On Sunday, November 17 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, the Jewish Federation will host its first-ever Holiday Bazaar and Craft Fair fundraiser at the Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center in downtown Santa Barbara

How do earned or unearned privileges interlock to create systems of power and marginalization? How do we make White privilege visible, as we unpack and reframe it, to move forward in cultivating spaces of allyship and belonging? This workshop is aimed at providing a platform to both learn about how to use privilege(s), as well as give an opportunity for people of color themselves to create and express definitions of allyship they appreciate. Donald Proby is the Senior Director of Training at Coro Northern California and has a long history working in higher education, leadership development, and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

In this talk, Dr. DeGruy presents facts that illustrate how varying levels of both clinically induced and socially learned residual stress related issues were passed along through generations as a result of slavery. The theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome suggests that centuries of slavery followed by systemic racism and oppression have resulted in multigenerational adaptive behaviors—some of which have been positive and reflective of resilience and others that are detrimental and destructive. Dr. Joy DeGruy is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author, and presenter. She is a tell-it-like-it-is ambassador for healing and a voice for those who’ve struggled in search of the past and continue to struggle through the present.

From November 18th to 24th, chefs and restaurants across Santa Barbara county will take part in Ocean Friendly Restaurants Week, a unique culinary event celebrating restaurants that are committed to reducing plastic pollution while serving outstanding cuisine with local, fresh ingredients.

In these challenging times, as people of color, feminists, LGBTQs, and People of Conscience make up the majority of America and refuse to be silenced, writer Helen Zia, the daughter of immigrants from China, explores our increasingly colorful future and the imperative for communities to move forward together to re-envision the new face of America.
Helen Zia is an activist, award-winning author and former journalist who is outspoken on issues ranging from human rights and peace to women’s rights and countering homophobia. Helen received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Law School of the City University of New York and is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University’s first coeducational class.

TONY® AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL BANDSTAND COMING TO SANTA BARBARA NOVEMBER 19-20, 2019

TONY® AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL BANDSTAND COMING TO SANTA BARBARA NOVEMBER 19-20, 2019

TONY® AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL BANDSTAND COMING TO SANTA BARBARA NOVEMBER 19-20, 2019

The goal of the Alternative Uses of the Oil Platforms Expo is to inform and educate the public about the different options available for creating alternative uses for the Santa Barbara Channel oil platforms as many of them head towards decommissioning.

Join us for a dialogue between Miroslava Chávez-García (History) and John S.W. Park (Asian American Studies) about Chávez-García’s new book, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Refreshments will be served.

Drawing on period footage from England’s Imperial War Museum and BBC radio interviews with World War I soldiers, director Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) deploys state-of-the-art digital restoration technology to reanimate some of the world’s earliest war footage. Released in commemoration of the war’s centennial and dedicated to Jackson’s own grandfather who

An entertaining evening with Betsy J. Green, author of the popular Way Back When series that chronicles life in Santa Barbara on Nov. 20