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2017-2018 SEASON

OUR SEASON

PRESENTATIONS
August 12: Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet
October 7: BODYTRAFFIC
October 14: Jad Abumrad
November 11: Eddie Palmieri
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
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 14: Robert Hudson

Works: 1968-1971

April 28 - May 26: Ethan Russell

The Best Seat In The House exhibition

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

FILM SCREENINGS
November 9: Stratford Festival’s Hamlet
January 24: Dance Film Festival
February 9: Stratford Festival’s Macbeth
March 6 & 7 : Festinema French Youth Film Festival
April 6: Stratford Festival’s King Lear





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

A beacon of artistic and cultural discovery, the Luckman has enriched the
lives of countless people from all walks of life in our community. We create
and curate unique opportunities that bring access to the arts for all.

As I reflect of the Luckman’s impactful history, I cannot help but be moved by
the magnitude of magical moments created within these walls.

I am proud to be at the helm of such a vitally important service to our
community and I am so humbled by the enthusiastic support and appreciation.
We are 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 our world. The arts give us a platform on which to challenge,
motivate, galvanize, and encourage ourselves and others. 

A strong focus on the arts is an integral part of any thriving community -
especially one as multifaceted as ours - 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

RAIFORD ROGERS

Modern Ballet

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, August 12, 2017

8:00 PM

Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet comes to the Luckman Theatre with 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.

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.

Raiford Rogers founded his dance company in 1982 and, as a choreographer,
has created over 40 ballets. His works have been performed throughout
the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Rogers was twice awarded National
Endowment for the Arts Choreographer Fellowships.

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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 75 years, the Walt Disney
Company has continuously looked to Latin America for content, narratives,
and characters, beginning with Donald Duck’s first role in the Mexican-
themed Don Donald (1937). Like any other cultural force or mythology in
Latin America, Disney imagery has 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
Luckman and at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler
House 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



DANCE & DIALOGUE

Dance as communication

The Luckman Complex
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

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

The Dance & Dialogue series at the Luckman is a program where teens from
all over the city with a shared interest in dance come together and connect
despite the various boundaries that separate them. Dance & Dialogue is an
opportunity for students to put dance in a context beyond performance-
based dance skills alone. It is a chance to appreciate the expression of
emotional honesty through movement, and so to grow as an individual.
Above all, it is a vehicle to bring people together in their communities and
as individuals.

The goal of Dance & Dialogue is to bring emotional openness through
classes in order to help students understand the deeper meaning of dance,
and to see dance as a communication through movement about human
concerns and stories of human interest.

Life skills workshops, one of the various sessions throughout the day,
are modeled after the Native American communion circles encourage
participants to approach dance with an open heart, connect to others with
true emotions, and to gain empathetic understanding.

A LUCKMANPLUS EVENT



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 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 music, dance, and visual art traditions
of West Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Senegalese drumming to
Bollywood dancing, participants will be immersed in an international day
of interactive cultural discovery.

Scheduled workshops include:
Senegalese drumming and dancing

Malian mask making
Indian henna art

Gambian jewelry making
Indian rangoli sand art
Rajasthani body art

All events are and free of charge.

Event Partner: A LUCKMANPLUS EVENT



BODYTRAFFIC

Invention, attitude, & urban edge

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, October 7, 2017

8:00 PM

Experience one the world’s most cutting-edge contemporary dance
groups, as they showcase works that uniquely reflect the diverse landscape
of Los Angeles with its warm energy, athleticism, and eye toward aesthetic
innovation.

This exciting ensemble comes to the Luckman with their celebrated works
And At Midnight, The Green Bride Floated Through The Village Square by
Barak Marshall, Once Again, Before You Go by Victor Quijada, and Death
Defying Dances by Arthur Pita.

BODYTRAFFIC is helping establish Los Angeles as a major center for
contemporary dance. Founded in 2007 by Juilliard alums Lillian Barbeito
and Tina Finkelman Berkett, the company 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” and Best of Culture
by the Los Angeles Times, the BODYTRAFFIC is already internationally
recognized for their high quality of work and their dancers’ chameleon-like
ability to fulfill the distinct tenor of each movement language they employ.
BODYTRAFFIC’s ever-growing repertory represents many distinctive
choreographic voices; it is versatile and accessible, but also inspiring and
challenging.

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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
Peabody Award, the highest honor in broadcasting, and Jad received the
prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.

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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)

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 NEA
(National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Master, Eddie Palmieri, hosts a
party for the ages here at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA,
featuring some of the finest musicians around. This concert is sure to get
the crowd moving. Palmieri remains an engaging innovator and a joyful
unifier whose ideas explode from the stage with kinetic energy.

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).

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AARON NEVILLE

The Aaron Neville Duo

The Luckman Theatre
Friday, December 1, 2017

8:00 PM

One of the most inspirational and distinctive voices in music today,
Aaron Neville is the master of many styles. 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 spans more than 50 years, he has been nominated
for 12 Grammy 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 him 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.

Aaron Neville will grace the Luckman stage bringing his intimate duo
performance with keyboardist Michael Goods. In this stripped down
format Neville connects with the crowd to share inspirational stories
about his family and influences growing up. Making his second appearance
on the Luckman stage, this rare performance is certain to be a memorable
evening of music that transcends the traditional boundaries of genres.

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THE NUTCRACKER

Marat Daukayev Ballet

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, December 9, 2017

2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Sunday, December 10, 2017

11:30 AM & 4:30 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.

Marat Daukayev received his professional training at the Vaganova and
Perm Ballet Schools. During his 20 year career he danced the leading
male roles in the complete repertoire of classical ballets with numerous
international ballet tours. He has also performed in both film and
television. St. Petersburg audiences loved him for the brilliant technique
and exceptional dramatic ability that he brought to his roles. Daukayev
founded his ballet academy in 2001.



YEMEN BLUES

Israel’s world fusion ensemble

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, January 20, 2018

8:00 PM

Ravid Kahalani leads this 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 to help
you feel a connection to places you’ve never been. Yemen Blues paints a
musical canvas printed both with deep emotions when his rasping laments
tear open the heavens, and 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.

From the start, Yemen Blues created an original sound that became a
new language in contemporary music. In addition to Kahalani, the group
includes core members Rony Iwryn, Itamar Doari & Shanir Blumenkranz.
Each member comes from a different background and brings their own
sound and arrangements to the compositions. The result of this amazing
group is a powerful energy they like to call “New Age Culture Music”.

The group has been making hugewaves of late, appearing in Paste Magazine’s
list of “10 International Acts to Watch” and performing a captivating, star-
making set at globalFEST, the most prestigious world music festival in
the United States. With influences from around the world, Yemen Blues
captures a plethora of 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



ARTS & IDEAS

A world of artistic exploration

The Luckman Complex
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Arts & Ideas is an cultural engagement program that promotes creativity
through interactive application of artistic proceses. We bring students
together from surrounding communities to share different perspectives
during these dynamic exchanges.

Through film, dance, and visual art workshops we offer participants the
opportunity to enagage with the arts on a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic
level. Creativity sparks imagination, and imagination breeds success. Our
mission is to fulfill the minds of our community members creatively and
give them a launch pad to success in their future endeavors.

Scheduled workshops include:
Silkscreening

Indigenous basket weaving
Stamp making

Watercolor technique
Paper mache
Block printing

All events are and free of charge.

Media Partner: A LUCKMANPLUS EVENT



ROBERT HUDSON

Works: 1968-1971

The Luckman Gallery
February 3, 2017 - April 14, 2018

Opening reception: February 3, 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 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



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 group has redefined audience
perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. The ensemble is world-reknowned for
their daring maneuvers, 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 set the world record for the human chair stack on
Fox’s Guinness World Record 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 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 Century.

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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.

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

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, makes a rare concert
appearance on the Luckman stage showcasing her most popular songs
from her 26-year recording career, spanning 15 international albums,
and several domestic Israeli releases, including her latest recording, Love
Medicine. The selections will be sung in English, Hebrew and Yemenite
(her family’s country of origin).

No is one of Israel’s leading singer-songwriters, having shared the stage
with superstars such as Sting, Pat Metheny, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder,
Andrea Bocelli and many more, and is Israel’s first Goodwill Ambassador
for FAO. Noa wrote lyrics to and recorded the hugely successful theme
song for the 1998 Academy Award-winning film “Life Is Beautiful”
starring Roberto Benigni. She sings in six languages, has collaborated with
symphony orchestras around the world.

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.

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FESTINEMA

French Youth Film Festival

The Luckman Intimate Theatre
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Wednesday, March 7, 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.

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,
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 sponsors of this festival.

Media 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

High-octane fusion

The Luckman Theatre
Saturday, April 21, 2018

8:00 PM

Los Lonely Boys come to the Luckman with their signature mix of high-octane,
high-quality rock and blues combined with conjunto tejano sounds that span the
band’s career. In addition to their instrumental taeltns, all three brothers also
sing to produce songs rife with engaging hooks, expressive lyrics, and melodic
sumptuousness.

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. 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. Their music is drawn from diverse sources, blending their influences
into a seamless style. Weaned on Tex-Mex, country, blues, and rock pioneers like
Richie Valens, Chuck Barry 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. One of Los Lonely Boys’ most endearing qualities is that they pace
their sets very well, including crooning love ballads as well as inhibition-freeing
rockers.

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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 Russell’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.

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ETHAN RUSSELL

A special exhibition

The Luckman Gallery
April 28, 2018 - May 26, 2018

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

Presenting in conjuction with his stage show entitled The Best Seat In The House,
the Luckman Gallery host a retrospective exhibition of acclaimed photographer
Ethan Russell’s prolific career.

In 1968, Ethan Russell was a young American with a Nikon camera living in
London and aspiring to become a writer. A few years later he was one of the
foremost rock and roll photographers in the world. He is the only photographer
to have shot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who.

Hired as the photographer for The Rolling Stones 1969 American tour, The San
Francisco Chronicle described him as “one of only 16 people on the tour, including
the band. With unprecedented access to The Rolling Stones, he captured photos
that have become classics.”

For years, Russell’s images documented a virtual “who’s who” in rock and roll
history: Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, The Moody Blues, Cream, Traffic, Eric Clapton,
The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Rickie Lee Jones, Rosanne Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Carlos Santana, and Phil Everly, among many many others. As Rolling Stones
guitarist Bill Wyman said, “Ethan has taken some of the greatest pictures in rock
and roll… maybe the greatest ever.”

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



GLOBAL ARTS FEST

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.

Global Arts Fest was created to provide civic, cultural, and economic
cooperation between people and communities in the greater Los Angeles.
With a variety of activities and workshops we aim to connect attendees
with one another through creative learning and team building.

Globals Arts Fest also gives students who have previously attended
a Luckman Plus event a chance to return and share their stories and
experiences of cultural and artistic enrichment they have shown to their
peers, in school, and their communities. We invite all from the community
to view these inspiration stories and performances.

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