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  • UC Santa Cruz to present Digital Arts and New Media Festival, May 4-7

    UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media program (DANM) will present “DANM Festival 2006,” a four-day series of events that includes exhibitions, performances, symposia, and film screenings from May 4-7. It will include work by national and international artists, expert speakers, and students from the M.F.A. program. Events will take place on campus and at the…

  • UC Santa Cruz brings Chicana author Sandra Cisneros to Mello Center on April 30

    Acclaimed Chicana author Sandra Cisneros, whose book The House on Mango Street is required reading in classrooms across the country, will give a public reading at 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, at the Mello Center for the Performing Arts in Watsonville. Cisneros will be accepting the first annual Gloria E. Anzaldúa Distinguished Lecture Award,…

  • Banana Slug Spring Fair drawing UC Santa Cruz alums back

    A reunion luncheon, distinguished faculty lecture, alumni panel discussion, and wine tasting are just a few of the events on the crowded schedule for Banana Slug Spring Fair, April 22-23. The annual alumni weekend will also include plenty of opportunities to reconnect with old friends at an array of reunions based on fields of study,…

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: You are invited to cover King Convocation, film screenings

    Keith Beauchamp, the filmmaker drawing acclaim for The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, and Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of the national advocacy group PolicyLink, will speak at UCSC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation at 7 p.m. February 28. In addition, Beauchamp will be hosting two screenings of the film to which…

  • Top Hollywood script supervisor visits UC Santa Cruz

    For the past 14 years, Ana Maria Quintana has worked as a script supervisor for director Steven Spielberg on films such as Munich, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, and Hook. One of the highest-ranking Latinas in the film industry, she has worked on more than 100 movies in a career that has spanned three decades,…

  • Documentary director, activist to address King Convocation Feb. 28

    Keith Beauchamp, the filmmaker drawing acclaim for The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, and Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of the national advocacy group PolicyLink, will speak at UCSC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation February 28. Held at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, the annual convocation will begin at 7 p.m. The…

  • Nathaniel Mackey to deliver annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture

    UC Santa Cruz professor of literature Nathaniel Mackey will deliver the 38th annual Faculty Research Lecture on Wednesday, February 15, at 8 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall. His lecture is titled “Cante Moro.” The event is free and open to the public. Mackey was selected by UCSC faculty members for the prestigious honor…

  • Universal Pictures to offer free sneak preview of alumna’s new film at UCSC on January 15

    The UCSC Alumni Association will present a free sneak preview of Universal Pictures’ new family movie, Nanny McPhee, starring Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, and Angela Lansbury on Sunday, January 15, at 2 p.m. in the Media Theater on the UCSC campus. The public is invited to attend (however space is limited, and attendees are advised…

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: Two outreach events set for Watsonville Schools to help celebrate the investiture of UC Santa Cruz’s new chancellor, Denice D. Denton.

    Reporters are invited to cover appearances by Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, who will meet with 100 Watsonville High School students on November 2, and renowned percussion ensemble, SO PERCUSSION, who will conduct a performance/demonstration at the Watsonville Charter School for the Arts on November 9. These two events are part of the celebration of the…

  • UCSC Women’s Center to celebrate 20th anniversary

    The UC Santa Cruz Women’s Center will observe its 20th anniversary with a celebratory luncheon, a new publication from the Regional History Project of the University Library, and an art exhibit by UCSC women staff and alumnae. The luncheon will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m on Saturday, October 22, at the Women’s…

  • Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture to feature 50th anniversary screening of honored film

    Sharmila Tagore, one of India’s most famous film stars, and Indian art historian Dr. Partha Mitter will be the featured speakers at the fifth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture set for Sunday, October 23 at 4 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz. See poster of event. The event will also…

  • Scholar/performer tapped to lead UCSC programs in North Indian classical music

    Dard Neuman has ambitious plans for promoting Indian music and culture at UC Santa Cruz. As holder of the university’s Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music, he is responsible for building interest in Hindustani music through a variety of programs–functioning as a combination of academic instructor, concert promoter, event coordinator, sitar…

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