Alanis Obomsawin’s 50th film reveals how a Cree community in Manitoba has been enriched through the power of education. The Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Education Resource Centre in Norway House receives a level of funding that few other Indigenous institutions enjoy. Its teachers help students to develop their abilities and sense of pride. This documentary conveys a message of hope: in an appropriate school environment, one that incorporates their people’s history, language, and culture, Indigenous youth can realize their dreams. 1h 37m.

Local female artists share their dreams, secrets, fantasies, rants, revelations and vulnerable reveals on stage in dance, song, spoken word and performance art.

Dust off your backpacks and lace up your boots (trail runners); cause we're going backpacking!

Exciting news, the Los Padres Forest Association (LPFA) will once again be hosting a Fundamentals of Backpacking course. This will be our 6th year of organizing backpacking classes and promises to be our best ever! The 5-week course starts March 6 and lasts through April 3. Classes will be consecutive Wednesday nights from 7-9pm at La Cuesta High School in Santa Barbara.

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

Wed, Mar 6 (Program B)
Justin Peck: In Creases
Nicolas Blanc: Encounter
Alexander Ekman: Joy
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa: Mammatus

The 4th Annual Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival is pleased to announce an impressive lineup for its 2019 Festival which will be held from March 6-10 at the New Vic Theatre

"3D: Double Vision" (on view at LACMA through March 31, 2019) is the first American exhibition to survey a full range of artworks, dating from 1838 to the present, that produce the illusion of three dimensions. While 3D may seem to have a peripheral relationship to mainstream culture and traditional art history---catching our attention at "peak" moments and then disappearing again into obscurity---in fact it forms a continuous thread across modernity, taking many forms from the Industrial Revolution to today. This talk will explore the history of 3D with examples from the realms of art, science, and popular culture.
Image: Lucy Raven, "Curtains" (detail), 2014. Anaglyph video installation. 50 min looped, courtesy of the artist, © Lucy Raven.

Join us for an evening celebrating the history and legacy of the Anna S. C. Blake Manual Training School at Casa de la Guerra!  This free 1st Thursday event will live music and refreshments

Channing Peake at Casa del Herrero and Highlights from the Santa Barbara County Collection opening reception on March 7 from 5-7pm

Join VNHC at this year’s PHorum, as we explore with Dr. Kerr how these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning as well as insight into the life led as we approach death.

Youth Interactive is bursting at the seams with great art, music and gifts during March First Thursday Artwork!

Title: Heart Health and Breast Cancer:Identifying and managing Cardiovascular Disease risk in women treated for breast cancer. Michael Shenoda, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, specialist in Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology, and Structural Heart Disease at Sansum Clinic, and breast specialist Julie Taguchi, M.D., a prominent oncologist at Sansum Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, will speak on the connection between these diseases.