UCSB Opera Theatre and the Department of Music will present a virtual performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s two-act opera Don Giovanni on Friday, February 26

The Department of Theater and Dance is proud to present Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities, a groundbreaking historical recount of the 1991 Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, written by Anna Deavere Smith and directed by Risa Brainin. The show opens at 7 p.m. on February 26 on Zoom and runs through the 28th.

TED & Joe in the Morning, a discussion group based loosely on TED Circles, but tailored for the greater Santa Barbara community by staff from all SBPL branches.

Learn the basics of watercolor painting from SBMA Senior Teaching Artist Itoko Maeno.

Dr. Gina La Monica will lead an insightful workshop on College Admissions including the latest changes. Attend and learn how to get accepted to the college of your dreams.
Some of the topics that will be discussed are the following:
What College Is Best For Me?
College Admission Information
Four Year or Community College Transfer
Career Exploration
Financial Aid and Scholarships
The workshop will be held via Zoom on Sunday, February 28 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm. Please RVSP by Thursday, February 25 at avenuescollegeadmission@gmail.com.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present Chefs in Conversation, Samin Nosrat and Yotam Ottolenghi, moderated by Sherry Villanueva, Managing Partner/Owner of Acme Hospitality on Sunday, Feb. 28 2021 at 11 a.m.

Mondays, March 1 & 8
5:30 - 7 pm
Local writers, working in a variety of genres and forms, meet with participants for two, 90-minute sessions during consecutive weeks.

Join us to hear from some of Santa Barbara’s most inspiring poets on March 3rd.

The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis presents The Winter/Spring 2021 Seminar Series Wealth, Race, and Wildlife: The Impacts of Structural Inequality on Urban Wildlife

Art Matters Lecture - Expert Hands, Infectious Touch: Painting and Pregnancy in Morisot’s "The Mother and Sister of the Artist" with Mary Hunter (via Zoom)
Thursday, March 4, 2021
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Mary Hunter
Associate Professor, Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University

When Berthe Morisot asked Edouard Manet to have a look at her recently completed portrait of her mother and pregnant sister in the days before the 1870 Salon, she did not expect him to completely repaint the depiction of her mother. "t isn't possible to stop him," she wrote in distress to her sister. "He moves from the petticoat to the bodice, from the bodice to the head, from the head to the background." While Morisot sought Manet's expertise, she feared that the painting's public display would ruin her reputation as an independent artist as his heavy hand left too obvious a mark on her canvas.

This lecture explores the gender politics of occupational expertise-artistic and medical-through an analysis of Morisot's The Mother and Sister of the Artist. Firstly, it considers the significance of hands and touch in Manet's and Morisot's work, and secondly examines how the hands of male experts "infected" female spaces, including paintings and pregnant bodies.

credit: Berthe Morisot, The Mother and Sister of the Artist (detail), 1869/170. Oil on canvas. Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, 1963.10.186.

Ticket Cost:
Virtual Experience via Zoom: FREE

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present Legal Scholar and Social Justice Advocate, Michelle Alexander for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness on Thursday, Mar 4 at 5 p.m. Pacific.