(Carson, Calif.) - The Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute (Dymally Institute) at California State University, Dominquez Hills (CSUDH) announces celebrated comedian and television and radio personality DL Hughley as host of the inaugural Dymally International Jazz and Arts Festival. The festival takes place April 27, 1 to 10:30 p.m., at Dignity Health Sports Park (formerly the Stub Hub Center) on the CSUDH campus. Hosted in partnership with Rainbow Promotions, the Dymally International Jazz and Arts Festival will deliver a day filled with live music from two stages featuring jazz, reggae, Afro-Cuban, and R&B acts from four continents and the Caribbean, ... Read More
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CSUDH Presents Shakespeare’s Beloved Comedy, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will present Shakespeare's most beloved comedy of love gone wild, “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” as the final play of its 2018-2019 season. The show opens April 12 at 8 p.m. and will run multiple dates through April 20 in CSUDH's Edison Theatre. Directed by CSUDH theatre lecturer Kelly Herman and choreographed by dance lecturer Sarah Cashmore, Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. What: “A Midsummer Night's Dream” When: April 12, 13, 17, 18 and 19 at 8 p.m., and April 14 and 20 at 2 ... Read More
Male Success Alliance Celebrates 10 Years of Empowering Students of Color
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) innovative Male Success Alliance (MSA) program is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The first of its kind in California to address retention and graduation rates among male college students, and high school dropout rates and access to higher education for boys of color, the MSA has garnered accolades and the funding to help develop similar programs statewide. Primarily serving African American and Latino males, but open to all ethnicities, the MSA was established in 2009 with a small group of seven CSUDH students. A decade later, the program has grown to approximately 80 members and, over recent years, has seen an ... Read More
CSUDH Play ‘No Exit’ Explores Guilt as the True Nature of Hell
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) production of Jean Paul Sartre's 1944 existentialist play “No Exit” explores how human interaction can reveal who people truly are and the debt they owe to themselves because of it. The show opens March 1 at 8 p.m. and will run multiple dates through March 17 in the CSUDH Edison Theatre. “No Exit” is set in the afterlife, where two women and one man are sentenced to live together for eternity. They are forced to face their earthly misdeeds and discover the true meaning of Hell. There is no torturer or fire and brimstone. There is only their own guilt to punish them. It is in“No Exit” that Sartre coined the phrase, ... Read More
CSUDH Hosts Ensemble Concert by LA-based Brightwork newmusic
Brightwork newmusic ensemble(Carson, Calif.) “Lost and Found . . . again,” a free concert at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) performed by the Brightwork newmusic ensemble, musically explores what it means to be “lost over and over again, only to be found, albeit for a fleeting moment.” The concert will take place on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in CSUDH's newly renovated Marvin Laser Recital Hall, located in LaCorte Hall, room A103. What: Brightwork newmusic ensemble concert “Lost and Found . . . again” When: Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. Where: Marvin Laser Recital Hall, room A103 in LaCorte Hall at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Information: The ... Read More