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January 22, 2008
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Cal State San Marcos Announces Spring Arts & Lectures Schedule

California State University San Marcos announces its spring 2008 Arts & Lectures Series, a cross-section of artistic, cultural, and scholarly events scheduled Feb. 4 through April 23. All events are open to the public and admission is free.

HANDBAGS:  YOU ARE WHAT YOU CARRY
Monday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.  -  Arts Building, Room 111
A performance collage written for five voices, HANDBAGS explores the most intimate relationship of a woman's life – her relationship with her bag.  Tonight's piece is an excerpt from a larger play.  Stay tuned for more baggage!

KATSURA KAN
Friday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m.  -  Arts Building, Room 111
Internationally known Master Butoh artist Katsura Kan appears with students in a riveting performance of Butoh, a revolutionary dance which emerged from Post-WWII Japan and described by Kan as "surrealism of the flesh."

MAQUILAPOLIS: CITY OF FACTORIES
Thursday, Feb. 21 at 5 p.m.  -  Arts Building, Room 240
This lecture/film screening depicts globalization through the eyes of the women who live on its leading edge. The factory workers who appear in the film have been involved in every stage of production, from planning to shooting, from scripting to outreach.

HOBEY FORD
Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m.  -  Arts Building, Room 111
Hobey Ford, winner of puppetry’s highest honor, the UNIMA Citation of Excellence, and recipient of three Jim Henson Foundation grants will incorporate a variety of puppetry styles including Bunraku, rod, marionettes, Foamies, and shadow puppetry.

LOCALLY GROWN DANCE SERIES
Wednesday, March 5 at 7 p.m.  -  Arts Building, Room 111
SDSU faculty Joe Alter, Leslie Seiters and Pat Sandback present fresh dance works that reawaken your senses!

NATION BEAT
Thursday, March 6 at noon  -  Kellogg Library Plaza
Nation Beat brings to the stage a very high energy live music performance that combines its Brazilian roots with New Orleans funk and jazzed up originals. The performance is a multicultural musical journey through the lives and histories of the performers themselves and the musical traditions that have influenced them.

INSIDE THE CONDUCTOR’S JACKET:  NUVI MEHTA
Tuesday, March 11 at 10 a.m.  -  Arts Building, Room 111
San Diego Symphony Outreach Conductor and Music Director Nuvi Mehta speaks on music, education and the role of arts partners in the future of arts education. 

NEURAL ARCHITECTURE: THE INTERSECTION OF ART
Tuesday, March 11 at 3 p.m  -  Arts Building, Room 111
Lecture/workshop by Deborah Aschheim, whose long-standing interest has been to create installations that reconcile the human body with the invisible worlds of microscopic biology, information networks, sound and memory within the physical and social space of architecture. The artist will present her work in a lecture and conduct two workshops.

INSIDE THE CONDUCTOR’S JACKET:  JUNG HO PAK
Wednesday, March 12 at 10 a.m.  -  Arts Building, Room 111
San Diego Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and Conductor Jung Ho Pak speaks on music, education, and the role of arts partners in the future of arts education. 

A TRIBUTE TO THE 60s
Wednesday, April 23 at 7 p.m.  -  Arts Building, Room 111
A tribute to the pop music of the 60s featuring two CSUSM music professors, Merryl Goldberg and Mtafiti Imara along with alumni and guest artists.  New arrangements of familiar songs will be created especially for this concert.

For more information, visit the web at al.csusm.edu, or call 760 750-4366.

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