ONGOING
Various locations
For a full schedule, go to <www.ia.ucsb.edu>.
Performing Arts Theatre
“Life’s a Dream,” written by Pedro Calderón
de la Barca during the 17th century, involves misguided fathers
and passionate maidens with themes of dreams and reality that
make the play feel contemporary.
The concert features choreography by faculty
members Stephanie Nugent, Valerie Huston, and Nancy Colahan
as well as pieces from four advanced student choreographers.
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Cecilia Burciága, widow of artist José Antonio
Burciága, will share highlights of his career.
Psychologist Fredric Luskin, director of the Stanford Forgiveness
Project, will discuss forgiveness as a problem-solving strategy.
Students are invited to this forum.
A jazz concert will be featured.
Entertainment attorney Larry Stein will speak on “Media
Concentration and the Entertainment Industry.”
Three short films by Indian filmmakers are featured: Sabrina
Dhawan’s “Saanjh” chronicles the events in
a crowded compartment on an Indian night. Shahswati Talukdar’s
“My Life as a Poster” is a fake autobiography and
a political parody. “Mahasweta,” also by Talukdar,
documents the life and work of a celebrated Indian activist.
Youssef Chahine’s 1954 film is credited with catalyzing
a movement that led to greater rights for Egyptian workers.
 Grammy
Award-nominated Angélique Kidjo is a singer from Benin
in West Africa, who performs an R&B-based Afro-pop style.
Call x3535 for tickets.
This Korean film follows a Buddhist monk from his childhood
to old age, through moments of cruelty, passion, and a quest
for peace. English subtitles.
This is the first screening of the Twelfth Annual Santa Barbara
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, featuring film shorts by and
for queer communities.
Brett Walker, associate professor of history at Montana State
University, Bozeman, and author of “The Lost Wolves of
Japan,” discusses the elaborate wolf hunts conducted in
ancient Japan.
Researcher Nick Lydon discusses how the anti-leukemia drug Gleevec
was discovered and developed. Reception follows the free talk.
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| Alexander Knox (left) and Carlos
Penuela are rivals for the throne in “Life‘s
a Dream,” presented by Theatre UCSB from Nov.
5 to 13 in the Performing Arts Theatre. Call x3535 for
tickets.
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SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment)
presents an exhibit and sale to benefit the Friends of Coal
Oil Point Reserve. More than 200 paintings by members of SCAPE
<www.s-c-a-p-e.org>
will be on exhibit. Sale continues Sunday.
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| Sally Hamilton’s “Louisa’s
Pines” will be part of a sale of over 200 SCAPE
paintings on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 6-7, from 11
a.m. to 5 p.m. at La Arcada Courtyard in Santa Barbara.
Part of the proceeds will benefit Friends of Coal Oil
Point Reserve.
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Violist Helen Callus joins UCSB faculty artists in a program
of chamber music, including works by Prokofiev and Mozart. Tickets
at the door only.
Etta James Show
8 p.m., Campbell Hall
“Roll with Me, Henry,” in 1954, started Etta James’
career as a legendary blues vocalist and led to her induction
into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
Totó La Momposina from Colombia and Mariana Montalvo
from Chile, two of the three South American divas performing
on campus on Nov. 10, will be present. A reception will be held
in their honor.
Graduate student Laura Szanto will discuss Janet Campbell Hale’s
“The Jailing of Cecelia Capture” and reflect on
the experience of the two-thirds of American Indians who today
live in urban locations.
UCSB undergraduate Maria Reifel-Saltzburg will explore the themes
of Sherman Alexie’s book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Fistfight in Heaven.”
The life and legacy of activist Viola Liuzzo, the only white
woman killed during the civil rights movement of the 1960s,
are documented.
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Civil rights movement martyr Viola
Liuzzo’s life is featured in “Home of the
Brave” on Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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The Gamelan, the principal orchestral ensemble of Indonesia,
comprised chiefly of metallic percussion instruments, will perform
traditional music of central and western Java.
The uphill struggle African women with disabilities have to
obtain wheelchairs, and one trio’s enterprising solution
in Kenya and Uganda, is the focus of this documentary.
In Henri Barakat’s 1950 Egyptian musical comedy, a poor
singer/actor stumbles upon a magic lamp only to discover that
his genie has a few wishes of her own.
Putumayo World Music presents three South American divas, singer
and dancer Totó La Momposina from Colombia, Mariana Montalvo
from Chile, and Belô Velloso from Brazil. After the concert
is a meet-the-artists discussion. Call x3535 for tickets. Also,
the Faculty Club offers a pre-concert Latin American buffet
at 6 p.m.; call x3096 for details.
Ensemble For Contemporary Music will perform works that tie
music to the spoken word. Featured is William Kraft’s
music to Samuel Beckett’s radio play “Cascando.”
Three of Human Rights Watch’s 2004 honorees for promoting
freedom and dignity will speak. They are citizens of Afghanistan,
Russia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Asian-American performance artist and writer Denise Uyehara
explores issues like womanhood.
Modern dance set to an original jazz score is what Alonzo King’s
company promises with its “Before the Blues” performance.
Call x3535 for tickets.
Elisabeth Donati, executive director of The Money Camp for Kids,
holds a “Holiday Mini-Money Camp for Adults” to
help people prepare for the holidays.
The UCSB Gospel Choir performs under Victor Bell.
Two brothers take very different paths in this drama about surviving
on South Dakota’s Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation.
Faten Hamama stars in this tale of love and betrayal in the
Egyptian countryside.
Seven classic shorts, featuring Moe, Curly, Larry, and Shemp,
comprise “The Three Stooges—70th Annivoisary Blowout.”
General public $6; UCSB students free.
“Art, Public Art, and Architecture: Designs, Dreams, and
Disasters” is artist and lecturer Colin Gray’s topic.
Pre-lecture reception at 7 p.m. Advance reservations recommended;
RSVP to x4388.
Jeffrey Schindler conducts the orchestra. Tickets at the door.
“Political,”
“heart-breaking,” and “hilarious” are
some of the adjectives used to describe the performance by Kenyan-Indian
lesbian Shailia Patel. Call x8411 for details.
Paul Bambach conducts the ensemble.
In
a conversation with David Ulin, College of Creative Studies
Distinguished Visiting Fellow Sebold reads and discusses her
work. Tickets x3535.
Share sweets from around the world. To sign up, call x8411 or
e-mail msuku-l@sa.ucsb.edu.
Chapel, 2300 Garden St.
Joseph Fanvu, interim director, conducts the UCSB Chamber Choir
in secular madrigals.
Chumash elder Alan Spirit Hawk Salazar shares “Chumash
Stories of Coyote, Swordfish and Me” at a free session.
Scott Marcus directs the ensemble and Alexandra King directs
the Ensemble Dance Troupe. Tickets at the door.
Heinz Blankenburg directs operatic scenes. Tickets at the door.
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EXHIBITIONS
The MCC and Chicana and Chicano Studies
Department host an exhibition of José Antonio Burciága’s
art and a presentation by his widow. The lecture is Tuesday,
Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. and the opening reception is at 4 p.m.
Internationally recognized artist Kay Rosen
presents large-scale wall paintings.
A comparison of 20th and 21st century women’s
paintings of trees demonstrates how art imitates life over time.
UCSB alumnus and Dos Pueblos High art teacher
Kevin Gleason displays “Cycles, Animated and Annotated.” |
