The Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold a School Maker Faire on Saturday, May 4 from 10am-12pm at the Education Building on the UCSB campus. Like other Maker Faires, this event will celebrate “making,” that is hands-on activities related to robotics, circuits, crafts, building, and other pursuits.

Have you heard about Pilates but are still uncertain what it is or how it could help you? In this workshop you will SEE Demonstrations of Pilates with and without equipment, FEEL some basic Pilates movements HEAR about the method and it's many benefits, ASK Questions and GET Answers.

Meet us at the Mart for a Spring Marketplace and shop 20+ brands on May 4th! Along with our Mart family, there will be a curated selection of pop-ups handpicked by Local Mercato!

Curated by Bruce Heavin and Roman Baratiak

From Shepard Fairey's street art to Rem Koolhaas' skyscrapers, from contemplative Japanese architecture to Yayoi Kusama's hallucinatory polka dots, from the Bauhaus' utopian philosophy to Chris Burden's bodily assaults, and much more, this festival of nine films on art and architecture spans distances both physical and ideological as it explores some of the people and projects at the forefront of human creativity, redefining boundaries and expanding the limits of what is possible.

Graduate pianist Ching-Yun Chen will present a recital on Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 1:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. The program will include Maurice Ravel's piano duet Ma mère l'Oye, Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano, Johannes Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121, as well as his Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56b. Guest performers will include baritone Byron Mayes, violist Besnik Yzeiri, and pianists Marc Evans and Buyun Li. Ms. Chen is a student of Dr. Charles Asche.

Planning a Pollinator Garden
The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardeners announces a free public workshop entitled “Planning a Pollinator Garden” to be presented on Sunday, May 5, 2019, from 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. in the Faulkner Gallery of the Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street in Santa Barbara.

Attendees will learn the importance of pollinators, the different types of pollinators, how to build a habitat for pollinators, and how to analyze soil and climate for plant selection.

Discover the authentic beauty of Motion Theatre Dance Company and experience a performance of contemporary ballet and modern dance including the children’s dance program @ www.sbmovementarts.com. Award winning artist Maria Rendina Frantz will explore uncharted territory with the premier her new work Journey. Emerging choreographers, U.C.S.B. graduates Kelly O’Connor, Sammy Gerraty and Gianna Burright will also present three exciting, original contemporary works.

Chamber On The Mountain presents the Busch Trio

Omri Epstein, piano
Mathieu van Bellen, violin
Ori Epstein, cello

Program:
Piano Trio in G Major, KV 564 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Slow Pavane; Fast Stomp; & Short Procession - Mark-Anthony Turnage
Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 - Johannes Brahms

Sunday, May 5, 2019
3:00 pm
Logan House (at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Upper Ojai)
8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd.
Ojai, CA 93023

(805) 646-9951

Tickets $25.00 at www.ChamberOnTheMountain.com

Meet the Artists! A lovely reception will be held on our patio immediately following the performance.

The entire stage is an instrument as eight incredible dancers on electronic tap boards – plus three musicians playing live – become an orchestra creating an exciting visual and auditory polyphony that merges modernity and tradition into pure bliss

Guided tour of Coal Oil Point Reserve

Undergraduate trombonist Paul Wu will present a junior Bachelor of Music recital with pianist Dr. Natasha Kislenko (UCSB faculty member) and the UCSB Maurice Faulkner Brass Quintet on Sunday, May 5th at 10 am in Room 1145 in the Music Building. The program will include works by Launy Grøndahl, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Gustav Holst.

Put on your Sunday best because polo is back! The 2019 Polo Season kicks off on Cinco de Mayo - Sunday, May 5 - with the Folded Hills Pope Challenge.