UCTV is now cablecast over the Santa
Barbara Channels, (Cox) Channel 21, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, and from 8 p.m. to midnight, Saturday
and Sunday. UCSB TV programs air on Chan. 21 weekdays
from 7-11p.m., and 6-8 p.m. on weekends. Programs are
on the Internet at <www.uctv.tv>.
June 15, 1 p.m.: Legacy
of Slavery Conference, panel 2: “Slavery in North
America.”
June 16, 3 p.m.: Jennifer Holt explores
“New Paradigms in Global Entertainment; Or, the
Companies that Ate Hollywood”
June 21, 1 p.m.: Robert McChesney probes
the effects of the growing globalization of mass media
in “Media and Politics in the United States Today.”
June 22, 1 p.m.: Legacy of Slavery Conference,
panel 3: “Slavery and Development;” 3 p.m.:
“Media Concentration in the Entertainment Industry”
discussion with entertainment attorney Stanton (Larry)
Stein.
June 26, 10 p.m.: Diana L. Eck, Harvard
University professor of comparative religion, is interviewed.
June 28, 1 p.m.: Scott Sagan and Kenneth
Waltz argue “The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate
Renewed.”
June 30, 3 p.m.: Jared Diamond explains
“Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.”
July 13, 1 p.m.: Legacy of Slavery Conference:
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A New York City
park bench tableau, which was left “Untitled,” is
part of photographer Gary Winogrand’s “Women Are
Beautiful” exhibition currently at the University
Art Museum.
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The Coastal Housing Partnership will
provide a step-by-step guide to financing a home purchase.
Call their office at 969-1025 for reservations and the
location of this seminar.
Can innovation in technologies increase
the productivity, variety, and pleasure of new kinds of
online reading? This two-day conference assembles theorists
and practitioners from the humanities, arts, computer
science, and industry to talk about the fate of reading
in the new media age. To register for this free conference
go to <http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu>.
The Coastal Housing Partnership will
provide a step-by-step guide to financing a home purchase.
Call their office at 969-1025 for reservations and the
location of this seminar.
National
holiday
Nontraditional quilter Anna Von Mertens'
work fuses science and art to create unusual juxtapositions
and images. An opening reception will follow the talk
at around 5:30 p.m.
The Coastal Housing Partnership will
provide a step-by-step guide to financing a home purchase.
Call their office at 969-1025 for reservations and the
location of this seminar.
"Into the Forest," by Jean
Wegland, will be the topic of discussion.
A Fidelity Funds representative will
explain recent changes in the UC Retirement Savings Program,
composed of the Defined Contributions Program, the 403(b)
and the 457(b) programs. No reservations are required.
The museum's Closed Monday/Open for
Lunch program features sculptor/artist Betty Gold (reservations
required; call x2951).
"Por La Libre" (aka "Dust to Dust,")
is a dark road comedy that follows the adventures of odd-couple
cousins as they carry their grandfather's urn to Acapulco
in order to cast his ashes into the sea. Filmmaker Juan
Carlos de Llaca will introduce the film and take questions
afterwards. English subtitles.
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The dark comedy
“Dust to Dust” screens on July 13 at 7:30 p.m. in
Campbell Hall.
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The UCSB Alumni Association presents
its 6th annual Golf Classic, with prizes. Call x4775 or
go to <www.ucsbalum.com/awards/2005_classic.html>
to make reservations by July 1.
Following the Golf Classic launch,
the Golden Gaucho Reunion starts three days of celebration.
Events will include campus tours, barbeque, and parties.
All students, faculty, and staff from 1935-1965 are invited
to the event. Call x2957 for reservations.
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EXHIBITIONS
Anna Von Mertens' nontraditional quilts
blend a variety of sources, including physics, chemistry,
and cartography.
A Gallery Talk with Von Mertens is set for July 5 at 5
p.m., followed by an opening reception.
California-based artist Betty Gold's
exhibition features her abstract geometric lithographs
as well as three corrugated steel maquettes. Opening reception
is on July 5 at 5:30 p.m.
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.
Recent gifts from the collections
of Barry Berkus, Gary Brown, and Marilyn Arnold Palley
and Reese Palley are featured with a selection of lithographs,
silkscreens, acrylics, oils, and watercolors by seven
contemporary artists. |
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