UCSB Arts & Lectures

Hi Jack, thanks for your inquiry. We do hope to present a summer film series this year, and are actively exploring options that align with guidance from the University of California and state and local public health authorities. Please feel free to join our email list or check our website, www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu, for updates in the coming weeks.

From Bertrand Russell's short essay, "How to Grow Old." "Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being."