ONGOING
Solo choreographer /performer Stephanie
Nugent, assistant professor of dance, joins forces with
New York City-based composer and IHC Artist-in-Residence
Eve Beglarian, and others to present "One, an Evening
of Solo Dance/Theater." Call 963-0408 for tickets
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Middle school students?
summer art is on display at the CCS Gallery.
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Chancellor Henry Yang and other administrators, senior faculty, and student leaders host a traditional welcome for new students.
Share your favorite dessert with other lesbian, gay, transgender, and allied graduate students.
The local branch of the Worldwide Society for Creative Anachronisms will be holding an open house with Renaissance dances, armored combat demonstrations, and more.
Experience hip-hop music from all over the planet and participate in a notebook graffiti workshop.
Jazz vocalist Madeleine Peyroux, whose "Careless Love" CD made numerous "Best of 2004" lists, performs her own moving compositions and tunes by other artists, such as Leonard Cohen and Josephine Baker.
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Madeleine Peyroux sings soulful jazz on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Representatives from many student service departments will explain their services and answer questions.
The UCSB Physical Activities and Recreation program will offer information about sport clubs and recreational opportunities on campus.
Students Stopping Rape will host an ice cream social as well as an introduction to self-defense tactics.
Faculty and student researchers will describe opportunities to become involved in undergraduate research.
The Society for Creative Anachronism, a worldwide Renaissance history group, invites you to watch them practice medieval armored combat techniques with weapons of rattan.
Five UCSB graduate students present personal films to kick-off an Interdisciplinary Humanities Center-sponsored conference on "Looking Beyond the Written Word: Performing Scholarship through Film." The free conference continues on Friday in IHC's McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020). For details, go to <www.ihc.ucsb.edu>.
This stunningly photographed nature film about the last great frontier on earth features the aquatic world, from underwater volcanoes in the Mariana Trench to belly-flopping Emperor penguins.
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Residents and scenery
from the aquatic world, ranging from hammerhead
sharks and penguins to undersea volcanoes, star
in the nature film "Deep Blue," which plays
on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell
Hall.
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Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College professor
of media studies and filmmaker, speaks on "Media
Praxis: An Integrated Event in 3 Parts," with a Q &
A afterwards.
Featuring fierce rivalry and stopwatch
suspense, "Murderball" is a film story about
highly competitive quadriplegic wheelchair rugby players.
It was a multiple award winner at the 2005 Sundance Film
Festival. Call x3535 for tickets.
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"Murderball,"
the documentary that redefines ?quadriplegic,? screens
on Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Eleven-time Grammy-winning vocalist Emmylou Harris blends folk, country, and pop music into a style all her own. She will be joined by guitarist/singer Buddy Miller. Call x3535 for ticket information.
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Renowned vocalist Emmylou Harris teams with guitarist Buddy Miller to present her unique musical blend at Santa Barbara?s Arlington Theatre on Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. Call Arts & Lectures at x3535 for tickets.
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Part exhilarating political thriller
and part psychological drama, the Israeli film "Walk
on Water" attempts to understand the role that is
played by the past in the lives of current Israeli and
German young people.
Solo choreographer/performer Stephanie
Nugent, assistant professor of dance, joins forces with
New York City-based composer and IHC Artist-in-Residence
Eve Beglarian, San Francisco-based choreographer Kim Epifano,
Little Rock-based visual artist Catherine Siri Nugent,
Santa Barbara-based scholar Aysha Hidayatullah, video
artist Erin Martinez, and lighting designer Vickie J.
Scott to present "One, an Evening of Solo Dance/Theater."
These are premiere performances of what will be a national
tour in 2006. Repeats Saturday at 8 p.m.,
and Sunday at 2 and 8 p.m. Call 963-0408
for ticket information.
Featured speaker is Norman Solomon,
the founder and executive director of the Institute for
Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers
and analysts. His most recent book is "War Made Easy:
How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death"
which is the focus of his talk.
Mario T. Garcia, professor of history
and Chicano studies, will discuss his new book, "Padre:
The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano."
Call Community Relations (x4388) for reservations.
This Argentinean film intimately explores
the burgeoning sexuality and religious fervor of two teenage
girls in Lucrecia Martel's charged and dreamlike follow-up
to her widely praised "La Ciénaga."
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EXHIBITIONS
Paintings created by 35 local elementary and middle school students during the Summer Arts Institute are on display through this week.
Iconic dance concert posters from
1965-1971, which feature the Grateful Dead, the Chambers
Brothers, and many more, are the heart of this exhibition.
An opening gala fund-raiser on Oct. 1,
with dance music from the 1960s, requires reservations
(x2951) by Sept. 23.
This photographic essay by Ruth Marion
Baruch and Pirkle Jones provides an intimate look at the
families as well as leaders of the Black Panthers political
action group. A reception will be held on Oct.
6 at 5 p.m.
A number of mixed media collage pieces
are presented by Hsiu-Zu Ho, UCSB professor of education
and psychology. An artist's reception will be held on
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