Arts & Insights - a Collection of online events happening across the Humanities and Fine Arts!
Join the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts for a curated selection of virtual events across disciplines that explore current issues and ideas. We are pleased to share upcoming interactive online programming, including live lectures, presentations, performances, and post-screening film conversations, most of which are free of charge.
Students, alumni, supporters, and lifelong learners are all welcome. Come explore and interact with your HFA community, no matter where you are!
Upcoming Events
MFA grad Hope Okere will be holding an open level Spatial Awareness Workshop for those that have a curiosity to move. Okere will lead participants on ways to understand awareness of the body in relation to the environment around them.
Scan the QR code for more information and/or to RSVP.
Inspired by the ongoing art exhibit A Box of One’s Own: Women Beyond Borders going on until May 5th, the AD&A Museum will be hosting a free-art making workshop. Bring your own small box to recycle into art with help of provided tools.
RSVP here.
Dr. Svetlana Efimova, Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Media Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, will visit UCSB to discuss how Ukrainian writers and illustrators use creative techniques to address children growing up under the circumstances of war.
Rena M. Heinrich, professor of theatre practice at University of Southern California, will discuss the ways in which mixed-race Asian descent artists who crossed national, geographic, and cultural borders, had a hand in the development of modern performing arts by claiming their place in American dance studios and professional theater.
Mimi Khúc, writer, scholar, and teacher, will visit UCSB to hold three separate workshops—one for instructors, one for undergrads, and one for grad students, on ableism and unwellness in the university. See the flier below for specific times and locations.
In an event presented by the Film and Media Studies Department, Mette Simonsen, associate professor at Aalborg University, will be presenting her research on the ways digital infrastructures (wi-fi networks, satellites, etc,.) affect those living ‘on the margins.’