UCSB Arts & Lectures 2005-2006 Season Press Releases

Performing Arts Events

6-7-01: 2001-2002 Performing Arts Season
8-21-01: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
8-28-01: Philadelphia’s Hip-Hop Sensation Rennie Harris
8-28-01: UCSB dance professor Frank W.D. Ries
9-4-01: Cesaria Evora, famed “barefoot diva” of Cape Verde
9-4-01: World-renowned Miami City Ballet
9-4-01: African superstar Youssou N’Dour
9-11-01: New music pioneers Kronos Quartet
9-18-01: Guarneri String Quartet
9-18-01: Best-selling humorist David Sedaris
9-18-01: SITI Company dramatizes War of the Worlds—The Radio Play
9-25-01: Indian classical music masters Shujaat Khan and Zakir Hussain
10-10-01: Youssou N’ Dour cancels USA tour
10-16-01: Chava Alberstein, Israel’s First Lady of Song
11-6-01: British a cappella superstars the Tallis Scholars
12-11-01: Acclaimed violinist Midori and pianist Robert McDonald
12-14-01: Orquesta Ibrahim Ferrer, stellar Cuban musicians
12-18-01: Laurie Anderson’s world premiere of a new solo work
12-26-01: Early music superstars Anonymous 4
12-26-01: Spectacular Afro-pop singer Baaba Maal
12-26-01: Urban Bush Women perform dance theater piece HairStories
1-8-02: High-flying Trinity Irish Dance Company
1-8-02: Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Dianne Reeves
1-15-02: Vibrant Borromeo String Quartet
1-15-02: Sensuous Philadanco, the Philadelphia Dance Company
1-29-02: The Acting Company returns with The Taming of the Shrew
1-29-02: National Song & Dance Company of Mozambique
2-5-02: Newport Jazz® 2002
2-26-02: Takács Quartet and Robert Pinsky
2-27-02: Burhan Öçal and the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble
2-28-02: Compagnie Maguy Marin, dance theater from France
3-4-02: Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues
3-5-02: Tenor sax “colossus” Sonny Rollins
3-12-02: Paul Taylor Dance Company
3-19-02: Ira Glass, the host of This American Life
3-26-02: Maria Conchita Alonso joins cast of The Vagina Monologues
3-26-02: Latin-based jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval
3-26-02: Obie-Award winner Eric Bogosian

Lectures & Writer’s Readings

8-21-01: “A Prairie Home Companion” host Garrison Keillor
8-28-01: Dagoberto Gilb reads his award-winning fiction
9-4-01: Bruce Babbitt, Former Secretary of the Interior
9-11-01: Acclaimed journalist and author Alexander Stille
9-25-01: Noted poets Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman
10-9-01: Playwright-actress Jude Narita
10-9-01: Prominent diplomat Giandomenico Picco
10-23-01: Human rights activist Sanam B. Naraghi-Anderlini
10-30-01: Noted scientist Dr. Robert D. Ballard
10-30-01: Celebrated author Gretel Ehrlich
12-18-01: Noted author and educator Warren Bennis
12-26-01: CNN war correspondent Siobhan Darrow
1-2-02: Prize-winning poet Mark Doty
1-2-02: Indian-American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
1-8-02: Author Dave Eggers
1-15-02: Latin American novelist Mario Vargas Llosa
1-22-02: Ralph Reed and Barry Lynn
1-22-02: Celebrated nature writer Terry Tempest Williams
1-29-02: Libby Appel, Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
3-5-02: Senator George J. Mitchell and Samuel P. Huntington
3-12-02: Noted writer Richard Rodriguez
3-13-02: Acclaimed nature writer David Quammen
3-19-02: Leading scientist Gregory Stock
3-19-02: Human rights activist Elie Wiesel
3-19-02: Mathematician Jeffrey Weeks
3-26-02: Best-selling novelist Susan Vreeland
4-2-02: Pulitzer Prize winning poet Carolyn Kizer
4-9-02: Scientist and explorer Alan Rabinowitz
4-9-02: Award-winning Indian-Canadian novelist Anita Rau Badami
4-16-02: Author and filmmaker Michael Tobias
4-16-02: UCSB/Worldwatch Institute Symposium

Films

8-27-01: UCSB Arts & Lectures Fall Cinema 2001
9-18-01: Director William Friedkin to present his film The Exorcist
10-30-01: Performance and film of classical Indian dance
12-18-01: UCSB Arts & Lectures Winter Cinema 2002
1-22-02: Best of the 26th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival
2-5-02: Director William Friedkin
3-5-02: UCSB Arts & Lectures Spring Cinema 2002
6-4-02: UCSB Arts & Lectures Summer Cinema 2002
7-10-02: Free four-film series Celebrating Pixar Animation Studios