TD Lind is in the house on Friday, along with wines by the glass and empanadas!

The UCSB Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus will present a joint concert featuring choral masterpieces and contemporary favorites at Trinity Episcopal Church (1500 State St.) in downtown Santa Barbara on Friday, May 31, 2019 at 7:30 pm.

Cherríe Moraga’s play, The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (1995), depicts a dystopic future in a fractured América, aggravated by an entrenched patriarchy. It also explores the tenets of the movement that founded what are now thriving Chicana/Latina programs throughout the Southwest, including the UCSB Chicano Studies program, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2019. This symposium will present a timely (re)consideration of a movement in progress, alongside two staged readings of the play.

Friday, May 31, 7:30 PM | Multicultural Center Theater, UCSB

Staged reading of The Hungry Woman by a professional Los Angeles cast and UCSB community members, followed by a discussion with the playwright.

Saturday, June 1, 1:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

1:00 P.M.
Opening and Welcome

1:15 P.M.
“The Making of The Hungry Woman” – Playwright, Cherríe Moraga (Department of English) presents on the major themes of the play, from Euripedes to La Llorona to “Queer Aztlán.”

1:30 P.M.
Roundtable I: “Re-Viewing Aztlán”
Dylan Miner (Michigan State University); Roberto Hernández (CSU San Diego); Michaela Diaz-Sanchez (UCSB)

3:00 P.M.
UCSB Chicanx Studies Student Artists Respond to The Hungry Woman
After a short coffee break, students of Maestra Celia Herrera Rodríguez will
present their own 21st century visual design concepts; and, Professor Micaela Díaz Sanchez’ students will offer performative interpretations of the work.

4:00 P.M.
Roundtable II: “Motherhood: A Xicana Indígena Perspective and Practice”
Nancy Morales (UCSB); Yvette Martínez Vu (UCSB);
Jennie Luna (CSU Channel Islands); and Inés Talamantez (UCSB)

5:30 P.M.
Closing Conversation

6:00 P.M.
Dinner
Provided by Las Maestras Center. Please RSVP at lasmaestrasucsb@gmail.com by Monday May 27th, 2019 (Space is limited)

7:30 P.M. | Location: Multicultural Center Theater, UCSB
Staged reading of The Hungry Woman by a professional Los Angeles cast and UCSB community members, followed by a discussion with the playwright.

Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; Division of HFA – Office of Dean Majewski; UCSB Multicultural Center; Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Practice; Chicana and Chicano Studies; Maestra Moraga Research Funds; Luis Leal Endowed Chair Fund

In this reinterpretation of the Greek Medea, Aztec (Mexica) deities descend upon a dystopian U.S. future. Poet-Playwright Cherríe Moraga employs an intimate realism to create a drama of mythic dimension about two exiled women, their love of each other, and of the Indigenous nation denied them.

Performance Dates:

May 24, 29, 30, 31, June 1, 2019 - 8:00 pm

June 2, 2019 - 2:00 pm

The Arts Fund, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Barbara, is offering FREE Summer Art Mentorships to teens all around Santa Barbara County.

The Arts Fund, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Barbara, is offering FREE Summer Art Mentorships to teens all around Santa Barbara County.

Everybody Dance Now! Invites you and your family to the 5th Annual Day of Movement on June 1st at the Isla Vista Elementary School in Goleta

Undergraduate vocalist Alexandria Jackson (mezzo-soprano) will present a senior recital with pianist Jared Eben on Saturday, June 1st at 1:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. Ms. Jackson is a student of UCSB faculty member Dr. Linda Di Fiore.

Come one, come all to the first ever Westside Flea For All makers market on Saturday, June 1 from 2-7pm at San Andres Hardware.

The Star Trek franchise has captured the imagination of audiences for over fifty years using a blend of spacefaring high-adventure and futuristic, utopian themes. In 2009, J.J. Abrams refreshed and extended the Star Trek series with the series’ eleventh film.  The new Star Trek centers on young versions of James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto), who must lead the untested crew of the USS Enterprise to bring down Nero (Eric Bana), a time-traveling Romulan who killed Kirk’s father and now threatens the United Federation of Planets. This new chapter lives up to the franchise’s reputation for assembling talented ensemble casts, and showcases Abrams’s intuitive knack for acing and spectacle.

Editor Maryann Brandon (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Passengers, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will join Pollock Theater Director Matt Ryan for a post-screening conversation.

This event is sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center, the Department of Film & Media Studies, and the Scott Frank Fund for Screenwriting.
Students $5 / Community $7

https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/star-trek-2009/

At 3 PM on Saturday, June 1, at First United Methodist Church, the Santa Barbara Music Club will present two concerts featuring winners of the 2019 Scholarship Auditions.

The Hawaiian themed party at the Carpinteria Community Pool is a ticketed adult Tiki Party starting at 4 p.m. - 9 p.m. as a fundraiser event for the Carpinteria Parks and Recreation department. The proceeds will benefit the Community Pool and its programming this coming fiscal year.