FRIDAY!
SATURDAY!
Ping Chong + Company
Neko Case
Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity
Fri, Nov 18 / 8 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 $15 UCSB students
Written by Ping Chong and Sara Zatz, with Ryan Conarro Directed by Ping Chong
Sat, Nov 19 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
“Case has a moonbeam for a voice: imposing in timbre, opalescent in tone, and always surprising in its sheer force.” Pitchfork
Tickets start at $25 / $15 all students (with valid ID)
“Beyond Sacred is an exercise in empathy, not polemics: a lesson in human understanding, drawn from real lives.”
“Often brazen and to-the-point, her words hit with unforgiving clarity, sung through a wildly melodic, twangy croon.” Time
The New York Times
The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World
Steven Johnson
Back by Popular Demand New Program!
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Ocean Wild: The Light Beneath the Seas
Tue, Nov 29 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Lecture attendees will receive a FREE copy of Johnson’s book Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
with Photographer Brian Skerry
One of our most inventive thinkers, Steven Johnson is a leading light of today’s interdisciplinary, collaborative, open-minded approach to innovation and his writings include Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation and How We Got to Now. Co-presented with the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind
Sun, Nov 20 / 3 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $25 / $15 UCSB students and youths (18 & under)
“To make great pictures, a photographer must observe and truly see… Over time I learned that the real value is in being patient, slowing down and watching the world around me.” – Brian Skerry
The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creative Culture
National Geographic Live series sponsored in part by Sheila & Michael Bonsignore
Back by Popular Demand
Jake Shimabukuro
Thu, Dec 1 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
Tickets start at $35 / $15 UCSB students
“One of the hottest axemen of the past few years doesn’t actually play guitar.” Rolling Stone Ukulele wizard Jake Shimabukuro has earned comparisons to Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis and had his viral video interpretation of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” rack up more than 15 million YouTube views. Event Sponsors: Sharon & Bill Rich Lisa & George Hagerman
Corporate Season Sponsor:
17 – 24 November 2016
Back by Popular Demand
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Holiday Show Thu, Dec 15 / 8 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $35 $15 UCSB students
“They extract more than seems humanly possible from so small and so modest an instrument.” The New York Times Event Sponsors: Pat Gregory, for the Baker Foundation Siri & Bob Marshall
(805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Thank you to our Community Partner the Orfalea Family
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