The Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and enter the city through Itabashi Station. They wandered down the main street in Hongō, where they were met by labor scouts who had learned to

The SANDBOX One Year Anniversary Cocktail Party will be on February 28th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The event will be held at The SANDBOX (414 Olive St.).

Enjoy an evening with friends and neighbors to hear how the 50 Home Challenge is improving homes and communities through energy efficiency! The County of Santa Barbara's emPower program has teamed up with CHERP (Community Home Energy Retrofit Program) to bring the 50 Home Challenge to Solvang. Attend and get the chance to: •Take advantage

The world is witnessing the greatest mass migration since 1945. More than sixty-five million people, about one in every hundred on Earth, have fled their homes. Some are internally displaced; others are refugees who have moved to multiple countries. This talk will discuss the three main causes of this giant human tide: the implosion of the Middle East following the Arab Spring; climate change, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where drought and advancing deserts are pushing people to abandon their homes; and famine, because of which at least twenty million people are currently at risk of starvation, most of them in Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia.

Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, features faculty and Ph.D. candidates from the Gevirtz School giving no more than an eight-minute talk each about their research or work that is shaping education. This edition in particular will feature topics ripped from the current headlines, examining issues like DACA, post-disaster mental health, and how to create healthy masculine identities in the age of #metoo. A reception in the Faulkner Gallery will follow immediately after the presentations.

An eclectic collection of original first person true stories performed by their authors. Performers will range from accomplished professional actors to people appearing in front of an audience for the first time in their lives and as authors they will include published, well established writers and others who are just beginning. The performances will range from scripted readings to storytelling. There will be 2 bills of stories, each program will be performed twice.

Into the Mountains! Trails and Tales of the Santa Barbara Backcountry Free Slideshow Presentation with Q&A Wednesday, February 28th, 7:30PM – doors open at 7PM
 Farrand Hall – Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA This talk will highlight several historic trails that lead from Santa Barbara into our

emPower Building & Energy Training Series: Passive House for Builders & Architects

emPower San Luis Obsipo County

Learn how to sell and install air sealing that makes your customers happy and performs to 2019’s Title 24 requirements at emPower San Luis Obispo County’s two-day Building & Energy Training Series.

The first training session, Mastering Air Sealing, will teach attendees the techniques and materials necessary for retrofit and new constructed Zero Net Energy code requirements. Through this class, they’ll also get comprehensive training on identifying and testing for air leakage in a building and sealing air during the design and planning stages.

The next day, a Passive House for Builders and Architects training session will take place. In this course, professionals and students alike will discover the keys to maximizing energy efficiency through the passive house skillset.

These training sessions are ideal for architects and contractors, as well as college students focusing on environmental studies, energy management, and building science.

Speaker Terry Nordbye will be leading both sessions. He has led numerous courses and seminars on deep air sealing, advanced framing, and high-performance building at colleges and professional forums.

Passive House for Builders & Architects

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018

Time(s): 8 a.m.-12 p.m.

Location: 864 Santa Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo

Cost: FREE

To register for these training sessions, visit www.empowersbc.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=267. For more information about emPower Central Coast, call (805) 781-1674 or go to www.emPowerSBC.org.

This talk approaches the controversy over the killing of the gorilla Harambe in the Cincinnati Zoo in May 2016 as a unique window onto the making of animalness and blackness in the contemporary U.S. It will explore the notion of a racial-zoological order in which the “human” is constructed simultaneously in relation to both the “black” and the “animal.”

Bring the whole family to enjoy 1st Thursday together in SBMA’s Family Resource Center, located across from the Museum Cafe on the Lower Level. Museum Teaching Artists are available to assist families in creating special exhibition-based art projects. Afterwards, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.

Recovery Fusion is sponsoring the Reco"Very Inspiring” online writing contest for original, unpublished short stories on any recovery theme. Stories should capture an isolated experience or moment in time; they should be impactful, humorous, heart-warming, or empowering.

Any genre will be accepted. Maximum word length is 1,500 words.

First prize is $250.

Deadline for stories is April 5th at 11:59PM.

The winner and his/her story will be announced on Recovery Fusions' Instagram and Facebook Recovery Fusion accounts on April 15th at 5PM PST.

Journalist Jeff Greenfield will join moderator Patrice Petro for a post-screening discussion.