Arts
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz announces 2010 season lineup
The 2010 Shakespeare Santa Cruz season will feature a slate of three plays that explore the theme of “love” in all of its ramifications–from first blush, to wrenching jealousy, to familial dysfunction of the highest order.
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UC Santa Cruz to offer new Ph.D program in Film and Digital Media
UCSC announces a new graduate program leading to a Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media.
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UC Santa Cruz announces Shakespeare Santa Cruz will continue in 2010 with 29th season
UC Santa Cruz announced today that Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC)-the university’s nationally renowned theater company in residence at the campus-will continue in 2010 to present its annual season.
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Theater Arts professor Mark Franko to moderate panel on choreographing human rights issues at Lincoln Center
UCSC Theater Arts professor Mark Franko will moderate a roundtable discussion titled “Rights to Move: Choreographing the Human Rights Struggle,” at Lincoln Center on October 10
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UCSC arts and science faculty collaborate for exhibition at Sesnon Gallery
“Full Disclosure”–an exhibition opening on October 7 at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery-is built upon the idea of “failure” as a path to learning.
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UC Santa Cruz receives $615,000 grant to digitize Grateful Dead Archive
UC Santa Cruz has received a major grant to help digitize the Grateful Dead Archive at the University Library.
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Art professor to stage performance art wedding at 2009 Venice Biennale
UCSC art professor and multimedia artist Elizabeth Stephens will “marry the ocean” with fellow artist-bride Annie Sprinkle in a performance art wedding at the 53rd Venice Biennale on August 28.
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Composer donates score of acclaimed Dead-inspired symphony to UCSC Library’s Grateful Dead Archive
This summer, renowned conductor Marin Alsop brought orchestral music inspired by the Grateful Dead to the 2009 Cabrillo Music Festival as a tribute to the band’s archive being housed at UCSC.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz summer festival opens July 24
Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC) will explore the always relevant and highly entertaining themes of power, politics, and trust in its 28th season, beginning on Friday, July 24.
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Renowned Indian musician and former UCSC Distinguished Adjunct Professor Ali Akbar Khan dies at 87
Legendary Indian musician and former UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Adjunct Professor Ali Akbar Khan died on June 18 at his home in San Anselmo, CA. He was 87.

