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2019-2020

Themes:
We Can Do It! A Century of Empowerment
Forces of Nature


WINTER 2020
PUBLIC LECTURE: Katharine Hayhoe
Science in a Fact-Free World

Tue, Jan 14 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
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FILM: This Changes Everything
Mon, Jan 27 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Related Event: Naomi Klein public lecture, Apr 29
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Kenneth Rosenberg
Three Billion Birds Lost: The Disappearance of North American Birds and What We Can D
o About It

Wed, Jan 29 / 7:30 PM / Fleischmann Auditorium, SB Museum of Natural History
Presented with Santa Barbara Audubon Society and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
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FILM: A Fierce Green Fire – The Battle for a Living Planet
Mon, Feb 3 / 4 PM / SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
Presented with the Santa Barbara Central Library
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FILM: Jane
Thu, Feb 27 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Related Event: 
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE public lecture, Mar 31
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FILM: Anthropocene – The Human Epoch 
Includes post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal
​Tue, Mar 10 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Pollock Theater
Presented with the Carsey-Wolf Center in conjunction with UCSB Reads
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Winter 2020 Book Selection
FREE copies of Falter by Bill McKibben will be available beginning Thursday, January 23 at Arts & Lectures’ Campbell Hall Box Office at UCSB and the Santa Barbara Central Library (40 E. Anapamu St.). Books available while supplies last.
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
​by Bill McKibben 
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"A love letter, a plea, a eulogy, and a prayer. This is Bill McKibben at his glorious best. Wise and warning, with everything on the line. Do not miss it." – Naomi Klein 

Related Event: Bill McKibben public lecture, Feb. 29 at UCSB Campbell Hall


FALL 2019 ​
PUBLIC LECTURE: Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey 
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Sat, Oct 12 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall 
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FILM: Not For Ourselves Alone - ​The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
​Part 1: Revolution 

Mon, Oct 14 / 4 PM / SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
​Related Event: Elaine Weiss public lecture, Nov 3
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FILM: Not For Ourselves Alone - The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
​Part 2: Failure is Impossible 

Mon, Oct 21 / 4 PM / SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
​Related Event: Elaine Weiss public lecture, Nov 3
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FILM: Dolores
A film about rebel, activist, feminist and mother Dolores Huerta 
Thu, Nov 7 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
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FILM: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
​A film about women's rights icon Anita Hill

Thu, Nov 14 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Related Event: Anita Hill public lecture, Feb 19
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DISCUSSION: Social Justice Book Club
She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
(authors will not be present) 
Tue, Nov 19 / 6 PM / SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery East
Related Event: Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey public lecture, Oct 12
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EXHIBIT: Women's Suffrage
Letters, manuscripts and original writings by Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams,
​Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others 

Oct - Dec, Wed - Sun / Noon - 4 PM / Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 21 W. Anapamu St. 
​EXHIBIT: From Eunice Foote to UCSB 
A Story of Women, Science, and Climate Change

Oct - Jun / Mon - Fri / 8 AM - 5 PM / UCSB Library, Ocean Gallery 
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Fall 2019 Book Selection
FREE copies of Educated will be available beginning Thursday, September 12 at Arts & Lectures' Campbell Hall Box Office at UCSB and the Santa Barbara Central Library (40 E Anapamu St). Books available while supplies last.​
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Educated: A Memoir
​by Tara Westover
 
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"An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It's even better than you've heard." – Bill Gates 


Related Event: Tara Westover public lecture, Oct 1 at the Granada Theatre 


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