PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION FOR NEXT 2 GATHERINGS Due to renovations of the Hill-Carrillo Adobe, we will temporarily be meeting at the address below You're invited: Death Cafe Santa Barbara in conjunction with The Center for Successful Aging with Liz Bauer, Lynn Holzman, and Peggy Levine Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Time: 3:30-5 PM Place:

Ruth Rosenberg (University of Illinois at Chicago) will present a talk titled "Perfect Pitch: 432 Hz Music and the Promise of a Frequency" on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 from 3:30-5 pm in Music Room 1145. Cosponsored by UCSB Ethnomusicology Forum, Music History and Theory Forum, and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM).

Snowy Plover breeding season is here and Coal Oil Point Reserve is training new docents.

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case–an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother–galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

In her groundbreaking new book, Biased, social psychologist and Stanford professor Jennifer Eberhardt demonstrates how ingrained stereotypes can powerfully shape our visual perception, memory and behavior. A MacArthur “genius” and one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers, Eberhardt offers insight into how bias can lead to racial disparities – in the classroom, the courtroom, the boardroom – as well as practical, actionable suggestions for reform.

As part of the World Music Series, CSUN professor Ric Alviso will lead his high-energy Masanga Marimba in a performance of music from Zimbabwe on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 12 pm in the UCSB Music Bowl. The group performs on seven Zimbabwean marimbas (akin to xylophones) of various sizes along with vocals, drums, percussion, saxophone, and trumpet. The World Music Series is co-presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center and the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music.

Undergraduate trombonist Nick Mazuk will present a recital on Sunday, May 12, 2019 at 12 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. Mr. Mazuk will be joined by pianist Dr. Natasha Kislenko (UCSB faculty member) and the 8th Position trombone octet. The program will feature music by Paul Creston, Camille Saint-Saëns, Stjepan Sulek, Nick Mazuk, and more.

All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions. Museum Teaching Artists provide general guidance and all materials. Each program is open to 10 participants.

Harbor of Spies: A Novel of Historic Havana is an historical suspense novel set in Cuba at the height of the Civil War. Havana, one of the most important foreign ports for the Confederacy, was then alive with blockade runners, spies and slave traders. The protagonist is a deeply conflicted young man who was kicked out of the Naval Academy in the middle of the Civil War and who goes to Cuba to find a way forward. Bitter, resentful and confused, he travels to Cuba, as the first mate and then captain of a merchant ship, looking for answers about his own life and some trace of his recently deceased mother’s past. As soon as he arrives, he rescues a man from the sea outside Havana harbor who turns out to be a prison escapee. This one act of kindness draws him into dangerous matters beyond his control. He gets ensnared in a mystery about an English diplomat who was murdered years earlier in his home in Havana. This murder of George Backhouse in 1855 was real and was never solved.

Presented in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019, this program of six shorts by filmmakers from the Vietnamese diaspora includes documentary, narrative, and experimental films. Like this year’s UCSB Reads text The Best We Could Do, these short films take up questions of Vietnamese heritage, family, and memory. This selection of films was curated in cooperation with the Viet

The next meeting of the Santa Barbara Rose Society is on Thursday, April 11,  2019  from 7 – 9 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 909 N La Cumbre Road at Foothill in Santa Barbara. 

Come see the entire Westmont art department come together for one 4 day long festival. The Fringe is student lead and has been a reoccurring Westmont tradition for quite some time. This year the Fringe festival is showcasing dance, theater, visual arts, and film. The Fringe will include multiple presentations from these areas in different spots all around campus.
Ticket prices range from $15 for a four day pass to all events for general admission and $10 for students and seniors, general admission for each day is $10 and $7 for students and seniors.
Hope to see you there!