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.

Book Discussion Group
Feb 23, Tues 7 - 8:30 PM
“The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: A New Translation” by Christopher Stagg

Everyone is welcome! Donations appreciated.
For more information please check out our website:
Bodhi Path Buddhist Center

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

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.

A free Zoom event, a Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Update on Vaccines and Viral Variants.

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

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

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

The Department of Theater and Dance is proud to present Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities, a groundbreaking historical recount of the 1991 Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, written by Anna Deavere Smith and directed by Risa Brainin. The show opens at 7 p.m. on February 26 on Zoom and runs through the 28th.

TED & Joe in the Morning, a discussion group based loosely on TED Circles, but tailored for the greater Santa Barbara community by staff from all SBPL branches.

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

Local Food Hero Award ~
13th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap 2021
Every year we honor a local food hero at the Seed Swap event.
This year we honor the Santa Barbara Farmers Market & the exemplary growers who have kept our community fed & nourished with the highest quality produce & food for many decades, including during the COVID pandemic, that made locally grown food more important than ever.
We honor & deeply thank them for their stewardship of the land & commitment to providing a viable foodshed for the Santa Barbara community.