The Amazing Acro-cats Featuring Tuna and the Rock Cats are a troupe of touring performing house cats. This one-of-a-kind, two hour long purrformance features talented domesticated house cats roll on balls, ride skateboards, jump through hoops, and more!

The Best We Could Do

Spend an evening with cartoonist Thi Bui, author of the acclaimed graphic memoir The Best We Could Do, an intimate portrayal of her family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to California. Her evocative memoir both searches for a better future and longs for the past, as Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. Through haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, Bui examines the strength of family, the importance of identity and the meaning of home.

This talk explores bilingual women’s social and narrative positioning as informal linguistic brokers (or community interpreters) in a rural town dependent on the industrial processing of fresh kosher meat-products. Specifically, it addresses how these women as “community accountants” employed reflexive interdiscursivity and oriented to different modernist chronotopes to re-analyze the cultural politics of migrant labor (Bakhtin 1981; See Chávez 2015; Dick 2010, 2017; Perrino 2011; Reynolds 2017). Their accounts shed insight into what happens when legal recognition of migrant labor is withheld/deferred and how this influences the chronic conditions of exhaustion and ambivalence that shape the social reproductive and linguistic labor necessary in supporting a diverse international migrant workforce in transnationally intertwined rural political economies (Povinelli 2011; McElhinny 2016). The study combines ethnography with poetic approaches to narrative dialogically produced through interviews. Analyses feature two contrasting case studies of native and foreign-born women and highlight how they grappled with maintaining and sustaining relationships that were socially fraught and required different kinds of border-crossing work to affectively identify with both migrant and native-born town residents.

Jennifer F. Reynolds is Professor of Anthropology and a faculty member in Linguistics and the Latin American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. She is a linguistic anthropologist who examines the relationship(s) between quotidian discourse practices and social and linguistic reproduction, with a focus on indigenous Guatemalans in transnational circuits of migration.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Research Focus Group and the Mellichamp Global Dynamics Initiative

The Community Environmental Council (CEC) invites you to bring out your blankets, chairs and cover band dancing moves for a FREE bonus concert in honor of #SBEarthDay on Friday, April 26 from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. 

The new weekly local radio show, “Solutions News Radio,” hosted by Rinaldo Brutoco, president and founder of the World Business Academy, will air live this Friday from 5-6 p.m. on KZSB 1290 AM radio. There will be replay broadcasts Friday from 11 p.m.– 12 a.m., Saturday from 5- 6 p.m. and again on Sunday from 9 -10 a.m. The show is also available on demand as a podcast from Soundcloud.

The Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival is back from April 26 -April 28. Join us for our NEW Friday night concert in Alameda Park!

Lights Up! Theatre Company presents its inaugural musical production, Big Fish: The Musical!

Raise a glass to Friday night at Carr Winery with featured reggae band, After the Smoke.

Lights Up! Theatre Company debuts its inaugural musical, Big Fish: The Musical  at the Marjorie Luke Theatre.  Big Fish: The Musical, a new adaptation of the blockbuster film, plays at the Marjorie Luke Theatre on Friday, April 26th at 7pm, and Saturday, April 27th at 1pm and 7pm.  A special, low-cost preview will take place on Wednesday, April 24th at 7pm.  

Lights Up! Theatre Company debuts its inaugural musical, Big Fish: The Musical at the Marjorie Luke Theatre on Friday, April 26th at 7pm, and Saturday, April 27th at 1pm and 7pm.

The Crucible is one of the most gripping works of American opera. Based on Arthur Miller’s play centered on the Salem witch trials, Robert Ward’s eerily topical opera is sure to make your pulse race. Wayne Tigges and Audrey Babcock – both standout singing actors – debut as John and Elizabeth Proctor; Anya Matanovic portrays

, Opera Santa Barbara presents "The Crucible" on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 28