Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country during which Axel challenges Eyal’s values. Eytan Fox, 103 min., English, Hebrew, and German, 2004, Israel. Co-sponsored by the Israeli Palestinian Film Festival.

Walk on Water
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 6pm
UCSB Multicultural Center – End of UCen Rd
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Which Way Home – Film Screening
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 6pm
UCSB Multicultural Center – end of UCen Rd
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The LA Weekly calls them “cross pollinated gypsy music….one of the most thrilling young acts on the planet.” Formed in 2005 and playing everywhere from the hippest LA clubs to festivals, and even on the street, the band includes two explosive violins, the best slap bass player in the world, musical saw, flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar, trombone, opera, jazz and gypsy vocals, accordion and one little banjolele. Tickets $5 students / $15 general. Contact the A.S. Ticket Office at 805-893-2064.

Fishtank Ensemble
Friday, January 29, 2010, 8pm
UCSB Multicultural Center – End of UCen Rd
$5 Students/$15 General Public
Tickets: AS Ticket Office 805/893-2064

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet – 6 PM
“An absolute treat for balletomanes.” Variety

Documentary master Frederick Wiseman turns his attention to one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, The Paris Opera Ballet, as they rehearse and perform seven ballets including Le Songe de Medée by Angelin Preljocaj, Orphée and Eurydice by Pina Bausch, and Romeo and Juliette by Sasha Waltz. (2009, 158 min.)

Strictly Bolshoi – 9 PM
“Even if you aren’t a dance fan you will appreciate the drama and laughs…” The Times, London

This Emmy Award-winning film follows sought-after ballet choreographer Christopher Wheeldon as he becomes the first Englishman to be invited to create a new work for Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi Ballet. Featuring some of the world’s finest classical ballet dancers in rare rehearsal footage of Wheeldon’s creation, the compelling docu-drama captures the pressures and demands in creating a ballet worthy of the dancers and the Bolshoi’s strict traditions. (Michael Nunn & William Trevitt, 2007, 77 min.)

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 6:00 pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $10.00, UCSB Students $8.00
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Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, P.W. Singer reveals how science fiction is fast becoming a reality on the battlefield in his new book Wired for War. Singer argues that a massive shift in military technology and the advent of robotic warfare is changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. The author of the eerily prescient award-winning books Corporate Warriors, about private military contractors, and Children at War, about child soldiers, Singer will discuss his recent work.

Admission is free for UCSB students with valid UCSB ID.

P.W. Singer
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7:30 pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $12.00
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From the streets of Brazil – a country where beats are celebrated and dance is a generation’s second language – Artistic Director Bruno Beltrão and the powerhouse Grupo de Rua bring the lightning-fast head-spins and stands, hand-jumps, turns and tumbles honed in the back streets of Rio de Janeiro to Campbell Hall for a totally new and fresh look at street dance. The brilliant all male company will perform Beltrão’s newest work, H3 that dispenses with heavy beats and macho posturing to create a minimalist, almost meditative interpretation of hip-hop in which the movement itself becomes its own pulsating rhythm.

Grupo de Rua
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 @ 8:00pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $40.00, UCSB Students $19.00
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One of the most imaginative, versatile and constantly interesting pianists today, Vladimir Feltsman is an artist of immense range and insight. The Russian-born musician has dazzled audiences from his North American debut at the Reagan White House to appearances on the most prestigious concert series and music festivals the world over. A regular guest soloist with every leading orchestra in the United States, his vast repertoire includes music from Baroque to 20th-century composers. The Chicago Tribune calls him, “clearly, one of the supreme Bach keyboard exponents of our time.”

Program
Bach: Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV. 825
Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”
Chopin: Four Ballades

Generously supported by Marsha & Bill Wayne.

Sponsored by KDB radio.

Vladimir Feltsman, Pianist
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 7:30 PM
UCSB, Hahn Hall
General public $35.00, UCSB Students $18.00
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The Yes Men Fix The World
Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 7:30 & 9:30 pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $6.00, UCSB Students $5.00
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An absurdist political comedy with razor-sharp dialogue, In the Loop satirizes the ineptitude of our highest leaders and their culture of spin in a film that is “relentlessly funny – vicious and delicious” (The Guardian, London). With everyone looking out for number one and the fate of the free world at stake, the hilarious ensemble cast of characters (Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini) bumbles its way across continents and through Machiavellian political dealings to unforeseeable comic resolutions. (Armando Iannucci, 2009, 106 min.)

Sponsored by Santa Barbara Independent and KCSB Radio.

In The Loop
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $6.00, UCSB Students $5.00
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Saturday, December 5, 2009, 8 pm
Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, Music Building, UCSB
$17/General Public, $9/Students
Ages 12+

For tickets, please contact the Associated Students Ticket Office at (805) 893-2064 or you can purchase them at the door. Tickets sell out fast!