BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//KEYT Events - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:KEYT Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://events.keyt.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for KEYT Events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T213000 DTSTAMP:20260420T105757 CREATED:20250224T181748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T181748Z UID:9247-1746732600-1746739800@events.keyt.com SUMMARY:UCSB Reads 2025 Presents Author Ross Gay DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is free but advance registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is required. If you don’t have an Arts & Lectures account\, you will be asked to create one. This event will be photographed or recorded. \nThe Book of Delights is a collection of essays celebrating small\, ordinary wonders. Written daily over one tumultuous year\, Gay’s humorous\, poetic and philosophical essays cover a wide range of topics. From a high five with a stranger to cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane\, Gay reveals how staking out a space for joy brings us closer together. \nRoss Gay won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2015\, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2016 and the PEN/Jean Stein Award in 2021. He is a faculty member in the English Department at Indiana University. \nUCSB Reads is an award-winning program that brings the campus and Santa Barbara communities together to read a common book that explores compelling issues of our time. The program is sponsored by UCSB Library and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and was started in 2007. Each year\, a committee of faculty\, staff\, students\, and community partners convene to select an intellectually stimulating\, interdisciplinary book by a living author that appeals to a wide range of readers and can be incorporated into the UCSB curriculum. \nFor up-to-date details about UCSB Reads events\, sponsors\, and more\, go to www.library.ucsb.edu/ucsbreads2025. URL:https://events.keyt.com/event/ucsb-reads-2025-presents-author-ross-gay/ LOCATION:UCSB Campbell Hall CATEGORIES:Community ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.keyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ucsb_library_ucsb_reads_2025_bookofdelights_square_920.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T105757 CREATED:20250423T230847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T230847Z UID:10648-1746732600-1746732600@events.keyt.com SUMMARY:Ross Gay DESCRIPTION:“The delights Gay extols here feel purposeful and imperative as well as contagious in their joy.” The New York Times Book Review \nUCSB 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 and philosophical essays cover a wide range of topics. From a high five with a stranger to cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane\, Gay reveals how staking out a space for joy brings us closer together. Gay won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2015\, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2016 and the PEN/Jean Stein Award in 2021. URL:https://events.keyt.com/event/ross-gay/ LOCATION:UCSB Campbell Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.keyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ross-gay_fy25_1200x1200_books_ucsb-reads-logo.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="UCSB Arts &%3B Lectures":MAILTO:info@artsandlectures.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250507T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250507T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T105757 CREATED:20250423T230757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T230757Z UID:10644-1746646200-1746646200@events.keyt.com SUMMARY:Dr. Laurie Santos DESCRIPTION:“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 \nA psychologist and an expert on human cognition\, its origins and the evolutionary biases that influence our all-too-imperfect life choices\, Dr. Laurie Santos’ work centers around how behavioral change through positive psychology can lead to a happier and more fulfilling life. Host of the The Happiness Lab podcast and professor of Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years – Psychology and the Good Life – Santos will discuss the tools that science provides for managing stress and building a life of happiness\, even when crisis looms large. Whether it’s the toll of environmental disasters and wildfires\, the challenges of political instability or the anxiety that pervades modern life\, Santos offers actionable insights for creating lasting positive change and provides practical habits to reduce stress\, foster resilience and improve overall well-being\, regardless of external pressures. URL:https://events.keyt.com/event/dr-laurie-santos/ LOCATION:UCSB Campbell Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.keyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/laurie-santos_fy25_1200x1200.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="UCSB Arts &%3B Lectures":MAILTO:info@artsandlectures.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T220000 DTSTAMP:20260420T105757 CREATED:20250310T214810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T214810Z UID:9560-1743537600-1743544800@events.keyt.com SUMMARY:Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain DESCRIPTION:“The best musical entertainment in the country.” The Independent (U.K.) \n“Instrumental panache and affable singing with no small amount of inimitably British drollery.” The New York Times \nFour 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\, backing tracks\, guitars\, pitch shifters or electronic trickery\, each performance is an astonishing revelation of the rich palette of orchestration afforded by ukuleles\, fulsome vocals and a bit of whistling. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this much-loved institution with a quirky\, irreverent\, white-knuckle shopping-trolley dash through every kind of musical genre. URL:https://events.keyt.com/event/ukulele-orchestra-of-great-britain/ LOCATION:UCSB Campbell Hall CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.keyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ukulele-orchestra_fy25_1200x1200.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="UCSB Arts &%3B Lectures":MAILTO:info@artsandlectures.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250223T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250223T213000 DTSTAMP:20260420T105757 CREATED:20250107T214245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T214245Z UID:8383-1740339000-1740346200@events.keyt.com SUMMARY:Richard Powers DESCRIPTION:Includes a copy of Powers’ new book Playground (pick up at event) \n“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 \n“A soft-spoken eco-warrior and environmental prophet.” The New York Times \nOperating at the intersection of culture\, the environment and technology\, novelist Richard Powers has constructed an oeuvre rivaling that of any American writer. The Overstory\, his visionary narrative account of the deep time embedded within the Earth’s forests\, earned the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In his new novel\, Playground\, Powers does for the ocean what The Overstory did for forests\, portraying the Pacific’s last wild regions in give and take with humanity’s ongoing project to subdue them. Throughout his prolific writing life\, Powers has expressed unbridled curiosity\, which has propelled him from his early days as a computer programmer to his current place atop the pantheon of speculative fiction creators. URL:https://events.keyt.com/event/richard-powers/ LOCATION:UCSB Campbell Hall CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.keyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/richard-powers_fy25_1200x1200.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="UCSB Arts &%3B Lectures":MAILTO:info@artsandlectures.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T220000 DTSTAMP:20260420T105757 CREATED:20250104T023538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250104T023538Z UID:8375-1739995200-1740002400@events.keyt.com SUMMARY:DoosTrio: Kayhan Kalhor\, Wu Man\, Sandeep Das DESCRIPTION:“[Sandeep Das’] virtuosic playing injected discreet surges of rhythmic adrenaline.”\nThe Boston Globe \n“One of the greatest musicians I’ve ever had the privilege to know and to work with.” – Yo-Yo Ma on Kayhan Kalhor \n“Nobody wields a pipa like Wu Man\, the reigning virtuoso on the ancient four-stringed instrument.” NPR \nWith a name inspired by the transliteration of the Farsi word for friend\, DoosTrio’s Kayhan Kalhor\, Wu Man and Sandeep Das join together in a new collaboration that highlights the ancient traditions of Iran\, China and India in a distinctly 21st century program. A virtuoso on the kamancheh\, Kalhor has been uniquely influential in popularizing Persian music in the West. Wu Man is the world’s premier pipa virtuoso and a leading ambassador of Chinese music. A Guggenheim Fellow and a Grammy winner\, tabla master Das debuted at age 17 with legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar and has since built a prolific international reputation spanning three decades. URL:https://events.keyt.com/event/doostrio-kayhan-kalhor-wu-man-sandeep-das/ LOCATION:UCSB Campbell Hall CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.keyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/doostrio_fy25_1200x1200.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="UCSB Arts &%3B Lectures":MAILTO:info@artsandlectures.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T105757 CREATED:20231024T180438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T180438Z UID:4238-1698953400-1698953400@events.keyt.com SUMMARY:Eddie Ndopu Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever DESCRIPTION: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. \n“One of the most powerful disabled people on the planet (Time magazine)\,” Eddie Ndopu is an award-winning global humanitarian and disability justice advocate. Diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy at age 2 and given only five years to live\, he has gone on to become a beacon of hope and possibility for people with disabilities around the world. His debut memoir\, Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw\, captures his effervescent\, indefatigable spirit. As a UN Global Changemaker\, Ndopu actively demands equity for the world’s most marginalized segments of society and is a vital voice at the intersection of disability\, sustainability and how we can best work together to make meaningful change for our planet’s future. URL:https://events.keyt.com/event/eddie-ndopu-sipping-dom-perignon-through-a-straw-reimagining-success-as-a-disabled-achiever/ LOCATION:UCSB Campbell Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.keyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/eddie-ndopu_fy24_1900x750_book.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR