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Our latest CSUN Food Pantry Drive was held on February 10 & 11.(Soup'R Bowl Weekend) Thank you to all our community neighbors, and Northridge Patch, for getting the word out. We collected $1,695.00 cash for the food pantry, and also 5 pickup trucks full of non-perishable food, as well as personal items for food challenged CSUN students. The total weight of what was donated through our food drive was 2,043 pounds of food! -- Northridge-Chatsworth Patch

Daniel Kessner attended the University of California, Los Angeles before joining the faculty of the Department of Music at California State University, Northridge, where in addition to teaching composition and theory, he directed its highly regarded New Music Ensemble. His works have been performed throughout the US and abroad by among others, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble of New York, the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Utrecht Symphony and the El Salvador National Symphony. Kessner's creative endeavors have garnered prestigious national and international awards including the Queen Marie-José International Composition Prize in Geneva, two BMI Awards as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International. -- Broadway World Classical Music

California State University Northridge Department of Music presents Helen Sung in concert with CSUN Jazz A & B Bands. General admission $22. CSUN Music Students FREE. Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer. Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition, her Concord Jazz release Anthem For A New Day topped the jazz charts, and her most recent release Sung With Words (2018) is a collaborative project with former National Endowment Chairman and California State Laureate Poet Dana Gioia. With appearances at major festivals/venues including Newport, Monterey, Detroit, SFJAZZ, and Carnegie Hall, she also tours internationally: her “NuGenerations" Project toured southern Africa as a U.S. State Department Jazz Ambassador, and recent engagements include debuts at the London Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, Blue Note Beijing, and the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival. Sung can also currently be seen with such fine ensembles as the Mingus Big Band and Cecile McLorin Salvant’s Ogresse Project. She has served on the jazz faculties at schools including the Berklee College of Music, the Juilliard School, and Columbia University. Sung was chosen to be the inaugural Jazz Artist-In-Residence at Columbia's prestigious Zuckerman Institute in 2019. In April 2020 she was named a Steinway Artist. -- Los Angeles Downtown News

Cal State Northridge political science professor Tom Hogen-Esch said there comes a point when people’s mailboxes become so inundated with campaign mailers that it’s questionable how much information actually gets through to voters. -- Los Angeles Daily News