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Sonita - FREE Film

11/30/2016

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Sonita chronicles the remarkable journey of an Afghan teen living in Tehran who dreams of becoming a famous pop star, but she faces a government that doesn’t allow girls to sing alone and a family that intends to sell her off as a child bride. She turns to rap music to push back against the traditions bearing down on her, becoming a unique and passionate voice for freedom that resounds far beyond her own personal plight. (2015, 90 min.)
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Steven Johnson at UCSB 

11/29/2016

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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

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Photo by David Bazemore
“One of the Top 10 Brains of the Digital Future.” Prospect magazine
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One of our most inventive thinkers, Steven Johnson is a leading light of today’s interdisciplinary, collaborative, open-minded approach to innovation and his writings have influenced everything from cutting-edge ideas in urban planning to the fight against terrorism. He is the bestselling author of nine books – including Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation and How We Got to Now. In his latest book, Wonderland, Johnson shows how the pursuit of wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change, and that future is found wherever people are having the most fun.
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Ping Chong + Company - Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity 

11/19/2016

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Written by Ping Chong and Sara Zatz, with Ryan Conarro
In collaboration with the performers: Tiffany Yasmin Abdelghani, Ferdous Dehqan, Kadin Herring, Amir Khafagy and Maha Syed

“There won’t be a more important show presented in Santa Barbara this year. Everyone needs to hear these voices, especially now, and the blessing that this booking by UCSB Arts & Lectures represents for our community at this critical moment can hardly be overstated.” – Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent 
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Ping Chong + Company Playwriting Workshop

11/19/2016

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Amir Khafagy of Ping Chong + Company in a playwriting workshop with undergraduate and graduate student writers at UCSB.
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An Evening with Joan Baez

11/3/2016

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“Joan Baez is still the mother of us all.” The New York Times

“Though many know her first for her gently trilling soprano voice, activism is as much a part of Baez’s identity as the sound.”
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Legendary folk singer Joan Baez is a musical force of nature. She marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired Václav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, then 40 years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for protesting the Iraq war. Her earliest recordings fed traditional ballads into the rock vernacular, before she introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963.
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