Prose, art, music as an ode to Earth

Crossroads event gets audience to focus on preservation of planet Just how much do we know about our island planet, and ourselves? Not as much as we may have thought. The Crossroads project, a visual and auditory environmental experience, performed at the Richardson Performance Hall at Del Mar College on April 24, just three days after Earth Day. Reviewed in the past by the Boston Globe and The New York Times, the presentation revealed shocking statistics in the silent auditorium. The visual aid to climate physicist Robert Davies’ prose speech included minimalist infographics with the numbers to prove it: the…

Drum roll, please…

17th annual percussion festival is a hit for attendees Beat, rhythms, tempos, patterns — speak with any of the young musicians who attended the Del Mar College Percussion Festival on April 14, and they’ll know. The interactive competition/day-camp event brought local high school and middle school students together to pick up new techniques and tricks. “This is the 17th annual percussion festival, and the third year including Flam Jamm,” said Neil Sisauyhoat, percussion director at Del Mar college. Sisauyhoat said the main objective for the event was to engage attendees in a variety of percussion styles and have the chance…

DMC drama hosts ‘Bald Soprano’

Production offers a hilarious satire on ordinary middle class Eugene Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano,” produced and performed by the Del Mar College Drama Department, offered audience members a light-hearted existential crisis, along with punch and cookies during intermission. The play opened April 13, with Student Appreciation Night on April 19. Most have never had an experience with “theater of the absurd,” defined as “drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world.” It’s a genre of theater that seems to stray from the ordinary and introduces the psyche of the…

‘Isle of Dogs’ howling good

Never had I thought I would be a dog person until Wes Anderson showed me why I needed to be. “Isle of Dogs,” the film everybody had been awaiting for, combines cross-cultural and cross-species elements to make a hit. The movie takes place in a future dystopian Japan, where mayor Kobayashi has concluded that the overpopulation of dogs in the city and the newfound “Dog Flu” was reason to rule for the immediate deportation of all dogs to Trash Island. Kobayashi’s distant nephew and main protagonist, 12-year-old Atari, hijacks a small jet and ventures out to Trash Island to find…

‘The Bald Soprano’ wonderfully quirky

DMC drama production continues this weekend Eugene Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano,” produced and performed by the Del Mar College Drama Department, offers audience members a light-hearted existential crisis, along with punch and cookies during intermission. The play opened April 13 and will run again April 19 – 21, with free admission for students April 19. Most have never had an experience with “theater of the absurd,” defined as “drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world.” It’s a genre of theater that seems to stray from the ordinary and…