UCSB Arts & Lectures’ 2000-2001 Season Press Releases

Performing Arts Events
6-13-00: 2000-2001 Performing Arts Season
8-29-00: San Francisco Mime Troupe in City for Sale!
9-12-00: Ailey II
9-12-00: Korean Buddhist Monks
9-12-00: Leading Chicana actor Ruby Nelda Perez
9-19-00: Jerusalem Trio
9-26-00: Portugal’s leading fado singer Misia
10-3-00: Habib Koité and His Band Bamada
10-10-00: Acclaimed flamenco troupe from Madrid Noche Flamenca
10-17-00: Jazz violin virtuoso Regina Carter
12-12-00: St. Petersburg String Quartet
12-12-00: Monologist Spalding Gray
12-19-00: Parsons Dance Company
12-19-00: Classical repertory theater company A Noise Within
12-26-00: Pianist Christopher O’Riley
1-2-01: Masters of Persian Music
1-9-01: Modern dance innovator Pilobolus Dance Theatre
1-16-01: Irish band Altan
1-23-01: Early music ensemble The Clerks’ Group
1-30-01: Lively, virtuosic band Taraf de Haïdouks
3-6-01: David Finckel, cello, and Wu Han, piano
3-13-01: LINES Contemporary Ballet
3-20-01: The Acting Company
3-20-01: Stefon Harris Quartet
3-27-01: Lily Cai Chinese Dance
3-27-01: Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso
4-3-01: Celtic fiddler Natalie MacMaster and Her Band
4-10-01: Reigning queen of jazz piano Marian McPartland

Lectures & Writers Readings
9-5-00: Professor and civil rights activist Lani Guinier
9-19-00: Best-selling author Jonathan Kirsch
9-26-00: The New York Times journalist Elaine Sciolino
9-26-00: Mountain climber Greg Crouch
10-3-00: Photojournalists Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio
10-3-00: Author Naomi Shihab Nye
10-10-00: Civil rights attorney Morris Dees
10-10-00: Accordionist/singer Santiago Jiménez, Jr.
10-17-00: Dynamic British climber/writer Ed Douglas
10-17-00: Father Gregory J. Boyle, S.J.
10-24-00: Filmmakers Gregory Nava and Barbara Martinez-Jitner
10-24-00: Academy Award-winning documentary director Jessica Yu
12-19-00: Historian and reporter Michael Ignatieff
1-9-01: American Indian author Greg Sarris
1-16-01: Russian installation artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
1-16-01: Poet Jane Hirshfield
1-23-01: Journalist/author Anthony Shadid
1-30-01: Best of the 25th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival
3-1-01: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin
3-13-01: Author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3-13-01: Rights advocate Hanan Ashrawi
3-27-01: Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso
4-3-01: Best-selling author Anchee Min
4-3-01: Travel writer Pico Iyer
4-3-01: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley
4-17-01: Corporate VP-turned acclaimed poet Dana Gioia
4-17-01: Internationally renowned poet/performer Anne Waldman
4-23-01: Emmy-winning filmmaker Jeff Spitz
4-23-01: Famed crime fiction writer Walter Mosley
5-2-01: Princeton University scientists Peter and Rosemary Grant
5-15-01: Panel of accomplished journalists discuss media’s impact on society

Films
9-5-00: Fall 2000 Film Series
12-19-00: Winter 2001 Film Series
3-1-00: Spring 2001 Film Series
6-7-00: Summer Cinema 2001

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