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UCSB Arts & Lectures 2002-2003 Season Press Releases

Performing Arts Events

6-5-02: Celesta Billeci Wins a 2002 Independent Theater Award
7-16-02: 2002-2003 Performing Arts Season
8-20-02: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
8-27-02: The Calle 54 Concert
9-3-02: Le Ballet National du Senegal
9-5-02: Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble
9-10-02: Salif Keita, “The Golden Voice of Africa”
9-17-02: Renowned British actor Steven Berkoff
9-17-02: Grammy Award-wining bluesman Keb’ Mo’
9-24-02: Joe Goode Performance Group
9-24-02: Vibrant piano trio Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey
9-24-02: Maria Farantouri and Maryó
10-2-02: New Lineup for The Calle 54 Concert
10-8-02: Premier electric jazz band the Pat Metheny Group
12-11-02: Toronto’s cutting edge theater company da da kamera
12-17-02: The Juilliard String Quartet
12-17-02: Sérgio & Odair Assad and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
12-23-02: Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet
12-23-02: Blind Boys of Alabama and Charlie Musselwhite
1-7-03: Spanish superstars Juana Amaya y Farruquito
1-14-03: Dazzling Ballet Hispanico
1-21-03: Award-winning actor and playwright Sarah Jones
1-28-03: Peabody Award-winning Terry Gross
2-3-03: Simon Shaheen and Qantara
2-11-03: Metropolitan Opera diva Denyce Graves
2-25-03: Brilliant prodigy Lang Lang
3-4-03: Ellen Hargis & Paul O’Dette
3-4-03: The Acting Company in American Dreams: Lost and Found
3-11-03: Internationally acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater II
3-11-03: Hungarian world music superstars Muzsikás and Márta Sebestyén
3-11-03: The Chucho Valdés Quartet featuring Joe Lovano
3-25-03: Best-selling humorist David Sedaris
3-25-03: Indian music master Ravi Shankar and his sitar prodigy daughter Anoushka Shankar
4-1-03: Writer and actor Spalding Gray
4-8-03: The charismatic Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
4-8-03: Afro-Cuban All Stars, led by Juan de Marcos González

Films

9-3-02: Fall Cinema 2002
9-24-02: Filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg
10-1-02: Filmmaker Raoul Peck
10-8-02: Filmmaker Alix Lambert
10-15-02: Filmmaker Allison Anders
10-15-02: Noted jazz film historian and archivist Mark Cantor
12-11-02: Winter Cinema 2002
12-11-02: Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2
1-28-03: Best of the 27th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival
1-28-03: Filmmaker Aradhana Seth presents her film DAM/AGE
2-25-03: Spring Cinema 2003
5-27-03: Summer Cinema 2003

Lectures & Writer’s Readings

9-10-02: Dancer/Choreographer Bill T. Jones
9-10-02: Author Sebastian Junger
9-17-02: Humorist Sandra Tsing Loh
9-24-02: Mountain-climbing adventurer Joby Ogwyn
10-1-02: Daniel Ellsberg
10-8-02: Acclaimed photographer Steve McCurry
10-15-02: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon
10-15-02: Prize-winning author Philip Gourevitch
12-11-02: Acclaimed writer and environmentalist Rick Bass
12-17-02: Frank Ries on The History of The Sleeping Beauty
12-23-02: Prize-winning author Denise Chávez
12-23-02: Thought-provoking columnist Arianna Huffington
1-7-03: Best-selling author Ahmed Rashid
1-14-03: Renowned anthropologist Wade Davis
2-3-03: Acclaimed writer Pico Iyer
2-11-03: Noted poet and translator Coleman Barks
3-18-03: Renowned lensman David Doubilet
3-18-03: Acclaimed author Peter Matthiessen
3-25-03: Rubin “Hurricane” Carter presents his film biography
3-25-03: Author of The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler
4-1-03: Correspondent and lecturer Gustav Niebuhr
4-10-03: Sister Helen Prejean

Miscellaneous

10-1-02: Danza Floricanto folk dance troupe
2-18-03: Second Annual UCSB/Worldwatch Institute Symposium

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