UCSB Arts & Lectures 2003-2004 Season Press Releases
Performing Arts Events
6-3-03: 2003-2004 Performing Arts Season
8-13-03: U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins
9-2-03: Twyla Tharp Dance
9-9-03: South African emissaries Ladysmith Black Mambazo
9-16-03: Yamato, The Drummers of Japan
9-30-03: Filmmaker/writer Michael Moore
9-30-03: Buena Vista Social Club with Omara Portuondo
9-30-03: Award-winning actor and playwright Sarah Jones
10-7-03: Swedish dance troupe K. Kvarnström & Co.
10-14-03: Tap dancer Savion Glover and Band
10-14-03: St. Petersburg State Academic Capella Choir
10-21-03: Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
10-21-03: Jazz singer and pianist Peter Cincotti
10-28-03: Alison Krauss + Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas
12-16-03: Culture Clash
12-23-03: Marcus Roberts Trio and Gonzalo Rubalcaba
12-23-03: The Romeros, the royal family of the guitar
12-30-03: Habib Koité and Hassan Hakmoun
1-6-04: Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Gareth Armstrong
1-13-04: Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company
1-13-04: San Jose Taiko
1-20-04: Stephen Petronio Dance Company
1-20-04: Jazz diva Cassandra Wilson
1-27-04: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
2-3-04: Yo-Yo Ma
2-3-04: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
2-24-04: SF JAZZ Collective with Joshua Redman
2-24-04: Six-time Grammy Award winning Emerson String Quartet
3-2-04: Julio Bocca & Ballet Argentino
3-2-04: World-respected scientist Jane Goodall
3-16-04: Solas, the Irish music supergroup
3-23-04: Social observer and author Sarah Vowell
3-30-04: Early music superstars Anonymous 4
5-18-04: Wynton Marsalis Quintet
Films
8-13-03: Fall Cinema 2003
9-2-03: Telluride MOUNTAINFILM on Tour
12-2-03: Winter Cinema 2004
12-9-03: Charlie—The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
12-9-03: An Evening with Andre Gregory
1-13-04: Panel Discussion on the State of Documentary Filmmaking
1-20-04: Best of the 28th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival
2-24-04: A Touch of Spice with actor George Corraface
3-2-04: A Little Bit of Freedom
3-9-04: The Grey Automobile / El Automóvil Gris
3-16-04: Santa Barbara Latino CineMedia Festival
3-30-04: Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance and Book of Days
4-13-04: The national tour of Sing-A-Long Wizard of Oz
6-3-04: Summer Cinema 2004
Lectures & Writer’s Readings
8-26-03: Indian journalist Anita Pratap
9-2-03: Caroline Alexander
9-16-03: Iris Chang on The Chinese in America
9-23-03: Prominent French theorist Jacques Derrida
10-7-03: Illustrated lecture series National Geographic Live!
10-21-03: Documentary filmmaker Michael Davie
12-9-03: Political commentator Kevin Phillips
12-9-03: Esteemed journalist Lou Cannon
12-30-03: Alex Chadwick presents The “Radio Expeditions” Sound Spectacular
12-30-03: Award-winning historian John W. Dower
1-20-04: Environmental proponent Lester Brown
1-20-04: Author and commentator Bruce Feiler
1-27-04: Political satirist and best-selling author Al Franken
1-27-04: Paleontologist Paul Sereno
2-3-04: Best-loved author Anne Lamott
3-1-04: Major writer and Chicano political activist Luis Rodriguez
3-9-04: National Geographic Live! presents Michael “Nick” Nichols
3-23-04: Presidential advisor Karen Hughes
3-23-04: Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser
3-30-04: Creative geniuses Meredith Monk and Pico Iyer
3-30-04: Global activist, feminist and philosopher Vandana Shiva
4-6-04: Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shirin Ebadi
4-6-04: Novelist Edwidge Danticat
4-13-04: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks