Events include: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan; James Beard Award-winning cookbook authors and chefs Samin Nosrat and Yotam Ottolenghi; bestselling author Ann Pachett; Grammy-winning mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile; and chef, restaurateur andhumanitarian José Andrés
Also, FREE on-demand family music events featuring Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Sonia De Los Santos
SANTA BARBARA — UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) is pleased to announce Winter 2021 House Calls, a new slate of virtual events through March featuring intimate, interactive online concerts, conversations and Q&As you won’t find anywhere else. Events include: bestselling author Ann Pachett; Grammy-winning mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile; and chef, restaurateur and humanitarian José Andrés. Stay home this winter, and let A&L come to you!
We’re sharing hope, ideas and fun in a series of interactive digital events. House Calls delivers performance, conversation, thoughtful analysis and witty commentary streaming right to your living room. Featuring the creative thinkers and doers that you’ve come to expect to see on the A&L stage – environmentalists, musicians, novelists, chefs, humanitarians, Grammy winners and more – most programs are 60-minutes, combining what our guests excel at with an informal talk back session and other elements that would rarely happen on stage. This is better than front row seats!
How to Order Event Tickets
Order from UCSB Arts & Lectures by phone at (805) 893-3535 or online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
Get All Six House Calls Events for $60
Advance tickets for individual events start at $10.
Prices are subject to change. Capacity is limited. Buy early, events will sell out.
UCSB students: FREE! (Registration required)
With gratitude to our local media partners: Santa Barbara Independent, KCRW, Voice Magazine, Noozhawk.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2020-21 season.
House Calls Lineup
FREE Family Music
En Casa con Sonia
Sat, Mar 13 – Sat, Mar 20 / 10 a.m. Pacific
On demand (no live stream); advance registration required
A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Sonia De Los Santos is hailed by Billboard as “one of the Latin Children’s music artists you should know.” Recognized for her career with the celebrated Dan Zanes and Friends, her first solo family music album, Mi Viaje, won a Parents’ Choice Foundation Gold Award and its follow-up, ¡Alegría!, was nominated for a Latin Grammy. With songs in Spanish and English inspired by Latin American rhythms and North American folk traditions, En Casa con Sonia serves up a personal, yet universal, musical story that highlights joyful music-making and cultural bridge-building.
Chef, Restaurateur and Humanitarian
Changing the World Through the Power of Food
Sun, Mar 14 / 5 p.m. Pacific
$20 / FREE for UCSB students (registration required)
Ticket holders will be able to replay this event for one week.
“Making your voice heard is just one part of change – acting on your beliefs is also vital for getting things done.” – José Andrés
A two-star Michelin chef with an award-winning group of restaurants, several cookbooks and whose Spanish-inspired food popularized tapas-style small plates in the U.S., José Andrés is not resting on his laurels. Through his nonprofit World Central Kitchen, the award-winning chef has responded to an earthquake-devastated Haiti, Hurricane Maria-ravaged Puerto Rico, a refugee crisis on the Venezuelan border and right here in wildfire-scorched Southern California, quickly mobilizing volunteer chefs to prepare fresh, nourishing meals for thousands of people in need. During the coronavirus pandemic, Andrés led the charge to provide food relief to the elderly, those suddenly without work and frontline health care and essential workers.
This conversation will be followed by a Q&A.
FREE Family Performances
Arts Adventures
Thu, Feb. 4 / 10 a.m.
Virtual (A&L website)
“Marsalis uses serious scholarship, as well as a loving, commanding tone, to engage the kids and make them shout, whisper, sing and show their learning.”
Noozhawk
Let Jazz at Lincoln Center and Wynton Marsalis introduce your students to the infectious energy of swing. Recommended for grades 3-8.
Education Sponsors: William H. Kearns Foundation, Sara Miller McCune, SAGE Publishing, Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Dorothy Largay & Wayne Rosing, UCSB Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, UCSB Students.
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