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About 100 Los Angeles-area youths will offer their interpretations of the immigrant experience in dance, spoken word and visual art in “Arrivals,” to be presented at noon March 24 at Schoenberg Hall. Funded by a UCLA Center for Community Partnerships grant, the project is a collaboration between the HeArt Project, a nonprofit organization that links teens, artists and communities, and UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures. “Arrivals” is the culmination of workshops held at L.A. continuation high schools and community day schools. The teens had the chance to interact with a prominent poet, dancer, sculptor, architect, photographer and visual artist, among others.

THE UCLA COLLEGE

A UCLA sociologist’s scathing critique of recent American foreign policy has won a prestigious European book prize. Michael Mann’s book, “Incoherent Empire” (Verso/W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), which takes aim at the United States’ current policy toward Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea and Islamic terrorists, has been selected as Political Book of the Year by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Germany. The prize goes to the single book published in German that best exemplifies the organization’s ideals. The foundation is committed to the principles and values of social democracy and to promoting national and international understanding. The prize has been awarded annually since 1982 in remembrance of the Nazi book burning of May 10, 1933. Past honorees include Helmut Schmidt, Mikhail Gorbachev and Václav Havel.

CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library has acquired a college notebook kept by the 19th century wit, playwright and cult figure Oscar Wilde, as well as the original manuscript of his homosexual lover’s autobiography. The Clark boasts the world’s largest public collection of works by and about Wilde. “The notebook has been in a private collection for over half a century, so it has really never been seen by any living Wilde scholar,” said Clark Head Librarian Bruce Whiteman. The autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas, “Without Apology,” was published in 1938 and is no longer in print. A spate of legal and financial complications stemming from Wilde’s homosexuality in general and his relationship with Douglas in particular ultimately bankrupted the writer, who died in Paris in 1900. The Clark hopes to display the works at its annual fundraiser set for May 2.