Arts
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UC Santa Cruz alumni perform at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
UCSC alumni filled the Kuumbwa Jazz Center last week for an upbeat evening of music and comedy from their multi-talented fellow banana slugs.
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UCSC announces three finalists for national architect competition
UC Santa Cruz announced that Allied Works Architecture (Portland/New York), Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (New York), and the team of Patkau Architects (Vancouver, B.C.) and Fong & Chan Architects (San Francisco) have been selected as finalists in the architect search for the campus’s new Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
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UCSC alumnus Ron Yerxa up for ‘Best Picture’ Academy Award
“Election,” “Cold Mountain,” “King of the Hill,” “Little Miss Sunshine”…these are just a few of the high-quality films produced by Ron Yerxa since he left UC Santa Cruz with a masters degree in 1976…
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Watch the movie at the Nick, see the play at UCSC’s Mainstage
Machinal, the 1928 play by Sophie Treadwell that featured a youthful Clark Gable, is currently back on Broadway this month, drawing a lot of attention from film critics in New York…
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‘From These Woods’: UCSC duo honors Santa Cruz guitar makers
A new book by UCSC art alumna Renée Flower and former head of publications for University Relations Jim MacKenzie tells the story of how such a relatively large and robust community of guitar makers came to be located in Santa Cruz
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If It ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it
Four decades ago, UCSC music professor Linda Burman-Hall founded the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival and today it’s still going strong.
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Exhibition and symposium: ‘Complicated Labors’ opens Feb. 5
An exhibition featuring historical and contemporary work at the intersection of feminism and maternity opens on Feb. 5 at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery, accompanied by a one-day symposium and a screening series.
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Art professor Elizabeth Stephens wins Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship
UCSC art professor Elizabeth Stephens is one of three Santa Cruz County artists who have been awarded a Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship for 2014-15.
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Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart pays tribute to late UCSC professor
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart honored the late UC Santa Cruz music professor Fred Lieberman on Saturday at a celebratory memorial event in the campus’s Music Center Recital Hall


