A&E Briefs

  Paramount Classics The sneak preview of "Sidewalks of New
York," screening Wednesday in Ackerman Union, features
Edward Burns and Heather
Graham.

Campus Events activities

Tickets are now available in 319 Kerckhoff for the
“Sidewalks of New York” movie screening on Wednesday at
7 p.m. in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. The cast includes Edward Burns,
Heather Graham, Stanley Tucci, Rosario Dawson and Brittany
Murphy.

On Thursday Campus Events starts its “Movies That Start
With H and Are About Really Mean Girls” series with
“Heathers.” The film will play at Ackerman Grand
Ballroom at 7 p.m. and admission is $2 at the door.

The plot concerns the Heathers, an elitist clique that rules
Westerburg High. When fellow student Veronica gets fed up with
their attitude, she joins forces with a mysterious new student and
they take matters into their own hands to bring down the Heathers.
The cast includes Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
and Lisanne Falk.

“Heavenly Creatures” will follow on Thursday evening
at 9:30 p.m. In the movie, two girls from different social
backgrounds become best friends, inventing their own fantasy
universe and shutting out the outside world. The cast includes
Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet.

On Friday “Heavenly Creatures” will play again at 7
p.m. with “Heathers” following at 9:30 p.m. For more
information contact the Campus Events Commission at (310)
825-1958.

Powell rotunda concerts

The early Musical Ensemble will perform on Friday from 7:30 to
8:30 p.m. in the Powell Library Rotunda.

The group will perform “Musica Humana,” which
consists of music and readings dealing with Jews in the Italian
Renaissance.

Focusing on both the accomplishments of Jewish composer Salamone
Rossi and his non-Jewish contemporaries, the event explores the
interactions between Jewish and Catholic cultures and composers in
Renaissance Italy. Some featured pieces include voice and continuo
compositions by Rossi and Claudio Monteverdi.

This concert is part of the annual Powell Music Concert Series
in the rotunda, which showcases both faculty and student musicians.
For more information contact Powell Library at (310) 825-5756.

“˜Body Tjak/The Celebration’

The Ethnomusicology Archive Video Hour will present video
excerpts of the “Body Tjak/The Celebration” performance
on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

Balinese dancer and choreographer I Wayan Dibia and U.S.
percussionist and rhythm dancer Keith Terry worked together to
produce this performance piece. The performance in the video of
“Body Tjak/The Celebration” was recorded from a 1999
showing of a 12-member ensemble of musicians and dancers that
combined music, kecak, saman, rhythm dance, drums, flutes, gongs,
rocks, bamboo and voice.

Terry is a faculty member in the department of world arts and
cultures where he currently teaches body music and intercultural
communication in the arts and is also the director of the
percussion ensemble Crosspulse.

Coffee and a discussion will precede the video at 4:30 p.m.

For more information contact the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive at
(310) 825-1695.

Briefs compiled by Michael Rosen-Molina, Daily Bruin Senior
Staff.