PFLAG (Parents, Families, Friends, and Allies United with LGBTQ People) Santa Barbara invites you to their January virtual meeting "Medical and Social Transition Options for Transgender People: How To Navigate". An expert panel will answer common questions regarding the steps in gender transition. This Zoom meeting requires pre-registration. Please email pflagsantabarbara@gmail.com to register for the meeting.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they are joined by Groundbreaking Author and Essayist: Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Tuesday Evening Online Meditation. 6-7 PM

Engage in formal practice with your sangha! The three pillars of spiritual growth are to study, reflect, and meditate. Opportunities to meditate abound, but the support we give and receive when we come together as a community offers priceless and boundless multipliers to our meditation practice.
Everyone is welcome! Donations appreciated.

Bodhi Path Buddhist Center ZOOM

805-284-2704
sb@bodhipath.org
http://www.bodhipath.org/sb/

"The Urge to Act," the state sponsored acting workshop at SBCC School of Extended Learning will be producing Shakespeare's classic play THE WINTER'S TALE this spring semester. 

This event is part of UCSB Reads 2021 and Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series. Register here: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u2rQm2B7RpSi8oGIQe-pHQ

A free Zoom event - SEC or Scholarship Fund donations are welcome!   Wednesday, January 13, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM PST The Perseverance Rover and the Search for Ancient Life on Mars   Greetings! Be ready for our January Zoom event. Invite a guest! Our January Presentation: The Perseverance rover, developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,

Santa Barbara Visual Artists "Spring Forward Into 2021" Virtual Exhibition is January 10 - May 10, 2021.
Visit us at http://www.SBVisualArtists.com. Please join us for our SBVA Meet The Artists Interviews Public Zoom Reception on 2nd Thursday January 14, 2021 4 PM. Contact JanBakerArtist@gmail.com for Invitation Link. Music by Pat Hamilton - Singer,Songwriter, Guitarist of Vail, CO.

Join USCB Arts & Lectures as they are joined by Bestselling Author: Anne Lamott for “Notes on Hope”

Local writers, working in a variety of genres and forms, meet with participants for two, 90-minute sessions during consecutive weeks. Each writer, inspired by a work(s) of art in the Museum’s collection, chooses the theme, format, and form for the workshop; allowing both the writers and participants maximum choice. Participants have an opportunity to also share their writing. Sign up for both sessions with one writer or sample across disciplines.

Theme
How to be personal without getting personal

Often we get conflicting bits of advice on writing. Write what you know. Look outside of yourself. Show not tell. Why show what's obvious. This workshop considers the idea of the personal and the autobiographical within fiction writing. How can we be personal without getting too personal? How can we use ourselves and our stories without getting too overwhelmed by them?

Inspirations images
SBMA’s Rico Leburn, Self Portrait (1940), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Self-Portrait as a Photographer (1924).

Meet your Instructor
Sameer Pandya is the author of the story collection The Blind Writer, which was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award, and the novel Members Only. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His fiction, commentary, and cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications, including The Atlantic, Salon, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and Narrative Magazine. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

Ticket Cost:
Virtual Experience via Zoom: FREE

Jan 7 and Jan 14 (Thursday 7-9 PM) Finding Freedom with Dawa Tarchin Phillips

Appreciated by students for his joy, insight, and clarity of presentation, Dawa Tarchin Phillips embodies the unique perspectives of Western scholarship and neuro-scientific research and the traditional training of an authentic Buddhist Lama.