Christine Ahn will deliver the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 17th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future on Wednesday, March 7 at 7:00 p.m. The lecture will take place at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Auditorium in downtown Santa Barbara. It is free and open to the public.

This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence is acclaimed naturalist and writer Helen Macdonald. She is the author of three books, including Shaler’s Fish (2001), Falcon (2006), and H is for Hawk (2014), winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, the Costa Book Award, and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. Her work includes poetry, naturalist non-fiction about birds, and memoir. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine.

Locally grown foods and low-water landscaping are all the rage right now, but a quick trip to farmers market or a local nursery will showcase almost no California native plants. What if, among the more than 6,000 plants native to California, hundreds were not only edible, easy to use and delicious, but extremely low-water as well? This one of a kind presentation, led by native food enthusiast Antonio Sanchez, discusses the ancient and emerging field of California native foods and their cultivation.

David will help us understand how the Trump Administration is redefining the meaning of “Liberty” and how the Court is likely to treat the re-fashioning of regulations - “those wise restraints which make men free.”

David will help us understand how the Trump Administration is redefining the meaning of “Liberty” and how the Court is likely to treat the re-fashioning of regulations - “those wise restraints which make men free.”

This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence is acclaimed naturalist and writer Helen Macdonald. She is the author of three books, including Shaler’s Fish (2001), Falcon (2006), and H is for Hawk (2014), winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, the Costa Book Award, and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. Her work includes poetry, naturalist non-fiction about birds, and memoir. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine.

Join us for our monthly, community-wide Compost and Recycling Program! Santa Barbara City Trash & Recycling Specialist, Hillary Allen, will tell you everything you need to know about the City's Foodscraps Program, recycling, and waste diversion efforts.

We’re bringing together the Santa Barbara area’s female founders, tech executives, government officials and more for a candid conversation about overcoming the challenges women face and the current state of women in business.

6-8 PM
The Barrel Room
414 N. Salsipuedes St
Santa Barbara, CA 93103

Based in Santa Barbara, Rent Party Blues Band hopes to evoke the Juke Joint spirit of letting loose and gettin' down.

Free admission, 21+

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Join us in highlighting local efforts to empower women and the efforts to support those who are at-risk! We'll have pop-up booths, a local documentary about human trafficking and a subsequent panel discussion about the film with food & bev!

Lecture by Edward R. Cassano Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara When: Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 7 pm Doors open to SBMM Members at 6:15pm and Non-members at 6:45pm Cost: $5 (SBMM members) • $15 (non-members) Register at sbmm.org or call (805) 456 8747 Sponsored by Marie L. Morrisroe A

Director Anne Galisky will join moderator Helen Morales (Classics, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion.