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Americans spend an estimated $100 billion each year on lottery tickets. It's a tradition that dates back to the nation's earliest settlers, and was even one the Founding Fathers took part in.

Three strangers are ushered into a room, only to realize that they are destined to spend the rest of their miserable eternity confined together in close quarters. Based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 existentialist play, "NO EXIT" offers a simple yet diabolical vision of the afterlife, in which the tools of torture are rooted not in physical pain, but in the frailty of human vanity, spite, jealousy, and self-delusion. In its West Coast premiere, Andy Vores’s chamber opera brings musical inventiveness and dark humor to Sartre’s text, and breathes fiendish life into its assertion that “Hell is other people”. Robert Castro, director Victoria Petrovich, designer Miguel Zazueta-Cervera, tenor Mariana Flores-Bucio, soprano Leslie Ann Leytham, mezzo-soprano Jonathan Nussman, baritone Stay Social! Facebook & Instagram

In an immersive concert and theatrical experience built around Olivier Messiaen’s apocalyptic chamber masterpiece, Quartet for the End of Time, a mysterious visitor from another world arrives to give voice to a harrowing personal history. Conceived and created by Project [BLANK] Co-Artistic Director Brendan Nguyen, "The Tragedies of Space Travel" is an exploration of second-generation Vietnamese experience and the echoing ramifications of violence, displacement, and war. It employs “alien invasion” sci-fi tropes and otherworldly soundscapes as allegory for the perception of displaced refugees and immigrants. Created in collaboration with playwright Carolina Đỗ, visual artist Ash Capachione, sound artist Joe Mariglio and directed by Leslie Ann Leytham. Peter Dayeh - clarinet Peter Ko - cello Batya MacAdam-Somer - violin Brendan Nguyen - piano Stay Social! Facebook & Instagram

Wednesdays@7 presents The Torres Cycle - Wilfrido Terrazas Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023 at 7 p.m. Conrad Prebys Concert Hall Purchase Tickets: music.ucsd.edu/tickets General Admission: $15 UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 Students: Free with ID Watch Livestream: music.ucsd.edu/live The Torres Cycle (2014-2021) by Wilfrido Terrazas is a music ritual which honors and celebrates the seven cardinal directions: North, South, East, West, Above, Below, Center. It comprises seven compositions for diverse instrumental ensembles which incorporate improvisatory and spatial strategies to ask fundamental questions about location, orientation, belonging, and seeking sanctuary. The Torres Cycle invites humans to engage in processes of reconciliation between us and the places we inhabit and their histories. The Torres Cycle was released as an album by the New York-based label New Focus Recordings in April 2022. Check out the album: https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/wilfrido-terrazas-the-torres-cycle/

Project [BLANK], San Diego’s most innovative interdisciplinary music organization, will team up with Nick Lesley of Space Time for a concert of "illuminated music" featuring various methods of real-time image and sound manipulation. Central to the program is a screening of Studies by pioneering video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka. The concert will feature live musical performances and other video works that take inspiration from the Vasulkas’ early experiments in electronic image-making. As the next installment of Project [BLANK]’s Salty Series, "SPACE TIME ART" is curated by local musician and media artist Nick Lesley and features live performances by Helixhand and Kevin Schwenkler. The program will begin with a screening of Steina and Woody Vasulka’s rarely-seen, Studies, a series of evocative short films created in 1970 and 1971 that employ the couple’s early experiments in digital and analog processing. Following the screening, multimedia artist Helixhand (Ash Capachione) will perform a live audio-visual piece using digital film, machine generated imagery, and animation in cobination with improvised sound loops and found audio samples. Musician and composer Kevin Schwenkler will follow with a musical exploration of a series of still images featuring live electronics and audio-modulated processing. In addition to the live performances, TV screens around the space will display electronic media works spanning several decades. Stay Social! Facebook & Instagram

In January, prosecutors got a search warrant directing Twitter to produce data and records related to the @realDonaldTrump account. The company was ordered not to tell Trump about this.

Desire!: We will meet in-person on Valentine’s Day to explore how to write an effective scene centered around the emotions of love, passion, and desire. Bring chocolate! Second Tuesday Explorations is a monthly gathering of creative writers that fosters support, inspiration, and community. Second Tuesday is a generative meeting. New topics for each session will challenge writers to explore and expand their craft. Generative writing prompts will encourage you to grow and learn in exciting new ways. The first hour will be spent introducing the prompt followed by a sustained ‘free-write’ period. During the second hour, writers will be invited to share their writing with the group. Open to writers of all genres. Sharing your work within a safe, supportive community will help you discover and strengthen your voice. Come check out Second Tuesday Explorations! Tuesday, January 10: Openings. This in-person class will look at what makes an effective opening. Writers will be encouraged to re-work old openings or to invent new ones! Tuesday, February 14: Desire!: We will meet in-person on Valentine’s Day to explore how to write an effective scene centered around the emotions of love, passion, and desire. Bring chocolate! Tuesday, March 14: Creating Conflict: This in-person class will explore effective writing that deals with conflict. Please Note: This class will be held in person at Inspirations Gallery (2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Suite 204, San Diego, CA, 92106). While masks are not required indoors, they are encouraged. Thank you! Social Media Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Widening the Embrace: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert (California-Korea, 2023) Widening the Embrace is the third stage in our collaboration, which began in 2016 with Changing Tides I and was followed at the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020 with Changing Tides 2: Requiem for the Earth. Our intention is to forge a path forward, balancing in sound as we collectively confront a morphing pandemic and undeniable climate crisis. In scientific and political fields today, the challenges facing humanity demand unprecedented levels of global, intercultural cooperation. As artists, we aspire to work in a similar spirit, drawing on the light-speed web of fiber optic nerves spread across our planet to create a trans-locational stage and activate it with new intercultural musical expressions. In collaboration with a team of visual designers and technologists, an ensemble of ten Korean and American improvisers split across our two sites will premiere new musical compositions that manifest our shared artistic affinities, in this latest collaborative effort to project our highest sonic aspirations. Musicians performing in Korea: Jean Oh (guitar) Aram Lee (daegum) Ju Hee Go (haegum) JoonSu Kim (singer) Donghyeok Kwak (modular synthesizer) Musicians performing in California: Michael Dessen (trombone) Wilfrido Terrazas (flute) Joshua White (piano) Mark Dresser (bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums) Visit: https://music-web.ucsd.edu/concerts/cms_index.php?now=1&query_event_code=20230204-Telematics Streaming LIVE for FREE at http://music.ucsd.edu/live UC San Diego on Facebook / Instagram

Pop group and dance ensemble KIDZ BOP will be touring extensively across America once again in 2023. The 38-date trek kicks off June 24 in Stamford and extends into September hitting markets like Charlotte, Boston, Wantagh, Toronto, Irving, Inglewood, Phoenix and San Diego. Like in previous years, fans can expect another version of the Daddy Dance Off giving dads the chance to show off their best dance moves on stage to a mashup of Y2K hits. Tickets are on sale NOW - Use special code 1114RK15 to get 15% off! Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Following more than a dozen years of live musical performance across geographical distance, Widening the Embrace continues a path forward, balancing in sound as we collectively confront a morphing pandemic and undeniable climate crisis. In scientific and political fields today, the challenges facing humanity demand unprecedented levels of global, intercultural cooperation. As artists, we aspire to work in a similar spirit, drawing on the light-speed web of fiber optic nerves spread across our planet to create a trans-locational stage and activate it with new intercultural musical expressions. Directed by Mark Dresser and Michael Dessen, the concert features acclaimed musicians Ingrid Laubrock, Fay Victor and Patricia Brennan in New York City performing together with Dresser, Dessen, Joshua White, and Gerald Cleaver in California, with audiences at both locations. In collaboration with a team of visual designers and technologists, each concert features an ensemble of improvisers split across our two sites and premieres new musical compositions that manifest our shared artistic affinities, in this latest collaborative effort to project our highest sonic aspirations. Roulette lineup: Fay Victor – voice Ingrid Laubrock – saxophone Patricia Brennan – vibraphone California lineup: Michael Dessen – trombone Joshua White – piano Mark Dresser – bass Gerald Cleaver – drums Visit: https://music-web.ucsd.edu/concerts/cms_index.php?now=1&query_event_code=20230202-Telematics Streaming LIVE for FREE at http://music.ucsd.edu/live UC San Diego on Facebook / Instagram