Gabriel's stand-up comedy is a mixture of storytelling, parodies, characters and sound effects that bring his personal experiences to life.

Featured speakers are: Neel Kashkari, President & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, speaking on interest rates, monetary policy and the economy. He oversaw TARP in the early days of the 2008 financial crisis; Kathy Moe, FDIC Regional Director, speaking about growth cycles, financial innovation and cash-intensive businesses. She oversees the Western U.S., Guam and Micronesia; and Michael Cox, board member at Faciam Holdings, speaking about cannabis and the banking sector. The Santa Barbara County economic report will be delivered by Peter Rupert, Director of the UCSB Economic Forecast Project. Presentations will be followed by a panel moderated by Peter Rupert.

The Institute for Energy Efficiency at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites you to attend the annual 2019 Emerging Technologies Review on Thursday, May 16th. This all-day review (8:30-5pm) will feature several speakers, covering new developments in areas of energy and energy efficiency.

Divided into several distinct sessions, industrial and academic speakers will cover a broad range of topics in areas such as Production & Storage, Computing & Datacenter Energy Efficiency, Food-Water-Energy Nexus, and Societal Energy Infrastructure.

Lunch will be provided for all registered attendees.

Register Here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-technologies-review-2019-registration-60497795535?aff=eac2

https://iee.ucsb.edu/events/2019-emerging-technologies-review

Disquantified: Higher Education in the Age of Metrics
www.disquantified.org
May 16-17, 2019
Loma Pelona Center and the UCen (Harbor Room)

Metrics are transforming higher education. The Disquantified conference explores how they are changing teaching, research, and governance in universities. Our questions include:

How are citation analytics affecting the direction of academic research and publishing?
Are wage data influencing how students choose majors?
Are faculty teaching differently as assessment becomes learning analytics?
Have performance indicators changed public funding and oversight?
Given these trends, how might faculty, students, and staff respond?
Please join us as we host an interdisciplinary cast of scholars for lively discussion about how we can use (and when we should reject) higher education metrics. Our goal is to make the university a more exciting, energizing, and equitable place. Faculty, students, and staff members from all disciplines are welcome.

For the full program and more information, visit www.disquantified.org.

Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, Chicano Studies Institute, Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, Office of Research, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Letters and Science, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, Department of English

The new weekly local radio show, “Solutions News Radio,” hosted by Rinaldo Brutoco, president and founder of the World Business Academy, will air live this Friday from 5-6 p.m. on KZSB 1290 AM radio. There will be replay broadcasts Friday from 11 p.m.– 12 a.m., Saturday from 5- 6 p.m. and again on Sunday from 9 -10 a.m. The show is also available on demand as a podcast from Soundcloud.

Local group Key Party returns to Carr Winery this Friday, May 17.

The UCSB Department of Music will present a concert titled "Make a Jazz Noise Here: The Genius of Frank Zappa" on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 7:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. The event will feature performances by the UCSB Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, and students of the College of Creative Studies Music Composition Program. The program will include arrangements by Zac Erstad, Jarod Fedele, and Tom Håkanson, with special guests Matt Perko (drums) and Milo Bechtloff (saxophones).

Fratelli, A Men’s Chorus, Santa Barbara’s chorus of gay men and their allies, will present its highly-anticipated Spring Concert "Why We Sing!" Friday, May 17 at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Santa Barbara.

Fratelli’s Spring Concert, the culmination of their seventh season, is centered around brotherhood, friendship, and belonging. Members of the group, gay and straight, span five generations and include parents, grandparents, professionals and students.

The talented, enthusiastic singers will showcase an eclectic repertoire through a variety of musical styles, all presented with humor and heart to highlight the joy of friendship and fraternity. Some of the songs that will be featured in the Spring Concert include You Raise Me Up, Thank You for Being a Friend (Golden Girls theme), and For Good (from Wicked).

For more information, visit www.fratelliamenschorus.org.

Date: Friday, May 17th, 2019
Time: 7:30p.m. (Doors open at 7:10 p.m.)
Location: First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara CA 93101

Westmont Public Telescope Night

The New Works Lab presents bare bones developmental productions of half-hour scripted and devised plays. The program provides a simple 'fringe festival' level of technical and design support so that each work may evolve in content and structure through the final performance. Works are selected every November through an open application process. The process is supported by a weekly spring quarter class in which NWL student actors, designers, playwrights, directors, stage managers and publicists working on the productions convene with faculty and staff mentors to view and critique staged iterations of each work.

Performance Dates:

May 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2019 - 8:00pm

May 11, 18, 19, 2019 - 2:00pm

Robert Cray has been bridging the lines between blues, soul and R&B for the past four decades, with five Grammy wins, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee, recipient of the Americana Lifetime achievement award, countless tours and over 20 acclaimed albums. Cray’s latest record, Robert Cray with Hi Rhythm was recorded at Royal Studios in

The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture.

This year’s conference theme is “Disrupt and Advance.” We understand ‘disrupt’ broadly as actions or ideas that intervene in or challenge the established theoretical, institutional, or narrative frame. The emphasis on disruption is an intentional examination of disciplinary constraints. By including ‘advance’ we hope to encourage submissions that operationalize critique into praxis. We welcome papers that engage in a critique of disciplinary conventions or somehow broaden the scope of (inter)disciplinary research, presenting innovative models for paths forward.

For more information visit http://liso.ucsblinguist.org/

Sponsored by the IHC’s Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Research Focus Group, Graduate Division, Linguistics Department, Education Department, Sociology Department, and the Communication Department.