Join us for a lecture on Tech Acquisitions: Digital Strategies for Corporation & Exit Strategies for Startups on February 20 from 5-8pm.

Join us for an informative orientation for our new dog training classes!

From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of Ron Stallworth. It’s the early 1970s and Ron Stallworth is the first black detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission to infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. 2h 16m.

When two black holes a billion light-years away collide and merge, the disruption they cause in spacetime is so large that we feel it here, on Earth. Black holes, classical and quantum, hold the key to some of the deepest mysteries of our Universe

This is the KCSB annual Fund Drive to support Santa Barbara’s only full power FM college and community radio station. Because community roots keep us in tune, we’ve got 57 years in bloom!

LAUNCH PAD in a co-commission with Seattle Children’s Theatre and Chicago Children's Theatre presents a brand new adaptation of acclaimed author Christopher Paul Curtis’ groundbreaking, timeless work, The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963. The play centers on a buoyant, loving Michigan family of five travelling south to Alabama during the turbulent summer of 1963, a time of racially motivated upheaval and civil unrest. Ten-year-old Kenny is conflicted about this family vacation, but as his world expands, Kenny learns he’s more courageous than he ever thought himself capable.

Family-friendly, ages 9 and up.

Performance Dates:

February 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 2019 - 8:00pm

February 23, 24, 2019 - 2:00pm

IMPROVology, the Santa Barbara Zoo’s science-meets-comedy show, has landed at the Lobero Theatre.
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.

Just like a fledgling bald eagle, IMPROVology soared in its Lobero premiere last May. After Dr. Tara Stoinski of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund revealed that researchers collect gorilla poop for genetic and other tests (and that gorillas pass a lot of gas), the improvisers whipped up a Shakespearean tragedy (with appropriate sound effects).

See more expert talks and resulting skits here, including a pair of California condors in marriage counseling, a mash-up of Dr. Seuss and “The Godfather” about gorilla family dynamics, and much more.

Pianist Konrad Kono provides the mood music with guest bassist Dr. Michael Schindlinger (previous IMPROVology expert). Local celebrity judges award points that don’t really count. It’s family-friendly fun, and audience participation is encouraged

The League of Women Voters believes that taking care of all our community’s children is vitally important. We believe that early intervention and prevention measures are effective in helping children reach their full potential.
The goal of this forum is to inform and raise awareness of foster care reform.
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Bring your lunch and get to know your local Land Trust! This month's Lunch and Learn features James Wapotich and The Trails of Midland School and Figueroa Mountain.

In this talk, David Marshall will illuminate contemporary debates about the value of the liberal arts and sciences and public investment in higher education by examining Enlightenment arguments for both liberal education and public education in the early American Republic, and the 19th-century Land Grant movement, which resulted in the establishment of the University of California as a “public trust” in the California State Constitution. These two Enlightenment moments resonate today as we try to make the case for accessibility, the liberal arts, and the public research university in the face of privatization and pressure to focus on vocational and pre-professional training, and applied research.

David Marshall is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara, where he serves as Executive Vice Chancellor. His research focuses on eighteenth-century fiction, aesthetics, and moral philosophy. Past President of the National Humanities Alliance, which advances national humanities policy in the areas of research, education, preservation, and public programs, David Marshall has lectured widely on issues in higher education and public education.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment

In this talk, David Marshall will illuminate contemporary debates about the value of the liberal arts and sciences and public investment in higher education by examining Enlightenment arguments for both liberal education and public education in the early American Republic, and the 19th-century Land Grant movement, which resulted in the establishment of the University of California as a “public trust” in the California State Constitution. These two Enlightenment moments resonate today as we try to make the case for accessibility, the liberal arts, and the public research university in the face of privatization and pressure to focus on vocational and pre-professional training, and applied research.

David Marshall is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara, where he serves as Executive Vice Chancellor. His research focuses on eighteenth-century fiction, aesthetics, and moral philosophy. Past President of the National Humanities Alliance, which advances national humanities policy in the areas of research, education, preservation, and public programs, David Marshall has lectured widely on issues in higher education and public education.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment

That art has this power to haunt us to such a degree that we scheme of ways to see what we have heard about or seen in reproduction or can easily access on the internet is one of those fascinating mysteries of modern life. A mystery, because it is by no means certain that the thing that haunts me will have the same effect on someone else. Because in the end, our responses to works of art are complex and personal and attempts to intellectualize the process seem to me doomed to failure. In this talk, Keith Christiansen shares some of his strategies for looking at Renaissance and baroque painting.