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"Anowa," a drama by Ghanaian playwright Ama Ata Aidoo, directed by UCSB’s Irwin Appel,
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| Pochos and Pixels: The Art of Rio Yañez, April 11–June 15, MultiCultural Center Lounge This exhibition of works by Rio Yañez, a curator, photographer and graphic artist, includes graphic art portraits, Japanese purikura photobooth prints, and 3D anaglyph prints. Yañez’s work takes on Chicano politics and visual iconography, and challenges them with a style informed by comic books, pro wrestling, hip-hop, and Godzilla movies. MORE INFO |
| "Neuroimaging of Brain-Culture Interactions," Free Lecture, May 17, 4 p.m., 1523 Psychology Continuing its 2011–2012 lecture series, the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind welcomes speaker Gregory S. Berns is a distinguished professor of neuroeconomics and director of the Center for Neuropolicy at Emory University. He studies the relationship of neural systems to decision-making by using a combination of computational and functional imaging techniques, with particular interest in the role of the basal ganglia in processing novelty and reward, and how this region guides decision-making. He is the author of the books “Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment,” and "Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently." MORE INFO |
| Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman, May 17, 8 p.m., MultiCultural Center Theater The UCSB Departments of Anthropology and Music, and the Center for the Study of Music, present folk fiddler Alan Jabbour and banjo player Ken Perlman in concert. Longtime collaborators devoted to a repertory of "oldtime" tunes, the pair is well-known for a complex, note-for-note duet style. The day following their performance, May 18 (3 p.m., 1145 Music), Jabbour will speak about "The Modern Oldtime Music Revival: A Participant-Observer’s Memoir and Reflections," as part of the music department’s Distinguished Lecture Series. MORE INFO |
| Jonah Lehrer, May 17, 8 p.m., Campbell Hall Writer Jonah Lehrer, a visiting fellow in UCSB’s College of Creative Studies, is the bestselling author of "How We Decide" and "Proust Was a Neuroscientist." His appearance will focus on his new book, "Imagine — How Creativity Works," which, according to Malcolm Gladwell, "confirms what [Lehrer’s] fans have known all along — that he knows more about science than a lot of scientists, and more about writing than a lot of writers." The event is free for UCSB students. MORE INFO |
| An Evening of Traditional Chinese Music with Weishan Liu, May 18, 8 p.m., MultiCultural Center Theater One of the world’s leading Guzheng virtuosos, Liu will perform traditional, classical, and regional Chinese music. She will be joined by members of the San Francisco Guzheng Society, with Alan Yip on the Guqin. Liu has performed internationally and has collaborated with various artists in the U.S. such as George Winston, the Women's Philharmonic Orchestra, Diana Stork on the Harp Festival, Ultra World X-tet Jazz Group, and the World Music Festival. Seating is limited. MORE INFO |
| A Force for Good and for God — Judaism in the 21st Century, May 20, 8:45 a.m., Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President-elect of the Union for Reform Judaism, discusses the reform movement and highlights its pioneering developments in a talk presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center of UCSB. Ordained in 1982, Jacobs served for 20 years at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York. He is a senior rabbinic fellow at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute. MORE INFO |
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| Visions of Aztlán, May 23, 6 p.m., MultiCultural Center Theater Veteran Chicano filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño documents the significance of the Chicano Art movement in America and unveils a movement brought upon by the rich culture of a people who were otherwise invisible in popular culture. A discussion with the director follows the screening in this "Cup of Culture – Meet the Filmmaker" event. MORE INFO |
| UCSB Percussion Ensemble, May 23, 7:30 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall The campus-based ensemble presents chamber music from Australian composer Erik Griswold, Japanese composer Keiko Abe, Brazilian composer Ney Rosauro, and American Bob Becker, member of the famed NEXUS Percussion Ensemble. MORE INFO |
Linda Gordon, Free Lecture, May 23, 8 p.m., Campbell Hall Gordon, the Florence Kelley Professor of History and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University, is the author of Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: The History of Birth Control in America, a text that has been called “the definitive history of birth-control politics in the US” (it was recently revised and re-published as The Moral Property of Women. In a free event sponsored by UCSB’s Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, Gordon will speak on "Contraception at the Tea Party: The Politics of Women’s Health."
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| Variations on Kazakh-ness: What Internationally Competitive Sports Tell Us About Identity and Nation-Building in Kazakhstan, May 24, 4 p.m., Lane Room, Ellison Hall With Kazakhstan’s international image being of utmost importance to the government there, Barbara Junisbai, assistant dean of Pitzer College, suggests that the way the Kazakh government builds its international sports teams can teach us a great deal about the ambiguous nature of Kazakhstani identity, the trade-offs between international prestige and domestic capacity building , and which audiences are most important from the government’s point of view. MORE INFO |
Anowa, May 25, 26, 31, 8 p.m.; June 1–2, 8 p.m.; June 2, 2 p.m., Hatlen Theater Irwin Appel directs the landmark drama by Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo, which tells the story of an independent-minded woman who rejects the suitors her parents suggest and marries for love. Aidoo will participate in a conversation following the opening performance on May 25.
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| UCSB Gamelan Ensemble: Music of Bronze and Iron, May 30, 8 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall UCSB’s bronze gamelan, Kiyahi Selamet, directed by Chad Nielson, joins with the Santa Barbara-based iron gamelan, Sinar Surya, directed by Richard North, in presenting music from Central Java and the ancient Javanese kingdom of Cirebon. MORE INFO |
| UCSB Wind Ensemble, May 31, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Paul Bambach conducts a patriotic and festive program in honor of the Memorial Day Holiday. MORE INFO |
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| Gender, Creative Dissidence, and the Discourses of the African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo, May 24, 4 p.m., Hatlen Theatre; May 25, 9:30 a.m.; May 26, 9 a.m., McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB |
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| The African Studies Research Focus Group at UCSB presents a three-day conference exploring the work of eminent Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo and the broader questions of Diaspora and gender that it raises. Along with Aidoo’s keynote address on May 24, the conference will feature speakers who will engender novel feminist approaches to Diaspora that elucidate its potential as a site of solidarity, new cultural formations, and political possibilities, paying particular attention to relationships between gender constructs and cultural specificities. Aidoo is both the Regents’ Lecturer, for UCSB Arts & Lectures, and the Michael Douglas Lecturer for this year, for UCSB Theater and Dance. MORE INFO |
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Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch Exhibition
Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Feb. 26-June 17 |
O. U. Miracle
Cliff May House, San Diego, 1932
Rendering by Starling Watson |
Carefree California explores the phenomenal rise of the ranch house, casual living, and the western mystique, as promoted by Cliff May, the designer of thousands of modern California ranch houses. The exhibition will concentrate on the modernization of the ranch tradition and its transition from a low-slung luxury recollection of historic adobe, brick, tile, and stucco, to the modest wood and glass tract house of the forties, to the near-minimal system-built ranches May designed and sold in the late 1950s.
The exhibition is part of “Pacific Standard Time,” a collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California that tells the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene. MORE INFO |
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