Arts & Lectures Brings Music, Dance and History to CSUSM

The Arts & Lectures series returns to Cal State San Marcos this spring with concerts, performances and talks aimed at sharing music, dance, science and history. Events will take place across campus from January through April. All events are free for CSUSM students.

Ching-Ming and Friends Chamber Concert

Jan. 27, noon-1 p.m., Arts 111

Joined by CSUSM music professor Ching-Ming Cheng, the 11th annual Villa-Lobos International Chamber Music Festival will take place on campus to bring music composed entirely by Latin American composers. The program aims to celebrate Latin American chamber music across Southern California.

CSUSM students: Free

Faculty/staff/alumni: $5

Community: $10

Sponsored by the Funes Fund

Stories From Home

March 13, 6:30-8 p.m., Arts 111

Yvonne and Buddy Querencia Still “Stories From Home” is a series of dances embodying the oral traditions of Nuevomexicano, Chicano and Mexican American communities in the American Southwest. Choreographer Yvonne Montoya and a diverse cast of dancers draw upon personal histories as well as ancestral knowledge. The performance is a vessel for personal and specific tales, while also offering a broader look at various cultural traditions throughout the Southwest.

An artist meet-and-greet will take place March 10 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Cross-Cultural Center.

CSUSM students: Free

Faculty/staff/alumni: $5

Community: $10

A Marriage of Art and Science: Entwined Research in a Nuclear Family

March 23, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., USU Ballroom

Slavick and Richardson Courtesy Photo Art and science intersect with elin O’Hara slavick’s art, which maps radioactive residuum, and David Richardson’s epidemiological studies of radiation’s human impact.

Slavick, who wrote “Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography and After Hiroshima,” is an internationally exhibiting artist who captures the lingering effects of radiation with audiographs and creates contact prints of tree rubbings and architecture exposed to atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima. Richardson, an epidemiologist who’s conducted studies of cancer among U.S. federal nuclear workers and Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is the lead writer on the United Nations Committee of Epidemiological Studies of Radiation and Cancer (UNSCEAR).

CSUSM students: Free

Faculty/staff/alumni: $5

Community: $10

Co-sponsors: Center ARTES STEAM ambassadors

Peter Sprague Group Featuring Allison Adams Tucker

March 24, 7-8:30 p.m., Arts 111

Masterclass 2:30-3:45 p.m. in Arts 111, open to the public

Sprague Courtesy Photo Guitarist Peter Sprague loves jazz, but he also dips deep into musical history and unearths some sonic gems from the Beatles, Jimmy Webb and Antonio Carlos Jobim. For this concert, he connects with vocalist Allison Adams Tucker, pianist Danny Green, drummer Duncan Moore and bassist Mack Leighton for an evening of good sounds, good vibes and good times. The group recently released three albums: “All You Need Is Love” (Beatles), “Christmas Time Is Here” and “Peter Sprague Plays Jobim.”

CSUSM students: Free

Faculty/staff/alumni: $5

Community: $10

Veterans History Project II: The Journey Continues

April 8, 5-8 p.m., USU Ballroom

Gruny Courtesy Photo This event, which showcases recorded oral histories of military veterans, offers an intimate look into the personal experiences, challenges and triumphs of veterans from diverse backgrounds. Stores shared will be archived at CSUSM’s Kellogg Library and the U.S. Library of Congress, preserving their legacies for future generations. The keynote speaker will be Jim Gruny, a retired colonel in the Marine Corps. The formal program begins at 6 p.m., preceded by a reception and veteran resources and career fair.