The Kopu Lisle Nixon Memorial Final is on Sunday, May 26 at 3:00 pm at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club!

Patio Beats returns to Carr Winery for the summer with DJ FAB (and rosé spritzers)!

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and Ari Benjamin Meyers are delighted to offer a unique experience to creative individuals with a passion for performance and music for the US premiere of Kunsthalle for Music, an exhibition in Santa Barbara, California opening in September 2019

On Memorial Day Monday, May 27, Ojai naturalist Lanny Kaufer will lead a group 2 miles into Matilija Campground in the heart of the Matilija Wilderness, in the Los Padres National Forest.

This Memorial Day, join the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation at the Santa Barbara Cemetery as we remember those who gave the greatest sacrifice for our country.

Visit Santa Barbara, the marketing arm of the South Coast hospitality industry, Santa Barbara Sailing Center and eleven local hotels will do battle in the Second Annual Santa Barbara Hospitality Summer Games May 28, 2019 from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.

Graduate violist Besnik Yzeiri will present a recital on Sunday, June 2nd at 4 pm in Room 1145 in the Music Building. The program will include works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Rebecca Clarke, and Mr. Yzeiri will be joined by pianist Ching-Yun Chen and the UCSB Young Artists String Quartet (violinists Sara Bashore and Kristina Tsanova and cellist Chenoa Orme-Stone). Mr. Yzeiri is a student of UCSB faculty member Jonathan Moerschel.

The UCSB Department of Music will present a Guest Artist Masterclass led by accompanist, vocal coach, arranger, composer, and conductor John Greer on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 from 1:30-3:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the UCSB Music Building. Mr. Greer will work with students from the UCSB Voice Program.

Svanibor Pettan (University of Ljubljana) will present a talk titled "Minorities in a War-Peace Continuum: How Applied Ethnomusicology Can Help" on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 from 3:30-4:45 pm in Music Library Seminar Room 2406. Sponsored by Ethnomusicology Forum.

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION FOR NEXT 2 GATHERINGS
Due to renovations of the Hill-Carrillo Adobe, we will temporarily be meeting at the address below
You're invited:
Death Cafe Santa Barbara in conjunction with The Center for Successful Aging
with Liz Bauer, Lynn Holzman, and Peggy Levine
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Time: 3:30-5 PM
Place: Grace Village Apartments at 3869 State Street, Santa Barbara.
For questions, contact: Lynn at cominghomesb@gmail.com or (805) 729-6172

By car: Go to the La Cumbre shopping entrance with the stoplight and turn signal. You will see the Panera restaurant when you make the left turn. Do not park in their lot. Either park in the La Cumbre lot or keep going straight till you get to a stop sign. You will have passed Panera, Sees, and other shops. Make a right turn at the stop sign and then another quick right. Go straight ahead and be aware of the two speed bumps. Grace Village is on the left. For those who would like to park in that lot, we can give you a parking permit good for our 4 meetings that you can put on your dashboard.

By bus: Take the State Street bus from downtown and get off at the La Cumbre stop on State Street that has the stoplight. Cross the street and you can see Grace Village on the right. Walk diagonally across the Panera restaurant parking lot. You can enter the main entrance door or the door on the left which leads to the Community Room.That door is locked from the outside, but we can let you in.

To enter the main entrance, walk straight ahead and then make a left turn and walk down the ramp to the Community Room. There is also an entrance to the Community Room from outside on the left side of the building. We will have the Death Cafe flyers on both of these doors.

At Death Cafes people come together in a relaxed and safe setting to discuss death, drink tea and eat delicious cake. It's free. Please join us! And tell a friend...the more the merrier!

2019 Dates:
Wed. May 29 (this is a date change from our original schedule due to a conflict at Grace Village)
We are due to go back to the Hill-Carrillo Adobe in the summer but don't yet have our dates confirmed with them. We will let you know as soon as we have the schedule. Thank you! Still waiting... hopefully we'll have news by May 29.

Homes for Gods and Mortals is a 2018 documentary by the acclaimed Indian film scholar Gayatri Chatterjee. It follows life in two small settlements neighboring the temple complex of Khajuraho, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Madhya Pradesh, India, that is famous for its ornate medieval architecture. The film focuses on the present-day residents of the villages—the nature of their embodied modes of worship and ritual performances—and the interaction of individual lives in a dynamic network around the temples. The film traces a continuous history of migration, settlement, and displacement and of material poverty amid spiritual riches.

The film screening will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Gayatri Chatterjee, a film scholar based in Pune, India. She has taught and lectured widely in India, Europe, and the United States. She is currently based at Pune’s Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts as a visiting faculty member. Her publications on cinema include two books: Awara (reissued by Penguin, 2003), winner of the 1992 President’s Gold Medal; and Mother India (British Film Institute, BFI Film Classics Series, 2002).

Sponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG

Directed by Jeremy Haladyna, the UCSB Ensemble for Contemporary Music will present favorites from the contemporary music repertoire and new works by UCSB faculty and students on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 5:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.