ONGOING
Five days of musical performances
that accent campus creativity. Visit the Music Departments
Web site <www.music.ucsb.edu/
primavera>
or call x7001 for more information.
UCSB faculty member Judith Olauson
directs Theatre UCSB’s production of “Translations”
by Brian Friel. Set in 19th-century Northern Ireland,
the drama focuses on British soldiers who try to standardize
the names of towns and villages. Call x3535. |
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This workshop will focus on how economic class affects queer people and their allies.
Thom Andersen's film essay includes clips from nearly 200 films that feature Los Angeles and shows the role of Los Angeles in the movies and the impact of cinema on its capital city.
Marlon Bailey, dissertation scholar in black studies, discusses "He's My Gay Mother: Ballroom Houses, Platonic Parents, and Overlapping Kinship."
Jeff Chang, founding editor of "ColorLines" magazine, talks about the hip-hop generation at the end of the 20th century. UCSB's own DJ Soulspeak will spin before and after the lecture.
The instrumentalist and vocalist ensemble
Taraf de Haperforms a mix of local styles from the Romanian
and Gypsy folk tradition. Belgian guitarist Biréli
Lagrène joins them. Tickets x3535.
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The Romanian ensemble Taraf de Haïdouks brings zestful gypsy music to Campbell Hall on Tuesday, May 3, at 8 p.m. Call x3535 for tickets.
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UCSB's Mariachi Integral will play regional music from Mexico, including sones, guapangos, rancheras, and more.
The UCSB Academic Senate hosts a campus meeting to discuss the role of military recruiters at UCSB, particularly in light of the U.S. Defense Department's "don't ask, don't tell" policies on homosexuality. No charge to the public.
"Video Remains" is about remembering the AIDS deaths and activism of the 1980s while contemplating how this might affect AIDS today. A discussion with filmmaker Alexandra Juhasz will follow the screening.
Author of the best-seller "The Secret
Life of Bees," Sue Monk Kidd reads from her work, including
a new novel, "The Mermaid's Chair."
Tim Wise, a consultant on race issues, will discuss the negative impact from failing to address structural racism.
Consultant Tim Wise leads a workshop
on "Racism and the Culture of Denial."
Pre-regis-tration is required:
e-mail luniya.msuku@sa.ucsb.edu.
Betsy Taylor, of the Center for a New American Dream, and human rights activist Rev. James Lawson will discuss the role compassion and creativity play in social change. Call 448-5111 for details.
Three-time Grammy Award winner Dianne Reeves is a world-class artist who marries jazz and pop. Composer and trumpeter Terence Blanchard joins her and her band.
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Jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves and her band perform on Thursday, May 5, at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Michael Pievac directs "Kyai Selamet" in a performance of music and dance featuring Ramayana Dance Drama Hanuman Duta.
UCSB's Center for Film, Television and New Media presents major decision-makers in journalism discussing the state of their field. Journalists Ann Louise Bardach and Virginia Postrel moderate the discussion. Call x3535 for tickets.
Ice cream is the traditional start of a week's activities celebrating UCSB staff, with various times and venues as noted in the story on page one.
Dr. Guy Clark, director of the Osteoporosis Institute, will discuss risk factors for osteoporosis and how to avoid and counteract them. RSVP to x7323.
Vijay Prashad, associate professor of international studies at Trinity College, discusses "The Structural Adjustment of American Democracy."
Buenos Aires employees take over their shuttered factory in this documentary, pitting ordinary workers against global capitalism.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Joyce
Dudley keynotes the conference. For details, contact babs@engineering.ucsb.edu.
Coalitions will be examined that have emerged around the unjust treatment of Arab-American and Muslim communities during the "war on terrorism."
Research biologist Mary Ann Jordan speaks on "The Dance of Life and Death: How do the Anticancer Drugs Taxol and Vincristine Work to Kill Cancer Cells?" Call x4388.
The AXIS Dance Company presents a free community dance class.
Psychotherapist and author Lillian Carson will offer ideas to parents and grandparents for deepening intergenerational ties.
Linda Vega leads performers from Santa Barbara's Children's Flamenco Dance Theatre.
Chancellor Henry T. Yang and Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas join the Women's Center in celebrating women authors. Public welcome; refreshments provided.
This film adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel chronicles a black woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction, and poverty.
Featured films are "This Day" and "In This House," which explore the filmmaker's memory of war. English subtitles.
This concert launches the 5-day Primavera Festival. The Ensemble for Contemporary Music, under director Jeremy Haladyna, presents "Beguiling Styles."
Nobelist Finn Kydland, UCSB professor of economics, keynotes at 4 p.m. the annual undergraduate research colloquium. The free event's program is at <www.ltsc.ucsb.edu/urca/colloquium.php>.
Global and International Studies Visiting Professor Richard Falk will discuss "Ecology, Security, and Humane Governance." Call 448-5111 for details.
The pioneering AXIS Dance Company has created a body of work developed by dancers with and without disabilities. Their performance will include a new A&L co-commissioned piece by award-winning choreographer Ann Carlson set to music by
Meredith Monk.
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AXIS Dance Company, a mix of able and disabled dancers, offers a residency performance on May 12 at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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The ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha provide soul food while the Stiff Pickle Orchestra plays local blues and jazz favorites. For tickets, call x2064.
Back by popular demand, Arthur Adams saturates the MCC Theater with his freight train guitar and soul-steeped vocals. For tickets, call x2064.
"Santa Barbara Landscapes: Natural,
Historical, or Cultural?" will be the symposium's focus.
Details are on <http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/enviroarch/Lecture.php>.
Patrick Lindley, resident composer for UCSB Dance Division; Justin Weaver, Community Arts Music Association; and Sally Mosher, Los Angeles-based harpsichordist and composer, will present an improvised program on pianos, organ, harpsichord, celesta, and synthesizer to conclude Primavera Festival.
With a four-octave range, Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin is one of the world's best-known vocal innovators and improvisers-while mixing jazz, classical and world music.
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Singer/musician/composer
Bobby McFerrin performs solo on May 15 at 7 p.m.
in Campbell Hall.
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The film of William Shakespeare's controversial play about anti-semitism and revenge stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, and Joseph Fiennes.
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EXHIBITIONS
Nationally acclaimed, Santa Barbara-based landscape architect Isabelle Greene's 40-year career is the focus of the exhibition. It uses landscape plans, a video, photographs, and an unusual "dry-scape" installation in the gallery, which Greene created for the show.
This student art celebrates
color and consciousness, informed by race, class, gender,
and sexual orientation.
The exhibition demonstrates the impact
of mid20th-century artists working in the Abstract Expressionist
art movement on student artists working today. |
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