Events around Santa Barbara
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents disability rights advocate Eddie Ndopu delivering a FREE public lecture titled Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever on Thursday, November 2 at UCSB Campbell Hall. “One of the most powerful disabled people on the planet (Time magazine),” Eddie Ndopu is an award-winning global humanitarian and disability …
“London’s most adventurous and dynamic mainstream orchestra.” The Times (U.K.) “It is the character of a great virtuoso to make the instrument become an extension of the player. Kopatchinskaja, though, is the violin. She plays in a state of astonishment and the violin becomes her.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Led by principal conductor …
in Conversation with Ben Mims, James Beard Award-nominated cookbook author and food writer Includes live cooking demo “No chef captures the flavors of the moment better than Yotam Ottolenghi.” Bon Appétit “The most creative but also practical cook of this new culinary era – a 21st-century Escoffier.” The Wall Street Journal Spend a delicious evening …
“Funny, revealing, and very invigorating… You will encounter things that no U.S. company would dare do.” Chicago Tribune “Without even a single political reference… Fight Night makes a precarious analysis of the consensus politics our democratic system has fallen into.” De Morgen (Belgium) Five contenders. Five rounds. Your vote. Only one will survive. In the …
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality FREE copies of Cox’s new book, Women Money Power, will be available while supplies last (pick up at event; one per household) “Josie Cox reminds us how far we’ve progressed toward equality, and what’s stalling the progress. Every person alive today needs to know and …
Canta a Juan Gabriel 40 años después “Cuevas is to Mexico what Aretha Franklin is to the United States: a powerful voice that encapsulates the essence of her nation’s spirit.” The Kansas City Star A Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning icon of Mexican music, Aida Cuevas is beloved for her devotion to traditional mariachi and for …
Co-Presented with Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara Nobel Prize-winning Biochemist Dr. Jennifer Doudna CRISPR Gene Editing and the Future of Human Health “I had been told that girls don’t do science. And fortunately, I ignored that.” – Dr. Jennifer Doudna “The technology of gene editing will be the most important advance of our era, one …
Arrive early to enjoy food trucks and a live DJ set “Fueling it all is the emotion that drives his magnetic dancing. There is struggle and pain, joy and healing, and ultimately, a transformation.” The New York Times on Lil Buck An award-winning performing artist and advocate for the arts, Charles “Lil Buck” Riley defies …
FREE copies of Everett’s new book, James, will be available while supplies last (pick up at event; one per household) “The times are finally catching up to the satirical genius of this cult literary icon. Everett is a true American genius, a master artist.” Oprah Daily Percival Everett is one of the most prolific and …
Mandé Sila “First there was Hendrix, then Stevie Ray, and now Habib.” – Bonnie Raitt “ reputation as a guitar player has become almost mythical, combining rock and classical techniques with Malian tunings that make the guitar sound like a kora or ngoni.” The New York Times Named the biggest pop star of the West …
13 Tongues Cheng Tsung-lung, Artistic Director & Choreographer “13 Tongues is a sensationally big, indulgent, and visually arresting expression of cultural memory.” The Times (U.K.) “When you’re talking about Cloud Gate, magic is not too strong a word.” Time Out In 13 Tongues, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan brings the sights and sounds of …
Bestselling Novelist and Essayist Anne Lamott Somehow: Thoughts on Love “Every writer, truth seeker, parent and activist I know is in love with one or more books by Anne Lamott.” – Gloria Steinem “Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the …