Mikado!

Young lovers, family squabbles, corrupt city officials, an insanely twisted legal system, and a government gone mad? Just another day in the big city? No, it's life in the crazy, topsy-turvy upside-down world of Gilbert and Sullivan’s slyly satirical musical comedy The Mikado, opening November 4 at Landis Performing Arts Center. The show is under the direction of Performance Riverside’s Producing Artistic Director Matthew Neves, with choreography by Val Rachelle and musical direction by Scott Smith.

Performances of The Mikado are November 4, 5, 11 and 12 at 8pm, and November 5, 6, 12, 13 at 2pm at the Landis Performing Arts Center. Student rush tickets are only $10 with valid ASRCC card, available starting two hours before each performance.

Halloween Comes to the RCCD Center for International Students

Stop by the office, see the decorations, and say hello to an advisor today!

RCC International Club to Present at NAFSA Conference

"Be Cool, Be Global, Be Intelligent, Be a part of it…"

The RCC International Club and club advisor Aya Saito will be presenting at the NAFSA regional conference in Reno in November. Congratulations!!!

A brief description of their presentation:The Riverside City College International Club and the Center for International Students and Programs work towards a mutual goal of creating a global campus. This session includes information about a newly established mentor program for international visa students. We also discuss how we overcome challenges we experience as a two-year institution such as the high turnover rate of club members.

RCC Women's Volleyball Game Tonight!!!

photo by Erin Grant

Come to the Huntley Gym tonight at 6pm and watch the Lady Tigers teach Irvine Valley College a thing or two about volleyball!!!

Guitar Ensemble This Wednesday

25 GUITARS...
150 STRINGS...
500 FRETS...

ONE MISSION

The RCC Guitar Ensemble plays it's first concert of the year Digital Library Auditorium Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 at 7:00 pm

Come hear well loved favorites of classical music as you have never heard them before - on 25 guitars! Donations are welcome, but not required!!

pieces will include:
Bizet's Overture from "Carmen"
J.S. Bach's Air on a G String
Monteverdi's Orpheo Suite

RCCD International Athletes

Try to get out out to a match or game to see your fellow international students excel in athletics. See full schedules here.

Go Tigers!!!
Reeham Ammati - Morocco - Track and Field
Chase Cuckovich - Canada - Baseball
Vasin Khontong - Thailand -Soccer
Yukiko Kuno - Japan - Marching Band
Hiromu Nagahama - Japan - Marching Band
Ramazan Nureev - Russia - Tennis
Shin Ogino - Japan - Marching Band
Aaron Rodriguez Trinidad & Tobago - Water Polo
Takahiro Watanabe - Japan - Baseball

Contest: Win Some Nifty RCC Socks!!!

We hope you've been following our blog! We're actually giving away a pair of brand-new RCC socks!!! Leave a comment on any of the posts on the blog and you will be entered in the contest. We'll draw randomly from all the commenters! Thanks for following!!

Student Profile: Sora Choi

Name: Sora Choi
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Major: Film
Hobbies: Skydiving, horror movies, hanging out
Favorite thing about Southern California: Shopping & skydiving!!!

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK 2011

International Education Week (IEW), November 14 - 18, is promoted by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. Its main purpose is to educate students about the benefits of international education, as well as providing exposure to a variety of different cultures and international issues.

The International Club, along with the Center for International Students and Programs at RCCD, are organizing an International Education Week event, “BE COOL, BE GLOBAL, BE INTELLIGENT Be a part of it…” on campus on Tuesday, November 15 and Wednesday, November 16. Students will be involved in cultural exchange, increase their awareness of international education programs, and focus on the benefits of studying abroad.

All clubs and organizations are welcome to join the activities of International Education Week. Please fill out the attached application(s) and submit the application(s) to the International Center, located at Technology B Building Room 203 by Thursday, October 20. Note: Two separate applications are required for ①Country/Game booth, and ②Performance.
The following activities will be offered:

• Various booths representing cultures from around the world
• Music, dancing and traditional costumes
• Interactive games

For further information on International Education Week visit their web site at http://iew.state.gov/.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the International Club at rcc.int.club@gmail.com.

We've Got Free Tickets!!!

October 15, 2011
Exploring Musical Summits

Guest artist: Peter Soave, bandoneón
Concert begins at 7:30 pm

We welcome you back to another season of the Riverside County Philharmonic. We open this year with Mozart’s famous and virtuosic “Haffner” Symphony – a work often reminiscent of his operas, and though there are no singers involved, if we close our eyes, we can easily imagine a scene from the Marriage of Figaro. Next on the program we have the Bandoneón Concerto of Astor Piazzolla played by world-renowned bandoneonist Peter Soave. This concerto, named Aconcagua after the highest mountain peak in the Americas, truly climbs to the highest expressive heights of the tango, for which Piazzolla was known. We end the program with Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, a work full of energy and depth that Beethoven himself considered as one of his best.

Mozart Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
Piazzolla Aconcagua, Concerto for Bandoneón
Beethoven Symphony No. 7

If you want to go to this show for free, come into the International Center immediately!!! These tickets range in $20-$80 dollars!!!

UPDATE: The free tickets are gone!!!

Spring Awakening at RCC

Winner of eight TONY AWARDS, including BEST MUSICAL, Spring Awakening celebrates the journey from youth to adulthood with a power, poignancy, and passion that you will never forget. Adapted from Frank Wedeking’s 1891 expressionist play about trials, tears, and exhilaration of the teen years, it has been hailed as the “Best Musical of the Year” by the New York Times, New York Post, Star Ledger, Journal News, New York Observer, and USA Today.

October 20, 21 & 22 at 7PM
October 22 & 23 at 2PM

Please note this play is MATURE audiences only, which means attendees must be 18 years of age.

Report on the Anatolian Festival

Doug Bowen attended the Anatolian Festival last weekend in Orange County. It was very impressive. The entrance featured a long hallway with the history of the region written on the walls both in English and Turkish. The number of cultures who have called this area of the world home is remarkable. The hallway also included people at each point of cultural change dressed in the costume of that time. Inside there were large facades representing many famous buildings and places in Turkey. There were also food booths, coffee and tea houses, book shops, travel agents, jewelry, art, and business information available. Many of the main cities of Turkey had a pavilion advertising their special niche. Doug especially liked the walnut paste snack from the city of Burdur. There was also live music and folk dancing from the different regions of Turkey. There was even a demonstration of the famous whirling dervishes. The weather was beautiful and the festival was very well attended which meant that the lines for everything got longer and longer as the day went on.

Natural and Cultural History of the Mojave National Preserve

This special field study class will be held October 28-30 and the $325 fee includes lodging and food!

The Mojave National Preserve encompasses a region of remarkable landscape diversity, which results in a diverse flora and fauna unsurpassed elsewhere in the Mojave Desert. You will:

* Explore the plant and animal communities along the way to Copper World Mine in Clark Mountain
* En route to the Cow Cove petroglyph site, travel through a portion of the world's largest Joshua Tree forest flanking the famous Cima Dome
* Travel past the Cima Volcanic Field, where the Mojave ecosystem gives way to an island of Great Basin Desert at about 5,000 feet
* Cross the divide between the Great Basin of North America and the Colorado River drainage, to the eerily eroded rocks of Hole-in-the-Wall
* Descend the ""Rings Trail"" of Banshee canyon to the bottom of this unique volcanic formation
* Have a guided tour of the Mitchell Caverns in the majestic Providence Mountains

For more information go here. For assistance in enrolling, see Christian in the International Center.

Anatolian Festival

The 2011 Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival is this weekend at the OC Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa!

The Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival is a cultural and historical event that includes exhibitions, food, art craft, performances, dances and live music activities. More than 40,000 people from United States and around the world attend the four-day event each year.

Visitors enter the festival area through the “Civilizations Path”, which consists of 14 gates each representing different civilizations like Hittite, Troy, Urartu, Frig, Lydia, Ionia, Kingdom of Commagane, Persians, Byzantium, Roman Empire, Great Seljuk Empire, Ottoman Empire, and Republic of Turkiye. Anatolia has been a cradle for all these and many other civilizations throughout the history. At each gate, actors wearing authentic costumes of each civilization welcome and greet all visitors.

Three dimensional giant-sized replicas of five different cities of Anatolia (Istanbul, Konya, Antalya, Mardin and Van) and the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul are assembled with panoramic backgrounds. Artisans traveling all the way from Turkey display and demonstrate many traditional handicrafts like hand- woven carpets, the arts of water marbling, calligraphy, stone-carving and filigree during the four-day festival.

RCC International Club Facebook Page

The purpose of the International Club is to meet, interact, and exchange ideas with other international students and American students with the effort to spread the awareness of international education, promote cultural exchange, enhance fusion, and expand our wings of knowledge to a larger extent. It's also a lot of fun.

General Information
Meetings are Tuesdays at 12:50 in Quad 228

If you're interested in learning more about RCC's International Club, follow the link: International Club at RCC

Maya Erdelyi @ Riverside City College

You are invited to our special guest presentation by an animation filmmaker, Maya Erdelyi. This event is presented by RCC Art Department in conjunction with Coil School for the Arts. Maya is well known for cut-out/stop-motion animation. Her education background is from Harvard, The Cooper Union, and Cal Arts. She's worked with worldwide known video artists and directors such as Michel Gondry and Jamie Caliri. In addition, her work has shown at MoCA, The Hammer Museum, RedCat, and many more.

Place: Riverside City College Digital Library Auditorium
Date: Tuesday, Oct 18
Time: 4-5 pm

Due to limited space, RSVP by emailing will.kim@rcc.edu. If you're bringing guest(s), let him know the guest count.

Chancellor's Reception

Student Profile: Junyu Chen

 

Name: Junyu (AKA Spirit X/Speardex)

Hometown: Jiangmen, China

Major: Theater arts

Hobbies: Music, friends, traveling

Favorite Quote: "What we do in life echoes in eternity."

Riverside Arts Walk (This Thursday!!!)

The Riverside Arts Walk is a free community event that celebrates the diversity of arts and culture in Riverside and the Inland Empire. Visit over 22 downtown locations, including museums, galleries and studios, presenting an eclectic mix of visual and performing arts.  And either before or after, enjoy the many entertainment, dining, and shopping experiences that Downtown Riverside has to offer.  See you there!

Riverside Family Village Festival

On Saturday, October 1st, Riverside is hosting the Riverside Family Village Festival.  Students are encouraged to come to this free event, which runs from 10am - 5pm in downtown Riverside.

Welcome to RCCD!!

Welcome to the Riverside Community College District!!!