Mosquitoes kill more humans every year than any other any other animal, including people. Distinguished Professor Dr. Craig Montell of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology at University of California, Santa Barbara will demonstrate how working on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster provided insights into new strategies for mosquito control that would not otherwise be possible.

Ring in the holidays with festivity and flair at Fratelli’s annual holiday concert. Fratelli is Santa Barbara’s premier chorus of gay men and their allies dedicated to inspiring compassion and pride throughout the community.

 Fratelli, a Men’s Chorus, will ring in the season Dec. 10 with their latest holiday concert, “On This Shining Night.” This year, Fratelli, a chorus of gay men and their allies, is sharing the First United Methodist Church stage with special guests the Ding-Dons from Santa Barbara High School and performer Rod Lathim. With the

One Performance Only! Join the Adelfos Ensemble for a festive evening of Polychoral Masterworks for Choir and Brass

Hospice of Santa Barbara (HSB) invites the community to celebrate and honor the lives of loved ones at its 35th annual Light Up a Life ceremonies, and the 1st ever Montecito event.

Light Up a Life ceremonies are free to attend and feature special guests and speakers, music, and a memorial tree lighting, including hundreds of sparkling tribute stars hung to commemorate those who are no longer with us.

Stars are available online and will also be available at each ceremony for a suggested donation of $15 or more for those wishing to personalize a star to hang on the tree. Hospice of Santa Barbara will record the names being honored and remembered into the Book of Life, which will be available in perpetuity online. All proceeds will benefit Hospice of Santa Barbara programs.

To purchase a star or for more information about Light Up a Life, call (805) 563-8820 or visit www.hospiceofsantabarbara.org.

Suggested donation for a star: $15

Program begins at 5:30 pm, personalize your stars starting at 5:00 pm

Current Corridan Art Exhibit. Oil Paintings and Fine Art Archival Prints by Karen Fedderson. Beautiful Landscape and Seascape oil paintings from Malibu to San Luis Obispo.

Inspired by his teacher Robert Henri’s credo of “Art for Life’s Sake,” George Bellows strove to make his paintings as capacious as life itself. Nowhere is this ambition more evident than in his winter views which run the gamut from pleasant scenes of leisure to harsh depictions of urban labor. In these remarkable paintings Bellows transmuted the substance of snow into the substance of paint.
Image: George Wesley Bellows, “Blue Snow, The Battery,” 1910. Oil on canvas. Columbus Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Howald Fund.

Nov 29, Dec 6, Dec 13 Thurs 7 – 9 PM - OVERCOMING FEAR – 3 Week Course with Dharma teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips

The Last Five Years is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2001 and was then produced Off-Broadway in March of 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions both in the United States and internationally, as well as having been made into a motion picture starring Anna Kendrick.

The story explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. The show uses a form of storytelling in which Cathy's story is told in reverse chronological order (beginning the show at the end of the marriage), and Jamie's is told in chronological order (starting just after the couple have first met). The characters do not directly interact except for a wedding song in the middle as their timelines intersect.

Directed by Otto Layman, with set design by Layman and Jonathan Mitchell (who also will design the lighting), The Last Five Years features two couples, singing on alternate days: Josie Gillingham and Carter Beaudette, Daniel Sabraw and Logan Fleming. On the final performance, the couples will switch, with Sabraw singing with Gillingham, and Beaudette with Fleming. Performances are December 13 at 7pm (Carter / Gillingham), December 14 at 7pm (Sabraw/Fleming), and December 15 at 2pm (Beaudette/Fleming) and 7pm (Sabraw/Gillingham). Tickets are $20.00 reserved orchestra, $10.00 General Admission, and $5.00 for students.

Looking for a new job in the new year? Join Rosewood Hotels and Resorts! Meet us at our career fairs from December 13 through December 20.

The talk begins with a reflection on James Baldwin’s formulation in Just Above My Head. “Responsibility is not lost; it is abdicated. If one refuses abdication then one begins again.” Here the fight for democracy, in this moment with the erosion of norms and the fragility of democratic institutions, requires of us, in our specific places and in full light of the kind of society we want, a different kind of struggle and a more robust political language.

Gallery Exhibition December 14th - 20th
Reception, 5-7 pm Friday, December 14th