IRVINE TALKS – BECOMING

May 1, 2023

On April 15, Irvine Talks united the community for a night of arts and performance at the Woodbridge High School Performing Arts Center. For the past six years, IPSF has been proud to support Irvine Talks, a student-led, district-wide event featuring art and performances that pertain to a specific theme, relevant to the human experience.  

The event provides students with a platform to showcase the beauty of human connection and how vulnerability can create strength. Throughout the night student performers came together to share their stories, whether through spoken word, art, poetry, dance, or vocal performance. 

Over the years, students and audiences have explored what it means to “Be Human”, sharing their “Perspectives”, describing “Movement”, taking a step back for “Reflection”, and uncovering the invisible “Pieces of Me”. This year, the theme “Becoming” prompted students to reflect on the person they have become and are becoming. They dug deep to tap into experiences from their past that helped shape them into the person they are today. 

“With the chaos that encompasses our lives, we rarely take a moment to pause and think about the small moments in our lives, the ones that define who we are, but we keep hidden,” explains Aarya Padhye, President of Irvine Talks board. “It’s the moments – on a drive by ourselves, up late talking to a person we love, or listening to music that makes us feel some sort of emotion – that define our human experience.”