Works and Ideas
Arts Events
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Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 12:00 am to Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 12:00 am
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The annual April in Santa Cruz Festival (AiSC) returns in 2024 with UC Santa Cruz faculty and graduate students, renowned guest artists, and several visiting Minzu University dance and music faculty and students from Beijing, China.
Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 12:00 am to Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 12:00 amMusic Center, Theater Arts Center, and Digital Arts Research Center (UCSC) -
The Grammy award-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion presents the music of JLin (one of the most forward-thinking contemporary composers in any genre”, Pitchfork 2019) and a new work by Jay Afrisando (“ultramodern…on the cutting edge of new technologies”, Minnesota Public Radio 2019).
Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 7:30 pmMusic Center Recital Hall (UCSC)
Arts People
Marina Magalhães started taking dance lessons when she was five years old. She loved to dance and planned to make it her career. So, when her 7th grade teacher, Ms. Girkin, asked the class to write a list of life goals, Magalhães wrote that she wanted to be a professional dancer and choreographer and get a full scholarship to attend UCLA to study dance.
When Don Williams was in seventh grade, he signed up to be Michael Jackson singing “ABC” in a talent show. He looked forward to singing it before school. But then the boys who were going to play the Jackson 5 backed out.
Luckily, some other friends joined him. Williams loved the experience of performing.
When he was just seven years old, Martin Rizzo-Martinez started wondering about colonialism and Indigeneity after learning about grandfather’s heritage.