We are the living crew of Lata, the Polynesian culture-hero who built the first voyaging canoe and navigated across the Pacific. We are the only Polynesians left who still use only ancient designs, materials, and methods. In our films we share our history, motivations, and skills through story-telling, canoe building, and wayfinding, and we invite everyone to reconnect with ancestors and sustainable lifeways.

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60 years ago, a young Jane Goodall arrived on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania for the first time. Without realizing it, she would soon change the world forever. 26-year-old Jane Goodall was tasked with being the first to formally observe and better understand our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom: wild chimpanzees. Jane’s subsequent groundbreaking discoveries revealed remarkable truths about chimpanzee behavior and humankind. Today, Dr. Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute have redefined species conservation to put people at the center. Dr. Goodall travels around the globe to spread hope and turn it into action to improve the well-being of people, other animals and the environment we share. Hear these stories and more in her own words as Dr. Goodall takes us on a journey of discovery through her childhood dreams of living alongside wildlife, first steps in Gombe, greatest revelations and her reasons for hope.

“Hers is a powerful message to protect the inherent rights of every living creature, to provide hope for future generations and to sound an urgent call against the greatest environmental threat of all – climate change. Anyone who has heard her speak, or heard her story, has been mesmerized by her life’s work and moved by her philanthropic legacy.” – Leonardo DiCaprio, for Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019

Lobero Libretti. Local historian Hattie Beresford will share stories from the absolutely fabulous history of Santa Barbara’s community theaters, the old Lobero Opera House and the “new” Lobero Theatre. The varied performers that have tread the boards include some of the most notable artists of the day and some of the strangest. Grand operas, minstrel shows, phrenologists, magicians, dramas, comedies, and bicycle exhibitions; you name it, it played here. Come take a peek behind the curtain as Hattie spotlights some of the fascinating and funny things that happened along the way to the theater.

France’s world-renowned Lyon Opera Ballet performs the West Coast premiere of its acclaimed Trois Grandes Fugues, a revolutionary program featuring three responses to Beethoven’s beloved masterpiece “Grosse Fuge” by three major female choreographers – France’s rebellious Maguy Marin, America’s meticulous Lucinda Childs and Belgium’s hypnotic Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The acclaimed 35-member company is known for its exceptionally ambitious and diverse repertory, showcasing a stunningly broad range of choreographers, from Merce Cunningham to William Forsythe. With this “simple yet audacious idea” (The New York Times), the company highlights different interpretations of choreography, movement and musicality, performed to the fullest by an extraordinary cast of dancers.
“In Trois Grandes Fugues, the 35-member company brings together a magisterial trio of choreographers… With each of their highly individual settings we hear, see and feel Beethoven’s fugue in fabulously new ways.” The Guardian (U.K.)

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Contemporary art. Cocktails. Local DJs. Interactive art experiences.

Enjoy Curated Cocktails and experience first hand Genevieve Gaignard’s provocative explorations of race, class, and gender in photographs of her “selfie culture” self-performances and installations that combine humor, persona, and lowbrow pop sensibilities to craft dynamic visual narratives. Delicious drinks, Mini zines, Haiku Buttons with Simon Kiefer, and a special Sixties set by DJ Free Range make for a memorable evening for you and your friends at MCASB and the Paseo Nuevo Upper Arts Terrace.

Curated Cocktails are part of Downtown Santa Barbara's 1st Thursdays.
Please note that we are back to later summer hours!

France’s world-renowned Lyon Opera Ballet performs the West Coast premiere of its acclaimed Trois Grandes Fugues, a revolutionary program featuring three responses to Beethoven’s beloved masterpiece “Grosse Fuge” by three major female choreographers – France’s rebellious Maguy Marin, America’s meticulous Lucinda Childs and Belgium’s hypnotic Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The acclaimed 35-member company is known for its exceptionally ambitious and diverse repertory, showcasing a stunningly broad range of choreographers, from Merce Cunningham to William Forsythe. With this “simple yet audacious idea” (The New York Times), the company highlights different interpretations of choreography, movement and musicality, performed to the fullest by an extraordinary cast of dancers.
“In Trois Grandes Fugues, the 35-member company brings together a magisterial trio of choreographers… With each of their highly individual settings we hear, see and feel Beethoven’s fugue in fabulously new ways.” The Guardian (U.K.)

$41 - $71 : General Public
$20 : UCSB Students (Current student ID required)
Includes facility fee
Call the Arts & Lectures ticket office at (805) 893-3535 for your tickets!

WHAT: This week’s Solutions News live radio broadcast and podcast interviews Stacy Pulice
WHEN: 5 to 6 pm Friday, April 3, 2020
WHERE: KZSB 1290AM

James Beard Award-winning cookbook authors and chefs Samin Nosrat and Yotam Ottolenghi will share their passion for everything food, inviting the audience along for a mouthwatering evening as they dish secrets from the kitchen. With a hit Netflix series, bestselling debut cookbook and New York Times food column, Samin Nosrat is the It Girl of the culinary world. Israeli-born London restaurateur and Guardian columnist, Yotam Ottolenghi is the bestselling author of beloved cookbooks including Jerusalem and his latest, Ottolenghi Simple. Nosrat’s anecdotes from Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and Ottolenghi’s restaurant tales will leave the audience hungry for more.
“There is magic in the way Samin teaches. She wins you over immediately with an irresistible combination of warmth, honesty, deep understanding of cooking and that ebullient laugh of hers. If anyone can show us how to cook, it is Samin.” – Alice Waters, Time 100

“Yotam Ottolenghi may not have invented the way we like to eat now, savouring all those small plates of bright, zingy, cross-cultural and veg-forward flavours. But no one, perhaps, has done more to define it.” Vancouver Sun
$41 - $76 : General Public
$16 : UCSB Students (Current student ID required)
Includes facility fee
Call the Arts & Lectures ticket office at (805) 893-3535 for your tickets!

Marking Yamato’s 25th anniversary, this thrilling, high-energy kaleidoscope of sound takes their virtuosity, strength, spirit and sheer endurance to a new level in a tremendous blend of skill, physicality and discipline.
“Pure energy meets spiritual high.” The Scotsman (U.K.)

$25 - $40 : General Public
$15 : UCSB Students (Current student ID required)
$15 : Child (12 & under)
Call the Arts & Lectures ticket office at (805) 893-3535 for your tickets!
https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=4226