Telescope Tuesday at Camino Real Marketplace

The Santa Barbara Council of Charitable Gift Planners will host Tiffany Goodall, MBA on May 14, 2019, who will “The Effect of the New Tax Laws on Charitable Gifts and Gift Planning”.

Energy drives our world and our economy and the majority of that energy comes from oil and gas. MIT Enterprise Forum this Wednesday, May 15 at the Rockwood Women's Club.

Colleen Reardon (Professor of Music, University of California, Irvine) will present a talk titled "A Tenor’s 'Voice' on the Periphery: Cesare Grandi and the Siena Production of Farnaspe (1750)" on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 from 3:30-4:45 pm in Music Room 1145. Sponsored by UCSB Music History and Theory Forum.

CHIMERA is a science fiction play set in 2050 that centers around a love triangle and an artificially intelligent firefighting cyborg named AICH#805. Entertaining the fate of human existence in an era of climate change, the play discusses technological innovations that move us closer to “the singularity”—the moment when super-intelligent machines evolve without human assistance—as we simultaneously grapple with the more immediate threat of environmental collapse. Our main characters must reconcile the past and save humanity before being expelled from planet Earth.

This presentation will explore what it means for people from Mustang, Nepal, including those who have migrated to New York, to care for each other, steward a homeland across time and space, remake home elsewhere, and confront distinct forms of happiness and suffering through these movements. How do people honor and alter their shared responsibilities and senses of connection to people and place through migration? How do different generations abide with each other, even when they struggle to understand each other? Craig recruits the Himalayan/Tibetan concept of khora—the embodied act of circumambulation as well as a Buddhist philosophical principle that reflects the nature of desire, interdependence, and cyclic existence—to theorize cycles of mobility and patterns of world-making between Nepal and New York. She will interrogate the ways in which migration impacts the bodies and heart-minds of individuals and households as well as how shifts in physical geographies at once reflect and are shaped by understandings of sacred geography that give meaning to land and lineage, up close and from a distance.

Sienna R. Craig is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Her publications include Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine (2012); Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalaya (2008); Mustang in Black and White, a collaboration with photographer Kevin Bubriski (2018); and a forthcoming monograph, The Ends of Kinship: Himalayan Communities between Nepal and New York. Craig enjoys writing across genres, from narrative ethnography to creative nonfiction, fiction, children’s literature, and poetry.

Sponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group, Dalai Lama Endowment, and Division of Humanities and Fine Arts

Become a beekeeper with confidence, skill, and a compassionate heart. Class on May 15th at 6:30 p.m.

PlayFest Santa Barbara invites all high school student authors and playwrights from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura Counties to submit One Act  plays  with a scientific bent

We’ll time-travel back to the 1918 New Year’s Eve party at the Potter Hotel to look back at the best stories of the year in Santa Barbara with a “magic lantern” slideshow.

As part of the World Music Series, Scott Marcus will lead the UCSB Music of India Ensemble in a performance of North Indian classical music performed on sitars with tabla accompaniment by Shashank Aswathanaranaya on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12 pm in the UCSB Music Bowl. The World Music Series is co-presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center and the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music.

Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum's galleries as an impetus to writing. Each session is led by a visiting writer/facilitator who begins with a conversation and prompts, partially inspired by works on view. Participants are free to write on their own and then reconvene as a group to share and comment on each other's work. Please bring a journal or notebook, laptop, or tablet on which to write. Each program is open to 12 participants.

Join us for our FAREWELL to Game of Thrones Trivia Night at DV8 Cellars on Thursday May 16th starting at 6 PM. With the Final episode set to air May 19th we will be saying our final goodbye with new questions from all seasons including the final episodes. Hosted by our very own Matt Kowallis, we will be offering wine by the glass and bottle but no tasting flights. We have Santa Barbara Popcorn and food will be available to order from Brass Bear Brewing. Prizes will be awarded for each round and a grand prize at the end of the evening. Hope to see you there!