“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”–Rumi
Led by founder and director of the Rumi Educational Center, Dr. Fariba Enteshari, participants will learn more about ancient teachings within Rumi’s poetry.

Charleston’s high-spirited Ranky Tanky is a dynamo quintet exploding onto the music scene with their inspired take on soulful songs of South Carolina’s Gullah culture, mixing the lowcountry traditions of their West African ancestors with dynamic doses of jazz, gospel, funk and R&B. In the unique Creole mix of African and English that has shaped art, language and attitude, their name means “work it” or “get funky” – yes they do, and yes you will! Following a standout performance at the 2017 GlobalFest and a top-charting debut album, the exuberant group comes to Santa Barbara for the first time to have you dancing in the aisles.
“One of the greatest gifts of the year.” Afropop

“Unfamiliar enough to be surprising, and yet familiar enough to provoke swinging hips and nodding heads… It’s the best of both worlds.” Paste Magazine

$25 - $38 : General Public
$15 : UCSB Students (Current student ID required)
Call the Arts & Lectures ticket office at (805) 893-3535 for your tickets!
https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=4175

Santa Barbara Hillel to honor Aaron & Ina Ettenberg, Bruce Corwin, Louise Wyner and Benjie & Alexi Baker at Hall of Fame celebration

Join us in celebrating Earth Day with a Sustainable Spring Market at the Station in Los Alamos on Sunday, April 19th!

Ericka Huggins is a human rights activist, poet, educator, Black Panther leader, and former political prisoner. For the past 30 years, she has lectured throughout the United States and internationally. Her extraordinary life experiences have enabled her to speak personally and eloquently on issues relating to the physical and emotional well-being of women, children and youth; whole being education; over incarceration; and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change.

Iconoclastic Brooklyn Rider returns with its new program, Healing Modes, which focuses on the healing properties of music, recognized from ancient Greek civilization to the field of modern neuroscience. At its center is “A Song of Holy Thanksgiving” from Beethoven’s Opus 132, written during a period of recovery in his own life. Brooklyn Rider performs the masterwork alongside responses commissioned from five women composers: Pulitzer Prize-winners Caroline Shaw and Du Yun, as well as Reena Esmail, Gabriela Lena Frank and Matana Roberts.
“The eclectic New York–based string quartet is the ultimate transporter, known for creative programming and chameleon-caliber versatility.” Strings Magazine

$25 - $38 : General Public
$15 : UCSB Students (Current student ID required)
Call the Arts & Lectures ticket office at (805) 893-3535 for your tickets!
https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=4201

Join UCSB Reads 2020 author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore for a free online community talk on Earth Day about Rising and the impact of sea level rise on the United States.

To sign up for this free talk, please fill out the short registration form at
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhibitions/free-online-community-talk-ucsb-reads-author

Join Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Assemblymember Monique Limón, and Congressman Salud Carbajal for a teleconference town hall this Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30 p.m. to hear a COVID-19 update from county public health officials as well as have your questions answered.

Hotel Santa Barbara Makers Workshop Series - Join Allison Zeager of AZ Designz to create a pair of eco-friendly earrings made from recycled leather samples!

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including the Latino group, the Young Lords Organization and the southern whites of the Young Patriots. Banding together in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America to collectively confront issues such as police brutality and substandard housing, they called themselves the Rainbow Coalition. The First Rainbow Coalition tells the movement’s little-known story through rare archival footage and interviews with former coalition members in the present-day. Post-film discussion with the filmmaker, Ray Santisteban, Young Lords founder, Cha Cha Jimenez, and Black Panther Party leader, Ericka Huggins, to follow. 56m

Thousands of years ago the Syrian goddess of the sea, Atargatis, transformed herself into a mermaid by flinging herself into a lake. She emerged with the lower body of a fish and upper body of a human. Ever since, mermaids and mermen have captivated the imaginations of people and cultures around the world.

Visualizing the myths and legends of mermaids through photography was a part of the underwater photography course Clevenger taught at Brooks. This show highlights images created by Ralph and a few of his former students during extended trips to the Channel Islands.

Turn your love of cooking and cannabis into an art form and learn how to make delicious cannabis-infused edibles and meals. Tickets are $35 and include instruction on techniques such as proper, consistent dosing and decarboxylation. You will also receive a free dairy-free ice cream sample to take home and three recipes for mouth-watering cannabis cuisine you make yourself. Learn more at www.sespe.org/events.