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‘A Celtic Christmas’ brings Irish music and storytelling back to Santa Cruz
Now in its 29th year, A Celtic Christmas is returning to UC Santa Cruz on Friday December 13th. UC Santa Cruz senior lecturer William Coulter is the shows music director, and comments on the upcoming event.
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Animations of coiled hair for Black film characters improve with new algorithms
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UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts lives up to a smart adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s ‘Inspector General’
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World Premiere of ‘Here Comes the Night’ to Open at Moving Arts Theatre
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We’re Much Closer to A Disney Princess With Type 4 Hair
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Award-winning independent filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha visits UC Santa Cruz
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Creative Technologies is a new major for a new age
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Gift of Bösendorfer grand pianos elevates music excellence at UC Santa Cruz
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Danza a la Rebeldía: Student-created mural unveiled at Baskin Visual Arts Center is a celebration of resilience
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Campus secures funding for innovative research projects addressing climate action and linguistic diversity
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Professor Elliot Anderson named the inaugural director of the new AI lab for the Arts Division
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Professor A.M. Darke creates groundbreaking work in Black representation
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UC Santa Cruz professor Anna Friz wins international prize in radio
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We will not experience the full power of the arts unless access to the means of representation is available to all. And we will not realize the full power of the arts if our iconographies and methodologies are dictated by the very few. So, I am driven to expand access so that authorship, critique and the shaping of what we know can be driven by all, and what we take for granted or natural can shift, and to keep our definition of the arts, fervently open.