018

8:00 PM

Los Lonely Boys is comprised of the three Garza brothers: Henry on guitar, Jojo
on bass, and Ringo on drums. This remarkable trio of brothers has been making
music together since they were small children. The brothers write, sing, and play
music drawn from diverse sources, blending their influences into a seamless style.
Weaned on Tex-Mex, country, blues, and rock pioneers like Richie Valens, Chuck
Berry and Fats Domino, and such pop music giants as The Beatles, Los Lonely Boys
augment those solid basics with red-hot guitar playing, percolating rock and Latin
rhythms, and dynamic interplay and luscious vocal harmonies – all three brothers
also sing – to produce songs rife with engaging hooks, expressive lyrics, and melodic
sumptuousness.
In their 15 years of making music, Los Lonely Boys have garnered 5 grammy
nominations, including winning a grammy for Best perfomance by a duo or band.
They have also had multiple top billboard charting songs, and multiple albums
that have gone platinum or gold. Los Lonely Boys have one of the most unique and
inspiring stories for young Rock musicians.

Media Partner:



ETHAN RUSSELL

The Best Seat In The House

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, April 28, 2018

8:00 PM

Grammy nominated photographer, author and director, Ethan Russell recounts
personal experiences from the vantage point of “The Best Seat in the House.” Only
a handful of people toured with The Rolling Stones at the peak of their career; were
behind stage at Altamont to witness the tragic unfolding of events that many define
as the end of the 60’s; were in the studio with The Beatles during their last days
together, and at Apple Studies at its formation and then when it all fell apart. Ethan
Russell was one of them. Ethan’s extraordinary life is experienced with an historic
collection of iconoclastic photos, a soundtrack of rock classics, and the perspectives
and personal anecdotes of a thoughtful, intelligent writer and storyteller, not just a
gifted photographer.   

This is a rare opportunity to go behind-the-scenes and be part of music history; filled
with over 375 photographs, music and personal stories, you’ll leave feeling like you
were there too. In recounting the moments behind the photographs, and in showing
the audience the world that extended beyond the photograph’s frame, Ethan Russell
ensures that you, too, get to relive this incredible era in the history of music from the
best seat in the house.

Event Partner:



ETHAN RUSSELL

Rock history in pictures

The Luckman Gallery
April 14, 2018 - May 16, 2018

Opening reception: April 28, 2018, 4:00-6:00 PM

How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney is
an attempt to engage with the idea that there are no clean boundaries in art, culture,
and geography, and to deconstruct how such notions are formed and disputed.
For over seventy-five years, the Walt Disney Company has continuously looked
to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America for content, narratives,
and characters, beginning with Donald Duck’s first role in the Mexican-themed
Don Donald (1937). The 1971 text by Chilean scholars Ariel Dorfman and Armand
Mattelart—Para leer al Pato Donald—considered Disney comic books as a form of
cultural imperialism, and the curators have used its arguments as a starting point
to show that Disney cannot be seen as something simply exported to the rest of
the Americas, and passively received. Like any other cultural force or mythology in
Latin America, Disney imagery has always been quickly reinterpreted, assimilated,
adapted, cannibalized, and subverted in popular culture and the fine arts.

Spanning painting, photography, graphic work, drawing, sculpture, and video, as
well as folk art and vernacular objects, joint exhibitions at the MAK Center for Art
and Architecture at the Schindler House and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal
State LA explore this history and the ways Latin American artists have responded to,
played with, re-appropriated, and misappropriated Disney iconography.

Gallery Hours
Monday-Thursday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Saturday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Media Partner:



GLOBAL ARTS

A world of art for all!

The Luckman Complex
Thursday, May 10, 2018

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

An exciting new event to celebrate the diversity within our community through
multicultural music, art, crafts, dance, food, and audience participation event.
Through sharing our culture, we can increase understanding and appreciation and
“Build CommUNITY through the Arts.”

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