Where can you go and find magic, a live band onstage, prizes, NSA secrets, AND a chance to win $1,000?  

“The Light & Dark Arts: A Radical Magic Show” at the University of California, Davis, will be playing with the age-old theatrical strategies of hiding and revealing, literally teaching our students magic. In looking closely at the ways in which secrets are embodied in today’s society, this performance will draw parallels between magic acts and such issues as economic manipulation, political deception, vanishing resources, and social transformation.

This student-centric performance by the Department of Theatre and Dance is directed by Aaron Gach, Granada Artist-In-Residence. The production pulls back the curtain and illuminates the most shadowed corners of today’s real-world theatre of conflict.  

This production contains a small amount of nudity and anyone under the age of 18 will need to have parental consent.

For more information go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu or call (530) 752-5863. Tickets are $10 for the last week of performances, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets are available by emailing tdtickets@ucdavis.edu, (530) 752-7111 or at Main Theatre, Wright Hall  box office on campus. Tickets will also be available at the door starting one hour before the performance.

Director and Granada Artist-in-Residence Aaron Gach is a founder of the Center for Tactical Magic, an organization dedicated to the coalescence of art, activism, magic and positive social change, and has taught courses in public art, street media and art and magic at Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute and currently the California College of the Arts.