ONGOING
Theatre UCSB presents "Threshold, the Spring Dance Concert," under the direction of Tonia Shimin, professor of dance, and including faculty and students.
<http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/sbdc>
Noon, 2nd Wednesdays Women Center
Noon, Wednesdays Women's Center Lawn
Contact Carola Alden, x3434
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UCSB hosts Brown.
UCSB hosts Pacific.
Santa Barbara Dance Theatre performs "Strange Boat" by choreographer Jerry Pearson, UCSB professor of dance and director of the dance division, as one of four acts in the California Regional Dance Touring Project. Doug Elkins' "Love Is So Short" will also be danced by SBDT. A Los Angeles group, called TONGUE, also performs in this show. Dance groups from San Francisco and San Diego will present the following night's show. Call 963-0761 for tickets.
UCSB hosts UC Riverside.
UCSB hosts UC Irvine.
UCSB hosts Pacific.
UCSB hosts Loyola Marymount.
UCSB hosts UC Riverside.
The Friends of the UAM sponsor an opening reception for local landscape architect Isabelle Greene and the new exhibition of her work, which opened on March 30.
Richard Melville "Moby" Hall, the mastermind of some of the best dance/pop music of the 1990s, will chat with "Run Lola Run" composer Reinhold Heil. Moby will talk about the artistic process, discuss his new book about Teany, his New York cafand play tracks from his just-released CD "Hotel."
UCSB hosts UC Riverside.
UCSB hosts Loyola Marymount.
UCSB hosts Pacific.
Zany, Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry, whose column is syndicated in over 500 papers and who has written 25 best-selling books, including "Dave Barry's Guide to Life," will entertain. Call x3535 for tickets.
First of a three-part series, this panel focuses on how race and ethnicity affect queer people and their allies.
York University's John Barrell delivers a free public lecture, "Cottage Politics," as the first annual seminar in honor of the late Everett Zimmerman, English professor and provost of the College of Letters & Science.
Social Sciences Division Dean Melvin Oliver welcomes former state Assembly member Hannah-Beth Jackson as UCSB's first Social Sciences Public Policymaker-in-Residence. Open to the public, but RSVP to x2781.
A free, guided tour of UCSB sculptures has been organized by the PWA and is open to the public.
Four best friends in an American inner city take control of their lives during their senior year of high school.
The six performers of New York's The Civilians portray some 30 characters, intertwining humorous and poignant stories about losing things in "Gone Missing." Stay after the performance for a meet-the-artists discussion.
Cornell University's Anna Marie Smith speaks on "Welfare Reform, Race, and the Sexual Demonization of Social Justice."
Ann Taves, professor of American religion at the Claremont School of Theology. discusses "Positioning Catholicism in American, Global, and Religious Studies."
Two troubled Turks in Hamburg, Germany, arrange a marriage of convenience that changes both their lives.
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Two lonely people marry in “Head-On,” which screens on April 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Magda Campo, lecturer in religious studies, talks about life in Egypt and discusses relationships between men and women, different social classes, and religious communities.
John Perkins, of the Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation & Development, will discuss a more just society from a Christian perspective.
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“Circuits,” part of the Spring Dance Concert, was choreographed by Christopher Pilafian, and features members of the UCSB Dance Company under the direction of Delila Moseley. It will be presented on April 8-10 in the Hatlen Theatre. Call x3535 for ticket information.
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Campus tours and presentations introduce UCSB. Contact the
Visitor Center (x8175) for details.
The San Francisco Jazz Collective, with saxophonist Joshua Redman, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, and pianist Renee Rosnes, offers a tribute to John Coltrane.
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The San Francisco Jazz Collective performs on Saturday, April 9, at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall. Call x3535 for ticket information.
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A private tour and catered lunch are offered with Isabelle C. Greene, whose landscape designs are currently featured at the museum. For tickets call x2951.
"Medicare and Your UC Medical Plans" is the topic for Laura Morgan, UCSB health care facilitator. To attend, RSVP to x7323.
Carlos Ivan Degregori, a former member of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, speaks about its findings regarding the Sendero Luminoso's terrorist activities.
Scott Rae, of Biola University's Talbot School of Theology, will examine the arguments for and against embryonic stem cell research.
Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich,
a distinguished visiting fellow in the College of Creative
Studies, will examine the lives of the working poor, based
on her book "Nickel and Dimed -- On (Not) Getting By in
America."
Artists from the Asian American community at UCSB join to display their talents.
Australian Dance Theatre has transformed the classic ballet "Swan Lake" into "Birdbrain," an altogether new work. Repeats Wednesday.
Laura and Russell Collins, an attorney/psychotherapist mediation team, will discuss working with the teenage brain, and staying connected while your kids are pulling away.
Jamaica-born contemporary artist Albert Chong will speak on "Photographic Spirituality and the Creation of Resonance" as part of his campus residency as an IHC visiting artist.
The history of African Americans in the Soviet Union, from their immigration in the 1930s until shortly before the end of the socialist system, is traced.
Amy Richard and Jennifer Baumgardner, co-authors of "Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism," will discuss motivating young women and men to make a difference.
Mark Juergensmeyer, director of UCSB's Global and International Studies Program, will describe his recent trip to Iraq to interview Sunni clergy and other Islamic political leaders.
Soprano Dawn Upshaw works with UCSB students in this master class, free and open to the public.
In this one-man show, actor Bruce Kuhn dramatizes the story of Christ, telling it from the book of Luke, without props or sets.
An Oscar-winning documentary, this film follows Zana Briski's efforts to teach photography to a group of children in Calcutta's red light district.
Martin E. Marty, professor emeritus
of the Divinity School University of Chicago, will serve
as the inaugural lecturer in a new series presented by
the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion,
and Public Life.
Pianist Richard Goode works with UCSB students in this master class, which is free and open to the public.
Bruce Kuhn performed on Broadway in "Les Miserables" as Montparnase, among other roles.
Soprano and three-time Grammy Award-winner Dawn Upshaw performs with classical pianist Richard Goode in a program of works by Haydn, Debussy, Schumann, and Mussorgsky. Call x3535 for tickets.
In this one-man show, actor Bruce Kuhn dramatizes the "The Acts of the Apostles."
The theme for the free, 4th Annual
UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference is "Identity
Formation in the Middle Ages: Images, Literature, and
Culture." To register, contact Edward D. English at x3167
or go to <http://medievalstudies.ucsb.edu/events/conference2005.html>.
Presenting the music of the Muslim communities of the Southern Philippines, the internationally acclaimed World Kulintang Institute Ensemble performs music traditionally heard at celebrations such as weddings and spiritual healings.
The Community Affairs Board sponsors their 3rd annual fund-raiser for Camp Ronald McDonald. Register at the event.
Contemporary dance is spotlighted in the award-winning "Amelia" and "The Cost of Living."
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EXHIBITIONS
This student art celebrates color and consciousness, informed by race, class, gender and sexual orientation. The opening reception will be Thursday, April 7, at 8 p.m.
The exhibition explores parts of nationally acclaimed, Santa Barbara-based landscape architect Isabelle Greene's 40-year career. It uses landscape plans, photographs, a video, and an unusual "dry-scape" installation in the gallery, which Greene created for the show.
Garry Winogrand, one of his generation’s
preeminent street photographers—mainly of New York
City—first published this portfolio of black-and-white,
silver gelatin prints in 1975.
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