This is OnBeings UnheardCuts and I'm not Krista Tippett. I'm Pico Iyer and you're listening to my

unedited conversation with Krista. I interviewed her at the University of California, Santa Barbara as part of its annual arts and lecture series.

Download the MP3 of our produced show at onbeings.org.

Hello, good evening. Welcome to UCSB Campbell Hall. I'm Roman Bratiac. I'm the Associate Director at the UCSB Arts and Lectures program.

Tonight's event is not a lecture. It's actually a conversation event with Pico Iyer and Krista Tippett and there will be time for questions after the conversation part of it.

I want to start off by thanking the Beth Chamberlain in Dalmat for cultural understanding for supporting tonight's event.

I particularly want to thank and welcome here to the theater of Beth's mother, Gail Galis. Thank you for being here and also Beth's brother, Russell Chamberlain.

So thank you again for supporting this annual lecture.

We've also received additional support from the Hester and Harold Shone Arts and Lectures and Dalmaton. Of course, our community partner, the Orphal family.

I also want to thank Sage Publications, our 1516 corporate sponsor and all of our producer circle members who are here this evening.

If you're not a member, we'd love for you to join that group. It helps us make programs like this evening possible.

Now, the format for tonight, Krista Tippett and Pico Iyer will have a on-stage conversation. That's going to be about 75 minutes in length.

Then we'll have some time for audience questions. And then afterwards, we will have a book signing up here on the stage for Krista.

And then Pico very kindly has agreed to meet with people out at the Chaucer's Books table. There are copies of both Krista's books and Pico's books available for purchase from that table.

Pico is going to do the formal introduction tonight. So I'll introduce him and then he'll come out and introduce Krista.

Pico Iyer is the author of two novels and ten works of nonfiction, including in recent years, the Art of Stillness and the Open Road.

That book, which was based on three decades of conversations and travels with the 14th Dalalama is a very special book. And I hope you can pick it up. I think it's available in the lobby. It's called the Open Road.

He's given two talks for Ted, one on movement and one on stillness. And he writes up to 100 articles a year for such prestigious publications as The New York Times, Granta, and Harpers.

Pico is surely a global citizen. He grew up between England and Santa Barbara and has spent most of his time recently in rural Japan.

He's a great friend to the Arts and Lectures program and has moderated conversations with us previously, with people like Werner Herzog, Amy Tan, and most recently with Selbash Shosogato at the Arlington Theatre.

So it's really a pleasure to have Pico doing the conversation event tonight. Please welcome to the stage, Pico Iyer.

Thank you.

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