Moby
In Conversation with Reinhold Heil
Saturday, April 2 / 7 pm / Campbell Hall
Creative dynamo Moby is the outspoken mastermind of some of the best dance/pop music of the 1990s including the bestselling Play. With Run Lola Run composer Reinhold Heil, Moby will talk about the artistic process, discuss his new book about Teany, his New York café, and play tracks from his just-released CD Hotel.
General public $10 / UCSB students $8
Dave Barry
Sunday, April 3 / 3 pm / Arlington Theatre
One of the planet’s funniest writers
—Boston Globe
Spend an afternoon with zany Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry, whose column was syndicated to over 500 papers before he began his recent sabbatical. Barry has written 25 guffaw-inducing, best-selling books including Tricky Business, Boogers Are My Beat and Dave Barry’s Guide to Life.
General public $35 / UCSB students $20
Nickel and Dimed—
On (Not) Getting By in America
Monday, April 11 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
Award-winning essayist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich will present an eye-opening lecture based on her best-selling book Nickel and Dimed, examining the lives of the working poor from the inside out. Ehrenreich is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the UCSB College of Creative Studies.
General public $10 / UCSB students $8
Tuesday, April 19 / 8 pm / Lehmann Concert Hall, Music Academy of the West / Free
Internationally acclaimed violist Roberto Díaz has collaborated with the world’s most important artists, from the Philadelphia Orchestra to Yo-Yo Ma, and is hailed for both his solo and chamber music performances. He will be accompanied by pianist Robert Koenig and violist Helen Callus. Díaz is a Regents’ Lecturer in the Department of Music.
David Sedaris
Monday, April 25 / 8 pm / Arlington Theatre
David Sedaris just may be the funniest man alive. —Time Out New York
Side-splittingly-funny writer David Sedaris is coming back to town after two sold out shows in April 2003. Author of the bestsellers Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day and his latest Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Sedaris is even more hilarious live than on the page. Sedaris observes his world—whether his eccentric family or his life as an expatriate in France—with a deadly wit. The This American Life star will read new work.
General public $30 / UCSB students $15
Sue Monk Kidd
Wednesday, May 4 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
Author of the moving bestseller The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd will read from her work including her new novel The Mermaid’s Chair. Kidd is acclaimed for the ability to weave together vividly drawn Southern locations and emotional tales of spirituality and feminism.
General public $10 / UCSB students $8
Lionel Barber, Bill Keller & Jacob Weisberg
A dialogue moderated by Ann Louise Bardach and Virginia Postrel
Media Ownership & Media Bias: A Crisis in the Newsroom
Saturday, May 7 / 3 pm / Lobero Theatre
The decision makers of three of the world’s most important media institutions address their field’s most pressing and crucial issues. Lionel Barber is the Financial Times’ US managing editor. Bill Keller is executive editor of The New York Times. Jacob Weisberg is editor of Slate magazine. PEN Award-winning reporter Ann Louise Bardach is the author of Cuba Confidential and is the Director of The Media Project. Columnist and blogger Virginia Postrel is the author of The Substance of Style. Co-presented with the College of Letters & Science Critical Issues Endowment
General public $10 / UCSB students $5
Listen to a recording of this event at KCRW.com
Ted Kooser
Tuesday, May 17 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall / Free
U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser is a major poetic voice for rural and small town America and the award-winning author of ten collections of poetry, most recently 2004’s Delights & Shadows. This event replaces the scheduled reading by Robert Creeley, who unfortunately passed away on March 30 at age 78 due to complications of pneumonia. The 42nd Annual Edwin and Jean Corle Memorial Lecture
Ray Bradbury
Predicting the Past, Remembering the Future
Thursday, May 19 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
Bradbury is an authentic original. —Time
One of the giants in the literary field of speculative/science fiction, Ray Bradbury is widely known for such enduring titles as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes. In 2004 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
General public $15 / UCSB students $10
Speaking Freely—
Trials of the First Amendment
Sunday, May 22 / 3 pm / Victoria Hall Theater, 33 West Victoria Street
This event was originally scheduled for April 24
One of the foremost First Amendment lawyers in the country, Floyd Abrams’ high profile Supreme Court cases include serving as co-counsel to The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers suit and to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in its legal battles over censorship with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
General public $10 / UCSB students $8
EVENT CANCELLED
The 5th Arthur N. Rupe Great DebateEric Alterman and Robert Novak
The American News Media—Liberal or Conservative Bias?
Wednesday, May 25 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
This timely debate about the state of the news media will feature Eric Alterman, Nation columnist and author of What Liberal Media?, and Robert Novak, syndicated columnist and member of CNN’s Capital Gang.
General public $10 / UCSB students $8
Books by the presenter will be available for purchase and/or signing at the event.
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