Finding Vivian Maier
Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts
“In 2007, a trove of 100,000 photographic negatives was discovered at a Chicago estate auction. They had been taken by a woman named Vivian Maier who died in 2009. Her unposed street photography was worthy of comparison with the work of Helen Levitt and Lisette Model. This film portrait of Maier, by John Maloof, who discovered the work, is of someone impressively independent, implacably solitary and increasingly strange. Her personality, though, remains fundamentally elusive. The film puzzles over Maier’s never having shown her work. But Maier’s art speaks for itself. It was a window through which she could see without being seen. She saw the compositions in her viewfinder. She knew how good they were.” Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe. Grand Jury Documentary Prize, Miami Film Festival, 2014.
2014 | USA | 83 min. 

When: August 29 - 30, 2014 @ 7:00 p.m. | Matinee: August 30, 2014 @ 3:00 p.m.
Where: Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts, 3824 Main St., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit culvercenter.ucr.edu

Matisyahu
Fox Performing Arts Center
Known for blending Orthodox Jewish themes with reggae, rock and hip hop beat boxing sounds, Matisyahu's 2005 single King Without a Crown was a Top 40 hit in the United States. Since 2004, he has released four studio albums as well as two live albums, two remix CDs and two DVDs featuring live concerts. In addition, Matisyahu played the role of Tzadok in The Possession, a supernatural horror film directed by Ole Bornedal and co-produced by Sam Raimi. Through his career, Matisyahu has worked with Bill Laswell, reggae producers Sly & Robbie and Kool Kojak.

When: August 30, 2014 @ 6:30 p.m.
Where: Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit foxriversidelive.com


Fiero Saxophone Ensemble
La Sierra University
Fiero, a newly formed saxophone ensemble, will give their debut concert at La Sierra University this weekend. Directed by former La Sierra student Andrew Harrison, the group of four award-winning players will perform works of Jean Francaix, George Frideric Handel, Thierry Eschaich, David Maslanka and others. Harrison is joined by Isaac Lopez, alto saxophone, Emma Reinhart, tenor saxophone and John Hallberg, baritone saxophone. Fiero is based at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music where Harrison is pursuing a doctoral degree. He enrolled at La Sierra in 2005 as a pre-med major, then realized his true passion for music after playing saxophone with the LSU Wind Ensemble and other groups. He studied with legendary classical saxophonist Harvey Pittel at the University of Texas, Austin where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees. The saxophonists aim to bring “new music to audiences and invigorate older works with the gorgeous sound of the saxophone,” says Harrison. Admission is free.

When: August 30, 2014 @ 8:00 p.m.
Where: La Sierra University, Hole Memorial Auditorium, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, CA 92515 
For more information please visit www.lasierra.edu or call 951.785.2036

Riverside Artswalk
Riverside Arts Council
Riverside Artswalk is a free monthly community event that celebrates the diversity of arts and culture in Riverside and the Inland Empire. Visit over 22 downtown locations, including museums, galleries and studios, presenting an eclectic mix of visual and performing arts. Either before or after, enjoy the many dining or shopping experiences that Downtown Riverside has to offer. 

When:  September 4, 2014 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Where: Downtown Riverside
For more information please visit www.riversideartswalk.com

Coheed & Cambria
Municipal Auditorium
Although originally forming as a rock trio in 1995, New York's Coheed and Cambria officially took root in 2001, shedding their former name of Shabutie and embracing a fusion of progressive rock, emocore, and highly conceptual album themes. Vocalist/guitarist Claudio Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever, bassist Michael Todd and drummer Joshua Eppard issued their group's full-length debut, 2002's The Second Stage Turbine Blade, on the Albany-based Equal Vision Records. The band toured extensively for more than a year in support of the album, which was created as the second installment (although the band's first release) of a five-part fictional saga about the doomed marriage of two characters, Coheed and Cambria, whose children may or may not be infected with a serum whose power can destroy the universe. The Amory Wars, a detailed graphic novel series written by Sanchez himself, further explains the band's science fiction narratives.

When: September 5, 2014 @ 7:00 p.m.
Where: Municipal Auditorium, 3845 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit foxriversidelive.com


The Dance of Reality
Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts
“After making an indelible mark on pop culture with such provocations as Fando y Lis, and El Topo, the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky seemed to disappear. But now, at a sprightly 85, Jodorowsky is back with one of his most lucid and personal films. The Dance of Reality, which recounts his childhood and was shot on the nondescript streets in Tocopilla, Chile, where he grew up, retains many of the themes of his early work—sex, religion, politics, identity, circus performers, the disfigured and disenfranchised. But this time, the director addresses the audience directly as a man who has overcome great tragedies in his life but has always found salvation in his art. That, more than anything else, is his religion.” Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald. Best Feature, Oslo Films from the South Festival, 2013.
2013 | Chile/France | 130 min. 

When: September 5 - 6, 2014 @ 7:00 p.m. | Matinee: September 6, 2014 @ 3:00 p.m.
Where: Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts, 3824 Main St., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit culvercenter.ucr.edu


Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez
Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts
Teatro Latino: Second Thursday (Segundo Jueves) Latina/o Play Reading Project: A monthly staged reading of 9 Latina/o plays over 9 months during the 2014-2015 academic year, as presented by UCR Theatre faculty member Tiffany Ana Lopez. Project seeks to introduce audiences to Latina/o art and culture by showcasing the artistic excellence of noted voices and plays in US Latina/o theatre. Free admission, limited seating. 

When:  September 11, 2014 | 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Where: Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts, 3824 Main St., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit culvercenter.ucr.edu

We Are the Best!
Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts
“Pipsqueak misfits in early 80s Stockholm, Bobo and Clara are the kind of friends who bond because everybody around them, from their parents to their teachers to their classmates, is impossibly stupid and wrong. In Lukas Moodysson’s exuberant We Are the Best!, the tweenage girls do the only thing they can: start a band. Not an Abbaesque pop outfit, but a slashing, crashing punk unit. Their gym teacher is a tyrant, soccer blows, so their first fiery two-minute anthem makes perfect sense. It’s called Hate the Sport. Their repertoire, raging and rebellious, goes from there. It’s not blood that flows through their veins, it’s nitroglycerin. The girls chant the Swedish title: “Vi är bäst! Vi är bäst!” And they’re right, they are.” Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer. Tokyo Grand Prix, Tokyo International Film Festival, 2013.
2014 | Sweden/Denmark | 102 min.

When: September 12 - 13, 2014 @ 7:00 p.m. | Matinee: September 13, 2014 @ 3:00 p.m.
Where: Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts, 3824 Main St., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit culvercenter.ucr.edu

Last Comic Standing
Fox Performing Arts Center
The goal of the program, Last Comic Standing, is to select the top comedian from an initially large group of amateur stand up comics. The winner of the program each season receives a cash prize, a development contract with NBC and a half-hour scripted project that will be developed by Universal Television.  Last Comic Standing is in its eighth season, with Wanda Sykes serving as executive producer. Roseanne Barr, Keenen Ivory Wayans, and Russell Peters serve as the judges with JB Smoove as the host. The top 5 for season eight are going on tour and making a stop at Riverside’s own Fox Performing Arts Center.

When: September 19, 2014 @ 7:30 p.m.
Where: Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit foxriversidelive.com

Riverside Mariachi Festival
Parks, Recreation & Community Services Department
The Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department will host the annual Mariachi Festival at Fairmount Park. Nationally recognized mariachis, including Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles, alongside the colorful dance steps of Ballet Folklórico performances will entertain guests throughout the event. Vendors will provide food and crafts that reflect the cultural diversity of this innovative festival. The festival will be held Friday, September 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, September 20 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pre-sale tickets are available for purchase at the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department located at 6927 Magnolia Avenue, 2nd Floor, and all community centers through  September 19. Pre-sale tickets are $12.50 each. On-site ticket sales will be available at $20 per person. Children 12 and under are free. 

When: September 19 - 20, 2014
Where: Fairmount Park, 2601 Fairmount Blvd., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please emailkreid@riversideca.gov

Sylvia
Riverside Community Players
Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after 22 years of child-raising in the suburbs. One day Greg brings home a dog he found in the park - or that has found him - bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. To Greg, she offers an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection, but to Sylvia, Kate simply does not understand the relationship between man and dog.

When: September 12 – 28, 2014
Where: Riverside Community Players, 4026 Fourteenth St., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit riversidecommunityplayers.org

Legally Blonde: The Musical
Performance Riverside
Harvard’s beloved blonde takes the stage by pink storm in this fun, upbeat musical about self-discovery. Based on the adored movie, Legally Blonde: The Musical stays true to form with a peppy score and playful book. This musical is ridiculously enjoyable from start to finish. Elle Woods appears to have it all. Her life is turned upside-down, however, when her boyfriend dumps her so he can start getting serious about his life and attend Harvard Law. Determined to get him back, Elle uses her charm to get into Harvard Law. At school, she struggles with peers, professors, and Warner Huntington. With the help of Paulette and Emmett, though, Elle quickly realizes her potential and sets out to prove herself to the world.  

When: September 26 –  October 5, 2014
Where: Landis Performing Arts Center, 4800 Magnolia Ave., Riverside, CA 92506
For more information please visit www.performanceriverside.org

100 Japanese Cameras: 1925-2014
California Museum of Photography
In the short period of time from the end of the Second World War until the 1970s, Japan’s photographic industry dramatically shifted the world’s camera production center from Europe and America to Japan. This exhibition examines the rise of the Japanese camera industry and highlights cameras from 1925 to the present day. The exhibition documents seven phases of the Japanese industry, from its prewar small cameras and European copies, to its present-day digital devices. Cameras have been chosen in each section both for their innovative technical significance and for their visual presence. Selections in each section represent both function and beauty. The exhibition displays the cameras, television ads for Japanese cameras from the 60s through the present, and early print media advertisements for Japanese cameras. A giant poster/catalog is available.

When: July 19 – October 11, 2014
Where: California Museum of Photography, 3824 Main St., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit culvercenter.ucr.edu


Look Who's Talking Too
Riverside Art Museum
Last year, the Art Alliance's inaugural Look Who's Talking lecture series fundraiser brought in four fascinating speakers on four diverse topics. This year is no different, with a line-up that is sure to intrigue. The Art Alliance is proud to bring you speakers in the literary, performing, graphic and culinary arts. All guest speakers are local personalities who have had an impact far beyond the Inland Empire. Line up for the lectures include Reza Aslan on the topic of The Jesus of History & the Christ of Faith; Lauren Potter on the topic of Following My Dreams; Shannon Murphy on the topic of Art & Creativity: Alive in Palestine; and Marla Cohen on the topic of From the Bowels of the Basement to Rubbing Shoulders with Hollywood. Tickets are $25 per lecture and series tickets can be purchased for $100, which reserves preferred seating to all four lectures.

When: September 22 – October 13
Where: Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit riversideartmuseum.org


Domesticating Disturbances
Sweeney Art Gallery
In Domesticating Disturbances, artist Nathan Huff transforms the ARTSblock’s gallery spaces into visual recitals combining the existence of animals and the austere presence of everyday objects as nostalgic and psychological tropes. Huff’s interest in the disconnection of two beings - living and non-living, is associated with his curiosity of whether “simpler times” can co-exist within or permeate in our “digital” life. He presents this paradox in a series of installations consisting of drawings, paintings and sculptures. Much like Carl Jung’s concept of the collective unconsciousness, Huff focuses on animals as central figures recollected in trauma, myths, dreams, as well as in art. The connection of the two existences continues as Huff interrupts the animal’s habitat with sculptural objects and ultimately, placing them in juxtaposition within the domestic interior of a cultural institution.

When: June 24 - November 1, 2014
Where: Sweeney Art Gallery, 3834 Main St., Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit culvercenter.ucr.edu


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August 2014
Issue No.251