Summer Cultural Enrichment
Calendar of Events — 2008
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Additional Information |
Wed, July 2 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m.
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Arts and Lecture Film: |
“A lovely, smart and beautifully understated film.” San Francisco Chronicle |
FREE for UCSB Students / $6 general admission |
| Wed, July 9 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m.
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Arts and Lecture Film: |
“An eye-opening film…visually stunning…this movie will change the way you see our oceans.” Tribute Magazine Winner of 22 international awards! Filmmaker Rob Stewart takes a breathtaking journey underwater and into the balance of life on earth. Driven by a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of the bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the seas’ evolution, while exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world’s shark populations in marine reserves from Cocos Island to the Galapagos. (2006, 90 min.) |
$6 general admission & $5 for UCSB students Co-presented with the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media’s Environmental Media Initiative, the Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media and UCSB Summer Sessions. Special appearance by filmmaker Rob Stewart. (Reception following the screening.)
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| Wed, July 16 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m. | Arts and Lecture Film: Tuya’s Marriage |
“A compact near masterpiece that combines a slow motion romantic comedy with a docudrama-style portrait of a remote, nomadic culture as it is gradually eroded by the tides of the 21st century.” Salon.com A strong-willed Mongolian desert herder, Tuya cares for two kids, a disabled husband and 100 sheep until one day when she hurts her back. To ensure her family’s survival, she must divorce her husband and find a new spouse who can provide for the whole family. This warm, endearing tale, featuring stunning cinematography, won the top prize at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival. (Wang Quan An, 2007, 96 min.) |
$6 general admission & $5 for UCSB students |
| Sun, July 20 / 7:30 p.m. / Geiringer Hall | French Harpsichord Concert | Françoise Lengellé is an acclaimed concert harpsichordist who performs regularly in Europe, the U.S., and Asia. She has made numerous recordings, with solo pieces for the harpsichord by de Chambonnieres and François Couperin. Her recording of /Pieces de clavecin en concert/ by Jean-Philippe Rameau with Chiara Banchini was awarded the Diapason d’or, and her recent CD of music by de Chambonnieres has also received high critical praise. Françoise Lengellé teaches at the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, and has taught several times at UCSB in the Institute of French and Francophone Studies. | FREE and open to the public |
| Tue, July 22 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m. | Movie: Taxi to the Dark Side |
Screening of the 2008 Academy Award winning documentary film “Taxi to the Dark Side” by Alex Gibney. An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002. Post-screening discussion by Prof. Lisa Hajjar, Chair of the UCSB Law and Society Program—Dr. Hajjar will talk about how the “War on Terror” and the widespread use of torture since 9/11 has formed the political backdrop to visa exclusion in the US that has dramatically changed the landscape of who comes to study or do research on US campuses. | FREE and open to the public |
| Wed, July 23 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m. | Arts and Lecture Film: |
“It’s a beautiful, soulful work about real estate development and sprawl…and if you think that’s impossible you haven’t seen it.” Salon.com The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head to head with environmental sustainability in this Sundance Film Festival Official Selection from producers Robert Redford and Terrence Malick. This urgent, beautifully crafted documentary uses the struggle between an ambitious real estate developer and a proposed subdivision that threatens a locally treasured limestone aquifer to poignantly illustrate the environmental impact of unchecked urban sprawl that threatens communities nationwide. (Laura Dunn, 2007, 93 min.) |
$6 general admission & $5 for UCSB students |
| Fri, July 25 / MultiCultural Center Theater / 6:00 p.m. | Live Theater: |
This is a rockin’ live performance by the Nuestra Voz summer theater program at the Isla Vista Teen Center. Mentored by UCSB students from the Theater course “Teatro as a Teaching Tool”, these talented teens present their fifth self-written play. Don’t miss the fun! ¡Que vengan! (Reception with the actors to follow.) | FREE and open to the public For additional information, contact Ellen Anderson, Isla Vista Arts & I.V. LIVE, email: eanderson@theaterdance.ucsb.edu or phone: 805 893-4809. |
| Wed, July 30 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m. | Arts and Lecture Film: Flight of the Red Balloon |
“Exquisite and sublime. A gorgeous, graceful film. Ms. Binoche gives one of the best performances of her career.” The New York Sun Inspired by Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 Academy Award-winning classic, director Hou Hsiao-hsien expands on The Red Balloon’s key elements – a young boy, a red balloon, and Paris – to weave an achingly beautiful tale about the mysteries of familial bonds and the lingering effects of the past. A highlight at the 2007 Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, the moving film stars Oscar-winner Juliet Binoche. (2007, 115 min.) | $6 general admission & $5 for UCSB students |
| Wed, July 30 and Thurs, July 31/ HSSB Ballet Studio Theater / 8:00 p.m. | SUMMER DANCES 2008 | Class demonstrations and new choreography by Summer Sessions faculty members Nancy Colahan, Valerie Huston, Delila Moseley, and Jerry Pearson. |
FREE and open to the public |
| Wed, Aug 6 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m. | Arts and Lecture Film: Up the Yangtze |
“A gloriously cinematic documentary of epic, poetic sadness.” Variety The Three Gorges Dam, the gargantuan and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop to this dramatic and disquieting documentary on life inside the 21st century Chinese dream. Stunningly photographed and beautifully composed, the film juxtaposes the sharply observed details of a young woman’s job on a river cruise ship against the ominous forces at work around her. (Yung Chang, 2007, 94 min.) |
$6 general admission & $5 for UCSB students |
| Wed, Aug 13 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m. | Arts and Lecture Film: |
“Mr. Akin’s film is so full of life it leaves you breathless.” The Wall Street Journal From acclaimed director Fatih Akin (Head On, Crossing the Bridge), this Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award-winner follows the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons across cultural and political lines. Once again navigating the cultural divide between his parents’ Turkey and his native Germany, Akin’s dramatic feature conjures the interconnectedness of generations through the plight of a young political exile. (2007, 122 min.) |
$6 general admission & $5 for UCSB students |
| Wed, Aug 20 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m. | Arts and Lecture Film: Alexandra |
“A film of startling originality and beauty.” The New York Times In a desolate, sun-scorched corner of the world, an elderly woman visits her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost in Chechnya. With the enemy just beyond the compound, she wanders the barracks, observing the routine of military life, before making a sudden trip to the outlying countryside. A viscerally powerful examination of the cost of war, the film from the director of Russian Ark features a mesmerizing performance by Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya. (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2007, 95 min.) |
$6 general admission & $5 for UCSB students |
| Fri, Aug 22 / Multi-Cultural Center Theater / 7-10 p.m. | Film Screenings: |
A public screening designed to showcase the 10 five-minute films produced by the students who have participated in this summer's BLUE HORIZONS Summer Program for Environmental Media—Using Media to Communicate Vital Stories of the Global Ocean. | FREE and open to the public |
| Tues, Aug 26 / UCSB Student Resource Building; 1st Floor Multi-Purpose Room / 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Workshop: Globalized Education/Globalized Culture |
• Session 1 -- 9:00-10:30 AM—General Trends in International Education and Immigration Law that Affects Hosting of International Students and Scholars Mary Jacob, OISS Director Garay Menicucci, OISS Associate Director • Session 2 -- 10:45-12:15 PM—Specific Problems in International Student and Scholar Hosting and Administration OISS Staff • Lunch Break, 12:15-1:30 PM • Session 3 -- 1:30-3:30 PM—Academic Freedom, Scholarly Exchange, and the Politics of International Education |
FREE and open to the public |
| Tues, Aug 26 /UCSB Student Resource Building Multi-Purpose Room / 4:00 p.m. | Public Lecture: South Asia, Globalization, and New Trends in International Education |
Professor Shahnaz Rouse is the Alice Stone Ilchman Chair in Comparative and International Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been a consultant on South Asia and MENA for the Social Science Research Council. Her most recent book is: Shifting Body Politics: Gender, Nation, State in Pakistan, (New Delhi, 2004). Her current research project is a social history of Lahore, Pakistan. | FREE and open to the public |
| Tues, Aug 26 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 7:30 p.m. | Movie: Son of a Lion (Australia/Pakistan, 2007) by Benjamin Gilmour |
This film deals with a child in northwest Pakistan who revolts against his family tradition of arms dealing. Gilmour worked for more than three years with nonprofessional actors, inhabitants of the main location Darra Adam Khel and members of the Pastun people. Post-screening discussion with Prof. Shahnaz Rouse, Chair, Social Science Division, Sarah Lawrence College. | (NOT YET CONFIRMED—check back here soon for confirmation) |