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GOLF TOURNAMENT All Day, Sandpiper Golf Course UCSB hosts the Pacific Coast Region. Ends on Tuesday. APRIL WEDNESDAY 2 BASEBALL 2 p.m., Uyesaka Stadium UCSB hosts Westmont. IHC LECTURE 4 p.m., HSSB 6020 Cambridge University's Sylvia Huot discusses "Madness and Monstrosity: Crises of Identity in Medieval French Literature." PIANO RECITAL 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Australian pianist Alexander Boyd performs Mozart, Brahms, and works by Debussy, Schumann, and Liszt. THURSDAY 3 LANG LANG CONCERT 8 p.m., Campbell Hall Prize-winning Chinese piano prodigy Lang Lang, 20, will perform works by Schumann, Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Chopin, and Mozart.
FRIDAY 4 PHOTO WORKSHOP All Day, Sedgwick Reserve Photographer Tom Gamache will teach a 3-day landscape photography workshop at UCSB's Sedgwick Reserve. Call 686-1941 for details. AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY DAY CONFERENCE 11 a.m., MultiCultural Center Starting with a fry bread and taco fundraiser, this 2-day meeting features author LeAnne Howe, workshops, and dances. "8 MILE" 7:30 & 10 p.m. Campbell Hall Eminem is featured in this loosely autobiographical film about a street-smart young man hoping to rap his way out of bleak Detroit.
SATURDAY 5 MODERNISM SYMPOSIUM 1:30 p.m., HSSB 6020 "The Hidden Faces of Modernism," a graduate student symposium, will be lead by Professor Zeynep Çelik of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. SUNDAY 6 GUITAR MASTER CLASS 10 a.m., Geiringer Hall Paul O'Dette will conduct a guitar master class with UCSB students that is free and open to the public. WOMEN'S TENNIS Noon, RecCen Courts UCSB hosts UC Riverside. BASEBALL 1 p.m., Uyesaka Stadium UCSB hosts UC Irvine. WILDFLOWER WALK 2 p.m., Sedgwick Reserve This 3-hour guided hike is through the Sedgewick Reserve. Call 686-1941 for reservations. VOCAL & LUTE RECITAL 3 & 5 p.m., The Peppers, Montecito Soprano Ellen Hargis, with Paul O'Dette on the lute, will perform 16th- and 17th-century European love songs in the Julia Morgan ballroom of a classic Montecito estate. The ticket includes a reception in the Peppers' courtyard garden. Tickets, x3535. MONDAY 7 MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Yair Dalal's music on oud and violin reflects the traditions of Israeli and Iraqi cultures. He will be accompanied by the Al Ol ensemble. TUESDAY 8 SLAVE NARRATIVES 4 p.m., Women's Center Jermaine Archer discusses "A Breathing of the Common Wind: The African Sensibility of Antebellum Slave Narratives." IHC GENOCIDE LECTURE 5 p.m., Corwin Pavilion Samantha Power, winner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, will discuss "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide." BREN COLLOQUIUM 7:30 p.m., Bren Hall Political scientist Oran Young and environmental law colleagues will introduce a new Program on Governance for Sustainable Development. WEDNESDAY 9 MEN'S TENNIS 1:30 p.m., RecCen Courts UCSB hosts Cal Poly. SEXUAL VIOLENCE LECTURE 3:30 pm, HSSB 6030 Sabine Sielke, director of the North American Program at the University of Bonn, Germany, will discuss her book "Reading Rape, or How American Culture Talks About Sexual Violence." A reception will follow. "THREE KINGS" 6 p.m. & 8:30 p.m., MultiCultural Center Set at the end of the 1991 Gulf War, this film questions the motives for U.S. military campaigns abroad. Free tickets must be obtained from the Center for Middle East Studies (x4245) or the MCC in advance. "AMERICAN DREAMS: LOST AND FOUND" 8 p.m., Campbell Hall The Acting Company presents the California premiere of a play about Americans' simple dreams but grand aspirations, based on writings by Studs Terkel.
THURSDAY 10 WOMEN & COMPUTERS 5 p.m., Kerr Hall 2130 Barbara Byrge leads a workshop to teach women to use computers at all skill levels. IDENTITY POLITICS 6:30 p.m., MultiCultural Center Author and commentator Richard Rodriguez will lead a discussion about the "politics" of identity and how people can promote an inclusive sense of community. POETRY READING 7:30 p.m., MultiCultural Center Young poets will share poetry, prose, song, or dance in this open mike session. PIANO RECITAL 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Faculty pianist Paul Berkowitz performs Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert. FRIDAY 11 CITS SYMPOSIA Noon, CTL-Trailer 932 UCSB anthropologist Susan Stonich discusses "Information Technologies, Global Social Movements, and Civil Society." MEN'S VOLLEYBALL 7:05 p.m., Rob Gym UCSB hosts Cal State Long Beach. "AN EVENING WITH C.S. LEWIS" 8 p.m., Embarcadero Hall, I.V. This free, one-actor presentation stars David Payne as Lewis.
SATURDAY 12 EDUCATION CAREERS CONFERENCE ARMENIAN MUSIC "WALK FOR GOOD TIMES" 10 a.m., Campus Lagoon The first annual benefit 5K walk ($10 a person) is to send cancer-stricken kids to Camp Ronald McDonald. SOFTBALL Noon, Campus Diamond UCSB hosts UC Riverside. MONDAY 14 PWA MEETING Noon, UCen Mission Room The Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women will discuss campus issues of special concern to women. DISCUSSION ON RACE 4 p.m., HSSB 6020 Graduate students representing multiple academic disciplines will discuss "Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide." DISCUSSION OF MYTHS 7 p.m., Santa Rosa Formal Lounge Edwina Welch will discuss "The Politically Incorrect Hour: Myths, Stereotypes and Urban Legends." NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER II 8 p.m., Lobero Theatre The 14 dancers of the internationally acclaimed NDT II make their Santa Barbara debut by performing to music by Mozart, Haydn and Stravinsky. Repeats Tuesday. |
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