La Cumbre Jr. High & Santa Barbara School of Performing Arts (SOPA) present “13” an original musical. The 1st & only Broadway musical with a cast/band entirely comprised of teenagers. A street-wise, NYC kid is turning 13. His world is turned upside-down when he moves from fast-paced Manhattan, NY to a small-town in Indiana.

The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardeners announces a free public workshop entitled “Success With Succulents 101”

SUPER BOWL LIV Viewing Party at the Arlington Courtyard.
San Francisco 49ers vs Kansas City Chiefs
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Gates open at 3:30pm
Food and Beer Specials!

Spend a meaningful day exploring the Arroyo Hondo Preserve while discovering herbs native to the California coastline.

Join us on the second Monday of each month to learn about the mystical poetry of Jalal al Din Rumi. Led by Dr. Fariba Enteshari, this webinar is for people who want to understand the language behind Rumi’s poetry.

Graduate vocalist Kelly Guerra (mezzo-soprano) will present a doctoral recital with pianist Erik Lawrence on Monday, February 3, 2020 at 7:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The program will include works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Annea Lockwood, Chabuca Granda, Alma Mahler, and Lili Boulanger. Guerra is a student of Professor Isabel Bayrakdarian.

1.5 hour docent-led ghost tour

Jerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau will lead a powerful discussion about the prison system and incarceration. All three served nearly fifty years in prison unjustly before being found innocent. They were all wrongly convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent. While in prison, they made a pact to someday reunite and go into business together as free men. They enrolled in prison education programs, learned trades, and studied law. They stuck together and worked with allies outside the prison. Today, through their work with Free-Dem Foundations, a non-profit community-based youth organization in New Orleans, they are realizing the vision they created while unjustly incarcerated.

1.5 hour docent-led ghost tour

1.5 hour docent-led ghost tour

“Let it be known: Chris Thile is amazing… A graceful and soulful singer, relaxed raconteur, dazzling virtuoso, gifted composer and all-around charmer.” The Washington Post

2-for-Tuesday Pizza

Every speaker needs to gaining credibility as the “voice of authority.” Research tells us men start with credibility at the podium but women must earn it. That means careful preparation for every type of presentation women deliver.

In this workshop, Dr. Lois Phillips will discuss minefields and pitfalls women find particularly perilous. She’ll also help you craft a compelling pitch for your product or service, using a template from her new book Women Seen and Heard Speaker’s Journal, co-authored with Anita Perez Ferguson. Learn essential tips and tools to help you become a more confident speaker in every setting!

AWC-SB members free, Guests $20 - includes wine & refreshments (register at www.awcsb.org)

OffCenter is an experimental documentary emphasizing the attitudes and experiences of unconventional African American, Latinx, LGBTQ people in Texarkana, a twin city in East Texas and Arkansas. It explores the racial, sexual, and gender identity of five main interviewees rebelling against Southern conservatism. OffCenter portrays the existence of marginalized people, their encounters with racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and internalized oppression. Post-film discussion with the director Aylin Sözen, and cinematographer Cesar Jaralillo to follow. 1h 18m

Under the direction of Jon Nathan, the UCSB Percussion Ensemble will present contemporary works and transcriptions for percussion solo and ensemble on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 7:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall.

An Evening with the U.S. Poet Laureate

Join Alena Steen to learn the basics of building a home medicine garden. Even a small space can grow a dense garden of plant medicines for tea, salves, and herbal vinegar or alcohol infusions. Alena will describe how to prepare your garden space and select a diversity of plants to grow for many different uses (anxiety, sleeplessness, wound-healing, digestion, etc.), as well as how to care for your garden through the seasons. In addition, she will discuss how to prepare your harvest, including the basics of drying herbs for tea and preparing herbal infusions.

Alena Steen is a local farmer and gardener. She runs the Carpinteria Garden Park, an organic community garden in downtown Carpinteria, as well as a small herbal medicine farm and business called Earth Tide Botanicals in collaboration with her partner.

Join Alena Steen to learn the basics of building a home medicine garden. Even a small space can grow a dense garden of plant medicines for tea, salves, and herbal vinegar or alcohol infusions. Alena will describe how to prepare your garden space and select a diversity of plants to grow for many different uses (anxiety, sleeplessness, wound-healing, digestion, etc.), as well as how to care for your garden through the seasons. In addition, she will discuss how to prepare your harvest, including the basics of drying herbs for tea and preparing herbal infusions.

Alena Steen is a local farmer and gardener. She runs the Carpinteria Garden Park, an organic community garden in downtown Carpinteria, as well as a small herbal medicine farm and business called Earth Tide Botanicals in collaboration with her partner.

As part of the World Music Series, the Maurice Faulkner Brass Quintet and the Suzanne Faulkner Horn Ensemble will present repertoire from the Renaissance to modern jazz on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 12 pm in the Music Bowl. Directed by Steve Gross, the groups perform on horn, trumpet, and trombone.

Join us for an open house at the Reagan Ranch Center Exhibit Galleries all afternoon with complimentary refreshments, birthday exhibits, and new displays on Thursday, Feb 6.

Food From The Heart in collaboration with Draughtsmen Aleworks announce The Hoppy Heart, a fundraiser to benefit Food From The Heart. 

Michelangelo is regarded as one of the most creative artists in western art history, using countless drawings to explore the dynamics of the human form and to solve compositional problems. Yet he is recorded as burning hundreds – perhaps thousands – of his sketches and cartoons. Julian Brooks, Senior Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, looks into the extraordinary phenomenon of Michelangelo and his draftsmanship.

Image: Michelangelo Buonarroti, “Study of a Mourning Woman” (detail), ca. 1500-1505. Pen and brown ink. J. Paul Getty Museum.

Celebrate 1st Thursday with Pop-Up Opera on February 6 at 5:30 pm! In February, Opera Santa Barbara returns to perform selections in honor of Black History Month in the Museum galleries. Afterwards, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm. Free!

It’s here – the presidential election year, and we have our work cut out for us. ISB and our country need all hands on deck in order to defeat Trump in November, hold the House, and take back the Senate. With your help, we can to map out a strategic vision for 2020.

FREE event; no advance tickets required
Call the Arts & Lectures ticket office at (805) 893-3535 for your tickets!

Campbell Hall
UCSB Campus, Campbell Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA
A Musical Romantic Comedy

Book, Lyrics, and Music by Paul Gordon
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Andrew Barnicle
February 6–23, 2020

Serving pizza and refreshments, Good Space Coworking is inviting the greater community this Thursday, February 6th, at noon for “Sneak Peek” before their official grand opening in March 2020

The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music will present a guest artist masterclass with violinist Ida Kavafian (Curtis Institute of Music) on Thursday, February 6, 2020 from 10 am-12 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. Kavafian will work with students from the UC Santa Barbara Strings Program on pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Henryk Wieniawski, and Johannes Brahms.
This event is FREE and open to the public!

As part of the Corwin Chair Series, Rodrigo Cadiz, Professor at the Center for Research in Audio Technologies Music Institute at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, will present a talk about interfaces and the creation of new musical instruments on Friday, February 7, 2020 at 3 pm in Studio Xenakis (Room 2215, Music Building) on the UC Santa Barbara campus.
This event is FREE and open to the public!

WHAT: This week’s “Solutions News” live radio broadcast will interview Laura Capps,
WHEN: 5 to 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, 2020
WHERE: Tune in to KZSB, AM 1290.

On this episode of Solutions News we interview Laura Capps, President of Santa Barbara School Board, mother, small business owner, former president of the Community Environmental Council, and Santa Barbara local. Laura is currently running for Santa Barbara County 1st District Supervisor to make local government listen to the people again. Topics she will address will include our severe housing and homeless crisis, the need for better emergency and climate safety infrastructure, an overhaul on campaign finance, and fixing a botched cannabis ordinance. For the past 25 years, Laura’s work has been about forging a more environmentally sustainable future, combatting poverty, fighting for immigration reform, and supporting the rights of all people. Laura has devoted her career to public service and is passionate about making our community, and our country, the best it can be for everyone.

Solutions News with Rinaldo Brutoco is a weekly radio show produced by Kristy Jansen and the World Business Academy. Guided by the motto that there are more solutions in the world than problems, Solutions News seeks to educate, inform and inspire its audience.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit solutionsnews.org.

“One of the most awesome pianists of our time.” The New York Times
“He is, no other word, a phenomenon.” The Guardian (U.K.)

ART by Yasmina Reza stars Bill Waxman, Ed Giron, and Geren Piltz in a play that humorously questions the meaning of art, friendship, and independence.

Simon Fox, Executive Director of Adventures In Caring Foundation, will present their most recent innovation, Oxygen for Caregivers: How to Guard Against Burnout, Build Resilience and Sustain Compassion, on Friday February 7,  9:00

In collaboration with UCSB Reads, The Goleta Valley Library will host a panel discussion with UCSB faculty focused on themes found in the 2020 selection Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush. Q&A to follow the panel. All are welcome. This event is free.
Panelists include Sarah Anderson (Bren School, Political Science), Ed Keller (Earth Science), Eckart Meiburg (Mechanical Engineering), Monique Myers (Marine Science Institute) and Andrew Plantinga (Bren School, Economics),

Location: Goleta Valley Public Library Multipurpose Room. 500 N Fairview Avenue, Goleta 93117
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Phone Number:
Goleta Valley Public Library: (805) 964-7878
UCSB Library: (805) 893-2478
Contact email: outreach@library.ucsb.edu

Taste and buy a decade of Carr history featuring vintages spanning 2004 to 2014.

The Santa Barbara Music Club celebrates its 50th year! The program for Saturday, February 8, 3 pm is co-presented by Santa Barbara Music Club and Santa Barbara Public Library, and features works by Andersen, Chopin, Harris, Hogan, Isbitz, and Larsen. The free concert is located at the Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu St., 3pm, Saturday, February 8. For more information visit www.SBMusicClub.org.

Another fabulous night of music with Santa Barbara’s All Star Band backing up our great line up of Singers.

SBPianoBoys FREE Classical Piano Concert in Goleta

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Monthly Public Star Party at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/full-moon-in-leo-a-night-of-self-love-and-connection-tickets-87904222897

Join us a for a night focused on self-love and learning about full-moon rituals, astrology and how the energy of the moon flows through us.

This event will feature Martha Alter Hines as our guest astrologer. She will lead us in meditation and intention setting centered around how we can find love from within. During our time together we will uncover the truths about the energy derived from the sun and the moon and how you can incorporate these rituals to channel guidance for your own self-love journey. While it is amazing to have a partner for love, we can also find love by going internal and focusing on our self-care, our internal needs and wants, and really being mindful of the world around us.

During the event we will have a brief meditation/intention setting, discuss moon rituals and self-love practices, and go outside to experience the full moon in Leo as it graces the night sky on February 8th.

Your ticket will include an exclusive Moon Journal for 2020.

Please dress warm for our time spent outside toward the end of the evening. We will be hosting our discussion sitting in a circle on the floor, so if you prefer a special cushion feel free to bring!

ART by Yasmina Reza stars Bill Waxman, Ed Giron, and Geren Piltz in a play that humorously questions the meaning of art, friendship, and independence

Drop off non-perishable food items to help community members facing hunger. Volunteers will unload, no need to leave your car! Santa Barbara AND Santa Maria

Free event featuring panel discussions and workshops with national and local experts on all aspects of End-of-Life issues.