Five French films will be showcased over five days in April at California State University, Dominguez Hills when the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Tournées Festival of French Films comes to campus. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Phi Alpha Theta history honors society, the 2012 Tournées Festival at CSU Dominguez Hills will screen the following films (with English subtitles): “Persepolis,” Wed., April 4; “L'avocat de la terreur” (“Terror's Advocate”), Tues., April 10; “Le chant des mariées” (“The Wedding Song”), Wed., April 11; “Entre les murs” (“The Class”), Tues., April 17; and “Welcome,” Wed., April 18. Adrien Sarre, executive director of the Consulate ... Read More
Art and Design
Campus Marks a First Hosting Regional Dance Festival
The Department of Theatre and Dance at California State University, Dominguez Hills gained a distinction in the world of collegiate dance. It served as the host of the inaugural Baja Region Conference of the American College Dance Festival Association (ACDFA). Nearly 400 faculty and students from Northern, Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona colleges and universities took part in the conference from March 23 through 26 on campus Professor and coordinator of the CSU Dominguez Hills dance program Doris Ressl, who served as the conference organizer, said the newly established ACDFA Baja Region was created to accommodate a need in the organization's expanding Southwest Region, in ... Read More
Guitar Studies Students: Playing to an International Audience
As Graceland is sacred ground for Elvis fans, Shea Stadium was for baseball fans, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is for art lovers, Guitar Salon International(GSI) in Santa Monica may well be mecca for classical guitarists. California State University, Dominguez Hills guitar studies students Erick Barrientos, Ivan Chavarria, Jose Gutierrez, and Jan Pequeño did more than visit the renowned center; they performed there. As invited artists to GSI, the students played guitar as part of an ongoing GSI guitar video series posted on YouTube. GSI is the world's largest dealer of high-end classical and flamenco guitars, and having the students featured on their website is a major coup in ... Read More
Memorial Festival of Arts Concert Honors Beloved Professor Rod Butler — March 8
The California State University, Dominguez Hills Division of Performing, Visual and Digital Media Arts, and the Department of Music will host the Fifth Annual Rod Butler Memorial Festival of the Arts and scholarship fundraiser on Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the University Theatre. A blending of music, dance, and digital media arts will offer guests an evening of eclectic artistic entertainment and an opportunity to contribute to the Rod Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund, benefiting CSU Dominguez Hills music students, in honor of the late Rodney H. Butler, who had a distinguished career as a professor of music at the university from 1991 up to his sudden death in 2007. Remembering ... Read More
Eric Myles: Studio Art Alumnus Leads Program for Intellectually Disabled
Eric Myles (Class of '87, B.S., studio art) once painted in the oversized scale needed for billboards. Today, he makes a larger-than-life mark on the intellectually disabled as program manager of the South Los Angeles art center of the Exceptional Children's Foundation (ECF). Myles's work is currently featured in the exhibit, "I Have the Right," now on view at the PICTURE Cultural Art space on the California State University, Dominguez Hills campus through Summer 2012. His charcoal drawings, "Zapata" and "Freedom" incorporate meticulously rendered images with freeform paper collage. He says that he has recently begun to utilize this style because of "a fragmentation of time." "I ... Read More
