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Art

The Pierce College Art and Architecture Departments will be hosting their first Art Gallery of the 2013 fall semester titled “Lines That Speak,” by featured Los Angeles artist Srboohie Abajian. The exhibition will be open Thursday, Sept. 19 through Oct. 23, 2013. The artist will be presenting a lecture on opening night at 7 p.m. in Room 3300 - with a reception to follow in the Art Garden. The Art Gallery is located on the Art Hill below the Performing Arts Building. Parking for the lecture and opening reception is in Lot 6.

stage. They save her [piece] for last.”

Manga said the last dance she choreographed was just for fun, but this coming piece is “very special”, as she is hoping to transfer to California State University, Los Angeles in the spring.

“If this is my last semester at Pierce, I wanna go out with a bang!” Manga said.

At CSULA, Manga plans to pursue a degree in Criminal Justice, because she wants to fight human trafficking. Though this field does not include dance, Manga said she knows that dance will always be a part of her life.

She even found a way to incorporate dance in her five-year Airforce career that ended when she became a mother to her now-fouryear-old daughter Leanne and decided that motherhood was more important.

“No matter where I go, there will be dancing,” Manga said. “If it’s not there, I’ll bring it.”

Music Theater

with doors locking at 1 p.m. Parking is available in Lot 6.

The Pierce College Theatre Department has announced its lineup for the 2013-2014 season. Beginning in October, the department will be presenting the musical “The Fantasticks.” The production will run from Oct. 25 - Nov. 3.

The season ends the fall semester for 2013 with “It’s A Wonderful Life:

A Live Radio Play.” The performance dates run Dec. 6 - 15.

Time for both plays are TBA. The productions will be shown in the temporary theater off Stadium Way from Victory Boulevard and De Soto Avenue. For more information, contact the Theatre Department at (818) 719-6488.

Film festival observes Latino Heritage Month Series documents resistance to change

David Schub A & E Editor

Sponsored by the General Education Pathway through Pierce College and California State University, Northridge, Pierce assistant professors James McKeever and Brian Walsh hosted the first of a series of documentary movie screenings in the Great Hall on Thursday, Sept. 12.

The film series, entitled “The Resistance Film Festival,” will feature a movie every month for the 2013-14 calendar year to highlight the history of specific resistance movements in U.S. history, followed by a panel discussion.

With September being Latino Heritage Month, the first movie presented, “Precious Knowledge: The Fight For Ethnic Studies in Tucson,” documents the lives of several Mexican high school students, their families and other members of communities in Arizona fighting to keep their Chicano studies classes alive in schools while local politicians, including State Sen. Tom Horne and Gov. Jan Brewer pass several bills to end ethnic classes.

Their ideology of eliminating these ethnic studies classes was to teach individuality, not ethnicity, through learning.

With the passage of House Bill 2281 in 2010, it lawfully halted all ethnic studies classes and teachers were reassigned to teach other classes in Arizona, specifically in the Tucson Unified School District. While most students had to attend this event for attendance or extra credit, film major Luis Gonzalez, 23, stumbled on it by accident.

“I needed an outlet to charge my cell phone,” he said. “I started watching the movie and I became really interested in it, and I am glad I stayed.”

The next film of the series, “Chicago 10,” will be viewed next month. This film tells the story of eight demonstrators who were arrested and tried for conspiracy in the wake of violent anti-war protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. For more information about the “Resistance Film Festival,” contact assistant professors Brian Walsh at 818-710-2894 or James McKeever at 818-710-2255.