Events & Exhibitions on 11/02/2021

Oct
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Día de los Muertos Altar
Día de los Muertos
  • Fri, 10/29/2021 - 8:00am to Fri, 11/05/2021 - 6:00pm
Location: Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection
Event

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a holiday from Mexico with origins dating back to the Aztecs. Now a global festivity, it is celebrated wherever the Mexican diaspora exists. Traditionally, people build...

Nov
2
Photo of 3 faculty members of UCSB
2021 Faculty Reception
  • Tue, 11/02/2021 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
Event

The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty returns this year to the Mountain Courtyard. This social event bring together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off the 2021 academic year, meet their subject librarians, and hear about current and upcoming Library initiatives. 

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Creative Edge of Collecting
The Creative Edge of Collecting
  • Fri, 02/28/2020 - 8:00am to Fri, 12/10/2021 - 5:00pm
Location: Mountain Gallery
Exhibition
In The Creative Edge of Collecting, William Davies King confronts the social and psychological impulses to collect, and also the eye-opening possibilities of the sort of things that one might assemble.
 
Curator's Statement:
In 2008,...
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Art of Science 1st Place winner - black hole
Art of Science 2020
  • Fri, 07/23/2021 - 8:00am to Sun, 12/12/2021 - 5:00pm
Location: Learning Commons
Exhibition

This exhibition features the winners of the annual Art of Science competition organized by UCSB’s Schuller Lab and Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships at the California NanoSystems Institute. The UCSB Library is proud to showcase...

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Photo by Jim Lommasson
Shadow and Light
  • Sun, 08/01/2021 - 8:00am to Fri, 03/04/2022 - 8:00am
Location: Sara Miller McCune Arts Library
Exhibition

View The Digital Exhibition. 

The Shadow and Light project compiled by Beau Beausoleil, a poet and activist in the Bay Area, memorializes Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-...

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9/11 Tribute to Light. Two lights in the place of the World Trade Center Towers.
9/11 RENEWAL/REBIRTH
  • Wed, 08/18/2021 - 9:00am to Tue, 03/08/2022 - 8:00am
Location: Online
Exhibition

View the Online Exhibition

The 9/11 RENEWAL/REBIRTH exhibition project is conceptual artist RT Livingston'...

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Filipinos in the military
Postcards from Salinas
  • Fri, 10/01/2021 - 8:00am to Mon, 06/20/2022 - 5:00pm
Location: 1st Floor, Ocean Side
Exhibition
UCSB Library is pleased to present "Postcards from Salinas," a collection of restored photographs of Filipinas/os in the Salinas Valley, 1920-1940. Each of these photographic panels tells a separate story of these pre-1941 Filipinas/os who eventually became Filipina/o Americans.
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