ARCHITECTURE
"Pliant Prefab - An Intersection of Disparate Ideas in Architecture"
A group of architects and environmental artists make presentations and partake in a moderated panel discussion of their current work related to building "skins."
Gallery/Exhibit:
Thursday, October 25, 6:00 - 7:00 PM, Shatford Library Rotunda
Panel Discussion:
Thursday, October 25, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Vosloh Forum
Moderator: Frances Anderton, Host of DNA (KCRW) & Los Angeles Editor, Dwell Magazine.
Presenters:
- Jenna Didier, Oliver Hess and Marcos Lutyen, Artists; Infranatural, Los Angeles
- Peter DeMaria AIA, Architect; DeMaria Design Associates, Manhattan Beach, CA
- John Sparano, Anne Mooney, Architects; Sparano Money Architecture, INC, Los Angeles
- Jonathan Davis, Architect; Davis Studio Architecture and Design, Venice
- Linda Taalman, Alan Koch, Architects; Taalman/Koch Architects, Los Angeles
ART
"The Soldier's Skin: An Endless Edition," by Mary Beth Heffernan
October 10 - November 17, Art Gallery
"The Soldier's Skin" is a photographic series documenting the memorial tattoos of U.S. Marines recently returned from the war in Iraq. Heffernan extends the private, singular nature of the tattoo memorials by presenting the photographs in the gallery as posters that audience members can take and keep. www.pasadena.edu/artgallery
"Humanity's Multiple Skins," Pasadena ArtNight
Friday, October 12, 6-10 PM, C building
A video installation by Alexander Kritselis that fills all 32 windows of the campus administration building, facing Colorado Boulevard.
ATHLETICS
"Skin to Skin": Student Athletes Photography Competition
October 1-5
Student athletes are invited to submit a photo and description of an athletic event that shows "skin to skin" contact.
"Skin to Skin Contact and Competition"
Friday, October 12, at 2:00 PM, GM220
A lecture by Bill Paden, the co-founder of the Village Nation, an educational program for African-American youth, and a former Varsity Football Coach.
LITERATURE
"Books that Get Under Our Skin," a book exhibition
October 1 - October 31, 2007, Rotunda of the Shatford Library
We have all read books that trouble us, irritate us, yet stay with us for a long time after we turn the last page. Sometimes they "get under our skin" and stay for a lifetime... Join Pasadena City College in recording these memorable books. Share your experiences with the books that got "under your skin."
"Books that Get Under Our Skin," a blog at http://underourskin.blogspot.com/
Reading and discussion: Oliver Mayer
on social and interracial issues he portraits in his plays
Wednesday, October 10, 7:30 PM, Harbeson Hall
Oliver Mayer is the author of "Blade to the Heat." He wrote the libretto for "America Tropical," a new opera composed by David Conte. He is the recipient of a Gerbode Grant, a Sloan Initiative Commission and a USC Zumberge Award. Oliver Mayer writes about his work:
Playwriting is an art that lives on the skin. Moments live in the immediate present, where feeling is faster than thought, and where we confront fears, desires and secrets that cause the blood to rush. The blood rush is literally a blush, an onrush of overwhelming feeling that cannot be rationalized or hidden. The skin gives it away. How does a playwright make an audience
blush? The writer's own skin must be on the line.
Reading and discussion: Velina Hasu Houston
Japanese American author relating the immigrant experience
expressed in her plays.
Friday, October 12, 7:30 PM, Forum
Velina Hasu Houston is the author of thirty plays, in a career that started Off-Broadway in 1983, with the premier of her play "Tea" at Manhattan Theater Club. Velina Hasu Houston writes about her work:
My literary career focuses on the exploration of cultural collision and coalescence in Japan-US relations through
personal stories set in multicultural environments that seek deeper understanding of identity and transformation. I am
particularly interested in the impact of Japanese immigration and of Japanese international/interracial marriage. In the
past, I have written about Japanese Americans, Asian Americans, and other people of color in the US with regard to their
status as immigrants, females making their way in male-dominated societies, partners in marriages, parents, adults and
children balancing multicultural views and practices, and aging adults in a world that reveres youth. I have written over
thirty plays, with nearly half of them commissioned by key organizations and theatres in Japan and the US.
Lecture and discussion: Luis Rodriguez
Monday, October 15, 7:30 PM, Forum
Rodriguez is the author of "The Republic of East LA" and "Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A."
Out of the prison gang life he discusses the difficulty of growing up in
communities where violence is a daily routine.
Panel discussion on race relationships in cinema featuring Mel Donalson, and others.
Friday, Oct. 19, 6:30 PM, Harbeson Hall
Panel discussion on race relationships in film, featuring Mel Donalson, and others, on social and interracial relations in film, how they reflect and influence social perception.
Reading and discussion: Michael Datcher, African American poet
Monday, October 22, 7:30 PM, E202
Michael Datcher is a critically acclaimed poet and journalist, author of the bestseller "Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story," a memoir of growing up fatherless. "Michael Datcher writes extensively about finding beauty in the blues. That challenging connective tissue that binds the human family in a circle of common understanding."
“What Color is Black: The Invention of Race in Brazil,” Dr. Ted Young.
Wednesday, October 24, 8 PM, Harbeson Hall
Lecture on those aspects of race and ethnicity that are cultural constructs rather than biological constants.
MUSIC
Mambo Combo
Thursday, October 18, 7:30 PM, Harbeson Hall
Latin Jazz, African American Jazz and blues mixed with salsa.
"Dekajazz," Contemporary Little Big Band Jazz Ensemble
Thursday, October 25, 8 PM, Harbeson Hall
Traditional contemporary jazz from an outstanding Southern California tentet.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
"Changing Our Skin," Dr. Nayiri Doudikian-Scaff
Thursday, October 11, 11:30 AM, E202
Lecture on the present and future of plastic surgery
"The Anatomy of a Tattoo"
Tuesday, October 23, Noon |
Monday, October 29, 1 PM |
Wednesday, October 31, 7 PM
All three events will be at Harbeson Hall
Come hear about the basic anatomy of the skin and process of having it tattooed, learn the safety risks tattooing poses and learn of the sensations it provokes-as described by one having it done in front of you. Not for the faint of heart, as blood and needles will be involved.
"The ABC's of Skin: from Acne to Cancer"
Friday, October 26, 11 AM, U309
Dr. Adam Esser, who specializes in a form of cancer removal known as Mohs microsurgery, will be talking about common skin disorders and how to prevent those that are preventable. Great for health sciences students and everyone with skin of their own.
LINKS
SKIN/Art & Ideas 2007
http://www.artideasfestival.org/
Pasadena Art Weekend
Directions to PCC
EVENT LOCATIONS AT PCC
