Benjamin Reese, UCSB professor of psychology, will demonstrate and discuss "Spatial Analysis 3D — software tools for point pattern analysis in the nervous system (and beyond)" in this brown-bag forum. Free.
Pat Zavella of UC Santa Cruz will discuss her career research on issues of Mexican migration and its transnational consequences for both the U.S. and Mexico, and specifically the impact on the migrants and their families. Free.
UCSB hosts Loyola Marymount
Hollywood hipsters Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will deliver their Christmas gifts early this year, with a joyous holiday performance for the whole family. Tickets are $18-$53. For information, call x3535.
 |
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy revisits festive favorites and reworks yuletide classics on Tuesday, December 16, at the Arlington Theatre. Tickets, x3535.
|
UCSB hosts Harvard
UCSB hosts Santa Clara
UCSB hosts Ball State
JANUARY
UCSB hosts Long Beach State
UCSB hosts UC Riverside
UCSB hosts UC Irvine
UCSB hosts Cal State Fullerton
Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University, will speak on "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy." Frieden is a specialist in the politics of international monetary and financial
ARTS & LECTURES
COMING ATTRACTIONS |
JANUARY
An all-star band featuring some of the finest contemporary musicians celebrate Blue Note Records, the premier label in jazz that marks its 70th anniversary in 2009. Led by Blue Note Records artist and pianist Bill Charlap (below), the group will explore classic tunes by Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, and many others.
 |
Blue Note Records artist and pianist Bill Charlap
|
FEBRUARY
The three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee will discuss the state of theater today. A question-and-answer session will follow. On Wednesday and Thursday, February 25 and 26, Rubicon Theater Company will present Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at 7 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
 |
Emmy Award winner Joe Spano stars with Alison Brie, Karyl Lynn Burns, and Jason Chanos in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 25 in Campbell Hall. Second performance on Thursday, February 26. Tickets, x3535.
|
Punk-rock poetess Patti Smith and the founding father of minimalism, Philip Glass, pay special tribute to their dual inspiration in “Footnote to Howl,” an evening of poetry, music and song honoring the great Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
 |
Patti Smith (left) and Philip Glass (right) celebrate the work of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg at 8 p.m. on Saturday, February 14, in Campbell Hall. Tickets, x3535.
|
MARCH
Musician Jon Cleary joins forces with seven-time Blues Award nominee Henry Butler and legendary producer, pianist, writer, arranger, singer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Allen Toussaint to perform three back to back solo piano performances that pay homage to the Big Easy in a live musical extravaganza.
 |
Musicians Jon Cleary, Henry Butler, and Allen Toussaint honor the Big Easy at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, in Campbell Hall.
|
| TUES. & WED., MARCH 10 & 11 |
|
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater marks its 50th year of bringing African-American cultural expression and the American modern dance tradition to the world’s stages.
 |
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs at the Arlington Theatre at 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 10 and 11. Tickets, x3535.
|
The Aquila Theatre Company, which has won worldwide critical and academic acclaim for its innovative productions, will present William Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors.”
 |
The Bard comes to Campbell Hall with Aquila Theatre Company’s performance of “The Comedy of Errors” at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11.
|
For more information, go to
www.artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu
or call ext. 3535.
|
Edward Albee