March 1 - March 7

CSUN Art Galleries: “Latinex Roots, American Sacrifices,” group show, through March 14 (West Gallery). Gallery hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday-Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Thursday. Closed on all campus holidays. Parking $9.50 (closest lot to the gallery is lot E6, enter from Halsted Street). Cal State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St. Gallery location: Art and Design Center, on North University Drive (Plummer Street), between Etiwanda and Lindley avenues. 818-677-2156. www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/art-galleries -- Los Angeles Daily News

CSUN's University Student Union gears up for Carnaval, a vibrant celebration of multiculturalism. Explore global cultures through performances, food, and activities. -- BNN

At a Voting Center at California State Northridge, meanwhile, a number of young people showed up, with a staff member saying they’d counted about 120 as of about 2:45 p.m., with many of those first-time voters. -- Los Angeles Daily News

The COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a global emergency, Canada’s GDP outperformed expectations in 2023, the economy seems to be heading for soft landing after a period of stagnation, inflation is winding down and unemployment has decreased to 5.7 per cent in January 2024 — close to pre-pandemic levels. -- Canadian Manufacturing

ANAHEIM, Calif. and SEOUL, South Korea, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ONECOM, the creator of the world's first QWERTY communicator, the Fintin V1, will be exhibiting at 'CSUN AT Conference 2024', the world's largest event dedicated to assistive technology for people with disabilities, to be held From March 18-22, 2024 at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, California. -- PR Newswire

California State University Northridge Department of Music presents Helen Sung in concert with CSUN Jazz A & B Bands. General admission $22. CSUN Music Students FREE. Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer. Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition, her Concord Jazz release Anthem For A New Day topped the jazz charts, and her most recent release Sung With Words (2018) is a collaborative project with former National Endowment Chairman and California State Laureate Poet Dana Gioia. With appearances at major festivals/venues including Newport, Monterey, Detroit, SFJAZZ, and Carnegie Hall, she also tours internationally: her “NuGenerations" Project toured southern Africa as a U.S. State Department Jazz Ambassador, and recent engagements include debuts at the London Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, Blue Note Beijing, and the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival. Sung can also currently be seen with such fine ensembles as the Mingus Big Band and Cecile McLorin Salvant’s Ogresse Project. She has served on the jazz faculties at schools including the Berklee College of Music, the Juilliard School, and Columbia University. Sung was chosen to be the inaugural Jazz Artist-In-Residence at Columbia's prestigious Zuckerman Institute in 2019. In April 2020 she was named a Steinway Artist. -- Antelope Valley Press

Unlike the old days, when voters were assigned specific local polling locations, you can now cast your ballots in-person or drop off your vote-by-mail ballots at any of those facilities. Do you live in Long Beach but have to teach a morning class at Cal State Northridge? There’s a vote center on campus you can use. Do you live in Downtown Los Angeles but are having coffee in Hermosa Beach with someone you met on a dating app? There’s a vote center in the beach town you can use. And, of course, you can vote at whichever facility is closest to your home. -- Pasadena Star-News

Stephanie Satie (CHAVA, she/her) is delighted to be onstage at InterAct in this powerful play. She is an actor and playwright, – the author of last season’s The Last Parade, beautifully directed by Seth Rozin. Stephanie has performed on and off-Broadway, in regional theatres, and internationally, first, as a dancer, then as an actor in roles ranging from those of Shakespeare to Neil Simon to Ionesco and Berkoff. With grants from the Los Angeles Dept of Cultural Affairs, she created three critically acclaimed solo plays -- Refugees, set in an ESL classroom, published by Samuel French, Coming to America, (ten monologues of women asylum seekers) and the multiple award winning, Silent Witnesses, based on interviews with child survivors of the Holocaust. She’s brought them to many theatres, universities and museums across the country. On TV she recurred in “The Wonder Years” as Ida Pfeiffer and in “The Practice,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” and many soaps and courtroom dramas. She played another Chava in the National tour of Fiddler on the Roof in Philadelphia in the last century. Stephanie loves to travel and immerse herself in other languages and cultures, studying Russian, French and Spanish and she taught Literature and Writing at California State University, Northridge. During the pandemic, she wrote and co-starred in a short film “In the Zoom Room, produced by Women in the Arts and Media Coalition. She has endless faith in the power of theatre to enlarge our view of the world. -- Broadway World Pennsylvania

Daniel Kessner attended the University of California, Los Angeles before joining the faculty of the Department of Music at California State University, Northridge, where in addition to teaching composition and theory, he directed its highly regarded New Music Ensemble. His works have been performed throughout the US and abroad by among others, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble of New York, the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Utrecht Symphony and the El Salvador National Symphony. Kessner's creative endeavors have garnered prestigious national and international awards including the Queen Marie-José International Composition Prize in Geneva, two BMI Awards as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International. -- Eyeballs & Clicks

Before the three-day opening series, MUSE/IQUE members and supporters can take advantage of a special offer from their friends at the Soraya at CSU Northridge, featuring an exclusive discount for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s performance on March 9th. -- Pasadena Now