UCSB Arts & Lectures 2004-2005 Season Press Releases

Performing Arts Events

6-1-04: 2004-2005 Performing Arts Season
8-31-04: Juilliard String Quartet
8-31-04: Lyon Opera Ballet
9-7-04: The Branford Marsalis Quartet
9-7-04: Playwright Tony Kushner
9-14-04: Fado singer Mariza
9-21-04: The Jazz Passengers: The Creature from the Black Lagoon
9-28-04: Angélique Kidjo, the dynamic singer from West Africa
10-5-04: The “Matriarch of the Blues” Etta James
10-5-04: Putumayo Presents Latinas: Women of Latin America
10-12-04: Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet
11-2-04: Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Concert
11-2-04: British a cappella superstars The Tallis Scholars
12-7-04: Grammy Award-winning singer k.d. lang
12-14-04: Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam
12-21-04: Multi-talented artist Laurie Anderson
12-28-04: A cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock
12-28-04: Lyle Lovett, John Haitt, Guy Clark and Joe Ely
12-28-04: Celtic fiddler and step dancer Natalie MacMaster
1-4-05: Alloy Orchestra perform live scores to silent films
1-4-05: Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove
1-11-05: Brilliant actor and comedian Lily Tomlin
1-11-05: Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras
2-1-05: An Evening of Acoustic Music with Los Lobos
2-1-05: Aquila Theatre Company performs Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
2-15-05: Emanuel Ax & Yefim Bronfman
2-22-05: Çudamani, Balinese Gamelan Music and Dance Ensemble
3-1-05: The Civilians
3-1-05: SFJAZZ Collective with Joshua Redman
3-8-05: Australian Dance Theatre in Birdbrain
3-8-05: Dawn Upshaw, soprano and Richard Goode, piano
3-15-05: Violist Roberto Díaz
3-15-05: David Grisman Quintet
3-22-05: Dance Company Emio Greco | PC
3-29-05: Gypsy music artists Biréli Lagrène & Taraf de Haïdouks
3-29-05: Dianne Reeves and her band with trumpeter Terence Blanchard
4-5-05: The pioneering troupe AXIS Dance Company
4-5-05: Musical phenomenon Bobby McFerrin
4-12-05: Brilliant double bassist Edgar Meyer

Films

8-17-04: Fall Cinema 2004
12-8-04: Winter Cinema 2005
1-25-05: Best of the 29th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival
3-1-05: Spring Cinema 2005
6-14-05: Summer Cinema 2005

Lectures & Writer’s Readings

8-24-04: Ambassador Dennis Ross
8-31-04: Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh
9-7-04: Veteran correspondent Chris Hedges
9-14-04: Author Chalmers Johnson
9-21-04: Fiction writer T.C. Boyle
9-21-04: Activist and author Irshad Manji
10-12-04: Voices for Justice
10-12-04: Author Alice Sebold and writer David L. Ulin
12-14-04: Carlos Mateo Balmelli
12-21-04: Gilgamesh translator Stephen Mitchell with writer Pico Iyer
1-4-05: Pulitzer prize-winning artist and author Art Spiegelman
1-11-05: Author Koren Zailckas
1-11-05: Author Jared Diamond
1-19-05: Jon Kabat-Zinn
1-19-05: An Evening with Garrison Keillor
1-25-05: Bill Moyers and Naomi Shihab Nye
2-1-05: The always adventurous and creative David Byrne
3-1-05: Humorist Dave Barry
3-8-05: Creative dynamo Moby
3-8-05: Journalist and social commentator Barbara Ehrenreich
3-22-05: First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams
3-22-05: Best-selling humorist David Sedaris
3-29-05: Sue Monk Kidd, author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bees
3-29-05: Media Ownership & Media Bias: A Crisis in the Newsroom
4-12-05: U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
4-12-05: Science Fiction Author Ray Bradbury
4-19-05: The American News Media—Liberal or Conservative Bias?