As part of the UC Santa Barbara Music History and Theory Forum, Dr. Jacqueline Avila (University of Tennessee) will give a lecture, titled "Memorias de Oro: Music, Memory, and Mexicanidad in Pixar’s Coco (2017)," on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 3:30pm PDT via Zoom.

Zoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/92736851793
Meeting ID: 927 3685 1793

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2215

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for their UCSB Reads Author Event with Patrisse Cullors who will discuss When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Dialogue on Wednesday, May 12 at 5 p.m. Pacific.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present an in person showing of, We Are the Dream -The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest on Thursday, June 3 at 8:30 p.m. Pacific at the West Wind Drive-In.

Not getting the results you want at work, at home, with friends? Maybe the real problem is lack of clarity. Even when we think we’re being clear, we may not be communicating effectively about what we really want or need

Just like the earth, our lives ebb and flow with inevitable change. The UCSB Chamber Choir, directed by Dr. Nicole Lamartine, presents a virtual program that illuminates the human experience through change and highlights collaborations with Santa Barbara Creative Education and ASL expert Eric Brody. The virtual program will be streamed as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube channel on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 6 pm PDT.

For more information on this virtual event visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2212

Experiment with an assortment of drawing tools inspired by Eugene Berman’s mixed media on paper "Composition II" (1940).

 Santa Barbara-based company Sun Potion Transformational Foods is pleased to collaborate in an exclusive pop-up exhibition with New York City-based Shin Gallery from May 13-16, 2021 at 707 Anacapa Street

Normally, EDC holds our largest fundraiser of the year outside in the beautiful gardens of Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta, but in 2020 due to COVID-19, we mixed it up! And boy was it fun. We are looking forward to another exciting Green & Blue with you joining us from the comfort of your home. We will have a silent auction packed full of unique items, an exciting live auction, and a short program to celebrate all we have accomplished together. And let’s not forget the delicious food by Duo Catering along with local wine and beer available at certain sponsor levels. This year we are excited to honor Carmen Ramirez, Ventura County Supervisor, as our Environmental Hero, along with professor Leah Stokes and young poet Nicola Bailey as our special guests.

Please visit https://www.environmentaldefensecenter.org/gb/ for more information.

The UC Santa Barbara Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) and the Department of Music will present a special roundtable event, "Sustaining Music and Musicians in the Age of Streaming," on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 6 pm PDT via Zoom. Participants will include Jean Cook, Eamon Fogarty, Regan Sommer McCoy, Franz Nicolay, and Greg Saunier.

Zoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/9355484663

Zoom Meeting ID: 935 548 4663

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2211

Under the direction of Dr. Jon Nathan, the UCSB Jazz Ensemble will present a virtual concert, titled "UCSB Jazz Ensemble Plays the Music of Randy Aldcroft," on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 6 pm PDT as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. The program will include works by Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Kenny Barron, David Mann, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Herbie Hancock, all arranged by Randy Aldcroft.

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2217