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SAGE Donates Generous Gift to UCSB Arts & Lectures

Published on May 19, 2013 in Education, nonprofits and Web Exclusives.

If you enjoyed attending Arts & Lectures’ performances before, then you won’t want to miss out on what’s coming next! SAGE has generously given $100,000 to UCSB Arts & Lectures for education outreach in the current season, meaning more exciting and enlightening programs for you!

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancer teaches UCSB students. Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancer teaches UCSB students.
Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures.

The education outreach program includes lecture demonstrations and classroom discussions with visiting performing artists for local elementary and high schools, as well as in colleges and other public settings. In 2012, the program served over 27,500 college- and school-aged students and community members. Now in its 53rd season, Arts & Lectures presents over one hundred concerts, dance performances and other events per year. With the new donation from SAGE, a leading academic publisher founded by philanthropist Sara Miller McCune, Arts & Lectures plans to provide even more students with the opportunities to experience world-renowned artists up close and hopes to inspire more students to pursue and appreciate the arts. To learn more about UCSB Arts & Lectures, please click here. If you would like to find out more information about SAGE, click here.

-Ashley Somerfeld

 

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ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM Series Presents Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

Published on May 18, 2013 in Datebook, Education and Web Exclusives.

May 19, 3 p.m. ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM Series Presents Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

UCSB Arts & Lectures concludes its second ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM series with a screening of Murray Grigor’s Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner, a documentary that traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.”

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Live in Warhol’s World

Published on May 1, 2013 in Cultural Calendar, Datebook and Web Exclusives.
Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Attention all Andy Warhol fans! Head to Warhol’s World in Song: Musical Snapshots from the 1960s for a production as multifaceted as the artist himself. The performances will showcase music surrounding much of Warhol’s greatest works as well as a student-curated Warhol photo exhibition, Fame and the Mundane: Andy Warhol’s Photography. This dynamic performance is going down on May 8 at 8 p.m. at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

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The “How to…” On Preventing Alzheimer’s

Published on April 26, 2013 in Books, Datebook and Web Exclusives.
Gary Small, Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Gary Small, Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Nearly everyone is afraid of Alzheimer’s. And really, in a nation where five million people have been diagnosed, we have grounds for our fears. We have been told that there is nothing we can do to prevent its clutches from grabbing our brains…but is there?

Co-author of The Memory Bible, Gary Small, MD, believes there is hope! He will speak as part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures series about this hot topic, titling his talk “Keeping Your Brain Healthy: Preventing Alzheimer’s.” The lecture will be taking place on April 27 at 3 p.m. at UCSB Campbell Hall.

Gary Small is the director of UCLA Longevity Center at Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and a professor of psychiatry. His wife, Gigi Vorgen, co-authored The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life. During his talk on Saturday, Small will share some of his techniques with us, providing daily exercises to ward off this disease. If you are worried about Alzheimer’s, then make sure you come!

Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Dr. Gary Small has written more than 500 scientific works and has received multiple awards. He also invented the first brain scan that can detect Alzheimer’s before the patient shows symptoms!

A book sale and signing will follow the lecture.

To purchase tickets, call 805/893-3535 or click here.

~Elise Kimball

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ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM Series Returns to UCSB’s Pollock Theater

Published on April 26, 2013 in Cultural Calendar, Datebook and Web Exclusives.

Last year’s ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM series is getting a sequel! Due to popular demand, this four-date film series has returned for a second year to UC Santa Barbara’s state-of-the-art Pollock Theater, where it will reveal the stories behind some of the most fascinating art, artists and architects of our time.

The poster for Andrew Shea's "Portrait of Wally," featuring Egon Schiele's painting of the same name. Image courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures.

The poster for Andrew Shea’s “Portrait of Wally,” featuring Egon Schiele’s painting of the same name. Image courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures.

The series will continue this Sunday, April 28, with Andrew Shea’s Portrait of Wally. Tracing the history of Egon Schiele’s eponymous painting, which was seized from a Jewish art dealer fleeing Vienna for her life before resurfacing at MoMA more than half a century later, Shea’s gripping documentary posits a rapturous picture of “Portrait of Wally.”

On May 5, filmgoers will gain insight into the creative process of Gerhard Richter, one of the world’s greatest and most innovative living painters. In Corinna Belz’s fly-on-the-wall documentary, the aptly named Gerhard Richter Painting, the artist mixes layer upon layer of bold colors, smears the paint with a massive squeegee and scrapes away at the canvas to create a sequence of large-scale abstract compositions.

Closing out the ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM series is Murray Grigor’s Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner. Screening on May 19, Infinite Space narrates visionary genius John Lautner’s mission to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” In Grigor’s documentary, the renowned architectural filmmaker unpacks Lautner’s polarizing legacy and explores a number of his dramatic creations, including L.A.’s Chemosphere and Elrod House in Palm Springs.

For more information, or for tickets to each screening, visit the official website for UCSB Arts & Lectures. All films show at 3 p.m. and include post-screening receptions for ticketholders ages 21 and over.

-James Moore

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Bernadette Peters Comes to The Granada!

Published on April 24, 2013 in Cultural Calendar, Datebook, Music, Music and Web Exclusives.

This May, experience a magical night at The Granada Theatre as Santa Barbara welcomes Bernadette Peters to the stage! Sponsored by The Granada Theatre Concert Series and UCSB Arts & Lectures, Peters will be accompanied by a full orchestra and will perform songs from acclaimed Broadway shows on May 4 at 8 p.m.

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The Great Recession: Your Questions Answered at This Year’s Economic Summit

Published on April 24, 2013 in Datebook and Web Exclusives.

We all remember 2008: banks failing, stock prices falling and wide-spread panic stretching across the U.S. Chances are you or someone you know has been greatly affected by what is called “the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.” In the midst of all this chaos, several questions may have come to mind: How will this affect me? What does this mean for the future of our national and global economies? Why did the government choose to grant a $700 billion bailout to banks, firms and automakers rather than to its own citizens?

If any of this sounds familiar, then you won’t want to miss the captivating and insightful discussions at the 32nd Annual Santa Barbara County Economic Summit. Presented by UCSB Economic Forecast Project and UCSB Arts & Lectures, the event will take place at The Granada Theatre on Thursday, May 2, from 8:30–11:30 a.m. Continue reading ‘The Great Recession: Your Questions Answered at This Year’s Economic Summit’

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Watch Out As the Streets (Or Stage) Are Overtaken by Animals and Children

Published on April 24, 2013 in Cultural Calendar, Datebook and Web Exclusives.

 

courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Warning: don’t advise your children to hit the streets for The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, as this “jaw-droppingly clever” performance contains mature content and twisted wit. It’s no surprise that the performance, coming to UCSB Campbell Hall this Thursday, April 25, that combines live music, animation and a stellar performance by London-based theater group 1927, was hailed the hit show of the 2011 Edinburgh Festival.

So what’s the story behind the story? Writer and director Suzanne Andrade and animation designer Paul Barritt have taken the average imagination and pumped it with espresso, a Red Bull and a Five Hour Energy to deliver a startling original production with the actors of 1927. In The Animals and Children, find out what happens to mother and daughter as they take up residence in a seedy dystopia where “curtain-twitchers and peeping toms live side by side.”

Don’t miss out on this show that has been selling out from Sydney to Paris, and will soon for this Santa Barbara debut! For ticket information and other UCSB Arts & Lectures listings, click here.

 

—Colette Taylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Culinary Icon Alice Waters Dishes at UCSB All Gaucho Reunion

Published on April 23, 2013 in Datebook, Restaurants and Web Exclusives.

Do you enjoy going to the Farmer’s Market? Do you prefer to buy locally grown, organic ingredients rather than chemically processed food? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you have Alice Waters to thank! Hear her speak at  An Evening with Alice Waters during the 2013 All Gaucho Reunion, presented by UCSB Alumni Association and UCSB Arts & Lectures . The event will take place on April 27 at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall and is definitely one you won’t want to miss!

Courtesy of Alice Waters

The culinary icon herself, courtesy of Alice Waters

Credited as the “mother of the local-food movement” (Time magazine), Alice Waters founded the Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley and has become a culinary icon. Her program, The Edible Schoolyard, has helped to teach children across the nation about growing and preparing organic, local food. This program has been extremely influential for public school programs throughout the country, and now you, too, can treat yourself to a mouth-watering discussion on the power and beauty of food.

For more information on the event, or to purchase tickets, call 805/893-3535 or click here.

-Ashley Somerfeld

 

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Come Dance With Broadway Star Barbara Cook

Published on April 6, 2013 in Cultural Calendar, Datebook, Music and Music.
Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

There is no business like show business! And no one knows show business better than legendary leading lady Barbara Cook, who will perform on April 10 at 8 p.m. at the Lobero Theatre.

Since her time as a broadway star during the heyday of the musical, Cook has transcended theater performance and began a music recording career, taking her around the globe. During her visit to Santa Barbara, she will perform an intimate concert titled “Let’s Fall in Love” as part of UCSB’s Arts & Lectures series.

Cook’s career in musical performance has earned her a mantle of awards including a Tony, Grammy and induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Continue reading ‘Come Dance With Broadway Star Barbara Cook’

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