Arts
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UCSC honors arts alums in Film/TV at Hollywood event
Renewing the connection from campus to professional life, a high profile group of UCSC arts alums working in the entertainment and film industry gathered at West Hollywood’s Soho House.
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Theatre Arts’ Kathy Foley directs students in ‘Mughal Miniatures:Tales of Love’
Theater arts professor Kathy Foley and a student cast collaborate for an evening of Indian and Persian tales November 8-17.
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SSC holiday show ‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ opens Nov. 15
Nine actors perform dozens of characters from the beloved 1946 Frank Capra movie, in the style of a live 1940s radio broadcast, in this holiday show presented by Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Theater Arts Department
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UCSC well represented at upcoming Santa Cruz Film Festival
A wide range of films by UCSC faculty, students, and alumni will be showcased at the 2013 Santa Cruz Film Festival, running November 7- 12 in downtown Santa Cruz.
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Institute to host second art/science LASER evening Nov. 5
UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its second LASER event on Nov. 5, beginning at 6:45 p.m. at the Digital Arts Research Center
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UCSC student to direct Larry Kramer’s groundbreaking play
UCSC student Adam Odsess-Rubin will direct a Theater Arts Department production of Larry Kramer’s award-winning, unflinching 1985 drama The Normal Heart, November 1-10, in the Theater Arts Experimental Theater.
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MacArthur ‘genius’ photographer Carrie Mae Weems to speak at UCSC
Carrie Mae Weems–a photographer, video artist, and social activist who explores the complex legacy of African American identity, class, and culture in the United States—will come to the UCSC campus for a visiting artist talk on Monday, October 21.
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UCSC to present symposium on Arab film and visual culture
Artists and scholars from Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Canada, Europe, and the U.S. will converge at the UCSC campus on October 25-26 for “Unfixed Itineraries,” a two-day symposium on film and visual culture from Arab worlds.
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Sesnon Gallery to feature American artist Charles Griffin Farr
“Formal Complexity,” a new exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery, highlights UCSC’s permanent collection of figurative works by the late artist Charles Griffin Farr (1908-1997).
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Institute to present inaugural Leonardo Art/Science Evening, Oct. 8
On Tuesday, October 8, UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present the campus’s inaugural LASER event, hosting an evening of speakers who will lay the foundation for a new UCSC series by speaking about the intertwining of art and science.
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Two UCSC film students receive Princess Grace awards
UCSC graduate students Lena Jackson and Claire Miyamoto have each been awarded a 2013 Princess Grace Foundation Honorarium in the category of documentary film.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz to end 32-year run due to budget problems
UC Santa Cruz announced today that this will be the final season for Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC), the professional repertory company in residence at the campus. The current season, the 32nd since the festival debuted on campus in 1981, will conclude this year following the annual holiday show in December.