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A Call to Action: Documenting Santa Barbara’s Art & Activism
Since March of 2020, we have been challenged and reshaped -- as a community and individuals -- by our experiences living through the COVID-19 pandemic and renewal of abolitionist and anti-racist activist movements. Amidst the shift to remote learning and working, UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections initiated two ongoing projects: the Santa Barbara Black Lives Matter Community Archives and the COVID-19 Community Archives.
Mermaids: Visualizing the Myths and Legends through Photography An Exhibit by Ralph Clevenger and Friends
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is pleased to announce the long-awaited re-opening of the exhibit, Mermaids: Visualizing the Myths and Legends through Photography, 16 images printed on canvas by Ralph Clevenger and friends. Originally scheduled to open on April 22, 2020, the exhibit was postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic closures. Now, thanks to the generous support of Mimi Michaelis, the Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation, and the Wood-Claeyssens Foundation the exhibit will be open to the public from November 11, 2021, through April 30, 2022. There will also be mermaid photo opportunities at the museum by appointment on Saturday, November 13, 2021, from 11:30am-12:30pm and 1-2pm, $10 for museum members and $30 for non-members.
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Seeks Docents! Classes Begin January 8, 2022
Do you enjoy meeting and talking with people from California, across the US, and around the world? Do you want to share your love and knowledge of our beautiful harbor with visitors? Do you have at least three hours a week to volunteer? If so, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is looking for you to join its next 10-week docent training program, beginning Saturday, January 8 and running through March 12, 2022!
Winter After-School Multimedia Class
Combine materials and techniques to create mixed media pieces that include painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Depictions of birds and trees crossing cultures and time in the Museum’s collections will ignite imaginations and inspire both individual and collaborative creations.
Ages: 5 – 12
Instructors: Nicola Ghersen + Jason Summers
Email communityprograms@sbma.net or call 805.884.6457 for more information.
Location: Ridley-Tree Education Center
$150/6 weeks SBMA Members
$200/6 weeks Non-Members
Winter After-School Multimedia Class
Combine materials and techniques to create mixed media pieces that include painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Depictions of birds and trees crossing cultures and time in the Museum’s collections will ignite imaginations and inspire both individual and collaborative creations.
Ages: 5 – 12
Instructors: Nicola Ghersen + Jason Summers
Email communityprograms@sbma.net or call 805.884.6457 for more information.
Location: Ridley-Tree Education Center
$150/6 weeks SBMA Members
$200/6 weeks Non-Members
FREE online Acting Class at Adult Ed
Acting for Older Adults
Work with others in a supportive environment to foster your artistic and professional growth!
SBCC School of Extended Learning
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
Starts: 1/18/22
Sign up for Tuesday and/or Thursday evening classes at:
http://www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning
CRN #’s: 65883, 65884, 65930, and 65931
For Questions, Contact Instructor: palevien@pipeline.sbcc.edu
Beginners and Veterans welcome!
AHA!’s Littlest Little Farm
AHA!’s Littlest Little Farm
Teens: learn regenerative farming skills in a fun, supportive, caring community!
Victory Vegetable Gardening Classes for the True Beginner
Learn the essentials of vegetable gardening on 4 Wednesday evenings beginning on February 16th from 7-9pm. Presented by the UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County
Registration is required.
Sign up online: http://ucanr.edu/sbmg
Story to Standing Ovation
Would you like to learn how to develop and deliver a Talk that will captivate your audience because everything is on the line?
Do you have a 20-minute High-Stakes Talk at a conference coming up, and you want in-person feedback on it?
Have you been invited to do a Talk and want one-on-one coaching to know how to develop it?
Are you speaking at your next board meeting, and you need to persuade the participants so you'd like some live recommendations on it?
Is it time for you to share your idea that can affect change in your industry, and you'd like to work with a team that has done that?
Does that thought of 'why me?' prevent you from developing a Talk that can change lives?
Is your idea that can change the world stuck in your mind, and you wish you could work with experts to help you get it out?
We have worked with Companies and Organizations locally to help them create a Story Strategy for the various audiences they work with: their clients, employees, donors, and the general public.
This three-day workshop is held at the New Vic Theater, Downtown Santa Barbara, and will be fully COVID compliant for all attendees' safety.
BRAILLE INSTITUTE FREE ONLINE WORKSHOPS – MARCH 2022
Braille Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. We offer a broad range of free programs, classes and services serving thousands of students of all ages helping to demonstrate that vision rehabilitation is a beginning, not an end.
We serve the community from seven centers, and hundreds of community outreach locations throughout Southern California, and lead popular national programs like Braille Challenge and Cane Quest. Our staff and volunteers understand losing your vision can be scary, but we believe it is not the end of independence, but a new way of living.
A variety of free classes, workshops and support groups are available to help you or a loved one stay active, remain independent and enjoy connections with others.
Sign up for individual events, workshops and seminars – free and open to everyone. Register online or call our Educational Programs Manager, Tracy Alfino, at (805) 898-8312 Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm.
Braille Institute es una organización con la misión de transformar positivamente la vida de las personas con pérdida de visión. Ofrecemos una series amplia de programas, clases y servicios gratuitos que sirven a miles de estudiantes de todas las edades, lo que ayuda a demostrar que la rehabilitación de la vista es un comienzo, no un final.
Servimos a la comunidad desde siete centros y cientos de ubicaciones de alcance comunitario en todo el sur de California, y dirigimos programas nacionales populares como Desafios en Braille y Busqueda en Baston. Nuestro personal y voluntarios comprenden que perder la vista puede dar miedo, pero creemos que no es el fin de la independencia, sino una nueva forma de vida.
Una variedad de clases, talleres y grupos de apoyo gratuitos están disponibles para ayudarlo a usted o a un ser querido a mantenerse activo, a ser independiente y a disfrutar de las conexiones con los demás.
Regístrese para eventos, talleres y seminarios individuales, gratuitos y abiertos a todos. Regístrese en línea o llame a nuestra Gerente de Programas Educativos, Tracy Alfino, al (805) 898-8312 de lunes a viernes, de 8:30 am a 5:00 pm.
37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival
The 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival kicks off on March 2nd and goes through March 12th.
37th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival
The 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG will be happening LIVE March 2 - March 12, 2022.
CONFIGURATION 2022
CONFIGURATION 2022 at Center Stage Theater
Come see Santa Barbara’s premier youth dance company at the annual sell-out smash, Configuration, presented by Santa Barbara Dance Arts and The Arts Mentorship Program. Perfect for the entire family!
State Street Ballet performs Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty will be performed at The Granada Theatre on Saturday, March 5, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, March 6,at 2:00 pm. Tickets are available at granadasb.org or The Granada box office, 805.899.2222
Family Art Workshop at Ganna Walska Lotusland
Family Art Workshop at Ganna Walska Lotusland
Family Art Workshop at Ganna Walska Lotusland inspired by Vincent Van Gogh
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”
This Friday (2/25/22 at 7:30 pm), Saturday (2/26/22 at 7:30 pm), and Sunday (2/27/22 at 2 pm), the UCSB Departments of Music and Theater/Dance co-present a whimsical staging of the opera “The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall at UC Santa Barbara.
Teen Star Santa Barbara
Teen Star Santa Barbara
Founding and Longest-serving Judge on American Idol is set to Judge Teen Star Competition Sunday, Feb. 27th at the Granada Theater
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson
A pioneer of folk-rock, Richard Thompson is one of Britain’s most astonishing guitarists.
https://www.lobero.org/events/richard-thompson/
AHA! Offers Adult Programs – 6 free sessions
AHA! Offers Adult Programs – 6 free sessions
AHA!, a non-profit agency with a 23-year history in the Santa Barbara area, is offering six FREE sessions of supportive therapy to parents/guardians of teens enrolled in our programs and to educators in the greater Santa Barbara area.
This groundbreaking initiative begins on March 1st, 2022.
To obtain additional information or to apply for the six free sessions, contact AHA! Clinical Liaisons Julian Castillo (juliansean.ahasb@gmail.com) or Ana Leyva (ana.ahasb@gmail.com).
LinkedIn 2.0 Amplify Your Impact
LinkedIn 2.0 Amplify Your Impact
The Santa Barbara chapter of the national organization Association for Women in Communications presents LinkedIn 2.0 Amplify Your Impact at its next meeting, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on March 2.
Miró Quartet – Chamber Music Concert
Miró Quartet – Chamber Music Concert
Formed in 1995, the Austin, Texas-based Miró Quartet, is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, having performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages. They won first prizes at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, and in 2005, became the first ensemble ever to be awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Miró is quartet-in-residence at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR and Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival in Washington State.
They will perform Haydn’s Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 64, No. 3, Caroline Shaw’s Microfictions*, and Antonin Dvořák’s Quartet in G major, Op. 106.
* Caroline Shaw’s work will be performed three times this season. This New York City-based contemporary musician and composer became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2013. She is often cited as proof that classical music has an exciting future.
Chamber Music Concerts at SBMA are supported by the Katharine Putnam and Reginald M. Faletti Concert Fund with additional support from the Curletti Fund.
UCSB Ensemble for Contemporary Music
UCSB Ensemble for Contemporary Music
Under the direction of Dr. Sarah Gibson, the UCSB Ensemble for Contemporary Music (ECM) will present works by new music luminaries, as well as pieces written by UC Santa Barbara Composition students, on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 7:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus.
SBIFF Opening Night: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN
SBIFF Opening Night: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN
Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Opening Night Film is "The Phantom of the Open" on March 2nd at 8:00 p.m.
1st Thursday at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum
1st Thursday at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum
1st Thursday - Join us for wine & music after hours at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.
Beyond Bone Density
Beyond Bone Density
On Thursday March 3, 2022, two distinguished speakers will give a short lecture about caring for our bones and introduce a new technology that was developed right here in Santa Barbara.
Pop-Up Opera
Pop-Up Opera
Opera Santa Barbara is presenting two works inspired by the exhibition, Through Vincent's Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources, in a special Pop-Up Opera: The Starry Night by Jake Heggie with texts from Anne Sexton, Van Gogh, and Emily Dickinson; and Dear Theo by Ben Moore which are based on letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
5:30 – 6:15 pm PT
Museum Galleries
Free
It’s Magic!
It’s Magic!
Lobero LIVE presents Terry Hill and Milt Larsen present It’s Magic! on Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 2 PM & 6:30 PM. America’s longest-running magic revue returns to the Lobero to dazzle audiences with an all-new lineup of top illusionists direct from exotic showrooms around the world and Hollywood’s famous Magic Castle.
COMEDY NIGHT FEATURING CAT ALVARADO! March 5th Event is Part of “Women Making Change” Line-up
COMEDY NIGHT FEATURING CAT ALVARADO! March 5th Event is Part of “Women Making Change” Line-up
Funny, passionate and insightful, Cat Alvarado is a stand-up comedian who jokes about growing up in a conservative, church-going family, getting married and divorced by age 21, and finding her way in life after getting kicked out of church. Cat has over 2 million views on Youtube from the popular Youtube Channel, The Reel Rejects, was featured on Buzzfeed's Tasty channel, and was on the PBS show First Nations Comedy Experience. She hosts the comedy podcast Villains of History @villainsofhistory and has performed in some of the top comedy festivals in the country, including Laughing Skull and Big Pine.
COMEDY NIGHT FEATURING CAT ALVARADO! March 5th Event is Part of “Women Making Change” Line-up
COMEDY NIGHT FEATURING CAT ALVARADO! March 5th Event is Part of “Women Making Change” Line-up
Funny, passionate and insightful, Cat Alvarado is a stand-up comedian who jokes about growing up in a conservative, church-going family, getting married and divorced by age 21, and finding her way in life after getting kicked out of church. Cat has over 2 million views on Youtube from the popular Youtube Channel, The Reel Rejects, was featured on Buzzfeed's Tasty channel, and was on the PBS show First Nations Comedy Experience. She hosts the comedy podcast Villains of History @villainsofhistory and has performed in some of the top comedy festivals in the country, including Laughing Skull and Big Pine.
UCSB Middle East Ensemble
UCSB Middle East Ensemble
Directed by Professor Scott Marcus, the UCSB Middle East Ensemble will present an exciting evening of music and dance reflecting the great diversity of cultures found in the Middle East on Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 7:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus.
“Twelve Years Later, I’m Still a Felter! ”
“Twelve Years Later, I’m Still a Felter! ”
“Twelve Years Later, I’m Still a Felter! ”SB Fiber Arts Guild presentation by Taiana Geifer , on her experiences felting art pieces, wall hangings, scarves, and pieces for the home.
C.A.R.E.4Paws Pet Food Donation Drive-Thru
C.A.R.E.4Paws Pet Food Donation Drive-Thru
C.A.R.E.4Paws is hosting a donation drive-thru Saturday, March 5 at Deckers, 6601 Hollister Avenue in Goleta. Drop off pet food or monetary gifts from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and get a raffle ticket to win prizes!
EVERYBODY DANCE Documentary
EVERYBODY DANCE Documentary
EVERYBODY DANCE Documentary follows 5 kids with differing disabilities on their journey through life and on their way toward their dance recital.