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Director Leo Cabranes-Grant takes Lope de Vega's 17th-century classic and shows UCSB audiences what staging this drama might have felt like during the Spanish Renaissance.
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Lynne Cox, one of the world's most extraordinary long-distance swimmers, is the first person to cross the Strait of Magellan and the Bering Strait, among others. The author of the memoir "Swimming to Antarctica," she will discuss her exploration of human endurance.
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Distance swimmer Lynne Cox
speaks today, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m. in
Corwin Pavilion.
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Ways in which environmental justice is bridging gaps among environmentalism, race, and social movements will be this free workshop's focus.
World-class dancers from ballet, contemporary, and break dance backgrounds explore human relationships through a mix of hip-hop dynamics and contemporary classicism. Rubberbandance presents "Elastic Perspective Redux" for its Santa Barbara debut. For tickets, call x3535.
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The Rubberbandance Group performance scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 5,
at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall has been sold out.
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Dr. David G. N. Frecker offers a "Neurology Update."
L.A.-based Mamak Khadem and Hamid Saedi present Persian classical and folk music.
Faculty members Diane Fujino and Leila Rupp continue their series on women getting ahead in the higher education work force.
California State University, Monterey Bay Professor Diana Garcia, an award-winning poet born in a San Joaquin Valley migrant labor camp, writes about the lives of people she knew as a child. She will read from her poems.
Based on the journals of school administrator Elizabeth Hucksby, this documentary tells the story of the 1957 court-ordered integration of Little Rock's Central High School.
A playful film about the art of typography, "Helvetica" explores the impact on daily lives of graphic design and typeface.
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How does an innocent typeface impact daily lives? That is the question
behind "Helvetica," a playful documentary that screens on Wednesday,
Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall. For tickets, call x3535. |
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Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas, and the Women's Center honor the year's newly tenured women. A light lunch will be served.
Writer and performer Kristina Wong mixes sharp humor and psychology in "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," a serio-comic portrayal of the high incidence of mental illness among Asian American women.
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Comic Kristina Wong focuses on serious
issues at 7 p.m. on Thursday,
Feb. 7, in the MultiCultural Center.
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Award-winning Boston Globe columnist and best-selling author James Carroll presents a free talk on "The Disputation: Christians Arguing with Christians about the Jews."
The current research of South Korean cultural anthropologist and feminist, Professor Haejoang Cho, focuses on youth culture and modernity.
Kevin Glynn of New Zealand's University of Canterbury dissects the Bush White House, and examines the 2004 U.S. presidential election in "The 2004 Election Did Not Take Place: Bush, Spectacle, and the Media Non-Event."
South Africa's legendary Afropop jazz ambassador Hugh Masekela has his own blend of African music, mixing in elements of R & B, jazz, blues, urban soul and hip-hop. For tickets, call x3535.
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South African jazz musician Hugh
Masekela brings Afropop to Campbell
Hall at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8.
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This year the Medieval Studies Program focuses on how medievalists use their disciplines to understand medieval texts. The aim is to find some new ways to approach medieval texts.
Legendary coronetist, trumpeter, and composer Bobby Bradford has entertained audiences with his smooth jazz for over 50 years. For tickets, call x3535.
Christine Thomas, professor of religious studies and a veteran of archaeological digs in Turkey since 1991, will share her experiences excavating in Ephesos and Metropolis, near Smyra.
UCSB historian Paul Spickard reinterprets the meaning of immigration in American history, embracing its multicultural reality and showing its links to colonialism, slavery, and racial oppression.
Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett, a Sage Center distinguished fellow, will speak on "Human Intelligence with No Skyhooks: How Our Minds Are the Products--and Producers--of Multi-Level Evolutionary Processes."
Poet and performer Shailja Patel is an explosive Kenyan-Indian-American presence on the national poetry scene.
The Acting Company, one of America's foremost touring repertory theater companies, returns to Santa Barbara to perform Shakespeare's last play, "The Tempest." For tickets and information,
call x3535.
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The Acting Company brings
Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” to
Campbell Hall at 8 p.m. on Feb. 12.
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Surgeon Kimberly Grafton, M.D., discusses "Benign Breast Disease."
Jon Nathan presents some of UCSB's finest jazz musicians in this free performance.
Mario T. Garcia, professor of history and Chicano/a studies, will discuss his research on the backdrop of the 1968 East Los Angeles school walkouts by Chicano students.
Poet and author Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, professor of English, will read from a novel she is writing for young adults.
This look at the effect of the Iraqi War on daily lives is seen through the eyes of Iraqi women and was shot in Baghdad over the span of time before, during, and after the U.S. invasion. This film is free to the public
Visiting artist Amy X Neuburg, best known for her entertaining "avant-cabaret" performances using live electronics to construct complex songs and stories, will discuss her work.
The artist answers questions about composing music for voice and live electronic performance.
"Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence" is a book release and signing by co-editor Barbara Ige. This collection responds to the injustices that women sustain in their daily lives. .
Jordi Savall, director of two early music groups, will play the viola da gamba.
University of Pennsylvania Professor
Thomas J. Surge is best known for his influential "The Origins of the Urban Crisis" (1996),
which reconfigured much of what was known about racial
backlash in the 1950s and 1960s.
Two days will be devoted to "Geography, Tradition, and the Individual: The Case of Modern Greek Architecture" with
a keynote at 4:30 p.m. today by architect Spyros Amourgis,
president of the Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency. Call
x3629 for details.
Artemy Troitsky, a preeminent Russian music journalist and TV critic, is also author of a respected book on Russian popular music.
A spirited fusion of traditional West African music, roots, reggae, and rhythmic folk springs from the hope and courage of a war-torn nation.
University holiday
Author and human rights activist Gloria Munoz Ramirez will speak about the roles of women and youth in Mexico's Zapatista movement.
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EXHIBITIONS
Sculptor David Avalos comments on immigration policy.
In "Space to Roam, Explore, and Trespass," Adda Birnir documents the Rockaways peninsula of New York.
A selection of avant-garde art publisher Gunnar A. Kaldewey's books are on display.
"First Person" and "Portrait of an Archive: Selections from the Architecture and Design Collection" are on display.
"Too Small to See-2" uses hands-on activities to help visitors understand the nanoworld's properties. |
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