UCSB Arts & Lectures 2005-2006 Season Press Releases

Performing Arts Events

6-7-05: 2005-2006 Performing Arts Season
8-23-05: Brilliant jazz vocalist Madeleine Peyroux
8-23-05: Emmylou Harris with Buddy Miller
8-31-05: 2005 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Alexander Kobrin
9-6-05: Contemporary dance company Ronald K. Brown/Evidence
9-6-05: LA Theatre Works presents The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
9-13-05: Eddie Palmieri & the Latin Jazz Ensemble
9-20-05: Grammy Award-winning bluesman Keb’ Mo’
9-20-05: Charismatic actor-rapper Will Power
9-27-05: Enduring folk artist Arlo Guthrie
9-28-05: LA Theatre Works cast change
10-4-05: Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith
10-4-05: Sensational opera star Salvatore Licitra
10-11-05: Bulgarian Bebop of the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble
10-18-05: Aulos Ensemble with soprano Julianne Baird
10-25-05: Emerson String Quartet
12-6-05: Dee Dee Bridgewater
12-6-05: Wu Man, pipa
12-20-05: John Cleese
12-20-05: Chick Corea & Touchstone
12-22-05: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
1-3-06: Leahy
1-3-06: Bonnie Raitt
1-10-06: Stan Won’t Dance
1-17-06: Masters of Persian Music
1-24-06: Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
1-24-06: Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater
1-31-06: Bocca Tango
2-16-06: Anne Lamott & Mary Chapin Carpenter
2-21-06: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
2-28-06: Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times
2-28-06: Yundi Li, piano
3-7-06: Latin Grammy winner Lila Downs
3-7-06: The Actors’ Gang in The Exonerated
3-14-06: Modern chamber ensemble California EAR Unit
3-14-06: Taj Mahal & Mavis Staples
3-14-06: Paul Taylor Dance Company
3-28-06: Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin
4-3-06: Brilliant and beloved pianist André Watts
4-4-06: B.B. King 80th Birthday Celebration Tour
4-11-06: Mark O’Connor with Appalachia Waltz Trio

Lectures & Writer’s Readings

8-31-05: Middle East-based journalist Kathy Gannon
8-31-05: Historian and activist Howard Zinn
9-13-05: National Book Award-winning writer Ha Jin
9-13-05: Acclaimed Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi
9-13-05: Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, Inc.
9-20-05: Master science writer and best-selling author Dava Sobel
10-4-05: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu
10-18-05: M.I.T. professor Alan Lightman
11-29-05: Mark Salzman in conversation with Pico Iyer
11-29-05: Eric Alterman and Tucker Carlson
12-6-05: Author Reza Aslan and writer Jack Miles
12-13-05: Glenn Hening, founder of the Surfrider Foundation
12-13-05: Kwame Anthony Appiah
1-3-06: General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)
1-10-06: Maxine Hong Kingston
1-10-06: Robert S. McNamara
1-17-06: John Nielsen, environment correspondent for NPR
1-31-06: Nicolas de Torrenté
2-28-06: Author, philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy
2-28-06: Award-winning Poet W.S. Merwin
3-14-06: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai
3-21-06: Actress, author and activist Jane Fonda
3-28-06: Esteemed journalist Kevin McKiernan
4-4-06: Matthieu Ricard in conversation with Pico Iyer
4-4-06: Chicana feminist author Ana Castillo

Films

8-14-05: Fall Cinema 2005
9-27-05: Long Night’s Journey into Day
11-29-05: Winter Cinema 2006
1-24-06: Best of the 30th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival
2-16-06: Spring Cinema 2006
4-4-06: After Innocence with filmmaker Jessica Sanders
4-4-06: Human Rights Watch International Film Festival