Saveena Patel’s wonderland and reality are now one and the same.
The first-year ethnomusicology student will be competing in Spring Sing with her original song, “Wonderland,” which she will be singing with her ukulele.

Three ballerinas have finally set the barre – and set up their own ballet company too.
UCLA’s first ballet company, founded by Ada Chung, Ying Xuan Chua and Moe Kawakami, has been holding virtual Zoom events throughout spring quarter.

Metal is putty in Malia Zoraster’s hands.
With just pliers and coils of wire, the second-year business economics student started her own metal wire jewelry business, Mai’a Hawaiian Jewelry, last August in person and recently moved it onto Etsy.

This post was updated April 29 at 2:19 p.m.
Pius Kung is passing a camera around the world – metaphorically, of course.
The third-year film student is creating a documentary that showcases the various ways people are adapting to life under quarantine.

Though the world may be on pause, musicians play on.
In a world in isolation, UCLA musicians – students and alumni alike – continue to hone their craft.

Minh Mai said she wants to make secondhand fashion everyone’s first choice.
The fourth-year economics student co-founded NextBest, an online marketplace for secondhand clothing, with her brother, Hoa Mai.

As flowers begin to blossom and each day stretches on just a bit longer, spring signals a time to refresh – and while the earth rejuvenates, up-and-coming artists are ready to flourish, too.

Creativity, childhood memories and death metal – all packed into one food truck.
Evil Cooks, a pop-up restaurant, is a heavy-metal-themed taqueria co-run by Elvia Huerta, a former assistant cook at Rendezvous, serving dishes inspired by childhood memories.

For the Aguas Trio, water is the air they breathe.
On Friday, the group will be playing selections from its album, “Aguas,” in a performance presented by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance at Royce Hall.

The van Renterghem twins can’t help but complete each other’s sentences – both in conversation and in music.
Fourth-year music performance students Eliana van Renterghem and Elizabeth van Renterghem have been studying flute performance for the past decade.