AD&A Museum’s lecture series to explore the conquest of Tenochtitlan 500 years ago, legacy today
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Winter quarter delivers new servings of art, music, film and more -
Exhibition highlights work of MFA students at UC Santa Barbara -
Creative masters of film, music, dance and more will visit the UC Santa Barbara campus during new arts season -
With “Lydia,” director Irwin Appel and seven student actors explore family and the impact of secrets made public -
UCSB plays host to a plethora of family-friendly performances and arts events this winter -
The play’s the thing at UCSB, and so are dance, music and art as a new academic year begins -
Bayrakdarian was the featured vocalist on the Grammy-award winning soundtrack of the film ‘The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers’ -
It’s a heady cocktail of mistaken identity, young love, hilariously dated elders, high style and pithy commentary.
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New encyclopedia of stage actors by UCSB theater scholar Simon Williams spans 2,000 years and many diverse countries and cultures -
The UCSB Library has acquired a sizable collection of classical Turkish music recorded from the early to mid-20th century -
Throughout the entire year, the Arts District is the campus’s academic center for scholarship in the arts and fine arts -
UCSB theater and dance department is honored by the International Centre for Women Playwrights -
The fall exhibitions at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara will feature pieces drawn from the museum’s Architecture and Design Collection and selections from the Fine Art Collection, including newly acquire Bollywood...
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Online database features more than 100,000 master recordings from pioneering record companies -
The summer program brings a group of boys from Los Prietos Boys Camp to UCSB to produce and perform their own version of Homer’s “Odyssey.” -
Ceramics, one of the earliest forms of human artistic production, is getting its due -
The Museo Capitolino served as the model for such institutions as we know them today -
Continuing its large-scale exhibition that celebrates the legacy and vibrancy of the visual arts at UCSB, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum presents the second phase of “Starting Here: A Selection of Distinguished Artists from UCSB.”
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LAUNCH PAD brings three professional playwrights to campus for weeklong residencies -
Works by 17 UCSB painters, sculptors and assemblage artists are part of the Inaugural Cheadle Hall Undergraduate Art Exhibition -
Accomplished carillonist plays UCSB’s 61-bell instrument every Monday, teaches carillon in Department of Music
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Large-scale shows celebrate the legacy and continued vibrancy of the visual arts at UCSB -
The program includes Alexandra Beller’s “This Is the Way It Ended” and "Songs for Chile" by former José Limón dancer Lucas Hoving -
Surf chants date back at least as far as the 18th century, when surfing was enjoyed by Hawaiian royalty and commoners alike -
Now in its 10th season of exploring news plays and making it possible for playwrights to see their work fully produced while still in development, LAUNCH PAD brings Alison Tatlock’s “Untitled IV By Ruth Markofsky” to the UC Santa Barbara’s Hatlen... -
Due to its overwhelming popularity, the film "Lutah," directed by sociology professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani, screens at the Lobero Theatre. -
The five artists, all of the highest level, will perform, demonstrate and explain their respective expertise and address the topic of handing down the knowledge and methods their work encompasses -
Based in the Santa Ynez Valley, Francis “Duke” Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967) and his wife, Alice Delano de Forest (1908–1988), were known for their love of the arts and civic engagement. Born to wealthy East coast families, both were part of a...
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UC Santa Barbara's Art, Design & Architecture Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art present "Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating," the first comprehensive exploration of this vital aspect of the renowned sculptor’s...
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The Flentrop organ in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Music will take center stage on Jan. 10 for “Bach to Flentrop,” a performance commemorating the 40th anniversary of the organ’s arrival at UCSB.
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"Luisa Fernanda," the hugely popular romantic zarzuela by Frederico Moreno Torroba, has been performed over 10,000 times on stages around the world.
Now it comes to Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.
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Is it music? Is it sheer sound? Challenging the definition of what can be called music, noise music is a phenomenon that continues to puzzle, intrigue and even offend. In his new book, "Japanoise," author David Novak explores the genre in Japan,... -
Favianna Rodriguez, the Oakland-based activist artist best known for bold posters and digital art that explore issues of social justice, has donated her personal archive to the UC Santa Barbara Library. The Favianna Rodriguez Papers are now housed... -
Two decades ago, Academy Award-winning actor and UC Santa Barbara alumnus Michael Douglas established a program in his home department –– Theater and Dance –– to bring renowned artists to campus for multiday residencies during which they would work... -
Ninotchka Bennahum traces the genealogy of the female Gypsy presence in her iconic operatic role from her genesis in the ancient Mediterranean world, to her contemporary relevance on stage. -
Two decades ago, Academy Award-winning actor and UC Santa Barbara alumnus Michael Douglas ('68) established a program in his home department –– Theater and Dance –– to bring renowned artists to campus for multiday residencies during which they... -
No scenery, no props, and only minimal costumes –– just the actors, their voices, and, of course, the words. This is the essence of Naked Shakes.
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When the British East India Company began its explorations in India, the subcontinent captured the attention and the imagination of the people back home.
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UC Santa Barbara music students Azeem Ward and Keith Colclough placed first in their divisions at the 2013 Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation (PASF) annual competition in Santa Barbara on April 28.
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In his new book, "Charles Ives in the Mirror," music professor David Paul examines the American composer. -
The work of seven artists completing their Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees at UC Santa Barbara will be on display at the campus's Art, Design & Architecture Museum beginning May 25.
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They were the sitcoms of their time –– lowbrow comedies that lampooned every serious topic, from sex and relationships to politics and religion. Now a quartet of these theatrical gems will premiere at UC Santa Barbara on Friday, May 17.
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From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 project, including residential, commercial, and public buildings, as well as housing tracts, multiuse complexes, parks and master plans for cities.
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"Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea" has garnered Suk-Young Kim the James Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies -
In the early 1950's, record dealer Edouard Pecourt opened a shop in Paris called La Boîte à Disques, where he amassed an extraordinary collection of vintage musical recordings.
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Legendary Grammy Award-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater will visit UC Santa Barbara on Tuesday, January 15, where she will discuss her career as a jazz singer and the struggles and rewards of crafting an individual voice as an artist.
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Renowned international dance company Ballet Hispanico will help kick off the new year at UC Santa Barbara, offering free instruction to dance students as well as free performances and classes in the community.
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The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara presents "Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House," the first major retrospective of the designer who popularized the ranch house and made it an icon of...
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Container Love, a solo show of recent paintings by Phil Argent, will be the first exhibition mounted by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum UC Santa Barbara, formerly known as the University Art Museum, in the Jane Deering Gallery.
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The Department of Music at UC Santa Barbara has received a $550,000 endowment gift to establish a graduate fellowship in ethnomusicology and a scholarship in Scandinavian music.
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In conjunction with the fourth visit to UC Santa Barbara by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the University Art Museum will present an exclusive exhibition of historic art of the Himalayas.
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Video Portraits of Survival: Volume Two, a 90-minute program of four video portraits featuring local residents who are Holocaust survivors, will premiere at the 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The films will screen Tuesday, Jan...
