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Luca Meyers
A play about young women on the cusp of their teenage years, “Dance Nation” portrays their conflicting impulses to stand out and blend in.
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Harrison Tasoff
Natural history collections like the one housed at UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration hold valuable data accumulated over 100 years.
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Rose Schlossberg, "Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinstan-ATLAS," 2024
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The Erico Caruso Jr. Collection
Erico Caruso Jr. (center) on the set of the 1935 musical "El Cantante de Napoles"
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Courtesy UC Santa Barbara Library
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Courtesy LAUNCH PAD
The Amplify Festival brings together veteran and emerging artists to workshop news plays and present public readings.
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A still from UCSB student Travers Tobis's short film "The Circus Monkey," nominated for a Student Emmy Award.
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Courtesy Jason Lapeyre
Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s
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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium
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Ethan Turpin & Naomi Tague
"Tree Water," detail, 2024
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Illustration by Matt Perko
Flower picking as a metaphor for rediscovery — professor emerita Víctor Fuentes’ "Florilegio" gathers centuries of overlooked Spanish-language literature from the U.S.