SBWPC's Annual Presidents' Circle Event focuses on the topic of "What's Next" for today's feminist agenda, which coincides with Women's History Month. Headlining the 2021 event is California trailblazer and rising political star Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Holly Mitchell. In 2019, then State Senator Mitchell introduced and helped pass the CA Crown Act that prohibits discrimination against natural hairstyles worn by people of color in the workplace. Santa Barbara County 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann will join the discussion offering a local perspective on the theme of "What's Next."

Directed by Jonathan Moerschel, the UC Santa Barbara Chamber Players will present a virtual concert on Thursday, March 11, 2021, at 6 pm PST as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's
YouTube Channel. The program will include works by Claude Debussy, Elena Ruehr, Johann Joseph Fux, Scott Joplin, Jennifer Higdon, Roger Chapman, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paul Hindemith, and Jessie Montgomery. The event will feature performances by students from the UC Santa Barbara Chamber Music Program.

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2181
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UCSantaBarbaraDepartmentofMusic

PFLAG - Parents, Families, Friends and Allies Untied with LGBTQ People invite you to their Santa Barbara/Santa Maria Spanish Speaking Meeting - "Our Coming Out Stories" Pre-registration is required.

The Department of Music will present a virtual Corwin Series Concert, "Synchresis - the Alchemy of Visual Music," on Friday, March 12, 2021 at 6 pm PST as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube channel. This winter’s Corwin Series program will investigate the various potential fusions between sound and the moving image in “Synchresis." Listeners will be guided through the merger of diverse visual and musical universes and engage their imaginations through the works of Elsa Justel, Chikashi Miyama, Francis Dhomont, Jorge Sad Levi, Clarence Barlow, João Pedro Oliveira, Dennis H. Miller, and Alejandro Casales.

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2177
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UCSantaBarbaraDepartmentofMusic

The Department of Music will present a Corwin Series Lecture featuring composer Francis Dhomont on Friday, March 12, 2021 at 11 am PST via Zoom. Dhomont will speak on his music and influences in a lecture titled “Abstraction and Figuration in My Music.”

Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CorwinW21
Meeting ID: 841 2398 4807
Passcode: Corwin

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2161

Former Olympic and pro players along with college coaches will be training girls for two days in Santa Barbara

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present FREE Family-friendly Music with Sonia De Los Santos titled En Casa con Sonia. This is an on-demand video (no live stream; approx. 45 min.) and will be available to view from Mar 13 through Mar 20. Register by Mar 13 at 10 a.m. for access.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present Chef, Restaurateur and Humanitarian José Andrés for Changing the World Through the Power of Food in Conversation with Catherine Remak, career broadcaster and co-host of Mornings with Gary and Catherine on Sunday, Mar 14 at 5 p.m. Pacific.

Directed by Graduate Teaching Assistant David Lozano Torres and accompanied by graduate pianist Pinshu Yu, UCSB Lumina (formerly the UCSB Women’s Chorus) will present a virtual mini-concert, “A Life of Peace,” on Monday, March 15, 2021 from 6-6:15 pm PST as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube channel. “Nothing can bring peace to the heart, mind, and soul like music can,” noted Torres of the program. “This new year has brought about many trials and opposition in all aspects of life. Finding a moment of stillness in a world that is constantly moving, busy, and noisy, can be crucial. Experience the ability to find peace and purpose through harsh winter climate and troubles in the world in Winters Cold by Michael John Trotta. Afterwards, escape into the soothing, ponderous tune painted by the peaceful sonorities of Dan Forrest's Shalom. Accompanying the music is an array of stunning video and artwork that will take you on a journey of awe-inspiring moments in nature.”

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2182
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UCSantaBarbaraDepartmentofMusic

In this searingly raw and graceful first book, author Ellen O'Connell Whittet explores both the joy of learning to jump and the safety of landing.

In this searingly raw and graceful first book, author Ellen O'Connell Whittet explores both the joy of learning to jump and the safety of landing.

Directed by Professor Jennifer Kloetzel, members of the UCSB Cello Squad will present a "Beethoven CellObration!" on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 6 pm PST as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube Channel. This special event will celebrate Beethoven's 250th Birthday and showcase movements from his piano and cello works, performed by members of Professor Jennifer Kloetzel's cello class. For this virtual performance, the UCSB Cello Squad commissioned artist Tyler Scrivner as their background designer.

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2179
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UCSantaBarbaraDepartmentofMusic