New folk art exhibit illuminates Valentine’s Day

Share: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and in honor of this loving and bonding holiday, a new art exhibit, “Hearts and Flowers”, displaying many different types of folk art, has opened at The Folk Tree from January 26 to March 2. Valentine’s Day is holiday filled with joy and passion and that much shown through the art. Much of the exhibit is filled with a mass collection of Mexican Folk pieces that come from different areas of Mexico like Oaxaca, Michoacán, and Jalisco. …

More than just eye shadow and contours

Share: It was 10 minutes ‘til 7 p.m. on a Wednesday evening when John Hanna gathered his theater arts makeup students for a run through the night’s project. In preparation for the school’s rendition of Young Frankenstein, the crew was creating the prosthetic piece for the actor playing the legendary monster. To do this, a life cast of the actor’s face would need to be produced, which just so happened to fall on a night that all the theater arts makeup students had a day …

Concert percussion brings the rhythm

Share: Patrons stepping into the Westerbeck Recital Hall on the night of November 14 were greeted by a wide variety of instruments completely covering the stage.  Tad Carpenter and the Concert Percussion Ensemble would soon come out on the stage and use every one of those instruments to create a wide variety of sounds that filled the hall with rhythmic beauty A quick glance at the various drums around the room is all one really needs to understand the purpose of each different instrument.  The …

It takes three to solo

Share: The guys dressed up in blazers and the women put on their nice dresses. Then they waited patiently as the stage remained silent with nothing but a chair and a footstool on it. The guitarist stepped out onto stage from the side door and everyone applauded. A classy night out on the town might not be something you’d go to a college campus looking for, but Pasadena City College has quite a bit to offer when it comes to evenings out. Follow:

A not-so-spooky Halloween

Share: On Halloween this year, while some people were off listening to some hard hitting EDM at Escape All Hallows’ Eve, a small audience made their way to the Westerbeck Recital Hall to get a taste of a very different kind of music. Piano, oboe, and the melody of dozens of voices created an incredible sound when the Pasadena City College choir groups performed their Fall Choral Recital. Follow: