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World Premiere of ‘Here Comes the Night’ to Open at Moving Arts Theatre
UC Santa Cruz alumna Hailey McAfee, who graduated with a B.A. in Theater Arts, is currently directing a new play.
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We’re Much Closer to A Disney Princess With Type 4 Hair
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Composing music with AI isn’t new, but recent advances have serious implications for the music industry
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UC Santa Cruz’s ‘Inspector General’ updates classic political play
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Founder of Center for Monster Studies isn’t scared when the lights go down
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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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UC Santa Cruz professor Derek Conrad Murray appointed Editor-in-Chief of leading arts publication
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New Faculty Member – Yolande Harris, Assistant Professor of Music and Creative Technologies
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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.