THE 2015–16
SEASON OF
IMPACT THANK YOU FOR CREATING IMPACT ACROSS OUR COMMUNITY BY MAKING THE ARTS ACCESSIBLE TO UC SAN DIEGO STUDENTS, K–12 STUDENTS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS!
Thanks to our community of friends and supporters, the 2015–16 multiarts season marked ArtPower’s 12th year of programming and was a celebration of how the arts connect, engage and inspire a community. As our partner, your generous support helped to make performing arts accessible and ensure their position as a valued asset in our community and in the lives of young people. Throughout 2015–16, ArtPower presented over 100 public performances and engagement events of chamber music, theater, dance, contemporary music, film, jazz, and global music!
There is much to be proud of when reflecting back on ArtPower’s 2015–16 season.
PERFORMANCE / PRESS HIGHLIGHTS ARTPOWER’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JORDAN PEIMER, INSPIRED AUDIENCES WITH INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED ARTISTS . . . TO RAVE REVIEWS FROM LOCAL AND NATIONAL PRESS! ArtPower audiences were exposed to world-class performances in all genres from more than 12 countries. Artists inspired us from the stage and the screen, traveling from the United Kingdom, Mexico, Taiwan, Cuba, Spain, Japan, Mauritania, Poland, Germany, Israel, Ukraine, and the U.S.! HUANG YI & KUKA—“If your taste runs to performance that’s outside the box, this has been a bountiful week in San Diego — particularly on the UC San Diego campus . . . Huang Yi & KUKA, courtesy of the University’s ArtPower performing arts program. The boundary between man and robot has clearly been breached by Yi, in profound and provocative ways. It’s hard not to impose a narrative interpretation, having read the artist’s statement in the program. Look for the newest version of Yi’s performance. It’s sure to raise your eyebrows, if not your pulse.”—Pat Launer, Times of San Diego, October 15, 2015 ArtPower, in collaboration with the La Jolla Playhouse, brought Greg Wohead’s Nearness of You series to campus as part of the WOW! Festival. Attendees were given the opportunity to experience these one-to-one performances dealing with the idea of closeness, both spatially and across time, some located at the Stuart Collection’s Fallen Star.
BRIAN ENO’S MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS Jordan Peimer took ArtPower audiences off campus for a groundbreaking performance of Brian Eno’s music at the San Diego International Airport. “It seemed a considerable risk for UC San Diego’s ArtPower to take arguably the best-known new music ensemble in the world and put it in the San Diego International Airport, . . . even if it was the first time Music for Airports had been performed in a U.S. airport. But the far north end of Terminal 2, with a huge glass mural as a backdrop, proved a very congenial venue . . . It makes you hopeful about the possibility of audiences embracing the music of our time.” —James Chute, San Diego Union-Tribune, October 27, 2015.
ArtPower’s 2015–16 Jazz series received rave reviews from audience members. With sold-out performances by Kendrick Scott Oracle, José James, Alicia Olatuja, and the Alfredo Rodriguez Trio, ArtPower continued to establish itself as a premier jazz presenter in the region. These rising stars of the jazz scene astonished audiences with their San Diego debuts at The Loft!
ARTPOWER FILM The 2015–16 ArtPower Foovie series (Food + Movie) explored cultural and gender identity in the context of three “national awareness” months. The series was integrated into UC San Diego’s Visual Arts curriculum, and UC San Diego students were offered free tickets to each event. Thanks to the free ticket offerings, student attendance at Foovies increased by 50 percent!
THE THIRD ANNUAL FILMATIC FESTIVAL ArtPower Film was proud to present the third annual Filmatic Festival, at Qualcomm Institute, Calit2. The festival, held on the UC San Diego campus, once again opened to widespread acclaim and enthusiastic interest from the film and digital-media communities. Filmatic engaged several NEW on- and off-campus partners in the participation of the festival. Sponsors: Qualcomm Institute / Unofficial Cardboard / Clarion Del Mar Inn / Green Flash Brewery Filmatic Festival, which explores digital media and innovative and immersive film experiences, is the only festival of its kind in California.
UP&COMING LIVE FILM FESTIVAL UP&COMING WIRED ArtPower Film student curatorial assistants teamed up with UCSD TV to broadcast curated short films produced by UC San Diego students. Following the quarterly broadcasts, UCSD TV posted the films online. On average, these films received up to 100,000 hits each quarter. Wrapped into the Filmatic experience, the Up&Coming Student Film Festival provided more than 80 UC San Diego student filmmakers with the chance to screen their work in a professional setting for Filmatic attendees and peers. A portion of the entries this year were submitted via Up&Coming WIRED. The Best Film winner received a $500 prize, courtesy of UC San Diego Alumni. Student filmmakers had the opportunity to hear from the jury members, including the notable filmmaker Alex Rivera (Sleepdealers), and from panel experts who spoke about alternative financing and distributing of their films.
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS AND IMPACT ARTPOWER EXTENDED THE IMPACT OF OUR ARTISTS ON CAMPUS AND INTO THE COMMUNITY STUDENT ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM AND PARTNERSHIPS Demand for student tickets to ArtPower performances continues to increase every season, due in part to a robust Student Engagement Program, our strong collaborations with campus and community partners, and our commitment to place student participation at the forefront of our mission.
SEASON PARTNERSHIPS ArtPower was thrilled to have the following official campus and community partners join us to celebrate the 2015–16 multiarts season by bringing their students and members to performances, cohosting inspiring workshops and performances, collaborating on master classes and programs, and facilitating conversations with our artists: CAMPUS PARTNERSHIPS Raza Resource Centro / Black Resource Center / Women’s Center / LGBT Resource Center / Hillel at UCSD / Ethnic Studies Department / Music Department / Theatre & Dance Department / Flow Control and Coordinated Robotics Lab / Thurgood Marshall College / The Preuss School UCSD / Qualcomm Institute / UCSD Undergraduate VR Club / Jacobs School of Engineering / I-House International Center / African and African-American Studies Research Center / Stuart Collection / UCSD VR Club / UCSD Media Services and Teaching Lab / UCSD-TV COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS San Diego International Airport / transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project / San Diego Latino Film Festival La Jolla Playhouse / Reuben H. Fleet Science Center / San Diego Unified School District / Chula Vista Elementary School District / Sundance New Frontier / WeLens Slow Motion Time Machine / A Ship in the Woods / Voyage Media / San Diego Virtual Reality Meetup Group ArtPower UC San Diego Student Internship Program Every year, at least 10 student interns are hired to join the ArtPower team, giving them the opportunity to acquire and develop production, event management, marketing, leadership, and communication skills needed to enter the workforce after graduation. Students enter the program with an array of diverse majors that range from computer science to literature, and everything in between, but all students share a passion for exploring and raising awareness about the arts on campus. Featured this year is Keita Funakawa, an ArtPower film program intern who has worked at ArtPower for two years:
“ArtPower has given me the opportunity to work directly with the department chair of music, which is unheard of for a fourth-year undergraduate student. In addition, I met my business partner and found my passion for virtual reality through ArtPower’s Filmatic Festival. My business partner has a nanoengineering background, and I have a economics and media background. The fact that two people like us can not only passionately converse about a topic such as VR but also start one of the leading startups at UC San Diego is only possible because of organizations like ArtPower and events like the Filmatic Festival.”—Keita Funakawa
During the 2015–16 Season, ArtPower provided the campus and community with the following: FREE CONCERTS for K–12 students from underserved communities all over San Diego County, giving many students their first experience of seeing a live performance and visiting a university campus. Performances are followed by free campus tours provided by ArtPower, the Triton Tours Office, and the Ethnic Studies Department / Student Promoted Access Center for Education. This past season, 1,200 K–12 students from Title I schools attended ArtPower matinees by the following artists:
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Huang Yi & KUKA–Students enjoyed excerpts of the dance repertoire performed by the company’s
talented human and robotic dancers and took part in an in-depth Q&A with choreographer and inventor
Huang Yi. Through the experience, students learned about the intriguing creative process of
programming an industrial robot to dance!
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La Santa Cecilia–The Grammy Award–winning ensemble brought hundreds of students
to their feet while learning about Latin rhythms and instruments. The students tried cumbia,
salsa, cha-cha, and bachata dance moves across the Price Center West Ballroom floor.
“Thank you for letting us come to your school. I loved the dance!
I learned that with new technology comes new innovation.”
—Porter Elementary School Student
MASTER CLASSES for UC San Diego theater and dance students and local dancers from transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project with visiting dance companies. •
UC San Diego Theatre & Dance Department Choreographer – Kota Yamazaki took advanced contemporary dance students
through a series of exercises to develop their ability to improvise movement. Choreographer Idan Cohen exposed students to
the differences in contemporary dance culture in the United States and Israel.
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transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project – Kota Yamazaki taught the group of high school students about the foundations of butoh
dance and the power of imagination when expressing oneself through movement. Idan Cohen talked with students about
his successful career in dance and had them learn and perform choreography from his most recent works.
DYNAMIC WORKSHOPS, PANELS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS with artists from around the globe. • Flow Control & Coordinated Robotics Lab Class with Huang Yi – Choreographer and
inventor Huang Yi visited Professor Thomas Bewley’s Flow Control & Coordinated
Robotics course to discuss the technical and logistical aspects of programming a KUKA robot to dance. Yi and the students then brainstormed the possibilities for
integrating more robotics into dance performances in the future and what
technological advances would need to happen to be able to do so.
• What Happened Miss Simone? Panel Discussion– In partnership with the Thurgood Marshall Film Minor Program and in honor of Black History Month, Film Curator Rebecca Webb moderated a prescreening conversation about race, identity, activism and modern society with Director Liz Garbus and UC San Diego faculty members David Borgo and Zeinabu Davis. “The screening of What Happened, Miss Simone? provided a rare and invaluable space for students, community members and UC San Diego faculty and staff to converse about important and complicated topics such as gender, race, mental health, and domestic violence. Thank you ArtPower for creating such a vital and vibrant space for critical dialogues.” —Tara-Lynne, UC San Diego MFA candidate
• Raza Resource Centro & Mal’Akh Ensemble Workshop – Members of the Mexican contemporary music group Mal’Akh Ensemble spoke with UC San Diego Raza Resource Centro students about their artistic process and how they found their way to their career path as artists. They also gave students a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to create their multidisciplinary project, Animalik.
• The Preuss School UCSD and the Harlem Quartet Concert – Seventh–graders at The Preuss School were treated to a concert by the esteemed Harlem Quartet that included both classical and jazz tunes that taught students about the expressive capacity of a string quartet. The musicians also gave students a history lesson on the roots of chamber music and how certain classical music still maintains a prominent place in current popular culture.
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Hillel at UC San Diego Q&A with Idan Cohen Choreographer – Idan Cohen spoke with students at Hillel at UC San
Diego about his life on a kibbutz in Israel and how it influenced his artistic process. He also talked about the state of
contemporary dance and the arts in general in Israel.
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LGBT Resource Center Movement Workshop with Idan Cohen – The LGBT Resource Center partnered with ArtPower
to conduct a movement workshop with non-dance students, in which choreographer Cohen explored the intersection
of identity, gender, and nationality and how it can be expressed through dance.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION AND CONVERSATIONS WITH WORLD-RENOWNED ARTISTS •
UC San Diego’s Ethnic Studies Department partnered with ArtPower to celebrate the department’s 25th
anniversary by bringing 100s of its students, alumni, and faculty members to experience Grammy Award–
winning band La Santa Cecilia in their ArtPower debut.
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As campus partners for ArtPower’s Global Music series, students from the Women’s Center received
tickets and special access to artists at parties following performances by the acclaimed female artists
highlighted in the 2015–16 season.
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Raza Resource Centro students enjoyed a special meet-and-greet lunch with the musicians of La Santa
Cecilia. Students were able to ask the artists about life as a touring musician, the meaning behind their
songs, and how they chose a career in music.
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Through the Filmatic Festival and VIP Artists Reception, students from the ArtPower Festival Practicum,
student staff, volunteers, and student artists had the opportunity to mingle directly with Filmatic artists
from all over the globe.
STUDY GUIDES FOR EDUCATORS are prepared by ArtPower staff to enhance teacher–student performance chats prior to their attendance at K–12 matinees and to give students the history and social context for what they will experience on campus.
INTIMATE PERFORMANCES IN STUDENT-CENTERED SPACES Award-winning ensembles Meccore String Quartet and Cuarteto Quiroga performed for I-House and International Center students. Undergraduates were able to experience the Polish and Spanish composers of each quartet’s home country. In summary, ArtPower engaged over 1,200 UC San Diego students and 1,600 K–12 students.
ARTPOWER’S LEAD SUPPORTERS ENJOYED INTIMATE EVENING EVENTS WITH ARTISTS In October 2015, Joyce Axelrod and Joseph Fisch hosted a PowerPlayer and VIP supporter salon prior to ArtPower’s presentation of Brian Eno’s music at the San Diego International Airport. Having followed Brian Eno’s career since the early 1970s, Jordan Peimer shared insight into the experience and the deep appreciation for ambient music he has developed over the years.
In February 2016, Joan Bernstein hosted the Harlem Quartet for an evening of conversation and performance at her home in La Jolla. Since their debut in 2006 at Carnegie Hall, the Harlem Quartet has performed worldwide, including a recent performance at the White House for President Barack Obama. The quartet dazzled our audience and shared highlights from their student engagement activity earlier that same day at The Preuss School for a packed auditorium of seventh-grade music students.
In March 2016, ArtPower hosted the Mecorre String Quartet, Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Chancellor Pradeep K. and Thespine Khosla, and ArtPower VIP supporters at a post-performance reception. Quartet members regaled guests with tales of lengthy rehearsals, world travel, and dedication to their craft. ARTPOWER POWERTRIPS KICK OFF! FRINGE FESTIVAL – In August, Executive Director Jordan Peimer traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he connected with longtime ArtPower donor and PowerPlayer Phyllis Epstein. They took in events at both the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe, the world’s largest arts festival. It was a great opportunity to preview work, some of which Jordan looks forward to presenting on ArtPower stages in seasons to come. While the trip only overlapped for a few days, Phyllis and Jordan saw about a half-dozen works together. Phyllis’ highlight was a jazz setting of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps; for Jordan it was, “En avant, marche!” from Ghent’s Les Ballets C de la B. Stay tuned for more information on upcoming POWERTRIPS for the 2016–17 season!
ARTPOWER’S STAFF IS SUPPORTING OUR OWN PROGRAM WITH 100 PERCENT PARTICIPATION! ArtPower’s very own full-time staff is supporting the program at the $1,000+ annual level! ArtPower’s staff is brimming not only with bright ideas and dedication but also with heart and generosity. Thank you for inspiring us to do so!
2015–16 DONORS AND SPONSORS VISIONARY ($50,000+)
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
CATALYST ($20,000–49,999)
Jon and Bobbie Gilbert George Clement Perkins Endowment The Weil Family Foundation
CREATOR ($10,000–19,999)
Epstein Family Foundation Sam B. Ersan Michael and Susanna Flaster Elaine Galinson and Herbert Solomon of the Galinson Family Foundation Eric Lasley and Judith Bachner New England Foundation for the Arts
PERFORMER ($5,000–9,999)
Amnon and Lee Ben-Yehuda Joan Jordan Bernstein Hamburger Chamber Music Series Endowment Fund
ADVOCATE ($2,500–4,999)
Ann Spira Campbell Ronald and Wynnona Goldman Mehran and Susan Goulian Renita Greenberg Alexa Kirkwood Hirsch Hans Paar and Kim Signoret-Paar Charles and Marilyn Perrin Edith High Sanchez and Paul Sanchez Lee and Judith Talner
GUARDIAN ($1,000–2,499)
Joyce Axelrod and Joseph Fisch Bjorn Bjerede and Josephine A. Kiernan Maureen and C. Peter Brown Nelson and Janice Byrne
Carol and Jeffrey Chang Alain Cohen and Denise Warren Ruth Covell Martha and Edward Dennis Wayne and Elizabeth Dernetz Dr. Diane Everett-Barbolla Drs. Edwin and Wita Gardiner Norman J. Goldberg and Fusako Yokotobi Pat Jacoby Liz Lancaster and Eli Shefter Marvin and Reinette Levine Ruth Stern and Mort Levy Barbara and Robert Nemiroff Clayton and Susan Peimer Anne Marie Pleska and Luc Cayet Elaine and Jerry Schneider Robert and Lauren Resnik Arthur and Molli Wagner Zelda Waxenberg SUPPORTER ($500–999) Janice Alper and Charles Kantor Ginger and Ken Baldwin Douglas Bradley Sam and Teresa Buss Bill Coltellaro and Eric Cohen Bill Michalsky Phyllis and Ed Mirsky Nessa O’Shaughnessy Anne Otterson Edward and Arlene Pelavin Sharon Perkowski Samuel Popkin and Susan Shirk Joseph W. Watson CONTRIBUTOR ($250–499) K. Andrew Achterkirchen Connie and George Beardsley William and Wendy Brody Patti and Brian Carlos
Jeffrey C. Donahue and Gail Donahue Meg and Allan Goldstein Carol Hinrichs Barry and Helen Lebowitz Robert and Arleen Lettas Athina Markou and Mark Geyer Joani Nelson Rod and Barbara Orth Carol Plantamura and Felix Prael Gary and Brenda Ratcliff Doug and Eva Richman Jim and Kathleen Stiven Mr. and Mrs. Eli Strich Johanna Thompson Sylvia Wechter SPARK ($100–249) Anonymous, in honor of Jimmy Tran Shirley Babior and Judith Richards Paulyne Becerra Mary L. Beebe Geoffrey Clow Ed and Edie Drcar Carol Hobson Renee D. Johnson Cynthia Kroll Jane and Herbert Lazerow Carole Leland Elaine and Howard Maltz Kate Oesterreicher Ina Page Luc R. Pelletier Stephen and Susan Shuchter Janet Smarr Ellen Speert and Paul Henry Jimmy Tran Carey G. Wall Shirley Weaver