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Performance Fest 2022
In Cal State Channel Islands's twentieth anniversary year, the Performing Arts Program presents Performance Fest 2022, celebrating performance, then and now, featuring original and adapted performances by talented CI students in collaboration with faculty and guest artists, plus an open mic night with prizes on November 12! PA students, faculty, and guest artists revisit defining moments from the past in our lives, in Dance, Music, and Theatre, and beyond! Along with two award-winning guest artists--Dan Kwong and Joyce Lee--CI students explore how the past moments have shaped who we are, and reimagine them for today and the future.
6 days of short performances including:
Open Mic with Prizes Saturday, 11/12
Solos
Mash-ups
Dance
Music
Theatre
Poetry
Original works by CI students
And more!
The University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any kind of accommodation, or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Disability Accommodations & Support Services as soon as possible at: accommodations@csuci.edu.
Parking is by Campus permit only. Daily permits are available for $6.
Learn more about Performance Fest 2022's visiting artists Dan Kwong and Joyce Lee:
To kick off CI's 20th Anniversary year, the Performing Arts program has invited two guest artists to work with students from across the University on creating performances for Performance Fest 2022. Each has led a multi-week workshop with students framed in collaboration with each other, as part of the PA/ART 191 Production and PA/ART 391 Advanced Production courses.
Dan Kwong
Hailed as a "master storyteller", Dan Kwong is an award-winning multimedia performance artist, writer, director and actor who has presented his work nationally and internationally since 1989. Touring extensively, he has performed in over forty states in the U.S. and in England, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada, China and Korea. He also lectures and teaches workshops in Japan and Vietnam.
Adapting to pandemic conditions in 2021, Dan shifted to filmmaking and produced two feature-length documentaries last year: Commissioned by 18th Street Arts Center, WE WERE ALL HERE explores the multicultural history of the Santa Monica neighborhood once known as "La Veinte", where Kwong has lived for 30 years. CON SAFOS tells the story of Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara and his unique role in the development of Chicano culture, produced for PBS/KCET's Artbound series. CON SAFOS won two awards from the L.A. Press Club and was nominated for an Emmy.
Most recently he wrote, directed and acted in a new stageplay, MASAO AND THE BRONZE NIGHTINGALE, which premiered at Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights in April of this year. The play combines factual historical events with a fictional story of an inter-racial romance in post-war Little Tokyo.
Kwong serves as Associate Artistic Director of Great Leap, the multicultural performing arts organization founded by pioneering Asian American artist Nobuko Miyamoto. He is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Resident Mentor Artist at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica.
Joyce Lee
Joyce Lee is an award-winning and accomplished multi-disciplinary artist, actor, filmmaker, playwright, and teacher. She was in the Obie-award winning Target Margin Theatre production, MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS and received an Audelco award for her portrayal of Mattie Campbell in August Wilsons JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (New Federal Theatre). Her play THE DEAN'S OFFICE received the Best of Broadwater Theatre award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021. Her documentary The Ethnic Groups of Ghana was shot while a fellow of The William and Eva Fox Foundation in Ghana, West Africa. Her short play, "Nino and the Principals Daughter" toured Catholic Schools in Los Angeles under Enrichment Works sex-education program. Ms. Lee also has a passion for social development and holds a certificate in Social Emotional Healing through the Arts from UCLArts, Santa Monica. She has worked with talented youth in probation camps and at under-funded schools throughout Los Angeles and New York City. A member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, The Actors Studio and an officer with the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West, her current film projects include a documentary, Artist Amidst Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter and Essence of Love, a short film on hate crime in which a child is the unintended victim.
Ms. Lee taught Voice for Performance at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and Voice and Speech Production in the Acting for Film Department at New York Film Academy in Burbank, California. She was Resident Professional Teaching Associate at Cornell Universitys School of the Arts where she taught Acting. She has worked as a Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center Institute, Theatre for a New Audience, New Federal Theatre, Theatre for a New City, and the Los Angeles Womens Theatre Festival. She earned an MFA in Acting from NYU, where she studied with Linda Gates, the late Nora Dunfee, Ron Van Lieu and Olympia Dukakis. She has acted in TV, film, off-Broadway and regional theatre including Missouri Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Peoples Light and Theatre Co. (Malvern, PA), and Virginia Stage. In addition to serving as a guest artist for the Fall Festival of Performance, she will also be teaching Vocal Empowerment for the Stage and Screen as well as Performance and Presence this semester at CSUCI.
Questions? Contact Festival Producing Artistic Director and PA/ART 191/391 instructor, Catherine Burriss @ catherine.burriss@csuci.edu.
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LocationMalibu Hall Theatre on the Cal State Channel Islands Campus (View)
1 University Drive
Camarillo, CA 93012
United States
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| Minimum Age: 10 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Accessibility
The University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any kind of accommodation, or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Disability Accommodations & Support Services as soon as possible at: accommodations@csuci.edu.
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