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April 18, 2023

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Students walk down the front steps of the new Interactive Learning Pavilion

A new, fully electric facility opens just in time for spring quarter, increasing classroom capacity by 35%

The recently completed Interactive Learning Pavilion is the campus’s first new dedicated classroom building in more than 50 years.

The vast tango archive of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla is funded for preservation

With a grant from the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation, UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections will preserve the Piazzolla tango collection for posterity — and make it accessible to the public.

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Harmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the same period

An exhibition of paintings that draw subject matter from the transatlantic slave trade and Yorùbá myths, originated at UC Santa Barbara, inspires a traveling exhibition and a new publication.

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World Music Series: Mariachi Las Olas

April 19, 2023

The band founded and directed by Juan Zaragoza performs genres from Mexico including rancheras, boleros, corridos, sones and gustos.

Does Your House Have Lions

April 25th, 2023

The Carsey-Wolf Center screens the New Delhi-based, cinéma vérité style documentary, followed by a Zoom discussion with its creators, artist Vishal Jugdeo and poet vqueeram.

National Poet Laureate Ada Limón

April 25th, 2023

The first woman of Mexican ancestry to be named U.S. poet laureate speaks at Campbell Hall.

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