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.
Spring 2025 Book Giveaway
The Marina Abramović Method: Instruction Cards to Reboot Your Life
Taking some artistic license, our spring book giveaway is a unique set of 30 instruction cards by Marina Abramović that teach you the iconic performance artist’s method for reaching a higher consciousness and confronting life’s challenges. Featuring exercises Abramović herself developed, the method will help you focus, reconnect with the present and locate your highest creative potential.
FREE decks of cards will be available starting Monday, March 31 at Arts & Lectures’ Campbell Hall Box Office at UCSB and the Lobero Theatre Box Office (33 E. Canon Perdido St.) during business hours. Limit one per household; available while supplies last.
Related Event: Marina Abramović in Conversation with Pico Iyer, May 6
With thanks to our visionary partners, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, for their support of the Thematic Learning Initiative