Directed by Scott Marcus, the UCSB Middle East Ensemble will present an evening of music and dance reflecting the great variety of cultures found in the Middle East on Saturday, May 21, 2021 at 7:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The ensemble performs music and dance from Arab, Turkish, Persian, Armenian, Greek, Jewish, and even Assyrian cultures, with everything from classical pieces to popular songs, as well as folk and cabaret-style dances.

The UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will present a concert showcasing gamelan, the celebrated gong orchestra of Indonesia, on Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 5:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. Led by Richard North, the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will showcase an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, and lively interlocking rhythms.

On Saturday, May 21, from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm, the public is invited to help Channelkeeper’s Watershed Brigade remove derelict lobster traps from Black Rock Beach below More Mesa.  

Goleta's second city-wide Beautify Goleta Community Cleanup is this Saturday, May 21st from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society is pleased to feature the Society's own Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal as presenter at the Society's monthly meeting on Saturday, May 21.

The Bonsai Club of Santa Barbara will hold its annual show, sale and demonstrations Saturday and Sunday May 21 and 22 in the Fellowship Hall at Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 La Cumbre Road at the corner of Foothill Road. Admission is free and open to all who may be interested. Saturday hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday noon to 4 p.m.

Women's Self-Defense Class $40

Santa Barbara Festival Ballet presents
Ballet in Bloom & The Toy Shoppe

Join Santa Barbara Festival Ballet for a celebration of dance on May 21 and May 22 at Center Stage Theater in downtown Santa Barbara.

Join us @ a fun Mix & Mingle Fundraiser this Sunday, May 22@ M Special Brewing Company. Benefiting the Center for Successful Aging, only $40/person and includes drinks/food. Special thaink you to our sponsors – Vista del Monte; SBSOS; Senior Living Consultants and Next Best Home. Learn more and grab tix! https://csamayevent.rsvpify.com

Pairing the Symphony with jazz royalty, and featuring a work of the first African American woman recognized as a symphonic composer, innovation feels wonderfully familiar.

In this unique collaboration between the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Opera Santa Barbara and in celebration of the exhibition "Through Vincent's Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources," composer, pianist, Grammy nominee and Guggenheim Fellow Jake Heggie discusses the coming together of "The Starry Night," a song cycle inspired by the art of Vincent van Gogh with text taken from his letters and poetry by Anne Sexton and Emily Dickinson. Performed by mezzo soprano Erin Alford.

Heggie is the composer of 8 full length operas, several one acts, nearly 300 art songs as well as chamber, choral and orchestral works, Heggie has been called by the Wall Street Journal "Arguably the world's most popular 21 st century opera and art song composer."

This conversation and performance is the third in a series of three related Parallel Stories exploring connections between art forms, allowing us to see those influences at work in the process of composition, the performance of music, and the poetry of narrative from the 19th century to the present day.

The New Vic Theatre
33 West Victoria Street

$25 SBMA Members
$30 Non-Members

Purchase tickets at https://tickets.sbma.net/event-detail/parallel-stories-2022-05-22/

Join C.A.R.E.4Paws for our annual Happy Tails event! You'll learn about the great work we're doing in the community and hear heartfelt Happy Tails from some of the many pet owners we help daily to keep animals healthy and in their homes.