The Knox School of Santa Barbara’s Kindergarten program will be expanding to add a Junior Kindergarten this Fall for the 2020/2021 school year.  Join a Fireside Chat for more info.

Hiking New Zealand's Tuatapere Hump Ridge Track Free Presentation with Q&A Thursday, February 20th, 6:30PM Faulkner Gallery – Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA Located in Fiordland National Park, in the southernmost part of New Zealand, Tautapere Hump Ridge Track leads through Waitutu Forest and offers scenic views of New

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is delighted to announce that Dwight Hwang will be demonstrating the art of nature printing with commentary by Emily Miller, to coincide with the museum’s art exhibit, Fishing with Paper & Ink.

"For more than 30 years, Lovett has been putting out consistently solid albums that carry the torch for not only traditional country music storytelling, but also a decidedly literate -- and often downright humorous -- brand of songwriting." PopMatters

Animal experts are interviewed live on stage. Then, on the spot, actors from L.A.’s Impro Theatre create skits, songs, and general silliness, accompanied by live music. Think TED Talks meets Whose Line Is It Anyway… but about California condors or African wild dogs or, in one particularly hilarious show, parasitic worms.

$70 - VIP seating & courtyard reception

$30 - Reserved

$25 - Santa Barbara Zoo Members

The Santa Barbara Zoo is excited to announce the return of IMPROVology, a live, family-friendly mashup of science and comedy. Mix comedians with animal experts, add cool stories about fascinating critters, and everyone ends up happy as clams. In a special Valentine’s Day edition of IMPROVology, improv comedians from LA’s Impro Theatre do a deep

Santa Barbara Zoo's IMPROVology returns to the Lobero Theatre, February 20

If intimacy is collaboratively produced in interaction, as discourse analysts argue, then how do individuals with atypical interactional behaviors achieve it? This paper addresses a sociolinguistic practice noted for individuals on the autism spectrum but rarely analyzed: the sustained adoption of non-local dialect features. For sociolinguists who view second dialect acquisition as a social achievement importantly related to identity, this practice presents a paradox: How do individuals with such a purportedly “asocial” syndrome accomplish an activity that is intensely social? To address this question, the talk draws from data collected by a team of linguists and anthropologists at the University of Colorado Boulder for a multi-year project on accent imitation in the autism spectrum. Focusing on the life narrative of an autistic man raised in Montgomery, Alabama who has adopted what he characterizes as a “South African Welsh” accent, the paper suggests that the cultivation of non-local accent enables autistic individuals to achieve the intimacy often precluded by the use of atypical prosody. Bringing together Bourdieu’s work on ‘shared timing’ with recent work on queer time and spatiotemporal scales, the paper questions fundamental sociolinguistic assumptions about the relationship between place, dialect, and speaker subjectivity.

As part of the Corwin Chair Series, João Pedro Oliveira (Corwin Chair of Composition, UC Santa Barbara) will present a lecture titled "Models of Composition in the 21st Century" on Friday, February 21, 2020 at 3 pm in Studio Xenakis (Room 2215, Music Building). Oliveira will talk about his music and how he uses models derived from the historical past and other arts.

WHAT: This week’s “Solutions News” live radio broadcast will interview David Gershon
WHEN: 5 to 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, 2020
WHERE: Tune in to KZSB 1290 AM

Join us this Friday for live music with Dan & the ZimmerMen!

Monthly Westmont Public Telescope Night