Isla Vista Arts
organization at the University of California
Isla Vista Arts (shortened to IV Arts) is an organization at the University of California, Santa Barbara with the goal of promoting art and culture in the small, neighboring community of Isla Vista, California. It is affiliated with the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Associated Students. Isla Vista Arts provides free and low-cost entertainment to college students and community members.
Programs include I.V. Live, Magic Lantern Films, WORD Magazine, the BOX, and Nuestra Voz, which are also available to UCSB students as courses. I.V. Live produces the weekly comedy show Improvability and the yearly event Shakespeare in the Park. Isla Vista Arts also helps promote and advertise local student initiatives in art, self-expression, comedy, theater, and more.
Programs
Magic Lantern Films
Magic Lantern Films began in 2004 and presents movies on Friday and Monday nights in the Isla Vista Theater. It says that the film distributors Swank and Criterion, who specialize in college markets, said this is the most successful film program of its kind in California. Magic Lantern Films is linked to the course Film and Media Studies 119 at UCSB, and it teaches students how to produce and manage a film festival.
Magic Lantern Films takes its name from the old Magic Lantern Theater, now the Isla Vista Theater.
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