Breathe With Me: A Celebratory Conversation with Laura Linney and Jeppe Hein

As the grand finale of the multi-day Breathe With Me event, join us for an inspiring evening with award-winning actress Laura Linney and world-renowned artist Jeppe Hein. Together, they will explore the powerful intersection of art, mental health, mindfulness, and community, discussing how creativity can foster well-being and connection. This special conversation highlights the transformative role that art plays in nurturing the wellness of individuals and communities alike. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to engage with two visionary artists as they share their insights on the healing potential of art.

Following the conversation, please join Church of Music’s musicians and DJ Alina for community celebration and closing party.

About ArtPower

ArtPower at UC San Diego is dedicated to igniting curiosity, sparking creativity, and fostering cultural engagement through the power of the performing arts. By presenting innovative, diverse, and adventurous programming, ArtPower connects the campus and community with world-class artists from around the globe. Our mission is to inspire audiences, nurture emerging talent, and create opportunities for artistic exploration that enrich the lives of students and the greater San Diego community. Through vibrant performances, educational initiatives, and collaborative experiences, ArtPower fosters a dynamic, inclusive cultural dialogue that empowers individuals to experience the transformative power of the arts.

About Stuart Collection

Distinguished from a traditional sculpture garden by its site-specific nature, many of the artworks are fused seamlessly to campus buildings or integrated into the landscape itself. Great care is taken to incorporate the university’s long- and short-range plans while maintaining the integrity of the art and providing provocative, thoughtful and carefully considered additions to the fabric of campus life.

The Stuart Collection matches and reflects the level of excellence exhibited by UC San Diego’s distinction as a science and technology powerhouse. There is a uniquely elevating alliance between the ongoing pursuits of a major research university and the expression of contemporary art. Both address the most important questions of our time and do so with ambition and intellectual courage.

Many of the artists who have designed works for the collection are associated with movements or attitudes that are seldom represented in public sculpture collections. They have been honored with every major award in the art world, ranging from the Pulitzer Prize to the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of Arts awarded by President Barack Obama. In addition, the collection includes four recipients of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” which celebrates intellect, accomplishment and creative potential.

Malpaso Dance Company

Since its appearance at ArtPower in 2017, the “elegant and bold, inventive and joyful.” (Times Union) Malpaso Dance Company has become one of the most sought after Cuban dance companies with a growing international profile. Emphasizing a collaborative creative process, Malpaso is committed to working with top international choreographers while also nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography.

Program

Ephrat Asherie: Floor y Ando
Osnel Delgado: A Dancing Island
Ronald K. Brown: Why You Follow? 

The Okee Dokee Brothers

Calling all bluegrass and American roots music fans to join around the “campfire” with GRAMMY Award-winning children’s music duo Okee Dokee Brothers. The five-time Parents’ Choice Award winners have been featured on PBS KIDS, garnered praise from the likes of NPR’s All Things Considered and USA Today, and have been called “two of family music’s best songwriters.”

The Second City 65th Anniversary Show

The Second City is celebrating 65 years of legendary laughs! Showcasing some of our audience’s favorite songs, sketches, and characters written on our stages by some of our illustrious alumni, including Catherine O’Hara, Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, Amber Ruffin, Stephen Colbert, Tim Meadows, Bill Murray, Tim Robinson, Joan Rivers, Eugene Levy, Adam McKay and so many more… With material handpicked from our iconic comedy archive and brought to life by our all-star ensemble, see for yourself why The Second City continues to be the world’s most influential name in comedy for sixty-five years and counting.

Cast: Rich Alfonso, Kennedy Baldwin, Karl Bradley, Anna Bortnick, Claire Favret, Ross Taylor

 

Anoushka Shankar Chapter III: We Return to Light

Chapter III…

Anoushka Shankar marks the culmination of her recent trilogy of mini-albums: ‘Chapter I: Forever, For Now,’ ‘Chapter II: How Dark it Is Before Dawn’ and ‘Chapter III: We Return to Light’ with a visionary new live show. Written and released back-to-back during two years of an experimental, creatively-charged global tour of an ever-evolving programme, the performance of each Chapter infused the composition of the next. After first exploring the transient, bittersweet joy of a summer afternoon on Chapter I and an immersion into a healing, womblike night on Chapter II, Chapter III completes the cycle, leading audiences through each movement and into the strong, golden heat of morning—a time of strength, wisdom and change.

With 30 years’ performance since her teenaged debut, eleven Grammy nominations and an Honorary Degree in Music from Oxford University under her belt, Anoushka has spent her career redefining the conventions of the sitar. Alongside an ensemble celebrated for their endless virtuosity, sensitivity and ear for improvisation, this show sees Anoushka expand the vocabulary of her sitar, looping and bending sound to create a bold new Indo-futurist vision for her music.

Forever, for now

How dark it is before dawn

We return to Light

 

Anoushka Shankar, sitar

Arun Ghosh, clarinet and keys

Tom Farmer, upright bass

Sarathy Korwar, drums and percussion

James Campbell and John Ducket, sound design

Eric Collignon, lighting design

THE JUMP UP!

Sandbox Percussion, Steven Schick, and local community percussionists

Presented as part of La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival and in partnership with UC San Diego Professor Steven Schick and Red Fish Blue Fish, Sandbox Percussion will perform the West Coast premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo’s THE JUMP UP!, a site-specific piece directed by Mark DeChiazza, shaped to accommodate the specific topography and features of its location. 

THE JUMP UP! is a celebration of the joy of communal music making, composed by Douglas J. Cuomo (Doubt, Arjuna’s Dilemma) for Sandbox Percussion and volunteer percussionists from the local community. This free outdoor performance will have the musicians roaming through the Epstein Family Amphitheater, with the audience encouraged to freely move about the players, each listener navigating their own interaction with the music.

Says Cuomo, “Making music together, and particularly drumming, creates such deep and powerful connections for everyone involved. The whole point of this piece is to have as many people as possible experience that connection, by bringing together Sandbox, the volunteer players, and the audience, so that some joyful magic can happen.”

If you are 12 years or older and have some percussion experience, you are invited to join the ensemble. More information can be found HERE

About the artists:

Described as “exhilarating” by the New York Times, the GRAMMY-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion champions living composers through its unwavering dedication to contemporary chamber music. Composer Douglas J. Cuomo has composed for the concert, operatic and theatrical stage, a well as for television and film, including the themes for Sex and The City (HBO); NOW with Bill Moyers and Wide Angle (PBS); music for Homicide: Life On The Street (NBC).

Confirmed Community Musicians from:

red fish blue fish
One fish two fish
San Diego Youth Symphony 

Sign up to join the ensemble

Celebrate the Arts 2024

Free UC San Diego student-only event as part of UC San Diego Welcome Week

Stop by the Epstein Family Amphitheater to learn all about arts on campus. Talk to representatives from campus arts departments, academic departments, and student organizations and learn how you can be involved in the arts at UC San Diego.

Participating organizations include: Campus Performances and Events Office (ArtPower, Campus Events, Epstein Family Amphitheater, The Loft), Stuart Collection, Department of Music, Theatre & Dance Department, Visual Arts Department, University Centers, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, Mandeville Art Collective, Institute of Arts and Humanities, Muir Musical, Triton A Cappella Community, and more!

Hokus Pokus Live!

Starring Ginger Minj from RuPaul’s Drag Race and Hocus Pocus 2

Hokus Pokus Live! is a 90 minute parody of the classic 90’s movie written and directed by RuPaul’s Drag Race and Hocus Pocus 2 star, Ginger Minj! The year is 2024 and after coming back from the dead…again, The Sanderson Sisters are trying to figure out how to stay alive and younger in this new millennium. Join Ginger Minj, Gidget Galore and Aria Hard for this madcap musical mis-adventure!

A production of Fruit Wine Productions.

Anything for Salinas

A Selena tribute by Karol Posadas

Get ready to sing, dance, and relive Selena’s concert. Anything for Salinas Band brings an incredible show to all of Selena’s fans—dedicating every song to the late Queen of TexMex, Selena. Formed by Karol Posadas and her family members, Anything for Salinas Band perform a show full of Selena’s top hits that will have you singing and dancing all night long.