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UCSC faculty bring African music and arts festival to Santa Cruz April 15-21
'Slug Run IV' to take place on campus April 19
Life Lab offers popular day camp again this summer
AIS offers practice sessions with new software
Documentary to be screened on April 16
Recreation Department offers classes in basic and advanced drumming
University Center hires new manager; Conference Services to get new interim director
Women at Work Retreat is sponsoring group tickets
for Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Drivers urged to be cautious during stoplight construction
April 14, 2003
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UCSC faculty bring African
music and arts festival to Santa Cruz April 15-21
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| Karlton Hester, director of jazz studies at UCSC, is an artistic
director and performer in this year's Global African Music and Arts
Festival/Symposium. Photo courtesy of UCSC Music Department |
The second annual Global African Music and Arts Festival/Symposium will take place April 15-21 with a variety of events scheduled at UCSC, downtown Santa Cruz, and San Francisco.
The festival’s artistic directors--UCSC director of jazz studies Karlton Hester, assistant professor art history Elisabeth Cameron, and Nontsizi Cayou--have put together a dynamic program of lectures and concerts featuring pianist Randy Weston, Donald Byrd and his All-Star Quintet, Domu Africa, and Ensemble Tartit.
The festival/symposium is sponsored by the UCSC Division of Arts, Wajumbe
Cultural Institution, Zook Beat, University of California Institute for
Research in the Arts, and African American Innovators. It is cosponsored
by the UCSC Music Department, the Art History Department, Diversity Funds
Grant, and Porter College. For more information on individual performances,
purchasing tickets, and location of venues, go to the festival
web site.
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'Slug Run IV' to take place on
campus April 19
Prizes, a challenging course, a children's run, T-shirts, food, and beautiful views make for a great family event at Slug Run IV. The race, sponsored by the Santa Cruz Track Club, UCSC Cross Country Club, and Fleet Feet of Aptos, will take place on April 19, rain or shine. The event includes 10K, 5K, and Kids 1K runs.
There'll be T-shirts for all preregistered 5K and 10K entries, and the top three finishers in each five-year division will receive awards. All participants in the 1K Kids Run will receive ribbons.
Registration begins at 7 a.m.; the Kids 1K Run starts at 8 a.m.; the
5KRun/Walk begins at 8:15 a.m.; and the 10K Run starts at 8:30 a.m. The
registration fee for the 5K and 10K runs is $20/postmarked by April 14;
$25/day of race. The fee for the 1K Kids Run (12 and under) is $2.
To register, go to the Slug
Run web site, copy the registration form, and send it in. Packets
may be picked up on Friday, April 18, at Fleet Feet, 26 Rancho Del Mar
Shopping Center, Aptos, from noon to 5 p.m. Race numbers will not be mailed.
Packets also will be available race day.
For more information, call (831) 684-0867 or e-mail diane.delucchi@lmco.com
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Life Lab offers popular day camp again this summer
The Life Lab Science Program based
at UCSC will offer its popular day camp program for children again this
summer, and a new session will be offered for older children.
The Wildlands & Watering Cans Summer Day Camp is available for children
ages 7 to 10. Campers will enjoy garden-based activities and art projects,
hiking on the campus, and exploring the Farm & Garden of the Center
for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems. Registrations are being
accepted now for one-week sessions that run Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Sessions will be offered June 23-27, July 7-11, and July 14-18.
Cost is $220 per session for members of Life Lab Garden Classroom, or
$250 for nonmembers. Each session will serve 24 campers; four instructors
will provide plenty of hands-on instruction. See a sample camp
schedule
New this year is a two-week session for 11- to 13-year-olds. Millipedes
& Microscopes: A Garden Exploration will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
July 28 - August 8. Two counselors will run the session for 14 campers.
Cost is $320 per session for Life Lab members, or $350 for nonmembers.
Millipedes & Microscopes will offer older campers a chance to develop
their scientific skills as they design their own garden-based plant experiments.
They will examine invertebrates under a microscope, learn animal-tracking
techniques, learn about animal adaptations, harvest and cook produce from
the Farm & Garden, and much more.
Partial scholarship assistance is available. Details and registration
information is available online at
www.lifelab.org/camp/index.html, by calling (831) 459-2001, or by
sending e-mail to camp@lifelab.org.
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AIS offers practice sessions with new software
AIS will be offering one-hour sessions in the Kerr Hall PC Computer Lab for those who would like to get a "hands-on" experience of the PeopleSoft application environment.
Topics will include: signing In, page elements, navigation, access keys,
committing changes, and terminology.
Dates are: April 25 and 29, May 19 and 27, and June 16 and 23. Sessions
are scheduled each day at 8:30, 10, and 11:30 a.m., and 2 and 3:30 p.m.
Handouts will be provided.
To enroll, please send an e-mail to ais@ucsc.edu
with your date and time preferences. Group sessions may be scheduled.
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Documentary to be screened on April 16
The new UCSC Institute for Advanced Feminist Research will present the second in a series of three events that are part of its Feminism and Global War Project. Rhonda Ramiro of the Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines will screen the documentary film Behind the Second Front on Wednesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in the Louden Nelson Auditorium, 301 Center Street, in downtown Santa Cruz. The film chronicles the activities of an international solidarity mission that took place last July. The mission exposed the human-rights atrocities that have occurred since U.S. troops occupied Mindanao, a southern island in the Philippine archipelago, as part of the war on terrorism. This event is open to the public. Admission is free. For more information, contact Norma Ray at (831) 459-4477.
Recreation Department offers classes in basic and advanced drumming
The Recreation Office has the following classes starting this week. To register, call (831) 459-2806 or show up at the first day of the class.
Hand Drumming: Basic drumming skills, the language of rhythm,
and a knowledge base of drumming culture, while teaching music of the
African Diaspora. Ensemble setting. Drums provided. Instructor is Don
Davidson, davidson@cruzio.com.
* Class 1: Tuesdays, April 15 - May 20; 5:30 to 7 p.m.
* Class 2: Wednesdays, April 16 - May 21; 5:30 to 7 p.m.
* Location: Large oak tree above the Wellness Center, EFH
* Cost: $48 (instruction & instruments)
Ensemble Drumming Class: Advanced drum technique, accompanying
percussion, breaks, songs, arranging, and how to work as an ensemble.
Prerequisite: Intro to Hand Drumming level 1. Instructor is Don Davidson.
* Tuesdays, April 15 - May 20; 4 to 5:30 p.m.
* Location: Large Oak Tree above the Wellness Center, EFH
* Cost: $48 (instruction & instruments)
University Center hires new manager; Conference Services to get new interim director
Janice Clark has been hired as the new University Center manager. Clark
brings to campus over 17 years of experience, with nine of those years
focused specifically in local government. Her most recent experience was
with the City Manager's Office in Ventura, Calif. Clark can be reached
at (831) 459-4321.
Martha Keeler, who served as interim University Center manager prior
to Clark's hiring, will now transition into the interim Conference Services
assistant director, a position she will hold through March 2004. Keeler's
skill and expertise will be particularly important as the current assistant
director, Nancy D'Angelo, is retiring this spring. Keeler can be reached
at (831) 459-2611.
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Women at Work Retreat is sponsoring
group tickets for Shakespeare Santa Cruz
The
Women at Work Retreat is again this year sponsoring group tickets for
staff and faculty for Shakespeare
Santa Cruz plays. The group rate is available for three Friday evening
performances in August, at a cost of $18 per ticket.
The reduced-price tickets are available for the following performances:
- August 8 at 8 p.m., Festival Glen, Comedy
of Errors
- August 15 at 8 p.m., Festival Glen, Hamlet
- August 22 at 8 p.m., Theater Arts Mainstage, Private Lives
To order tickets, print out the order form
and send it, along with your check, to Diana Sue Miller, c/o of Central
Purchasing. Tickets will be available for pickup in early August. For
more information, call Diana Sue Miller at (831) 459-2882.
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Drivers urged to be cautious during stoplight construction
Currents provides regular updates on construction projects that have an impact on campus transportation and parking. Construction update story
For more information, visit the Transportation
and Parking Services web site and the Physical
Planning and Construction web site.
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