Arts
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Film professor provides expert commentary in new box set of rare films
A UC Santa Cruz professor has lent her voice to a 4-DVD box set of 48 rare films never before seen on video. Shelley Stamp, chair of the UC Santa Cruz Film & Digital Media Department, provides the audio commentary for Where Are My Children? in Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 (Image…
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz names new artistic director
Marco Barricelli, an acclaimed actor with a national reputation for performances in both Shakespearean and modern roles, has been named as the new Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Originally from Boston, Barricelli is a graduate of The Juilliard School and has been an actor, director and educator since 1982. He spent eight seasons with…
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UCSC professor’s documentary to premiere at Mill Valley Film Festival
Que Viva la Lucha (Wrestling in Tijuana)–a documentary by UC Santa Cruz assistant professor of film and digital media Gustavo Vazquez–will make its premiere at the 30th annual Mill Valley Film Festival on Saturday, October 13, at 2:30 p.m. Simultaneously, the film will also be screened outdoors in a colonial plaza at the Festival Internacional…
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Composed: A professional musician thrives as a student in UCSC’s graduate program in composition
This past January, the San Francisco Chronicle identified Sylvain Carton as the “powerhouse alto saxophone player” in one of the Bay Area’s “most provocative jazz ensembles.” It was richly deserved praise for the up-and-coming co-leader of the Mitc
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UCSC Arts & Lectures season opens Oct. 7 with acclaimed one-man show
UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures kicks off its 2007-08 season on Sunday, October 7, with Emergence-See!, a provocative one-man show created by award-winning actor Daniel Beaty. Beaty portrays a cast of 40 characters–including a homeless man, a scientist, a Republican business executive, and an 11-year-old boy from the projects–who all react to the phenomenon…
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UC Santa Cruz names new director of Arts & Lectures
Jeanette Pilak has been selected to become the new director of the Arts & Lectures program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, effective October 1, 2007. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pilak has an extensive background in arts management that spans both coasts. She became the first festival manager at the John F. Kennedy…
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Gurdon Woods, sculptor who helped establish UCSC Art Department, dies at 92
Gurdon Woods, a visionary arts educator who helped design and create UC Santa Cruz’s first curriculum and facilities in the arts, died July 31 at his Aptos home. He was 92.Woods served as
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Arts & Lectures announces 2007-08 season of internationally acclaimed artists
Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, renowned Brazilian guitarist and songwriter Caetano Veloso, South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour, and National Public Radio’s Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon are just s
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Filmmaker Justin Lin to speak May 23
Director, writer, and producer Justin Lin will lecture May 23 as part of Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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Renaissance dance/music extravaganza set for May 26
Professor of theater arts and choreographer Mark Franko, in collaboration with assistant professor of music Nina Treadwell and colleagues from Berkeley, will present The Sylvan and Oceanic Delights of Posilipo, Saturday, May 26, at 7:30 and 9 p.m. in the Experimental Theater at UCSC’s Theater Arts Center. Admission is free. A lavish court entertainment first…
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Theater Arts Dept. presents Buddhist tales from Southeast Asia
The UCSC Theater Arts Department will present Before Becoming Buddha: Jataka Tales of the Previous Lives–a collection of Buddhist stories from Southeast Asia told through music, dance, masks, dialogue, and song–May 31 and June 1-3 at the Theater Arts Center Mainstage. The show is under the direction of theater arts professor Kathy Foley, a specialist…
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Exhibit by UCSC art students at Museum of Art and History
The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History is presenting an exhibition by UCSC art students titled “Invisible Boardwalks” through June 1 at its Lezin Gallery. Curated by Elliot Anderson, assistant professor of art and electronic media, the exhibit is a tribute to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and its many faces. Using a variety of…