Annual Women’s March Santa Maria Valley and Santa Barbara host joint virtual event on January 23.

Doctoral Voice Candidate Kelly Guerra (mezzo-soprano) will present a virtual lecture recital, titled "Sagrados son los que vienen a ver a sus muertos (Blessed are those who come to see their dead): An exploration of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Conquest Requiem," on Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 4 pm. The event will be presented as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. The program will include performances of "Carnaval de Tambobamba" from Frank's Cuatro Canciones Andinas, as well as "Introit: Cuicatl de Malinche" and "Rex Tremendae: Aullido de Malinche" from Frank's Conquest Requiem, all performed by Guerra and pianist Eric Sedgwick. Guerra is a student of UC Santa Barbara Associate Professor Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a comprehensive, online training that teaches educators, family members, and caregivers (18+ years old) to approach, assess, and assist a young person with a mental health challenge or substance use concern.
Just as CPR or First Aid helps you assist an individual in a medical crisis by following specific steps, YMHFA helps you assist a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis using specific steps until appropriate help is received or until the crisis is resolved.

Join Sameer Pandya and Terence Keel for a discussion of Pandya’s recent novel Members Only, which engages with issues of racial politics and campus culture and considers the nature of brownness.

Learn more about how COVID-19 has affected reproductive health care access in California with Jessica Pinckney, Executive Director of ACCESS Reproductive Justice (and UCSB Class of 2011)

An event will be held via Zoom on January 25th, 2021 that is open to  the entire community to learn about the volunteer programs of local non-profit, Community Partners in Caring

Learn the basics of watercolor painting from SBMA Senior Teaching Artist Itoko Maeno.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents on Tuesday January 26th at 5:00 PM.

"Wilkerson's work is the missing puzzle piece of our country's history." The American Prospect

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/

Book Discussion Group
JAN 26, Tues 7 - 8:30 PM
“The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: A New Translation” by Christopher Stagg

Everyone is welcome! Donations appreciated.

For more information check out our website.

Bodhi Path Buddhist Center ZOOM

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

The Junior League of Santa Barbara is collecting new or gently- used size 4 soccer balls on behalf of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation to be distributed to elementary school students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District as they continue remote-learning due to COVID-19. Contact impacts@jlsantabarbara.org to arrange a contactless drop off of gently -used or locally purchased size 4 balls or shop our Amazon wishlist which you can find at www.sbefoundation.org

As part of the UC Santa Barbara Ethnomusicology Forum's UCSB ABD Graduate Student Series, UC Santa Barbara PhD candidate Jason Busniewski will present a lecture titled "Bagpiping in the Garhwal Himalayas: Music Theory and Analytical Approaches to a South Asian Tradition" on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 from 3:30-5 pm PST via Zoom.

Zoom link: tinyurl.com/EthnoW21
Meeting ID: 880 4630 7897
Passcode: 3m867k

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2162