The reading will feature work by Heather Thompson and Joy Wilson. Admission is free. The opera is performed by children and narrated by Terezin survivor and 1943 Brundibar performer Ela Weissberger. The opera runs through Tuesday, May 25 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. The UCI MFA program is having a reading tonight at 7 p.m. in HIB 153, featuring work by Erik Lundgren and David Friedman.
Admission is free.
FILM The UCI Film and Video Center presents the film Conceiving Ada , starring performance artist Lynn Hershmann Leeson as Ada Lovelace, the woman who developed the Analytical Engine. The film begins at 7 p.m. in HIB 100. The UCI Film Society presents the film Bye Bye Brazil tonight at 7 and 9 p.m. in the Crystal Cove Auditorium. The film is directed by Carlos Diegues, one of the founders of Brazilian cinema nova. In response, she organized a program that would bring together 12 professional photographers and twelve children from varying backgrounds and ethnicities to photograph their neighborhoods.