“We need to talk” – Race. Racism. Racist. There has been a lot of talk about this issue in the media recently, including the rhetoric and the valid points peppered with both pain and ignorance.

Carp-a-Cabana to honor performing arts teacher Elise Unruh  - CEF’s Havana Nights-themed event raises money for CUSD enrichment programs

A Concert for Immigrant Justice, 9/7/19, 7pm, Unitarian Society, Santa Barbara

A Concert for Immigrant Justice, 9/7/19, 7pm, Unitarian Society, Santa Barbara

Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara and the Interfaith Sanctuary Alliance Present Singer/Songwriters Kate Wallace and Doug Clegg in Singing for Asylum: A Concert for Immigrant Justice

Youth Mental Health First Aid is a comprehensive training specifically designed to equip educators, family members, and caregivers with the skills and knowledge to identify, understand, and respond to the signs or risk factors of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth.

Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis.

Taught by Don MacMannis, Ph.D.

There has been a recent and dramatic increase in the number of children who suffer from various forms of anxiety. This course is designed for clinicians and mental health professionals wanting to learn and apply innovative and effective tools to help families with kids who suffer primarily from fears, phobias and PTSD.

Through a slide presentation, hands-on activities, demonstrations and numerous examples from videotaped sessions, the course will uncover the variety of factors that can contribute to anxiety. Moving beyond fundamentals of CBT, the group will focus on how to integrate and custom-tailor treatment methods, drawing form a variety of theoretical models. In a final segment of the workshop, Debra Manchester will routine strategies related to treatment of teens.

Tour of local UC Natural Reserve with knowledgeable tour guides.

A foremost expert on the history of photography’s first decades, Hope Kingsley, Curator, Education and Collections, Wilson Centre for Photography, presents a fascinating in-depth overview of "Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840-1860." This major traveling exhibition provides a rare and extraordinary chance to experience some of the earliest photographs ever made, by many of the most important and groundbreaking figures in the history of the photographic medium. Organized by the Wilson Centre for Photography, London, with the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, "Salt & Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860" is on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art September 8 – December 8.

This event is sponsored by the Lorna Hedges Lecture Fund.
Image: William Henry Fox Talbot, “Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London,” first week of April 1844, printed later. Salted paper print from a paper negative. Courtesy of the Wilson Centre for Photography.

A foremost expert on the history of photography’s first decades, Hope Kingsley, Curator, Education and Collections, Wilson Centre for Photography, presents a fascinating in-depth overview of "Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840-1860." This major traveling exhibition provides a rare and extraordinary chance to experience some of the earliest photographs ever made, by many of the most important and groundbreaking figures in the history of the photographic medium. Organized by the Wilson Centre for Photography, London, with the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, "Salt & Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860" is on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art September 8 – December 8.

This event is sponsored by the Lorna Hedges Lecture Fund.
Image: William Henry Fox Talbot, “Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London,” first week of April 1844, printed later. Salted paper print from a paper negative. Courtesy of the Wilson Centre for Photography.

Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum to Present Award-Winning Film The Old Spanish Trail: Documentary tells tale of three modern-day men retracing the steps of 19th century cowboys who blazed the 1,200-mile Trail  from Los Angeles to Santa Fe on horseback and mule.

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