Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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You can earn your Yellow Belt through three (3) virtual instruction sessions. Upon completion of the course, participants will be certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt practitioners and prepared to share applicable tools and skills with their departments to improve the processes they work in.

Topics Covered:

Obtain a working knowledge of the tools of process improvement/Lean Six Sigma and how to apply them specifically to a higher education settingDescribe and apply the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) approach to process improvementGain the ability to identify “non-value added” activitiesDiscover how imprecise, ambiguous information can stall process improvementRecognize the value of integrating the “voice of customer” into process improvement projects

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The event​, which provides accessible and affirming clothing options for queer and trans individuals​, will take place Friday, October 16th from 11am - 3pm on the Student Resource Building (SRB) Lawn. All students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome to participate. Donations are not required to receive clothes.

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This workshop will explore ways to integrate artificial intelligence into your course assignments. Participants will get hands-on experience interacting with AI and peers to identify promising ideas and potential pitfalls of AI-enhanced assessments.

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Courses will be held every other Wednesday, from 9:10am-9:50am via Zoom. Please check the Human Resources Employee Services website for a full list of topics and schedules.

Get Connected, Stay Connected w/ Campus Employee Groups: Engage with all the diverse staff groups on campus. Learn all the ways to get connected and find your community!

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Fall 2026

WEDNESDAYS | 12 PM | MUSIC BOWL | FREE

Experience rhythms, cultures, and sounds from around the world with the World Music Series featuring a vibrant lineup of global and local music traditions, performed live on campus throughout the Fall 2026 quarter.

Wednesdays, Noon, Free at the Music Department’s Outdoor Amphitheater, the Music Bowl

Presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center & the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music

NORTEÑO MUSIC with LOS CATANES DEL NORTE
Wednesday, Oct. 7th
Los Catanes del Norte will perform music from different regions in Mexico including corridos, rancheras, and boleros norteños.

Mariachi Las Olas De SB
Wednesday, Oct. 14th
Santa Barbara-based Mariachi Las Olas, founded and directed by Juan Zaragoza, will perform perform various music genres from Mexico including rancheras, boleros, corridos, sones and gustos.

UCSB Middle East Ensemble
Wednesday, Oct 21st
Scott Marcus leads a performance by the UCSB Middle East Ensemble of music and dance from a variety of Middle Eastern cultures, performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments.

UCSB GAMELAN ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Oct. 28th
Directed by Richard North, the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will showcase an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, and lively interlocking rhythms.

UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR
Wednesday, Nov. 4th
Directed by Victor Bell, the UCSB Gospel Choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.

Wednesday, Nov. 11th VETERANS DAY!!!! No concert

UCSB SON JAROCHO ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Nov. 18th
Directed by Jorge Mijangos, the UCSB Son Jarocho Ensemble presents music and dance from Veracruz, Mexico that blends Mexican, Spanish and African elements. Largely focused on fandango–a space that promotes community and cultural identity through song, dance and verse–the music is deeply tied to nature, rural life, and social justice.

Wednesday, Nov. 25th Thanksgiving No concert

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Admission is free

Sponsored by the UCSB MultiCultural Center and the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music

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Space is limited. You’ll be contacted for a brief, confidential pre-screening session.

Led by: Kate Hawley, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, ASAP

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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The event​, which provides accessible and affirming clothing options for queer and trans individuals​, will take place Friday, October 16th from 11am - 3pm on the Student Resource Building (SRB) Lawn. All students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome to participate. Donations are not required to receive clothes.

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Participation in both days is required to receive full credit.

SUPERVISORS and NON-SUPERVISORS are welcome.

Click here to register in the UC Learning Center.

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✅ Product demos: Learn how Gemini features can help deepen your learning

✅ Free merch: Score exclusive, limited-edition swag

✅ Googler meet & greets: Network with Googlers, including proud alums!

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Sponsored by the UCSB Open Source Program

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Richard P. Appelbaum, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former MacArthur Foundation Chair in Global and International Studies and Sociology at UCSB. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, M.P.A. from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. He has been co-Principal Investigator (and served on the Executive Committees of) many National Science Foundation Centers, most recently the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (2006-2016), where he led an international research group focusing on China’s rise as a science and technology power. He has served on Boards of Directors for a number of social justice organizations, including CLUE-Santa Barbara (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), where he heads the Housing Justice Workgroup; Santa Gray Panther Network; Fund for Refugee Initiatives/Chad Relief Foundation; and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

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The lecture will be followed by behind-the-scenes lab tours led by Professor Ben Mazin and Professor Max Miller-Blanchaer and a reception to connect with faculty, students, and alumni. The event will end after dusk with stargazing!

Thursday, October 8, 2026
6:00 PM

Lecture Room 1610
Broida Hall
UC Santa Barbara

Kindly reply by October 1

Refreshments & heavy hors d’oeuvres
Parking will be provided in Lot 10
Questions? Contact bethanyinnocenti@ucsb.edu

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Director Frederick E.O. Toye will join moderator Miguel Penabella (Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB) for a screening and discussion of Fallout episode “The Innovator” (Season 2, Episode 1).

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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You can earn your Yellow Belt through three (3) virtual instruction sessions. Upon completion of the course, participants will be certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt practitioners and prepared to share applicable tools and skills with their departments to improve the processes they work in.

Topics Covered:

Obtain a working knowledge of the tools of process improvement/Lean Six Sigma and how to apply them specifically to a higher education settingDescribe and apply the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) approach to process improvementGain the ability to identify “non-value added” activitiesDiscover how imprecise, ambiguous information can stall process improvementRecognize the value of integrating the “voice of customer” into process improvement projects

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The event​, which provides accessible and affirming clothing options for queer and trans individuals​, will take place Friday, October 16th from 11am - 3pm on the Student Resource Building (SRB) Lawn. All students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome to participate. Donations are not required to receive clothes.

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✅ Product demos: Learn how Gemini features can help deepen your learning

✅ Free merch: Score exclusive, limited-edition swag

✅ Googler meet & greets: Network with Googlers, including proud alums!

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Dr. Niema Moshiri, a teaching professor in Computer Science at UCSD, will be presenting on coding/automation tools to offer meaningful feedback on assignments for large classes. This guest speaker is jointly hosted by the Office of Teaching and Learning and the UCSB Teaching Professor Network.

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Understand & apply basic accessibility principles to create course contentCreate accessible Canvas PagesUse Grackle to create accessible documents in Google DocsCheck your content with accessibility tools

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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The Colloquium in Dance, Theater and Performance Studies offers an Open Talk with choreographer, dancer, padagogue, and art director, Sidra Bell. This event is open to the public.

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The AI Community of Practice (CoP) invites all members of our campus community to our 2026-27 Fall kickoff meeting. Learn about what is trending with AI across the UC system, at UC Santa Barbara and within our CoP.

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How do we bring together a conversation about racism and misogyny at ‘home’, about Palestine, the DRC, and the recent rebellions of 'the Cockroaches', while recognizing our complicity or seeming powerlessness in confronting them? How may a look at the archaeologies of Black resistance help us to consequentially respond to these questions? How do we engage with archives other than through predatory practices of erasure and extractivist practices of selective remembrance? How do we read an archive against itself and how might we expand archival work from keeping records of a forgotten past to excavating the political lives of past struggles? Local communities, global partner organizations, archival practitioners, and activist scholars will engage with these and other questions during the two-day II. Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson Archive Conference to take place on October 9-10, 2026 at UC Santa Barbara.

Named after Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson, and rooted in Black internationalism, the Robinson Archive Project is an initiative that aims to foster collaborations among scholars, activists, and communities fighting imperialism and forging liberatory futures at home and abroad. This year's conference theme, "Archiving Resistance: Activating the Black Radical Tradition," invites the UCSB community and the larger public to imagine together ways to respond to the challenges of resurging fascism in America and beyond using the tools and methods of the Black radical tradition. The event will feature plenary discussions, hands-on workshops, and roundtable discussions with teachers, scholars, and archivists committed to the work of liberation. For example, key plenaries on Friday (Oct 9) and Saturday (Oct 10) will bring into sharp focus the resurgence of fascism around the world, the geopolitical context of imperial rivalries and the US-Israeli war on the Middle East. As Mae Miller-Likhethe, the director of the Robinson Archive Initiative contends, “as global fascist movements gain momentum and attacks on higher education and historical preservation deepen, the stakes of learning from historical movements are incredibly high. Our goal with the conference is to learn from one another, to share and sharpen tools in our collective fight for a more just future.”

The Robinson Archive Project creates a living archive that uses participatory and community-based strategies to develop an international network of scholars and activists to carry out research, writing, and teaching centered on key topics encompassed in the Robinsons’ life work. The archive serves as an important anchor for the larger project and will enable global research, teaching, scholarship, and sociopolitical and cultural activism for future generations.

Registration to this year’s conference can be made through the Robinson Archive website. This year's conference will be hosted at the UCSB Library Special Research Collections and around campus.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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How do we bring together a conversation about racism and misogyny at ‘home’, about Palestine, the DRC, and the recent rebellions of 'the Cockroaches', while recognizing our complicity or seeming powerlessness in confronting them? How may a look at the archaeologies of Black resistance help us to consequentially respond to these questions? How do we engage with archives other than through predatory practices of erasure and extractivist practices of selective remembrance? How do we read an archive against itself and how might we expand archival work from keeping records of a forgotten past to excavating the political lives of past struggles? Local communities, global partner organizations, archival practitioners, and activist scholars will engage with these and other questions during the two-day II. Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson Archive Conference to take place on October 9-10, 2026 at UC Santa Barbara.

Named after Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson, and rooted in Black internationalism, the Robinson Archive Project is an initiative that aims to foster collaborations among scholars, activists, and communities fighting imperialism and forging liberatory futures at home and abroad. This year's conference theme, "Archiving Resistance: Activating the Black Radical Tradition," invites the UCSB community and the larger public to imagine together ways to respond to the challenges of resurging fascism in America and beyond using the tools and methods of the Black radical tradition. The event will feature plenary discussions, hands-on workshops, and roundtable discussions with teachers, scholars, and archivists committed to the work of liberation. For example, key plenaries on Friday (Oct 9) and Saturday (Oct 10) will bring into sharp focus the resurgence of fascism around the world, the geopolitical context of imperial rivalries and the US-Israeli war on the Middle East. As Mae Miller-Likhethe, the director of the Robinson Archive Initiative contends, “as global fascist movements gain momentum and attacks on higher education and historical preservation deepen, the stakes of learning from historical movements are incredibly high. Our goal with the conference is to learn from one another, to share and sharpen tools in our collective fight for a more just future.”

The Robinson Archive Project creates a living archive that uses participatory and community-based strategies to develop an international network of scholars and activists to carry out research, writing, and teaching centered on key topics encompassed in the Robinsons’ life work. The archive serves as an important anchor for the larger project and will enable global research, teaching, scholarship, and sociopolitical and cultural activism for future generations.

Registration to this year’s conference can be made through the Robinson Archive website. This year's conference will be hosted at the UCSB Library Special Research Collections and around campus.

Full Program

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The event​, which provides accessible and affirming clothing options for queer and trans individuals​, will take place Friday, October 16th from 11am - 3pm on the Student Resource Building (SRB) Lawn. All students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome to participate. Donations are not required to receive clothes.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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The event​, which provides accessible and affirming clothing options for queer and trans individuals​, will take place Friday, October 16th from 11am - 3pm on the Student Resource Building (SRB) Lawn. All students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome to participate. Donations are not required to receive clothes.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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This is a live, in-person event. Bring a blanket or lawn chair, grab some snacks, and enjoy the recital from the lawn outside the tower!

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Wesley Arai was appointed Lecturer and University Carillonist at UCSB in 2018. He plays the 61-bell Storke Tower carillon regularly and teaches carillon to UCSB students. Arai studied carillon with Jeff Davis as an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received BA degrees in Mathematics and Statistics. While earning an MA degree in Mathematics at UCLA, he continued to play the carillon and subsequently passed the Carillonneur examination of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. Arai then served as Associate Carillonist at the University of California, Berkeley. An active recitalist, Arai has performed extensively across the United States and abroad. Recent performances include the dedicatory recital for the carillon at the University of Washington, the Berkeley Carillon Festival, the Congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, the Springfield International Carillon Festival, the Perpignan (France) International Carillon Festival, and the Barcelona International Carillon Festival. Arai is also an annual recitalist at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Spokane, Washington and is a frequent recitalist at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

ABOUT THE STORKE TOWER CARILLON
UC Santa Barbara's Storke Tower and its carillon were a gift from Thomas Storke, former publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. The instrument consists of 61 bells cast by Petit & Fritsen of the Netherlands, with the bells weighing from 18 pounds to 2.5 tons, and spanning five octaves. The UCSB carillon is a much larger modern copy of historical instruments that were invented approximately 500 years ago in the Low Countries of Europe. Tower bells had previously been used for signaling time and for additional signals such as "Close the City Gates", "Go to church", and "An enemy is coming." Eventually, the number of bells was increased and were hooked up to a keyboard to facilitate the performance of music. A melody was often played to attract the attention of the townspeople before the hour bell tolled the time throughout the day. A carillon is played with the fists and feet, and the action is completely mechanical. To vary the dynamics of the music, the performer must strike the key harder or use a lighter touch, much like a piano. The UC Santa Barbara carillon celebrated its 50th birthday in 2019.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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The event​, which provides accessible and affirming clothing options for queer and trans individuals​, will take place Friday, October 16th from 11am - 3pm on the Student Resource Building (SRB) Lawn. All students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome to participate. Donations are not required to receive clothes.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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This is an experimental workshop on a very new and rapidly evolving landscape. Coding agent sandboxes and LLM API access will be provided to participants. As a prerequisite, learners should have familiarity with a programming language.

Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2273864

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This updated training now includes hands-on practice with the AI Process Generator feature in Nintex Process Manager (formerly Promapp). You'll learn the fundamentals of process mapping and see how AI can help you get a head start on documenting your processes faster than ever.

What to expect:

An introduction to process mapping concepts and best practicesA guided walkthrough of Nintex Process ManagerA live demo of the AI Process Generator featureHands-on time to map a real process you bring to the sessionOne-on-one feedback from the instructor on your map

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Director Prabhash Chandra will join moderator Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of Hearth and Home (Alaav).

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In his book, No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman (CA-02) uses firsthand experience and extensive research to describe Christian nationalism’s goal of an authoritarian theocracy. He argues that Christian nationalism is now America’s most dangerous political movement, with leaders working at the highest levels of government. Huffman also provides a roadmap for building an interfaith coalition to save secular democracy and the freedoms it protects.

Jared Huffman is a Humanist and the only member of Congress to admit he does not believe in gods. He co-founded the Congressional Freethought Caucus to promote sound public policy based on reason, science, and moral values. He is also Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee. He lives in San Rafael, CA. Huffman is also an alumnus of UCSB (B.A. '86, Poli. Sci.) and a former student of Walter Capps.

This book talk will be moderated by Joseph Blankholm, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UCSB. Copies of the book will be available for purchase by Chaucer's Books, with an author signing following the book talk. https://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/news/no-prophets-fight-save-democracy-christian-nationalism-rep-jared-huffman

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The event brings together elected officials, staff, faculty, and interested parties from local governments and organizations to discuss common sustainability issues, share best practices, and seek partners.

This year’s Summit will also feature a Clean Transportation Showcase proudly sponsored by the Central Coast Clean Cities Coalition. The Showcase will include a display of electric vehicles, e-bikes, and advanced transportation technologies from local agencies and serve as an opportunity for attendees to engage in discussions about transitioning to alternative fuel vehicles and other clean mobility options!

Registration closes on October 6th

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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SUPERVISORS and NON-SUPERVISORS are welcome.

Click here to register for the March session.

Click here to register for the May session.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Fall 2026

WEDNESDAYS | 12 PM | MUSIC BOWL | FREE

Experience rhythms, cultures, and sounds from around the world with the World Music Series featuring a vibrant lineup of global and local music traditions, performed live on campus throughout the Fall 2026 quarter.

Wednesdays, Noon, Free at the Music Department’s Outdoor Amphitheater, the Music Bowl

Presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center & the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music

NORTEÑO MUSIC with LOS CATANES DEL NORTE
Wednesday, Oct. 7th
Los Catanes del Norte will perform music from different regions in Mexico including corridos, rancheras, and boleros norteños.

Mariachi Las Olas De SB
Wednesday, Oct. 14th
Santa Barbara-based Mariachi Las Olas, founded and directed by Juan Zaragoza, will perform perform various music genres from Mexico including rancheras, boleros, corridos, sones and gustos.

UCSB Middle East Ensemble
Wednesday, Oct 21st
Scott Marcus leads a performance by the UCSB Middle East Ensemble of music and dance from a variety of Middle Eastern cultures, performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments.

UCSB GAMELAN ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Oct. 28th
Directed by Richard North, the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will showcase an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, and lively interlocking rhythms.

UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR
Wednesday, Nov. 4th
Directed by Victor Bell, the UCSB Gospel Choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.

Wednesday, Nov. 11th VETERANS DAY!!!! No concert

UCSB SON JAROCHO ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Nov. 18th
Directed by Jorge Mijangos, the UCSB Son Jarocho Ensemble presents music and dance from Veracruz, Mexico that blends Mexican, Spanish and African elements. Largely focused on fandango–a space that promotes community and cultural identity through song, dance and verse–the music is deeply tied to nature, rural life, and social justice.

Wednesday, Nov. 25th Thanksgiving No concert

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Space is limited. You’ll be contacted for a brief, confidential pre-screening session.

Led by: Kate Hawley, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, ASAP

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Peng Xu’s The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama (University of Michigan Press, 2025)reinterprets late Ming drama by foregrounding courtesan performance culture as a generative force in theatrical production. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including scripts, city guides, biographies, diaries, letters, and visual materials—it argues that courtesans were not merely subjects of representation but active agents who reshaped theatrical form, performance conditions, and literary style. In doing so, it challenges male-centered historiography and offers a new framework for understanding gender, media, and creativity in early modern Chinese theater.

About the author:

Peng Xu received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. Currently Associate Professor at ShanghaiTech University, she has held academic appointments at institutions across the U.S. and Asia. She actively promotes cross-disciplinary and transnational dialogues in Chinese literary and performance studies, with a particular emphasis on the agency of actresses and women poets. She has published in leading journals, including Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Late Imperial China, T’oung Pao, CLEAR: Chinese Literature, Essays, and Reviews, and Ars Orientalis.

An award-winning scholar-performer specializing in Kunqu and Peking Opera, Dr. Xu integrates scholarship and stage practice. Her English Kunqu production, Madame Cassia, adapted from a nineteenth-century play, premiered in the Lab Theatre of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in 2022.

Sponsored by the Graduate Program/Department of Theater and Dance/UCSB

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Mark your calendars for alumni reunion weekend! Reconnect with classmates, enjoy live music and special performances, attend a lecture from your favorite prof, take a stroll down Del Playa with friends, and relive some of your best memories with your Gaucho community. Get excited to celebrate with Gauchos and explore reunion photos from previous years. Whether it’s been a few years or a few decades, we can’t wait to welcome you back to campus!

Please visit our website for more information as it becomes available. Stay tuned for more details!

If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please contact Liz Holohan, Programs Director at liz.holohan@ucsb.edu (805) 893-4956.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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View all Mosher Alumni House check-in hours:

Thursday, October 15, 2026: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, October 16, 2026: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, October 17, 2026: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Register here for All Gaucho Reunion 2026!

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Register here!

For questions, please contact Ashley Antoon '11, Corporate Relations and Student Recruitment Manager (antoon@engineering.ucsb.edu),

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Confirmed companies:
ACCO Engineered Systems, Alcon, Amca, AmTECH Microelectronics, Arista Networks, CEB MetaSystems, ChipAgents, Cisco, CMC, Epic, Eudia, HRL Labs, Icarus Quantum, Karl Storz, LMCO, Marvell, Moog, New-Indy, Openlight Photonics, Praevium Research Inc, A Division of Thorlabs, Quantum Design, Quantum Sky, RTX, Teledyne S&I/Teledyne FLIR, Umbra, Vandenberg SFB, Turner Construction

Pending company:
Amazon

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, this program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970, on view at the AD&A Museum through November 29.

Thank you to our program collaborators: Kona Ice of Santa Barbara, Performance Art Museum. Special thanks to Bonnie Sherk Estate, Life Frames, Inc., and A Living Library, San Francisco.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine.

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The 1 hour “Zotero Basics” workshop will introduce you to this free citation manager for your personal research. We’ll get you oriented, start building libraries, importing citations, and share tips that will get you up and running.

This workshop is open to everyone, but will be especially relevant to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. Instructions to download and install the tool will be shared ahead of the workshop.

This event may be photographed or recorded.

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Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026

Time: 2:00 - 4:00pm

Location: El Centro, Arnulfo Casillas

Co-hosted by HSI Initiatives and the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD), this year’s Bienvenida/Welcome centers Orgullo, aka PRIDE, as a celebration of the many identities, cultures, and experiences that shape our Latine community at UCSB. Latinidad is not a singular experience. Our communities are shaped by diverse cultures, racial and ethnic backgrounds, genders, sexualities, immigration experiences, and family histories. These intersections are part of what makes our community vibrant, resilient, and uniquely our own. As UCSB continues its work as a Hispanic-Serving Institution, we want to continue to create spaces where students can feel seen, valued, supported, and empowered to thrive. For many of us, orgullo means more than pride in where we come from, it means being able to show up as our full selves and knowing that every part of who we are has a place in our community. This Bienvenida is an opportunity to celebrate that orgullo, honor the intersections of our identities, and build a stronger sense of belonging across campus.

Agenda:

2:00pm: Grab a bite and mingle!

2:15pm: Welcoming Remarks

2:25pm: Performance by Raices de Mi Tierra Folklorico group

2:45pm: Drag Club Performance

3:00pm: Closing remarks

3:05 - 4:00pm: Resource Fair & Mural Activity

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Sponsored by the UCSB Open Source Program

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Thursday, October 15, 2026

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Galen Stucky Lecture in Inorganic & Materials Chemistry
The lecture series honors Professor Emeritus Galen Stucky, the Essam Khashoggi Chair in Materials Chemistry who retired in 2024. Professor Stucky held appointments in the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the Materials Department, and in the Biomeloceular Science & Engineering Program. This year, the Stucky Lecture will be presented by a UC Santa Barbara alumnus, Professor Shannon Boettcher, Ph.D. '08. Boettcher is a Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering and holds the Theodore Vermeulen Chair in Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Friday, October 16, 2026

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Chemistry & Biochemistry Poster Session & Mixer
Join faculty, staff, alumni, and students from the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry for a poster session and mixer.

This Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (DCB) Reunion is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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Please join us for a reception following the lecture.

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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In this conversation, kL Mays and Alice Sparkly Kat share what they have learned about the ethical practice of reading the elements and about collective divination’s power to make history. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Joseph Blankholm, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UC-Santa Barbara. The event is free and open to the public.

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KL Mays is a memorykeeper and artist based in New York City. Mays leads walking tours, using research on geology, social history, infrastructure, ecology, and spirit to uncover events that have happened in a specific place.

Alice Sparkly Kat is an astrologer and the author of Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor (2021). Sparkly Kat also hosts workshops, makes zines, runs a community space, and does client sessions.

This event is co-presented with a grant from the John Templeton Foundation as part of a nine-lecture series on contemporary metaphysical spirituality. https://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/news/divining-elements-conversation-about-astrology-kl-mays-alice-sparkly-kat

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Inspired by the Graduate Division's beloved Grad Slam, Prof Slam challenges our faculty to present their cutting-edge research in just three minutes. Get ready for a fast-paced evening filled with fascinating insights across disciplines, engaging storytelling that brings complex ideas to life, and a whole lot of fun and intellectual energy.

Thursday, October 15th, 2026 at 6:30 PM
M Special Brewing (Downtown)
Free & open to all!

Are you a UCSB Alumni? Prof Slam is also a part of All Gaucho Reunion 2026 - learn more!

Meet our competitors:

Denise Montell, Molecular, Cellular, & Development Biology

A National Academy of Sciences member and two-time NIH Director's Pioneer Award winner whose groundbreaking cell biology research earned her the 2024 E.B. Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jarett Henderson, History

A scholar of settler colonialism and queer history whose innovative research explores the intersections of empire, sexuality, and identity across the nineteenth-century British world.

Joe Walther, Communication

A Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair holder whose landmark theories on online human relationships have fundamentally shaped the field of communication.

Marley Dewey, Bioengineering

An NSF CAREER Award winner whose lab harnesses biomaterials and extracellular vesicles to treat bone cancer, accelerate bone repair, and even restore coral reefs.

Ralph Armbruster Sandoval, Chicana/o Studies

A professor and community activist who has spent nearly three decades advancing social movements and labor justice on the Central Coast.

Siddharth Dey, Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering

An NSF CAREER Award recipient developing innovative technologies in biosciences that have earned him invitations to present at leading medical research institutions.

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Free for students and $6 for community members.

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Mark your calendars for alumni reunion weekend! Reconnect with classmates, enjoy live music and special performances, attend a lecture from your favorite prof, take a stroll down Del Playa with friends, and relive some of your best memories with your Gaucho community. Get excited to celebrate with Gauchos and explore reunion photos from previous years. Whether it’s been a few years or a few decades, we can’t wait to welcome you back to campus!

Please visit our website for more information as it becomes available. Stay tuned for more details!

If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please contact Liz Holohan, Programs Director at liz.holohan@ucsb.edu (805) 893-4956.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Friday, October 16, 2026

9:00 AM -11:00 AM - MTM: Preparing Leaders for the Future of Technology Management
A session featuring MTM program recaps, updates, and future plans, as well as time to learn about what current MTM faculty are researching and teaching about the impact of technology on organizations and work.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - What’s Your Business Strategy for AI? (open to all registered All Gaucho Reunion attendees)
In this interactive case session, UCSB alumni will take on a real business problem involving a company facing a consequential technology decision. The facts will be messy. The answer will not be obvious. The stakes will feel familiar to anyone trying to lead, invest, build, advise, or compete in a world being reshaped by AI, platforms, data, and rapid technological change.

Professors Paul Leonardi and Nelson Phillips will lead the discussion in the Technology Management style: sharp, practical, strategic, and focused on what leaders actually have to decide when technology changes the rules of competition and organizing. Participants will receive the case in advance, then come prepared to debate what the company should do next. No technical background is required. Just bring your business judgment, your curiosity, and your willingness to make a call when the future is uncertain.

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM - MTM: Lunch

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM - MTM: State of the Industries, Knowledge Sharing, Career Empowerment
Sessions for MTM alumni to dive deeper into topics related to managing technology and innovation.

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM - Tech Leaders, Innovators, and Entrepreneurs Reception ($35) (open to all)
Technology Management and the Innovators Circle invite MTM alumni, TMP Certificate alumni, New Venture Program participants, and anyone interested in technology management, innovation, and entrepreneurship to join us for a time of connection with colleagues old and new. Refreshments will be served. Location: OASIS

Saturday, October 17, 2026

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Faculty Talk: Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines (open to all registered All Gaucho Reunion attendees)
It's been "everything, everywhere, all at once" with AI since 2024, and everyone is wondering what we have to show for it. In this talk, Technology Management Professor Matt Beane will draw on his research and his experiences with his startup SkillBench to explore how we can change AI use to improve productivity and human skill at the same time - for the individual, the process, and the company. Open to all UCSB alumni.

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM - Intrapreneurship and Innovation: Why Good Ideas Fail (open to all registered All Gaucho Reunion attendees)
Successful innovation depends not only on having good ideas, but on helping people understand and support those ideas. This session will focus on research and practical frameworks leaders can use to improve traction and adoption in their organizations. Led by Dr. Renee Rottner, Department of Technology Management, and open to all UCSB alumni. Refreshments provided.

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - MTM Alumni Town Hall
A conversation with MTM leadership and each other about the future of MTM alumni engagement.

Questions? Please email mtm@tmp.ucsb.edu

The Master of Technology Management (MTM) Reunion is part of All Gaucho Reunion Weekend.

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Thursday, October 15, 2026: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, October 16, 2026: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, October 17, 2026: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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To facilitate peer-to-peer support and discussion of best practices.

To enable focused communications from university stakeholders.

To provide relevant professional development and resources.

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Professors Paul Leonardi and Nelson Phillips will lead the discussion in the Technology Management style: sharp, practical, strategic, and focused on what leaders actually have to decide when technology changes the rules of competition and organizing. Participants will receive the case in advance, then come prepared to debate what the company should do next.No technical background is required. Just bring your business judgment, your curiosity, and your willingness to make a call when the future is uncertain.

Location: Phelps 1410

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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The exhibition is on view at the CCS Art Gallery from October 1-30, 2026. FREE event. Open to all. Come mingle with CCS and UCSB Library leadership over appetizers and drinks.

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​We are accepting donations of clothing, jewelry, shoes, accessories, and plastic/paper shopping bags October 1st-12th! Donations can be dropped off in the marked bins on each floor of the SRB or at the RCSGD front desk (3rd floor of the SRB). Large donations can be coordinated by emailing equity@sa.ucsb.edu.

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PSTAT 40th Anniversary Luncheon
Friday October 16, 2026 from 11:30am - 1:00pm
Mosher Alumni Hall

The luncheon program will feature Professor Sreenivas Jammalamadaka who had a major role in founding the Deparment by bringing together various components of statistics on campus. He joined the Math Department in 1976, almost exactly 50 years ago! He will briefly describe how we came to be and where we are now. Following Professor Jammalamadaka's remarks, Dr. Annie Qu will give a brief talk on "Statistics, AI, and Our Next Chapter at UC Santa Barbara." Join us to celebrate our 40th anniversary!

Annie Qu is Professor at Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, and Founding Director of Center for Statistical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, University of California, Santa Barbara starting. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998. Qu’s research focuses on solving fundamental issues regarding structured and unstructured large-scale data and developing cutting-edge statistical methods and theory in machine learning and algorithms for personalized medicine, text mining, recommender systems, medical imaging data, and network data analyses for complex heterogeneous data. Dr. Qu was a Data Science Founder Professor of Statistics and the Director of the Illinois Statistics Office at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during her tenure in 2008-2019, and Chancellor's Professor at UC Irvine in 2020-2025.

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Join us for a special lunch celebrating 25 years of Women in Science and Engineering, held in conjunction with All Gaucho Reunion. Whether you were a WiSE member, are a current student, or simply want to celebrate this incredible milestone, all alumni are welcome to attend. Come reconnect with old friends, meet fellow alumnae, and honor the community that has supported women in STEM at our campus for a quarter of a century.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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Tanya Zimbardo is an independent curator and writer based in San Francisco. She has guest (co-) curated exhibitions and related public programs at the Berkeley Art Center; di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art; Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture; Mills College Art Museum; Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San Jose State University; Slash; and the 500 Capp Street Foundation, among others. She is working on upcoming projects in 2027 for UCR ARTS and Mills College Art Museum. Zimbardo has curated select artist film and video screening programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, independently, and for organizations such as Artists’ Television Access, Canyon Cinema Foundation, San Francisco Cinematheque, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. She recently curated and co-edited the catalog Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 (Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture), which will travel to the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara in the Fall of 2026. Zimbardo has contributed to publications including Feminist Media Histories, INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, and VoCA Journal. Zimbardo regularly gives public lectures and guest talks to higher education classes.

Jenni Sorkin writes on the intersections between gender, material culture, and contemporary art. Her recent is Art in California (2021), written for Thames & Hudson’s acclaimed World of Art series. As a state, California is the site of tremendous diversity in the visual arts and has been at the forefront of cultural production throughout the 20th century. Her first book, Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community (University of Chicago Press, 2016) examined the confluence of gender, artistic labor, and the history of post-war ceramics. Recent projects include the essay “Affinities in Abstraction: Textiles and Otherness in 1970s Painting,” in Outliers and American Vanguard Art. Lynne Cooke, ed. (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2018) and “Alterity Rocks: 1973-1993,” Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now. Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino, eds. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018). She has published widely as an art critic, and her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Art Monthly, East of Borneo, NU: The Nordic Art Review, Frieze, The Journal of Modern Craft, Modern Painters and Third Text. In 2004, she received the Art Journal Award. She currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Modern Craft, and has served as a member of the editorial boards of Art Journal and Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture. She is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (2014-15), the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (2012), the Getty Research Institute (2010-11), and the ACLS/Luce Fellowship in American Art (2008).

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Friday, October 16, 2026
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Campus Lagoon

Take a tour of the restoration and transformation of Lagoon Island and Campus Point from old agricultural fields and military structures to diverse native wildflowers, oak woodland, dunes and coastal sage scrub with Chris Berry '17, alumni and the Campus Lagoon Steward with UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (Cheadle Center). Tour will highlight recent removal of military era asphalt and a September prescribed burn.

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The lab is located on the Devereux campus (West Campus of UCSB), about 2 miles from Ellison Hall. Transportation to and from Ellison Hall is available. Registered attendees will recieve more information and logistics within two weeks of the event.

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When: Friday, October 16th, 2026
More on AGR: https://www.alumni.ucsb.edu/events/all-gaucho-reunion

Schedule:

3:00 pm — Lab Meeting. Current lab students will share about recent work, followed by a catch-up on what alumni have been up to and what the lab is working on now.4:30 pm — PBS Courtyard Mixer. Conversation continues with faculty, current undergraduate and graduate students, and alumni joining in.6:00 pm — PBS Afterparty at Draughtsman Aleworks (53 Santa Felicia Dr, Goleta, CA 93117).Who's invited? All students who worked in the lab for course credit (e.g., 99, 199, 197) or as a volunteer, and current lab members.

How to attend: In-person attendance on campus is encouraged. A simulcast option for those unable to attend in person is also being explored — details to follow.

This event is being held in conjunction with the PBS Alumni Relations & Development Committee.

Stay connected: Alumni interested in mentoring current students, joining a panel at ENGAGE (the lab's annual alumni panel mixer), or getting involved with alumni groups can learn more here: https://psych.ucsb.edu/alumni/psychological-brain-sciences-alumni-council

Survey: Alumni are invited to complete the PBS AGR Lab Reunion 2026 Survey — a nostalgic, quick way to share an update, RSVP intentions, lab memories, and a favorite UCSB-era song.

Questions or want to say hello? Reach out to the lab directly.

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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When: Friday, October 16th, 2026
More on AGR: https://www.alumni.ucsb.edu/events/all-gaucho-reunion

Schedule:

3:00 pm — Lab Meeting. Current lab students will share about recent work, followed by a catch-up on what alumni have been up to and what the lab is working on now.4:30 pm — PBS Courtyard Mixer. Conversation continues with faculty, current undergraduate and graduate students, and alumni joining in.6:00 pm — PBS Afterparty at Draughtsman Aleworks (53 Santa Felicia Dr, Goleta, CA 93117). (PBS = Psychological & Brain Sciences, the department's name as of 2010.) A separate, unaffiliated university AGR event will also be happening at Institution Ale, and AGR activities continue all weekend.Who's invited? All students who worked in the lab (99, 199, 197, 198), plus all PhD students who were part of the lab.

This event is being held in conjunction with the PBS Alumni Relations & Development Committee.

Stay connected: Alumni interested in mentoring current students, joining a panel at ENGAGE (the lab's annual alumni panel mixer), or getting involved with alumni groups can learn more here: https://psych.ucsb.edu/alumni/psychological-brain-sciences-alumni-council

Survey: Alumni are invited to complete a short survey — a fun way to share an update, RSVP intentions, lab memories, and a favorite UCSB-era song: https://forms.gle/o1gWAPQtbturjcpx7

Questions or want to say hello? Reach out to the lab directly.

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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Thursday, October 15, 2026

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Galen Stucky Lecture in Inorganic & Materials Chemistry
The lecture series honors Professor Emeritus Galen Stucky, the Essam Khashoggi Chair in Materials Chemistry who retired in 2024. Professor Stucky held appointments in the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the Materials Department, and in the Biomeloceular Science & Engineering Program. This year, the Stucky Lecture will be presented by a UC Santa Barbara alumnus, Professor Shannon Boettcher, Ph.D. '08. Boettcher is a Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering and holds the Theodore Vermeulen Chair in Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Friday, October 16, 2026

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Chemistry & Biochemistry Poster Session & Mixer
Join faculty, staff, alumni, and students from the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry for a poster session and mixer.

This Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (DCB) Reunion is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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Friday October 16, 2026 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Webb Hall Rooftop

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When: Friday, October 16th, 2026

Schedule:

3:00 pm — Lab Meeting. Current lab students will share updates on their work, followed by a catch-up on what the lab has accomplished over the past two-plus decades.4:30 pm — Courtyard Mixer. Conversation continues with faculty, graduate students, and alumni joining in.6:00 pm — PBS Afterparty at Draughtsman Aleworks (53 Santa Felicia Dr, Goleta, CA 93117). (PBS = Psychological & Brain Sciences, the department's name as of 2010.) A separate, unaffiliated university AGR event will also be happening at Institution Ale, and AGR activities continue all weekend.Who's invited? All students who worked in the lab (99, 199, 197, 198) since 2004 — roughly 175 people — plus all PhD students who were part of the lab.

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/ct4vsZ6AuqJsRYQh7

Stay connected: Former lab members interested in mentoring current students, joining a panel at ENGAGE (the lab's annual alumni panel mixer), or getting involved with alumni groups can learn more here: https://psych.ucsb.edu/alumni/psychological-brain-sciences-alumni-council

Questions or just want to say hello? Reach out at sherman@ucsb.edu

Survey: Alumni are also invited to complete the PBS AGR Lab Reunion 2026 Survey

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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When: Friday, October 16th, 2026
More on AGR: https://www.alumni.ucsb.edu/events/all-gaucho-reunion

Schedule:

3:00 pm — Lab Meeting. Current lab students will share about recent work, followed by a catch-up on what alumni have been up to and what the lab is working on now.4:30 pm — PBS Courtyard Mixer. Conversation continues with faculty, current undergraduate and graduate students, and alumni joining in.6:00 pm — PBS Afterparty at Draughtsman Aleworks (53 Santa Felicia Dr, Goleta, CA 93117). (PBS = Psychological & Brain Sciences, the department's name as of 2010.) A separate, unaffiliated university AGR event will also be happening at Institution Ale, and AGR activities continue all weekend.Who's invited? All students who worked in the lab for course credit (e.g., 99, 199, 197) or as a volunteer, any visiting scholars from over the years, and current lab members.

How to attend: In-person attendance on campus is encouraged. A simulcast option for those unable to attend in person is also being explored — details to follow.

This event is being held in conjunction with the PBS Alumni Relations & Development Committee.

Stay connected: Alumni interested in mentoring current students, joining a panel at ENGAGE (the lab's annual alumni panel mixer), or getting involved with alumni groups can learn more here: https://psych.ucsb.edu/alumni/psychological-brain-sciences-alumni-council

Survey: Alumni are invited to complete the PBS AGR Lab Reunion 2026 Survey — a nostalgic, quick way to share an update, RSVP intentions, lab memories, and a favorite UCSB-era song.

Questions or want to say hello? Reach out to the lab directly.

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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Early-bird registration: $35
Regular registration: $45

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Tickets are $35 and can be purchased online here. (Note: Tickets are purchased through the All Gaucho Reunion registration system but attending the reception is open to all and does not require registration for the AGR.) Questions? Please email mtm@tmp.ucsb.edu.

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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PERFORMANCE DATE, TIME, and LOCATION
● October 16th, 7:00 pm (Ancient Greece-Themed Gala immediately following show)
● October 17th, 7:00 pm
● October 18th, 2:00 pm

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Performances:

Friday, October 16 | 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 7:00 pm
Friday, October 23 | 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 7:00 pm
Studio Theater, UCSB

Admission is free but seating is limited - RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE

About UC Santa Barbara's Naked Shakes:

Naked Shakes believes in the transformation of the actor and the space, along with the imaginative ability of the audience. Each play is presented clearly and directly so that the audience inhabits the imaginative world of the play through Shakespeare’s language. The barren physical theater space is very important to the Naked Shakes concept; it takes on the identity of whatever locale or particular piece of poetic language is described, and yet always reminds the audience they are in a theater. When Prospero in The Tempest describes “the great Globe itself,” he is not only referring to the entire Earth, but also the “Globe” Theater – Shakespeare’s theater. That duality is what Naked Shakes is all about.

The critically acclaimed, award-winning Naked Shakes has performed at UCSB and transported productions to Southwest Shakespeare Company at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Westmont College and Center Stage in downtown Santa Barbara. Past Naked Shakes productions include: the premiere of The Death of Kings, a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest.

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Mark your calendars for alumni reunion weekend! Reconnect with classmates, enjoy live music and special performances, attend a lecture from your favorite prof, take a stroll down Del Playa with friends, and relive some of your best memories with your Gaucho community. Get excited to celebrate with Gauchos and explore reunion photos from previous years. Whether it’s been a few years or a few decades, we can’t wait to welcome you back to campus!

Please visit our website for more information as it becomes available. Stay tuned for more details!

If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please contact Liz Holohan, Programs Director at liz.holohan@ucsb.edu (805) 893-4956.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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View the full weekend schedule below: Questions? Email Hailey Fletcher, hfletcher@global.ucsb.edu.

Saturday, October 17, 2026

9:00 AM - Global Studies: Welcome
Enjoy light refreshments and opening remarks for our Department Chair, Javiera Barandiarán.

9:45 AM - Global Studies: Looking Back
Early Faculty members and the first MA Cohort discuss the beginnings of the Global Studies graduate programs.

11:00 AM - Global Studies Today
Departmental updates & Post-Covid reflections.

11:45 AM - Global Studies Lunch
Enjoy lunch with Global Studies Anniversary Reunion attendees.

1:00 PM - Global Studies: Looking Forward
An alumni panel discusses how Global Studies shaped their careers and reflect on changing needs in public and private sector work

3:30 PM - Global Studies: Kendra Chiota Payne Memorial
Recipients of the Kendra Chiota Payne Global Studies Award discuss their work advancing women globally, and the lasting impact of Kendra's legacy.

5:00 PM - Global Studies Reception
Learn what current Global Studies students have been up to while catching up with old and new friends.

Sunday, October 18, 2026

9:45 AM - Welcome Back & Brunch
Join us for brunch and a discussion on the structure and goals of a UCSB Global Studies Alumni Advisory Board.

The Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion Celebration is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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Tour will include a visit to the Cheadle Center's newest project at the site of the former Ellwood Marine Terminal which is being designed to honor Chumash Coastal Heritage.

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Friday, October 16, 2026

9:00 AM -11:00 AM - MTM: Preparing Leaders for the Future of Technology Management
A session featuring MTM program recaps, updates, and future plans, as well as time to learn about what current MTM faculty are researching and teaching about the impact of technology on organizations and work.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - What’s Your Business Strategy for AI? (open to all registered All Gaucho Reunion attendees)
In this interactive case session, UCSB alumni will take on a real business problem involving a company facing a consequential technology decision. The facts will be messy. The answer will not be obvious. The stakes will feel familiar to anyone trying to lead, invest, build, advise, or compete in a world being reshaped by AI, platforms, data, and rapid technological change.

Professors Paul Leonardi and Nelson Phillips will lead the discussion in the Technology Management style: sharp, practical, strategic, and focused on what leaders actually have to decide when technology changes the rules of competition and organizing. Participants will receive the case in advance, then come prepared to debate what the company should do next. No technical background is required. Just bring your business judgment, your curiosity, and your willingness to make a call when the future is uncertain.

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM - MTM: Lunch

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM - MTM: State of the Industries, Knowledge Sharing, Career Empowerment
Sessions for MTM alumni to dive deeper into topics related to managing technology and innovation.

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM - Tech Leaders, Innovators, and Entrepreneurs Reception ($35) (open to all)
Technology Management and the Innovators Circle invite MTM alumni, TMP Certificate alumni, New Venture Program participants, and anyone interested in technology management, innovation, and entrepreneurship to join us for a time of connection with colleagues old and new. Refreshments will be served. Location: OASIS

Saturday, October 17, 2026

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Faculty Talk: Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines (open to all registered All Gaucho Reunion attendees)
It's been "everything, everywhere, all at once" with AI since 2024, and everyone is wondering what we have to show for it. In this talk, Technology Management Professor Matt Beane will draw on his research and his experiences with his startup SkillBench to explore how we can change AI use to improve productivity and human skill at the same time - for the individual, the process, and the company. Open to all UCSB alumni.

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM - Intrapreneurship and Innovation: Why Good Ideas Fail (open to all registered All Gaucho Reunion attendees)
Successful innovation depends not only on having good ideas, but on helping people understand and support those ideas. This session will focus on research and practical frameworks leaders can use to improve traction and adoption in their organizations. Led by Dr. Renee Rottner, Department of Technology Management, and open to all UCSB alumni. Refreshments provided.

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - MTM Alumni Town Hall
A conversation with MTM leadership and each other about the future of MTM alumni engagement.

Questions? Please email mtm@tmp.ucsb.edu

The Master of Technology Management (MTM) Reunion is part of All Gaucho Reunion Weekend.

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View all Mosher Alumni House check-in hours:

Thursday, October 15, 2026: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, October 16, 2026: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, October 17, 2026: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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This event is part of the Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion during All Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MA program and the 10th anniversary of the Ph.D. program. Events are complimentary and open to all registered reunion attendees.

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From game days and concerts to parties in Isla Vista and surfing Campus Point, student
photographs connect generations and reflect the spirit of student and campus life. Any
photo from your time at UCSB is welcome, and your snapshots will become part of campus
history.

Examples of photos we'd love to see:
● Athletics and game days
● Student organization events
● Concerts and festivals
● Surfing at Campus Point
● Dorm life
● Campus protests and activism
● Roommates and friends
● Life in Isla Vista
● Graduation

What to bring
● 1 to 5 printed photos from your time at UCSB
● Loose and unframed, 8.5 x 11 inches or smaller
● Images you're comfortable having shared online

Please don't bring

Photos still mounted in albums or scrapbooksYearbooks, newspaper clippings, or other publicationsProfessional portraits or other copyrighted imagesDigital photos, film, video, or audio recordings

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Location: Interactive Learning Pavilion (ILP) 1101

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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Format: The main event begins with team captains (alumni, former members, and friends of the club) building a team through a silent auction draft, bidding on prepared profiles of participating fencers. Each team consists of three fencers: one Epee, one Foil, and one Saber. Next, we begin with a round of pools! Each team will meet each other once and each fencer will compete against their opponent of their respective weapon in a 3-minute, 5-point bout. A team gets a victory once they win 2 out of their 3 bouts. However, regardless of the order of victories, we will fence through all three bouts. This process will repeat until your team has fenced every other team; ultimately seeding everyone 1st through last.

We will continue our competition through a direct elimination relay of three 15-touch bouts, one in each weapon. Epee and Foil will use the traditional three 3-minute periods. If time allows, we tournament will run with a consolation/losers bracket, so teams can continue fencing for final placements. Open bouting post-elimination is also welcomed and highly encouraged!

Main event prize: One of our brand new UCSB Fencing Jackets!

Registration: There is no fee for fencers or spectators. However, fencers are encouraged to register on AskFred to select their weapon of choice.

**Disclaimer** - Not all participants may be listed on AskFRED.

Throughout the tournament, participants will also be able to purchase Power-Ups and Curses that can put fun twists on bouts and give teams a competitive edge. These, along with the alumni draft, merchandise sales, and direct donations, help raise money to support the UCSB Fencing Club.

We will also host a One-Touch Epee Tournament, open to all fencers at the event regardless of their usual weapon. Each bout is decided by a single touch in a single-elimination direct elimination bracket with no losers bracket. 1st place prize is TBD!

Complimentary snacks, water, and coffee will be provided

We also have a brand new line of Merchandise! Merchandise will be ordered based on requests submitted through our advance order form, so please submit the form if you would like to purchase UCSB Fencing gear:

https://forms.gle/aUawrvEcuKA9dfum9

Merchandise order deadline: September 25th. We will only have a limited number of extra jackets available at the tournament, so ordering in advance through the form is strongly recommended.

Location: Robertson Gymnasium, Main Gym, UC Santa Barbara

Date: Saturday, October 17th

Time: 10:00 AM–5:00 PM

Accommodations & Parking: UCSB Lots 15 and 18 are closest to Rob Gym. Hotel accommodations and other discounts are available by registering for the All-Gaucho Reunion at https://www.alumni.ucsb.edu/events/all-gaucho-reunion#agr-land-hdr

Questions? Please reach out to us via email at recreation-ucsbsportclub.fencing@ucsb.edu

Come fence, reconnect with old teammates and friends, and help support the UCSB Fencing Club. Go Gauchos!

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This event is part of the Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion during All Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MA program and the 10th anniversary of the Ph.D. program. Events are complimentary and open to all registered reunion attendees.

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Hear from a keynote speaker, then spend the afternoon in open networking with current students and fellow Greek alumni - sharing your career journey, answering questions, and making the kind of connections that last and inspire. No formal presentation required! Just show up, be yourself, and give back.

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Location: Phelps 1410

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This event is part of the Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion during All Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MA program and the 10th anniversary of the Ph.D. program. Events are complimentary and open to all registered reunion attendees.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Our distinguished guest speaker this year is Marisa Lagos '03, journalism superstar. Marisa is a political correspondent and co-host of Political Breakdown at KQED. This event is for alumni of the Daily Nexus.

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This event is part of the Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion during All Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MA program and the 10th anniversary of the Ph.D. program. Events are complimentary and open to all registered reunion attendees.

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Performances:

Friday, October 16 | 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 7:00 pm
Friday, October 23 | 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 7:00 pm
Studio Theater, UCSB

Admission is free but seating is limited - RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE

About UC Santa Barbara's Naked Shakes:

Naked Shakes believes in the transformation of the actor and the space, along with the imaginative ability of the audience. Each play is presented clearly and directly so that the audience inhabits the imaginative world of the play through Shakespeare’s language. The barren physical theater space is very important to the Naked Shakes concept; it takes on the identity of whatever locale or particular piece of poetic language is described, and yet always reminds the audience they are in a theater. When Prospero in The Tempest describes “the great Globe itself,” he is not only referring to the entire Earth, but also the “Globe” Theater – Shakespeare’s theater. That duality is what Naked Shakes is all about.

The critically acclaimed, award-winning Naked Shakes has performed at UCSB and transported productions to Southwest Shakespeare Company at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Westmont College and Center Stage in downtown Santa Barbara. Past Naked Shakes productions include: the premiere of The Death of Kings, a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest.

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In this special panel discussion event, we will be joined by Sol Dean (reality television personality, Love Island USA), Jeff Jenkins (president of Jeff Jenkins Productions; producer, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives), John Polly (co-executive producer, RuPaul’s Drag Race), JD Roth (founder of 3 Ball Productions and GoodStory Entertainment; executive producer, The Biggest Loser), and moderator Hunter Hargraves (California State University, Fullerton).

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Sol Dean (reality television personality)

Sol Dean is a reality TV personality, model, and content creator who won over audiences as the unapologetically authentic bombshell on Love Island USA. Known for her confidence, humor, and refreshing honesty, Sol has built a loyal community drawn to her genuine personality and relatable take on beauty, fashion, and lifestyle. Based in Los Angeles, she also shares her passions for wellness, fitness, pottery, music, singing, and songwriting.

Jeff Jenkins (producer)

Jeff Jenkins is president of Jeff Jenkins Productions, a full-service content company and joint venture launched in 2018 focusing on docu-series and unscripted formats. A twenty-year industry veteran, Jenkins previously was co-president of Bunim/Murray, overseeing development, sale, and executive production on an array of unscripted hits, including E!’s Kardashians franchise, encompassing flagship series Keeping Up With the Kardashians and the award-winning I Am Cait. He also served as executive producer on all five seasons of The Simple Life, Living Lohan, and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

John Polly (producer)

John Polly is a Co-Executive Producer for RuPaul’s Drag Race, a show he’s worked on since 2012. He’s produced fourteen regular seasons of the Emmy-winning series, as well as twelve seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars. He’s also worked as an Executive Producer on several other Drag Race-related projects, and served as a producer on other World of Wonder series such as Life With La Toya for OWN and The Trixie & Katya Show for Vice.

JD Roth (producer)

Award-winning producer JD Roth has built a television empire, creating some of the industry’s most successful and compelling entertainment programming. A reality television pioneer, Roth founded production company 3 Ball Productions in 2001 and championed "transformation television" with the creation of The Biggest Loser on NBC. JD’s passion for transformation became the foundation of his company’s brand, reflected in series like Bar Rescue, My Cat from Hell, and Master Chef, and many others. JD is currently a professor at USC Film School teaching development and production in unscripted television.

Moderator Hunter Hargraves (California State University, Fullerton)

Hunter Hargraves is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Uncomfortable Television (Duke University Press, 2023), the editor of a special issue of the journal Television & New Media on “Pandemic TV,” and many other journal articles, book chapters, and short-form essays on contemporary television, including reality TV.

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In this special panel discussion event, we will be joined by Sol Dean (reality television personality, Love Island USA), Jeff Jenkins (president of Jeff Jenkins Productions; producer, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives), John Polly (co-executive producer, RuPaul’s Drag Race), JD Roth (founder of 3 Ball Productions and GoodStory Entertainment; executive producer, The Biggest Loser), and moderator Hunter Hargraves (California State University, Fullerton).

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This event is part of the Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion during All Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MA program and the 10th anniversary of the Ph.D. program. Events are complimentary and open to all registered reunion attendees.

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This event is part of the Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion during All Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MA program and the 10th anniversary of the Ph.D. program. Events are complimentary and open to all registered reunion attendees.

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Whether you're returning to campus for the first time in years or are a regular visitor, the 50th Reunion Golden Gauchos Dinner offers a warm and welcoming opportunity to honor your journey, celebrate your accomplishments, and strengthen the bonds that connect generations of Gauchos.

We look forward to celebrating this milestone with you during All Gaucho Reunion Weekend!

Tickets: $60 early-bird, $70 regular

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PERFORMANCE DATE, TIME, and LOCATION
● October 16th, 7:00 pm (Ancient Greece-Themed Gala immediately following show)
● October 17th, 7:00 pm
● October 18th, 2:00 pm

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Performances:

Friday, October 16 | 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 7:00 pm
Friday, October 23 | 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 7:00 pm
Studio Theater, UCSB

Admission is free but seating is limited - RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE

About UC Santa Barbara's Naked Shakes:

Naked Shakes believes in the transformation of the actor and the space, along with the imaginative ability of the audience. Each play is presented clearly and directly so that the audience inhabits the imaginative world of the play through Shakespeare’s language. The barren physical theater space is very important to the Naked Shakes concept; it takes on the identity of whatever locale or particular piece of poetic language is described, and yet always reminds the audience they are in a theater. When Prospero in The Tempest describes “the great Globe itself,” he is not only referring to the entire Earth, but also the “Globe” Theater – Shakespeare’s theater. That duality is what Naked Shakes is all about.

The critically acclaimed, award-winning Naked Shakes has performed at UCSB and transported productions to Southwest Shakespeare Company at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Westmont College and Center Stage in downtown Santa Barbara. Past Naked Shakes productions include: the premiere of The Death of Kings, a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest.

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Tickets: $40

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Questions? Contact Professor Brad Bouley (bouley@ucsb.edu).

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Tickets: $20 early-bird / $25 regular

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Mark your calendars for alumni reunion weekend! Reconnect with classmates, enjoy live music and special performances, attend a lecture from your favorite prof, take a stroll down Del Playa with friends, and relive some of your best memories with your Gaucho community. Get excited to celebrate with Gauchos and explore reunion photos from previous years. Whether it’s been a few years or a few decades, we can’t wait to welcome you back to campus!

Please visit our website for more information as it becomes available. Stay tuned for more details!

If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please contact Liz Holohan, Programs Director at liz.holohan@ucsb.edu (805) 893-4956.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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View the full weekend schedule below: Questions? Email Hailey Fletcher, hfletcher@global.ucsb.edu.

Saturday, October 17, 2026

9:00 AM - Global Studies: Welcome
Enjoy light refreshments and opening remarks for our Department Chair, Javiera Barandiarán.

9:45 AM - Global Studies: Looking Back
Early Faculty members and the first MA Cohort discuss the beginnings of the Global Studies graduate programs.

11:00 AM - Global Studies Today
Departmental updates & Post-Covid reflections.

11:45 AM - Global Studies Lunch
Enjoy lunch with Global Studies Anniversary Reunion attendees.

1:00 PM - Global Studies: Looking Forward
An alumni panel discusses how Global Studies shaped their careers and reflect on changing needs in public and private sector work

3:30 PM - Global Studies: Kendra Chiota Payne Memorial
Recipients of the Kendra Chiota Payne Global Studies Award discuss their work advancing women globally, and the lasting impact of Kendra's legacy.

5:00 PM - Global Studies Reception
Learn what current Global Studies students have been up to while catching up with old and new friends.

Sunday, October 18, 2026

9:45 AM - Welcome Back & Brunch
Join us for brunch and a discussion on the structure and goals of a UCSB Global Studies Alumni Advisory Board.

The Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion Celebration is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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This event is part of the Global Studies 20th Anniversary Reunion during All Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MA program and the 10th anniversary of the Ph.D. program. Events are complimentary and open to all registered reunion attendees.

View full schedule of events and register!

This event is part of All Gaucho Reunion.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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PERFORMANCE DATE, TIME, and LOCATION
● October 16th, 7:00 pm (Ancient Greece-Themed Gala immediately following show)
● October 17th, 7:00 pm
● October 18th, 2:00 pm

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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October 19, 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

Caregiving can be overwhelming, often leaving little time to care for yourself. Learn practical ways to navigate the demands of multi-generational caregiving—from supporting children to aging family members—and gain tools to strengthen your own health and wellbeing.

The Healthy Holiday Mix: Sleep, Exercise, Love & Food

November 16, 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

The holidays can bring joy – but also stress, fatigue and schedule overload. Give yourself the gift of self-compassion – adding movement or taking rest. Even lessening the guilt of enjoying food – especially if you have a chronic condition. Apply tips for staying healthy and energized all season long.

Cozy Up: Discover the Magic of Hygge

December 14, 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

Discover the Danish art of hygge—the practice of creating warmth, comfort, and joy in everyday moments, especially during the fall and winter seasons. Learn to find contentment in slower rhythms and develop mindful habits that foster coziness, support restful sleep, and nurture wellbeing. Give yourself permission to embrace a gentler pace and savor quiet moments without rush.

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How can we design rigorous assessments that support deep learning while navigating academic integrity concerns of AI? Join UCSB colleagues across disciplines for a panel discussion featuring:

Dr. Simone Pulver (Environmental Studies) sharing her experience with oral exams in large courses;Dr. Maribel Bueno (Mathematics) describing the results of her experiments with AI-supported project-based learning;Drs. Karyn Kessler & Paul Rogers (EMS & Writing Programs) highlighting insights from their new book on Crafting Ethical Scholarship. A Practical Guide to Academic Integrity and the Mission of Higher Education.Location (hybrid): in-person, Library Training Room 2509, UCSB Library or on Zoom

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Free for students and $6 for community.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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September 9th: 8:00 - 12:00 pm
September 10th: 8:00 - 12:00 pm

October 20th: 1:00 - 5:00 pm
October 22nd: 8:00 - 12:00 pm

A professional, updated headshot is crucial for departmental and lab websites, conferences and workshops, and research communication with both university communications teams and external publications.

These headshots are taken on a drop-in basis at no charge to faculty members. No appointments are necessary, so there may be a brief wait upon arrival. Headshots are taken at Kerr Hall 1205. You enter through the Video Services door in the breezeway that runs through the middle of the building. Once you enter, the Photo Services door is the first door on the left. There is a small flight of stairs going down into the studio, if that is an issue for anyone, please let Jeff Liang know ahead of time and he can let you in another way. Receiving photosA BOX folder will be shared to your @ucsb.edu email containing only your headshots. One complimentary edited headshot is available upon request. Otherwise, you will receive all of the headshots taken during the session with basic global edits.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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October 21, 2026 | 9:00am - 10:00am PT

Learn more about women's top health issues including breast cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease, and reproductive health.

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Courses will be held every other Wednesday, from 9:10am-9:50am via Zoom. Please check the Human Resources Employee Services website for a full list of topics and schedules.

Performance Matters - Maximize your Performance w/ Lisa Phelps - Discover ways to share your accomplishments and communicate a year in the life of your career with your supervisor. Invest in your performance. It matters.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Presented live and online, each webinar provides information on a variety of well-being topics. You can join the monthly webinars in one of two ways:

View them from your work station at home or office.Gather with co-workers in a workplace meeting room.Plus, you can watch any of the past webinars you may have missed by visiting www.healthnet.com. Once you sign up, you’ll get an email before each session with the topic, date and time so you can adjust your schedule.

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Fall 2026

WEDNESDAYS | 12 PM | MUSIC BOWL | FREE

Experience rhythms, cultures, and sounds from around the world with the World Music Series featuring a vibrant lineup of global and local music traditions, performed live on campus throughout the Fall 2026 quarter.

Wednesdays, Noon, Free at the Music Department’s Outdoor Amphitheater, the Music Bowl

Presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center & the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music

NORTEÑO MUSIC with LOS CATANES DEL NORTE
Wednesday, Oct. 7th
Los Catanes del Norte will perform music from different regions in Mexico including corridos, rancheras, and boleros norteños.

Mariachi Las Olas De SB
Wednesday, Oct. 14th
Santa Barbara-based Mariachi Las Olas, founded and directed by Juan Zaragoza, will perform perform various music genres from Mexico including rancheras, boleros, corridos, sones and gustos.

UCSB Middle East Ensemble
Wednesday, Oct 21st
Scott Marcus leads a performance by the UCSB Middle East Ensemble of music and dance from a variety of Middle Eastern cultures, performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments.

UCSB GAMELAN ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Oct. 28th
Directed by Richard North, the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will showcase an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, and lively interlocking rhythms.

UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR
Wednesday, Nov. 4th
Directed by Victor Bell, the UCSB Gospel Choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.

Wednesday, Nov. 11th VETERANS DAY!!!! No concert

UCSB SON JAROCHO ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Nov. 18th
Directed by Jorge Mijangos, the UCSB Son Jarocho Ensemble presents music and dance from Veracruz, Mexico that blends Mexican, Spanish and African elements. Largely focused on fandango–a space that promotes community and cultural identity through song, dance and verse–the music is deeply tied to nature, rural life, and social justice.

Wednesday, Nov. 25th Thanksgiving No concert

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RSVP: https://forms.gle/eZsSDpQ9ZL4DTbBh9

Space is limited. You’ll be contacted for a brief, confidential pre-screening session.

Led by: Kate Hawley, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, ASAP

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The 75-minute documentary introduces viewers to the life and legacy of Walter H. Capps. Capps was a professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1964–1996. His path-breaking scholarship helped define the interdisciplinary range of the field. Capps’ research and teaching focused on Christian ethical and intellectual traditions, mysticism, monasticism, theory and method in the study of religion, and religion and politics in America, among other topics. His most famous courses were “Religion and the Impact of Vietnam” and “Voices of the Stranger,” both of which enrolled nearly 900 students and featured guest speakers who shared their experiences with students. The Vietnam War course was featured on CBS’ “60 Minutes” news program and helped shape a national conversation about welcoming home veterans. His teaching and writing focused on empathy and understanding across cultural differences, fostering an ethic rooted in our common humanity.

Capps’ sustained contributions to the humanities earned him praise as one of our nation’s most distinguished humanists. He was a leader of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Institute for Religious Studies, Council for the Study of Religion, California Council for the Humanities, National Federation of State Humanities Councils, and La Casa de Maria. In 1996, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat (CA-22), where he served from January 1997 until his death in October of that year.

The film includes archival footage and photographs alongside interviews with family members, colleagues, and former students. Among those interviewed are Lois Capps, former U.S. Representative; Laura Capps, Second District Supervisor for Santa Barbara County; Bob Kerrey, former U.S. Senator and Governor; Lou Cannon, journalist and author; Tim Kring, TV showrunner; Shad Meshad, founder of the National Veterans Foundation; James Quay and Ralph Lewin, former executive directors of the California Council for the Humanities; and Henry T. Yang, former UCSB Chancellor.

The film also highlights Walter’s continuing legacy through the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB. The Capps Center promotes discussion of how ethical teachings and values relate to civic life — at the local, national, and global levels. The Capps Center is committed to the fundamental belief that public dialogue and an informed and engaged citizenry are vital to democratic society.

Working in collaboration with the Capps family, "A Tribute to Walter H. Capps: Scholar, Teacher, Public Servant" was produced by the Walter H. Capps Center and Black Diamond Productions. Based in Santa Barbara since 1991, Black Diamond Productions has been producing award-winning videos, commercials, TV programs, and documentaries worldwide.

The film is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq_x5-q2g5A.

https://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/news/film-screening-tribute-walter-h-capps-scholar-teacher-public-servant

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Stephen Marotto will present some contemporary classic repertoire, including works for cello and electronics by Morton Subotnik and James Tenney, as well as more recent works by Liza Lim and João Pedro Oliveira on October 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM at Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.

Free and open to the public

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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September 9th: 8:00 - 12:00 pm
September 10th: 8:00 - 12:00 pm

October 20th: 1:00 - 5:00 pm
October 22nd: 8:00 - 12:00 pm

A professional, updated headshot is crucial for departmental and lab websites, conferences and workshops, and research communication with both university communications teams and external publications.

These headshots are taken on a drop-in basis at no charge to faculty members. No appointments are necessary, so there may be a brief wait upon arrival. Headshots are taken at Kerr Hall 1205. You enter through the Video Services door in the breezeway that runs through the middle of the building. Once you enter, the Photo Services door is the first door on the left. There is a small flight of stairs going down into the studio, if that is an issue for anyone, please let Jeff Liang know ahead of time and he can let you in another way. Receiving photosA BOX folder will be shared to your @ucsb.edu email containing only your headshots. One complimentary edited headshot is available upon request. Otherwise, you will receive all of the headshots taken during the session with basic global edits.

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Learners will explore secondary datasets from the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) and master QualCoder—an open-source qualitative data analysis program. Participants can expect to learn how to manage project files, build inductive and deductive coding schemes, conduct axial coding, generate analytical reports, build framework matrices, and export projects using open standards.

Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2273865

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In this brave new world of generative AI, our students will enage with AI models in their future careers. How can we leverage evidence-based teaching practices and AI Literacy Frameworks to empower our students with the ethical and technical skills that will help them succeed.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Join us for a 45-minute online workshop to learn about the neurobiology of digital exhaustion, and develop proactive digital hygiene strategies to reclaim your peace and support your psychological health.

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Sponsored by the UCSB Open Source Program

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John Trafton (author of Los Angeles and Film: A Cultural History of 20th-Century Hollywood) will join moderator Miguel Penabella (Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of Mulholland Drive.

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Join us for this free screening with a LIVE game of THEMED BINGO!

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Performances:

Friday, October 16 | 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 7:00 pm
Friday, October 23 | 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 7:00 pm
Studio Theater, UCSB

Admission is free but seating is limited - RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE

About UC Santa Barbara's Naked Shakes:

Naked Shakes believes in the transformation of the actor and the space, along with the imaginative ability of the audience. Each play is presented clearly and directly so that the audience inhabits the imaginative world of the play through Shakespeare’s language. The barren physical theater space is very important to the Naked Shakes concept; it takes on the identity of whatever locale or particular piece of poetic language is described, and yet always reminds the audience they are in a theater. When Prospero in The Tempest describes “the great Globe itself,” he is not only referring to the entire Earth, but also the “Globe” Theater – Shakespeare’s theater. That duality is what Naked Shakes is all about.

The critically acclaimed, award-winning Naked Shakes has performed at UCSB and transported productions to Southwest Shakespeare Company at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Westmont College and Center Stage in downtown Santa Barbara. Past Naked Shakes productions include: the premiere of The Death of Kings, a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Performances:

Friday, October 16 | 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 7:00 pm
Friday, October 23 | 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 7:00 pm
Studio Theater, UCSB

Admission is free but seating is limited - RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE

About UC Santa Barbara's Naked Shakes:

Naked Shakes believes in the transformation of the actor and the space, along with the imaginative ability of the audience. Each play is presented clearly and directly so that the audience inhabits the imaginative world of the play through Shakespeare’s language. The barren physical theater space is very important to the Naked Shakes concept; it takes on the identity of whatever locale or particular piece of poetic language is described, and yet always reminds the audience they are in a theater. When Prospero in The Tempest describes “the great Globe itself,” he is not only referring to the entire Earth, but also the “Globe” Theater – Shakespeare’s theater. That duality is what Naked Shakes is all about.

The critically acclaimed, award-winning Naked Shakes has performed at UCSB and transported productions to Southwest Shakespeare Company at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Westmont College and Center Stage in downtown Santa Barbara. Past Naked Shakes productions include: the premiere of The Death of Kings, a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest.

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Inspired by a single eerie photograph of an empty, fluorescent-lit room, the backrooms started out as an anonymous imageboard post with no established mythology or narrative. Online communities soon expanded out the initial post into a larger internet phenomenon, collaboratively developing a sprawling archive of fan art, “creepypasta” short stories, amateur videos and animations, and online games. In 2022, 16-year-old director Kane Parsons adapted the viral image into a series of acclaimed found-footage short films on YouTube and rapidly found a devoted audience. Backrooms producer Kori Adelson brought Parsons and the project to A24, which subsequently greenlit its feature film adaptation, bringing this distinct slice of internet culture to mainstream cinema. The journey of Backrooms from online post to one of this year’s most successful (and talked about) theatrical releases raises compelling questions about where films and directors now originate, who gets to make them, and how audiences encounter cinematic worlds.

Producer Kori Adelson will join moderator Ross Melnick (Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB) for a pre- and post-screening discussion of Backrooms.

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Performances:

Friday, October 16 | 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 17 | 7:00 pm
Friday, October 23 | 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 1:00 pm
Saturday, October 24 | 7:00 pm
Studio Theater, UCSB

Admission is free but seating is limited - RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE

About UC Santa Barbara's Naked Shakes:

Naked Shakes believes in the transformation of the actor and the space, along with the imaginative ability of the audience. Each play is presented clearly and directly so that the audience inhabits the imaginative world of the play through Shakespeare’s language. The barren physical theater space is very important to the Naked Shakes concept; it takes on the identity of whatever locale or particular piece of poetic language is described, and yet always reminds the audience they are in a theater. When Prospero in The Tempest describes “the great Globe itself,” he is not only referring to the entire Earth, but also the “Globe” Theater – Shakespeare’s theater. That duality is what Naked Shakes is all about.

The critically acclaimed, award-winning Naked Shakes has performed at UCSB and transported productions to Southwest Shakespeare Company at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Westmont College and Center Stage in downtown Santa Barbara. Past Naked Shakes productions include: the premiere of The Death of Kings, a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest.

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Bio: Samuel Glicklich
Samuel Glicklich, a native of Los Angeles, is an award-winning pianist celebrated for his expressive depth and commanding virtuosity. He has earned top honors in numerous major international competitions, including First Prize at the 2025 Maestro Piano Competition, Second Prize at the 2022 Casagrande International Piano Competition, Third Prize at the 2021 Singapore International Piano Competition, the KulturKontakt Eppan Artist Prize at the 2025 Piano Academy Eppan, and was a solo finalist in the 2023 Busoni International Piano Competition. He also won the 2022 Colburn School Concerto Competition and the 2019 Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition, performing with conductors James Conlon and Ludovic Morlot. Additional accolades include prizes at the 2025 Bösendorfer Piano Competition, the 2021 Canada International Piano Competition, and the 2017 Seattle and Glendale International Piano Competitions. In 2022, Samuel was awarded the Young Talents scholarship from the Musique & Vin au Clos Vougeot Festival in Burgundy, France, where he performed under the artistic direction of Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Gautier Capuçon. He has collaborated with an array of distinguished musicians, including Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Gautier Capuçon, Tatjana Masurenko, Martin Beaver, Peter Lloyd, and composer Eric Whitacre, for whose virtual choir project Sing Gently he served as the featured pianist. Samuel’s performances have been presented at major venues including Carnegie Hall as a guest of From the Top, Benaroya Hall, and the Bing Theater at LACMA for the Sundays Live radio broadcast. He completed his Master of Music degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, studying with Fabio Bidini and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and is currently pursuing post-graduate studies at the Musik-Akademie Basel under the guidance of Claudio Martínez Mehner.

Taiwanese pianist Yi-Chen Feng’s musical life has taken him from his native Taiwan to stages across Asia, Europe, and the United States. In 2022, he made his Carnegie Hall debut at Stern Auditorium with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, performing Liszt’s First Piano Concerto. His top prize at Taiwan’s inaugural International Maestro Piano Competition led to concert engagements and a recording contract with Universal Music Group.
Beyond his orchestral appearances, Feng has performed at venues including Flagey in Brussels, TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, and the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in his hometown. His festival appearances include the Oxford Piano Festival and the Chautauqua Music Festival. His musical development has been shaped by studies at Peabody and Yale with Boris Slutsky, followed by an Artist Diploma at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Yoshikazu Nagai. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts at the Peabody Conservatory, continuing his work with Boris Slutsky.

Bio: Yi-Chen Feng
Pianist Yi-Chen Feng has won top prizes at competitions including the Dallas, SanFrancisco, New York Liszt, San Jose, and Virginia Waring International Piano Competitions. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2022, performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. A vivid performer, he has appeared at major venues such as Weill Recital Hall, Taiwan’s National Recital Hall and Weiwuying, Hangzhou Grand Theater, Galerie dorée de la Banque de France, TivoliVredenburg, and Flagey. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts at the Peabody Conservatory, following studies at Yale and the San Francisco Conservatory.

General ($13.25); Senior/Military/Non-UCSB students with ID ($10); UCSB students with ID and children under 12 (FREE)

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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This is a live, in-person event. Bring a blanket or lawn chair, grab some snacks, and enjoy the recital from the lawn outside the tower!

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ekaterina Porizko is a conductor, organist, pianist, carillonist, and musicologist. She currently serves as State Church Music Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. She also teaches Church Studies at the University of Protestant Church Music in Bayreuth and Carillon and Glockenspiel at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. There, she established Germany’s first university-level carillon program, creating an academic framework for the study of both traditional carillon and Glockenspiel.

A central focus of her work is bringing culture into public spaces and fostering tolerance and international understanding through cross-cultural projects. In 2022, together with Ekaterina Belowa, she founded the nonprofit organization EP Klassik aber frisch to support and promote young musicians.

Since 2010, Porizko’s international artistic activities have taken her to Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and the United States, where she has performed as an organist, carillonist, pianist, harpsichordist, and conductor.

In 2017, she was appointed Cantor of the Protestant Parish in Meerbusch. In 2022, she became Advisor for Church Music of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, before moving to Bavaria in 2026 to take up her current position as State Church Music Director.

ABOUT THE STORKE TOWER CARILLON
UC Santa Barbara's Storke Tower and its carillon were a gift from Thomas Storke, former publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. The instrument consists of 61 bells cast by Petit & Fritsen of the Netherlands, with the bells weighing from 18 pounds to 2.5 tons, and spanning five octaves. The UCSB carillon is a much larger modern copy of historical instruments that were invented approximately 500 years ago in the Low Countries of Europe. Tower bells had previously been used for signaling time and for additional signals such as "Close the City Gates", "Go to church", and "An enemy is coming." Eventually, the number of bells was increased and were hooked up to a keyboard to facilitate the performance of music. A melody was often played to attract the attention of the townspeople before the hour bell tolled the time throughout the day. A carillon is played with the fists and feet, and the action is completely mechanical. To vary the dynamics of the music, the performer must strike the key harder or use a lighter touch, much like a piano. The UC Santa Barbara carillon celebrated its 50th birthday in 2019.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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SUPERVISORS and NON-SUPERVISORS are welcome.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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In partnership with the Restorative Justice Program, the Staff Engagement Workgroup invites you to pause, connect, and recharge by joining a Staff Community Building Circle this Winter. These circles offer a supportive space for campus staff to share experiences, listen to diverse perspectives, and strengthen our sense of community. Through guided dialogue, participants will have the opportunity to connect, reflect, and collaborate - fostering a more inclusive and understanding environment for everyone.

Fall Topic: Imposter Syndrome
Join us as we engage in meaningful conversation around the common experience of imposter syndrome - What it means to us, our experiences with it and how we can better recognize our successes and worth.

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While in theory, the democratization of information could expand citizens' knowledge and insight, in practice, we live in an era of "information disorder" that could upend global politics. In the Pacific Views Talk for Fall 2026, Julia Morse (Political Science) examines how information disorder is changing conflict and cooperation alongside developments in AI, and recommends how policymakers might respond to such challenges.

Julia C. Morse is Associate Professor of Political Science at UCSB and the author of The Bankers' Blacklist (Cornell University Press, 2022). Her research examines international organizations, compliance, and the politics of information, including contestation and disinformation in the AI age.

She is currently co-authoring a book Damage Control: Lies, Evasions, and the Cost of Breaking International Law, and also serves as a non-resident fellow at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, where she co-directs the AI Upskilling for Social Scientists program. Prior to academia, Morse worked as an FBI intelligence analyst and a foreign affairs officer at the US Department of State. She is a 2025–2026 UCSB Public Voices Fellow.

Morse will deliver a presentation that is approximately 45-minutes, followed by a Q&A session.

This event may be photographed or recorded.

Advance registration is recommended as space is limited.

More Information

Debra Herrick, “How information disorder shapes global politics,” The Current, 2026.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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SUPERVISORS and NON-SUPERVISORS are welcome.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Fall 2026

WEDNESDAYS | 12 PM | MUSIC BOWL | FREE

Experience rhythms, cultures, and sounds from around the world with the World Music Series featuring a vibrant lineup of global and local music traditions, performed live on campus throughout the Fall 2026 quarter.

Wednesdays, Noon, Free at the Music Department’s Outdoor Amphitheater, the Music Bowl

Presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center & the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music

NORTEÑO MUSIC with LOS CATANES DEL NORTE
Wednesday, Oct. 7th
Los Catanes del Norte will perform music from different regions in Mexico including corridos, rancheras, and boleros norteños.

Mariachi Las Olas De SB
Wednesday, Oct. 14th
Santa Barbara-based Mariachi Las Olas, founded and directed by Juan Zaragoza, will perform perform various music genres from Mexico including rancheras, boleros, corridos, sones and gustos.

UCSB Middle East Ensemble
Wednesday, Oct 21st
Scott Marcus leads a performance by the UCSB Middle East Ensemble of music and dance from a variety of Middle Eastern cultures, performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments.

UCSB GAMELAN ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Oct. 28th
Directed by Richard North, the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will showcase an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, and lively interlocking rhythms.

UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR
Wednesday, Nov. 4th
Directed by Victor Bell, the UCSB Gospel Choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.

Wednesday, Nov. 11th VETERANS DAY!!!! No concert

UCSB SON JAROCHO ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Nov. 18th
Directed by Jorge Mijangos, the UCSB Son Jarocho Ensemble presents music and dance from Veracruz, Mexico that blends Mexican, Spanish and African elements. Largely focused on fandango–a space that promotes community and cultural identity through song, dance and verse–the music is deeply tied to nature, rural life, and social justice.

Wednesday, Nov. 25th Thanksgiving No concert

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Space is limited. You’ll be contacted for a brief, confidential pre-screening session.

Led by: Kate Hawley, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, ASAP

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From 5-6 PM, online and in-person attendees will learn more about the classes, consulting project, and networking opportunities that make MTM the best choice in business-oriented, tech-focused graduate programs. We'll also discuss the application process, tips for success, and our application fee sponsorship program, and conclude with Q&A.

In-person attendees are invited to join us from 6-6:30 to continue the conversation with pizza and refreshments. Meet current MTM students, faculty, and staff, and have all your questions answered!

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From 5-6 PM, online and in-person attendees will learn more about the classes, consulting project, and networking opportunities that make MTM the best choice in business-oriented, tech-focused graduate programs. We'll also discuss the application process, tips for success, and our application fee sponsorship program, and conclude with Q&A.

In-person attendees are invited to join us from 6-6:30 to continue the conversation with pizza and refreshments. Meet current MTM students, faculty, and staff, and have all your questions answered!

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Explore how to use Nectir Chat to build digital communities that can enhance student outcomes. Learn practical and simple strategies to foster engagement, collaboration, and a sense of belonging that drives academic success.

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Sponsored by the UCSB Open Source Program

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In 2010, three years after earning her MFA in photography from Syracuse University, the multidisciplinary visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier confronted a series of personal and communal losses. In addition to the death of her Grandma Ruby, a frequent collaborator and subject of her work, Frazier learned that the community hospital in her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania was set to be closed and demolished. The decision represented yet another manifestation of the systemic neglect experienced by Black residents of postindustrial communities like Braddock whose access to essential resources had been steadily eroded. In response, Frazier decided to activate her body--at once to spotlight the significance of the hospital to Braddock’s Black community and to provide broader commentary on the conditions of social, economic, and environmental abandonment its shuttering reflected. This talk turns attention to the resulting project, "LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi’s," to explore the ways performance offered Frazier a vital medium through which to reclaim time by interrogating the ongoing effects of the decline of industrial activity in places like Braddock and to advance critiques of the narratives of progress that have sustained investments in a normative temporal order that fails to account for Black living and flourishing.

Dr. Isaiah Wooden is Associate Professor of Theater at Swarthmore College. He is author of Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture (Northwestern University Press, 2025), finalist for the 2026 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award. He is also co-editor of August Wilson in Context (Cambridge UP, 2025) and Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration (Northwestern UP, 2020). In addition, Wooden has contributed more than sixty articles, essays, and reviews on contemporary art, drama, and performance to scholarly and popular publications, including The Black Scholar, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Theatre Topics, The Huffington Post, and PopMatters, among others.

Sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance, Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative, and Department of English.

Photo: "LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi’s,” 2010. LaToya Ruby Frazier; courtesy LaToya Ruby Frazier / Gladstone Gallery

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Shelley Stamp (Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz) will join moderator Kyna McClenaghan (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a pre- and post-screening discussion of Carrie and its legacy.

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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To facilitate peer-to-peer support and discussion of best practices.

To enable focused communications from university stakeholders.

To provide relevant professional development and resources.

Add the CoP meetings to your calendar

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This interactive session will explore how colleagues across UCSB are leveraging Google Gemini to support their work.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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4:00-7:00pm

October 30, 2026

College of Creative Studies Gallery (Building 494, Room 103)

UC-Santa Barbara

Free and Open to the Public

Music provided by DJ Fridge and Ty. Drinks and light refreshments will be served.

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Featured works:

A Gaggle of Saints by Neil Labute
Directed by Daegan Bowers

The Bear by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Can Basoglu

Man in the Basement by Arlene Hutton
Directed by Justin Macaraeg

Funeral in the Rain by FJ Hartland
Directed by Sarah Kondas

Photo courtesy of Paolo Gardinali

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Bringing together eight artists across various mediums, Cosmic Synastry highlights the productive tension between collective understanding and individual interpretation as an essential condition of meaning. In place of a conventional biography, each artist’s astrological birth chart will be presented alongside their work to situate the artist and viewer in a shared symbolic system: astrology. Taking its name from astrological synastry, the practice of comparing two individuals’ birth charts to discover the relationship between them, this exhibition encourages viewers to draw from their personal experiences and collective understandings of the zodiac to generate interpretations of each artwork’s meaning. Cosmic Synastry encourages viewers to interpret symbols through signs, the artists’ and their own.

Please read our Press Release for more information.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Featured works:

A Gaggle of Saints by Neil Labute
Directed by Daegan Bowers

The Bear by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Can Basoglu

Man in the Basement by Arlene Hutton
Directed by Justin Macaraeg

Funeral in the Rain by FJ Hartland
Directed by Sarah Kondas

Photo courtesy of Paolo Gardinali

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Featured works:

A Gaggle of Saints by Neil Labute
Directed by Daegan Bowers

The Bear by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Can Basoglu

Man in the Basement by Arlene Hutton
Directed by Justin Macaraeg

Funeral in the Rain by FJ Hartland
Directed by Sarah Kondas

Photo courtesy of Paolo Gardinali

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Gemidos de la Tierra currently consists of twelve panels honoring the names of over 200 immigrants who have lost their lives while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody between 2003 and 2023. On November 1, joined by her collaborators and community, Amézquita will publicly activate this work by continuing to add the names of those who have passed away since 2023.

Please join us in a public memorial for the hundreds of people who have died in ICE detention. This is a space for memory, dignity, and collective healing. Comfortable attire is encouraged; event will take place outdoors.

For accessibility accommodations, please contact us as soon as you can. Advance notice helps us fulfill your request.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Guided Walking Meditation

September 14, 2026 | 9:00am - 10:00am PT

Are you looking for more energy? To relax and reduce stress? To take a break? To be physically active? To have fun? If you answered yes to any of these questions, join us for this guided session to experience the benefits of mindful walking.

Guided Meditation for Love & Kindness

October 5, 2026 | 9:00am - 10:00am PT

Loving-kindness meditation is all about sending feelings of love, kindness, and goodwill to yourself and others. Explore the benefits of opening your heart and nurturing compassion during this guided practice.

Guided Meditation for Cultivating Gratitude

November 2, 2026 | 9:00am - 10:00am PT

Gratitude can help you feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve your health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships. Join us for this webinar to unlock the transformative power of a mindful gratitude practice. 

Mindfulness to Ease Holiday Stress

December 7, 2026 | 9:00am - 10:00am PT

While the holidays can bring joy to many, they can also bring stress and burnout. Discover how mindfulness can help you cultivate inner peace, boost your mood, and reclaim your energy this holiday season.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

Identify their own and other’s conflict stylesAnalyze and map workplace conflictSelect an appropriate strategy for managing workplace conflictCreate a conflict resolution planThis workshop addresses the following UC Systemwide Core Competency ABCs:

Belonging and CommunityStewardshipProblem SolvingCommunicationCollaborationPlease note: credit for similar courses at your location will not be provided for completion of this course.

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Courses will be held every other Wednesday, from 9:10am-9:50am via Zoom. Please check the Human Resources Employee Services website for a full list of topics and schedules.

Digital Accessibility - Inclusivity in Your Everyday Work w/ Eric Mayes - "Learn the importance of digital accessibility, the definition of "digital content" and resources to help you ensure accessibility in your work!"

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Fall 2026

WEDNESDAYS | 12 PM | MUSIC BOWL | FREE

Experience rhythms, cultures, and sounds from around the world with the World Music Series featuring a vibrant lineup of global and local music traditions, performed live on campus throughout the Fall 2026 quarter.

Wednesdays, Noon, Free at the Music Department’s Outdoor Amphitheater, the Music Bowl

Presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center & the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music

NORTEÑO MUSIC with LOS CATANES DEL NORTE
Wednesday, Oct. 7th
Los Catanes del Norte will perform music from different regions in Mexico including corridos, rancheras, and boleros norteños.

Mariachi Las Olas De SB
Wednesday, Oct. 14th
Santa Barbara-based Mariachi Las Olas, founded and directed by Juan Zaragoza, will perform perform various music genres from Mexico including rancheras, boleros, corridos, sones and gustos.

UCSB Middle East Ensemble
Wednesday, Oct 21st
Scott Marcus leads a performance by the UCSB Middle East Ensemble of music and dance from a variety of Middle Eastern cultures, performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments.

UCSB GAMELAN ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Oct. 28th
Directed by Richard North, the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will showcase an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, and lively interlocking rhythms.

UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR
Wednesday, Nov. 4th
Directed by Victor Bell, the UCSB Gospel Choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.

Wednesday, Nov. 11th VETERANS DAY!!!! No concert

UCSB SON JAROCHO ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, Nov. 18th
Directed by Jorge Mijangos, the UCSB Son Jarocho Ensemble presents music and dance from Veracruz, Mexico that blends Mexican, Spanish and African elements. Largely focused on fandango–a space that promotes community and cultural identity through song, dance and verse–the music is deeply tied to nature, rural life, and social justice.

Wednesday, Nov. 25th Thanksgiving No concert

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Space is limited. You’ll be contacted for a brief, confidential pre-screening session.

Led by: Kate Hawley, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, ASAP

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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SUPERVISORS and NON-SUPERVISORS are welcome.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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What does it take for students to truly thrive today? Join instructors, TAs, and students for a candid dialogue on how academic pressure, a sense of belonging, and the rise of AI are shaping the learning experience at UCSB. Together, we’ll discuss student perspectives and share practical ways instructors can foster supportive, connected classrooms.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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This is a live, in-person event. Bring a blanket or lawn chair, grab some snacks, and enjoy the recital from the lawn outside the tower!

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Wesley Arai was appointed Lecturer and University Carillonist at UCSB in 2018. He plays the 61-bell Storke Tower carillon regularly and teaches carillon to UCSB students. Arai studied carillon with Jeff Davis as an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received BA degrees in Mathematics and Statistics. While earning an MA degree in Mathematics at UCLA, he continued to play the carillon and subsequently passed the Carillonneur examination of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. Arai then served as Associate Carillonist at the University of California, Berkeley. An active recitalist, Arai has performed extensively across the United States and abroad. Recent performances include the dedicatory recital for the carillon at the University of Washington, the Berkeley Carillon Festival, the Congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, the Springfield International Carillon Festival, the Perpignan (France) International Carillon Festival, and the Barcelona International Carillon Festival. Arai is also an annual recitalist at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Spokane, Washington and is a frequent recitalist at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

ABOUT THE STORKE TOWER CARILLON
UC Santa Barbara's Storke Tower and its carillon were a gift from Thomas Storke, former publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. The instrument consists of 61 bells cast by Petit & Fritsen of the Netherlands, with the bells weighing from 18 pounds to 2.5 tons, and spanning five octaves. The UCSB carillon is a much larger modern copy of historical instruments that were invented approximately 500 years ago in the Low Countries of Europe. Tower bells had previously been used for signaling time and for additional signals such as "Close the City Gates", "Go to church", and "An enemy is coming." Eventually, the number of bells was increased and were hooked up to a keyboard to facilitate the performance of music. A melody was often played to attract the attention of the townspeople before the hour bell tolled the time throughout the day. A carillon is played with the fists and feet, and the action is completely mechanical. To vary the dynamics of the music, the performer must strike the key harder or use a lighter touch, much like a piano. The UC Santa Barbara carillon celebrated its 50th birthday in 2019.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Learn to load in data and visualize it with ggplot2. Explore dataframes, common data cleaning operations, and core concepts like vectors and factors. Finally, learners will be introduced to the flow of data in R, and how to combine operations to select, filter, and mutate a data frame.

This lesson assumes no prior knowledge of R or RStudio and no programming experience.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Learn to load in data and visualize it with ggplot2. Explore dataframes, common data cleaning operations, and core concepts like vectors and factors. Finally, learners will be introduced to the flow of data in R, and how to combine operations to select, filter, and mutate a data frame.

This lesson assumes no prior knowledge of R or RStudio and no programming experience.

Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2274928

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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This workshop will explicitly focus on how we currently assess student learning and what shifts/changes are necessary to ensure equitable student outcomes and genuine understanding of student learning processes. With a focus on Alternative Assessment, we will examine together how research-based assessment practices circumvent AI malpractice.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Sponsored by the UCSB Open Source Program

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Jeffrey Hoelle is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia.

Refreshments will be served.

Cosponsored by the IHC’s Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment

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Thursday, November 12 | 7:30pm
Friday, November 13 | 7:30pm
Saturday, November 14 | 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, November 15 | 7:30pm

Performing Arts Theater, UCSB
Free Admission

All My Sons by Arthur Miller is a three-act tragic play set in the backyard of the Keller family home in August 1947, examining guilt, greed, and moral responsibility after World War II.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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SUPERVISORS and NON-SUPERVISORS are welcome.

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To facilitate peer-to-peer support and discussion of best practices.

To enable focused communications from university stakeholders.

To provide relevant professional development and resources.

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The latest news and research about AI in/for courses at UCSB.

Short informal presentations from faculty and students who are using AI for teaching and learning purposes.

Peer sharing, Q&A, and tech demos.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Thursday, November 12 | 7:30pm
Friday, November 13 | 7:30pm
Saturday, November 14 | 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, November 15 | 7:30pm

Performing Arts Theater, UCSB
Free Admission

All My Sons by Arthur Miller is a three-act tragic play set in the backyard of the Keller family home in August 1947, examining guilt, greed, and moral responsibility after World War II.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Extending Healthy Lifespan: The Promises and Societal Challenges of Longevity Science

Join Professor Joel Rothman, Director and Founder, UCSB Center for Aging & Longevity Studies, for an engaging lecture and discussion on groundbreaking advances in the science of aging and emerging technologies that may soon slow or even reverse age-related decline.

The presentation examines what science tells us about how our own behaviors, from diet and exercise to creative and cultural engagement, can meaningfully alter healthy longevity. It will then explore groundbreaking innovations including gene therapies, cellular reprogramming, AI-driven discovery, and anti-aging vaccines. Professor Rothman will also invite participants to consider the profound personal and societal questions these discoveries raise, from equitable access to how greatly extended, healthier lives will reshape identity, family and retirement. Audience discussion and Q&A will be included throughout. The program is roughly two hours, including a 15-20 minute break.

Speaker: Joel Rothman — Director and Founder, UCSB Center for Aging & Longevity Studies, and Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and the Wilcox Family Chair in Biotechnology.

Co-sponsored by the SBCC School of Extended Learning and the SBCC Foundation.

Reception immediately following the event.

Saturday, November 14, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Business and Communications (BC) Forum; SBCC West Cliff Campus, 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara 93109

Free –Please RSVP: https://evite.me/pf6bg94ZDh

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Thursday, November 12 | 7:30pm
Friday, November 13 | 7:30pm
Saturday, November 14 | 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, November 15 | 7:30pm

Performing Arts Theater, UCSB
Free Admission

All My Sons by Arthur Miller is a three-act tragic play set in the backyard of the Keller family home in August 1947, examining guilt, greed, and moral responsibility after World War II.

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Thursday, November 12 | 7:30pm
Friday, November 13 | 7:30pm
Saturday, November 14 | 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, November 15 | 7:30pm

Performing Arts Theater, UCSB
Free Admission

All My Sons by Arthur Miller is a three-act tragic play set in the backyard of the Keller family home in August 1947, examining guilt, greed, and moral responsibility after World War II.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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On November 1 as part of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, Amézquita will publicly update the work with the names of those who have passed away in recent years. Each name is hand-cast using soil from the state where the person died, combined with masa, salt, and rainwater—materials that carry cultural, ancestral, and elemental resonance. This method of making is both devotional and political: a way of calling the body back into presence and refusing erasure. Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) honors the humanity of those whose lives have been reduced to statistics, offering a stark contrast to the cold, bureaucratic erasure that often accompanies death within carceral systems. In this light, the AD&A Museum shares this history for collective witnessing as caretakers of their memory.

Amézquita is 2026 Artist in Residence of Ecological Practice at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration in partnership with the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. During her residency, Amézquita will conduct fieldwork on campus as well as at the Santa Cruz Island Reserve to learn about native ecosystems, plant pollination, and soil remediation. Amézquita’s research will inform a newly commissioned work as part of this exhibition presentation at the AD&A Museum.

Jackie Amézquita: Gemidos de la Tierra is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

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Thursday, November 12 | 7:30pm
Friday, November 13 | 7:30pm
Saturday, November 14 | 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, November 15 | 7:30pm

Performing Arts Theater, UCSB
Free Admission

All My Sons by Arthur Miller is a three-act tragic play set in the backyard of the Keller family home in August 1947, examining guilt, greed, and moral responsibility after World War II.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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October 19, 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

Caregiving can be overwhelming, often leaving little time to care for yourself. Learn practical ways to navigate the demands of multi-generational caregiving—from supporting children to aging family members—and gain tools to strengthen your own health and wellbeing.

The Healthy Holiday Mix: Sleep, Exercise, Love & Food

November 16, 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

The holidays can bring joy – but also stress, fatigue and schedule overload. Give yourself the gift of self-compassion – adding movement or taking rest. Even lessening the guilt of enjoying food – especially if you have a chronic condition. Apply tips for staying healthy and energized all season long.

Cozy Up: Discover the Magic of Hygge

December 14, 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

Discover the Danish art of hygge—the practice of creating warmth, comfort, and joy in everyday moments, especially during the fall and winter seasons. Learn to find contentment in slower rhythms and develop mindful habits that foster coziness, support restful sleep, and nurture wellbeing. Give yourself permission to embrace a gentler pace and savor quiet moments without rush.

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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James Miller is Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives at Duke Kunshan University. A scholar of Chinese religions, with a focus on Daoism and Ecology, he has authored or edited six books including China's Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future (Columbia 2017). He also chairs the Royal Asiatic Society, China, and edits the academic journal Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology.

This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, the East Asia Center, and the Environmental Studies Program. https://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/news/dont-save-planet-and-other-lessons-daoist-philosophy-james-miller

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The program kicks off in winter with a book giveaway for UCSB students led by the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and University Librarian, and culminates with a free public talk by the book’s author(s) at Campbell Hall in the spring. Throughout the winter and spring quarters, the Library sponsors a variety of free learning, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes. The selected book is also incorporated into the university curriculum for winter and spring, allowing students to explore its themes in an academic context. UCSB Reads is generously supported by many individuals, university departments, and organizations.

This exhibition highlights the history of UCSB Reads since its inception, featuring promotional posters, selected books, custom bookmarks along with testimonials and images of participants engaging with programming throughout the years. UCSB Reads has become a beloved campus tradition that brings together thousands of people every year and demonstrates the power of literature to bridge divides, promote intellectual engagement, and build community.

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Dynamic Keynote Speeches: Inspiring speakers will focus on continuous improvement at UC Santa Barbara and across higher education.Skill-Building Workshops: From Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement fundamentals to specialized topics, there's something for everyone.Process Improvement Challenge: Watch as teams work together to analyze and improve a campus process in real-time.Project Expo: Learn about Green Belt project successes and outcomes.Networking Opportunities: Connect with peers, share experiences, and build community among process improvement enthusiasts and newcomers alike.

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By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Identify the organizational approach to change related to their particular change initiativeWrite a case for change, a vision for the future, and create a change planCreate a team-specific communication planExplain the leader’s role in change management and the skills required to successfully lead a change initiativeExplore resistance to change, and learn ways to address it productivelyIdentify ways to inspire commitment and help implement changeLocate resources to guide and support change management effortsThis workshop addresses the following UC Systemwide Core Competency ABCs:

Belonging and CommunityChange AgilityCommunicationContinuous ImprovementProblem SolvingPlease note: credit for similar courses at your location will not be provided for completion of this course.

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Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 traces Sherk’s sustained commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere and her influential role within the first generation of California Conceptual and performance artists, as well as within the artist-run space movement of the era. It showcases newly transferred film and video alongside rarely seen photographs, collages, works on paper, artist books, printed matter, and ephemera documenting Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The AD&A Museum is an educational partner of the multi-year initiative High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), which celebrates and historicizes High Performance (1978–97), the first international magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. Through educational collaborations and programming, this exhibition highlights Sherk’s feature in the magazine. UCSB students will also offer personalized tours of the exhibition as a reflection of their learning environment and varied disciplinary interests.

Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 was organized by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco and curated by Tanya Zimbardo. The presentation at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. The exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture was generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the FMCAC Board of Directors, and individual contributions to the Fort Mason Fund. The exhibition at the AD&A Museum is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Generous support is additionally provided by Isabelle Clara Greene, FASLA.

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