Isla Vista Arts

Live, Magic Lantern Films, WORD Magazine, the BOX, and Nuestra Voz, which are also available to UCSB students as courses.

Magic Lantern Films began in 2004 and presents movies on Friday and Monday nights in the Isla Vista Theater.

Live began as an initiative by UCSB theater professor Catherine Cole to provide cultural options beyond parties for students.

Live is both a production course (THTR 42/142) sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance and an Office of Student Life campus organization, a hybrid of academics and community service.

WORD is a quarterly arts and culture magazine published by the UCSB course INT 185ST[5] and partnered with the Office of Student Life.

[7] WORD was started in Fall 2007[8] when Kim Yasuda, a UCSB art professor, discovered a copy of Isla Vista magazine I.V.

In winter 2008, Isla Vista Arts premiered Shakespeare in the Park's first production of Julius Caesar, an hour-long, abridged version of the tragedy.

[13] Isla Vista teenagers teamed with senior citizens and UCSB students to create prototype monuments for their community.

The Monument Project was presented in conjunction with the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) conference hosted by UCSB.

IV Arts began as part of UCSB's response to the 2001 Isla Vista killings, providing weekend evening activities for students as an alternative to alcohol-centered events.

[16] On the evening of the 2014 Isla Vista killings, IV Arts was hosting its weekly improv comedy show, and it locked the doors of the theater and continued performing beyond the scheduled end time to protect and keep occupied the college students and local school children in the audience.