Join us on the second Monday of each month to learn about the mystical poetry of Jalal al Din Rumi. Led by Dr. Fariba Enteshari, this webinar is for people who want to understand the language behind Rumi’s poetry.

"Learning to See Beyond Our Biases" - PFLAG Santa Barbara December Virtual Meeting. All are welcome and there is always time for discussion and support.

Be inspired by Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s woodblock print, Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Jiraiya (center) with a Monster Toad (1852), as you create a dynamic composition in triptych form. SBMA Teaching Artist Tina Villadolid explores why drawing from the masters is a helpful exercise, where to begin on the blank page, and how lines and angles convey action and movement.

Supplies
blank paper cut into 3 uniform rectangles (6" x 4" and 4" x 3" )
Prismacolor ebony pencil suggested, but any soft graphite pencil will work
pencil sharpener and eraser
View the inspiration image for this class on the Museum’s online collection
Meet Your Instructor
Tina Villadolid has been a Teaching Artist for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for over 22 years. Connecting with the people in her community through art has brought her so much joy! Tina loves to paint with oils, sculpt with clay, create installation art, draw portraits with charcoal, and write songs. She is conversational in Spanish, has two grandchildren, is originally from New York City, and lives with her cat, Chappie James, Jr.

Ticket Cost:
Workshop via Zoom: FREE

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.

“Genuinely astonishing…electric!” – The Village News
An Irish Christmas is a wonderful holiday concert featuring an award-winning cast of Riverdance principals and World Champion Dancers in a celebration of the great traditions of Christmas in Ireland.

Reflective Writing Group
Dec 16, Wed 7-8:30
"Write Yourself Out of Confusion"
For more information: http://www.bodhipath.org/sb/

Dec 17 (Thursday, 7-9pm): Sangha Led Activity
I’ll level with you on this one: It might go in a few different directions, but it’ll definitely involve connecting with your sangha in some form so probably you’ll have a great time no matter what. Right? Of course right!

Quire of Voyces December Virtual Concert December 2020

Gorgeous works of art by The Oak Group and NatureTrack Foundation is beneficiary for The Link Between Man and Nature now through Dec. 31.