The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is delighted to announce that Geoffrey Campbell Beaumont will offer a fascinating presentation about his father Arthur Beaumont’s life and work as the US Navy’s official “Artist of the Fleet.” Beaumont will share personal stories of the various paintings and provide viewers with his unique insight into this incomparable exhibit, the art and the artist.

A Zoom Presentation by Executive Director, Greg Gorga, about the unique importance of California’s Point Conception Lighthouse and the original 165-year-old First Order Fresnel Lens that now resides at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Learn about the history of Fresnel technology, the lives of the keepers who lived in this desolate location and hear a first-hand account of all that was involved in relocating the 18-foot tall, 6,000-pound lens from Pt. Conception to SBMM in 2013.

On Thursday, January 21st at 8:00AM PST, Sunrise Santa Barbara will be setting up an art display at West Beach by Stern’s Wharf.

The Department of Music will present a Corwin Series Lecture featuring composer François Bayle on Friday, January 22, 2021 at 11 am PST via Zoom. Bayle will speak on his music and influences in a lecture titled “…J’écoute donc je suis…” (...I listen, therefore I am…).

Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CorwinW21
Meeting ID: 841 2398 4807
Passcode: Corwin

For more information visit:https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2160

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.