Events and Activities at UCR Palm Desert

Join us for another fun-filled season of learning, lectures, art exhibitions and our MFA student-led book club. 

Lecture Series in the 2012-2013 Academic Year

• Arts and Letters Author Series
  Facilitated by Tod Goldberg, program director, UCR Palm Desert Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts, this series invites the public to spend time with some of today's influential authors through interviews and personal readings. 
• Palm Desert Art Documentary Series
  This series is a partnership between UCR Palm Desert and the City of Palm Desert's Public Art Department, featuring many memorable community works from all over the globe. Free and open to the public.
• UCR Boyd Deep Canyon Lecture Series
  Facilitated by Dr. Allan Muth, director, Boyd Deep Canyon Research Center, University of California, Riverside, in partnership with UCR Palm Desert and The Living Desert. Lectures are free and open to the public.
• UCR Living Green Lecture Series
  UCR Palm Desert is proud to bring a lecture series to the Coachella Valley with the purpose of educating, informing, and inspiring our community to improve our environment, health, and overall quality of life.

• Graduate School of Education Lecture Series
  This series, presented by the Graduate School of Education, contains a little something for everyone: Analysis of racial and social class disparities in education, a discussion of California higher education, information about autism in your community and more. All of these lectures are free and open to the public.

• Center for Ideas and Society Lecture Series
  A lecture series brought to you by the Center for Ideas and Society, an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to advancing humanistic studies and creativity at UC Riverside. These rich and fascinating lectures illuminate the ways in which human beings create and explore a distinctly human life.

Special film screening: Age of Champions

Presented by UCR Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. THURSDAY, APRIL 25 5:00 p.m. 

"Age of Champions" follows five phenomenal competitors who sprint, leap and swim for the gold at the National Senior Olympics. You'll meet a 100-year-old tennis champ, an 86-year-old pole vaulter and scrappy basketball grannies as they triumph over the supposed limitations of advanced age.  Join us for this inspirational snapshot into the lives of five extraordinary people! The screening will be followed by a Q&A. RSVP here.

Spring Art Exhibition

Right Under Your Nose. Opening and Artist Reception Thursday, March 28th 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Meet and mingle with artists at the opening reception for our new exhibition, "Right Under Your Nose" . Art selected from members of the Artists Council of the Palm Springs Art Museum, featuring 27 works by local artists. The exhibit will be on display from March 28 until May 24, 2013 in the lobby of the B Building at UCR Palm Desert. The reception if FREE and open to the public. For more information, please call 760.834.0800. RSVP for the reception here!

UCR Palm Desert Book Club

Our monthly book club meetings are free and open to every adult in the community. Genres will change every month, and there is no obligation -- so join us whenever a book strikes your fancy! Meetings are facilitated by our Master of Fine Arts creative writing program students. Join us for a lively, educational chat about books in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 7 p.m., "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

This #1 New York Times bestseller, called "damn near genius" by Time Magazine, is the story of Hazel and Augustus, two Indianapolis teenagers who meet at a support group for kids with cancer. It is already being made into a film, of course. So if you read the book now, you can spoil the ending for all your friends at the movies later.

For more information about our book club, please email Maggie Downs at maggie.downs@ucr.edu.

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