The Travel Associates USPA Wickenden Cup Final kicks off on Sunday, October 7 at 2:30PM at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club.

Grammy-nominated JD Souther has penned countless hits for the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbison, James Taylor, Don Henley, George Strait, Trisha Yearwood, Brooks and Dunn and found success as a solo artist. This led him to being inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2013 and becoming one of the most celebrated songwriters of

A band of extraordinary chemistry and exquisite musicianship, I’m With Her features Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan. Collectively, the multi-Grammy-Award-winners have released seven solo efforts, co-founded two seminal bands (Nickel Creek and Crooked Still), and contributed to critically acclaimed albums from a host of esteemed artists. But from its very first moments, their

Fear not, neither fret. La Vispera de Todos los Santos is coming up fast, but we have you covered for Halloween. Get your Frida on, we say.

The Last Chance Tournament kicks off on Sunday, October 14 at 2:30PM at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club.

Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara's Women's Division in a Civil Rights journey to Atlanta, Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham and Memphis.

This talk will examine decentralized reforms in the drinking water sector in India and the Philippines from a policy perspective focused on institutional design and implementation at the local level. It has been argued that institutional architecture for decentralized reforms is contested and requires better understanding of power and politics in shaping decentralization designs and outcomes. The paradigm of Indian decentralization is endogenous, and from this one can suggest that greater devolution in the water sector will lead to greater democratization across other sectors. However, given the biases of international development assistance in the Philippines, decentralization has taken the form of privatization in a Philippine province. While highlighting the important role that the provision of safe drinking water can play in poverty alleviation, Singh will suggest that privatized reforms have failed to address wider concerns related to the public goods nature of water. He will argue that decentralization can be synonymous with both democratization and privatization in different paradigms of decentralization in the water sector.

Satyajit Singh is Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi. His research interests are governance, Indian politics, public policy, development, and environmental issues. His publications include The Local in Governance: Politics, Decentralization and Environment; Taming the Waters: The Political Economy of Large Dams in India; The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley (co-editor); and Decentralisation: Institutions and Politics in Rural India (co-editor).

Sponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG and the Department of Global Studies

Join the MCC as we welcome Chrysanthemum Tran, a queer and trans-Vietnamese-American poet, performer, and educator. 

Voted Best Family Show in Vegas!

International circus legend award winner Gregory Popovich brings his European-style physical comedy, acrobats, jugglers but most important his furry cast of animals, the real stars of the show! All animals have been rescued from shelters all over the country and they have been transformed into Las Vegas stars. The show features an amazing cast of house-cats, dogs, parrots, geese, mice, even a miniature horse named Diamond!

San Marcos High School ASB will hold Santa Barbara Unified School Board Candidate Forum, open to the community, on October 18th.

 The public is invited to two community events commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the San Rafael Wilderness, the largest permanently protected open space in Santa Barbara County. 

Santa Barbara Public Library will host a writing workshop with California Hope 805​ beginning on October 11th and will run every Wednesday for six weeks.