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Beautiful Black woman sitting in a dark theater with a prop box of popcorn
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Matt Perko
UCSB lecturer and producer Wendy Eley Jackson spotlights advocacy in a compelling new documentary.

In the theater with Wendy Eley Jackson: ‘Facing the Falls’

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Portrait of Leah Bleich
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Taylor Finlay
Director Leah Bleich brings her first feature to the campus where she got her start in filmmaking.
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Three actors on a stage in colorful makeup and costumes for The Threepenny Opera
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Jeff Liang
UC Santa Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance is mounting a new production of 1928 play “The Threepenny Opera”
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two scientists in green vests talking to each other
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Mapping Alzheimer's Productions
Colombian neuroscientist Francisco Lopera, left, and UCSB neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik
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Black man grey beard
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Percival Everett, author of "James" (Doubleday 2024)
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cyanotype
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Hương Ngô, detail, "Bestouan 5/12/18"
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white man holding camera with many people behind him who are Black
Chris Jenkins filming in South Sudan
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photo sculpture of mannequins in vintage clothing
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Jane Callister, from the series ”Imaginary Film Stills from a Movie that Never Existed”
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George Legrady, "The Alchemist’s Study: #f803b," 2022
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pink and black weaving
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Ruben Diaz
Sarah Rosalena, Spiral Arm Red, 2023. Hand-dyed cochineal wool yarn, cotton yarn, image source Milky Way Galaxy.