![An image of a quilt honoring AIDS victims.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/2024/Web%20Publishing%20%5BPRE%5D-24_7440%20-%20AIDS%20Quilt%20Songbook_newsbanner%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=nY0qPmrd)
“The AIDS Quilt Songbook” is a moving tribute to those impacted by the AIDS epidemic. The performance will take place on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are available now.
![CSUSB Opera Theatre scene from “The Next Whisky Bar.”](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/2024/NewsSlide_OperaTheatre_WhiskyBar_Apr2024.jpg.webp?itok=zwTIh5Fz)
Tickets are now on sale online for the U.S. premier of “The Next Whisky Bar,” which will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 24-25, at the university’s Performing Arts Recital Hall.
![Center for Global Innovation building, Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Faculty-in-the-News-CGI_24.jpg.webp?itok=NgnAD5E4)
Brian Levin (criminal justice), Stacey Fraser (music), Kristi Papailler (theatre arts) and Viktor Wang (education) were included in recent news coverage.
![The Book of Longing performance](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/BookOfLonging_Slide.jpg.webp?itok=Aj4RGVNk)
“Book of Longing,” which runs April 26-27, is a song cycle composed for ensemble, singers, spoken word and imagery. CSUSB Opera Theatre will present 65 minutes of the original work.
![JHBC, Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Faculty-in-the-News-JHBC_21.jpg.webp?itok=UydhZ87Y)
Mike Stull (entrepreneurship), Stacey Fraser (music), Kristi Papailler (theatre arts) and Brian Levin (criminal justice) were mentioned in recent news coverage, and a study by Gisela Bichler (criminal justice) was recently published.
![Premiere of “Why Women Went West” by Pamela Madsen at Meng Hall, Cal State Fullerton, Sept. 17.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/WhyWomenWentWest_Slide.jpg.webp?itok=Ht7wEB0j)
“Why Women Went West” is a multi-media chamber opera that tells the unfolding narrative of a sole woman protagonist, Mary Hunter Austin, and her journey west. The performance is free and will be presented at RAFFMA on March 9 at 5 p.m.
![Stacey Fraser](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_NewFrontierOpera_17March2022.jpg.webp?itok=n4sA31ZE)
The NEA grant has allowed the CSUSB Opera Theatre to create two full-length works this spring semester, with one that premiered last month and the next, “The New Frontier: An Atomic Age Jazz Opera,” to premiere on March 24.
![Opera in the Trenches online flier](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Opera_in%20_the_trenches_03Nov2021.jpg.webp?itok=waa06jFc)
Cal State San Bernardino’s Opera Theatre will present a live performance – “Opera in the Trenches!” – on Wednesday, Nov. 10, in the Performing Arts Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. in honor of Veterans Day. Tickets are now available.
![Stacey Fraser, CSUSB professor of music, soprano and the project director.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_StaceyFraser_NEAGrant_28May2021.jpg.webp?itok=Fn0Aw1Mk)
CSUSB has been approved for a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts to support the music department’s “New Frontiers: Multimedia Monodramas,” a project that focuses on aspects of new frontiers, California, diversity, women and the idea of the West.