Undergraduate oboist Lexie Callaway-Cole will present a senior Bachelor of Music recital on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 1:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. Ms. Callaway-Cole will be joined by harpsichordist/pianist Dr. Natasha Kislenko (UCSB faculty member), bassoonist Jacob Fernandez, violinist Noelle Barr, violist James Chung, and cellist Britta Thomas. The program will include works by Benjamin Britten, Antonio Vivaldi, Gaetano Donizetti, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ms. Callaway-Cole is a student of UCSB faculty member Gabrielle Castriotta.

TITLE: A Merger in Space: Black Holes and Neutron Stars
SPEAKER: Prof. Duncan Brown, Physics Dept., Brown University
The first detection of colliding black holes rocked the scientific world, establishing that gravitational waves are REAL and measurable. Scientists have also achieved the first detection of colliding neutron stars. Prof. Brown will discuss the implications of these cosmic mergers, what they create, and how they change our view of the Universe.

The New Works Lab presents bare bones developmental productions of half-hour scripted and devised plays. The program provides a simple 'fringe festival' level of technical and design support so that each work may evolve in content and structure through the final performance. Works are selected every November through an open application process. The process is supported by a weekly spring quarter class in which NWL student actors, designers, playwrights, directors, stage managers and publicists working on the productions convene with faculty and staff mentors to view and critique staged iterations of each work.

Performance Dates:

May 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2019 - 8:00pm

May 11, 18, 19, 2019 - 2:00pm

Premier Car Show

In order to further their commitment to sustainability, Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club has partnered with KOPU Sparkling Water as their official sparkling water provider

The Kopu Lisle Nixon Memorial tournament kicks off on Sunday, May 19 at 3:00 pm at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club!

Graduate cellist Britta Thomas will perform her first master's recital with pianist Dr. Natasha Kislenko (UCSB faculty member) on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 4:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. The program will feature music by Foss, Bach, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. Ms. Thomas is a student of UCSB faculty member Jennifer Kloetzel.

Coastal Self Defense Academy’s 5th Annual Fundraiser Drive on Sunday, May 19th at 4:30pm at 1485 La Cima Rd. $30

The Women's Empowerment Project Presents a Film Screening of "Miss Representation"

This film offers an inside look at the media and its message through provocative interviews with well-known figures such as Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem, and Condoleezza Rice, as well as personal stories from teenage girls.

This show takes you on a journey of emotions that will have you dancing in your seat. Enjoy authentic Argentine tango through this passionate fairytale, as theatre and dance come together for a magical experience. Don’t miss this sultry, sexy and dynamic show of tango at its best! The traditional Reception Milonga is part of the immersive tango experience as the second hour of the show. Plan to stay and be swayed by the Tango and these dancers.

Undergraduate cellist Naomi Stoodley will present a junior Bachelor of Music recital with pianist Erik Lawrence on Sunday, May 19th at 7:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. The program will include works by Bach, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. Ms. Stoodley is a student of UCSB faculty member Jennifer Kloetzel.

The New Works Lab presents bare bones developmental productions of half-hour scripted and devised plays. The program provides a simple 'fringe festival' level of technical and design support so that each work may evolve in content and structure through the final performance. Works are selected every November through an open application process. The process is supported by a weekly spring quarter class in which NWL student actors, designers, playwrights, directors, stage managers and publicists working on the productions convene with faculty and staff mentors to view and critique staged iterations of each work.

Performance Dates:

May 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2019 - 8:00pm

May 11, 18, 19, 2019 - 2:00pm

Undergraduate cellist Joshua Kauk will present a junior Bachelor of Music recital with pianist Dr. Natasha Kislenko (UCSB faculty member) on Sunday, May 19th at 10:30 am in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. The program will include works by Shostakovich, J.S. Bach, and Debussy. Mr. Kauk is a student of UCSB faculty member Jennifer Kloetzel.

Join Rev. Karen S. Wylie at The Ojai Retreat on Sunday, May 19, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. for her Mid-Month Devotional Retreat, this month devoted to “Discovering the ‘Who’ That is You"

As part of the Fiftieth Anniversary Carillon Recital Series, students from UCSB University Carillonist Wesley Arai's studio will present a recital from the carillon in UCSB's Storke Tower on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 12 pm. Listeners are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on the grass outside the tower during the recital.

Undergraduate clarinetist Min Su Kim will present a recital with pianist Pinshu Yu and flutist Jenna Ku on Sunday, May 26th at 1:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. The program will include works by Michele Mangani, Francis Poulenc (arr. Millan Sachania), and Franz Danzi. Mr. Kim is a student of UCSB faculty member Paul Bambach.

New Podcast Focuses on Living Long and Joyously

SBPianoBoys return to SOhO Restaurant & Music Club

Undergraduate vocalist Terra Giddens (soprano) will present a recital on Monday, May 20, 2019 at 7:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. Ms. Giddens is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree and studies with UCSB faculty member Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian.

The Wildling Museum is sponsoring an art contest with cash prizes! Deadline is Monday, May 20, 2019.

We live in a world of maps and networks. GPS enabled phones allow us to instantly locate ourselves on the earth’s surface, guide us to stores or restaurants, or announce to the world our location through social media. Likewise, programs like Google Earth and desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized our engagement with maps, map-making, and have challenged traditional notions of space and place.

The proliferation of GIS technologies and the “spatial turn” in digital humanities has also provided new avenues for challenging assumptions about the representations of past societies, the nature of empire, and the reach of imperial power. Despite their aesthetic beauty, traditional print maps, with clearly delineated static borders, often artificial naming conventions, and fixed viewpoints do not convey the complexity and uncertainty of the past.

Ancient societies and empires were far from static; they were networks of complex interactions and fierce contestation which unfolded in geographic space. This talk demonstrates how the use of new digital methodologies, gazetteers, and Linked Open Data (LOD) resources can be used to model and study these networks, and how new mapping techniques are transforming our understanding of ancient empire. Using the Attalid Kingdom as a guide, this talk examines the theory and practicalities of building an entity-relationship gazetteer and how to align it with LOD resources. It then addresses the construction of networks in desktop software, the impact of networks on cartography, and how new maps and digital models provided unique insights into the study of ancient Greek garrisons. The talk will then end with a brief overview of how Pleiades and other ancient world digital initiatives, including the Pelagios project’s Recogito platform, are developing new tools to enable the research and mapping of ancient networks.

Ryan Horne earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina where he had the opportunity to work extensively with the Ancient World Mapping Center. Dr. Horne’s talk will explore how to integrate the study of maps and networks to study the ancient world, using the Hellenistic Attalid kingdom as a model.

UCSB graduate student Cloe Gentile (Musicology) will present a talk titled "The Pan-American Bolero and María Grever’s Idealized Woman" on Wednesday, May 29th from 3:30-4:45 pm in Room 1145 in the Music Building. Research supported by the Graduate Diversity Fellowship sponsored through the Graduate Research Mentorship Program. Presented by UCSB Music History and Theory Forum.

Please join us in celebrating our 2018-19 Faculty Fellows, whose works-in-progress are supported this year by IHC release-time awards. Fellows will give a short presentation of their work. A reception will follow.

The Santa Barbara County Education Office is pleased to present the annual Showcase of Innovative Learning on May 21, 2019, from 4-7 p.m.

Art Without Limits hosts May BizArts Workshop, "Navigating the World of Contemporary Art" with Art Without Limits, on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 from 5:00-7:00pm.

The Young Feminists Committee of the Santa Barbara Political Women’s Committee joins with Planned Parenthood’s Young Advocates to bring you another exciting SUNSET CRUISE.

Based on Edmundo Desnoes’ novel and presented here in a new 4k restoration, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) is a fictional meditation on disillusionment in post-revolutionary Cuba. Left behind by his wife and family, the protagonist Sergio elects to remain in Havana following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, an historical moment that

Leigh VanHandel (Associate Professor of Music Theory, Michigan State University) will present a talk titled "Working Memory and Music Theory Fundamentals" on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 from 3:30-4:45 pm in Music Room 1145. Sponsored by UCSB Music History and Theory Forum.

This juried competition features Santa Barbara Unified School District students’ Career Technical Education Woodshop and Construction Technology projects.

The public is invited to join the World Business Academy’s Global Citizens Club for a panel discussion on Wednesday May 22 focusing on the best transportation strategy that balances the area’s environmental, housing and quality-of-life needs

Marian Regional Medical Center & Santa Maria Valley Chamber, invites the community to attend the Health Care Roundtable at Marian Regional Medical Center

You don’t want to miss this college bound young woman’s presentation on her field experiences with the condor recovery program.

Presented by Teodelina Martelli

PRSA California Gold Coast Chapter is pleased to present "Media Skills for Spokespersons -- How to Become a Coach for Your Client" by Lois Phillips, Ph.D.

As part of the World Music Series, Richard North will direct the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble in a showcase of an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, and lively interlocking rhythms, on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 12 pm in the UCSB Music Bowl. The World Music Series is co-presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center and the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music.

When it comes to intriguing live art, fabulous wine, and great food, no one does it better than Downtown Santa Barbara. Join for the Live Art & Wine Tour on May 23.

Montecito Water District is seeking proposals from qualified contractors to replace pipeline and related infrastructure in the District’s service area which was damaged during the January 9th, 2018 debris flow.

The Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Dance returns to the Lobero Theatre for an evening of art and awe-inspiring dance as performers take to the air in a kinetic journey of ritual and release. Weaving textile installations from New York artist Tamika Rivera with contemporary dance and the ancient tradition of the aerial arts, the

In 2010, after Jafar Panahi was arrested and charged with making propaganda against the Iranian government, he was banned from making films or operating a camera for twenty years. In 2011 he made This is Not a Film, which was shot entirely in Panahi’s home, using the help of his friends, a camcorder, an iPhone,

Empowered Aging Speaker Series on Friday, May 24th, 2019, 2:00 - 3:30pm

The new weekly local radio show, “Solutions News Radio,” hosted by Rinaldo Brutoco, president and founder of the World Business Academy, will air live this Friday from 5-6 p.m. on KZSB 1290 AM radio. There will be replay broadcasts Friday from 11 p.m.– 12 a.m., Saturday from 5- 6 p.m. and again on Sunday from 9 -10 a.m. The show is also available on demand as a podcast from Soundcloud.

Roar on for the Left Hand Lions at Carr Winery on Friday!

Graduate cellist Chenoa Orme-Stone will present a doctoral recital on Friday, May 24th at 7:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. Ms. Orme-Stone will be joined by pianist Dr. Natasha Kislenko (UCSB faculty member), violinists Sara Bashore and Kristina Tsanova, violist Besnik Yzeiri, and cellist Katrina Agate. The program will include works by Shostakovich, Brahms, Griffes, and Dvořák. Ms. Orme-Stone is a student of UCSB faculty member Jennifer Kloetzel.

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

For the past ten years, Brett Dennen – with his poet’s perspective, off-kilter vocals, insane sense of humor, and limitless musical freedom – has turned dancing like no one’s watching into a lifestyle. As a songwriter, performer, watercolor artist, and environmental conservationist and outdoorsman, the shows he performs and the events he hosts generate more

Join La Presidenta Barbara Carroll and the Old Spanish Days Board to kick off the upcoming 95th Annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta.

The Betties are back! Join us at Girls Inc of SB as we take on Beach Cities in some fast-paced, action-packed roller derby, May 25th

The Betties are back!! Join as at Girls Inc of SB as we take on Beach Cities in some fast-paced, action-packed roller derby!

Tickets are $10 and available from your favorite Bettie or online (https://nightout.com/events/live-roller-derby-brawlin-betties-vs-beach-cities-roller-derby/tickets). Grab a ticket for you and your friends to beat the crowd and the line at the door. Bring the kids, 10 and under are FREE!! Presale ticket holders get the best seats!

Presale ticket holders admission: 4:00
General admission: 4:30
First whistle blows at 5:00

After party info:
Zodo's!!

Santa Barbara Public Library and PlayFest Santa Barbara Announce 2019 Reading and Workshops

On Saturday, May 25th, the 10th Annual Harbor Nautical Swap Meet will occur in the Main Harbor Parking Lot from 8 a.m. to noon.​

Beautify your home and garden while supporting the work of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History at their Memorial Weekend Marketplace benefit Saturday,  May 25, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the museum grounds at 956 Maple Avenue.

Herb Walk at Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve with local native plant educator Lanny Kaufer on Saturday, May 25

The Alcazar Improv Players will stage a at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 25, at the nonprofit Alcazar Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave. in downtown Carpinteria.