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Lil Buck and Damian Woetzel at Santa Barbara Dance Arts

10/25/2016

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Lil Buck and Damian Woetzel teach a community dance class at Santa Barbara Dance Arts.
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Maira KalmanĀ 

10/24/2016

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Artist, designer and author Maira Kalman’s deliciously off-kilter illustrations capture life’s big questions in small moments that fill us with wonder and make us think. Kalman’s quirky, hilarious and heartbreaking illustrations can be found on her memorable New Yorker covers, in her children’s books, memoirs and Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. Her latest book, The Principles of Uncertainty, is the result of her witty and wise New York Times column. As animated in person as she is on paper, Kalman will explore why not knowing can be “a very good thing.’’
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Father Gregory Boyle speaks at UC Santa Barbara

10/18/2016

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“Boyle approaches each person as a child of God and fully deserving of love and compassion. His capacity to reach the heart of the most hardened, and to see the best in everyone, inspires.” – Kerry Kennedy, founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights

As the founder and executive director of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest and most successful gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world, Father Gregory Boyle has dedicated his life to helping our most marginalized individuals find a place in society. He was recently named a White House Champion of Change. The author of Tattoos on the Heart, Father Boyle will distill decades of hard-earned wisdom into moving examples of the power of unconditional love and the importance of fighting despair.
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Francoise Mouly and Anita Kunz

10/17/2016

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The Creative Mind: An Evening of Cover Art, Illustrations and Comics

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Free Lecture by Larissa MacFarquar

10/5/2016

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Larissa MacFarquhar -
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
October 5, 2012 / UCSB Campbell Hall
An audience Q&A followed the event.
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500 Free Copies of Strangers Drowning

10/4/2016

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As part of The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative, 500 copies of Strangers Drowning were given away in advance of MacFarquar's free talk at UCSB Campbell Hall. 

Strangers Drowning combines real-life stories of unimaginable selflessness along with deep meditations on the shocking implications of these ethical acts.
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Ken Burns at the Granada Theatre

10/2/2016

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