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From cutting-edge student showcases to world-class performances, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts brings creativity to life year-round. Discover what's happening across Art, Dance, Drama, and Music—and find your next favorite event.

Two girls admiring art piece at Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition

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Browse upcoming performances, exhibitions, and installations from each of our four departments—plus special picks curated by the UCI Arts team.

Image: Sarah Rothberg, FOREVER MEETINGS: SCRAMBLED ZONE, 2025; Custom software (black and white, sound), computer, projector, or screen. Dimensions variable, landscape orientation. Courtesy of the artist and bitforms gallery.

Beall Center

Apr 4, 2026, 12:00pm - Jun 27, 2026, 6:00pm

Jun 27, 2026 , 12:00 - 6:00pm

Beall Center for Art + Technology

Colloquium Room

Disruptive Cultures: Affects and Effects of Social Media

Free Admission

Disruptive Cultures: Affect and Effects of Social Media explores how social media can provoke strong emotional...

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A contemporary gallery installation featuring a tall ladder-like sculpture and a large mixed-media painting displayed in a white exhibition space.

Art

Art Gallery

Apr 18, 2026, 12:00pm - May 2, 2026, 6:00pm

May 2, 2026 , 12:00 - 6:00pm

Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

University Art Gallery

M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition (part 1) - spring 2026

Free Admission

Artists:
Gwyneth Bulawsky, Simon Klein and Jacob Lenc

Solo exhibitions by M.F.A. candidates from UC Irvine’s...

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"On Ice" Promotional Design: Photo by Sarah Hentges ('27)

Drama

Apr 24, 2026, 8:00pm

Apr 25, 2026, 2:00pm

Apr 25, 2026, 8:00pm

Little Theatre

On Ice: A Figure Skating Play

Free Admission

On Ice, an original, one-woman show, is inspired by former professional figure skater Zoe Rose Davidson's...

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School

Apr 27, 2026 , 6:00 - 7:30pm

Winifred Smith Hall

Government's Role in the Arts

Free Admission

Join panelists Patrick Brien, President and CEO of Arts Orange County; Rick Stein from the California Arts...

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All UCI Claire Trevor Events

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Title	Department	Event dates
Disruptive Cultures: Affects and Effects of Social Media	Beall Center	Apr 4, 2026, 12:00pm - Jun 27, 2026, 6:00pm, Jun 27, 2026, 12:00 - 6:00pm
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition (part 1) - spring 2026	Art, Art Gallery	Apr 18, 2026, 12:00pm - May 2, 2026, 6:00pm, May 2, 2026, 12:00 - 6:00pm
On Ice: A Figure Skating Play	Drama	Apr 24, 2026, 8:00pm, Apr 25, 2026, 2:00pm, Apr 25, 2026, 8:00pm
Government's Role in the Arts	School	Apr 27, 2026, 6:00 - 7:30pm
UC Irvine Giving Day 2026	Art, Dance, Drama, Music, School	Apr 28, 2026, 12:01am - 11:59pm
Stretching In / Stretching Out: Music for Trombone and Bass in Two Cities	Music	Apr 29, 2026, 7:00pm
Restive Moves: A Multimedia Festival of Dance, Music, Film & Mindfulness	Dance	Apr 30, 2026, 7:30pm, May 1, 2026, 7:30pm, May 2, 2026, 10:00am - 12:00pm, May 2, 2026, 7:30pm, May 3, 2026, 3:00 - 5:00pm, May 3, 2026, 6:30pm
Physical Graffiti 2026	Dance	Apr 30, 2026, 8:00pm, May 1, 2026, 8:00pm, May 2, 2026, 2:00pm, May 2, 2026, 8:00pm
Hans Boepple: Piano Master Class	Music	May 1, 2026, 1:00pm
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition (part 2) - spring 2026	Art, Art Gallery	May 9, 2026, 12:00pm - May 23, 2026, 6:00pm, May 23, 2026, 12:00 - 6:00pm

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Arts Campus

The School contains five theaters, four galleries, two recording studios, photography dark rooms, recital halls, dance studios, stop motion capture rooms, the Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL), and the Beall Center for Art + Technology.

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