According to legend, this is what Winston Churchill replied when asked to slash funding for the arts during WWII. On today’s episode of Hot Off The Pod, Caitlin O’Hara of UCSB Arts & Lectures echoes Churchill in the midst of contemporary global crisis: the coronavirus pandemic.

Since 1959, Arts & Lectures has drawn hundreds of world-renowned artists and speakers to Santa Barbara venues, including the UCSB campus, each year. When the world shut down, A&L staff had to think outside the box in order to relocate its program from the stage to the screens. Reflecting on the past year and the present moment, O’Hara chats with us about creative problem-solving, the comeback of drive-in movies, and the vital relationship between art and technology.

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