The UC Santa Cruz Foundation presents the 13th annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture. An evening of thought-provoking ideas and conversation with acclaimed opera, theater and festival director Peter Sellars, one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the performing arts in America and abroad. A visionary artist, Sellars is known for groundbreaking interpretations of classic and contemporary works. Whether it is Mozart, Handel, Shakespeare, Sophocles, 16th-century Chinese playwright...

Three TED-style talks by leading educators followed by a wine reception Co-hosted by Chancellor George Blumenthal and Santa Cruz Mayor Hilary Bryant.

TED-style talks by leading educators Co-hosted by Chancellor George Blumenthal and Santa Cruz Mayor Hilary Bryant.

UCSC Foundation Medal awardee Frank Gehry— one of the world’s leading architects, legendary for his design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles — will be interviewed by leading architecture critic Paul Goldberger, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair who is currently writing an authorized biography of Gehry.