Santa Barbara Dance Theater

Santa Barbara Dance Theater, directed by Brandon Whited, is the professional contemporary dance company in residence in the Department of Theater and Dance. The company presents an annual season at the Hatlen Theater and has the distinction of being the longest continually operational contemporary dance company in the Santa Barbara area.

Writing in the Galleries

Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus to writing. Monthly sessions are led by a visiting writer who begins with a conversation and prompt, partially inspired by works on view. Participants write on their own, then reconvene to share and comment on each other’s work. Please bring something on which to write.

The January session is led by local poet and UC Santa Barbara professor Rick Benjamin.

Writing in the Galleries

Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus to writing. Monthly sessions are led by a visiting writer who begins with a conversation and prompt, partially inspired by works on view. Participants write on their own, then reconvene to share and comment on each other’s work. Please bring something on which to write.

The January session is led by local poet and UC Santa Barbara professor Rick Benjamin.

Central Coast Start-Ups

Join us for Central Coast Start-Ups this month and help create a nexus for the start-up community in Santa Barbara. Kiva has such a rich wealth of knowledge and wisdom within the start-up community, and the hope is that Kiva Cowork can be a house for a start-up ecosystem where leaders can pitch ideas and help one another. Join us for some appetizers, enlightening conversations, and quality time networking.

Longtime Kiva member, Jade Flogerzi from Clever Punch will be sharing marketing and branding secrets that every start up business should know.

Event will take place at Kiva Cowork Funk Zone, 10 E Yanonali St. from 6-7:30pm.

Central Coast Start-Ups

Join us for Central Coast Start-Ups this month and help create a nexus for the start-up community in Santa Barbara. Kiva has such a rich wealth of knowledge and wisdom within the start-up community, and the hope is that Kiva Cowork can be a house for a start-up ecosystem where leaders can pitch ideas and help one another. Join us for some appetizers, enlightening conversations, and quality time networking.

Longtime Kiva member, Jade Flogerzi from Clever Punch will be sharing marketing and branding secrets that every start up business should know.

Event will take place at Kiva Cowork Funk Zone, 10 E Yanonali St. from 6-7:30pm.

The Husahkiw Landscape with Monique Sonoquie

The Husahkiw Landscape with Monique Sonoquie Free IN PERSON Presentation with Q&A Thursday, January 19th, 6:30PM Faulkner Gallery – Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA Join us for a very special edition of Trail Talks as Author, Documenter and Cultural Practitioner Monique Sonoquie offers a personal twenty-five year case study

“Paddling into a Natural Balance” with Writer and Photographer Chuck Graham

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presents “Paddling into a Natural Balance” with Carpinteria-based freelance writer and photographer Chuck Graham on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 7:00. As part of his presentation, Chuck will recount his many adventures hiking and kayaking the Santa Barbara Channel Islands—and will share many of his award-winning photographs that document the islands and their recovery over the past 30+ years. Cost is free for SBMM’s Navigator Circle Members, $10 for all other members, and $20 for members of the public. There will also be a pre-lecture reception for members only from 6:15-6:45pm. Register at: https://sbmm.org/santa-barbara-event/ and become a member at https://sbmm.org.

Maria Ressa How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Celebrated around the world for her commitment to free expression, human dignity and democratic government, journalist Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power and challenging corruption. The recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, Ressa has had multiple arrest warrants filed against her for her reporting on the authoritarian administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Her new book How to Stand Up to a Dictator tells the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts and how social media is killing our freedoms.

The Patient

The Producing Unit presents The Patient.
The story of The Patient follows Anna Hughes, a successful New York actress in her 30s who is grappling with the possible loss of her sanity. Performances will be at Center Stage Theater in downtown Santa Barbara, January 19 - 22. For tickets, visit www.centerstagetheater.org or call 805-963-0408.

Lecture by Nigel McGilchrist: Venice & the Veneto

Venice is perhaps the world’s most beautiful city, and certainly one of its most anomalous human creations. Built in the water of a lagoon, it needed, as it grew in size and importance, a hinterland of its own which both protected its approaches from the land, and provided it with agricultural produce and timber. This became the area known as the Veneto – the flat-lands and alpine foothills that extend to the north and west of Venice. The unequalled international wealth and culture of Venice at its apogee, in the 15th and 16th centuries, flowed out into this area, imbuing it with some of the most accomplished painting and dignified domestic architecture we possess – the works of Paolo Veronese, Titian, Cima, and Giovanni Bellini, and the harmonious villas and gardens of Andrea Palladio which were to influence so profoundly American architecture in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Veneto is the incarnation of a quality of life and civilization that has rarely been equaled in history.

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