In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2021, UCSB Library presents a talk by Tia Blassingame, a book artist and printmaker whose work explores the intersection of race, history, and perception.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for Playwright, Actor and Professor Anna Deavere Smith on February 2, 2021 at 7 PM.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for Playwright, Actor and Professor Anna Deavere Smith on February 2, 2021 at 7 PM.

The Santa Barbara chapter of the national organization Association for Women in Communication will examine the specific set of steps for organizations to prepare a communications response when the news is far less than good at its next meeting, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 3.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for Jazz for Young People at Lincoln Center Orchestra on February 4, 2021 at 10 AM.

Environmental and climate justice are two emerging crises tied closely with changing climate and sustainable development paradigms. In this talk, we will explore environmental justice through the perspective of co-creating questions of broader impacts in the ecological sciences.

While you may not be able to Listen, Local, Live at this time, exciting classical music from the musicians of the Santa Maria Philharmonic , your local, hometown professional orchestra, is just a click away!

The SMPS First Fridays at Four series features an exciting YouTube performance by orchestra members in local landmarks and locations.

The free recorded concerts premier the first Friday of every month at 4:00pm.

Watch again and again, and share with friends! Subscribe to our channel and never miss a show:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXfoemrez9B0zvDSlP58Q9w

Free classical music concert from your local philharmonic!

Santa Barbara Activists to host car caravan demanding guaranteed health care in California – Saturday, February 6

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.

PFLAG Santa Barbara/Santa Maria February Virtual Meeting - "Stages in the Coming Out Journey for LGBTQ Persons and their Loved Ones". Pre-registration is required.

In partnership with the UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services, New Beginnings Counseling Center is offering a clinical training on February 8 from 10 am to 12 pm (online) with Sherisa Dahlgren, LMFT. 

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for an evening with the Founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard for Protecting Public Land in Conversation with Hal Herring on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 at 5 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

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

The Wildling Museum is pleased to announce its February virtual program, Nocturnes & Envisioning the Night Sky: A Conversation with Nathan Huff & Nathan Vonk, taking place Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 4 – 5 p.m.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for an evening with Sociopolitical Comedian and Host of CNN’s United Shades of America W. Kamau Bell to discuss Ending Racism in About an Hour on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 at 5 PM.

In honor of Black History Month, this session examines Jacob Lawrence’s screenprint The 1920’s…The Migrants Cast Their Ballots (1974). Draw details from his unique, modernist depiction of African-American migrant workers in the 1920s voting for the first time. Lawrence created this print as part of the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio, with artists contributing to the portfolio responding to the question “what does independence mean to you?”.

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

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

Spanish Speaking PFLAG Santa Barbara/Santa Maria Meeting. "Our Coming Out Stories"

Join us for a digital screening of THE SHOT followed by an interactive panel discussion, benefiting Domestic Violence Solutions and Center Stage Theater!

Family Friendly Workshop | Paper Flowers
Saturday, February 13, 2021 @ 11:00AM PST

Zoo Brew, the annual fundraiser that brings beer lovers and zoo lovers together to support Santa Barbara Zoo is going virtual this year, with Zoo Brew @ Home, on Saturday, February 13 from 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Candle lit, four course, authentic Italian dinner with live music

1 in 3 women will experience domestic violence or sexual assault in her lifetime. That's ONE BILLION women and girls worldwide.

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.

As part of the UC Santa Barbara Ethnomusicology Forum's UCSB ABD Graduate Student Series, UC Santa Barbara PhD candidate Alexander Karvelas will present a lecture titled "Eth(n)ographic Gardening: Preliminary Research Design in a Study of Permaculture Acoustemologies" on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 from 3:30-5 pm PST via Zoom. Synthesizing Steven Feld’s framework of acoustemology (1996, 2017) with environmental humanities discourses on the more-than-human (Rose and Van Dooren 2016, Haraway 2017), this presentation sets the theoretical and methodological groundwork for a study of permaculture acoustemologies—permacultural modes of knowing, relating, and tending through sound—in the context of gardening/land-tending as a more-than-human encounter.

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

Join Domestic Violence Solutions as we interview four leaders of local youth-serving organizations about teen dating and healthy relationships!

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara is delighted to announce the inaugural installment of our newest program, Collectors Series, a behind-the-scenes dive into what it means to collect contemporary art.

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara is delighted to announce the inaugural installment of our newest program, Collectors Series, a behind-the-scenes dive into what it means to collect contemporary art.

In honor of Black History Month, this session examines Jacob Lawrence’s screenprint "The 1920’s…The Migrants Cast Their Ballots" (1974).

Antioch University’s BA program will host a workshop on How to Outsmart your Competitors in Job Search; Covid Edition.  The event will take place on Friday, February 19th, from 5:15 pm-6:15 pm via Zoom.

The Department of Music will present a Corwin Series Lecture featuring composer Stephen Travis Pope on Friday, February 19, 2021 at 11 am PST via Zoom. Pope's lecture, titled "Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder: A Mass for the New Millennium," will focus on his film, “Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder," a feature-length abstract music/video ritual of thanksgiving in five parts. It follows the structure of rituals of gratitude celebrated throughout the ages and across cultures and religions. The five pieces of music incorporate voices in Latin, English, and Arabic as well as bird and whale songs. Each of the videos was made to fit the music of the respective movement. The videos for the first three parts were contributed by Pope's friends Lane Clark and UC Santa Barbara student Lance Putnam; the video for the final movement was produced using software developed at UC Santa Barbara for Graham Wakefield and Haru Ji.

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

Local writers, working in a variety of genres and forms, meet with participants for two, 90-minute sessions during consecutive weeks.

Local writers, working in a variety of genres and forms, meet with participants for two, 90-minute sessions during consecutive weeks.

Join UCSB Library for the third annual UCSB Reads Zine workshop, now virtual, no experience necessary! Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are self-published, DIY collections of photos and text that are printed by hand or photocopied, and independently distributed by the author or ‘zinester.’

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present Engineer, Physician and Former NASA Astronaut, Dr. Mae Jemison for Overcoming Obstacles, Breaking Barriers and Reaching for the Stars on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. Pacific.

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.

SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery Art Talk ‘Introducing Cosmovisión Indígena’ scheduled for Feb. 24

Living along the coastline in Santa Barbara, SLO and Ventura Counties there are more than a few estuaries. Living under or near, the path of the avian migration super-highway, The Pacific Flyway, which supports nearly a million birds, knowing more about the bird life these areas help sustain is a timely topic. This free program presented by Santa Barbara Audubon Society (SBAS) will be a wonderful opportunity to hear, firsthand, from the Director of Bird Conservation for California Audubon, Andrea Jones. The 90-minute Zoom program includes a presentation and Q&A – using the chat section to ask your questions. Moderator for the program is Teresa Fanucchi.

Downtown Santa Barbara invites you to the 2021 Annual Awards Ceremony, Presented by Southern California Edison. This event includes the announcements of the 2020 Volunteer of the Year, Citizen of the Year, Business Champion of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, and the 2021 Harriet Miller Youth Leadership Award recipient.

It’s a Downtown Santa Barbara tradition, more than two dozen years old - the Annual Awards Ceremony, designed as a way to celebrate past accomplishments and share our goals for the coming year. The occasion is also a way to honor people, organizations, even historic buildings that have gone above and beyond to make a difference in Downtown Santa Barbara. Join us, and celebrate Downtown Santa Barbara.

Sullivan Goss is proud to present an important and timely exhibition devoted to that most American of artistic sensibilities, Realism. 

UCSB Opera Theatre and the Department of Music will present a virtual performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s two-act opera Don Giovanni on Friday, February 26

UC Santa Barbara Opera Theatre and the Department of Music will present a virtual performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s two-act opera Don Giovanni on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 6 pm PST as a YouTube Premiere.
Directed by UC Santa Barbara Associate Professor Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian, the abridged version of the opera will be sung in the original Italian with English subtitles. The video will be free and available to the public via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel.

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2171

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

Dr. Gina La Monica will lead an insightful workshop on College Admissions including the latest changes. Attend and learn how to get accepted to the college of your dreams.
Some of the topics that will be discussed are the following:
What College Is Best For Me?
College Admission Information
Four Year or Community College Transfer
Career Exploration
Financial Aid and Scholarships
The workshop will be held via Zoom on Sunday, February 28 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm. Please RVSP by Thursday, February 25 at avenuescollegeadmission@gmail.com.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present Chefs in Conversation, Samin Nosrat and Yotam Ottolenghi, moderated by Sherry Villanueva, Managing Partner/Owner of Acme Hospitality on Sunday, Feb. 28 2021 at 11 a.m.