The Effects of Trauma

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Two speakers in UCSB Arts & Lectures program, pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and columnist/writer/activist Nicholas Kristof, had a common thread in their presentations: the negative impact of poverty and the resulting traumas on health and wellbeing. Dr. Harris has been a pioneer in the treatment of toxic stress in…

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A Long Way from the Prairie

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Multi Grammy-winner Joyce DiDonato was born in a suburb of Kansas City, but once she got a taste of opera while attending Wichita State University there was no looking back. A lyric coloratura mezzo soprano who sings with uncommon beauty, passion and a dash of humor, she has established herself…

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Delusions of Beauty?

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Dance, like most art, is partly an endeavor to delude, a kind of illusion, making something that appears to be sublime out of movements that are extremely hard to perform and often require distortions of what is natural for a body to do. Kalopsia, a Greek word that literally means beautiful…

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Essential Sings Like Hell

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There have been plenty of bands, stars and future stars, but a singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar has been a mainstay of Peggie Jones’s Sings Like Hell, often someone you’ve never heard before. The April show featured a 2 man iteration of Tender Mercies with Patrick Winningham filling the guitar…

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