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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Prose 1st Place Winner

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Prose 1st Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won first place in the prose category.

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Photography

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Photography

This spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted an annual contest to highlight creative student voices across the campus. The following are the winning submissions in the Photography category.

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Music

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Music

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. Here are the first and second prize winners in the music category.

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Visual Art

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Visual Art

This spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted an annual contest to highlight creative student voices across the campus. The following are the winning submissions in the visual art category.

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Poetry Third Place Winner

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Poetry Third Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following poem won third place in the poetry category.

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Poetry Second Place Winner

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Poetry Second Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. Here is the second place in the poetry category.

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Poetry First Place Winner

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HFA Creativity Contest 2024: Poetry First Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. This poem won first place in the poetry category.

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Honoring Student Creativity: Give Day 2024

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Honoring Student Creativity: Give Day 2024

An award ceremony and luncheon was held at UC Santa Barbara’s Mosher Alumni House last week to honor the recipients of the Give Day 2024 Student Creativity Contest, sponsored by the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts. HFA dean Daina Ramey Berry joined students, faculty, staff, alumni and donors to celebrate. Winning entries will run in the coming days on the HFA website.

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Jazz as a Design for Living

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Jazz as a Design for Living

UCSB Black Studies professor Jeffrey Stewart recently hosted his jazz pop-event Jeffrey’s Jazz Coffeehouse featuring the Los Angeles based jazz artists Ben Caldwell and Love and Exile Players. The event, which was originally created to bring healing to the Isla Vista community following a mass shooting tragedy, honored the history of jazz music and brought members of the community together.

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UCSB Students Start a Musical Theater Company

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UCSB Students Start a Musical Theater Company

Stained Glass Productions, a new student-run theater collective at UC Santa Barbara, staged its first production, "Seasons of Broadway: A Cabaret," hoping to give students more opportunities to perform musical theater. The ensemble of 16 students performed from multiple renowned musicals, all songs falling into the theme of fall, winter, spring, or summer.

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A Cinematic Focus on Native American Women

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A Cinematic Focus on Native American Women

As part of its “Storytelling for the Screen” series, the Carsey-Wolf Center hosted queer and Native American director, writer, and producer Erica Tremblay for a post-screening conversation about her film, “Fancy Dance” with moderator Lisa Parks, a professor in UCSB’s Film and Media Studies department. 

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Bridging Public Art and Academia

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Bridging Public Art and Academia

Discussing a career in public art spanning 30 years, Art Department professor Kim Yasuda presented the talk “Public Art and Campus Placemaking: Recentering the Artist in Communities of Practice” at UC Santa Barbara’s library, in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2024. Yasuda emphasized collaboration across disciplines and cultural advocacy in her efforts to connect students, scholars, and the public.

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 Political Satire in Middle East Literary History

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Political Satire in Middle East Literary History

UCSB Religious Studies professor Janet Afary discussed her book Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 with department colleague Dwight Reynolds as part of the series “Humanities Decanted,” an Interdisciplinary Humanities Center program in which UCSB scholars present their newest works in a relaxed environment. Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911, explores the first era of the 20th century Middle Eastern journal Mollā Nasreddin and its use of visual art, folklore, and satire to transmit social democratic ideas in Transcaucasia and Iran.

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