Thematic Learning Initiative

Transform your life. Transform your community. Arts & Lectures’ Thematic Learning Initiative (TLI) extends the conversation from the stage into the community, enriching lifelong learning and initiating dialogue and empowerment through special events, book giveaways and more.

All Thematic Learning Initiative events are FREE.

2024-2025 Theme: Imagination in Action

For 65 years, Arts & Lectures has been a hotbed of art and ideas – a place where great minds and movers from across the globe converge. They leave us changed, challenged and ready to bust through our perceived limitations. Come behind the scenes, go beyond the barriers and discover the creative forces drawing outside the lines to redefine what we think is possible.

Upcoming TLI Events

Fall 2024 Book Giveaway

James
by Percival Everett

A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett’s James is told from Jim’s point of view and shows the fugitive slave’s agency, intelligence and compassion in a radically new light. An instant New York Times bestseller, James was longlisted for the Booker Prize and hailed as “genius” by The Atlantic.

FREE copies of James will be available starting September 27 at Arts & Lectures’ Campbell Hall Box Office at UCSB and the Santa Barbara Public Library (40 E. Anapamu St.). Books available while supplies last.

Related Event: Percival Everett, Oct 25

With thanks to our visionary partners, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, for their support of the Thematic Learning Initiative