Past Events
- Tue, 02/13/2024 - 4:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Location: Art, Architecture, & Design (AD&A) Museum
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- Wed, 01/24/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 01/31/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 02/07/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 02/14/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Join us for a four-week art series that explores the UCSB Reads book selection, Your Brain on Art. Each week we will have a unique experience that will guide your discovery of art in your daily life through canvas painting, bracelet making, creative writing, and candle making (SRB 1238 Community Room). Advance registration on Shoreline required.
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- Tue, 02/06/2024 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is cancelled due to weather related travel delays
Join a free workshop to help you discover your path to creativity and creative expression in fostering well-being, with reference to the UCSB Reads 2024 book, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. The focus will be on music and the visual arts.
Refreshments will be served.
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- Wed, 01/24/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 01/31/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 02/07/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 02/14/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Join us for a four-week art series that explores the UCSB Reads book selection, Your Brain on Art. Each week we will have a unique experience that will guide your discovery of art in your daily life through canvas painting, bracelet making, creative writing, and candle making (SRB 1238 Community Room). Advance registration on Shoreline required.
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- Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Pollock Theater
Filmmaker/curator Márton Orosz will join moderator George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology) for a post-screening discussion of the documentary György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science. This event is presented by the Carsey-Wolf Center as part of the CWC Docs Series, and is in conjunction with...
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- Wed, 01/24/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 01/31/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 02/07/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 02/14/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Join us for a four-week art series that explores the UCSB Reads book selection, Your Brain on Art. Each week we will have a unique experience that will guide your discovery of art in your daily life through canvas painting, bracelet making, creative writing, and candle making (SRB 1238 Community Room). Advance registration on Shoreline required.
4:00PM-5:00PM Thur. Jan. 24: ...
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- Thu, 01/18/2024 - 6:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Location: Studio Theater, Theater & Dance East, 1101 (next to Hatlen Theater)
More Featuring music and video works by composer Gene Coleman, with Fabio Rambelli (UCSB Department of Religion) joining him on stage to play ancient Japanese musical instruments including the shō, the u, and percussion. The performance...
- Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Paseo
The University Librarian, Chancellor, and Executive Vice Chancellor will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2024 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2024 selection is Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross.
- Wed, 01/17/2024 - 5:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Location: Social Sciences and Media Studies (SSMS) Building, Conference Room 2135
UCSB Library is proud to co-sponsor "Music Mirrors Mind," as part of UCSB Reads 2024. In his talk, composer and director Gene Coleman, will explore the concepts of Neuroaesthetics and Neuro Music. Coleman defines Neuro Music as an area of research and composition based on the study and application of models...
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- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Campbell Hall
UCSB Library is excited to present Charles Montgomery, UCSB Reads 2023 author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design for a free community talk at Campbell Hall.
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Event is free but registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is...
- Fri, 04/28/2023 - 8:00am to Mon, 05/01/2023 - 5:00pm
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Join UCSB Reads 2023 in participating in the Santa Barbara City Nature Challenge! Let's celebrate the nature in and around our urban areas by documenting all the species we can find. The City Nature Challenge is an international community science effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe.
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- Wed, 04/12/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please RSVP here!
Join us at UCSB Library for a free zine workshop, no experience necessary! Participants will learn how to make a zine exploring themes in the UCSB Reads 2023 book “Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design” by Charles Montgomery....
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- Thu, 04/06/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join UCSB Library at a public reception to celebrate its new exhibition of student work Happy City: Isla Vista. The exhibition is drawn from the layouts of UCSB's literary magazine The "Catalyst," whose Winter 2023 issue is themed to connect to the UCSB Reads 2023 selection, "Happy City: Transforming...
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- Fri, 03/03/2023 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) at UCSB’s ...
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- Thu, 03/02/2023 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) at UCSB’s AD&A Museum, will lead a behind-the-scenes...
- Thu, 02/23/2023 - 3:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
UCSB Buchanan Hall, Room 1930
Barajas will share findings from two projects within the Mobility Justice in Chicago research study, a multi-year collaboration between university researchers and a racial justice organization in Chicago. The work aims to advance mobility justice by understanding the relationships between everyday experiences and travel barriers faced by people of color in the urban area.
The first study explains how inequities in transportation...
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- Thu, 02/09/2023 - 6:00pm
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Location: Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 East Anapamu Street.
Join UCSB Reads 2023 and Santa Barbara Public Library's Book to Action Program for a panel discussion with local experts who will discuss housing policy challenges and possible...
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- Thu, 02/02/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
The Professional Women's Association (PWA) is a UCSB staff organization which promotes equity by providing opportunities for women to meet, connect, and learn together.
For its February meeting, the group is reading the UCSB Reads 2023 book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. Staff, students and faculty are all welcome to join the discussion.
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- Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Take a slow group ride down to local favorite Hendry's Beach on your bicycle!
This ride, which will be led by UCSB Health & Wellness staff, is inspired by Chapter 8 in Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. In this chapter of the UCSB Reads 2023 selection, Montgomery...
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- Wed, 01/25/2023 - 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
- Fri, 01/20/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Paseo
The University Librarian, Chancellor, and Executive Vice Chancellor will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2023 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2023 selection is Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery.
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- Tue, 05/10/2022 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Campbell Hall
Event is free but registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is required. Event includes an at-home viewing option (live stream only; no replay). You will still need to register in advance. Learn more here.
UCSB Library is thrilled to present Ted Chiang,...
- Thu, 05/05/2022 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: UCSB Pollock Theater
Reserve Tickets starting April 14.
Adapted from the 1998 short story “Story of Your Life” by acclaimed science fiction author Ted Chiang, Arrival (2016) centers on communicating with tentacular alien visitors, whose language changes one’s experience of time. When twelve mysterious extraterrestrial spacecraft...
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- Thu, 04/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Wed, 04/13/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Undergraduate students are invited to join UCSB Library and UCSB Reads 2022 for a three-part Sci-Fi creative writing workshop. The goal of the workshop is to spark the imagination of both novice and experienced writers, and to guide them toward the creation...
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