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Treadway: El Cerrito High festival to spotlight school jazz programs

The festival “will include workshops, master classes, clinics, concerts, and adjudicated performances,” organizers announced. “Festival adjudicators and clinicians include Dam Gailey from the University of Kansas, Dr. Aaron Lington from San Jose State University, Joe Mazzaferro from Stanislaus State University, Gary Pratt from CSU Northridge, and Rob Tapper from the University of Montana.” -- East Bay Times

CSULB Theatre Arts Kicks Off Spring Semester with SHE KILLS MONSTERS

Amanda McRaven is a director, theater-maker, educator, and writer. She is the winner of the 2014 Ovation Award for Directing and a member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. The former Director of Education for the American Shakespeare Center, she is now based in Los Angeles where she teaches Performance Studies at California State University Northridge and makes theatre with her company, The Fugitive Kind. -- Broadway World Los Angeles

Mark Sandler wins 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award

“Dr. Mark Sandler is a library leader of great vision whose innovative ideas and persuasive skills carried to fruition two of the most impactful initiatives in the history of digitization,” said Mark Stover, Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award Committee chair and dean of the Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge. “His founding of the Text Creation Partnership brought together a number of academic libraries with Proquest, and this collaboration produced the seminal Early English Books Online database. Mark also championed the Google Book Digitization Project among the member libraries of the influential Big Ten Academic Alliance, thus greatly expanding the corpus of digitized books for both the Google project and the HathiTrust repository.” -- American Library Association

Tavrion Dawson leads CSUN to 108-98 win over LBSU

NORTHRIDGE >> It hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for Long Beach State and CSUN over the first half of the Big West Conference basketball season. The preseason-favorite 49ers lost forward Gabe Levin for the season before Big West play began and the Matadors have had difficulty playing a focused 40 minutes, especially on defense. -- Los Angeles Daily News

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