OffCenter is an experimental documentary emphasizing the attitudes and experiences of unconventional African American, Latinx, LGBTQ people in Texarkana, a twin city in East Texas and Arkansas. It explores the racial, sexual, and gender identity of five main interviewees rebelling against Southern conservatism. OffCenter portrays the existence of marginalized people, their encounters with racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and internalized oppression. Post-film discussion with the director Aylin Sözen, and cinematographer Cesar Jaralillo to follow. 1h 18m

Under the direction of Jon Nathan, the UCSB Percussion Ensemble will present contemporary works and transcriptions for percussion solo and ensemble on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 7:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall.

An Evening with the U.S. Poet Laureate

Join Alena Steen to learn the basics of building a home medicine garden. Even a small space can grow a dense garden of plant medicines for tea, salves, and herbal vinegar or alcohol infusions. Alena will describe how to prepare your garden space and select a diversity of plants to grow for many different uses (anxiety, sleeplessness, wound-healing, digestion, etc.), as well as how to care for your garden through the seasons. In addition, she will discuss how to prepare your harvest, including the basics of drying herbs for tea and preparing herbal infusions.

Alena Steen is a local farmer and gardener. She runs the Carpinteria Garden Park, an organic community garden in downtown Carpinteria, as well as a small herbal medicine farm and business called Earth Tide Botanicals in collaboration with her partner.

Join Alena Steen to learn the basics of building a home medicine garden. Even a small space can grow a dense garden of plant medicines for tea, salves, and herbal vinegar or alcohol infusions. Alena will describe how to prepare your garden space and select a diversity of plants to grow for many different uses (anxiety, sleeplessness, wound-healing, digestion, etc.), as well as how to care for your garden through the seasons. In addition, she will discuss how to prepare your harvest, including the basics of drying herbs for tea and preparing herbal infusions.

Alena Steen is a local farmer and gardener. She runs the Carpinteria Garden Park, an organic community garden in downtown Carpinteria, as well as a small herbal medicine farm and business called Earth Tide Botanicals in collaboration with her partner.

As part of the World Music Series, the Maurice Faulkner Brass Quintet and the Suzanne Faulkner Horn Ensemble will present repertoire from the Renaissance to modern jazz on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 12 pm in the Music Bowl. Directed by Steve Gross, the groups perform on horn, trumpet, and trombone.

Join us for an open house at the Reagan Ranch Center Exhibit Galleries all afternoon with complimentary refreshments, birthday exhibits, and new displays on Thursday, Feb 6.

Food From The Heart in collaboration with Draughtsmen Aleworks announce The Hoppy Heart, a fundraiser to benefit Food From The Heart. 

Michelangelo is regarded as one of the most creative artists in western art history, using countless drawings to explore the dynamics of the human form and to solve compositional problems. Yet he is recorded as burning hundreds – perhaps thousands – of his sketches and cartoons. Julian Brooks, Senior Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, looks into the extraordinary phenomenon of Michelangelo and his draftsmanship.

Image: Michelangelo Buonarroti, “Study of a Mourning Woman” (detail), ca. 1500-1505. Pen and brown ink. J. Paul Getty Museum.

Celebrate 1st Thursday with Pop-Up Opera on February 6 at 5:30 pm! In February, Opera Santa Barbara returns to perform selections in honor of Black History Month in the Museum galleries. Afterwards, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm. Free!

It’s here – the presidential election year, and we have our work cut out for us. ISB and our country need all hands on deck in order to defeat Trump in November, hold the House, and take back the Senate. With your help, we can to map out a strategic vision for 2020.

FREE event; no advance tickets required
Call the Arts & Lectures ticket office at (805) 893-3535 for your tickets!

Campbell Hall
UCSB Campus, Campbell Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106