Arts
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UC Santa Cruz professor honored in 11th annual Webby Awards
Public Secrets, an online art project created by UC Santa Cruz film and digital media associate professor Sharon Daniel, has been named an Official Honoree in the Activism category at this year’s Webby Awards. Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, the Webby Awards are the leading international award honoring…
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UCSC receives $157,000 to support open archive of congressional proceedings
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $157,000 grant from the Sunlight Foundation to support Metavid-an online, open-source archive of U.S. House and Senate proceedings created last year by two graduate students and hosted by the campus. The award was among a round of grants totaling $267,000 that the foundation has distributed to…
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UCSC Arboretum Music Series begins May 17
UC Santa Cruz will kick off its third annual Arboretum Music Series on Thursday, May 17, with a concert by Austin, Texas, singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo, at the Arboretum Amphitheater, located off Empire Grade in Santa Cruz. The series will present folk, blues, and roots concerts on the third Thursdays of the month, from May through…
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Art meets science in campus Earth Day mural project
Ten UCSC art students spent Earth Day weekend creating a mural project at the Thimann Laboratories Greenhouse. The project was organized by Christine Bors, a senior art student and the educational outreach coordinator for the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. “We had a team of volunteers painting a nature and scientific-themed mural to welcome the…
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Arts Dean finalists to make presentations
Three final candidates for the Dean of the Arts position are scheduled to make presentations in April and May on campus and the campus community is invited to attend.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz celebrates Bard’s birthday with two free community events
In honor of William Shakespeare’s birthday, Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s community outreach program, Shakespeare To Go, will present a free public performance of The Tempest, and UCSC professor emeritus of English literature Michael Warren will moderat
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Award-winning filmmaker, Time correspondent, to headline UCSC series of screenings/talks on war
Who serves in our nation’s wars? Why did they serve? What is their experience? Those questions are the inspiration for “Personal Perspectives of the Iraq War and Past Wars,” a series of film screenings and talks by award-winning filmmakers and authors tha
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UC Santa Cruz to have faculty art exchange with Japan
FUSE, a group show featuring new work by 12 members of the UC Santa Cruz art faculty, will travel to Japan later this year for exhibit at two university art galleries in Tokyo and Kyoto. Running from April 11 to May 12 at UCSC’s Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, the exhibition explores the influence of digital…
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UC Santa Cruz to collaborate with three universities for live online concert
Musicians from UC Santa Cruz and three other universities will improvise music over the internet simultaneously from different locations in a live telematic music concert on Thursday, March 22, at 5 p.m. The performance will stream live. As part of her MFA Thesis in Digital Arts and New Media (DANM), UC Santa Cruz graduate student…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSC Arts & Lectures partners with South County businesses to present Romeo and Juliet for Watsonville students–Friday, March 23–at the Mello Center
The internationally acclaimed Aquila Theatre Company will perform an educational outreach event at the Mello Center for 500 Watsonville High School freshmen and 200 Pajaro Middle School eighth graders. The company will present a “guided tour” of Romeo and Juliet–an hour-long program with both narration and acted key scenes from Shakespeare’s most famous play. When:…
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UC Santa Cruz to present New Directions in Contemporary Opera, a symposium of panels and performances-April 3-7
The UC Santa Cruz Music Department will present a week-long opera symposium titled New Directions in Contemporary Opera, April 3-7, on the university campus. Conceived and coordinated by music professor/conductor Nicole Paiement and UC Santa Cruz opera director Brian Staufenbiel, the series of panels and performances will bring together scholars, composers, and performers from the…