Graduate vocalist Kelly Guerra (mezzo-soprano) will present a doctoral recital with pianist Erik Lawrence on Monday, February 3, 2020 at 7:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The program will include works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Annea Lockwood, Chabuca Granda, Alma Mahler, and Lili Boulanger. Guerra is a student of Professor Isabel Bayrakdarian.

1.5 hour docent-led ghost tour

Jerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau will lead a powerful discussion about the prison system and incarceration. All three served nearly fifty years in prison unjustly before being found innocent. They were all wrongly convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent. While in prison, they made a pact to someday reunite and go into business together as free men. They enrolled in prison education programs, learned trades, and studied law. They stuck together and worked with allies outside the prison. Today, through their work with Free-Dem Foundations, a non-profit community-based youth organization in New Orleans, they are realizing the vision they created while unjustly incarcerated.

“Let it be known: Chris Thile is amazing… A graceful and soulful singer, relaxed raconteur, dazzling virtuoso, gifted composer and all-around charmer.” The Washington Post

1.5 hour docent-led ghost tour

1.5 hour docent-led ghost tour

2-for-Tuesday Pizza

Every speaker needs to gaining credibility as the “voice of authority.” Research tells us men start with credibility at the podium but women must earn it. That means careful preparation for every type of presentation women deliver.

In this workshop, Dr. Lois Phillips will discuss minefields and pitfalls women find particularly perilous. She’ll also help you craft a compelling pitch for your product or service, using a template from her new book Women Seen and Heard Speaker’s Journal, co-authored with Anita Perez Ferguson. Learn essential tips and tools to help you become a more confident speaker in every setting!

AWC-SB members free, Guests $20 - includes wine & refreshments (register at www.awcsb.org)

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.