Santa Barbara Wine + Food Festival

The region's premier wine and food festival returns to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on Saturday, June 29 with another epic lineup of wineries and food purveyors.

Santa Ynez Polo Classic

Happy Canyon Vineyard presents the 8th annual Santa Ynez Valley Classic on June 29, 2019, at 11 am.

Parallel Stories Lecture: Pico Iyer

Parallel Stories turns its gaze both inward and outward as the ever-engaging author and Santa Barbara favorite Pico Iyer shares his new book, the fruit of 31 years of reflection on his adopted home near Kyoto. In "Autumn Light," Iyer describes a single season in his suburban neighborhood in Japan as the leaves turn, the skies grow ever more brilliant, and he watches elders die, grandchildren arrive, and all the universal questions of love and loss play out in a world of ancestor worship and moon-viewing. Walking every day to the post office, thinking about how autumn teaches "joyful participation in a world of sorrows" - and playing furious games of ping-pong daily with his aging neighbors-Iyer tries to set the beauty of the moment against the fact of our impermanence.

Pico Iyer is the author of more than a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction and has been writing regularly, for more than a quarter-century, for more than 200 periodicals worldwide. Two of his recent books, "The Art of Stillness" and "The Open Road" were national bestsellers. This spring he has been Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton. In September, as a further run-up to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, he will publish a companion book to "Autumn Light, A Beginner's Guide to Japan," which looks at the Faraway Island through an almost contradictory lens.

Armchair Travels: The Places We Seldom See with Pico Iyer

From Iran to North Korea, from Cuba to Tibet, Pico Iyer has spent more than 40 years traveling to the places we hear about more than know about. In a world ever more mediated, he longs to see places first-hand, and catch a human reality often lost in images or on screens. Sharing long, detailed stories about his journeys across Iran, to Pyongyang, and to other places in the news more than in our heads, he catches some of the beauty and surprise of travel and reminds us why travel is more urgent than ever in a world where we're so often lost in our own bubbles. Iyer is the author of 15 books, including, this year, "Autumn Light," "This Could be Home," and "A Beginner’s Guide to Japan." Two of his recent works "The Art of Stillness" and "The Open Road" were national bestsellers.

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