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Art | Digital Arts and New Media | Film and Digital Media | Music | Theater Arts | Sesnon Gallery

Art

Thursday, April 26
Fred Wilson: “Revealing the Frame: Museums on College Campuses”
The UCSC Visiting Artist Program presents a lecture by conceptual artist Fred Wilson. Wilson, who received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999 and a Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2003, represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo in 1992 and the Venice Biennale in 2003.
6–7:45 p.m. – UCSC Media Theater
FREE

Friday, June 8
Spring 2007 Open Studios
The UCSC Art Department presents Open Studios Spring 2007.
Artwork by UCSC students in all media will be displayed in the
courtyards and studios of Baskin Visual Arts.
12–4 p.m.
Baskin Visual Arts
FREE

Friday–Saturday, June 8–9
33rd Annual Student Print Sale
Hundreds of original fine art prints will be for sale in a variety of media: woodcut, lithography, etching, digital printmaking and handmade books. An extraordinary display of artwork and a great opportunity to see the professional quality of the printmaking program and facilities at UCSC. Proceeds benefit the individual student artists. This event will run in conjunction with the Art Department's Spring Quarter Open Studios, which will be held on June 8.
10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Print Studio, Room G-101, Baskin Visual Arts
FREE

 

Digital Arts and New Media

Reception Friday, June 8, 7:00 - 10:00
Saturday and Sunday, June 9 -10, 10:00 - 4:00
Friday, June 15, 7:00 - 10:00
Saturday and Sunday, June 16, 17, 10:00 - 4:00
MFA Exhibition
The Master of Fine Arts Program in Digital Arts and New Media hosts a public exhibition of works by its graduates.
Digital Media Factory
2809 Mission Street, Santa Cruz
Opening: June 8, 7–10 p.m.

 

Film and Digital Media

Monday, April 23
Film & Digital Media Colloquium Presentation
Patricia White, Associate Professor of English Literature and Film Studies, Swarthmore College, presents “Women's Cinema as Global Cinema.”
12:30 p.m. – Communications 150
FREE

Monday, May 7
Film & Digital Media Colloquium Presentation
Yeidy Rivero, Associate Professor of Communications and Culture, Indiana University, presents “The Cuban Connections:  Havana as a 1950s Latin American Media Capital.”
12:30 p.m. – Communications 150
FREE

Monday, May 21
Film & Digital Media Colloquium Presentation
Lee Grieveson, Director of Graduate Program in Film Studies, University College London,  “Visualizing Citizenship; or, Henry Ford Makes Movies.”
12:30 p.m. – Communications 150
FREE

TBA
Film & Digital Media Student Film Screening
Join Professor Eli Hollander and the students of Film 196A, Senior Project in Film & Video, for a special screening of creative work.
Media Theater, Theater Arts Center
FREE

 

Music

Wednesday, April 11
Graduate Recital
Jesse Berkowitz, composition
Featuring new works for small chamber ensembles.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
$6 general, $6 seniors, $4 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Saturday, April 14
April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Real Time, Imaginary Time
Music for live and recorded digital media featuring music by composers Gerry Basserman, Peter Elsea, Paul Nauert, and James Tenney.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
$12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Sunday, April 15
Bachelor of Music Recital
Nicholas Rattray, tenor
With Michael McGushin, piano, and Hamza Tayeb, guitar. Performing works by John Dowland, Gabriel Faure, and Robert Schumann's “Eichendorff Liederkreis.”
3 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
FREE
459-2787

Sunday, April 15
Resident String Ensemble
Emma Heffernan, violin I, Adrian Delmer, violin II, Linnea Powell, viola, and Samuel Aray, cello, perform Mozart’s String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K 387 and the String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel. Directed by Roy Malan.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
FREE
459-2787

Wednesday, April 18
April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Degrees of Freedom
Composer/clarinetist/laptop artist Matt Ingalls and percussionist William Winant in a program of free improvisation and works by Ingalls, Denis Smalley, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Plus tributes to composers Lou Harrison and James Tenney featuring the UCSC Percussion Ensemble.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
$12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

 

 

Friday, April 20
Graduate Recital
Joel Ford
Program TBA
$6 general, $6 seniors, $4 students
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Sunday, April 22
April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Music for Korean Gayageum and Western Instruments (Premiere Concert I)
Hee-Jeong Kim and You-Seon Kim, 12-string Korean Gayageum (zither) virtuosos, will join with UCSC graduate student performers (Jesse Berkowitz, Daniel Brown, Sylvain Carton, and Patrick Richey) to present world premiere compositions by graduate student composers from UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis (Jesse Berkowitz, Daniel Brown, Sylvain Carton, Young-Shin Choi, Joel Ford, Jean Ahn, Sue-Hye Kim, Simon Hutchinson, Monica Lynn, and John Seales).
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
FREE
459-2787

Thursday, April 26
Bachelor of Music Recital
Edward Garcia, percussion
Featuring dancer Ben Arcangel with members of the UCSC West Javanese Gamelan. Other works to be performed include duets by Bela Bartok and Steve Reich, ragtime tunes by Joplin and George H. Green, and works by J. S. Bach, Gordon Stout, Elliot Carter, and Frank Zappa.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
FREE
459-2787

Friday, April 27
Graduate Recital
Patrick Richey, tabla
Solo North Indian tabla in Teental (16 beats) accompanied by sitar. Also featuring an original composition for the UCSC West Javanese Gamelan with a South Indian (Carnatic) music ensemble including violin and mridangam. Tala Vadya Kacceri, or percussion music concert, draws upon the cyclical framework and instruments of Gamelan as a basis for rhythmic exposition of Indian percussion music.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
$6 general, $6 seniors, $4 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Sunday, April 29
Bachelor of Music Recital
Emily Fultz, coloratura soprano
Singing songs by Monteverdi, Debussy, Schubert, and Britten with special guests Inara Morgenstern, piano, and Nina Treadwell, theorbo.
3 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
FREE
459-2787

Sunday, April 29
April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Double Bill: Franklin Cox / Karlton Hester
Cellist Franklin Cox in a set featuring premieres by Benjamin Carson and Avi Tchamni and music by Brian Ferneyhough. Flutist / saxophonist / composer Karlton Hester and guests (Renata Bratt, Larry T. Douglas, Stan Poplin, Kamau Seitu) preview Hester’s large-scale cycle Balledrama, which explores relationships and intersections between musical and universal order.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
$12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Friday–Saturday, May 11–12
Concert Choir: Schubertiade
Schubert's lyrical melodies still move us almost two centuries after their creation. Join the UCSC Concert Choir in celebrating Franz Schubert’s 210th birthday with a real "Schubertiade" featuring some of his best chamber and vocal music. Guest artist and UCSC voice instructor Patrice Maginnis will present a selection of some of the composer's most beloved songs. The Concert Choir will give a rare performance of Schubert's Mass in C major D. 452 opus 48. Jacques Desjardins conducts.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
$10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Friday, May 18
UCSC Wind Ensemble
The Wind Ensemble, directed by Dr. Robert Klevan, presents an evening of Music for Winds and Percussion with special guest: the North Monterey County High School Wind Ensemble directed by Mr. D. L. Johnson.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
$10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Saturday, May 19
UCSC Gamelans
The West Javanese and Balinese ensembles perform works to be announced. Directed by Undang Sumarna and Linda Burman-Hall.
7:30 p.m.  – Music Center Recital Hall
$10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Sunday, May 20
Electronic Music: Spectral Rearrangements
Compositions and performances by faculty and students from the UCSC Electronic Music Studios. Directed by Peter Elsea.
7:30 p.m. – Music Center Recital Hall
FREE   
459-2787

Thursday–Sunday, May 31–June 3
Opera: The Magic Flute
The UC Santa Cruz Music Department and the UCSC Opera Theater present Mozart’s enchanting opera The Magic Flute, in German, on the stage of the Music Center Recital Hall for one weekend only. The Magic Flute, described by Mozart himself as a “fairy-tale opera,” is a playful adventure in a mystical world of dark and light, good and evil. Brian Staufenbiel directs; Nicole Paiement conducts the UCSC Orchestra.
7:30 p.m. (Sunday at 2 p.m.)
Music Center Recital Hall
$24 general, $20 seniors, $10 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

 

Theater Arts

Friday–Sunday, May 11–13
Thursday–Sunday, May 17–20
Language of Angels, by Naomi Iizuka
A trio of interwoven ghost stories set in the cave country of rural North Carolina. To some, the ghosts are guardian angels, to others, a reminder of their guilt.  Can we forgive others for the wrongs they've done to us? Can we forgive ourselves for the wrongs we've done to them? Language of Angels is a deeply human story of working class youth bound by poverty and pushed to the limits of friendship as they deal with grief and loss in their lives. Directed by student Sam Collier.
7 p.m. (Sundays at 3 p.m.) – Experimental Theater, Theater Arts Center
$10 general, $8 seniors, $8 students
459-2159, SantaCruzTickets.com

Thursday–Sunday, May 17–20
Thursday–Sunday, 24–27
Thursday–Sunday, May 31–June 3
Chautauqua
The Theater Arts Department’s annual festival of student theater always features an eclectic array of short works written, directed, designed, and executed by students.
7 p.m. (Sundays at 2 p.m.) – Second Stage, Theater Arts Center
FREE
459-2787

Saturday, May 26
The Sylvan and Oceanic Delights of Posilipo
Choreographer Mark Franko, professor of dance, collaborates with UCSC student dancers in a historically informed performance of “Delizie di Posilipo boscarecce, e maritime.” First performed in Naples for King Philip III of Spain, this lavish court entertainment features knights, cavaliers, sea deities and sirens that rise up from the ocean waves, as well as sylvan creatures and gods of the forest. With the Early Music Consort from the UCSC Music Department under the direction of lutenist Nina Treadwell and singers and instrumentalists from the renowned Music Sources under the direction of Gilbert Martinez.
7:30 p.m. – Experimental Theater
FREE
459-2787

 

Sesnon Gallery at Porter College

April 11–May 12
Faculty Works: Fuse
Featuring ladder faculty from UCSC's Art Department. A selection from this exhibition will travel to Japan as a collaboration (Fuse/Fureru) with two universities art galleries; Zokei Gallery and University Museum, Tokyo Zokei University, and Gallery AUBE, Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Sesnon Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
Opening Reception: April 11, 5–7p.m.
FREE

May 30 – June 16
Irwin Scholars: 2007
The William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship awards are granted to undergraduate UCSC students for proven excellence in the arts. The Sesnon Gallery’s annual exhibition will feature recipients working in painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and intermedia.
Sesnon Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
Opening Reception: May 30, 5–7 p.m.
FREE