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Author Louis Bayard is adapting his novel "The Wildes," which explores Oscar Wilde’s family life, for a staged reading at UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Series on July 10.

Louis Bayard brings ‘The Wildes’ to UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD series

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Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun, detail, 2017, oil on canvas
Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun, detail, 2017, oil on canvas

Harmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the same period
Astor Piazzolla playing the bandoneón
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Astor Piazzolla playing the bandoneón

Vast tango archive of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla funded for preservation
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Documentary screening features Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa
A couple dances to cumbia in the film Yo Soy No Guapo
“Yo No Soy Guapo,” 2018, directed by Joyce Garcia

Cumbia connects nations and generations through music and dance
Orange glass bottle mosaic structure with dolls and miscellanea
Inside one of the unique dwellings by California folk artist Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey.

Bottle Village and the impact of transportation on midcentury folk art
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Records from Platform Holly provide a glimpse of how petroleum production affects natural gas seeps
Cherríe Moraga wearing a black turtleneck and black rimmed glasses
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Cherríe Moraga

UC Santa Barbara’s Cherríe Moraga to receive the 18th annual Luis Leal Award
wavy symmetrical pattern in black and white
From "Phantom Waves" by George Legrady

George Legrady's Phantom Waves, new algorithmic art
Three actors on stage, one in a sea captain's hat, one in pajamas, one dressed as a security guard
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Jeff Liang
A scene from Roni Ragone's “Night Night, Roger Roger”

Theater and Dance premieres student-penned original production
Hutsul marriage ritual scene from 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'
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Reimagined Hutsul marriage ritual from 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'

Carsey-Wolf Center to screen restored Ukrainian classic 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'
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New Carsey-Wolf Center initiative shines a light on influence, impact of Black artists
Caleb Luna
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Debra Herrick

Feminist studies postdoctoral scholar centers fat experiences in poetry and cultural critique
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