Events around Santa Barbara
Ross Gay, the author of the UCSB Reads 2025 book The Book of Delights: Essays will present a free, public talk in UCSB’s Campbell Hall, followed by Q&A and a book signing. This event is presented by UCSB Library in partnership with UCSB Arts & Lectures. This event is free but advance registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is required. …
“The delights Gay extols here feel purposeful and imperative as well as contagious in their joy.” The New York Times Book Review UCSB Reads’ 2025 selection, The Book of Delights by Ross Gay, is a New York Times bestselling collection of essays celebrating small, ordinary wonders. Written daily over one tumultuous year, Gay’s humorous, poetic …
“One easy thing we can all do right now is to shut off that fight-or-flight system through our breath… it’s built to get out of threats quickly, but we run it constantly.” – Dr. Laurie Santos A psychologist and an expert on human cognition, its origins and the evolutionary biases that influence our all-too-imperfect life …
“The best musical entertainment in the country.” The Independent (U.K.) “Instrumental panache and affable singing with no small amount of inimitably British drollery.” The New York Times Four decades (and 400,000,000 plucks) since its founding, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain continues to thrill audiences with off-beat humor and four-stringed virtuosity. With no drums, pianos, …
Includes a copy of Powers' new book Playground (pick up at event) “One of our country’s greatest living writers. He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read. I’m in awe of his talent.” – Oprah Winfrey “A soft-spoken eco-warrior and environmental prophet.” The New York Times Operating at the intersection of culture, …
“ virtuosic playing injected discreet surges of rhythmic adrenaline.” The Boston Globe “One of the greatest musicians I’ve ever had the privilege to know and to work with.” – Yo-Yo Ma on Kayhan Kalhor “Nobody wields a pipa like Wu Man, the reigning virtuoso on the ancient four-stringed instrument.” NPR With a name inspired by …
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 …