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scene from ucsb student theatrical production of animal farm
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Jeff Liang
Scene from UCSB Department of Theater and Dance production of "Animal Farm," February 2026

UCSB student-produced plays collect theater awards

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A book titled The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 3: 1857–1862 is propped on a stone wall with a building marked Library blurred in the background.
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A copy of "Correspondence Volume 3" photographed in front of UCSB Library's Paseo West entrance.

UCSB’s Thoreau Edition publishes final volume of Henry David Thoreau’s correspondence
book cover inside abstracted image of book cover as blurry background

New collection examines the lasting effects of purity culture
small model house with blue light
Alexis Childress, Experienced Isolation: Home, 2025, Digital Sculpture

MFA students featured in exhibition at AD&A Museum
A women in a black sweater and pink top sits on a chair, pointing, as another women in jeans with long grey hair looks her direction
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Jeff Liang
Playwright Melinda Lopez, left, with director Risa Brainin, during a rehearsal of "Standing Still."

Time to roll up your yoga mat and take a stand
overhead shot of giant collage mural on floor with one person touching it
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College of Creative Studies students created a mural for the exhibition “Scaling the Walls” at the Channing Peake Gallery and the Santa Barbara City Hall Gallery.

UCSB students and alumni featured in mural exhibition
posterized detail of Shakespeare's face
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New exhibition explores many lives of Shakespeare’s texts
woman sits on blue cushion on a purple rug with green walls and a purple curtain with two cameras or lights set in front of her
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Matt Perko
Professor of time-based arts Shana Moulton in her UCSB studio

Artist Shana Moulton to speak at Humanities Decanted
Man sitting at a desk with clocks in the background points his finger angrily
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Peter Finch as anchorman Howard Beale in “Network.”

The profound prescience of a 1970s masterpiece
two men in a black and white photo in the desert with one pointing out to the horizon and the other behind a 1950s motion film camera
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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji

How oil companies shaped early cinema in Iran and Iraq
Tiffany Chung in front of her map artwork at the UCSB AD&A museum
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Matt Perko
Tiffany Chung with her hand-embroidered maps in “Tiffany Chung: indelible traces” at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Tiffany Chung’s exhibition at the AD&A Museum maps history within deep geological time
four dancers with flowy yellow skirts
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Stephen Sherrill
"We Were Light" by Annalise Evans, UCSB Dance Company

UCSB Dance Company to debut ‘Convergence’ before European tour
Four adults in farmers clothes, their faces lit, look up at a foreboding figure in a mask
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Jeff Liang
The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites
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