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black and white photo collage of historic American musicians
Songs by Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers (background), Rosa Lee "Moonshine Kate" Carson (foreground, left) and Eva Taylor are part of a newly uploaded collection to UCSB Library's Discography of American Historical Recordings

Vast collection of historic American music released via UCSB Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation

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UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí
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Paul Meyers
UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí at the International Latino Book Awards, October 2023

Compendium on Chicano poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera strikes gold
Painting of a friend by Lyra Purugganan

Take a friend to an artist’s studio
Two pianists play facing each other on a darkened stage
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Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay have been playing together for about a decade.

Two pianists speaking the language of our time
Two actors in 1920s attire sitting on a couch, laughing, in a black and white image
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Jeff Liang
“Hay Fever” will run from Nov. 14-19 in the Performing Arts Theater on campus.

Noel Coward’s comedy of bad manners
Two male dancers perform on a blackened stage
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Jeff Liang
A scene from Santa Barbara Dance Theater's 2023 show, “The Ties that Bind/Los lazos que unen.”

Celebrating diverse voices, identities and perspectives with dance
Graham Feyl and Sylvia Faichney
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Debra Herrick
Graham Feyl and Sylvia Faichney

‘Love and care outside normativity’ — a new art show immerses viewers in queer placemaking
A woman singing in a production still from 'Nashville'
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Revisiting ‘Nashville,’ Robert Altman’s poetic — and still relevant — masterpiece
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña dramatically lit in the Santa Barbara Courthouse mural room
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Debra Herrick
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña

What book inventories reveal about shifting cultural identities in New Spain
Writer Cherríe Moraga in 1982
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Barbara Adams
Writer Cherríe Moraga, 1982

Honoring her work to elevate issues of gender, sexuality and race, Cherríe Moraga’s seminal lesbian and Chicana text is expanded and re-released
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Making change, and creating justice, through art
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Artist residency merges hands-on creativity and cutting-edge science
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Renowned dance artist Alice Condodina connects students with dance lineage 
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