Tuesday Evening Online Meditation. 6-7 PM

Engage in formal practice with your sangha! The three pillars of spiritual growth are to study, reflect, and meditate. Opportunities to meditate abound, but the support we give and receive when we come together as a community offers priceless and boundless multipliers to our meditation practice.

Start off the new year by creating loose, gestural drawings of Ganesha, the Hindu deity believed to be the remover of obstacles. Practice 2 to 5-minute sketches, drawing from a photo of SBMA’s 11th-century dancing Ganesha carved from sandstone.

View the inspiration image for this class on the Museum’s online collection here.

Required supplies

Prismacolor ebony pencil
Eraser
Pencil sharpener
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

Happy New Year!

Come meet the SafeTechSBC team and environmental attorney, Mark Pollock who will be negotiating on our behalf with the SB City Attorney to amend the ordinance.

This is very important and everyone should know about this ordinance if they want to protect their homes from radio-frequency radiation antennas being installed in their front yards.

Tell your family, friends and neighbors about our website.

Before you attend, learn more on our website, review the talking points and send in your written public comment by Friday, January 15, 2021 on the "Take Action" page for City of Santa Barbara at: https://safetechsbc.org/take-action/city-of-santa-barbara/

Register for the zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtduCvrzssE9KHMVY-Fib_3JTpGqJeOA97

Get a jump start. Here is a link to the Environmental Health Trust website with 10 STEPS TO SAFE TECH: https://ehtrust.org/educate-yourself/ten-steps-to-safe-tech/

Thank you!
SafeTechSBC

Jan 7 and Jan 14 (Thursday 7-9 PM) Finding Freedom with Dawa Tarchin Phillips
Appreciated by students for his joy, insight, and clarity of presentation, Dawa Tarchin Phillips embodies the unique perspectives of Western scholarship and neuro-scientific research and the traditional training of an authentic Buddhist Lama.

PFLAG (Parents, Families, Friends, and Allies United with LGBTQ People) Santa Barbara invites you to their January virtual meeting "Medical and Social Transition Options for Transgender People: How To Navigate". An expert panel will answer common questions regarding the steps in gender transition. This Zoom meeting requires pre-registration. Please email pflagsantabarbara@gmail.com to register for the meeting.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they are joined by Groundbreaking Author and Essayist: Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Tuesday Evening Online Meditation. 6-7 PM

Engage in formal practice with your sangha! The three pillars of spiritual growth are to study, reflect, and meditate. Opportunities to meditate abound, but the support we give and receive when we come together as a community offers priceless and boundless multipliers to our meditation practice.
Everyone is welcome! Donations appreciated.

Bodhi Path Buddhist Center ZOOM

805-284-2704
sb@bodhipath.org
http://www.bodhipath.org/sb/

"The Urge to Act," the state sponsored acting workshop at SBCC School of Extended Learning will be producing Shakespeare's classic play THE WINTER'S TALE this spring semester. 

This event is part of UCSB Reads 2021 and Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series. Register here: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u2rQm2B7RpSi8oGIQe-pHQ

A free Zoom event - SEC or Scholarship Fund donations are welcome!   Wednesday, January 13, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM PST The Perseverance Rover and the Search for Ancient Life on Mars   Greetings! Be ready for our January Zoom event. Invite a guest! Our January Presentation: The Perseverance rover, developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,

Santa Barbara Visual Artists "Spring Forward Into 2021" Virtual Exhibition is January 10 - May 10, 2021.
Visit us at http://www.SBVisualArtists.com. Please join us for our SBVA Meet The Artists Interviews Public Zoom Reception on 2nd Thursday January 14, 2021 4 PM. Contact JanBakerArtist@gmail.com for Invitation Link. Music by Pat Hamilton - Singer,Songwriter, Guitarist of Vail, CO.

Join USCB Arts & Lectures as they are joined by Bestselling Author: Anne Lamott for “Notes on Hope”

Four sisters discover their destinies through love and loss, in Mark Adamo’s contemporary American classic Little Women. Louisa May Alcott’s beloved coming-of-age epic gets the operatic treatment. Director Alison Moritz and conductor Emily Senturia lead a dazzling cast of rising stars, headlined by former Opera SB Studio Artists Ashley Armstrong, Evan Bravos, and Rachel Blaustein,

Four sisters discover their destinies through love and loss, in Mark Adamo’s contemporary American classic Little Women. Louisa May Alcott’s beloved coming-of-age epic gets the operatic treatment. Director Alison Moritz and conductor Emily Senturia lead a dazzling cast of rising stars, headlined by former Opera SB Studio Artists Ashley Armstrong, Evan Bravos, and Rachel Blaustein,

Four sisters discover their destinies through love and loss, in Mark Adamo’s contemporary American classic Little Women.

Opera Santa Barbara presents Semele, Friday, January 14 2022 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 2:30 PM.

Expand your art skills and science knowledge from the comfort of your own home. In each class in the Art Meets Science series, we brush up on some cool science and then introduce new art media and techniques with a fun interactive workshop. Supplies are available for curbside pickup at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History or can be shipped to you (registration closes earlier for participants requiring shipments).
Dive into the fascinating world of the Giant Pacific Seahorse with marine scientist and Sea Center Volunteer and Interpretation Manager Sam Macks Franz, M.M.A. Learn about the unique anatomy of seahorses, how they reproduce, and the cute way these nozzle-noses vacuum up their food! Then follow along with artist Hilary George to draw your own seahorse postcard, using charcoal a splash of watercolor.

Participating teens meet one Saturday a month for three months (total of three farm visits, three hours at a time).

Defend Democracy Demonstration & Caravan on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

Join USCB Arts & Lectures as they are joined by Hawai'i’s Ukulele Rockstar: Jake Shimabukuro

Could The Knox School be a fit for your gifted child? Join us for one of our Virtual Fireside Chats. Meet with Knox parents for candid conversation about the school & their experiences. Find out what sets our gifted education program apart from other schools.

Tuesday Evening Online Meditation. 6-7 PM

Engage in formal practice with your sangha! The three pillars of spiritual growth are to study, reflect, and meditate. Opportunities to meditate abound, but the support we give and receive when we come together as a community offers priceless and boundless multipliers to our meditation practice.
Everyone is welcome! Donations appreciated.

Bodhi Path Buddhist Center ZOOM

805-284-2704
sb@bodhipath.org
http://www.bodhipath.org/sb/

Reflective Writing Group
JAN 20 , Wed 7-8:30
"Write Yourself Out of Confusion"
Everyone is welcome! Donations appreciated.
For more information, check out our website.

InterAct Theatre School of Santa Barbara are delighted to announce that their next show will be Robin Hood

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is delighted to announce that Geoffrey Campbell Beaumont will offer a fascinating presentation about his father Arthur Beaumont’s life and work as the US Navy’s official “Artist of the Fleet.” Beaumont will share personal stories of the various paintings and provide viewers with his unique insight into this incomparable exhibit, the art and the artist.

A Zoom Presentation by Executive Director, Greg Gorga, about the unique importance of California’s Point Conception Lighthouse and the original 165-year-old First Order Fresnel Lens that now resides at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Learn about the history of Fresnel technology, the lives of the keepers who lived in this desolate location and hear a first-hand account of all that was involved in relocating the 18-foot tall, 6,000-pound lens from Pt. Conception to SBMM in 2013.

The Department of Music will present a Corwin Series Lecture featuring composer François Bayle on Friday, January 22, 2021 at 11 am PST via Zoom. Bayle will speak on his music and influences in a lecture titled “…J’écoute donc je suis…” (...I listen, therefore I am…).

Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CorwinW21
Meeting ID: 841 2398 4807
Passcode: Corwin

For more information visit:https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2160

Annual Women’s March Santa Maria Valley and Santa Barbara host joint virtual event on January 23.

Doctoral Voice Candidate Kelly Guerra (mezzo-soprano) will present a virtual lecture recital, titled "Sagrados son los que vienen a ver a sus muertos (Blessed are those who come to see their dead): An exploration of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Conquest Requiem," on Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 4 pm. The event will be presented as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. The program will include performances of "Carnaval de Tambobamba" from Frank's Cuatro Canciones Andinas, as well as "Introit: Cuicatl de Malinche" and "Rex Tremendae: Aullido de Malinche" from Frank's Conquest Requiem, all performed by Guerra and pianist Eric Sedgwick. Guerra is a student of UC Santa Barbara Associate Professor Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a comprehensive, online training that teaches educators, family members, and caregivers (18+ years old) to approach, assess, and assist a young person with a mental health challenge or substance use concern.
Just as CPR or First Aid helps you assist an individual in a medical crisis by following specific steps, YMHFA helps you assist a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis using specific steps until appropriate help is received or until the crisis is resolved.

Join Sameer Pandya and Terence Keel for a discussion of Pandya’s recent novel Members Only, which engages with issues of racial politics and campus culture and considers the nature of brownness.

Learn more about how COVID-19 has affected reproductive health care access in California with Jessica Pinckney, Executive Director of ACCESS Reproductive Justice (and UCSB Class of 2011)

An event will be held via Zoom on January 25th, 2021 that is open to  the entire community to learn about the volunteer programs of local non-profit, Community Partners in Caring

Learn the basics of watercolor painting from SBMA Senior Teaching Artist Itoko Maeno.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents on Tuesday January 26th at 5:00 PM.

"Wilkerson's work is the missing puzzle piece of our country's history." The American Prospect

Tuesday Evening Online Meditation. 6-7 PM

Engage in formal practice with your sangha! The three pillars of spiritual growth are to study, reflect, and meditate. Opportunities to meditate abound, but the support we give and receive when we come together as a community offers priceless and boundless multipliers to our meditation practice.
Everyone is welcome! Donations appreciated.

Bodhi Path Buddhist Center ZOOM

805-284-2704
sb@bodhipath.org
http://www.bodhipath.org/sb/

As part of the UC Santa Barbara Ethnomusicology Forum's UCSB ABD Graduate Student Series, UC Santa Barbara PhD candidate Jason Busniewski will present a lecture titled "Bagpiping in the Garhwal Himalayas: Music Theory and Analytical Approaches to a South Asian Tradition" on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 from 3:30-5 pm PST via Zoom.

Zoom link: tinyurl.com/EthnoW21
Meeting ID: 880 4630 7897
Passcode: 3m867k

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2162

Imagine a colorful international birding experience right from your home! Colombia has 20% of the bird species in the world—some 1,957-known species.

The Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara presents:  Immigrants’ Stories – America’s Promise, an online educational forum on Thursday, Jan. 28

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for New York Times Crossword Editor and NPR Puzzlemaster, Will Shortz, on Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 5 PM.

Cost: FREE
When: JANUARY 28th, 7pm
Where: ZOOM!

In this talk, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Plant Systematist and Curator Dr. Matt Guilliams will discuss the remarkable flora of the California Channel Islands, often referred to as California’s Galapagos Islands, with an emphasis on Catalina Island.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a comprehensive, online training that teaches educators, family members, and caregivers (18+ years old) to approach, assess, and assist a young person with a mental health challenge or substance use concern.
Just as CPR or First Aid helps you assist an individual in a medical crisis by following specific steps, YMHFA helps you assist a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis using specific steps until appropriate help is received or until the crisis is resolved.

Seed Paper Tutorial
Saturday, January 30, 2021 @ 11:00AM PST

Seed Paper Tutorial
Saturday, January 30, 2021 @ 11:00AM PST

Ensemble Theatre Company, Santa Barbara’s professional theater, is now accepting applications for its 4th Annual Young Playwrights’ Festival for aspiring writers aged 13-19. 

First United Methodist, will bag the 3-course Italian meal "to-go" and place bags into cars as they drive through the church parking lot.

11th Annual Feast-to-Go at First United Methodist Church will benefit Unity Shoppe