A jazz concert kicks off the week’s public performances in Part II of the 2011 CSU Summer Arts festival, signaling the beginning of the end of the program’s 13-year run at California State University, Fresno.

Bug will play at 7 p.m. Sunday, July 10, at the Concert Hall in the Music Building at Fresno State. The group brings multiple musical influences into confluence with each concert. Guest artist is saxophonist Hashem Assadullahi.

Also during the week:

  • Theo Bleckmann and Ben Monder will play a jazz concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 11, at the Concert Hall.
  • Eric Merrell and Samantha Minear’s artist lecture and slide presentation, will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, at the Fresno Art Museum (Yale Avenue and First Street, Fresno).
  • Alexandra Billings, Eric Hunicutt and David Razowsky will offer improvisational comedy at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 14, at the John Wright Theatre in the campus Speech Arts Building.
  • Rick Garcia and William Malpede will lecture on digital music and media at 7 p.m. Friday, July 15, at Music Building Room 160.
  • “Voice Lessons,” a theater performance featuring Laurie Metcalf, French Stewart and Maile Flanagan begins at 7 p.m. July 16 in the John Wright Theatre.

Public performances are integral to the CSU Summer Arts program, which has spent 13 of its 27 years at Fresno State. The performers are the musicians, artists, actors and others who are the master instructors to students who come to the program from all over California to work intensively for two weeks, culminating in the students’ own presentations.

The program moves to CSU Monterey Bay in 2012.

Tickets to the public performances are available through the box office, 559.278.5109.

The CSU Summer Arts Calendar is at www.csusummerarts.org/public_events_calendar_2011