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  UCLA Performing Arts Sonic Youth's festival, All Tomorrow's Parties, which was to be held at UCLA in October, has been postponed due to the Sept.11 tragedies.

By Chris Moriates

Daily Bruin Senior Staff

All Tomorrow’s Parties, the alternative rock festival scheduled to arrive at UCLA on Oct. 19, has been postponed, according to Vice Chancellor Robert Naples’ office and Sonic Youth’s official Web site.

The three-day concert, curated by American indie rock band Sonic Youth, was to be headlined by such diverse acts as Stereolab, Eddie Vedder, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Television and Sonic Youth.

The concert has been postponed due to the events of Sept. 11 and “the current volatile world climate,” according to the Sonic Youth Web site. Sonic Youth’s studio is located a few blocks from the now-collapsed World Trade Center.

There are plans to reschedule for early 2002, but it is unclear whether the event will still be held at UCLA and what the new lineup will be. UCLA Performing Arts could not be reached for comment.

The festival was also to include cutting-edge art, film, music and spoken-word performances, with events held throughout campus in Royce Hall, Ackerman Grand Ballroom and Schoenberg and Moore Halls.

“The event is currently up in the air,” UCLA program events manager John Henson said Thursday. “We are facing many of the same problems with artist transportation as we are with Royce Hall programs ... with 43 bands, it is a much bigger scale.”

ATP was started in the United Kingdom by Barry Hogan as a way to present a completely artist-curated alternative festival. The event was brought to UCLA by new performing arts director David Sefton.