Spotlight : Day Without Art

The following activities take place in Orange County today, unless otherwise noted.

A program of music, dance and theater presented by the Irvine Barclay Theatre, Ballet Pacifica, Opera Pacific, Pacific Chorale Intermediate Children’s Chorus, Master Chorale of Orange County, Imagination Celebration of Orange County, the Orange County Philharmonic Society, Pacific Symphony, South Coast Repertory and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 8 p.m. Free. Donations to 10 Orange County AIDS service groups will be accepted. 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. (714) 474-4488, Ext. 306.

UC Irvine School of Fine Arts “Artists & AIDS Project” events ($1 of each admission to the following ticketed events benefits UCI’s AIDS research):

UC Irvine Women’s Choral Ensemble, noon, alfresco concert. UC Irvine, Fine Arts Village, Olive Grove, corner of Bridge Street and Mesa Road, Irvine. Free.

“JACK/of all trade,” dramatization with music of prose and poetry by such writers as Tony Kushner, David Greenspan, David B. Feinberg, Diamanda Galas and Essex Hemphill. UCI Fine Arts Concert Hall. Today, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Each performance followed by discussion on AIDS in Orange County led by Jay Fournier, coordinator at the Laguna Beach Community Clinic. Tickets are $7-$9; (714) 824-2787.

“Candles in the Wind,” premieres and reconstructed works in classical, modern, jazz and flamenco dance choreographed and directed by UC Irvine faculty Donald Bradburn, Mary Corey, Israel (El) Gabriel, Sean Greene, Elizabeth Morse, James Penrod and Nancy Ruyter. 8 p.m. UCI Fine Arts Village Theatre. Pre-performance talk with the choreographers at 7 p.m. in Studio 4. Also Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. Thursday night and Saturday matinee, $7-$12; Friday and Saturday, $7-$14. (714) 824-2787.

“AIDS: Community Responses,” a non-juried exhibit in all media by students, faculty, staff and community members. Through Dec. 10 at UCI Fine Arts Gallery. A panel from the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed. Gallery hours today through Sunday are noon-8 p.m. Regular hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Free. (714) 824-6610.

Poetry and prose readings by the Los Angeles Writers Workshop and “Live to Write/Write to Live.” Saturday and Sunday, noon-1:30 p.m, UCI Fine Arts Gallery. Free. (714) 824-6610.

Also at UCI, in recognition of today’s World AIDS Day, a presentation from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the school’s Crystal Cove Auditorium that includes an awards ceremony for the American Red Cross of Orange County’s HIV/AIDS AIS Awareness Poster Contest; premiere performance of STOP-GAP theater troupe’s new AIDS education play “comPASSION”; dedication of panels from the Orange County NAMES Project quilt, and a candlelight vigil (weather permitting). Free. (714) 834-8020.

The painting “Elysian” (1980) by Jay Phillips, who died of AIDS in 1987, will be displayed at the Newport Harbor Art Museum. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. a representative from the county’s AIDS Response Program will hand out literature. A lecture-demo by Coast Ballet Theatre--for Rancho Alamitos High School students only--will be dedicated to Day Without Art. Museum admission is free today only. 850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach. Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (714) 759-1122.

The Laguna Art Museum’s front window will display today only an AIDS-related installation by students from the Arts Institute of Southern California. 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (714) 494-8971.

“The Time at the End of This Time,” a staged reading of Troy Tradup’s play about a young man who returns from college to his rural Minnesota hometown to share with his family and friends the news that he has tested positive for HIV. Monday, 8 p.m., Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach. $10, benefits Laguna Shanti, an AIDS service organization. (714) 494-8021.

Elsewhere Around the County: The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, will post a sign explaining Day Without Art. . . . Art galleries at Cal State Fullerton and Orange Coast College will be closed today.