In this Email:
- Eroica Trio: free concert
- Backstage to Japan
- Proof by David Auburn
- Student-produced
ads help the planet - Bening on stage, screen
College of Creative Arts October E-lert
Concert
Morrison Artists Series: Eroica Trio
This Grammy-nominated ensemble brings the cool back to classical music, returning to the site of its 1990 West Coast debut to play works by Beethoven, Tower and Brahms. The Los Angeles Times writes: “These people have it all: technique, temperament, interpretive savvy, good looks and a winning stage presence.”
Join composer and Professor Ronald Caltabiano for a pre-concert talk at 7pm.
Theatre
Kabuki: Backstage to Hanamichi
Experience the color, magic and drama of kabuki in this informative lecture and exquisite performance of the classical, stylized Japanese theatre form. Celebrated kabuki actors Kyozo Nakamura and Matanosuke Nakamura lead a 14-member troupe from the world-renowned Shochiku Co.
Theatre
Proof by David Auburn
Calculate the unknowns of life in this Pulitzer- and Tony-winning drama by David Auburn. Paradigms shift when a groundbreaking mathematical proof is found. Did the late professor write it, or his daughter? A gripping struggle of genius, insanity and love follows.
Join Sheldon Axler, a mathematician and the dean of the SF State College of Science and Engineering, for a pre-show talk at 7:15pm October 16.
News
Honorary degree awarded to World War II internee
Former student Aiko Nishi Uwate has received an honorary bachelor’s degree from the California State University, 67 years after she was removed from SF State and sent to a World War II internment camp. Uwate was a Music major.
Student-produced ads help the planet
Bring your own bag. Make it a habit and grab it. These are the refrains in student-produced television and radio advertisements airing this fall throughout the Bay Area. This public education campaign waged by the Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition (BayROC) aims to help the environment through these simple reminders.
Art alum wins biennial award in St. Louis
Cameron Fuller is one of three artists to win the 2010 Great Rivers Biennial award from the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He studied printmaking at SF State and has branched out into installations, often created with masking tape and pulled off the wall after a show closes. The award, selected from 235 submissions, comes with $20,000 and an exhibition at the museum next year.
Dig This
Alumna Annette Bening returns to the stage
Annette Bening (B.A., Drama, '80). Photo courtesy of UCLA Live.
Actress Annette Bening, one of SF State’s most famous alumni, has rediscovered the love for theatre that she kindled as a child. The three-time Academy Award nominee stars in the title role “Medea” at UCLA Live’s International Theatre Festival. In February, she stars in Joanna Murray-Smith’s “The Female of the Species.”
“The great plays become the vehicle for everything in your life while you’re working,” Bening said in a Los Angeles Times article published Sept. 19. “When you think about your own life and own family, it all becomes through that prism.”
Bening (B.A., Drama, ’80) is still on the A-list in Hollywood. Her role in Rodrigo Garcia’s “Mother and Child” is already getting Oscar buzz. She also stars in “The Kids Are All Right,” scheduled for 2010.
Related link: Annette Bening thinks Medea is a killer role - by Rachel Abramovitz, Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2009.
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Images: Backstage to Hanamichi courtesy of Shochiku Co., Eroica Trio by Nina Choi, Proof by Claire Rice.