Opera Santa Barbara is thrilled to present Carmen, A Live Drive-In Opera, a 90-minute version of Bizet's blockbuster hit, based on an adaptation by British director Peter Brook. It'll be an up-close and personal look at the loves and rivals of our titular heroine--all from the safe and socially distanced comfort of your car.

The Santa Barbara chapter of the Association for Women in Communications invites the community to raise a glass and exhale at their annual holiday party when they will gather to enjoy good company and celebrate the accomplishments of some exceptional local communicators.

Undergraduate vocalist Terra Giddens (mezzo-soprano) will present a virtual recital with pianist Erik Lawrence on Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 4 pm as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. The program will include works by Georges Bizet, Manuel de Falla, Kurt Weill, Hector Berlioz, Stefano Donaudy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Richard Strauss. Giddens is a student of UC Santa Barbara Associate Professor Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian.

Local writers, working in a variety of genres and forms, meet with participants for two, 90-minute sessions during consecutive weeks

The UCSB Choirs will present a virtual offering, titled '"Home": A Postcard from UCSB Choirs,' with the UCSB Chamber Choir and Lumina (formerly the UCSB Women's Chorus) on Monday, December 7, 2020 at 6 pm (PST) as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel.

In the spirit of community, and because we cannot gather in person, we invite you to virtually join us for our 2020 Angels Among Us remembrance ceremony Tuesday, December 8 at 5:00 PM. Angels Among Us will be available to view online at www.vna.health/2020angelsamongus portions of the service will be available in Spanish.

In the spirit of community, and because we cannot gather in person, we invite you to virtually join us for our 2020 Angels Among Us remembrance ceremony Tuesday, December 8 at 5:00 PM. Angels Among Us will be available to view online at www.vna.health/2020angelsamongus portions of the service will be available in Spanish.

Are you looking…
To develop a calm, stable and joyful mind?
For support to maintain your meditation practice?
For a spiritual home and community?
To learn what Buddhism teachings are all about?
The Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center offers a high quality curriculum of instruction in Buddhist meditation practice and philosophy. The Center was founded in 1997 at the direction of Shamar Rinpoche. Since then, hundreds of students have come to learn and practice in a modern, non-sectarian environment focused on authentic Buddhist teachings taught and practiced by authentic teachers. We are a diverse community of practitioners encompassing all ages and levels of practice. Dawa Tarchin Phillipsis the resident teacher, and we regularly host visiting teachers.
Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center offers …
•Weekly Dharma teachings
•Weekly meditation session led by sangha members
•Frequent "Introduction to Meditation" classes
•Weekend workshops on topics such as advanced practice, overcoming adversity, working with emotions, compassion and loving kindness, and Buddhist philosophy
•Biannual 5 day residential retreats
•Opportunities to take Refuge, Bodhisattva and Householder vows
Come join us. All are welcome.

Directed by Dr. Sarah Gibson, the UC Santa Barbara Ensemble for Contemporary Music will present "Finding Your Place" on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 6 pm as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. Including thirteen world premier

Speakers, Eugene Whitlock and Mel Vines, will share their experience of how interacting with others promoted their success and what an individual viewer can do to encourage and benefit African Americans within our personal networks and organizations.

The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation will host Marie Christine Duggan, Ph.D of Keene State College discussing José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega, who was the nephew of a powerful merchant in Mexico City.

Dec 10 (Thursday, 7-9pm): Dawa Teaches Renunciation
Renunciation is an integral part of the spiritual journey, but is easily confused with resistance or deprivation. What is the function of renunciation on the Path of Awakening toward the end of suffering? How can it be synonymous with freedom, joy and contentment? Learn the true meaning of renunciation as we explore the right relationship to the sensory abundance that accompanies life and our holiday season.