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.

The final session of our 3 part digital Community Connections series!
Topic: Diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI)

“Easy Lift Transportation” webinar hosted by the Braille Institute Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara-based singer and songwriter Zach Gill, lead vocalist of the rock band ALO, and a longtime member of Jack Johnson's band, will host a live, virtual musical performance Friday, December 11 at 7pm on the online performance venue, StageIt, in support of Goleta-based, non-profit, Montessori Center School.

A standup comedy fundraiser aims to earn 10,000 meals for the local Foodbank

Kwame S. Brathwaite
Archive Director, The Kwame Brathwaite Archive

Kwame S. Brathwaite speaks with Charles Wylie, SBMA Curator of Photography and New Media, about the groundbreaking and enduringly relevant art of his father, the renowned photographer Kwame Brathwaite. With family and friends, Kwame Brathwaite created an irrepressible multi-faceted cultural movement in 1950s and 60s Harlem from which arose the affirmative personal and political statement, “Black is Beautiful.” Inspired by ideas of Pan-Africanism and attuned to the newly-derived central role of mass media in contemporary society, Brathwaite forged a new visual and cultural identity for African Americans via photography, fashion, and performance whose influence is still being felt. In an ongoing initiative, in 2018 the Santa Barbara Museum of Art acquired the first of its five photographs by Kwame Brathwaite, a selection of which will be on view at SBMA in the coming months.

credit: Kwame Brathwaite, Untitled (Self-Portrait) (detail). 1964, printed 2018. Archival pigment print, ed. 2/5. SBMA, Museum purchase with funds provided by PhotoFutures. © Kwame Brathwaite

Ticket Cost:
Virtual Experience via Zoom: FREE

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