Guest Speakers

September 26--Sandra Gibson (Executive Director, Public Corporation for the Arts), Arts on the Frontline of Community Revitalization

September 30--Devil in a Blue Dress, film shown plus forum with author Walter Mosley, Carpenter Performing Arts Center

October 15--Kevin Starr, (historian, journalist, and State Librarian of California), "Long Beach: What It Means for Itself and for California" with reception following in the University Art Museum (Co-sponsored by Long Beach Heritage)

November 14 & Friday, November 15--Susan Fainstein, (Rutgers University, Urban Planning), "Images of the Egalitarian City: Amsterdam" (Thursday) "Social Justice and the City" (Friday)

December 3--Joel Garreau, Washington Post (author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier), "Civilization, Cyber Space, and the Future of Edge City"

December 4--Jud Fine, (artist commissioned for the Los Altos Public Arts Project)
Events

September 27--Cal Rep Theatre production of On the Beach (about the last city on earth)

September 30--Devil in a Blue Dress (film and discussion with writer)--Carpenter Performing Arts Center

October 2--Faculty Supper Club--Dinner Cruise of Long Beach Harbor (Co-sponsored by the Port of Long Beach)

October 8-Sunday, November 17--Odyssey Photography Exhibition at the University Art Museum (Long Beach Odyssey: Joe Deal, Judy Fiskin, Anthony Hernandez, Kenneth McGowan, Grant Mudford, and Leland Rice)

October 26--Jazz and the City Concert--(Studio Ensemble I), Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall

October 27--Camerata Singers of Long Beach with the Pacific Baroque Ensemble(as part of the Long Beach Bach Festival)

October 25, 26, 27 and November 1, 2, 3--70 mm Film Festival--Carpenter Performing Arts Center (2001: A Space Odyssey, West Side Story, Blade Runner)

November 1--Choral Sounds of the City--Choral concert, Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall

November 2--Walking tours of Long Beach Public Art and CSULB monumental sculptures (Co-sponsored by Long Beach Heritage and the Public Corporation for the Arts)

November 6--Faculty Supper Club--Speaker-Jim Curtis, Department of Geography, "The Mexican Border Cities: Myths and Realities"

November 7--"Laughing Against the City: Comedy and Satire of Urban Living," Department of Comparative Literature and Classics sponsored Victor Castellani, Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities, University of Denver

November 22--"The Spaces Between Buildings: Urban Design and City Life," Department of Geography sponsored Larry R. Ford, San Diego State University

December 1--December 5--City Dialogues: Word to Image, Image to Word Exhibition and performance of City Theme works. (Collaboration between visual artists and poets.)

December 4--Faculty Supper Club--Speaker-Elyse Blankley, Departments of English and Women's Studies, "The Untameable Shrew of Howards End: Urban Panic, Colonialism, and the End of Empire"