Join us in the Meany
West Lobby 45 minutes prior to show time for
Pre-Show Conversations. These bite-sized
opportunities to learn more about the art on our
stage will be offered prior to all performances in.
Check back throughout the season for updated
lecturer information.
*Pre-show
lectures are presented in conjunction with the
performance series and entrance requires performance
ticket purchase.
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November 9, 2007 @ Meany West Lobby
Judy Mitoma will deliver a pre-show talk
before the Gamelan Cudamani performance at Meany Hall.
Judy
Mitoma, Director of the UCLA Center for
Intercultural Performance Judy Mitoma is
Director of the UCLA Center for
Intercultural Performance and Professor of
Dance in the Department of World Arts &
Cultures. As the founding chair of the
Department of World Arts and Cultures, in
1995 she established the only arts
department in the United States based on
interdisciplinary, international and
intercultural research with a performance
agenda. She is recipient of the
distinguished 2003 John D.
Rockefeller Foundation award from the Asian
Cultural Council for her service in support
of cultural exchange between the United
States and Asia. Over the course of her
tenure at UCLA, Professor Mitoma has
spearheaded many special projects. From
1997-1988 she conceived and directed five
Asian Performing Arts Summer Institutes in
which outstanding artists from the United
States and Asia participated in teaching and
performance workshops on the UCLA campus.
These artists performed in Los Angeles, the
Asia Society (NYC) and the Kennedy Center
(Washington D.C.).
7:15pm - 7:40pm
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February 23, 2008 @ Meany West Lobby
James Millward will deliver a pre-show talk
before Wu Man's performance at Meany Hall.
James Millward is Associate
Professor in the School of Foreign Service
and the History Department at Georgetown
University, where he teaches Chinese,
Central Asian and World History. Professor
Millward received his B.A. at Harvard
University in East Asian Languages and
Civilizations, his M.A. at the University of
London School of Oriental and African
Studies in Far Eastern Studies, and his
Ph.D. at Stanford University in History. His
numerous books and articles on Xinjiang,
China, and the Uighur Muslims include the
forthcoming A History of Xinjiang:
Crossroads of Culture on the Silk Road. As a
recipient of many honors and fellowships,
Professor Millward has lived and studied in
China, Japan and Taiwan, and speaks Chinese,
Uighur and other Asian languages. He is a
popular speaker on China at various venues
including the Smithsonian Institution and
the Textile Museum, and he recently briefed
Congress and Washington think tanks on the
Xinjiang region. A frequenter of China and
the Silk Road, Professor Millward has
crossed the Taklamakan Desert by jeep,
camped with Kazakhs in the Heavenly
Mountains, and played Uighur lutes in the
bazaars of Kashgar. His knowledge of the
region and its people makes him an excellent
lecturer for our Silk Road tour.
7:15pm - 7:40pm
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April 26, 2008 @ Meany West Lobby
Lorraine Sakata
will deliver a introductory lecture before
the Ali Brother's performance.
Lorraine Sakata is the
author of Music in the Mind: The
Concepts of Music and Musician in
Afghanistan, published by Kent State
University Press in 1983 and reissued by
Smithsonian Institution Press in November of
2002. She is producer of Ustad
Mohammad Omar: Virtuoso from Afghanistan
(Smithsonian Folkways, 2002). Her other
recent publications focus on devotional
music of Pakistan, in particular, the music
at Sufi shrines in Pakistan. She is
currently working on a book on Asian and
Asian American music, based on her
experience working with Asian and Asian
American musicians and musical organizations
in the United States. Sakata taught in the
Ethnomusicology Program at the University of
Washington for twenty years before joining
the UCLA faculty.
7:15pm - 7:40pm
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S C H E D U L
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Orchid Ensemble
November 3,
2007
Gamelan Cudamani
November 9-10,
2007
Ea Sola
January 17-19,
2008
Simon Shaheen
January 26,
2008
Wu Man & Shawm Band
February 23,
2008
Music of the Uyghur Nation
February 27,
2008
Qawwali Music of Pakistan
April 26, 2008 |
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