Girish Karnad, recognized internationally as one of the preeminent playwrights in contemporary India, will present scenes from his plays. Karnad's award-winning career as a dramatist has been paralleled by an equally celebrated career as an actor, screenwriter and film and television director.

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Explore the future of arts journalism at the first-ever National Summit on Arts Journalism. The summit will feature projects that provide an alternative to diminishing arts coverage in the traditional news media.

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As part of Visions and Voices’s new museum series, USC students will visit MOCA, Los Angeles’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art. Founded in 1979, MOCA has developed one of the nation’s most renowned permanent collections.

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World-renowned conductor and USC Thornton alumnus Michael Tilson Thomas will present an evening of reminiscing and music with the USC Thornton Symphony. With the aid of multimedia projections and his own engaging narration, Tilson Thomas will share his experiences as a USC student during the 1960s and conduct the orchestra.

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The 21st century has inspiring new tools for fabrication, design and production that facilitate the creation of 3-D models and prototypes across all disciplines. Join us for a dynamic discussion with Dr. Zoz Brooks of the Discovery Channel’s Prototype This, who will discuss the innovative and exciting uses of prototyping.

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Writer/performer Stacie Chaiken was invited to write a play in Israel. Fascinated with archaeological excavations, she signed up to work on a dig and discovered the seeds of her new solo play about an American genetic archaeologist summoned to a dig in the ancient Arab-Hebrew town of Jaffa.

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Mia Makela (a.k.a. SOLU) is an internationally acclaimed Finnish media artist residing in Berlin. She is one of several innovators dedicated to live cinema, an emerging art form in which moving images and sounds are mixed live, and cinema becomes a performative event unfolding in real time.

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Get your hands dirty and experience the creativity and thrill of making art! The USC arts schools will present this daylong festival featuring an exciting array of hands-on workshops in art, photography, theatre, dance, music, architecture and film.

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Immerse yourself in Sonic Forest, a multisensory installation created by acclaimed artist, architect and composer Christopher Janney. This mesmerizing light and sound installation is composed of sixteen eight-foot columns, each containing audio speakers, lights and photo-electric sensors that create an ever-changing score of tones, sounds and texts.

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With advances in technology, it is now possible to permanently design elements into public spaces that can engage the public in new and unique ways. USC Annenberg’s Martin Kaplan will moderate a discussion about the innovative ways that technology is being used to enliven the public square.

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