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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.

‘Back’ to the future: Alum Leah Bleich returns to campus with her first feature film

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Dancers from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo posed in red dresses
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is celebrating their 50th anniversary season

Keep on ‘Trockin’’ in the free world
Napa Ever After publicity photo of a Black woman and man embracing

Hallmark uplifts Black love with historic Mahogany movie premier — lecturer Wendy Eley Jackson wrote the screenplay 
A woman singing in a production still from 'Nashville'
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Revisiting ‘Nashville,’ Robert Altman’s poetic — and still relevant — masterpiece
Student filmmakers Alessandra Puig-Santana and Tess McCormick
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Student filmmakers Alessandra Puig-Santana (left) and Tess McCormick on Santa Cruz Island

Adventuresome filmmaking meets theory, technique and environmental education
Actress Cate Blanchett, as composer Tar, in the foreground; her face decorated with Indigenous ceremonial markings
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“Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.
Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.

The rich ambiguity of Tár, and why director Todd Field wouldn’t have it any other way
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks

A rich and unsung legacy comes to light in ‘The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks’
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Documentary screening features Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa
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Carsey-Wolf Center to screen Iraq War drama “Our River ... Our Sky”
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New Carsey-Wolf Center initiative shines a light on influence, impact of Black artists
The words "BRINGING BACK OUT WETLAND" over the wetland
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Michael Love

The story of restoring the North Campus Open Space documented in film
Multiple faces of young people and the movie poster for Hiding in Plain: Youth Mental Illness Sight

UCSB Arts & Lectures resumes its Justice for All series with examination of mental health
Diego Ratto turns knobs on a controller in front of a laptop with a guitar strapped to his shoulder
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Davide Sciaky
Diego Ratto

Graduate student receives award in international acousmatic music composition
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