Events

Powell Library Rotunda

Music in the Rotunda

Vivaldi's Celebrated "Four Seasons" and Other Works

Saturday, February 11
8 p.m.

Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, Antonio Lysy, and Richard O'Neill, faculty in the UCLA Strings Studios, return with their first-year students for this annual celebration featuring Vivaldi's perennial favorite along with other Baroque works, performed within the wonderful acoustics of the Powell Library Building Rotunda. Admission is free, and no reservations are required.

 

Charles E. Young Research Library

Soviet History through Soviet Film

Dersu Uzala

Tuesday, February 14
6:30 p.m.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa, this film won the 1976 Academy Award for best foreign film. Filmed on location in eastern Siberia, it relates a simple tale of physical and metaphysical exploration involving a Russian surveyor and a guide. Margarita Nafpaktitis, librarian for Slavic and East European studies, will lead a discussion following the screening. 

This biweekly film series is sponsored by the UCLA Library, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Admission is free, and no reservations are required.

 

Powell Library Rotunda

Al-Mutanabbi Street

Poetry Reading and Exhibit Opening

Monday, March 5
7:30 p.m.

Known as "the street of booksellers," al-Mutanabbi Street is a legendary locale in Baghdad, a winding lane filled with bookstores, outdoor book stalls, small presses, and cafes where books have been made, sold, and discussed for centuries. In March 2007 a massive car bomb targeted this historic heart of the city's intellectual and literary community, leaving thirty dead and one hundred injured.

This event celebrates the opening of an exhibit of broadsides and artists' books created by letter-press artists and writers around the world in response to the bombing. It will feature an exhibit tour led by Beau Beausoleil, the force behind the broadside project, and readings by writers including Dima Hilal, Jen Hofer, Elline Lipkin, Afaf Nash, Jim Natal, Aram Saroyan, Janet Sternburg, and Sholeh Wolpe.

The exhibit and event are co-sponsored by the UCLA Library, Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Dean of Humanities Fund. Admission is free, and no reservations are required. The exhibit will remain on view through April 30.