The 2013 Tony® Award-winning Broadway Musical Cinderella comes to the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara November 27 – 28th.

The UCSB Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus will present a joint concert featuring choral masterpieces and contemporary favorites at Trinity Episcopal Church (1500 State St) in downtown Santa Barbara on Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 7:30 pm. Tyler Reece will conduct the Women's Chorus in a diverse program of winter music from around the globe, featuring works by Harold Darke, Frode Fjellheim and Christophe Beck, Robert Sieving, Dan Forrest, Norman Luboff, Michelle Willis, Shawn Kirchner, and Elizabeth Alexander. Daniel Newman-Lessler will conduct the Chamber Choir's program, "'Tis Nature's Voice", a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the environmentalism movement born out of Santa Barbara in 1969, featuring works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms, Lili Boulanger, Francis Poulenc, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, Adriano Banchieri, Antonín Dvořák, Frank Ticheli, Randall Thompson, and Alisa Bair.

"First Man" (2018) conveys the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon by focusing on Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) over the decade leading up to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong’s perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs

Born and raised in Mexico City and largely self-taught, Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002) is among the most important Mexican artists of the 20th century and one of the most celebrated figures in the history of photography. Taking cues from the early 20th-century Cubist and Surrealist movements, Bravo remained committed throughout his long career to specifically Mexican subjects. These included religious festivals and symbols, farmers and their lands, the changing urban fabric of Mexico City, and indigenous customs that persevered in the face of modernization. Drawn from SBMA’s extensive Bravo holdings, the 13 photographs in this installation are united by Bravo’s unique vision, which illuminates the lyrical, disquieting, and often hidden peculiarities of everyday life.
Image: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, “La Hija de los Danzantes (The Daughter of the Dancers),” 1933 (printed 1981). Platinum print, ed. 11/25, from the “Platinum Portfolio.” SBMA, Gift of Joan Almond.

The 24th annual La Arcada Christmas Walk returns to the La Arcada Plaza on Weds. November 28th from 5-8 pm.

Directed by Jeremy Haladyna, the UCSB Ensemble for Contemporary Music will present staples of the contemporary music repertoire as well as new works by UCSB faculty and students on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 5:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. John Adams' "Hallelujah Junction" is the centerpiece for manifold transatlantic criss-crossing presented by UCSB's ECM—Music's contemporary repertory ensemble. Duo pianists Pinshu Yu and Jared Eben "get down" in this rollicking minimalist effort for "down home" duetting pianos.

Join us for an evening of celebrating the 40th anniversary of Big Wednesday with Denny Aaberg! This is a rare opportunity to see footage and images that can’t be seen anywhere else. Little Wednesday and Denny’s Big Wednesday Scrapbook feature never-before-seen images from Denny’s personal collection. Greg MacGillivary’s documentary, Hollywood Don’t Surf, has never been released in theaters or on DVD, and a copy was loaned to Denny only for private screenings like this one. Denny will be showing a 25-minute section of the documentary, which is about the making of Big Wednesday.

Sara Wylie of Northwestern University speaks at the Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy on Wednesday at UCSB.

The remarkable Kindom of Bhutan, nestled between Tibetan China and India, is a paradise for birders with 680 bird species (including 22 which are globally threatened). Join cycad expert and world birder Jeff Chemnick and ecologist and nature photographer Satie Airame for a breathtaking visual tour of Bhutan’s beautiful birds, lush forests and colorful cultural history.

Dr. Louise Meintjes (Music/Anthropology, Duke University) will present a talk titled "Ululation: Zulu Performance and Sound Studies" on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 from 3:30-5 pm in Music Room 1145. Dr. Meintjes will discuss her new ethnography of Zulu cultural politics and dance in post-apartheid South Africa, Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid. Sponsored by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, and the African Studies Research Focus Group.

Join us tonight (11/29) at Baja Sharkeez from 5-8 for this fun fundraiser.

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