Program: What Happened, Miss Simone?

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WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?

Thursday, February 4, 2016 | 7 pm Food; 8 pm Movie The Loft at UC San Diego

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Sponsor ArcLight Cinemas; UC San Diego Partners African American Studies Minor, Black Resource Center, Thurgood Marshall College

ABOUT ARTPOWER

ArtPower at UC San Diego builds creative experiences in music, dance, film, exhibition and food for our collective pleasure and inspiration. We engage diverse audiences through vibrant, challenging, multi-disciplinary performances by emerging and renowned international artists. Through extensive partnerships, ArtPower provides exciting opportunities for research, participation, and creation of new work, igniting powerful dialogue between artists, students, scholars and the community.

ARTPOWER MISSION

1. To create co-curricular opportunities in the performing arts and film that foster learning and self-discovery, as well as personal and professional skill development.

2. To supplement and enhance the academic investigation of our students through collaborative explorations in the performing arts and film.

3. To add to the artistic and cultural life of the La Jolla and San Diego communities.

ArtPower presents

WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?

Thursday, February 4, 2016, at 8 pm The Loft at UC San Diego

SCHEDULE 7:00 pm

Dinner Served BBQ Shrimp Skewers with a Cheddar Biscuit, Jambalaya with Shrimp and Andouille Sausage, Beignets and Chocolate Sauce. Vegetarian options available upon request. Drinks sold separately.

8:00 pm

Prescreening talk with UC San Diego professors David Borgo and Zeinabu Davis, moderated by ArtPower Film Curator Rebecca Webb

8:30 pm

What Happened, Miss Simone? Screening [Liz Garbus, 2014, U.S.A., 102 min]

2015–16 Foovie Series This season, our Foovies series explores cultural and gender identity in the context of three “national awareness” months, thoughtfully paired with deliciously prepared menus by Zanzibar at The Loft. The series is integrated into UC San Diego’s Visual Arts curriculum and offers students free tickets to each event!

ABOUT WHAT HAPPEND, MISS SIMONE? (2014) A classically trained musician, chart-topping chanteuse, and Black Power icon, Nina Simone is one of the most influential, beloved, provocative, and least understood artists of our time. On stage, she was known for utterly free, rapturous performances, earning her the epithet “High Priestess of Soul.” But amid the violent, day-to-day fight for civil rights, she struggled to reconcile artistic ambition with her fierce devotion to a movement. Director Liz Garbus sensitively explores the constant state of opposition that trapped and tortured Simone—as a classical pianist pigeonholed in jazz, as a professional boxed in by family life, as a black woman in racist America—and in so doing, reveals a towering figure transcending categorization and her times. What Happened, Miss Simone? premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.

What Happened Miss Simone? is the first original film to be financed by the popular streaming platform Netflix. Using source material gathered from around the world, including diaries, performance archives, interviews, and more than 25 hours of audio of Simone talking about her life for her autobiography, director Liz Garbus provides a revealing, intimate study of one of the most important American artists of all time.

This evocative documentary garnered two awards and six nominations including Winner of the Black Film Critics Circle Awards and Winner of the Women Film Critics Circle Awards, both in 2015. Recently it was nominated for a 2016 Academy Award for best documentary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS Liz Garbuz, Director The Academy Award–nominated filmmaker first came to prominence with the 1998 documentary that she codirected with Wilbert Rideau and Jonathan Stack, The Farm: Angola USA, which looks at the lives of six inmates at the infamous Louisiana penitentiary.

Following the film’s success, she cofounded the production company Moxie Firecracker Films with Rory Kennedy. Since then, she’s directed a number of documentaries focused on various criminals, politicians, and icons, including Bobby Fischer and Marilyn Monroe.

At face value, her subjects may seem quite different, but if anything, Garbus’ careful and intimate portraits show that no matter where along society’s spectrum a person lies, there are universals of the human existence that connect us all.

David Borgo, Panelist David Borgo is a saxophonist, composer, ethnomusicologist (Ph.D., UCLA 1999), and Professor of Music at UC San Diego, where he teaches in the integrative studies and jazz and music of the African Diaspora programs. Throughout his career, he has integrated his creative work with scholarly research focused on the social, cultural, historical, and cognitive dimensions of music-making. His book, Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age, won the Alan P. Merriam Prize in 2006 from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Zeinabu Davis, Panelist Zeinabu Irene Davis is an independent filmmaker and Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego. Some of her award–winning works include a drama about a young slave girl, Mother of the River (1996); a personal essay on breastfeeding, Co-Motion, (2010); and an experimental narrative, Cycles (1989). Her dramatic feature film entitled Compensation (1999) features two interrelated love stories that offer a view of Black Deaf culture and was the winner of the Gordon Parks Award for Directing from the Independent Feature Project and was selected for the Sundance Dramatic Film Competition. Her current documentary work, Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema from UCLA, will premiere at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles this month.

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ARTPOWER DONORS 2015–16 VISIONARY ($50,000+)

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fund of the Jewish

Community Foundation

CATALYST ($20,000–49,999)

Jon and Bobbie Gilbert George Clement Perkins Endowment The Weil Family Foundation

CREATOR ($10,000–19,999)

Chamber Music America Epstein Family Foundation Sam B. Ersan Michael and Susanna Flaster Elaine Galinson and Herbert Solomon of the Galinson Family Foundation Eric Lasley and Judith Bachner New England Foundation for the Arts

PERFORMER ($5,000–9,999) Amnon and Lee Ben-Yehuda Joan Jordan Bernstein Hamburger Chamber Music Series

Endowment Fund

ADVOCATE ($2,500–4,999)

Ann Spira Cambell Ronald and Wynnona Goldman Mehran and Susan Goulian Renita Greenberg Alexa Kirkwood Hirsch Charles and Marilyn Perrin Edith High Sanchez and Paul Sanchez Lee and Judith Talner

GUARDIAN ($1,000–2,499)

Joyce Axelrod and Joseph Fisch Dr. Diane Everett-Barbolla Bjorn Bjerede and Josephine A. Kiernan Maureen and C. Peter Brown Nelson and Janice Byrne Carol and Jeffrey Chang Alain Cohen and Denise Warren Ruth Covell Martha and Edward Dennis Wayne and Elizabeth Dernetz Drs. Edwin and Wita Gardiner Norman J. Goldberg and Fusako Yokotobi Pat Jacoby Liz Lancaster and Eli Shefter Marvin and Reinette Levine Barbara and Robert Nemiroff Clayton and Susan Peimer Hans Paar and Kim Signoret-Paar Anne Marie Pleska and Luc Cayet Robert and Lauren Resnik Elaine and Jerry Schneider Ruth Stern and Mort Levy

Arthur and Molli Wagner Zelda Waxenberg

SUPPORTER ($500–999)

Janice Alper and Charles Kantor Ginger and Ken Baldwin Douglas Bradley Sam and Teresa Buss Bill Coltellaro and Eric Cohen Bill Michalsky Nessa O’Shaughnessy Anne Otterson Edward and Arlene Pelavin Samuel Popkin and Susan Shirk

CONTRIBUTOR ($250–499)

K. Andrew Achterkirchen Connie and George Beardsley William and Wendy Brody Patti and Brian Carlos Jeffrey C. Donahue and Gail Donahue Meg and Allan Goldstein Carol Hinrichs Barry and Helen Lebowitz Robert and Arleen Lettas Athina Markou and Mark Geyer Joani Nelson Rod and Barbara Orth Carol Plantamura and Felix Prael Gary and Brenda Ratcliff Doug and Eva Richman Jim and Kathleen Stiven Mr. and Mrs. Eli Strich Johanna Thompson Sylvia Wechter

SPARK ($100–249)

Shirley Babior and Judith Richards Paulyne Becerra Geoffrey Clow Ed and Edie Drcar Carol Hobson Jane and Herbert Lazerow Carole Leland Elaine and Howard Maltz Kate Oesterreicher Ina Page Luc R. Pelletier Stephen and Susan Shuchter Janet Smarr Ellen Speert and Paul Henry Jimmy Tran Carey G. Wall Shirley Weaver Anonymous, In honor of Jimmy Tran

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ARTPOWER STAFF DONORS Molly Clark Carolena Deutsch-Garcia Jordan Peimer Jason Smith Joanna Szu Rebecca Webb

CORPORATE SPONSORS

GRANTING ORGANIZATIONS

POWERPLAYERS PowerPlayers are an exceptional group of donors that have made a three year commitment to support ArtPower. This multi-year support is crucial to ArtPower’s continued success and growth.

Joyce Axelrod Joan Bernstein Alain Cohen Martha Dennis Phyllis Epstein Elaine Galinson Bobbie Gilbert Norman Goldberg Renita Greenberg Eric Lasley Kim Signoret-Paar Hans Paar Robert and Lauren Resnik Arthur and Molli Wagner Zelda Waxenberg Pat Weil

A portion of funding for ArtPower is provided by the UC San Diego Student Services Fee Committee.

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Big Bangg Co-Chairs Phyllis Epstein, Bobbie Gilbert, and Joan Bernstein A fundraiser in support of Student Engagement at ArtPower Sunday, April 10, at noon Faculty Club at UC San Diego

FOOVIE / GERMANY

MAN FOR A DAY

Thursday, March 31, 2016 7 pm Food; 8 pm Movie The Loft Gender activist Diane Torr’s worldwide appearances and workshops are legendary. For the past 30 years, the focus of this performance artist’s work has been an exploration of the theoretical, artistic, and practical aspects of gender identity.

UPCOMING EVENTS

FILMATIC FESTIVAL

Saturday, May 7, 2016 Calit2 at Qualcomm Institute Filmatic Festival is the future of filmgoing! Explore NextGen filmgoing through the worlds of virtual reality and immersive experiences.

Stay tuned for more information!

CHAMBER MUSIC / U.S.A.

HARLEM QUARTET

Friday, February 19, 2016, at 8 pm Department of Music’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall The Harlem Quartet, praised for its “panache” by the New York Times, is “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing, and intelligent,” (Cincinnati Enquirer). Program: Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18; Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2; Dizzy Gillespie’s Night In Tunisia; Rafael Hernández Marín’s El Cumbanchero GLOBAL MUSIC / MAURITANIA

NOURA MINT SEYMALI Thursday, March 3, 2016, 8 pm Price Center East Ballroom

Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally beloved star and one of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries. Reared in this transitive culture where sounds from across the Sahara, the Magreb, and West Africa coalesce, she drives the legacy forward as one of Mauritania’s most adventurous young artists.

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