Tickets and information for all performance events are available over the phone (562-985-7000), by mail or in person (CSULB Arts Ticket Office, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach, CA 90815), or by visiting the CSULB Arts Ticket Box Office website. CSULB Arts Ticket Office Hours are Monday-Friday, 11am-6pm; Saturday, noon-4pm.
Parking on campus is available to the general public in all student lots when a $5 day pass is purchased. Day passes are available at the CSULB Parking Office or through the Yellow Kiosks located near the entrances of each parking lot. Patron parking outside of performance venues is available for $5 in attended lots on the afternoon or evening of performances. Additional information is available at www.csulb.edu/maps.
Art Department galleries exhibit more than 75 shows of CSULB student work during each fall and spring semester. Opening receptions for exhibitions are Sundays from 5-7pm. Weekday viewing hours are 12-5pm Monday through Thursday. The galleries are also open Wednesday evenings from 5-7pm. Design Department Gallery hours vary and are included with each exhibition listing. Admission is free of charge for all Art and Design gallery exhibits. The University Art Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday 12-5, Thursday 12-8pm. Admission is $4 for the general public, free for UAM members, CSULB students, staff and faculty, and children under 12.
Saturday, January 14 at 8pm
Carpenter Center Wit and Wisdom Series
Capitol Steps
Carpenter Center Tickets: $40 Regular
Make 2012 an election year worth laughing about, with DC’s funniest political satirists! For thirty years, the Capitol Steps have put the mock in democracy, skewering both sides of the aisle with fresh, up-to-the-minute musical parodies that leave everyone laughing. The troupe returns to Carpenter Center for a third time armed with new material to bring down the house…and Senate!
Friday, January 27 at 8pm
Carpenter Center In Conversation
Legendary Musician Lou Reed and Producer Bob Ezrin
Carpenter Center Tickets: $45 Regular
Hailed as the founding father of alternative rock music—Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Velvet Underground legend Lou Reed is revered by fans worldwide for reshaping underground music with his own style while pushing boundaries as an opera composer, playwright, poet and photographer. Reed sits down with Bob Ezrin—the noted music producer who has helped refine the sound of artists from Alice Cooper to KISS to Pink Floyd. Join us for a rare moment in music history as these two legends share a combined 90 years of experience, giving voice to their thoughts, processes and motivations.
January 27-April 15
University Art Museum
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe
Opening Reception - Friday,January 27, 6-8pm
Admission: Free to UAM members + CSULB students, faculty and staff;
General Public $4, children under 12 free if accompanied by an adult
In 1975 RCA Records originally released Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music as a double album. It was a radical departure from previous Reed recordings as it had no songs or even recognizably structured compositions. Drawing more from avant-garde compositions and drone music than from conventional rock and roll, Metal Machine Music is now seen as a groundbreaking foray into industrial music and sound art. The University Art Museum, presents the world premiere audio installation of Metal Machine Trio as an ambisonic 3-D re-creation. In collaboration with the acoustic specialists at the Arup Engineering SoundLab in New York, Reed has been able to recreate, for museum visitors, this groundbreaking composition from exactly the same acoustic perspective he had while performing it onstage.
Split Moment
Opening Reception - Friday, January 27 6-8pm
Admission: Free to UAM members + CSULB students, faculty and staff;
General Public $4, children under 12 free if accompanied by an adult
Split Moment examines the modes artists utilize to appropriate and engage performance by contextualizing issues such as viewership, mediation, and presence. Josh Azzarella, Trisha Brown, Jocelyn Foye, Babette Mangolte, Kelly Nipper, Yvonne Rainer, and Flora Wiegmann question the importance of witnessing the live event, and explore the division between the recording of the performance and its adaptation into other media. For these artists, performance is composed of a series of split moments—a play between movements and the liminal space between them—potentially as meaningful in their absence as when visible.
Static Noise – The Photographs of Rhona Bitner
Artist Opening Reception - Friday, January 27, 6-8pm
Admission: Free to UAM members + CSULB students, faculty and staff;
General Public $4, children under 12 free if accompanied by an adult
STATIC NOISE is Bitner’s first west-coast museum exhibition to present a glimpse into LISTEN , the most recent in photograper Rhona Bitner’s continuing two-dimensional exploration of performance, theater and spectacle. Over the last five years the artist has created a different kind of musical recording—that of the silent image which speaks to the raucous history of popular music. Focusing primarily on the seminal punk clubs and concert venues from the late 1970s and early 1980s, the exhibition captures this history through its landmarks: New York City's Electric Lady Studios where Patti Smith recorded Horses, Detroit's Grande Ballroom where The Stooges and Cramps were regulars, San Antonio's Randy's Rodeo, and Los Angeles' Whisky a Go-Go and Masque—two clubs that were central to the early L.A. punk scene. The artist's large scale, richly cinematic photographs isolate the often innocuous places where history was made, many in a dilapidated state that belies their cultural and historical significance.
Saturday, January 28 at 2pm & 8pm
Carpenter Center Spectacle Series
MarchFourth
Carpenter Center Tickets: $32
Get set for a party that rivals Mardi Gras—as stilt-walkers, unicyclists, fire eaters, puppets, flag twirlers, clown antics, acrobatics and more accompany this eclectic big band that consists of a twelve-piece horn section, a ten-piece drum/percussion corps, and anchored by electric bass! This original experience explodes with energy, charisma, and originality as the infectious impact of the show leaves audiences cheering for more!
Saturday, January 28 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Pacific Standard Time – 10 Year Reunion Concert
University Theatre Tickets: $10/$7
Featuring performances by the alumni of Pacific Standard Time (PST) from the past 10 years, as well as a few songs by this year’s PST! Former students are flying in from all over the US to celebrate this anniversary. Vocal Jazz, Folk, Pop and a variety of music you’re sure to enjoy.
Sunday, January 29 at 2pm
Carpenter Center Sunday Afternoon Concert Series
Swinging with the Big Band
Carpenter Center Tickets: $35
Experience the jumpin’ sounds of the Gene Krupa Tribute Band as they perform the most popular swing hits of the big band era including Krupa’s signature song Sing, Sing, Sing. The show also stars vocal groups String of Pearls, DeMarche Sisters, and the Lawrence Welk Show’s Mary Lou Metzger!
January 29-February 2
CSULB Department of Art
Foundation Zones, Sculpture/ Ji Sun Park, Printmaking/ Brent Goodman, Art Education
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
Ji Sun Park showcases a collection of current work that features etchings, screenprints and paintings. The artist uses dollhouses as a metaphor for wealth and social status. Brent Goodman exhibits ceramic sculpture art pieces that are figurative and representational. The artist explores the theme of censorship in art education.
Monday, January 30 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series
David Garrett, Cello
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Free Admission
Tuesday, January 31 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Visiting Guest Artist Series
Daniel Shapiro, Piano
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Acclaimed concert pianist Daniel Shapiro, on the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, returns to his native Southern California for a solo recital featuring classics by Mozart, Beethoven, and R. Schumann. A top prize winner of the William Kapell International Competition, Mr. Shapiro is widely recognized as a leading interpreter of Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Beethoven—whose thirty- two piano sonatas cycle he has performed twice.
Wednesday, February 1 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Visiting Guest Artist Series
Vinny Golia, Composition
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Friday, February 3 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series
Singing Bowls
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Free Admission
Saturday, February 4 at 8pm
Carpenter Center Dance Series
Doug Varone and Dancers
Carpenter Center Tickets: $45
One of the most kinetically thrilling dance companies, Doug Varone & Dancers will bring their acclaimed new work, Chapters from a Broken Novel to the Carpenter Center stage. Chapters commands attention as it explores the complexity of the human spirit, revealing the beauty and rawness of everyday moments!
February 5-9
CSULB Department of Art
Metals Group Exhibit/ Tina Linville, Fiber/ Michael Nannery, Printmaking/
Drawing and Painting Group Exhibits
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
The group show in metals includes work from BFA and BA students from the Metals program. Two separate group exhibitions from the Drawing and Painting program – the first features work that interprets what is seen and unseen through a culmination of abstraction through lineality; the second showcases current work from graduate painting students with mixed conceptual pursuits. Tina Linville creates sculpture out of salvaged objects – arranging, wrapping and revising to create hybrid forms. A multi-media installation is Michael Nannery’s contribution to this collection of exhibits. He explores ideas of belief, location and our use of external media to define ourselves.
Tuesday, February 7 at 7pm
B-Word Project
Censoring the Cinema: Obscenity, Indecency, and Violence
The Outlaw
Art Theatre, 2025 East 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90804
Free Admission
This series examines what constitutes obscenity and indecency. It also examines recent attempts to categorize violence as obscenity in an effort to censor it. To illustrate this kind of censorship, the film series will show five controversial films, each introduced by a lecture of approximately 30 minutes by Dr. Craig R. Smith, the Director of the Center for First Amendment Studies. The spring semester inaugural screening is of The Outlaw, starring Jane Russell and produced by Howard Hughes.
Friday, February 10-Saturday, February 11 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
University Symphony Orchestra
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
The program features Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” conducted by Cole Conservatory graduate student Brandon Faber, as well as Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 and Alan Shockley’s “the night copies me.”
February 12-16
CSULB Department of Art
Christopher Wormald, Sculpture/Stephen Lashinski, Ceramics/
Painting Group Exhibitions
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
Group shows showcase landscapes in one gallery and individual explorations of abstracted biomorphic forms in another. Christopher Wormald’s sculpture show features 123 two-inch wood cubes hanging from cables attached to a single black plastic panel. The cubes relate to the surface of a face, an ancient skull. A collection of ceramic sculptures by Stephen Lashinski are shown in the Dutzi gallery. They were inspired by single cell organisms called diatoms – a reference to the fragility of life.
February 16-17 at 8pm; February 18 at 2&8pm
CSULB Department of Dance
Contemporary Dance Concert
Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater Tickets: $20/$16
Original work by nine undergraduate choreographers in a show of intriguing artistry. Included is Ashley Dragon's Waves of A Siren, which will represent CSULB at the American College Dance Festival Association conference in March.
February 17-March 10
California Repertory Company
Quills by Doug Wright, directed by Larissa Paige Kokernot
Queen Mary Royal Theater Tickets: $20/$16/$12
Madness. Pain. Censorship. Oppression. What is more pornographic, De Sade or social convention?
February 19-23
CSULB Department of Art
Stephanie Sherwood, Drawing & Painting/ Eric Borja, Drawing & Painting/
Pilar Valdez, Ceramics/ Amy Solis, Fiber/ Tina Linville & Annelie McKenzie, Collaborative
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
Stephanie Sherwood’s show includes two large oil paintings and several smaller works fo the same process, all dealing with the concept of memory and its way of abstracting remembered images. Oil paintings by Eric Borja deal with process oriented abstraction. Lineality is explored in the work. A wall of cast porcelain objects is on display in Pilar Valdez’ exhibit, which also includes a hanging chandelier and three small sculptures. For Amy Solis’ installation, the artist creates an artificial environment that plays with gravity like hanging moss. Tina Linville and Annelie McKenzie collaborate on an installation that features sculpture, painting and media such as nylon, canvas, paper and other materials.
Monday, February 20 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
New Music Ensemble
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Alan Shockley, Director
Tuesday, February 21 at 7pm
B-Word Project
Censoring the Cinema: Obscenity, Indecency, and Violence
Carnal Knowledge
Art Theatre, 2025 East 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90804
Free Admission
This series examines what constitutes obscenity and indecency. It also examines recent attempts to categorize violence as obscenity in an effort to censor it. To illustrate this kind of censorship, the film series will show five controversial films, each introduced by a lecture of approximately 30 minutes by Dr. Craig R. Smith, the Director of the Center for First Amendment Studies. This screening is of Carnal Knowledge, starring Jack Nicholson, Rita Moreno, Candace Bergen, and Art Garfunkle.
Tuesday, February 21 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Composers Guild
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Free Admission
Alan Shockley, Director
Saturday, February 25 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series
Darrin Thaves, Flute
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
February 26-March 1
CSULB Department of Art
Photography Group Exhibits/Stefan Meyer, Sculpture/
Brittany Mojo, Ceramics/ Alexandra Miano, Drawing & Painting
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
A group exhibition by students of the MFA Photography program as well as a group exhibition showcasing the work of the Photography Club will be featured, along with some photographic work by Stefan Meyer. Stefan uses photographic prints on aluminum to expore themes of mediation, memory and remediation. Alexandra Miano’s solo exhibition explores the invention of Los Angeles landscapes with large scale acrylic paintings. Brittany Mojo explores the concept of multiples within the transformation of two-dimensional drawing into a three-dimensional sculpture or assemblage.
Monday, February 27 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Composers Guild: One Minute Wonders
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Free Admission
Robin Cox Ensemble performs.
Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1
Carpenter Center Cabaret
Rachel York
Dinner/Beverage Service 6-6:45pm Performance 7pm
Single ticket prices vary, call for details
Known for her critically acclaimed Broadway performances in City of Angels, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sly Fox, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels—Rachel York is a Broadway star with a divine voice and endless charm.
Wednesday, February 29 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Woodwind Chamber Music
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
John Barcellona, Director
Thursday, March 1 at 7pm
Ulrich Krieger Lecture
University Art Museum
Ulrich Krieger is a composer and performer based in Southern California. His experimental pieces are widely performed by ensembles in Europe and the USA. He is professor for composition, experimental sound practices, and contemporary saxophone at the California Institute of the Arts.
Thursday, March 1 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series
IronWorks
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Program will include the winners of the 2011 IronWorks Composition Competition for percussion: "Two Duets" by Randy Bauer and Just One Day by Aaron Jay Myers, along with works by Robert McClure, Tizoc Ceballos (a CSULB alumnus), and Bill Ryan. IronWorks is a percussion duo featuring CSULB faculty members Dr. Dave Gerhart and Axel Clarke.
March 1-3
B-Word Project - CONFERENCE
Drawing the Line(s): An Interdisciplinary Study
of Censorship in Art & Literature
CSULB Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics
Friday, March 2 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
University Symphony Orchestra
Carpenter Center Tickets: $15/$10
Conducted by Johannes Müller-Stosch, the evening features Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “Titan.” Preceding it in the program will be a performance with the orchestra by the winner of the 2011-2012 Instrumental Concerto competition.
Saturday, March 3 at 8pm
An Evening with Azar Nafisi
Carpenter Center Tickets: $35
Best-known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books—which electrified readers with its incisive exploration of the transformative powers of fiction in a world of tyranny— Nafisi takes audiences on a journey inside a culture, speaking out against authoritarianism and repression. Nafisi appears on the heels of her January 2012 release, That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile.
March 2-17
The University Players
Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez, directed by Luke Yankee
Players Theater Tickets: $15/$12
A searing and poetic family drama about a woman who fled Cuba at the start of the Castro regime. Forty years later, she must face the demons of her past as her son goes to war in the wake of 9/11.
March 4-8
CSULB Department of Art
Advancement Group Exhibition
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
The student art galleries will be devoted to a group show featuring work by MFA students in all areas hoping to advance to candidacy for their respective degrees.
March 5-9
Interior Design Junior Class Works in Progress Show
Design Gallery
Free Admission Exhibition is open 10am-5pm M-F
Tuesday, March 6 at 7pm
B-Word Project
Censoring the Cinema: Obscenity, Indecency, and Violence
Midnight Cowboy
Art Theatre, 2025 East 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90804
Free Admission
This series examines what constitutes obscenity and indecency. It also examines recent attempts to categorize violence as obscenity in an effort to censor it. To illustrate this kind of censorship, the film series will show five controversial films, each introduced by a lecture of approximately 30 minutes by Dr. Craig R. Smith, the Director of the Center for First Amendment Studies. This screening is of Midnight Cowboy, starring Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, and Brenda Vaccaro.
Wednesday, March 7 at 5pm
University Art Museum Event
Visiting Artist Lecture: Yvonne Rainer
University Theatre, CSULB
Wednesday, March 7 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Composition Studio Recital
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Free Admission
Alan Shockley, Director
Saturday, March 10 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Concert Jazz Orchestra
University Theater Tickets: $10/$7
Under the direction of CSULB Director of Jazz Studies Jeff Jarvis, the Concert Jazz Orchestra (CJO) performs works ranging from big band compositions to extended works for jazz orchestra. For this concert, the CJO will feature guest artist, jazz pianist and composer Christian Jacob.
Saturday, March 10 at 8pm
B-Word Project
Film Screening: The Desert of Forbidden Art
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
At the risk of being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 works of art that have been created by “forbidden” artists – like himself – and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions. A question and answer period will follow with directors Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev.
March 11-15
CSULB Department of Art
Nicole Sloan, MFA Photography/Aaron Giesel & David DeBoer, Collaborative/
Rosangela Dardon, Photography/Nicholas McCullough, Graphic Design
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
Nicole Sloan’s MFA exhibition utilizes video and photography to explore the breakdown of the parent-child relationship and awkwardness of adolescence, while Rosangela Dardon ’s show features an installation based upon the transformation of photography works into a sculptural form. Aaron Giesel and David DeBoer showcase the relationship of photography and painting through silmplified representations of the ordinary that points to a higher, hidden stage of being. The graphic design work presented by Nicholas McCullough explores themes of politics and corruption.
Monday, March 12 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Concert Band
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Thursday, March 15 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band
Carpenter Center Tickets: $10/$7
Recognized internationally as a premier university wind ensemble, the CSULB Wind Symphony brings together the finest wind and percussion performers within the Cole Conservatory of Music. This performance is the group's first Long Beach performance since headlining at Carnegie Hall’s New York Wind Festival in February.
March 15-16 at 8pm; March 17 at 2&8pm
CSULB Department of Dance
MFA Dance Concert
Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater Tickets: $20/$16
MFA students Heather Glabe, Jeremy Hahn, and Johnna Wickstrom present original choreography alongside guest artist Doug Varone's Aperture in this evening of stimulating dance. The show will feature performances by undergraduate and graduate dance majors, original music, and unique interactive audience participation.
Friday, March 16 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
World Percussion Concert
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
The CSULB World Percussion Ensemble is dedicated to the performance of traditional percussion music primarily from non-Western cultures. Led by Dr. Michael Carney and Dr. Dave Gerhart, this concert features the Steel Drum Orchestra and the West African Drum Ensemble.
Friday, March 16 at 8pm
An Evening with the T.S. Monk Sextet
Carpenter Center Tickets: $25
Settle in for an evening of jazz that’s both smooth and funky as the T.S. Monk Sextet soars and sizzles through a series of explosively rhythmic ensembles. A worthy heir to his legendary father’s legacy, T.S. Monk won the New York Jazz Awards’ “Recording of the Year” and Downbeat’s prestigious Reader’s Poll Award—and Variety calls monk “a first rate drummer, unquenchably driving, and one of the few who can keep the pulse swinging!”
March 16-24
The University Players
Side Show by Bill Russell and Henry Krieger, directed by Joanne Gordon
Studio Theatre Tickets: $15/$12
The moving true story of siamese twins who flee the freak show, but cannot escape the prison of their fused souls.
Saturday, March 17 at 8pm
An Evening with Solas
Carpenter Center Tickets: $35
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in style with Solas, loudly proclaimed as the most popular and exciting Celtic band to ever emerge from the U.S.! Lyrical themes are conveyed through the soft vocals of Killkenny-born Máiréad Phelan and an energetic blend of flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, guitar, bodhran, fiddle, keyboard, accordion and concertina, making up the sound The Philadelphia Enquirer called, “mind-blowing Irish folk music!”
Sunday, March 18 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series
Orpheus Duo
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
March 18-22
CSULB Department of Art
Elise Preiss, MFA Metals/Tava Tadesco, Printmaking/
Lindsay Buchman, Printmaking/ Jaqueline Li and Emily McConnell, Photography
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
Elise Preiss shows a collection of metal and enameling work, featuring large sculptural forms and wearable objects, creating a conversation between art, craft and design. Tava Tadesco’s show pertains to mixed media and printmaking in response to found objects and their manipulation into artwork. Jaqueline Li and Emily McConnell join forces for a photographic and multi-media documentation of their time spent in nature. Lindsay Buchman explores the built environment as a focal point for making impressions. Within the work the artist strives to embody the human effort to create a lasting imprint on society in our otherwise ephemeral existence.
Tuesday, March 20 at 7pm
B-Word Project
Censoring the Cinema: Obscenity, Indecency, and Violence
Bonnie and Clyde
Art Theatre, 2025 East 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90804 Free Admission
This series examines what constitutes obscenity and indecency. It also examines recent attempts to categorize violence as obscenity in an effort to censor it. To illustrate this kind of censorship, the film series will show five controversial films, each introduced by a lecture of approximately 30 minutes by Dr. Craig R. Smith, the Director of the Center for First Amendment Studies. Bonnie and Clyde stars Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Estell Parsons, Michael J. Pollard, and Gene Hackman.
Friday, March 23 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
University Choir and Chamber Choir
Gerald Daniel Recital hall Tickets: $10/$7
Recognized as two of the finest collegiate choral ensembles in the US, the Chamber Choir and University Choir have sung with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Pacific Symphony, the Long Beach Symphony, and the Pasadena Pops Orchestra. Come hear our Chamber Choir, fresh from their triumphant performance at the American Choral Directors Association conference, as they present works by Gesualdo, Barber, Weill, and Rachmaninoff. Dr. Jonathan Talberg, head of the CSULB Choral, Vocal and Opera program conducts.
Saturday, March 31 at 8pm
Carpenter Center Wit and Wisdom Series
Aquila Theatre Company: The Importance of Being Earnest
Carpenter Center Tickets: $40
Aquila Theatre makes its Carpenter Center debut with Oscar Wilde’s comedic masterpiece about class and namedropping. Earnest tells the tale of two young men who have taken to bending the truth to add a dash of excitement to their lives. However, their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series of hilarious discoveries that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits!
April 1-5
CSULB Department of Art
Tim Humphrey, MFA Sculpture/Ryan Keiser, Sculpture/
Dante Cox, Sculpture/ Meeson Pae Yang, Sculpture
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
Tim Humphrey’s work incoporates the act of healing and an acknowledgement of life span in the process of producing prosthetics to repair the collection of found objects, while Ryan Keiser examines pulic life, spaces and the sound that fills them through an interactive installation. Dante Cox creates the experience of entering a small town or village. The sculptures combine collected remnants with traditional materials for artmaking. Meeson Pae Yang’s exhibition features an immersive installation based on biological systems and natural phenomena using sculptural elements, sound and video projection.
Tuesday, April 3 at 7pm
B-Word Project
Censoring the Cinema: Obscenity, Indecency, and Violence
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
Art Theatre, 2025 East 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90804 Free Admission
This series examines what constitutes obscenity and indecency. It also examines recent attempts to categorize violence as obscenity in an effort to censor it. To illustrate this kind of censorship, the film series will show five controversial films, each introduced by a lecture of approximately 30 minutes by Dr. Craig R. Smith, the Director of the Center for First Amendment Studies. This screening is of A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, starring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and José Ferrer.
Wednesday, April 4 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Conservatory String Chamber Orchestra
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Thursday, April 5 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
University Symphony Orchestra
Carpenter Center Tickets: $15/$10
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Shun-Lin Chou – the director of Keyboard Studies at the Cole Conservatory of Music – as soloist. The evening concludes with Symphony No. 4 by Brahms, under the baton of Johannes Müller-Stosch.
Friday, April 6 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Saxophone Ensemble
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Jay Mason, Director
Saturday, April 7 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Multi-Piano Extravaganza
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $15/$10
A spring tradition at the Cole Conservatory, the Multi-Piano Extravaganza, now in its seventh edition, continues delight its audience in an afternoon of musical celebration. The entire piano faculty will join their creative forces in performing tuneful works and arrangements for one through six (!) pianos. All proceeds from this event will benefit the Keyboard Foundation, which provide scholarships for talented piano students.
April 8-12
CSULB Department of Art
BFA Ceramics Senior Show/Sculpture Group Exhibition/Jose Zendejas, Ceramics/
Adam Harrison, MFA Drawing & Painting
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
BFA senior show featuring work by CSULB’s ceramics students. The Ceramics Program at CSULB is ranked among the top 10 in the nation. Jose Zendejas uses ceramics to create abstract sculptural forms as a means of speaking to the abstraction of the self. Adam Harrison’s MFA Thesis Exhibition is made up of drawings and paintings based on the common and overlooked places and objects of our everyday lives. The Dutzi gallery will showcase a collection of current work from CSULB sculpture students, focusing on the idea of miniature through sculpture.
Monday, April 9 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
New Music Ensemble
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Alan Shockley, Director
April 9-13
Department of Design
Industrial Design Works in Progress Show
Design Gallery
Free Admission
Exhibition is open 10am-5pm M-F
Tuesday, April 10 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
University Brass Ensemble
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Robert Frear, Director
Wednesday, April 11 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
University Woodwind Quintet
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
The University Wind Quintet is composed of the finest wind performers in the CSULB Cole Conservatory of Music. Known for its consistent superior quality of performance, the group is very active – performing concerts, presentations, and in competitions throughout the West, including the renowned Coleman and Monterey Chamber Competitions.
Thursday, April 12 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Percussion Ensemble
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Dave Gerhart, Director
April 12-14
Film Music Symposium
From 19th Century Stage Melodrama to 21st Century Film Scoring
Cole Conservatory of Music Complex
The Symposium will focus on exploring musicodramatic knowledge organization and on understanding both its origins in stage melodrama and how the practice continues as a living tradition in film scoring today. To a greater or lesser extent current practice can be seen as “new wine in old bottles,” because while musical styles have changed, the same underlying musicodramatic schema has remained relatively unchanged.
Sunday, April 15 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Brass Chamber Music
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
April 15-19
CSULB Department of Art
BFA Illustration and Animation Senior Show/Annelie McKenzie, Drawing & Painting/
Jeff Chang, MFA Illustration
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
This BFA Senior Show features work by senior BFA students from both the Illustration and Animation programs. Annelie McKenzie uses mixed media to create a painting, installation, sculpture hybrid, while Jeff Chang examines and documents social issues to create time-based illustrations.
Monday, April 16 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
University String Quartet
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Lorenz Gamma, Director
Wednesday, April 18 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Woodwind Chamber Music
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
John Barcellona, Director
Thursday, April 19 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Conservatory Brass Quintet
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
The Conservatory Brass Quintet is made up of the best brass players at CSULB, and tours regularly throughout the state and performs in regional conventions and competitions.
Friday, April 20 at 8pm; Saturday, April 21 at 2&8pm
Sunday, April 22 at 2pm
CSULB Opera Institute
The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)
Sung in Italian with English Subtitles
University Theater Tickets:$25/$15
Regarded by some as the greatest of all comic operas, Figaro is the highpoint in Mozart’s collaboration with the Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The music is sublime; the comedy and Mozart’s insightful musical portrayal of love and life remain unsurpassed. Stephanie Vlahos (Los Angeles Opera / Los Angeles High School for the Arts / Opera Posse of Pasadena) returns as stage Director, having also directed the recent and well-received productions of The Tales of Hoffmann and Cendrillon. Johannes Müller-Stosch conducts the Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Orchestra.
April 20-May 12
California Repertory Company
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard, directed by Thomas P. Cooke
Queen Mary Royal Theater Tickets: $20/$16/$12
Hamlet’s sidekicks are back. Gambling with death and gamboling with Shakespeare.
Saturday, April 21 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Piano Showcase
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Prize-winning piano students perform a varied program of solo works from the classical repertoire.
April 22-26
CSULB Department of Art
Lisa Talbot, MFA Photography/ iCon, Art History show/ Ink 9, Printmaking/
Christian Ward, MFA Printmaking
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
In her MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lisa Talbot shows a series of photographs exploring the theme of life cycles: birth, life, death, decay, transformation, grown, and rebirth. iCon is a mixed-media exhibition that displays the work of CSULB art students and local artists exploring the contemporary meaning of “icon,” a term so frequently used in the examination of art history. Ink 9 is a group show with thematically curated prints and mixed media work. Christian Ward’s “Moving Around” features printmaking, assemblage and small sculpture to explore the idea of site specificity and documentation.
April 23-27
Department of Design
Portfolio Exhibition
Design Gallery
Free Admission
Exhibition is open 10am-5pm M-F
Wednesday, April 25 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Faculty Composers Concert
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Alan Shockley, Director
April 25-27 at 8pm; April 28 at 2&8pm
CSULB Department of Art
Faculty Dance Concert
Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater Tickets: $20/$16
The final mainstage dance concert of the season features original work by faculty choreographers Heather Ahern, Colleen Dunagan, Keith Johnson, Lorin Johnson, Andrew Vaca, and Falling Angels by world-renowned choreographer Jiri Kylian, Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theatre.
Thursday, April 26 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Visiting Guest Artist Series
Steven Spooner, Piano
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Quickly becoming one of the more noted American pianists of his generation, Steven Spooner has released 14 recordings on commercial labels. In this season alone, Mr. Spooner has performed to spirited acclaim at Carnegie Hall, MTNA National Convention, American Liszt Society National Festival, as well as in prestigious venues in over a dozen countries worldwide. This performance of solo piano music is his only appearance in Southern California in 2012.
April 27-May 12
The University Players
Late: A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Margarett Perry
Players Theatre Tickets: $15/$12
One very uncertain woman must choose between two worlds – the modern conventionalism of Pittsburgh, or the great unknown?
Saturday, April 28 at 4&8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Caribbean Extravaganza
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $15/$10/$5
Dave Gerhart, Director
Saturday, April 28 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Vocal Jazz Concert - Pacific Standard Time and Jazz and Tonic
University Theater Tickets: $10/$7
Christine Guter, Director
Sunday, April 29 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series
Concert Jazz Orchestra
University Theater Tickets: $10/$7
Jeff Jarvis leads the Concert Jazz Orchestra (CJO) through its final performance of the season, and welcomes five of his fellow jazz Cole Conservatory faculty members to perform in this swinging musical finale to the CJO 2011-2012 year.
Sunday, April 29 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series
Althea Waites, Piano
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
April 29-May 3
CSULB Department of Art
BFA Metals Senior Show, Lana Lingan, MFA Drawing & Painting/
Michael Wilde, MFA Sculpture
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
The BFA seinor show features a wide variety of works created by CSULB metals program students. Lana Lingan emplys the ideologies of constructivism, feminism and the found object in her MFA Thesis Exhibition, while Michael Wilde focuses on an exploration of gender theory and procedural aesthetics in his.
Monday,April 30 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Collegium Musicum
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Tuesday, May 1 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Piano Plus!
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Shun-Lin Chou, Director – An eclectic program featuring selected Cole Conservatory piano students in collaboration with instrumental and vocal students.
Wednesday, May 2 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Composers Guild
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Free Admission
Alan Shockley, Director
Thursday, May 3 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band
Carpenter Center Tickets: $10/$7
John Carnahan, Director
Friday, May 4 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Vocal Concert to Honor Shigemi Matsumoto
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Free Admission
The year 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of Bob Cole Conservatory voice faculty member and artist Shigemi Matsumoto's extraordinary career as a voice teacher and mentor. Matsumoto's students are currently singing on stages from the San Francisco Opera to the Metropolitan Opera to Teatro San Carlo in Italy. Come and hear members of the Matsumoto studio along with some outstanding alums in a free concert in the Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall; an offering for the Matsumoto Opera Scholarship will be accepted at the end of the recital.
Saturday, May 5 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Celebrating Music: Rachmaninoff and Walton
Carpenter Center Tickets: $15/$10
Jonathan Talberg conducts the University Symphony Orchestra and the combined choirs of the Cole Conservatory of Music in Rachmaninoff’s “The Bells,” and Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast.”
Sunday, May 6 at 2pm
Carpenter Center Sunday Afternoon Concert Series
Susan Egan: The Belle of Broadway
Carpenter Center Tickets: $35
Broadway star Susan Egan originated the role of Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, starred as Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie; her vivid portrayal of Sally Bowles in Cabaret ran longer than any actress in Broadway history. After selling out her last three Carpenter Center appearances, Susan returns with an altogether different show, performing an electrifying line up of some of Broadway’s most memorable songs!
Sunday, May 6 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Studio Jazz Band
University Theatre Tickets: $10/$7
Jeff Jarvis, Director
May 6-10
CSULB Department of Art
BFA Drawing & Painting Senior Show/ BFA Sculpture Senior Show
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
BFA Senior Shows feature work by senior BFA students from the areas of Drawing & Painting and from Sculpture.
Monday, May 7 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Women’s and Men’s Chorus Concert
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Michael Ushino conducts the Men’s Chorus; Shannon Johnson conducts the Women’s Chorus.
Tuesday, May 8 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Concert Band
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Nikk Pilato, Conductor
Saturday, May 12 7:30pm
CSULB Film and Electronic Arts Department
Spring 2012 Student Film Showcase
University Theatre Tickets: TBD
A screening of select student films.
Saturday, May 12 at 8pm
Carpenter Center Dance Series
Ballet Memphis
Carpenter Center Tickets: $45
Ballet Memphis surprises audiences with original and thought-provoking work that brings new, inspiring ideas to life. Get set for a riveting evening of dance that includes S’epanouir—a momentum-building piece where a woman in the depths of crisis is lifted to a joyous transformation from those in her community; and In Dreams—a sometimes dark, always passionate journey through six of the most popular songs by legendary artist, Roy Orbison.
Wednesday, May 16 and Thursday, May 17
Carpenter Center Cabaret Series
Hot Club of Detroit with Cyrille Aimée
Dinner/Beverage Service 6-6:45pm Performance 7pm
Single ticket prices vary, call for details
The Gypsy jazz sound made famous by Django Reinhardt has never been more passionate, fresh or hot than with Hot Club of Detroit, who are joined by the equally sizzling vocal stylings of Cyrille Aimée!
May 13-17
CSULB Department of Art
BFA Printmaking Senior Show/ BFA Fibers Senior Show/Lance Morris, Printmaking/
Gary Spisak, MFA Sculpture
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
BFA Senior Shows feature work by senior BFA students from the areas of Printmaking and from Fibers. Lance Morris showcases his installation involving prints and imagery applied directly to the gallery walls. The imagery is derived from a map of counties spanning a path from New Orleans, LA to Long Beach, CA. Gary Spisak’s installation environment of wax and embedded objects creates value from dis-articulated and disjointed familial debris, reasserting a fractured and dislocated social relationship.
Monday, May 14 at 4pm
Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series
Percussion Faculty
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Tickets: $10/$7
Tuesday, May 15 at 8pm
Cole Conservatory of Music
Student Composers Song Recital
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall Free Admission
Alan Shockley, Director
Saturday, May 19 at 2&7pm
Carpenter Center Spectacle Series
Jack Hanna: Into the Wild Live!
Carpenter Center Tickets: $40
Adventure awaits as Jack Hanna returns to the Carpenter Center with dozens of exotic animals! ‘Jungle Jack’ introduces you to a variety of his wild furry and feathered friends as he shares his deep knowledge of wild animals, boundless enthusiasm for wildlife conservation, humorous tales, and fascinating footage of his worldwide journeys!
May 20-24
CSULB Department of Art
BFA Photography Senior Show/ Mai Liang, MFA Graphic Design/
William Larson, MFA Graphic Design
CSULB Student Art Galleries Free Admission
BFA Senior Shows feature work by senior BFA students from Photography. Mai Liang displays 3 sets of UI/UX design based on the topic of exploring possibilities of organizing and navigating personal information in public spaces. William Larson’s exploration of grids as they relate to 2D and 3D spaces comprise his MFA Thesis Exhibition.
May 23-25
Department of Design
Senior Show
Design Gallery, Design rooms 112 Free Admission
BFA in Gallery, BS in DESN 112 & BA in 111 & 113 (W-TH: 10am-5pm M-F, F: 10am- 2pm)
May 25 at 9am
CSULB College of the Arts
Commencement 2012
CSULB South Quad (The Grassy Area between the LA and FA buildings)
No June 2012 events are currently scheduled
No July 2012 events are currently scheduled
No August 2012 events are currently scheduled
