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Ticket purchase includes a complimentary copy of RuPaul’s new memoir, The House of Hidden Meanings
SUMMARY
- UCSB Arts & Lectures presents RuPaul
- Thurs, April 18 | 7:30 p.m. | Arlington Theatre
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- Celebrate the release of Emmy-winning drag legend and cultural icon RuPaul’s highly anticipated memoir in this evening of revelation, awakening and storytelling
- Ticket purchase includes a copy of RuPaul’s new book, The House of Hidden Meanings (pick up at event, while supplies last)
- $125 Gold Circle (preferred seating) / $75 / $50 / $20 UCSB students (Current student ID required) (an Arlington facility fee will be added to each ticket price)
- Tickets & Info: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or call (805) 893-3535
“When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.” – RuPaul
“RuPaul is almost like a prophet. He’s constantly flying a little higher than everybody else.” – Isaac Mizrahi
SANTA BARBARA — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents RuPaul on Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at The Arlington Theatre. If we’re all born naked and the rest is drag, this is RuPaul stripped bare. Pop culture icon and international drag superstar RuPaul invites you to a spiritual awakening to celebrate the release of his new memoir, The House of Hidden Meanings. Allow your mind, body and soul to be enveloped in RuPaul’s lyrically poignant stories on life, love and finding your voice. During this special event, RuPaul offers fans a manual for living – a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear RuPaul’s extraordinary story as told by RuPaul.
All ticket holders will receive a FREE copy of The House of Hidden Meanings.
ABOUT RUPAUL
Fourteen-time Emmy Winner (the most awarded to any person of color), RuPaul is the Host and Executive Producer of the world-wide hit reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race. RuPaul achieved international fame in 1993 with the hit song “Supermodel (You Better Work),” and has since released 17 additional solo albums, including the latest, Black Butta. With four published books and more than nine million followers on social media, RuPaul is the world’s most famous proponent of drag.
Central to RuPaul’s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. Now, RuPaul makes himself truly known.
RuPaul’s new memoir, The House of Hidden Meanings, was published this month and shot onto the bestsellers lists. In the book, RuPaul strips away all artifice and recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.
Here in RuPaul’s singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living – a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.
A profound introspection of his life, relationships and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag. “I’ve always loved to view the world with analytical eyes, examining what lies beneath the surface. Here, the focus is on my own life – as RuPaul Andre Charles,” says RuPaul.
If we’re all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.
ABOUT UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A&L annually presents more than a hundred public events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
RuPaul is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures.
Tickets are $125 Gold Circle (preferred seating) / $75 / $50 / $20 UCSB students (Current student ID required) (an Arlington facility fee will be added to each ticket price) All ticket holders will receive a FREE copy of the memoir The House of Hidden Meanings.
For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or purchase online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
Tickets are also available through the Arlington box office at (805) 963-4408 and AXS.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2023-2024 season.