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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.
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!
ABC Boating Course
Need a refresher for the upcoming boating season? Know someone who would benefit from this course? Know someone who is looking to get the California Boaters Card?
The Good Good Show
The Good Good Show is a monthly stand up comedy show featuring some of the best comedians working today!
BRAILLE INSTITUTE FREE ONLINE WORKSHOPS – APRIL 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.
Chicago the Musical! SBHS High School Theatre
Chicago the Musical performed by Santa Barbara High School Theatre! The show opens Friday, April 8, and continues on the 9, 14, and 15 at 7:00 PM and 16 at 2:00 PM. Come see these amazing actors light up the stage as they perform one of the longest-running musicals on Broadway!
Speed Dating Tonight!
Opera Santa Barbara Presents: Speed Dating Tonight!
Music and Lyrics by Michael Ching
Based on A concept by Dean Anthony
April 9th at 7:30pm & April 10th at 2:30pm at Centerstage theater.
Tickets are $35 or You decide (minimum $15) contact the box office for more information.
Speed Dating Tonight!
Opera Santa Barbara Presents: Speed Dating Tonight!
Music and Lyrics by Michael Ching
Based on A concept by Dean Anthony
April 9th at 7:30pm & April 10th at 2:30pm at Centerstage theater.
Tickets are $35 or You decide (minimum $15) contact the box office for more information.
Santa Barbara Black Culture House 2022
Two years since its inception, Santa Barbara’s Black Culture House returns for in-person programs at The Alhecama Theater on April 9, 10, 16, 23, and 24, FREE to the community.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater featuring Robert Battle, Artistic Director and Matthew Rushing, Associate Artistic Director on Wednesday, April 13th and Thursday, April 14th at 8:00 p.m. Pacific at the Granada Theatre.
A Whale of a Tale
See the Undersea World Through the Eyes of a Child
Beginning April 14, 2022
Don’t miss the fun and excitement of whales!
Whales help maintain the stability and health of the ocean and minimize some of the worst impacts of climate change. This April, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is opening Whales Are Superheroes! — a collection of exciting exhibits and programs that explore the many wonders of whales. To kick off the opening of all these events, SBMM has planned an unusual month-long immersive experience, "A Whale of a Tale,” on display from Thursday, April 14 through Sunday, May 15, 2022. And the fun is free with museum admission!
Whales Are Superheroes! Saving the Planet One CO2 Molecule at a Time: Student Art Exhibit
In November and December 2021, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) staff worked with students from Laguna Blanca Middle School, Peabody Charter, Santa Barbara Charter, and Santa Ynez Elementary School to teach them about the importance of whales to the environment and to create whale-inspired artwork to coincide with the museum’s newest exhibit, Whales Are Superheroes! The result of those efforts is on display in SBMM’s new student art exhibit, Whales are Superheroes! Saving the Planet One CO2 Molecule at a Time, opening on April 14, 2022, and on display through July 31, 2022.
The Wonder of Whales: Two Artists’ Perspectives
As part of its multi-faceted celebration of whales this spring and summer, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum announces the April 14 opening of its newest art exhibit, The Wonder of Whales: Two Artists’ Perspectives, which features whale paintings by two local artists, John Baran and Kelly Clause. Thanks to the generous support of Chevron, Dreier Family, Emmett Foundation, Mimi Michaelis, Hank and Mari Mitchel, June G. Outhwaite Foundation, and Wood-Claeyssens Foundation, the exhibit will be open to the public from April 14-July 31, 2022. Although their subjects are often similar, each artist brings his or her unique perspective, technique, style, and medium to the work in this exhibit.
6 Weeks to Better Blood Sugar Online Class
A 6-week online class to learn how to eat what you love in a way that makes you feel energized & strong without nagging symptoms like shakiness, irritability, anxiety, sleeplessness and more. Learn to balance your blood sugar with food, reduce your risk of chronic disease and feel better than you have in a long time!
Pavel Šporcl, Violinist
Pavel Šporcl, Violinist
Chamber On The Mountain Presents Czech Violin Superstar, Pavel Šporcl, for a Solo Violin Performance!
Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 3 pm
Logan House (at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai, CA)
8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd.
Ojai, CA 93023
Tel: (805) 646-3381
Tickets $30.00 at ChamberOnTheMountain.com
Program
The program is based around Pavel Šporcl's latest album, Paganiniana:
Recitativo and Scherzo - Caprice, Op. 6 – Fritz Kreisler
Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
A Paganini – Alfred Schnittke
Where Is My Home – Pavel Šporcl
Paganiniana (Variations) – Nathan Milstein
Audience members are invited to stay and meet the Artist at a lovely reception that will take place outside on our patio immediately following the performance. Enjoy a glass of wine and take in a spectacular view of Topa Topa Mountain!
PFLAG April Meeting
PFLAG April Meeting
A Boy, a Girl, a Gender Revolutionary: iO Tillett Wright - More Stories of Being Non-Binary
PFLAG Santa Barbara April Meeting
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Monday Practi-longa Once in a New Moon Aries Edition
Monday Practi-longa Once in a New Moon Aries Edition
Santa Barbara Tango Presents:
Monday Practi-longa Once in a New Moon Aries Edition
Tango Class and Milonga!
Featuring: Marlon Ruckle
Ecological Landscape Design 1
Ecological Landscape Design 1
New class! Come learn how ecological landscape design can positively transform daily living and the environment. In this 4-session short course, learn how to apply ecological and environmental principles to design sustainable landscapes. This course covers an introduction to the design method and process along with the basic hands-on ecological landscaping tools necessary to build and maintain a regenerative landscape. Ecological Landscape Design 2 is offered April 26 - May 5. Students who successfully complete both courses receive an entry level ecological landscape certificate granted by the State of California.
Course number: EHV NC010 (CRN 68287)
Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays, April 12 - April 21
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:50 PM
Format: In-person
Location: Wake 26
Class cost: Free
Contact: Register online at https://www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning. For assistance with registration, call (805) 683-8205.
World Premiere of Everything Rises Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines
World Premiere of Everything Rises Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the world premiere of Everything Rises, a commission featuring Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines, Tuesday, April 12th at 8:00 p.m. Pacific at Campbell Hall.
Aoife O’Donovan
Aoife O’Donovan
GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Aoife O’Donovan operates in a thrilling musical world beyond genre. Deemed “a vocalist of unerring instinct” by the New York Times, she has released two critically-acclaimed and boundary-blurring solo albums including In the Magic Hour, which Rolling Stone hailed for its “Impressionistic, atmospheric songs relay their narratives against gorgeous pastoral backdrops.” O’Donovan spent the Winter and Spring of 2021 in the studio with acclaimed producer Joe Henry (Bonnie Raitt, Rhiannon Giddens) recording Age of Apathy, her third full-length solo album, out January 21, 2022.
World Premiere of its commission Everything Rises, an original work by Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines
World Premiere of its commission Everything Rises, an original work by Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the world premiere of Everything Rises, a new work commissioned by A&L and created by Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines, Tuesday, April 12th at 8:00 p.m. Pacific at Campbell Hall.
Aoife O’Donovan with Taylor Ashton
Aoife O’Donovan with Taylor Ashton
Lobero LIVE presents Aoife O'Donovan with Taylor Ashton, Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 8 PM.
Workshop: Keeping Our Kids Safe
Workshop: Keeping Our Kids Safe
Learn about the reality of human trafficking in Santa Barbara County, local survivor stories, myths & realities about trafficking, how to recognize the warning signs and respond. Spanish interpretation is provided. FREE Virtual Webinar.
Death Cafe Santa Barbara
Death Cafe Santa Barbara
Hello friends! We are able to go back to the Adobe in person with a few guidelines: Please don't come if you've been exposed to Covid or have symptoms or have tested positive Masks must be worn at all times indoors We can sit outdoors without masks and will keep some distance between each other
Earl Warren Showgrounds Community Forum
Earl Warren Showgrounds Community Forum
Earl Warren Showgrounds is pleased to announce its first Community Engagement Forum, which will be a regularly scheduled public meeting to discuss the community’s hopes and vision for the future of the showgrounds, and to provide updates and answer questions.
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Applying to Medical School Info & Q+A Event
Applying to Medical School Info & Q+A Event
Pre-med students, those who are preparing for the MCAT, and high school students interested in healthcare are welcome to attend. Dr. Jason Prystowsky will be presenting “Taking the first steps to a a career and healthcare and applying to medical school”.
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Land Trust Treks: Cold Spring Trail Loop
Land Trust Treks: Cold Spring Trail Loop
Join the Land Trust for a hike at the Cold Spring Trail Loop! This Trek is for folks that enjoy hiking at a relaxed pace with a good challenge. Hikers will stop occasionally to take in the breathtaking scenery along with water and snack breaks.
NCEAS Spring 2022 Seminar Series Significant Heterogeneities: Embracing Variability and Openness in Ecology by Christie Bahlai, Ph.D.
NCEAS Spring 2022 Seminar Series Significant Heterogeneities: Embracing Variability and Openness in Ecology by Christie Bahlai, Ph.D.
Join us for an NCEAS seminar series motivated by conversations about how we can foster diversity and inclusion within our scientific community, while also designing research questions and approaches to promote environmental justice and equity across our broader community.
How Quantum Mechanics Affects Our Lives: A Panel Discussion
How Quantum Mechanics Affects Our Lives: A Panel Discussion
Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom."
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Webinar: Learn More about Santa Barbara County’s Promotores Network
Webinar: Learn More about Santa Barbara County’s Promotores Network
Join the Women's Fund of Santa Barbara on Thursday, April 14 at 5:00 PM for a free LIVE Zoom broadcast featuring the Santa Barbara County Promotores Network. Hear directly from the Promotores about their work throughout the county and its impact in their communities.
Parallel Stories – Shadow Art: Influences and Inspirations with Sameer Pandya and Andrew Winer (in Person)
Parallel Stories – Shadow Art: Influences and Inspirations with Sameer Pandya and Andrew Winer (in Person)
The exhibition Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources reconnects this iconic artist to his 19th-century context and invites us to consider the artists, musicians, and writers he admired. In a 21st-century riff on the “non- anxiety of influence,” writers Sameer Pandya and Andrew Winer play a similar connection game with artists of our time and explore the passions that emerge when creators fall under the influence of art forms other than the one they practice.
This talk is the first in a series of three related Parallel Stories exploring connections between art forms, allowing us to see those influences at work in the process of composition, the performance of music, and the poetry of narrative from the 19th century to the present day.
Spanish Speaking PFLAG Meeting
Spanish Speaking PFLAG Meeting
Spanish Speaking PFLAG Meeting - Join Us for Conversations with LGBTQ+ Families
The Long Run – Experience the Eagles
The Long Run – Experience the Eagles
Rockitboy Entertainment of America and James Elliott Entertainment present The Long Run – Experience the Eagles on Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 7:30 PM.
TLR: Eagles
TLR: Eagles
Since their debut in 2000 THE LONG RUN – Experience The Eagles has earned its place among the top-drawing tribute acts in North America and is widely regarded as the finest Eagles tribute show working today. Hand-picked to perform the music of The Eagles by Mark Cuban & Ryan Seacrest’s network AXS-TV, their 90-minute live concert for the hit TV show “The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands” was broadcast to millions of viewers over five countries. The show received the highest ratings in the series’ history resulting in an unprecedented 2 invitations to return in subsequent seasons for encore appearances.
Whales Are Superheroes! New Exhibit Opening
Whales Are Superheroes! New Exhibit Opening
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM)’s newest permanent exhibit, opening to the public on Thursday, April 14, 2022, shows visitors how whales help maintain the stability and health of the ocean and help minimize the impact of climate change. The Whales Are Superheroes! exhibit focuses on whale diversity in the Santa Barbara Channel, climate connections and the role whales play in climate change. Taking its aesthetic inspiration from comics and graphic novels, the exhibit incorporates text panels and drone footage to illustrate how whales are helping to save the environment. Whales Are Superheroes! is also part of a countywide alliance of museums, the Santa Barbara Zoo, and the Botanic Gardens to present programming addressing climate change (https://www.sbmuseumsalliance.org/).
Transition House Auxiliary Mad Hatter Luncheon Rosewood Miramar Montecito
Transition House Auxiliary Mad Hatter Luncheon Rosewood Miramar Montecito
"Roaring 20s Revisited" is the theme of the 23rd annual Mad Hatter Luncheon to take place at the Rosewood Miramar. Enjoy a silent auction, a delicious lunch, and our signature hat contest as well as surprise musical entertainment.
Untangling Entanglement & Other Quantum Ideas
Untangling Entanglement & Other Quantum Ideas
Drop by the UCSB Library on World Quantum Day and participate in fun interactive games and activities designed to build your quantum intuition.
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You Are Invited – Memorial of Jesus Death
You Are Invited – Memorial of Jesus Death
Join us to commemorate the death of Jesus Christ. - (Luke 22:19)
Monthly Public Telescope Night at Westmont
Monthly Public Telescope Night at Westmont
Monthly Public Telescope Night at the Westmont College Observatory
Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham
The Lobero Theatre Ghostlight Society presents Lindsey Buckingham Friday, April 15, 2022 at 8 PM.
Personalized Career Planning
Personalized Career Planning
Set yourself up for success with Personalized Career Planning. This 2-part short course focuses on the assessment of individuals strengths, interests, values, personality and abilities in the context of career and education planning. Improve your decision-making skills by exploring your own decision-making styles and applying specific decision-making models to the career planning process.
Course number: PDW NC001 (CRN 66877)
Date: Saturdays, April 16 and April 23
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Format: In-Person
Location: Wake 28
Class cost: Free
Contact: Register online at https://www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning. For assistance with registration, call (805) 683-8205.
Trinity Gardens Community Egg Hunt
Trinity Gardens Community Egg Hunt
Please join us for a fun egg hunt at our community garden on Saturday April 16th. The hunt will start at 9:30am SHARP, so please be there a few minutes early. Kids 12 and under please and bring your own basket!
We will also have plant sale going on just in case you are in need of veggies or fruits for your summer garden!
If you have any questions, please email Katie.szopa@gmail.com