Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase, and very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. He has called poetry both "music box and meat grinder" and in his playful, almost improvisational approach to language, his writing takes on the energy and teasing rhythms of jazz. An athlete and artist as well as an award-winning poet, Hayes defies categorization or containment, just as his poetry uses and subverts canonical forms such as the sonnet to create both formal and rhetorical puzzles. Like many in these past months, he knows how to inhabit and make his own the space between flight and confinement. He moves fluidly, brilliantly, and unblinkingly in the space between word and image, between music and breath.

The Santa Barbara Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications will present Creating Your Own Sizzle Reel Video on Nov. 4, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. via Zoom.

"Preserving the Harada House" is part one of three of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation's Advances in Preservation & Archaeology of Asian American Places lecture series.

Mey-Yen Moriuchi
Associate Professor of Art, La Salle University

Costumbrismo, a genre that took hold in Spain and Latin America, manifested itself through the visual and literary arts and sought to capture the customs, costumes, and traditions of everyday people and everyday life. In Mexico, it garnered particular momentum and prominence as the nation’s leaders tried to stabilize the country both politically and economically. Costumbrista artists desired to capture the corporeal physicality and presence of the Mexican people through their emphasis on naturalistic depiction and attention to detail. They created personal, constructed portrayals of Mexican life that were often romanticized and politicized. Ultimately, costumbrismo created a propagandistic, subjective language of representation that evaluated, critiqued, and celebrated 19th-century Mexican culture and traditions.

credit: José Agustín Arrieta, La Sorpreza (detail), 1850. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Historia, INAH, Mexico City.

Ticket Cost:
Virtual Experience via Zoom: FREE

We are thrilled to announce the State Street Promenade Market!

We invite you to a showcase of high-quality products curated from Santa Barbara’s most talented artisans and makers at the 1000 Block of State Street (between Carrillo & Figueroa).

The Holiday lights on State Street along with additional LED lighting will shine on the market to give it a warm and cozy atmosphere. Our goal is to encourage people to shop local and shop small this holiday season, all while staying safe and socially distancing.

Join us Thursdays from 3:00-7:30 PM and #ShopSmall!

We are thrilled to announce the State Street Promenade Market!

We invite you to a showcase of high-quality products curated from Santa Barbara’s most talented artisans and makers at the 1000 Block of State Street (between Carrillo & Figueroa).

The Holiday lights on State Street along with additional LED lighting will shine on the market to give it a warm and cozy atmosphere. Our goal is to encourage people to shop local and shop small this holiday season, all while staying safe and socially distancing.

Join us Thursdays from 3:00-7:30 PM and #ShopSmall!

As part of the Corwin Chair Series, Panayiotis Kokoras, Associate Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) at the University of North Texas, will present a talk titled "Composing sound" on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 2 pm PST via Zoom. In the talk, Kokoras will give an overview of composition techniques used in his recent works such as Sense, The sound is the music, Hyperidiomatisism, and Fab Synthesis.

The Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee is bringing back “Cosmopolitics,” with a virtual twist on November 6 from 5:30-7:00pm

Join Coni Edick from the Santa Barbara Audubon Society as we dive into the sensory richness of birdsong.

Singer/actor Diana Diaz Boadella, sings a program of popular songs from the Great War era and reads some secret letters and diaries.