Michael Pollan

With How to Change Your Mind, Pollan now offers a brilliant investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs.

Finding Your Seat at the Table: Influencing Public Policy

Learn to have your issues, concerns and interests included in public policy legislation that will affect your your life and future opportunities. Ever wonder why certain laws or policies influence your community and state? Ever wonder how your interests could be represented in current and historic laws and legislation? Come to this event to learn more, and learn how to make your concerns a part of the decision process. Come out and listen to your neighbors discuss how they got involved community governance and procedures at different levels. Come out and let your voice be heard.

THE 2019 DIANA AND SIMON RAAB WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE: TYREE DAYE

Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of two poetry collections: River Hymns, 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, 2020. Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, and Nashville Review. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship and is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiting Award.

The talk will be followed by a reception and book signing. Copies of River Hymns will be available for purchase.

Sponsored by the Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence Program, created to bring distinguished practitioners of the craft of writing to the UCSB community. Co-presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Writing Program.

Edhat’s 15th Anniversary Party!

Join edhat to celebrate their 15th-anniversary happy hour on Wednesday, April 24 from 5:30 - 7:30 at Carr Winery. A free community event, all are welcome!

Free Film Screening // Monsters and Men

Cup of Culture
Monsters and Men
Wed, April 24th, 6 PM
Film Screening/MCC Theater

Simultaneously subtle and on-the-nose, this original yet under-cooked examination of the pressing issue of police brutality centers on three characters — an eyewitness who captured it all on his phone, an African-American police officer routinely confronted by racism on the job, and a local high school student who’s transformed from passive Multiple Central Coast Locations bystander to activist by the events — who serve as the prismatic lens by which first-time director Reinaldo Marcus Green considers the myriad ramifications of such an event. 1h 38m

Big Fish: The Musical Preview Night

Lights Up! Theatre Company presents a special, low-cost preview of its inaugural musical production, Big Fish: The Musical.

Santa Barbara Fair & Expo

The Santa Barbara Fair and Expo comes to the Earl Warren Showgrounds on April 24-28th.

World Music Series: UCSB Middle East Ensemble

As part of the World Music Series, Scott Marcus will lead a performance by the UCSB Middle East Ensemble of music from a variety of Middle Eastern cultures, performed on traditional Middle Eastern instruments, along with performances of folk and belly dances by the Ensemble Dance Company, on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 12 pm in the UCSB Music Bowl. The World Music Series is co-presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center and the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music.

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