The UCSB Department of Music will present a concert titled "Make a Jazz Noise Here: The Genius of Frank Zappa" on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 7:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. The event will feature performances by the UCSB Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, and students of the College of Creative Studies Music Composition Program. The program will include arrangements by Zac Erstad, Jarod Fedele, and Tom Håkanson, with special guests Matt Perko (drums) and Milo Bechtloff (saxophones).

Fratelli, A Men’s Chorus, Santa Barbara’s chorus of gay men and their allies, will present its highly-anticipated Spring Concert "Why We Sing!" Friday, May 17 at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Santa Barbara.

Fratelli’s Spring Concert, the culmination of their seventh season, is centered around brotherhood, friendship, and belonging. Members of the group, gay and straight, span five generations and include parents, grandparents, professionals and students.

The talented, enthusiastic singers will showcase an eclectic repertoire through a variety of musical styles, all presented with humor and heart to highlight the joy of friendship and fraternity. Some of the songs that will be featured in the Spring Concert include You Raise Me Up, Thank You for Being a Friend (Golden Girls theme), and For Good (from Wicked).

For more information, visit www.fratelliamenschorus.org.

Date: Friday, May 17th, 2019
Time: 7:30p.m. (Doors open at 7:10 p.m.)
Location: First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara CA 93101

Westmont Public Telescope Night

The New Works Lab presents bare bones developmental productions of half-hour scripted and devised plays. The program provides a simple 'fringe festival' level of technical and design support so that each work may evolve in content and structure through the final performance. Works are selected every November through an open application process. The process is supported by a weekly spring quarter class in which NWL student actors, designers, playwrights, directors, stage managers and publicists working on the productions convene with faculty and staff mentors to view and critique staged iterations of each work.

Performance Dates:

May 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2019 - 8:00pm

May 11, 18, 19, 2019 - 2:00pm

Robert Cray has been bridging the lines between blues, soul and R&B for the past four decades, with five Grammy wins, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee, recipient of the Americana Lifetime achievement award, countless tours and over 20 acclaimed albums. Cray’s latest record, Robert Cray with Hi Rhythm was recorded at Royal Studios in

The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture.

This year’s conference theme is “Disrupt and Advance.” We understand ‘disrupt’ broadly as actions or ideas that intervene in or challenge the established theoretical, institutional, or narrative frame. The emphasis on disruption is an intentional examination of disciplinary constraints. By including ‘advance’ we hope to encourage submissions that operationalize critique into praxis. We welcome papers that engage in a critique of disciplinary conventions or somehow broaden the scope of (inter)disciplinary research, presenting innovative models for paths forward.

For more information visit http://liso.ucsblinguist.org/

Sponsored by the IHC’s Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Research Focus Group, Graduate Division, Linguistics Department, Education Department, Sociology Department, and the Communication Department.

Come visit our downtown Santa Barbara location and save 25% on everything in stock! In-store sale runs from Friday May 17 thru Monday May 20, 10:30am - 6:30pm.

Antiques, Decorative Arts & Vintage Show supports nonprofit Child Abuse Listening Mediation at Earl Warren Showgrounds on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 17-19. Admission $6 or less.

The finest Antique & Vintage Roadshow of the spring at the Earl Warren Showgrounds from May 17 - 19

For many of us today, the artifice of legal personhood — the corporate person in particular — provokes outrage. Focusing on the legal fiction of slave personhood, this paper argues that in the 19th-century U.S. the greater danger came from naturalizing this artifice by attaching it to actual African American people, regardless of condition. This

The 1st Annual “Bark Party” will take place  Saturday, May 18th from 1pm-5pm at the Sueño Bark Park located at 6650 Sueño Rd in Isla Vista, celebrating the newly opened dog park.

Graduate pianist Pinshu Yu will present a doctoral recital on Saturday, May 18th at 1:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall in the Music Building. Mr. Yu will perform works for solo piano by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, and Franz Schubert. Mr. Yu is a student of Professor Paul Berkowitz.