Santa Barbara artist Sol Hill has an exhibition of Metagraphs in Montecito.

Silo118 and Santa Barbara artist Sol Hill present an exhibition of camera-based work called Metagraphs.

Vintage Home Decor Pop Up Shop Experience from March 8 - 10 at the La Cumbre Plaza.

How did Americans understand citizenship before it was defined in the 14th Amendment?
If U.S. citizenship was only defined after abolition and emancipation, how did slavery shape American citizenship?

Come discuss these and related issues of race and civic belonging as Professor Carrie Hyde (UCLA) joins us to discuss the (precirculated) first chapter of her recent book, Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship (Harvard, 2018).

Professor Hyde’s teaching and scholarship address the dynamic connections between US literature, law, and politics in the long nineteenth century. Her first book, Civic Longing, offers a new prehistory of citizenship. It examines the central role that fiction and other imaginative traditions played in shaping emergent conceptions of “citizenship” in the period before the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868), when the law was not yet the default cultural tradition for asking and answering questions about citizenship. Civic Longing won the 2018 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities; it also was cited as one of the best books of 2018 in the Australian Book Review.

Please click here to access the pre-circulated paper prior to the discussion.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group

Join Santa Barbara City College for Science Discovery Day on Saturday, March 9 from 1-5 p.m. on East Campus.

In October 1998, a hateful act took the life of Matthew Shepard. As the nation struggled to explain threads of intolerance woven into the fabric of American communities, Moisés Kaufman and members of Tectonic Theater Project visited Laramie, Wyoming to listen to the people of the community where the crime took place. Through a text taken verbatim from hundreds of interviews, The Laramie Project reveals a complex truth of the depths of intolerance and the heights of human empathy.

Performance Dates:

March 1, 6, 7, 8, 2019 - 8:00pm

March 2, 9, 2019 - 2:00pm

The Santa Barbara Music Club presents a free concert at the Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu St., 3pm, Saturday, March 9. The program features “Retro Works:” Paolo Tatafiore’s Variations for Viola and Piano and Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Sonata in Bb Minor, Op. 35.

For information on this or other Santa Barbara Music Club programs and performing artists, visit SBMusicClub.org.

Join the Junior League of Santa Barbara for our 12th Annual Gala: A Black & White Ball on Saturday, March 9 at the Coral Casino Beach & Cabana Club at Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara. Enjoy an elegant evening of festive food, drink, and dancing, with a silent auction, wine raffle, and casino tables. The program will include the presentation of the JLSB's Woman of the Year Award to Lisa Conn, MFT, Founder of R.I.S.E., updates on the League’s work in our community and opportunities to give to the vision & mission of the JLSB. 100% of funds raised support the Junior League of Santa Barbara and their programs to support at-risk women and youth in our community.

Santa Barbara Strings Artistry of Strings Benefit Concert Announced  Annual event will take place on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at Hahn Hall 

Monthly Public Star Party at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Come see Santa Barbara’s premiere youth dance company at the annual sell-out smash, Configuration, presented by Santa Barbara Dance Arts and The Arts Mentorship Program. Perfect for the entire family, Configuration features high-energy hip hop, evocative contemporary, and entertaining jazz numbers that will leave you dancing in your seat. See award winning choreography from Los Angeles choreographers Phil Wright and Richard Elszy, plus work from local favorites Brittany Sandoval, Chloe Roberts, Lauren Serrano, and Alana Tillim. Unique to this production, student work shares the stage with professional choreographers; carefully selected nurtured by professional mentors while they compete for a $250 cash prize courtesy of American Riviera Bank will be awarded at the opening evening performance. Patron VIP seating available at all shows.

Still Alice: Understanding Alzheimer’s