The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music will present the fifth annual UCSB Summer Music Festival on Saturday, August 22 and Sunday, August 23, 2020 as a virtual event. Sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Office of Summer Sessions, the virtual festival will feature performances by the Los Angeles-based new music piano duo HOCKET, multi-percussionist and vocalist Miguelito León, UC Santa Barbara Composition alumnus and pianist Marc Evanstein, the Nesta Steel Drum Band, University Carillonist Wesley Arai, and Gamelan Sinar Surya, under the direction of UC Santa Barbara faculty member Richard North. The festival will also feature a children’s concert led by Miguelito León and a demonstration of a variety of Medieval and Renaissance instruments by UC Santa Barbara graduate Composition student Matthew Owensby.

Mix It Up! A virtual mixed media workshop for all. Whether you are an artist or not, this is a great platform in which we can all get creative, using what we have in studio, and putting it on the easel!

A Virtual world premiere concert event featuring KT Tunstall. $15 tickets on sale now at lobero.org.

Mindful Heart Programs presents: Healing and self-care in Mindfulness, Compassion and Nature Connection with Michael Kearney, MD and Radhule Weininger, PhD

Join in a reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hisham Matar in the second in a series of Parallel Stories offered via Zoom. A writer of exquisite gentleness and elegant pacing, Matar discusses his second memoir, "A Month in Siena," which speaks eloquently to a sense of loss and of suspended time, solitude, loneliness, love, and the way in which art can both console and consume us. Still grieving for his Libyan father who was kidnapped and had disappeared, Matar turns to Siena and the art of the 13 – 15th century, an art forever changed by the devastation of the Black Plague, for comfort and clarity. Within the gated confines of that city, he explores his own inner landscape, as if walking the outline of an idea, and in his story reveals much that is timely and connected to our own: the limits of grief, how the imagination is altered by events, the indifference of pestilence, and the acknowledgement that both love and art are an expression of faith.

Mindful Heart Programs presents: “Cultivating Emotional Balance through Mindfulness” with Radhule Weininger, PhD, psychologist and meditation teacher

Mindful Heart Programs presents: Mindful Self-compassion with Anahita Holden and Hattie Bluestone

Livestream of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (2002) Tuesday, August 25 at 5pm PT

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Mindful Heart Programs presents:
Mindfulness in Recovery Meditation with Arno Jaffe, JD and meditation teacher

Mindful Heart Programs presents: Morning Practice: The Foundations of Insight Meditation with Stacy Zumbroegel

Mindful Heart Programs presents: “Living Fully with Mindfulness and Compassion” with Radhule Weininger, PhD and Japanese Zen Master Souken Danjo

“Forward into Light” is a nationwide campaign recognizing the struggles of Women’s Suffrage Movement and the signing of the 19th Amendment. Hundreds of organizations across the nation will participate in this once-in-a-lifetime tribute.