VOICE Magazine: January 27, 2023

HE BEAT...

The Energy... The Artistry...The Power...The Fun! All of these elements contribute to the appeal of three events set to take the stage in UCSB Arts & Lectures presentations in early February.

With plenty for adults, they're also just right for families... grabbing attention and

holding it until the end. You might find yourself leaning forward on the edge of your seat as you take them in.

Cirque FLIP Fabrique

Revving up imaginations and excitement, Cirque FLIP Fabrique will perform Muse on Sunday, February 5th at 7pm at The Granada Theatre. Canada’s visually stunning cirque troupe, FLIP Fabrique explores what it means to be your true self. Challenging gender roles, Muse offers up a refreshing view of

contemporary circus. Get ready to see powerful women, graceful men, and every permutation in between accomplish deathdefying acts and celebrate all that inspires them to go beyond what they ever thought was possible. Set to an original score by beatmaker Millimetrik and featuring live onstage vocals, this performance combines breathtaking artistry and athleticism.

Tickets are $31 - $61: General Public / $20: UCSB Students and Youth (Current student ID required) (includes facility fee)

Kodo Tsuzumi: One Earth Tour

Breathtaking in scope, Kodo will look back over its impressive 40-year history and forward to the next chapter in this new production Tsuzumi: One Earth Tour at The Granada Theatre on Friday, February 10th at 8pm. Rigorously trained on the rugged, windswept island of Sado in the Sea of Japan, the soul-stirring taiko drummers bring a youthful joy to their unstoppably energetic, intricately designed, and meticulously choreographed displays. The program features signature pieces O-daiko, Yatai-bayashi, Zoku, and the popular Monochrome by the late composer Maki Ishii, and new compositions by the next generation of taiko creators.

Tickets are: $46 - $71 General Public / $20 UCSB Student (Current student ID required)

Step Afrika!

The first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping, Step Afrika!, founded in 1994 by C. Brian Williams, will perform at UCSB Campbell Hall on Thursday, February 16th at 7pm. Blending percussive

By Kerry Methner / VOICE

Photo by Stephane Bourgeois

Cirque FLIP Fabrique will perform February 5th at The Granada Theatre at 8pm

Photo by Stephane Bourgeois

Kodo

Granada Theatre at 8pm

to Welcome Ten Oscar-Nominees

Attending

Stars Include Cate Blanchett, Brendan Fraser, Austin Butler, and More

THE ARLINGTON MARQUEE WILL

ALIGHT with Hollywood’s best and brightest stars when the Santa Barbara International Film Festival welcomes ten of this year’s Academy Award nominated actors to discuss their careers and 2022 performances.

With more festival honorees and attendees still to be announced, including the Outstanding Directors of the Year Award, Tuesday’s Oscar buzz has only heightened community members’ excitement for SBIFF’s 38th year.

Four of the five Actress in a Supporting Role nominees will be in attendance, beginning with Angela Bassett. Nominated for her regal performance as Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bassett will receive the Montecito Award on February 9th. Jamie Lee Curtis, who wowed audiences with her multifaceted frumpy character in Everything Everywhere All at Once, will discuss this nominated role and her career when she accepts SBIFF’s Maltin Modern Master Award on February 11th. Her Everything Everywhere All at Once costar, Stephanie Hsu, will join Kerry Condon of comedy-drama The Banshees of Inisherin for the Virtuosos Award on February 15th.

The incomparable Cate Blanchett, nominated for Actress in a Leading Role, will be honored with SBIFF’s Outstanding Performer of the Year award on February 10th. Blanchett, who has starred in blockbuster films such as Thor: Ragnarok as well as dramas such as Nightmare Alley, demonstrated her full range with a showstopping performance in Tár, following the

downfall of a classical composer.

Actor in a Leading Role nominees include Brendan Fraser, who has triumphantly returned to the silver screen with his emotional performance in The Whale. Fraser will discuss his career from The Mummy franchise to The Whale when he accepts the American Riviera Award on February 14th. The next night, Austin Butler, who is nominated for embodying “The King” in director Baz Luhrmann’s glamorous musical biopic Elvis, will be included among Virtuosos Awardees. Colin Farrell, who is nominated for his portrayal of a well-intentioned but oblivious friend in The Banshees of Inisherin will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award on February 16th.

Farrell’s co-star, Brendan Gleeson, has also earned an Oscar nod with his Actor in a Supporting Role nomination for playing a gruff, uncompromising Irish man in The Banshees of Inisherin. He will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award with Farrell. The festival’s Virtuosos Award will also welcome actor Ke Huy Quan, who has been nominated for Actor in a Supporting Role for his wistful and caring performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Beyond SBIFF actor tributes, local elementary school students will have the rare opportunity to speak with Academy Awardnominated director Guillermo del Toro, who will be screening his animated Pinocchio as a part of SBIFF’s Mike’s Field Trip to the Movies educational program.

For tickets to SBIFF events visit www.sbiff.org

Ovation Series

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Austin Butler in Elvis

Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Photo courtesy of Everett Collection

Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios

JOHN C. MITHUN FOUNDATION

By Daisy Scott / VOICE

THE VOICES, IMAGINATION, AND ARTISTIC VISION of the rising generation of filmmakers will be on full display once again when the 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival screens the student-produced films of its 10-10-10 Screenwriting and Filmmaking Mentorship and Competition.

Unique for its equal emphasis on supporting individual creativity while offering technical instruction, the 10-10-10 program offers twenty local high school and college students the rare opportunity to write, direct, and ultimately debut their original short films at the Arlington Theatre. Community members will be able to view this year’s 10-10-10 films during a special screening event from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday, February 18th.

“Education is at the heart of everything

SBIFF does and the 10-10-10 program is a fantastic example of how we want to educate and inspire future writers and directors,” said SBIFF Education Manager Claire Waterhouse. “1010-10 is special because it spans the entire range of filmmaking from the pitching of a story idea all the way to post-production, all while under the guidance of an incredible array of industry professionals ranging from writing and directing mentors to producing, casting, cinematography, visual effects, and sound professionals.”

A five months-long program, 10-10-10 actively supports young filmmakers by taking twenty Santa Barbara County students — ten high school and ten college — to produce ten films. Students apply to participate either as a screenwriter or a director, with writers partnering with directors to create their own films.

The result is a series of topical, original films that reflect issues at the forefront of young people’s minds. The majority of this year’s films discuss climate change and environmentalism, including many stories set in dystopian and post-apocalyptic worlds. Other films review themes such as consumerism, self-reflection, friendship, activism, love, and more.

“We've been so impressed by the writers and directors in this year's 10-10-10 class,” said Waterhouse. “They have been incredibly creative and hardworking, and it's been a pleasure for us to watch their stories come to life.”

Students’ creative goals are realized with the mentorship of film industry professionals, who provide guidance and key insights into the filmmaking business through both one-on-one meetings and larger group workshops.

2023 marked the first year that 10-10-10 alumni have returned in the role of industry mentors, providing aspiring filmmakers the same support they once received as students.

“The 10-10-10 program is inspiring and valuable for future writers and filmmakers because it gives them a confidence in their voice and in the stories they want to tell,” shared Waterhouse. “We are so fortunate to have such incredible film industry mentors who support our students throughout this process and give them the encouragement to pursue their dreams as well as the guidance and expertise on how to tell their stories.” 10-10-10 screenwriters include: Olivia Miller (San Marcos HS), Siena Kelly (Santa Barbara HS), Leyla Bultan (Dos Pueblos HS), Sofia Parisotto (Bishop Garcia Diego HS), Sarah Conviser (San Marcos HS), Shane Rockenstein Carlson (UCSB), Zhen Smalls (SBCC), Caleb Cavazos (UCSB), Alexander ‘Zane’ Stull (SBCC), and Joseph Buzzella (UCSB).

The 2023 filmmakers: Siena Kelly (Santa Barbara HS), Maddox Henry (Oak Park Independent School), Malcolm Tircuit (Santa Barbara HS), Sheena Rock (Santa Barbara HS), Bodhi Etz (Santa Barbara HS), Lauren Bartling (SBCC), Joseph Buzzella (UCSB), Nicholas Vinan (SBCC), Asiana Weddington (SBCC), and Alejandro Flores (UCSB). Visit www.sbiff.org

Photos courtesy of SBIFF

Attack of the Macro-Plastic Monster, written by Shane Rockenstein Carlson and directed by Alejandro Flores SANTA

Sylvia Khoury

My Hero, written and directed by Siena Kelly

Hindsight, written by Alexander ‘Zane’ Stull and directed by Asiana Weddington

By Shelly Leachman / The UC Santa Barbara Current

IN A KEY, EARLY SCENE in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Queen Ramonda takes the floor of the United Nations to assert her country’s resilience and strength despite the death of King T’Challa, and to defend their refusal to share vibranium, a rare and powerful metal, with the rest of the world.

Overseeing the proceedings with a careful — and somehow familiar — gaze is a distinguished gentleman known on screen as, simply, Assembly Chairperson. Off screen and around UC Santa Barbara, that gentleman is known as Gerardo.

That’s Gerardo Aldana, a professor of Chicana/o Studies, who came into the small role by way of a huge one: serving as a consultant on the film, which vibrantly depicts Mayan and Mesoamerican culture. Of which Aldana is a leading expert.

Aldana speaks about his research, and his experience working on the project, in an interview with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates for the new podcast (https://www.marvel.com/watch/digital-series/wakandaforever-the-official-black-panther-podcast) Wakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther Podcast, which debuted Wednesday, Jan. 18th.

“I have no idea how they found me,” Aldana recalled, laughing, of the email he received “completely out of the blue” in 2020, asking if he’d be interested in consulting on Maya culture for a movie. Initially nervous and non-committal — that first outreach was scant on details — his worries evaporated quickly.

For two years, from pre-production to premier (and undercover — he signed a nondisclosure agreement when he took the gig), Aldana worked with director Ryan Coogler and his team. Bringing his knowledge of Mesoamerican culture, he helped to refine the script, consulted on character development and informed wardrobe and set design for the filmmakers’ reimagining of Atlantis as Talokan, an underwater civilization descended from ancient Maya.

“They had already set the standard with Wakanda, drawing from African culture and creating something people could grab on to and be emotionally invested in,” Aldana said. “With this new version of Atlantis, Ryan told me he wanted to explore themes that are culturally specific with Indigenous communities — migration, having to uproot, those are huge.”

“So it was, ‘Tell me about Mesoamerican religions, tell me about Mesoamerican culture’ — just a massive dump of information at first,” he recounted. “Then we got more strategic: ‘We have this idea – how would it translate into a Mesoamerican space?’ They were very much about deep diving into it and making sure everything makes sense.”

Coogler’s commitment to representing indigeneity — and his dedication to doing so accurately — extended to the film’s producers, art directors, designers, props, and wardrobe teams, Aldana said. He met with most of them at some point.

“So much of it was sharing content, which was a rich experience,” he said. “But so much also was how they’re selecting the content and figuring out how to translate it for film, moving academic stuff into a completely different medium. It felt like an incredible collaboration that I have not had in the academy. It was creative, generative, amazing.”

Aldana gets major props himself from Coogler, who spoke of the scholar’s impact in press materials for the film.

“We were, thankfully, introduced to Dr. Gerardo Aldana, who’s a professor of history and this is his field,” Coogler states. “He was an incredible guide for us in terms of turning us onto any kind of knowledge or literature that would be helpful, and in helping to supervise all of our prep phase in terms of the costumes and the production on design and the language. I think there’s seven languages spoken in the film, Yucatec Mayan being a major one. He’s somebody who has both worked with modern Mayan communities and reads and writes glyphs.

“All these things work themselves into the film, and the more we got into it, the more we realized it was meant to be,” continues the director. “These cultures were very closely related and also different in ways that are really cool. I’m forever indebted to Dr. Aldana and the performers of Mayan origin who we worked with. We wanted to recognize that there are so many Mayan communities in Mexico, Central America, and here in the U.S., even though they are often times misrepresented as a people that don’t exist anymore.”

As an academic, Aldana said, seeing his research translated to the silver screen — accurately, and in a massive Marvel blockbuster, no less — was deeply gratifying.

“In being accurate, everything in the film is a portal to learn more about ancient Maya culture, and I couldn’t be more grateful that is the approach they ended up taking,” he said. “This is a way to inspire new curiosity. There seems to be this movement on social media where folks are saying they’re so moved by the representation of Indigenous and Maya people and the language and the artwork. That’s powerful. This film is saying ‘look at the artistry, the science, the possibilities, the robustness of this culture.’”

Several months into the collaboration, which until then had been facilitated by Zoom, Aldana got some analog facetime with not only Coogler and crew, but with Queen Ramonda herself, when he was invited to film a scene with Angela Bassett.

“When they said, ‘Hey, we want to invite you to have a small on-screen appearance,’ I thought, ‘Oh my god, this is insane,’” he

recalled. “But at the same time there is no way I could say no. They flew me to Atlanta, to Tyler Perry Studios, and it was during COVID, so there were lots of protocols. To be on set with Angela Bassett, she is such a powerful presence. I mean, she is an actual queen. The experience was fantastic.”

Now about that premier.

This being Wakanda, it was a purple carpet rather than red, and yes, Aldana attended. His plus-one was his daughter, Seri, beside whom he binged every Marvel movie during the pandemic without ever revealing just why he was so keen to view the entire canon.

“I signed that NDA so I never told anyone anything about this, the entire time,” Aldana said. “The first she knew about it was when I took her to the premier in Hollywood, which was so much fun.”

With Hollywood’s award season in full swing and Wakanda Forever stockpiling industry accolades — Bassett just won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Queen Ramonda — it begs the question: If Oscar comes calling, could Aldana attend the ceremony? Would he?

“This is already way more than I could possibly have expected,” he demurred. “I mean, I still don’t even know how they found me. I’m just very grateful to have been a part of it. This is a special film.”

Sunday, January 29 11am – 4pm | FREE Rain or Shine

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Sunday, January 29

SB Community Arts Workshop (SBCAW) 631 Garden St. Santa Barbara

11am – 4pm | FREE Rain or Shine

Sunday, January 29 11am – 4pm | FREE Rain or Shine

Local Food Hero Award for 2023: Larry Kandarian, Kandarian Organic Farms

SB Community Arts Workshop (SBCAW) 631 Garden St. Santa Barbara

A Celebration to Bring Seeds & People Together

15TH ANNUAL · 2023 SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY SEED SWAP

SB Community Arts Workshop (SBCAW) 631 Garden St. Santa Barbara

A community event sponsored by

Local Food Hero Award for 2023: Larry Kandarian, Kandarian Organic Farms

Local Food Hero Award for 2023: Larry Kandarian, Kandarian Organic Farms

SB Annual Community Seed Swap

A community event sponsored by

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the seed saving movement! Special speakers, exhibitors, children activities, free seeds & live music.

A Celebration to Bring Seeds & People Together

Seed saving is a fun and easy way to connect to the circle of life!

Come share seeds and knowledge with other backyard gardeners, plant lovers, beekeepers, farmers and more. Be a part of the seed saving movement! Special speakers, exhibitors, children activities, free seeds & live music.

SB Annual Community Seed Swap

On Facebook 805-962-2571 www.sbpermaculture.org

Courtesy Photo

Historian Gerardo Aldana, an expert in Mesoamerican civilizations, consults on Wakanda Forever, propelling his research into the MCU — and ending up on screen.

Dr. Gerardo Aldana at the world premier of Wakanda Forever. Among other things, he consulted on King Namor’s headdress and spear, pictured in the poster.

PERCHED ON THE SANTA BARBARA COASTLINE, welcome to this enchanting 1949 single story Spanish adobe, adorned with the Pacific Ocean as its backyard. Highly sought after unobstructed ocean frontage (100 +/- feet) and island views make this bluff-top home dazzle. Situated on 1.46 +/- acres the three bedroom, two bath home features a chef’s kitchen, laundry room, two car garage with additional ample parking, and French doors throughout; leading to sprawling grounds and ocean vistas. The natural light warms this south-facing home, immersing the vaulted ceilings. Accommodations in the detached guest quarters equipped with a full bathroom provide separate space for hosting family and guests. Finish the day with a breathtaking sunset and the fresh air of the sea breeze from your own backyard. If preferred, take the shared private path directly to the beach and watch the sun disappear. Welcome to California Coastal living at its finest. Offered at $10,995,000

Maureen McDermut

CALLING ALL GREEN THUMBS! Learn how to grow a plant from seed to harvest and meet neighborhood growers when the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network (SBPN) hosts its free, 15th annual Seed Swap on Saturday, Janaury 29th. Gardeners of all levels are welcome to discover how to grow their own food, the power of seeds, and help ensure that their community has access to fresh, high-quality produce for years to come.

“The magic of seeds, they are our past, they are our future,” said Margie Bushman, SBPN co-founder. “Like a small computer chip, they are tiny, but they contain vast amounts of information, the blueprint for life.”

Scheduled from 11am to 4pm at the SB Community Arts Workshop at 631 Garden St., the SBPN Seed Swap will feature exhibits, speakers, beekeepers, live music, activities for children, and more. Visitors will also receive free seeds so they can start their own gardens and return in 2024 to swap the seeds they’ve grown over the year.

For individuals wanting to grow produce that will be delicious season after season, seeds available in stores might not be their best option. SBPN’s Seed Swap will focus on heirloom seeds, which are plants from seed varieties that are from a documented lineage that is at least 50 years old. Heirloom seeds also are capable of producing year after year with the same results. Seeds that can be found in stores are most often hybrid or GMO variety seeds, which cannot guarantee consistent quality if gardeners decide to replant them.

“Seed saving is the most permaculture

thing you can do, and an antidote to GMO’s and commercially produced seeds, [that is] do-able in our own backyards,” said Bushman.

In a place like Santa Barbara, where each neighborhood has its own microclimate, plants are always evolving and adapting to their surroundings, encoding this information into their seeds. A plant that was grown in the cool, cloudy Mesa area wouldn’t be as adapted to the warm, dry San Roque neighborhood. Like humans, plants also pass along specific traits to their offspring, and seed swapping ensures that the seeds you use have a successful history of producing fruits and vegetables.

“Seed swapping is about engaging your community, sharing seeds with friends, neighbors and exchanging knowledge & ideas,” shared Bushman

Food is a gift from the land around us, and saving and protecting the plants that community members eat is a remarkable way to honor that relationship. It’s also a great way to meet more experienced growers and gain tips and information to realize gardening success.

To learn more visit www.sbpermaculture.org

Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This course is about the violent intersection of science and culture. Students will study the science behind nuclear weapons with an exploration of the lasting impact nuclear testing has had in numerous countries around the world, especially the Marshall Islands. For more information on class, cost and applications, visit wagingpeace.org. Application due: February 20, 2023; Decisions announced: March 15, 2023.

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Local community members having fun in the sun at a Seed Swap event.

Hammett’s Masterpiece: The Maltese Falcon

Hammett’s Granddaughter to Host Special SBMA Event

By Daisy Scott / VOICE

IT’S THE “STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF” — a fast-talking detective, a savvy femme fatale, calculative gangsters, and a treasure that eludes even those who murder for it. For over 90 years, Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon has served as a gold standard of American crime detective stories.

Now, locals will celebrate this novel and director John Huston’s film adaptation when the Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents From Page to Silver Screen: The Maltese Falcon at 1:30pm on Saturday, January 28th.

Leading the event will be Hammett’s granddaughter, Julie M. Rivett, who will discuss her grandfather, the film, and her favorite Hammett novel.

“I would say The Falcon is my favorite, and part of that is because I see so much of my grandfather in it,” Rivett told VOICE

A self-proclaimed “Hammett scholar,” Rivett has researched her grandfather’s work for over 20 years. Meeting Hammett only once when she was

three years old, Rivett grew up viewing him as a mysterious figure residing in the shadows of her family’s history.

This fascination developed into steadfast appreciation, motivating her to maintain Hammett’s legacy and help readers understand the man behind The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon, and other classics.

“It’s an honor and a responsibility and something that honestly has become very close to my heart,” shared Rivett.

Beyond his novels, most Hammett fans know two details about his life: that he was an operative for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and that he was blacklisted during McCarthyism.

Rivettt voiced that while her grandfather held communist and socialist beliefs, his interests in philosophy predated political involvement. She explained that Hammett was reading Kant by the age of 14, and enjoyed keeping up with current philosophers. This passion influenced his writing, contributing to The Maltese Falcon’s depth.

Fed’s Inflation Target Too Low

By Harlan Green, Special to VOICE, 1.17.23

WHY IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE ENFORCING A TWO PERCENT INFLATION RATE TARGET? Such a monetary policy has meant Fed Governors have endangered economic growth by holding to a target rate that I believe is too low.

Whatever the basis for their fears of inflation—whether it be that so-called inflation expectations are too high, or product costs (such as worker’s wages) rise too fast, the result of their credit-tightening measures has been that household incomes have been kept lower than inflation historically, increasing income and wealth inequality.

It has thus denied workers earning hourly wages as shown in the above FRED graph the chance to ever catch up to historical inflation and better their financial well-being.

maximum employment.

Why? It seems two percent is a common target throughout advanced economies, rather than based on empirical studies that verified that it, in fact, maintained stable inflation and maximum employment—the Fed’s twin mandates.

Economists will tell you the two percent figure is based on their belief that the measured inflation rate overshoots actual inflation by something like two percent, which means they were really trying to get back to zero inflation! If so, that sounds like a great way to tempt actual deflation and a serious recession.

Economic VOICE

But shouldn’t the prime goal of a well-functioning Democracy be to decrease income inequality? Especially when there are so many American voters— especially high-school educated wage earners— questioning whether American-style democracy is serving their needs.

By Harlan Green

This is what happened in the Great Recession that lasted from 2007-09. The Fed had jacked up their fed funds overnight rate charged to banks to five percent. It was when Fed Chair Alan Greenspan killed the housing market by the Chinese drip torture method, raising the fed funds rate by one-quarter percent 16 consecutive times, thus busting the housing bubble and causing the Great Recession (after Greenspan suggested that an adjustable-rate mortgage might be desirable in such times).

“He did have ambitions for this novel as literature, not just a detective story, and he said so to his publishers when he was starting work on the novel,” explained Rivett.

The Maltese Falcon follows private detective Sam Spade as he is hired by Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a woman searching for a priceless falcon statuette. However, she is not the only one searching, and Spade finds himself in a deadly treasure hunt.

Throughout the novel, readers remain unsure what Spade or other characters are thinking. Dialogue is riddled with lies and misleading details. Accordingly, Rivett encourages readers to “watch the body language” to discover truths. She added that Spade’s refusal to conform to a conventional moral code heightens the book’s existentialism.

“There are those who will make the, I think, valid claim that The Maltese Falcon is the first American existentialist novel,” said Rivett. “Sam

revive their housing market. This meant that a mortgage lender had to literally subsidize the mortgage borrower to induce them to take out a mortgage loan.

Household incomes suffered even more during this time. Average hourly wages didn’t begin to increase until 2015 and inflation return to its longer-term two percent range in 2017 when new Fed Chair Ben Bernanke began the Fed’s policy of buying treasury and mortgage securities to inject liquidity back into the markets to stimulate growth. (He was nicknamed ‘helicopter Ben’ for the huge boost it gave to the money supply).

This is but one example of what happened when the Fed clamped down too hard on inflation. It has been the Fed’s bias since the 1970s that resulted in keeping household income from ever catching up to inflation.

Progressive labor economist Jared Bernstein opined on this matter in the Washington Post shortly after Bernanke announced the Fed’s decision.

“The fact is that the target is two percent because

Spade is very much a pragmatist, he’s a smart guy, and he understands human nature. I think that was perhaps my grandfather’s goal: to examine and expose and talk about human nature, but do it in a way that was readable and fun.”

This quality shines through the 1941 film, as Huston worked to subvert Hays Code restrictions; trying to maintain the book’s essence despite being allowed to only hint at Spade and O’Shaughnessy’s physical relationship and co-star Peter Lorre’s character’s sexuality.

With Saturday’s event, Rivett hopes to enhance locals’ reading and viewing experiences.

“I want people to understand my grandfather and his work a little better, to broaden and deepen what they look for in his work,” said Rivett. “I want them to see him perhaps a little bit the way I see him.”

For tickets ($10-15) visit www.sbma.net

Former Chairman Ben Bernanke said in 2012 keeping a two percent cap enabled the Federal Reserve to better balance its twin mandates to maintain stable prices with

Greenspan’s Federal Reserve busted the housing bubble and inflation for sure. CPI inflation dropped to zero percent by 2015, and EU countries such as Denmark had to offer negative interest rates on home mortgages to

the target is two percent. Were the target three percent or four percent, you’d be reasonably asking me, why three or four? To the extent that there’s an anti-inflation bias among economic elites (and thus an anti-full-employment bias), and I think that’s often the case, I’d reiterate arguments I made here…that the debates over full employment and Federal Reserve policy are generally dominated by the interests of the minority who worry more about inflation and asset values than those who worry about jobs and paychecks.”

It has in fact become a tool to suppress the incomes of average households and worsen income inequality; just as hourly wages are accelerating. But will that change their minds?

Harlan Green © 2022 Follow Harlan Green on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HarlanGreen Harlan Green has been the 16-year Editor-Publisher of PopularEconomics.com, a weekly syndicated financial wire service. He writes a Popular Economics Weekly Blog. He is an economic forecaster and teacher of real estate finance with 30-years experience as a banker and mortgage broker. To reach Harlan call (805)452-7696 or email editor@populareconomics.com.

Photos courtesy of Julie M. Rivett

Julie M. Rivett, Hammett’s granddaughter

Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart in Director John Huston’s 1941 film version of The Maltese Falcon

Santa Barbara Symphony

Civilization and Its Challenges

– Sigmund Freud meets Miguel del Águila et al . . .

Review by Daniel Kepl / VOICE

AMUSICAL

JOURNEY ACROSS

THE GREAT AMERICAN PLAINS by train was the imagery for an unusually beautiful reflection on the excitement and challenges of immigrant experience portrayed by the Santa Barbara Symphony, under the guidance of Maestro Nir Kabaretti, for their 2023 season opener at the Granada Theatre.

Music of Elmer Bernstein (Toccata for Toy Trains Concert Suite), Miguel del Águila (Concerto for Violin: El Viaje de una Vida-The Journey of a Lifetime) and Antonin Dvořák (Symphony No. 9, From the New World) neatly tagged the source of the immigrant surge (improved transportation),

the finality of leaving one’s homeland never to return, and the bittersweet lessons, psychological and otherwise, telegraphed poignantly to the old world, from the new.

Opening the program, Elmer Bernstein’s charming wind and percussion chamber music score (eight players) for a short 1957 stop action animation film by Charles and Ray Eames, Toccata for Toy Trains, freshened up a bit with a new arrangement by Elmer’s son, Peter. About 17 minutes in length, the concert suite is pure neoclassicism – think Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. For all its innocent charm, the score is also tricky for its subtle bravura. Kudos in particular to Santa Barbara Symphony principal trumpet Jon Lewis for reliably spot-on virtuosity, and the chamber group for tight, characterful

Portugal, Castles, & Pipe Organs?

Santa Barbara music critic Daniel Kepl is taking a small group of participants on a 12-day tour of Portugal June 8-19, 2023, which will focus on visiting the cathedrals and historic pipe organs of the country. Stays in Lisbon and Porto will be supplemented by day trips to the Douro River Valley, Guimaråes, Braga, Coimbra, Fátima, Mafra, and the city of castles, Sintra. There are three spaces left for this trip. Full itinerary and costs: https://emeritiphilharmonic.com/

Dunbar Joins SB Education Foundation

NINA DUNBAR will serve as the new Donor Advisement Officer for the Santa Barbara Education Foundation. Dunbar holds decades of experience working with nonprofits, previously acting as Opera Santa Barbara’s first Director of Development, Deputy Director of Development for the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and the Executive Director of The Arts Fund of Santa Barbara. Prior to moving to Santa Barbara, she oversaw the planning and commissioning of public art and infrastructure projects for the Phoenix Office of Cultural Affairs and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Dunbar earned her Master of Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans, and is the parent of two SB Unified School District graduates. www.santabarbaraeducation.org

Full Rail Service to Return Soon

THE LOS ANGELES – SAN DIEGO – SAN LUIS OBISPO (LOSSAN)

Rail Corridor Agency, which manages the Amtrak® Pacific Surfliner®, has announced that service between San Diego and Los Angeles will resume on weekends starting on February 4th. Rails in southern California have been out of service since September 2022, when officials noticed they had shifted on the hillside. Recent storms have left rails north of Goleta closed for repairs and construction, though. Right now, thruway bus service connects San Luis Obispo to the Bay area, but train service is anticipated to be fully restored north of Los Angeles the week of February 13th. The temporary schedule set in place in October 2022 will remain in effect until the end of March. www.pacificsurfliner.com

playing.

Miguel del Águila’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 94, El viaje de una vida - The Journey of a Lifetime (2007), is a stunningly accessible if beastly difficult recent entrant in the violin concerto sweepstakes. Its four movements – Crossing the Ocean to a New World, In the Purple Land, The Return, and Finale - the violin soloist accepting the musical mantle of protagonist throughout the work, contemplate the gauntlet of physical as well as psychological challenges all immigrants face when leaving their homeland for a foreign land and culture. De Águila himself a living witness to the immigrant struggle, having traveled from his native Uruguay to the United States (where he received his American citizenship) as a young man, then to Europe for a period of years and back again to America in 1992, has created a score as sweeping as the oceans, actual and allegorical, that separate whole continents and peoples.

Puerto Rican violinist/conductor Guillermo Figueroa, who premiered del Águila’s concerto in 2007 and has been performing it around the

world ever since, was the featured soloist last weekend in Santa Barbara, approaching its virtuoso musical cautionary tales with the sublime self-confidence of one who owns the work – every note of it. The orchestra and Kabaretti jousted and tarried, danced and pivoted, meter changes flying in all directions like bats out of hell while Figueroa, sanguine in his complete mastery of the piece, kept things steady, well-paced, and pertinent. As encore, fellow Porto Rican Ernesto Cordero’s Concertino Tropical.

A particularly expressive and finely honed performance of Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World, found the Santa Barbara Symphony in first-rate professional fettle, Kabaretti conducting from memory with the authority of dozens of performances over the years under his belt. Likewise, the orchestra personnel. Nuanced phrasing, careful balances, an indefatigable horn section (yes!), tight percussion battery, super elegant wind and low brass section playing, and lush string ensemble cohesion and color spoke truth to the notion that under Kabaretti’s leadership and humanity, the Santa Barbara Symphony might well be one of the best regional orchestras on the west coast.

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For more reviews by Daniel Kepl visit: www.performingartsreview.net

Santa Barbara Foundation Board Welcomes Three New Trustees

THREE DEDICATED COMMUNITY MEMBERS have joined the Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees: Dr. Dichard Beswick, Raphael Gonzalez, and Lynn Scarlett. www.sbfoundation.org

DR. RICHARD BESWICK currently serves as the Vice President for Research and Chief Research Officer for Cottage Health Research Institute and is an expert in the areas of hypertension and kidney disease in minority populations. His career spans academic and industry spheres, and he has been involved in the development of multiple research institutes. Dr. Beswick has sat on and continues to be involved with multiple boards, including the White House initiative to increase minority involvement in clinical trials, Sustainable Change Alliance of Santa Barbara, Freedom for Youth and the Central Coast Black Leaders Roundtable, where he currently serves as President.

RAFAEL GONZALEZ is a Partner at Mullen & Henzell LLP where he focuses on representation of employers in employment and complex litigation matters. He serves as legal counsel for the Grower Shipper Association of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties representing growers, farm labor contractors, and shippers throughout California.Mr. Gonzalez serves as a Board Member of the Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara, Channel Islands/Ventura YMCA, and the Santa Barbara Human Resources Association. He is a frequent lecturer on employment law issues for a number of legal and human resources organizations.

LYNN SCARLET influenced climate and conservation policy in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries and territories until her retirement from her role as Global Chief External Affairs Officer for The Nature Conservancy in 2021. Prior to TNC, Scarlet served in the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2001-2009. She serves on the advisory board of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Dean’s Advisory Council of the UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. She currently serves on the boards of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, National Wildlife Refuge Association, Sand County Foundation, and Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative.

Kepl has been writing music, theatre, and dance reviews or Santa Barbara publications since he was a teenager. His professional expertise is as an orchestra conductor.

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Dr. Richard Beswick

Rafael Gonzalez

Lynn Scarlet

Liz has more than 25 years of experience in real estate finance with extensive training in underwriting, as well as experience in construction and commercial lending. Liz is particularly skilled at analyzing the complex financials of the self-employed borrower. She also enjoys the satisfaction of assisting first-time homebuyers in accomplishing their goal of home ownership. While working to find creative solutions for her clients, Liz is committed to serving with the highest level of integrity and professionalism, ensuring that her clients understand the impact of their financial decisions as it applies to their entire financial plan and future.

GALLERY Street, 805-770-7711 an exhibition of contemporary artists Barbara area. Figurative sculpture in both clay Paintings of many styles realism to hard edge expressive abstraction. Galles, “Gemini”, stone.

GOSS - AN AMERICAN Street, 805-730-1460 celebrating the opening exhibition of works Weinman and J. Bradly REGENERATE.

Santa Barbara’s Cultural Night Downtown

February 2nd 5 to 8pm

Thank you for joining us for 1 st Thursday! We'll see you again next month on March 2nd!. -DSB Staff

1ST THURSDAY is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm. 1st Thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. State Street also comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.

5. MAUNE CONTEMPORARY: 1309 State St • 805-869-2524 • Maune Contemporary invites you to the opening night of our new group exhibition, “Love Is In The Air.” We will be showcasing a variety of our world renowned artists. We look forward to seeing you!

6. ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY: 33 W Victoria åSt, (805) 965-5400 • See Selling Kabul! An Off-Broadway hit and 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, this nail-biting story of abiding family love. Free tickets to our February 2nd 7:30pm performance to the first 44 1st Thursday participants to stop by our ticket office.

The Search West, and our monthly salon.

BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART 805-963-4364 Pop-Up Opera with Barbara in the Museum pm and Family 1st Family Resource Center woodblock print inspired 7:30 pm. Afterward, until 8 pm. All free!

Galleries, Museums, & Art Venues

1. VOICE GALLERY & MAGAZINE: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S Hope Av, H124 • Visit VOICE Gallery for an art Rendezvous! When you meet, make it passionate! A February Celebration of art. See work by local artists, enjoy piano music with Harold Kono, and experience La Cumbre Plaza in a whole new way!

& TAP Suite A, 805-770-8077 strive to provide a safe, and respectful space enjoy. Come try bites, participate in sing karaoke, and happy hour. We hope relax, have a drink, and be a part of the fun!

2. SBIFF’s SB FILMMAKER SERIES: SBIFF Education Center, 1330 State Street • This month we are featuring Gail Osherenko’s Birds Of Los Baños. Some of Santa Barbara’s most extraordinary birds have nesting sites near the City’s Los Baños del Mar pool. Showtimes every 30 minutes 5:30pm to 7pm. Runtime: 14 mins.

3. ENGEL & VÖLKERS: 1323 State St, 805342-0227 • Engel & Volkers Luxury Real Estate invites you to our Santa Barbara office. Enjoy artwork by world renown impressionist painter, James Paul Brown, wine and tasty hors d’oeuvres. See you there!

La Arcada Court #8, 805-965-6611 Santa Barbara Art exhibit their original of media. Artist Skip Lau and the Rosemary Jones, Gregoire-Jones, Bonnie Butler, and Charlotte Mullich.

4. SANTA BARBARA FINE ART: 1321 State Street, 805-845-4270 • Winter Show celebrating 2023 with Santa Barbara‘s premier landscape artists, special guest artists and marine sculptures by Bud Bottoms.Wine and champagne served.

7. CPC GALLERY: 36 E Victoria St, (805) 9574200 • Local artist Susan Savage’s contemplative exhibition, Of Presence and Promise. Her work directs our attention to the meaning of life and guitarist John Lyle’s soulful finger-style guitar compositions perfectly complement the artwork. Wine from local Stolpman’s winery.

8. LEGACY ART SANTA BARBARA: 1230 State St, Suite A • Self - Community - The World our crescendo and finale of the works by Susanne & Carroll Barrymore. We thank our neighbors in SB for your warm welcome and for the opportunity to uplift artists. Please keep your eye out for new artists & events from

Enjoy a Pop-Up Opera Performance at

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of Art - or try your hand on a wood cut related activity.

Catch a short film! Enjoy a short movie, Birds Of Los Baños, by local filmmaker Gail Osherenko’s at SBIFF’s Education Center.

Enjoy the work of Susan Savage at CPC Gallery. Her contemplative exhibition is titled Of Presence and Promise.

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Barbara Museum

domecil: 1221 State State, Suite 7, (805) 324-4971 • domecíl presents the work of figurative and portrait artist Jenna Gibson. Her work in dry and mixed media focuses on mood and expression of subjects using organically abstract backgrounds who create a surreal-like composition.

10. 10 WEST GALLERY: 10 W Anapamu St, 805-770-7711 • Food for thought, an exhibition of new work by 11 contemporary artist. Figurative & abstract sculpture in both clay and stone. Paintings of many styles from urban realism to hard edge color field to expressive abstraction. Image: Eugene Galles, Gemini, stone

11. SULLIVAN GOSS - AN AMERICAN GALLERY: 11 East Anapamu St, 805730-1460 • Join us in celebrating the opening of a tandem exhibition of works by Lynda Weinman and J. Bradly Greer, entitled Regenerate. Also on view: The Search for the Modern West, and our salon.

12. SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: 1130 State St, 805-963-4364 • Join SBMA for Pop-Up Opera with Opera Santa Barbara in the Museum galleries at 5:30 pm and Family 1st Thursday in the Family Resource Center for a Japanese woodblock print inspired art activity 5:30 –7:30pm. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm. All free!

13. CRUSH BAR & TAP: 1129 State St, Suite A, 805-7708077 • Providing a safe, inclusive, loving, and respectful space for all. Try our locally sourced bites, participate in the rainbow social, sing karaoke, and enjoy our all-day happy hour. We hope you will come by, relax, have a drink, and be a part of the fun!

14. GALLERY 113: 1114 State St, La Arcada Ct #8, 805-965-6611 • Members of the Santa Barbara Art Association exhibit their original art here in a variety of media. Artist of the Month is Skip Lau and the featured artists are Rosemary Jones, Helena Hill, Paula GregoireJones, Wendy Fisher, Bonnie Butler, and Charlotte Mullich.

15. WATERHOUSE GALLERY: 1114 State St, La Arcada Ct #9, 805-9628885 • Figurative works, interiors, and cityscapes, by some of today’s finest nationally known local and Oak Group artists. Enjoy works by Ray Hunter, Derek Harrison. Wyllis Heaton, Camille Dellar, Ann Sanders, Thomas Van Stein, Nancy Davidson, Rick Garcia, Ellie Freudenstein, and Ralph Waterhouse.

16. TAMSEN GALLERY: 911.5 State Street, 805705-2208 • Please join us at Tamsen Gallery to celebrate the vibrant work of artist Robert W. Firestone. From vivid abstracts printed on glossy acrylic to geometric cityscapes laser cut from metal to dynamic portraits printed on canvas, Tamsen Gallery offers a rich visual experience in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara.

17. SUNKISSED PANTRY:31 East Canon Perdido St • Join Sunkissed Pantry for an artistic evening featuring local artist Cat Craig from Sunrise Via Lola and local potters from Jolly Tree mixing sustainability and the arts, along with wines and small bites.

18. THE BLUE OWL: 5 West Canon Perdido St • The Blue Owl will present a jam on the first Thursday of each month. Hosted by guitarist Tony Ybarra, this Jam session will feature local jazz instrumentalists and vocalists. Backed by Santino Tafarella and Matt Perko, it will be a fantastic night of Jazz!

19. SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 136 East De la Guerra St, 805966-1601 • Join us for a short film screening of the saga of the Lobero Golden Eagle . Recovered from an 1854 shipwreck, the eagle graced the stage of the Lobero Opera House for years before disappearing. Learn of its recovery and restoration just in time to celebrate the Lobero Theatre’s 150th anniversary.

20. EL PRESIDIO DE SANTA BARBARA STATE HISTORICAL PARK: 123 East Canon Perdido St • Enjoy a rare opportunity to experience the El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park after dark. Listen to Chumash stories by an open fire, tour Nihonmachi Revisited about Santa Barbara’s Japantown, enjoy music and dance of 1800s California, experience a cooking demonstration, learn about native and introduced plants, and more — all while enjoying wine, hot chocolate, and freshly-baked goods. Free, 1st Thursday event!

23. ELIZABETH GORDON GALLERY: 15 West Gutierrez Street, 805-963-1157 •

since 1984, Elizabeth Gordon Gallery presents one of the most exciting collections of contemporary art in California. We hope you can join us from 5-8 pm for wine and tasty bites, and to enjoy beautiful, original artwork by America Martin, Sherri Belassen, Stanley Boydston, and many more locally loved artists.

24. SPECIAL EVENT & ENTERTAINMENT: WILL STEPHENS & THE ESSENTIALS: 800 Block of State Street • Come on down and rock with Will Stephens & the Essentials Downtown! With Phillip on drums, Bob Gross on bass, and Will Stephans on guitar and vocals we are in for an awesome show. We are excited to have them rock the stage this 1st Thursday!

25. STATE STREET PROMENADE MARKET: 800 Block of State Street • Celebrate the return of the State Street Promenade Market! Every 1 st Thursday come & check out great local artists and vendors, plus food from surrounding restaurants, live performances, and interactive activities (3 - 8pm).

STATE STREET

PROMENADE MARKET: 800 Block of State St • Join us every 1st Thursday at the State Street Promenade Market (38pm) to check out great local artists and vendors, plus enjoy food from surrounding restaurants, live performances, and interactive activities.

21. LA PALOMA CAFE: 702 Anacapa Street, (805) 966-7029• Born in Santa Barbara, California, into a family of naturalists, fishermen, and marine biologists, Kelly has been undoubtedly influenced by the outdoors. Her selftaught artistic journey has been a melding of her passion for creativity, education, & the natural world.

22. SBCAST: 513 Garden Street, (805) 252-1065

• Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, electronic music, and digital art research, practice, production, and theory. The MAT department will showcase the cutting-edge research and new media artworks of our students.

Fine art dealer

THE BAND ~ WILL STEPHENS & THE ESSENTIALS performing live in the 800 Block of State Street.

Art & tech form an intimate relationship at SBCAST –discover what MAT at UCSB has been working on!

DISCOVER THE SAGA OF A LOCAL HISTORICAL TREASURE when the Historical Museum screens a short film on the Lobero Eagle.

20. Stories by candlelight... Experience the Presidio after dark at this unusual events.

Moody light and dramatic weather! Santa Barbara Fine Art hosts a winter show with talented landscape artists and more, including Morgan Green who created Forecast, Morning Fog Then Sun.

Tucked away in a quiet and private setting, this hideaway is close to cafes, shopping, art galleries, parks, and to many historic sites nearby. This Spanish style townhouse exudes charm, design and architectural details. Mature landscaping, a long driveway, detached garage and only 4 homes in this setting makes this a unique and rare offering.

Offered at $1,675,000

dance styles practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities; traditional African dances; and an array of contemporary dance and art forms into a cohesive expression, it's a compelling artistic experience.

Arts & Lectures remains committed to addressing issues of social justice. Marking our third season illuminating a wide spectrum of systemic injustice, the Justice for All programming initiative looks to today’s great minds and creators and to the courageous leaders across the globe who are forging a new path forward. Join us as we learn from those confronting uncomfortable questions, solving difficult problems, and guiding us all toward a more equitable world.

Under Williams’ leadership, stepping has evolved into one of America’s cultural exports, touring more than 60 countries across the globe.Now the Company ranks as one of the top ten African-American dance companies in the United States. It opens UCSB Arts & Lectures's spring dance series. But the performance is more than a dance show – it integrates songs, storytelling, humor, and audience participation. The blend of technique, agility, and pure energy makes each performance unique and leaves the audience with their hearts pounding.

Event Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold

Presented in association with the following UCSB Departments: Center for Black Studies Research, Department of Black Studies, and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

This event is part of UCSB A&L's Justice for All Programming Initiative. Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli have offered generous support of the entire 2022-2023 season.

Tickets are $30 - $45 General Public / $15 UCSB Student (Current student ID required) / and $15 Youth. For tickets or more info, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at 805-893-3535 or purchase online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

Tickets for Cirque FLIP Fabrique and Kodo are also available through the Granada Theatre box office at 805-899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

Photo by Sekou Luke

Santa Barbara Beach and Harbor Repairs Underway

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22ND - An emergency contract brings a dredge to the nearly sand locked Santa Barbara harbor entrance. It digs in this week. Expect a channel opening again by mid-week. The sand from the recent storms and wave direction has nearly filled in the area between West Beach and the harbor.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25TH - Work continues this week on many beaches around Santa Barbara to pick up all the driftwood and other items that have piled up since the storms this month. This work has come after the latest round of high tides.

Rest in Peace, David Crosby

Rocket Makes Noise Over Town

On The Street

with John Palminteri

Saved by the Brigade

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20THSurrounded by mud, an elderly couple is dug out by volunteers from the Bucket Brigade. More work is set for today in Santa Barbara and Saturday in Orcutt at the sink hole site. Volunteers are needed.

Post-Storm Cleanup

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19TH - David Crosby has died at the age of 81, according to his family. A rock ‘n roll legend and Santa Barbara County resident. He was set to play at the Lobero Theatre on Feb. 22.

San Marcos Pass is Open Again

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18THHighway 154 - San Marcos Pass is open after days of repairs following last week’s storms.

Local Law Enforcement & First Responders Update

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19TH - Four adults and a juvenile now in custody after the fatal December 9th shooting at the entrance to Santa Barbara’s Stearns Wharf. Police say the victim from Camarillo was an innocent bystander. A witness said five shots were fired and the victim was hit in the head. He died December 20th

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18TH - Beach debris is being collected and discarded properly by passersby and volunteers after the recent storms.

They include plastics, clothing and metals. These items were on Carpinteria beaches.

Another Win

for

UCSB Men’s Basketball

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22ND- Win number 16 for UCSB men’s basketball last night over Bakersfield in the famous Thunderdome. Great inside and outside shooting, enthusiastic fans and many kids who were in for free with the special promo.

John Palminteri is a veteran news reporter and anchor for Newschannel 3-12 TV and both KJEE and KCLU radio in Santa Barbara/Santa Maria/Ventura. Off the air, he’s often bringing his smile and positive energy to the microphone at fundraisers and civic events. John’s social media presence has one of the largest followings in Santa Barbara, and this page has the weekly highlights.

Twitter: @JohnPalminteri Instagram: @JohnPalminteriNews www.facebook.com/john.palminteri.5

John Palminteri

Photo by Cal Trans District 5

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19TH Sonic booms over Santa Barbara County after a Space X Falcon 9 launch carrying 51 Starlink satellites.

Photo courtesy of Space X

Photo courtesy of Steve Weiner

By Sigrid Toye, Special to VOICE

WHAT FANTASTIC WEATHER WE ARE HAVING! The fresh air and sparkle of a crystal clear Saturday morning was indeed glorious. The seemingly unending streams of pelting rain and unending storms had migrated to the East but the immediate forecast of King Tides suggested that Mother Nature might not be done with us quite yet. The prospect of the weekend’s large waves appeared threatening. Magnificent and forceful, King Tides appear on our shores a couple of times a year but on the heels of the recent storms they were projected to become a reason for concern.

Curiosity, as always, gets the better of me! Despite warnings, it was hard to resist visiting the harbor and beaches downstream to view the first of the King Tides last Saturday, January 21st. Other curious onlookers and friends had already gathered near the shuttered Yacht Club for a look-see, although the surf-drenched breakwater walkway was avoided due to the whitewater that continually breached its walls. The waves were indeed high but fortunately were not as dangerous as expected … they were actually mild compared to the last weeks brutal downpours that caused so much damage.

Unlike the chaotic weather patterns of the last years, King Tides are a natural phenomenon and not related in any way to climate change. While the term “King Tide” isn’t a scientific term, it is used to describe very high tides, caused when there is alignment of the gravitational pull between sun, moon, and Earth. When King Tides occur during floods or storms, water levels can rise higher and have the potential to cause damage to the coastline and coastal property. Needless to say, Santa Barbara has suffered from the last several weeks’ erosion along its shores and the resulting damage.

Although a bi-yearly event, the King Tides, when added to climate change, elevate rising sea levels caused by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the consumption of fossil fuels and other environmental assaults. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acts like a blanket trapping in heat (further

thickening the blanket), warming the planet and its oceans. As a result glaciers and ice sheets are melting into the sea, with water expanding as it warms. The California coastline is - and will be - greatly impacted: California State Seal-Level Rise Guidance tells us that San Francisco’s projected a sea rise will be between 1.1 and 2.7 feet at the half century mark and by the year 2100, between 2.4 and 6.9 feet with the potential for more than ten feet if there is extreme melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet. A shade of things to come, perhaps?

The emergency dredge of our harbor entrance is well underway so hopefully the last weeks and months are informing the community to plan for the decades ahead. The changeable weather patterns of the last few years has definitely been a wake-up call. The Thomas Fire and the January 9th Montecito mud slide and debris flow of five years ago and the recent onslaught on exactly the same date in 2023 certainly acts as a reminder of how tightly woven we are with the forces of nature – not to mention serendipitous events! Outside of my window I see blue skies and brilliant sunshine, so let’s hope that Mother Nature graces us with more of the same. Stay tuned ...

Toye volunteers for the Breakwater Flag Project. She is on the board of directors of the Maritime Museum and participates in Yacht Club activities. An educational/behavior therapist, Sigrid holds a Ph.D in clinical psychology. She loves all things creative, including her two grown children who are working artists. Send Harbor tips to: Itssigrid@gmail.com

Sigrid

King Tides crashing at Butterfly Beach

Emergency dredge equipment in the harbor

Photos by Sigrid Toye

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION will hold a virtual public hearing starting at 9:00 am, Wednesday, February 8, 2023

As a result of the COVID-19 emergency and the Governor’s Executive Orders N29-20 and N-33-20, this Coastal Commission meeting will occur virtually through video and teleconference. Please see the Coastal Commission’s Virtual Hearing Procedures posted on the Coastal Commission’s webpage at www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html for details on the procedures of this hearing If you would like to receive a paper copy of the Coastal Commission’s Virtual Hearing Procedures, please call 415-904-5202. The public hearing will act on the following item of local interest:

Item W11b: City of Santa Barbara Local Coastal Program Amendment No. LCP-4-SBC-22-0042-1 (Senate Bill 9). Public hearing and action on City of Santa Barbara’s request to amend the Implementation Plan/Coastal Zoning Ordinance portion of the certified LCP to add provisions with respect to Senate Bill 9 residential density allowances is de minimis.

Check the Coastal Commission’s website for the staff report and more meeting information at www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html

LEGAL NOTICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following Corporation / Limited Liability Company is/are doing business as SANTA BARBARA SEWING CENTER; HAVEFUNSEWING.COM; and HANVE FUN SEWING at 336-B E Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. GRANT HOUSE SEWING CENTER at 336-B E Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on December 21, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0003082. Published January 6, 13, 20, 27, 2023.

PUBLIC NOTICE

City of Santa Barbara

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider the appeals filed by Mahesh Balakrishnan and Jill Ryan of the Planning Commission’s Approval of a Coastal Development Permit for a new two-story residence and attached Accessory Dwelling Unit located in the Appealable Jurisdiction of the City’s Coastal Zone at 2315 Edgewater Way (APN 041-350-024); PLN2021-00584, Filing Date: January 4, 2022.

If the City Council approves the project on appeal, then it is appealable to the California Coastal Commission under California Public Resources Code §30603(a) and SBMC §28.44.200. Appeals are filed at: 89 S. California St., Suite 200, Ventura, CA 93001-2801; (805) 585-1800.

LEGAL NOTICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT:

The following person/persons/ are doing business as STATE STREET CHIROPRACTIC at 1900 State St., Suite H, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. JACOB BASTOMSKI DC A PROFESSIONAL CHIROPRACTIC CORPORATION at 1900 State St., Suite H, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on December 29, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0003128. Published January 27, February 3, 10, 17, 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT:

The following person/persons/are doing business as FAMILY TACOS IRAPUATO at 213 S. Voluntario St. Unit A., Santa Barbara, CA 93103. JUAN DOMINGUEZ-DIMAS, MARTHA SOTO-JAIME at 213 S. Voluntario St. Unit A., Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on January 6, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0000037. Published January 27, February 3, 10, 17, 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person/persons/are doing business as COLAB at 12 W. Islay St. Unit A., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. JAMIE M. DUFEK at 12 W. Islay St. Unit A., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on January 18, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20230000115. Published January 27, February 3, 10, 17, 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person/persons/are doing business as ESPAÑOL PARA TODOS at 247 Mathilda Dr. Apt. #3, Goleta, CA 93117. MA DE LOURDES TRUJILLO FLORES at 247 Mathilda Dr. Apt. #3, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on January 4, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20230000015. Published January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT:

The following person/persons is/ are doing business as TONY’S SMOKESHOP at 448 Alisal Rd, Solvang, CA 93463. TONY TRAD at 652 Floral Dr, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on December 19, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0003053. Published December 30, 2022, January 6, 13, 20, 27, 2023.

If you challenge the Council’s action on the appeal of the Planning Commission’s decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing.

You are invited to attend this public hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office by sending them electronically to Clerk@ SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

Public comment may be given in person at the meeting or remotely via Zoom. Members of the public who wish to give public comment remotely may do so by completing the Zoom registration at the following link: https:// santabarbaraca-gov.zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_6qBzhd1OQ_iNFgvfSw-R0Q. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990.

On Thursday, February 2, 2023, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, will be available at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www. SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

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Yazmin Dominguez Deputy City Clerk

January 18, 2023

Fostering Community

at MOSAIC Therapy Collective

By Daisy Scott / VOICE

UNDERSTANDING IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO SUPPORT A VILLAGE, MOSAIC Therapy Collective has emerged as Santa Barbara’s newest community resource.

A non-profit multidisciplinary clinic spearheaded by local speech-language pathologists Sharon MacDonald and Caitlin Downie, this innovative space will offer therapists working across fields a welcoming environment to host their sessions.

The result is a collaborative atmosphere that will not only support therapists as they launch their own private practices, but also provide free community programming such as Mommy & Me groups, language enrichment courses, and more.

“We are an accredited 501c3 so we have community initiatives that are also embedded in this program, it’s not just an affordable space for therapists,” shared MacDonald. “We want to really do something to give back and support the community as well.”

MacDonald and Downie met while working with students within the Santa Barbara Unified School District. United in their passion for helping others and desire to maintain their own private practices, the pair began brainstorming how they could achieve their dreams amidst soaring rental prices.

They quickly realized that these rental prices were preventing many other local therapists from starting their own practices, creating a service gap for the Santa Barbara community.

“There’s a huge shortage and the existing practices have really long waitlists, some of them

A Fortune Inside My Piggy Bank

Una Fortuna Dentro De Mi Alcancía De Cochinito

Exhibition January 31st to March 31st

Casa Dolores is very fortunate to feature in this exhibition an array of vintage clay piggy banks of all sizes, mostly from Jalisco (Tlaquepaque style) made in the 1970s. Surprisingly some whistle and other even with old coins inside (pig had to be broken to get money out).

Come and discover their handcrafted technique. Adults and children can be attracted by the cuteness of the piggy bank and to get on the habit to save your pennies, as mom said.

Casa Dolores es muy afortunada en presentar en esta exposición un grupo de antigüas alcancías de cochinito

up to two years,” explained Downie. “This is hopefully going to get more people into the private industry that might not be able to otherwise.”

Motivated to remove overhead costs from the equation, the duo established MOSAIC Therapy Collective, where therapists pay a monthly fee to utilize the collective’s furnished rooms and offices for their sessions as needed.

“The idea is to be able to create a more affordable opportunity for providers, and concurrently drive costs down to be a little more accessible for our community members,” said MacDonald.

With membership options ranging from full-time to part-time or hourly rates, MOSAIC holds the goal of offering holistic care by hosting providers who work with individuals of all ages. This includes occupational therapists, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and speech-language pathologists, with physical therapists due to start this spring.

By unifying all of these providers in one location, clients can benefit from on-site referrals and a multidisciplinary care approach if needed. Therapists will also enjoy opportunities to collaborate with one another, as well as participate in professional development and networking workshops.

Rather than be assigned one office, therapists will be able to alternate sessions between rooms to fully utilize the collective’s tools and resources, including sensory tools, educational toys, and more.

“We have a lot of curriculums and standardized assessments, which is a huge piece to having a private practice,” said Downie, adding that these assessments’ costs are often another financial barrier for beginning private practices.

Therapists will also have the chance to give back by hosting courses through MOSAIC’s community outreach initiatives, including Mommy & Me programs, aphasia support groups, music and movement classes, support groups for siblings and parents, and more.

Looking ahead, MOSAIC also hopes to offer scholarship funding opportunities to ensure individuals from underserved communities or lower-income backgrounds are able to receive the care they need. Currently, the nonprofit is seeking community partnerships and donors to support this and ongoing efforts.

533 East Micheltorena, Suite #103 • www.mosaictherapycollective.com

monedas antiguas, pues el cochinito tenía que romperse para sacar las monedas.

Ven y descubre su técnica artesanal. Adultos y niños pueden sentirse atraídos por la ternura de la alcacía de cochinito y adquirir el habito de ahorrar tus centavos, tal como mamá decía.

Caitlin Downie and Sharon MacDonald

Howea forsteriana

By David Gress / Special to VOICE

ENTIA PALM IS ONE OF THE MOST GRACEFUL AND ELEGANT PALMS to be seen in our community. It is also one of the most adaptable to our area, making it perfect for private and public landscapes.

Kentia Palm has been planted in Santa Barbara for over 130 years. The taller ones that stand in the sunken garden at the County Courthouse are at least that old; these were fully mature when they were planted on the grounds following the construction of the new courthouse after the 1926 earthquake.

Its most distinctive characteristic is its open canopy of slightly drooping fronds –the quintessential appearance and relaxed feel of a tropical island palm.

The spikes of its brand-new pinnate (featherlike) fronds emerge upright from the top of the trunk; over time, they open and gradually recline into an arched downward position. Each mature frond is long (over ten feet) and bears slender leaflets (up to 20-inches long and twoinches wide). The top surfaces of the fronds are a dark green; the bottoms are often a lighter green.

Inflorescences (flower bearing structures) develop among the lower fronds; their stems are rather long (up to 2½-feet) and emerge in groups of three to seven that are fused at the base of the group.

Small, white, and inconspicuous flowers completely cover the inflorescences. This palm is “monecious,” meaning that male and female flowers occur on the same tree. Flowering can occur over a lengthy period - from February to September.

After pollination, the flowers develop fruit in tight clusters along the stems. Each fruit (one- to two-inches long) is a “drupe” (a single seed inside a fleshy covering) and is

generally ovoid in shape narrowing to a small nub at the end, New fruit is green, later turns yellow, and, when ripe, turns red.

The Kentia Palm grows naturally with a singular trunk. However, it is often planted in groups of three to five for landscape design appeal. Its slender trunk (six- to teninches wide) has a slight flare at the base. It is slow growing, reaching a height at maturity of over 50 feet with a canopy spread of 20 feet. The trunk is a vibrant green when young, somewhat resembling bamboo; with age, it will gray out. The younger trunks are marked prominently with gray bands, which are the leaf scars from detached fonds.

This palm is endemic to the tiny (six miles long and one mile wide!) Lord Howe Island located in the Tasman Sea 500 miles off the coast of New South Wales, Australia. A rugged, volcanic remnant, this island was first discovered by English explorers in 1788.

The most used common name, Kentia Palm, was given in reference to the small town of Kentia on the island – that town was named after William Kent (1685-1748), a British botanist and garden designer. Its other common names include Paradise Palm, Parlor Palm, Victorian Parlor Palm, Sentry Palm, and Thatch Palm.

The botanical name for Kentia Palm is Howea forsteriana The genus name, Howea, refers to its diminutive homeland, Lord Howe Island. The species epithet, forsteriana, refers to the father-son duo of Johann and Georg Forster, both naturalists and authors, who served on Captain Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific Ocean in the 1770s.

Amazingly, though endemic to such a tiny and isolated oceanic island, Kentia Palm would become the most renowned and iconic indoor plant worldwide. Starting in the 1870s, its seeds were shipped from Lord Howe Island to England and other countries, including the United States. It

has now been cultivated and planted out in every tropical and subtropical region in the world.

The export of seeds remains a key part of the economy of Lord Howe Island. However, these sales are now tightly regulated, so seeds from mature palms growing in our area are often harvested and sold to nurseries that specialize in propagating palms.

This lovely palm was given the common name “Parlor Palm,” because it was a must-have accessory for Victorian-era homes, ballrooms, and lobbies of public buildings. It was so highly prized that it was quickly awarded the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. Even today, it is considered a decorative plant that will always add a touch of elegance and refinement to indoor spaces.

Kentia Palm is admirably adapted to our Mediterranean climate. Once established, it is somewhat drought tolerant - but does require periodic watering during the dry season. It is cold hardy to temperatures below freezing and has even survived temperatures down to 25º F. for brief periods. It can be grown in full sun - but looks better within partial shade and wind protection; in hot direct sun, its leaves can sunburn. It is tolerant of many types of soils, including clay and rocky soils, but does best in sandy loam soils that are well drained. It is a slow-growing palm (less than six inches per year). It sometimes requires fertilizing with special palm fertilizer that contains micronutrients, in order to maintain both growth and a deep green foliage color. When planted outdoors, it is mostly insect- and disease-free. When grown indoors, it is susceptible to scale and spider mites, which can be easily treated by spraying with insecticidal soaps.

Kentia Palm can be planted as a single-trunk specimen, in twos and threes for landscape interest, or in mass for a dramatic, lush, tropical effect.

Mature Kentia Palms can be seen in many locations in our community: in the sunken gardens of the County Courthouse; in front of the Carriage Museum at Pershing Park; in the Santa Barbara Cemetery; mixed with other palms in front of the Cabrillo Arts Pavilion; many in Lotusland; on the UCSB campus; and, in yards and gardens all around town.

Tree-of-the-Month articles are sponsored by Santa Barbara Beautiful, whose mission includes increasing public awareness and appreciation of Santa Barbara’s many outstanding trees and, in a long-time partnership with the City Parks & Recreation Department, the funding and planting of trees along the City’s streets.

Those who wish to honor a special someone can do so with an attractive commemorative marker that will be installed at the base of an existing street tree in the City of Santa Barbara. Because Santa Barbara Beautiful has participated in the planting to date of over 13,000 street trees, there are plenty of trees from which to choose! Application forms are available at www.sbbeautiful.org

Kentia Palm fruit and Flower spikes

Kentia Palm

Kentia Palm trunk

Photos by David Gress

Santa Barbara City College Fé Bland Forum

February 10, 2023; 6:00 – 7:30 pm

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visit wagingpeace.org

directed by Susan Strickler

Safari Local

In Person & Online Activities for Everyone Actividades en persona y en línea para todos BILINGUAL / BILINGÜE

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$10 cash donation • https://afsb.org • 10am Sa & Sun.

RECORRIDOS ARQUITECTÓNICOS A PIE

Aprende sobre la arquitectura local • Architectural Foundation of SB • Ayuntamiento de SB el sábado; Biblioteca Central Anapamu St. entrada en domingo • Sugerido donación de $10 en efectivo • https://afsb.org • 10 am sábado y domingo.

RANCHO LA PATERA & STOW HOUSE Take a tour • www.goletahistory.org • 11am to 2pm weekends.

RANCHO LA PATERA & STOW HOUSE Haz un recorrido • www.goletahistory.org • De 11am a 2pm los fines de semana.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

Entertainment, snacks, and crafts • Carpinteria Arts Center • Free • 122pm Sa, 1/28.

A Forest Journey Conversation

Explore the majesty and rich history of the earth’s forests when UCSB Visiting Scholar John Perlin, author of A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization, gives a free talk at the SB Museum of Natural History’s Fleischmann Auditorium from 6:30pm to 8pm on Wednesday, February 1st. Perlin will be joined by UCSB Assistant Professor Robert Heilmayr. To register visit www.sbnature.org

Una conversación sobre un viaje por el bosque

Madres Unidas Support Group

Connect with other mothers and share the joys, challenges, and love that comes with motherhood when the Eastside Library hosts its free Spanish language program Madres Unidas from 10:30am to 11:30am on Tuesday, January 31st.

Grupo de Apoyo Madres Unidas

Conéctate con otras madres y comparte las alegrías, los desafíos y el amor que conlleva la maternidad cuando la Biblioteca Eastside presente su programa gratuito en español Madres Unidas de 10:30 a 11:30 am el martes, 31 de enero.

Friday • viernes 1.27

MUSIC | MÚSICA

EMANUEL AX – LEONIDAS KAVAKOS

– YO-YO MA

Piano, violin, and cello • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Granada Theatre • $31-181 • www.granadasb.org • 7pm Th, 1/27.

EMANUEL AX – LEONIDAS KAVAKOS – YO-YO MA

Piano, violín y violonchelo • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Granada Theatre • $31-181 • www.granadasb.org • 7pm jueves, 1/27.

TRIAL BY JURY AND THE SILKEN LADDER

Double-feature opera with 20th century twists • Westmont College • Center Stage Theater • $20-15 • www.centerstagetheater.org • 7pm Fr, 1/27 & Su, 1/29.

JUICIO POR JURADO Y

LA ESCALERA DE SEDA

Ópera de doble función con giros del siglo XX • Westmont College • Center Stage Theater • $20-15 • www. centerstagetheater.org • 7pm viernes, 1/27 y domingo, 1/29.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

SANTA YNEZ VALLEY RESTAURANT WEEKS

Enjoy special deals and menus • Varying locations, full schedule at: www.visitsyv.com/restaurant-weeks • Through 1/31.

SEMANAS DE RESTAURANTES DEL VALLE DE SANTA YNEZ

Disfruta de ofertas y menús especiales • Varias ubicaciones, horario completo

en: www.visitsyv.com/restaurant-weeks • Hasta 1/31.

Saturday • sábado 1.28

MUSIC | MÚSICA

ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN

Contemporary ensemble performs new score to 1924 silent film • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Lobero Theatre • $14-41 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb. edu • 7pm Sa, 1/28.

CONJUNTO INTERCONTEMPORÁNEO

Conjunto contemporáneo interpreta nueva partitura para película muda de 1924 • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Lobero Theatre • $14-41 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 7pm sábado, 1/28.

OUTDOORS | AL AIRE LIBRE

BEAUTIFY GOLETA

Self-guided clean-up and bulky item collection • Collection at Goleta City Hall; learn more about clean-up at https://tinyurl.com/3kxcf36t • 9am1pm Sa, 1/28.

EMBELLECER GOLETA

Limpieza autoguiada y evento para recoger artículos voluminosos • Colección en Goleta City Hall; encuentra más información sobre la limpieza en https://tinyurl.com/3kxcf36t • 9am-1pm sábado, 1/28.

ARCHITECTURAL WALKING TOURS

Learn about local architecture • Architectural Foundation of SB • SB City Hall on Sa; Central Library Anapamu St. entrance on Su • Suggested

CELEBRACIÓN DEL AÑO NUEVO LUNAR

Entretenimiento, bocadillos y manualidades • Carpinteria Arts Center • Gratis • 12-2pm sábado, 1/28.

Sunday • domingo 1.29

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS CONFERENCIAS | REUNIONES

CARILLON RECITAL

Played by UCSB Carillonist Wesley Arai • UCSB Storke Tower • Free • 2pm Su, 1/29.

RECITAL DE CARILLÓN Interpretado por el carillonista de UCSB Wesley Arai • UCSB Storke Tower • Gratis • 2pm domingo, 1/29.

DMA RECITAL

With April Amante, soprano • Karl Geiringer Hall, UCSB • Free • 3:30pm Su, 1/29.

RECITAL DMA Con Abril Amante, soprano • Karl Geiringer Hall, UCSB • Gratis • 3:30pm domingo, 1/29.

MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR

Jazz ensemble performance • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Campbell Hall • $1550 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 7pm Su, 1/29.

FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTEREY DE GIRA Presentación del conjunto de jazz • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Campbell Hall • $15-50 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 7pm domingo, 1/29.

OUTDOORS | AL AIRE LIBRE

SB ROLLERS

Rollerskate with an ocean view • SB City College Lot 3 • Free • 3pm Su.

SB ROLLERS

Patinaje sobre ruedas con vista al mar • SB City College Lote 3 • Gratis • 3pm domingo.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

GLITTER BRUNCH

Hosted by Vivian Storm & Angel D’Mon • Wildcat Lounge, 15 W. Ortega St. • $5 • https://glitterbrunch.com • Brunch 11am-3pm, Show 12:30pm, Sun.

Explora la majestuosidad y la rica historia de los bosques de la tierra cuando el académico visitante de UCSB, John Perlin, autor de Un viaje por el bosque: el papel de los árboles en el destino de la civilización, brinde una charla gratuita en el Auditorio Fleischmann del Museo de Historia Natural de SB de 6:30 a 8 pm el miércoles, 1 de febrero. A Perlin se unirá el profesor asistente de UCSB, Robert Heilmayr. Para registrarte visita www.sbnature.org

ALMUERZO DE BRILLO

Presentado por Vivian Storm y Angel D’Mon • Wildcat Lounge, 15 W. Ortega St. • $5 • https://glitterbrunch.com • Almuerzo 11am-3pm, Espectáculo 12:30pm, domingo.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

SEED SWAP

Share seeds, knowledge, and community • Community Arts

Workshop, 631 Garden St. • Free • 11am-4pm Su, 1/29.

INTERCAMBIO DE SEMILLAS

Comparte semillas, conocimientos y comunidad • Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden St. • Gratis • 11am-4pm domingo, 1/29.

SNOW LEOPARD FESTIVAL

Family activities, snow, and sledding • SB Zoo • $8-10 added to Zoo

Photo courtesy of SBMNH

Photo courtesy of SB Public Library

OnSTAGE

CENTER STAGE THEATER

THE GIN GAME

Two nursing home residents review their lives • DramaDogs Theater Company • $15-21 • www.centerstagetheater.org • 7:30pm Th, 2/2-2/4; 2pm Sa, 2/4 & 2/5.

EL JUEGO DE LA GINEBRA

Dos residentes de un hogar de ancianos revisan sus vidas • DramaDogs Theater Company • $1521 • www.centerstagetheater.org • 7:30pm jueves, 2/2-2/4; 2pm sábado, 2/4 y 2/5.

OJAI YOUTH

ENTERTAINERS STUDIO

THE WIZARD OF OZ

Student performance • 907 El Centro Street, Ojai • $12 • https://tinyurl.com/4932t762 • Through 1/29.

EL MAGO DE OZ

Actuación estudiantil • 907 El Centro Street, Ojai • $12 • https://tinyurl.com/4932t762 • Hasta el 1/29.

LA CUMBRE PLAZA

FORGIVE MY IMPERTINENCE

Evening of one-act comedies • Fine Line Gallery, La Cumbre Plaza • Free • 7pm Th, 2/2.

PERDONA MI IMPERTINENCIA Velada de comedias en un acto • Fine Line Gallery, La Cumbre Plaza • Gratis • 7pm jueves, 2/2.

admission • www.sbzoo.org • 10am3pm Su, 1/29.

FESTIVAL DEL LEOPARDO DE LAS NIEVES Actividades en familia, nieve y trineos • SB Zoo • $8-10 agregado a la entrada al zoológico • www.sbzoo.org • 10am3pm domingo, 1/29.

The Gin Game

Humor, wit, and searing conversations on what makes life worth living will hit Center Stage Theater when Kathy Marden and Ed Giron star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Gin Game. Performances will be held at 7:30pm, Thursday, February 2nd through Saturday, February 4th, with 2pm matinees on Saturday and Sunday, February 4th and 5th. For tickets ($15-21) visit www.centerstagetheater.org

El juego de la ginebra

El humor, el ingenio y las conversaciones mordaces sobre lo que hace que valga la pena vivir la vida llegarán al Center Stage Theatre cuando Kathy Marden y Ed Giron protagonicen la obra ganadora del premio Pulitzer El juego de la ginebra. Las funciones se llevarán a cabo a las 7:30 pm del jueves, 2 al sábado, 4 de febrero, con matinés a las 2 pm el sábado y el domingo 4 y 5 de febrero. Para boletos ($15-21) visita www. centerstagetheater.org

MARJORIE LUKE THEATRE

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Musical comedy born out of imagination • Lights Up! Teen Theatre Company • Tickets: www.luketheatre.org • 7pm Th, 1/26-1/28; 1pm Sa, 1/28.

EL CHAPERÓN SOMNOLIENTO

Comedia musical nacida de la imaginación • Lights Up! Teen Theatre Company • Boletos: www.luketheatre.org • 7pm jueves, 1/26-1/28; 1pm sábado, 1/28.

Monday • lunes 1.30

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

CONFERENCIAS | REUNIONES

PARLIAMO!

Italian conversation, all levels • Arnoldi’s Cafe, 600 Garden St. • http://parliamo.yolasite.com • Free • 5-7pm Mon.

Reimagining the Museum

Examine the wondrous potential of museums to inspire and incorporate inclusivity, accessibility, representation, and equity when Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Ph.D. presents the Art Matters Lecture Reimagining the Museum at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's Mary Craig Auditorium at 5:30pm on Thursday, February 2nd. For tickets (Free-$15) visit www.sbma.net

Reimaginando el museo

Examina el maravilloso potencial de los museos para inspirar e incorporar la inclusión, la accesibilidad, la representación y la equidad cuando Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Ph.D. presenta la Conferencia Art Matters Reimaginando el Museo en el Auditorio Mary Craig del Museo de Arte de Santa Bárbara a las 5:30 pm el jueves, 2 de febrero. Para boletos (Gratis-$15) visita www.sbma.net

Tuesday • martes 1.31

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS CONFERENCIAS | REUNIONES

ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY

SELLING KABUL

Drama about an Afghan U.S. Army interpreter trying to escape the Taliban • The New Vic • $40-50 • www.etcsb.org • 7:30pm 2/2, through 2/19.

VENDER KABUL

Drama sobre un intérprete afgano del ejército estadounidense que intenta escapar de los talibanes • The New Vic • $40-50 • www.etcsb.org • 7:30pm 2/2, hasta el 2/19.

PARLIAMO! (¡HABLEMOS!)

Conversación en italiano, todos los niveles • Arnoldi’s Cafe, 600 Garden St. • http://parliamo.yolasite.com • Gratis • 5-7pm lunes.

OUTDOORS | AL AIRE LIBRE

NATURE’S MEDICINES AND THE CASE FOR CONSERVATION

Docent tour • SB Botanic Garden • Free with admission • 11am Mo, 1/30.

MEDICINAS DE LA NATURALEZA Y EL CASO DE LA CONSERVACIÓN

Recorrido docente • SB Botanic Garden • Gratis con entrada • 11am lunes, 1/30.

DIVERSITY IN THE GARDEN

Docent tour on native plants • SB Botanic Garden • Free with admission • 2pm Mo, 1/30.

DIVERSIDAD EN EL JARDÍN

Recorrido docente sobre plantas nativas • SB Botanic Garden • Gratis con entrada • 2pm lunes, 1/30.

MUSIC | MÚSICA

SEA WOLF

Alternative/indie concert • SOhO • $15 • www.sohosb.com • 7:30pm Tu, 1/31.

SEA WOLF

MADRES UNIDAS

Spanish-language mother resource group • Eastside Library • Free • 10:30-11:30am Tu, 1/31.

MADRES UNIDAS Grupo de recursos para madres en español • Biblioteca Eastside • Gratis • 10:30-11:30am martes, 1/31.

WHY WE FEEL WE OWE OUR PARENTS FOR THEIR SACRIFICES

Webinar by writer & scholar Mimi Khúc • UCSB MultiCultural Center • Free • https://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu • 4pm Tu, 1/31.

POR QUÉ SENTIMOS QUE DEBEMOS A NUESTROS PADRES POR SUS SACRIFICIOS

Seminario web del escritor y erudito Mimi Khúc • UCSB MultiCultural Center • Gratis • https://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu • 4pm martes, 1/31.

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD

Provide input on library programming • Eastside Library • Free • 4-5pm Tu.

CONSEJO ASESOR DE ADOLESCENTES

Proporcionar información sobre la programación de la biblioteca • Biblioteca Eastside • Gratis • 4-5pm martes.

CHAUCER’S AUTHOR TALK

With author Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius • Chaucer’s Books • Free • 6pm Tu, 1/31.

CHARLA DEL AUTOR DE CHAUCER’S

Con el autor Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius • Chaucer’s Books • Gratis • 6pm martes, 1/31.

Concierto alternativo/indie • SOhO • $15 • www.sohosb.com • 7:30pm martes, 1/31.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

SANTA BARBARA FARMERS MARKET

Shop fresh, local produce and treats • 600, 700, & 800 blocks of State Street • Free • 3-7pm Tu.

MERCADO DE AGRICULTORES

DE SANTA BÁRBARA

Compra productos frescos, locales y golosinas • 600, 700, & 800 cuadras de la calle State • Gratis • 3-7pm martes.

Wednesday • miércoles 2.1

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS CONFERENCIAS | REUNIONES

1 MILLION CUPS

Virtually network with entrepreneurs • www.1millioncups.com/santabarbara • Free • 9-10am We.

1 MILLÓN DE TAZAS

Red virtual con emprendedores • www.1millioncups.com/santabarbara • Gratis • 9-10am miércoles.

LE CERCLE FRANÇAIS

French conversation, all levels • Arnoldi’s Cafe, 600 Olive St. • http://sbfrenchgroup.yolasite.com • Free • 5-7pm We.

EL CÍRCULO FRANCÉS

Conversación en francés, todos los niveles • Arnoldi’s Cafe, 600 Olive St. • http://sbfrenchgroup.yolasite.com • Gratis • 5-7pm miércoles.

VIRTUAL CRIME BOOK CLUB

Discuss When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole • SB Public Library • Free:

Photo courtesy of SB Museum of Art

Photo courtesy of Edward Giron

Safari Local

KNIT 'N' NEEDLE

Knit and embroider with others • Montecito Library • Free • 2-3:30pm Th.

TEJIDO CON AGUJA

An Evening with Amor Towles

In Person & Online Activities for Everyone

CONTINUES / CONTINÚA

Actividades en persona y en línea para todos

Vlad De Briansky

Blending jazz, blues, and rock for an engaging concert experience, Ukrainian-American guitarist Vlad De Briansky will bring his Dreamland Blues Tour to the Lobero Theatre at 7:30pm on Wednesday, February 1st. Dedicated to Ukraine and its people, the tour will donate half of its ticket sales to supporting Ukrainian refugees.

Safari Local

In Person & Online Activities for Everyone

Actividades en persona y en línea para todos

For tickets ($35-55) visit www.lobero.org

Vlad De Briansky

Combinando jazz, blues y rock para una atractiva experiencia de concierto, el guitarrista ucraniano-estadounidense Vlad De Briansky traerá su Dreamland Blues Tour al Teatro Lobero a las 7:30 pm el miércoles, 1 de febrero. Dedicada a Ucrania y su gente, la gira donará la mitad de la venta de entradas para apoyar a los refugiados ucranianos. Para boletos ($35-55) visita www.lobero.org

https://tinyurl.com/ysudtayy • 5pm We, 2/1.

CLUB DE LECTURA VIRTUAL SOBRE CRÍMENES

Discute When No One is Watching por Alyssa Cole • Biblioteca pública de SB • Gratis: https://tinyurl.com/ysudtayy • 5pm miércoles, 2/1.

A FOREST JOURNEY CONVERSATION

Environmental talk by UCSB Visiting Scholar John Perlin & Asst. Professor Robert Heilmayr • SB Museum of Natural History • Free, RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/mrypkas9 • 6:30pm We, 2/1.

UNA CONVERSACIÓN SOBRE UN

VIAJE POR EL BOSQUE

Charla ambiental a cargo del académico visitante de UCSB John Perlin & Asst. Profesor Robert Heilmayr • SB Museum of Natural History • Gratis, Reserva tu lugar: https://tinyurl.com/mrypkas9 • 6:30pm miércoles, 2/1.

MUSIC | MÚSICA

VLAD DE BRIANSKY

Ukrainian-American blues guitarist • Lobero Theatre • $35-55 • www.lobero.org • 7:30pm We, 2/1.

VLAD

DE BRIANSKY

Guitarrista de blues ucranianoamericano • Lobero Theatre • $35-55 • www.lobero.org • 7:30pm miércoles, 2/1.

OUTDOORS | AL AIRE LIBRE

HIKE ARROYO HONDO PRESERVE

Mon & Wed, 12:30-3pm and the first & third weekends, Sat & Sun 10am12:30pm and 12:30pm-3pm. Free • https://tinyurl.com/ya3pgxge

Teje y borda con otros • Biblioteca Montecito • Gratis • 2-3:30pm jueves.

CRAFTERNOONS

All ages craft workshop • Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. • $8 • https://tinyurl.com/4xp8vtud • 3:305pm Th.

TARDES DE ARTESANÍA

Taller de manualidades para todas las edades • Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. • $8 • https://tinyurl.com/4xp8vtud • 3:30-5pm jueves.

ISAAC JULIEN’S ONCE AGAIN… (STATUES NEVER DIE)

Professor Isaac Julien discusses his new film • UCSB IHC • McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB • Free • www.ihc.ucsb.edu • 4-6pm Th, 2/2.

UNA VEZ MÁS DE ISAAC JULIEN… (LAS ESTATUAS NUNCA MUEREN)

El profesor Isaac Julien discute su nueva película • UCSB IHC • Sala de conferencias McCune, 6020 HSSB • Gratis • www.ihc.ucsb.edu • 4-6pm jueves, 2/2.

READING FOR OUR LIVES

Dive beyond the pages of modern classics such as A Gentleman in Moscow, Rules of Civility, and The Lincoln Highway when bestselling author Amor Towles joins UCSB Arts & Lectures in conversation at 7:30pm on Thursday, February 2nd at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. For tickets ($10-35) visit www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

Una velada con Amor Towles

Sumérgete más allá de las páginas de los clásicos modernos como A Gentleman in Moscow, Rules of Civility y The Lincoln Highway cuando el exitoso autor Amor Towles se una a UCSB Arts & Lectures en una conversación a las 7:30 pm el jueves, 2 de febrero en el Campbell Hall de UCSB. Para boletos ($10-35) visita www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

AN EVENING WITH AMOR TOWLES

Talk by A Gentleman in Moscow

author • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Campbell Hall • $10-35 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm Th, 2/2.

PRESIDIO A LA LUZ DE LAS VELAS

Escucha historias de Chumash, aprende sobre Japantown de SB, disfruta de la música y más • El Presidio • SB Trust for Historic Preservation • Gratis • 5-8pm jueves, 2/2.

LA RESERVA ARROYO HONDO

Los lunes y miércoles de 12:30-3pm y el primer y tercer fin de semana del mes, sábados y domingos 10am-12:30pm y de 12:30pm-3pm. La visita es gratuita • https://tinyurl.com/ya3pgxge

Thursday • jueves 2.2

CHILDREN | NIÑOS

BILINGUAL SONGS AND STORIES

For kids ages 0-5 • Eastside Library • Free • 11-11:30am Th.

CANCIONES E HISTORIAS BILINGÜES

Para niños de 0 a 5 años • Biblioteca Eastside • Gratis • 11-11:30am jueves.

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

CONFERENCIAS | REUNIONES

2023 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

& REGIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS

Luncheon by SB South Coast Chamber of Commerce • Hilton SB Plaza del Sol • $125 • www. sbscchamber.com • 11:30pm Th, 2/2.

REUNIÓN ANUAL DE MIEMBROS

Y PREMIOS COMERCIALES

REGIONALES DE 2023

Almuerzo de SB South Coast Chamber of Commerce • Hilton SB Plaza del Sol • $125 • www.sbscchamber.com • 11:30pm jueves, 2/2.

ENGLISH CONVERSATION GROUP

Practice naturally • Eastside Library • Free • 1-2pm Th.

GRUPO DE CONVERSACIÓN EN INGLÉS

Practica naturalmente • Biblioteca Eastside • Gratis • 1-2pm jueves.

Talk by author Maya Payne • Gateway Educational Services • La Cumbre Junior High • Free • RSVP: https:// tinyurl.com/2j4jd49h • 5pm taco truck; 6:30pm lecture, Th, 2/2.

LECTURA PARA NUESTRAS VIDAS

Charla del autor Maya Payne • Gateway Educational Services • La Cumbre Junior High • Gratis • Reserva tu lugar: https://tinyurl. com/2j4jd49h • 5pm camión de tacos; 6:30pm conferencia, jueves, 2/2.

REIMAGINING THE MUSEUM Art Matters Lecture with Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, PhD • SB Museum of Art, Mary Craig Auditorium • $10-15 • www.sbma.net • 5:30pm Th, 2/2.

REIMAGINANDO EL MUSEO Conferencia Art Matters con JanLodewijk Grootaers, PhD • SB Museum of Art, Auditorio Mary Craig • $10-15 • www.sbma.net • 5:30pm jueves, 2/2.

UNA VELADA CON AMOR TOWLES Charla con el autor de A Gentleman in Moscow • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Campbell Hall • $10-35 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm jueves, 2/2.

MUSIC | MÚSICA

THE "GET TOGETHER" CONCERT Tribute honoring festival leaders lost in 2021 • Lobero Theatre • $46-81 • www.lobero.org • 8:30pm Th, 2/2.

CONCIERTO "JUNTOS" Homenaje a los líderes del festival perdido en 2021 • Lobero Theatre • $46-81 • www.lobero.org • 8:30pm jueves, 2/2.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

PRESIDIO BY CANDLELIGHT Hear Chumash stories, learn about SB’s Japantown, enjoy music, and more • El Presidio • SB Trust for Historic Preservation • Free • 5-8pm Th, 2/2.

It’s Your Library • Es Tu Biblioteca

We

HORA DE CUENTOS WIGGLY • Para niños pequeños de 14 meses a 3 años • Central Library ~ 10:15-10:45am miércoles

BABY AND ME • For babies 0-14

months • Central Library ~ 11-11:30am We • Eastside Library ~ Bilingual ~ 1111:30am Th

EL BEBÉ Y YO • Para bebés de 0 a 14 meses • Central Library ~ 11-11:30am miércoles • Eastside Library ~ Bilingüe ~ 11-11:30am jueves

LIBRARY ON THE GO • Visit the library’s

van • Carrillo Castillo Commuter Lot ~ 10am-12pm Tu, 1/31 • SB Biergarten ~ 6-7pm Tu, 1/31 • Harding School ~ 12-2:45 We, 2/1 • Cold Spring School ~ 3:30-5:30pm We, 2/1

LIBRARY ON THE GO • Visita la camioneta de la biblioteca • Carrillo Castillo Commuter Lot ~ 10am-12pm martes, 1/31 • SB Biergarten ~ 6-7pm martes, 1/31 • Harding School ~ 12-2:45 miércoles, 2/1 • Cold Spring School ~ 3:30-5:30pm miércoles, 2/1

READ TO A DOG • For grades 3-6 • Eastside Library ~ 3-4pm We.

LEE A UN PERRO • For grades 3-6 • Eastside Library ~ 3-4pm miércoles.

Santa Barbara Ghost Tours

Photo courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

Photo courtesy of Lobero Theatre

Friday • viernes 2.3

MUSIC | MÚSICA

FACULTY CONCERT

Chamber music concert • Westmont College, Deane Chapel • Free • 7pm Fr, 2/3.

CONCIERTO DE LA FACULTAD

Concierto de música de cámara • Westmont College, Deane Chapel • Gratis • 7pm viernes, 2/3.

PINK MARTINI

Elegant, multi-lingual concert • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Granada Theatre • $2066 • www.granadasb.org • 8pm Fr, 2/3.

PINK MARTINI

Concierto elegante y multilingüe • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Granada Theatre • $20-66 • www.granadasb.org • 8pm viernes, 2/3.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

CHOCOLATE

& ART WORKSHOPS

Make a chocolate bar and/or paint a chocolate box • Menchaca Chocolates Factory, 4141 State St. E-1 • Call 646-3697277 • www.menchacachocolates.com • 3-7pm every other Fri.

TALLERES DE CHOCOLATE Y ARTE

Haz una barra de chocolate y/o pinta una caja de chocolate • Menchaca Chocolates Factory, 4141 State St. E-1 • Llama 646-369-7277 • www.menchacachocolates.com • 3-7pm cada otro viernes.

TYPEWRITER VALENTINES

Card-making workshop • Art From Scrap • $25 • RSVP: https://tinyurl. com/mwwpwsm2 • 6-8pm Fr, 2/3.

MÁQUINA DE ESCRIBIR DE SAN VALENTÍN

Taller de fabricación de tarjetas • Art From Scrap • $25 • Reserva tu lugar: https://tinyurl.com/mwwpwsm2 • 6-8pm viernes, 2/3.

Saturday

•

DANCE | BAILE

sábado 2.4

THE FARALLONITES

Dances of the Farallon Islands lighthouse keepers • Lobero Theatre

• $25-100 • www.lobero.org • 3pm & 7pm Sa, 2/4.

LOS FARALLONITAS

Danzas de los fareros de las Islas Farallón

• Lobero Theatre • $25-100 • www.lobero.org • 3pm y 7pm sábado, 2/4.

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

CONFERENCIAS | REUNIONES

SB COUNTY EDUCATION JOB FAIR

Find local education jobs • SBCEO Auditorium • Free • www.sbceo.org/hr

• 9-11am Sa, 2/4.

FERIA DE EMPLEO DE EDUCACIÓN DEL CONDADO DE SB

Encuentra trabajos locales de educación • Auditorio de SBCEO • Gratis • www.sbceo.org/hr • 9-11am sábado, 2/4.

AN AMERICAN DREAM PANEL DISCUSSION

Panel on Japanese American incarceration during WWII • Opera SB and community partners • Faulkner Gallery • Free • 2pm Sa, 2/4.

UN PANEL DE DISCUSIÓN DEL SUEÑO AMERICANO

Panel sobre el encarcelamiento de estadounidenses de origen japonés durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial • Opera SB y socios comunitarios • Galería Faulkner • Gratis • 2pm sábado, 2/4.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

24TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF HEARTS Kentucky Derby-themed benefit luncheon for Friendship Center • Rosewood Miramar • $155 •

https://tinyurl.com/drvnb6dt • 122:30pm Sa, 2/4.

24º FESTIVAL ANUAL DE CORAZONES

Almuerzo benéfico con el tema del Derby de Kentucky para el Friendship Center • Rosewood Miramar • $155 • https://tinyurl.com/drvnb6dt • 122:30pm sábado, 2/4.

OFF THE RECORD: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION Talk/private dinner with actors Anthony Edwards and Cady Huffman, benefit for CommUnify • El Encanto • $1,000 • https://tinyurl.com/28tkbstn • 4pm Sa, 2/4.

EXTRAOFICIALMENTE: UNA CONVERSACIÓN ÍNTIMA Charla/cena privada con los actores Anthony Edwards y Cady Huffman, a beneficio de CommUnify • El Encanto • $1,000 • https://tinyurl.com/28tkbstn • 4pm sábado, 2/4.

MARDI GRAS 2023

Festive dinner benefit for CASA of SB County • Craft House at Corque Hotel • $150-250 • www.sbcasa.org/ mardigras • 5pm Sa, 2/4.

MARDI GRAS 2023

cena benéfica para CASA del condado de SB • Craft House at Corque Hotel • $150-250 • www.sbcasa.org/mardigras • 5pm sábado, 2/4.

Sunday • domingo 2.5

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS CONFERENCIAS | REUNIONES

COFFEE WITH A BLACK GUY Community discussion hosted by James Joyce III • SB Black Culture House • Soul Bites Restaurant, 423 State St. • Free • 1pm Su, 2/5.

CAFÉ CON UN CHICO NEGRO Discusión comunitaria organizada

Westmont Faculty Concert

Experience the world premiere of a new work composed by Daniel Gee, director of Westmont College's choral activities, when violinist Han Soo Kim and pianist Neil Di Maggio perform a free faculty concert at Westmont's Deane Chapel at 7pm on Friday, February 3rd. Visit www.westmont.edu/music/concerts

Concierto de la facultad de Westmont

Experimenta el estreno mundial de una nueva obra compuesta por Daniel Gee, director de actividades corales de Westmont College, cuando el violinista Han Soo Kim y el pianista Neil Di Maggio realizan un concierto de la facultad gratuito en el Deane Chapel de Westmont a las 7pm el viernes, 3 de febrero. Visita www.westmont.edu/music/concerts

por James Joyce III • SB Black Culture House • Soul Bites Restaurant, 423 State St. • Gratis • 1pm domingo, 2/5.

MUSIC | MÚSICA

JOHN JORGENSON GYPSY JAZZ

QUINTET

Gypsy jazz concert • SOhO • $39-83 • www.sohosb.com • 7:30pm Su, 2/5.

JOHN JORGENSON GYPSY JAZZ QUINTET

Concierto de jazz gitano • SOhO • $39-83 • www.sohosb.com • 7:30pm domingo, 2/5.

SPECIAL EVENTS | EVENTOS ESPECIALES

SOCAL MUSEUMS FREE-FOR-ALL Free admission to 30+ museums • Locations: https://tinyurl.com/yhdh2waw

• Su, 2/5.

MUSEOS DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA GRATIS PARA TODOS

Entrada gratuita a más de 30 museos • Lista de ubicaciones: https://tinyurl.com/yhdh2waw • domingo, 2/5.

CIRQUE

FLIP FABRIQUE

Contemporary circus performance • Granada Theatre • $20-61 • www.granadasb.org • 7pm Su, 2/5.

CIRQUE FLIP FABRIQUE

Espectáculo de circo contemporáneo • Granada Theatre • $20-61 • www.granadasb.org • 7pm domingo, 2/5.

All the while, Aza yearns to be beautiful. She turns to the queen’s magic mirror for a beauty potion, transforming into a conventionally pretty maiden. However, this beauty will not save Aza from the power-hungry Ivi’s ambitions or the evil forces working within her mirror.

By Daisy Scott / VOICE

AZA ENTERED THE WORLD SINGING. Discovered as an abandoned infant wrapped in a velvet blanket and adopted by an innkeeper and his wife, Aza’s voice grows more lovely with age, making her one of the Kingdom of Ayotha’s strongest singers. However, with her cast iron hair and stature failing to meet Ayothian beauty standards, Aza finds it difficult to be seen, much less heard.

Set in the same world as Gail Carson Levine’s 1997 book Ella Enchanted, Fairest sends readers on a delightful romp through the world of fairy tales. Captivating readers with elements of Snow White, The Little Mermaid, and others, Fairest emerges as an original novel with a time-honored message: true beauty derives from one’s character.

Fairest follows Aza as she is forced into accompanying a duchess to the royal wedding of King Oscaro and his bride, Ivi. Regularly mocked by inn guests for her appearance, Aza faces great anxiety in journeying to the castle and mingling with royalty. Her anxiety increases when Queen Ivi discovers Aza’s singing voice and knack for ventriloquism, blackmailing Aza into serving as her lady-in-waiting and singing in her place for public ceremonies.

Best suited for students with a fourth grade reading level and up, Fairest serves as an apt introduction for discussing the morals and themes of fairy tales. Young readers will easily draw connections between Fairest and classic fantasy, allowing for comparisons on how stories have utilized poisoned apples, magic mirrors, fairies, and other familiar literary tools. Moreover, while other fairy tales wholeheartedly condemn their villains, Fairest extends sympathy and redemption to Ivi, revealing that her motives derived from a place of insecurity and fear rather than evil.

Aza’s story also offers students a tale of empowerment, demonstrating the value of learning to love yourself rather than ascribe to society’s judgment. In trusting herself, Aza evolves from consistent hiding and self-deprecation to being able to proudly stand before a mirror and call herself dignified — showing young readers that beauty is defined by self-worth and confidence.

Available at Chaucer’s Books and through the Santa Barbara Public Library

Photo courtesy of Amazon

Bookworm Corner is a weekly column dedicated to highlighting children’s and young adult books that carry positive messages. It is penned by Daisy Scott, a lifelong reader and lover of children’s literature who holds her degree in literature and writing from UC San Diego.

Photo courtesy of Westmont College

SBIFF to Open with World Premiere: Miranda’s Victim

Kicking off festivities with a striking world premiere, the 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival will host a screening of Miranda’s Victim at 8pm on Wednesday, February 2nd at the Arlington Theatre. A crime drama, the film follows the story of Patricia "Trish" Weir, who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by Ernesto Miranda in 1963. The subsequent case directly led to the creation of the Miranda Warning used by law enforcement nationwide. Directed by Michelle Danner, Miranda’s Victim stars a critically-acclaimed cast of seasoned actors, including Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson, Andy Garcia, and Donald Sutherland. For tickets visit www.sbiff.org

SBIFF abrirá con estreno mundial: Miranda’s Victim

Comenzando las festividades con un sorprendente estreno mundial, el 38° Festival Internacional de Cine de Santa Bárbara presentará una proyección de Miranda's Victim a las 8 pm el miércoles, 2 de febrero en el Arlington Theatre. Un drama criminal, la película sigue la historia de Patricia "Trish" Weir, quien fue secuestrada y agredida sexualmente por Ernesto Miranda en 1963. El caso subsiguiente condujo directamente a la creación de la Advertencia Miranda utilizada por las fuerzas del orden en todo el país. Dirigida por Michelle Danner, Miranda's Victim está protagonizada por un elenco de actores experimentados aclamado por la crítica, incluidos Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson, Andy García y Donald Sutherland. Para entradas visita www.sbiff.org

discapacidad • UCSB MultiCultural Center • Gratis • 5-7:30pm miércoles, 2/1.

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: EPISODES 1 & 2

director de cine Antonio Dikele Distefano y el académico y cineasta Fred Kuwornu • Carsey-Wolf Center • 7pm jueves, 2/2.

THE MALTESE FALCON

Film screening and talk by Julie M. Rivett • SBMA, Mary Craig Auditorium • $10-15 • www.sbma.net • 1:30-4pm Sa, 1/28.

EL HALCÓN MALTÉS

Proyección de la película y charla de Julie M. Rivett • SBMA, Mary Craig Auditorium • $10-15 • www.sbma.net • 1:30-4pm sábado, 1/28.

NOW, VOYAGER

Classic film screening and talk by Professor E. Ann Kaplan • Carsey-Wolf Center • Free, RSVP: www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu • 7pm Tu, 1/31.

AHORA, VIAJERO

Proyección de películas clásicas y charla de la profesora E. Ann Kaplan • Carsey-Wolf Center • Gratis: www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu • 7pm martes, 1/31.

SINS INVALID:

AN UNSHAMED CLAIM TO BEAUTY

Documentary exploring sexuality and disability • UCSB MultiCultural Center • Free • 5-7:30pm We, 2/1.

LOS PECADOS NO VÁLIDOS: UN RECLAMO

SIN VERGÜENZA A LA BELLEZA

Documental que explora la sexualidad y la

A Ken Burns documentary about the youth mental health crisis • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Campbell Hall • Free, RSVP: www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 6:30pm Tu, 1/31 & We, 2/1.

ESCONDIÉNDOSE A SIMPLE VISTA: EPISODIOS 1 Y 2

Un documental de Ken Burns sobre la crisis de salud mental juvenil • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Campbell Hall • Gratis: www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 6:30pm martes, 1/31 y miércoles, 2/1.

AUTUMN BEAT

Coming-of-age drama; followed by talk with film writer/director Antonio Dikele Distefano & scholar/filmmaker Fred Kuwornu • CarseyWolf Center • 7pm Th, 2/2.

RITMO DE OTOÑO

Drama sobre la mayoría de edad; seguido de una charla con el escritor y

MAYNARD

Screening/talk on UCSB lecturer Wendy Eley-Jackson’s documentary on Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson • SB Black Culture House • Soul Bites Restaurant • Free • 1pm Sa, 2/4.

MAYNARD

Proyección/charla sobre el documental de la profesora de UCSB Wendy Eley-Jackson sobre el alcalde de Atlanta, Maynard Jackson • SB Black Culture House • Soul Bites Restaurant • Gratis • 1pm sábado, 2/4.

Fear (R): Fri-Thur: 3:00, 5:30, 8:15.

Avatar Way of Water (PG13): Fri-Thur: 1:45/3D, 4:00, 5:45/3D, 8:00/3D.

M3GAN (PG13): Fri-Thur: 2:30, 5:15, 7:45.

Thur:

In nity Pool* (R): Fri-Thur: 2:35, 5:30, 8:15

Plane (R): Fri-Wed: 2:15, 5:10, 7:45. Thur: 2:15.

Avatar Way of Water (PG13): Fri-Wed: 1:40, 3:30/3D, 5:40, 7:30/3D. Thur: 1:40,3:30/3D, 7:30/3D..

MISSING* (PG13): Fri-Thur: 2:45, 5:20, 8:05.

M3GAN (PG13): Fri-Thur: 2:25, 5:00, 7:55.

A Knock at the Cabin* (R): Thur: 5:40, 7:00, 8:15, 9:30.

Women Talking (PG13): Fri, Mon-Thur: 4:50, 7:30. Sat/Sun: 2:15, 4:50, 7:30. The Whale (R): Fri, Mon-Thur : 4:30. Sat/Sun: 5:00, 7:45. The Son (PG13): Fri, Mon-Thur: 7:20. Sat/Sun: 2:05.

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Avatar Way of Water (PG13): Fri-Sun: 3:00, 7:00.

Tar (R): Fri, Mon-Wed: 4:40, 7:40. Sat/Sun: 1:30, 4:40,7:40. Thur: 7:40. Plane (R): Fri: 5:00, 8:10. Sat/Sun: 2:00, 5:00, 8:10.

Puss in Boots (PG): Fri, Mon-Thur: 4:30, 7:05. Sat/Sun: 1:40, 4:30, 7:05.

MISSING* (PG13): Fri, Mon-Wed: 5:10, 8:00. Sat/Sun: 2:10, 5:10, 8:00. Thur: 5:10, 8:10.

Eveything Everywhere... (PG13): Fri, Mon-Wed: 4:50, 7:50. Sat/Sun: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50. Thur: 4:50.

The Chosen: Finale (NR): Thur: 3:00, 7:00.

In nity Pool *(R): Fri, Mon, Wed: 5:15, 8:00. Sat/Sun: 2:30, 5:15, 8:00. Tue: 8:30. Thur: 7:45.

When You Finish Saving the World* (R): Fri, Mon/Tue: 5:30, 7:45. Sat/Sun: 1:40, 5:30, 7:45. Wed: 7:45. Thur: 1:40.

Elvis (PG13): Fri, Mon/Tues: 7:20.

Sat/Sun: 2:00, 7:20. Wed: 4:15. Thur: 2:00.

A Man Called Otto (PG13): Fri, Mon-Wed: 4:30, 7:30. Sat/Sun, Thur: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30.

The Fabelmans (PG13): Fri-Thur: 4:00.

80 For Brady* (PG13): Tue: 6:00. Wed: 7:00. Thur: 3:00, 5:30, 8:00.

A Knock at the Cabin* (R): Thur: 5:45, 8:15.

Gene Splicing Saved Victor Bartolome's Life

By Mark Whitehurst / VOICE

ONE INJECTION OF GENOME-EDITED DONOR STEM

CELLS changed Victor Bartolome’s life — after 30 years of cancer treatments, stress, and mental anguish. It also relieved his wife, Barbara, and their five children from the worry and distress over the health of their loving and devoted father and husband.

Both Victor and Barbara are retirees of UC Santa Barbara. They live in Santa Barbara and raised their family here, as well as home hosted 16 foreign exchange students over the years.

“It sounded unreal, like something from a science fiction movie. I thought that was pretty cool,” said Victor, 74, of the request by Dr. WenKai Weng, Lead Oncologist at Stanford University’s Cancer Center, for him to participate

in the CRISPR CAR-T Clinical Trial. The experimental treatment would make Victor one of the first humans to undergo a unique genome-editing technique which modifies stem cells to fight cancers.

Victor had been diagnosed with a rare type of Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma 30 years before. It started with a rash on his hip. After years of chemo, radiation, and topical treatments, he had been told by one Los Angeles based oncologist, who was nationally known as an expert in the disease, that there were no therapies left to treat him. It was devastating to him and his entire family.

Shortly after this tragic news, a local physician, Dr. James Kwako, made the suggestion to look into Stanford University’s Cancer Center and related that he knew of a patient that had been successfully treated there for the same disease. That referral eventually led to Bartolome’s participation in the

CRISPR CAR-T Clinical Trial at Stanford.

Barbara enthusiastically shared, “The Stanford medical team is incredibly top-level, as well as kind, caring, and supportive! Oncologist Dr. Youn-Hee Kim said to me on our first visit there, ‘I want you to know we are going to take excellent care of your husband.’ Then, she hugged me and turned and hugged Victor… and all of the eight doctors in the exam room warmly hugged each of us!”

Victor was one of only 18 patients included in the CRISPR Clinical Trial, administered in multiple medical centers in the U.S. He received the genome-edited donor stem cells on September 9th, 2021. They were easily injected through a pic line in his arm and no side-effects occurred.

On the day of his injection, they drew a blood sample that showed over 1600 cancer cells present. Just 14 days later, there were none!

– Barbara Bartolome

that showed over 1600 cancer cells present. Just 14 days later, there were none!” related Barbara, who has bravely supported and positively encouraged Victor through his 30 plus year cancer journey.

Now, after 15 months of blood tests showing no presence of Lymphoma, Victor has been declared to be in remission. The Stanford medical team will continue to monitor him for five years.

Making changes to DNA, CRISPR has increased precise editing, which can create an antiviral defense system. For developing this technique, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpetier received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the basis of a bacterial defense system.

The headquarters for the CRISPR organization is in Switzerland, with U.S. based offices and research labs in San Francisco and Boston.

“We took a gift box packed with a selection of food items from Santa Barbara based companies to the San Francisco office of CRISPR and thanked them for their contributions to the Clinical Trial’s wonderful success, explaining that Victor’s life has been saved by his participation in it. We saw tears in the eyes of the employees. We were told that they hadn’t ever met any of the patients in the trial and it was an incredibly moving experience to meet Victor. We hope to eventually travel to the other CRISPR offices with a gift box of Santa Barbara goodies to thank them all, as well,” said Barbara.

CRISPR has also conducted other successful Clinical Trials to eradicate many other diseases like Sickle Cell Anemia and a specific type of blindness.

It was determined that his Lymphoma was eradicated from his blood in 14 days. “On the day of his injection, they drew a blood sample

Victor concluded, “We sincerely hope that hearing of my whole experience gives other people who are facing cancer, or other major disease, much hope!”

Victor presented the San Francisco CRISPR team a gift box of Santa Barbara goodies to thank them.

Barbara and Victor celebrate his remission from Lymphoma!

We sincerely hope that hearing of my whole experience gives other people who are facing cancer, or other major disease, much hope!

– Victor Bartolome

10 WEST GALLERY: Food For Thought ~ March 19 • 10 W Anapamu • Thu-Sun 11-5 • 805-770-7711 • www.10westgallery.com

ARCHITECTURAL FDN GALLERY: Vein’s: Mining Family History Through Copper by Mayela Rodriguez ~ Mar 11 • 229 E Victoria • 805-9656307 • www.afsb.org

ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM • www.museum.ucsb.edu

ART FROM SCRAP GALLERY: 302 E Cota St • We 11-4; Th 11-5; Fr, Sat 11-4 • 805-884-0459 • www.exploreecology.org/art-from-scrap

THE ARTS FUND: The Kind of Mother ~ Mar 3 • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S Hope Av • Su-Thu 11-6; Fri, Sa 11-7 • www.artsfundsb.org

ATKINSON GALLERY: small images ~ Feb 15- Mar 17 • Mo-Th 11-5, Fr 11-3 • http://gallery.sbcc.edu

BELLA ROSA GALLERIES: 1103-A State St • 11-5 daily • 805-966-1707

CASA DE LA GUERRA: Haas Adobe Watercolors and Wallpaper Discoveries • $5/Free • 15 East De la Guerra St • Th-Sun 12-4 • www.sbthp.org/casadelaguerra

CASA DOLORES: The Joy of Nativity Scenes / La Alegría de los Nacimientos ~ Feb 7; A Fortune Inside My Piggy Bank / Una Fortuna Dentro De Mi Alcancía De Cochinito ~ Jan 31 - Mar 31; Bandera Ware; traditional outfits ~ ongoing • 1023 Bath St • www.casadolores.org

CHANNING PEAKE GALLERY: Stepping Out! by the SB Art Assoc ~ Jan 30 • 1st fl, 105 E Anacapa St • 805-568-3994

CLAY STUDIO GALLERY: Selections from the Clay Studio Community • 9-5pm, Mon-Fri; By Appt • 1351 Holiday Hill Rd • 805-565-CLAY • www.claystudiosb.org

CORRIDAN GALLERY: Contemporary Fine Art of Santa Barbara • Central Coast Artists • 125 N Milpas • WeSa 11-6 • 805-966-7939 • www.corridan-gallery.com

CYPRESS GALLERY: Betsee Talavera Retrospective ~ Jan 29; Quest for Hidden Gems of California by Susanne Schenck ~ Feb 2-28 • 119 E Cypress Av, Lompoc • Sat & Sun 1-4 • 805-737-1129 • www.lompocart.org

EL PRESIDIO DE SANTA BÁRBARA: Nihonmachi Revisited; Memorias y Facturas • 123 E Canon Perdido St • Th-Sun 11-4 • www.sbthp.org/presidio

ELVERHØJ MUSEUM: Ephemera In Form ~ Feb 4-May 7 • 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang • 805-686-1211 • ThMo 11-5 • www.elverhoj.org

FAULKNER GALLERY • 40 E Anapamu St • 805-962-7653

GALLERY 113: Members of SB Art Assn • 1114 State St, #8, La Arcada Ct • 805-965-6611 • Mo-Sa 11-5; Sun 1-5 • www.gallery113sb.com

GALLERY LOS OLIVOS: Winter Salon ~ Jan 31 • Thu-Mo 10-5 • www.gallerylosolivos.com • 805-688-7517

GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: 805.969.9990 • www.lotusland.org

GOLETA VALLEY LIBRARY: 500 N. Fairview Ave • Tu-Thu: 10-7pm; Fri & Sa 10-5:30pm; Su 1-5pm • www.TheGoletaValleyArtAssociation.org

HELENA MASON ART GALLERY: 48 Helena Av • 11-5pm Wed-Mon • www.helenamasonartgallery.com

JAMES MAIN FINE ART: 19th & 20th Fine art & antiques • 27 E De La Guerra St • Tu-Sa 12-5 • Appt Suggested • 805-962-8347

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY & MUSEUM: 21 W Anapamu • We-Su 12-4 • 805-962-5322 • https://karpeles.com/museums/sb.php

KATHRYNE DESIGNS: Local Artists • 1225 Coast Village Rd, A • M-Sa 10-5; Su 11-5 • 805-565-4700

LA CUMBRE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: Three Multi-Artist Galleries at La Cumbre Plaza - Celebrating Three Years! • Tues-Sun noon-5 • lacumbrecenterforcreativearts@gmail.com

LEGACY ART SANTA BARBARA: Artwork of Susy and Carroll Barrymore • 1221 State St, #7 • 805-324-4971.

LYNDA FAIRLY CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: Thu-Su 12-4 • 865 Linden Av • 805-684-7789 • www.carpinteriaartscenter.org

MARCIA BURTT STUDIO: Holiday Exhibition - paintings and photographs by gallery artists ~ Jan 29 • 517 Laguna St • Th-Su 1-5 • 805-962-5588 • www.artlacuna.com

MAUNE CONTEMPORARY: Santa Barbara Group Exhibition: Andrew Catanese and Taher Jaoui • 1309 State St • Tu-Su 11-5 & By appt • 805-869-2524 • www.maune.com

MOXI, THE WOLF MUSEUM: Exploration + Innovation • Daily 10-5 • 805-770-5000 • 125 State St • www.moxi.org

MUSEUM OF SENSORY & MOVEMENT EXPERIENCES: La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S. Hope Av #F119 • www.seehearmove.com

MY PET RAM: 16 Helena Av • Fri-Sun noon-7pm • www.mypetram.com

PALM LOFT GALLERY: Three old trees ~ Feb 5 • 410 Palm Av, Loft A1, Carp • By Appt • 805-684-9700 • www.Palmloft.com

PEREGRINE GALLERIES: Early California and American paintings; fine vintage jewelry • 1133 Coast Village Rd • 805-252-9659 • www.Peregrine.shop

PORTICO GALLERY: Open Daily • 1235 Coast Village Rd • 805-7298454 • www.porticofinearts.com

SANTA BARBARA ART WORKS: Artists with disabilities programs, virtual exhibits • 805-260-6705 • www.sbartworks.org

SANTA BARBARA FINE ART: Winter Show ~ Spring • 1321 State St • MoSa 12-5; Su 12-4 • 805-845-4270 • www.santabarbarafineart.com

SB BOTANIC GARDEN: Interlopings: Colors in the Warp and Weft of Ecological Entanglements by Helén Svensson and Lisa Jevbratt ~ Mar 12 • 1212 Mission Canyon Rd • 10-5 daily • 805-682-4726 • www.sbbg.org

SB HISTORICAL MUSEUM: Clarence Mattei: Portrait of a Community; Memories of Mountain Drive: SB’s Bohemian Community ~ Feb 28; The Story of SB • 136 E De la Guerra • Thur 12-5, Fri 12-7; Sat 12-5 • 805966-1601 • www.sbhistorical.org

SB MARITIME MUSEUM: The Chumash, Whaling, Commercial Diving, Surfing, Shipwrecks, First Order Fresnel Lens, and Santa Barbara Lighthouse Women Keepers ~ Ongoing • 113 Harbor Way, Ste 190 • Thu-Su 10-5 • 805-962-8404 • www.SBMM.org

SB MUSEUM OF ART: Stillness ~ Feb 5; Portrait of Mexico Today; Highlights of East Asian ArtOngoing • Tu-Su, 11-5; Thu, 11-8 • www.sbma.net • 805-963-4364

SB MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Native People Through Lens of Edward Curtis ~ Apr 30 • Wed-Sun 10-5 • 2559 Puesta del Sol • www.sbnature.org

SANTA BARBARA SEA CENTER

Dive In: Our Changing Channel ~ Ongoing • Daily 10-5 • 805-6824711 • 211 Stearns Wharf •

www.sbnature.org

SANTA BARBARA TENNIS CLUB: Abstract 10 ~ Mar 1 • 9-7 daily • 2375 Foothill Rd • 805-682-4722 • www.2ndfridaysart.com

SILO 118: 118 Gray St • 12-5 Th-Sa/ by appt • www.silo118.com

SULLIVAN GOSS: The Search For Modern West ~ Feb 20; Regenerate: The Works of J. Bradley Greer and Lynda Weinman ~ Mar 27 • 11 E Anapamu St • 805-730-1460 • www.sullivangoss.com

SUSAN QUINLAN DOLL & TEDDY BEAR MUSEUM: 122 W. Canon Perdido • Fr-Sa 11-4; Su-Th by appt • 805-687-4623 • www.quinlanmuseum.com

SYV HISTORICAL MUSEUM & CARRIAGE HOUSE: Art Of The Western Saddle • 3596 Sagunto St, Santa Ynez • Sa, Su 12-4 • 805-688-7889 • www.santaynezmuseum.org

TAMSEN GALLERY: Work by Robert W. Firestone • 911.5 State St, 805705-2208 • www.tamsengallery.com

THOMAS REYNOLDS GALLERY: Ruth Ellen Hoag: Journey and eye am: 47 paintings of the eyes of endangered species by Caroline Thompson and Nancy Taliaferro; Western Edge ~ Feb 2 Mar 25 • Th-Sat 12-5; By Appt • 1331 State St • www.thomasreynolds.com

UCSB LIBRARY: www.library.ucsb.edu

VOICE GALLERY: Nudes & New Work for the New Year ~ Jan 30; Rendezvous ~ Feb 2-28 • La Cumbre Plaza H-124 • 805-965-6448

WATERHOUSE GALLERY: Notable CA & National Artists • La Arcada Ct, 1114 State St, #9 • 11-5 Mon-Sat, 12-4 Sun • 805-962-8885 • www.waterhousegallery.com

WESTMONT RIDLEY-TREE MUSEUM OF ART: ENTANGLED: Entangled ~ March 25 • 805-565-6162 • Mo-Fr 10-4; Sat 11-5 • www.westmont.edu/museum

WILDLING MUSEUM: Wildlife on the Edge: Hilary Baker ~ Mar 6; Portals & Pathways by Kerrie Smith ~ February 2023 • 1511 B Mission Dr, Solvang • www.wildlingmuseum.org

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Art Events

Eventos de Arte

SELF PORTRAITS FEATURING ARTISTS WITH DISABILITIES • SB

Art Works show and reception • Isla Vista Community Center • Free • 4-7pm Sa, 1/28.

AUTORRETRATOS CON ARTISTAS CON DISCAPACIDADES • Muestra

y recepción de SB Art Works • Isla Vista Community Center • Gratis • 4-7pm sábado, 1/28.

THE MULTICULTURAL CENTER’S 35TH ANNIVERSARY: AN MCC STAFF ART EXHIBITION • Opening reception with artists • UCSB MultiCultural Center Gallery/ Lounge • Free • 6-8pm Th, 2/2.

EL 35 ANIVERSARIO DEL CENTRO MULTICULTURAL: UNA EXPOSICIÓN DE ARTE DEL PERSONAL DE MCC • Recepción de apertura con artistas • UCSB MultiCultural Center Gallery/Lounge • Gratis • 6-8pm jueves, 2/2.

SB ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW • Local artists & artisans • 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd., SB • 10am-5pm Sundays.

EXPOSICIÓN DE ARTES Y ARTESANIAS SB • De artistas y artesanos locales • 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd., SB • 10am-5pm los domingos.

Send your art openings, receptions, and events to Art@VoiceSB.com to be included in this free listing. Envía tus inauguraciones de arte, recepciones, y eventos a Art@VoiceSB.com para ser incluido en este listado gratuito.

Where

Lori Murray, SVP Thirty three years of banking on the Central Coast

Roundtable

Isaac Julien’s Once Again… (Statues Never Die)

2FEB THU

4:00 – 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Discussion: ISAAC JULIEN

Join us for a discussion with Isaac Julien about his process of creating Once Again… (Statues Never Die) . Commissioned by the Barnes Foundation on the occasion of its 100th Anniversary in 2022, Julien’s immersive, black-and-white, five-screen, on-site video installation Once Again… (Statues Never Die) brings to light the relationship between Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who was an early U.S. collector and exhibitor of African material culture, and the famed African American philosopher and cultural critic Alain Locke, known as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance.” A reception will follow.

Discussants will include Mark Nash, Professor at UC Santa Cruz, and Jeffrey Stewart, Distinguished Professor and MacArthur Foundation Chair in Black Studies and Interim Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UCSB. Susan Solt, Distinguished Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz, will moderate.

Sir Isaac Julien KBE RA is Distinguished Professor of the Arts at UC Santa Cruz, where he also leads the Isaac Julien Lab together with Arts Professor Mark Nash. Julien is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award 2017. Most recently, he was awarded a Kaiserring Goslar Award in 2022, and was granted a knighthood as part of the Queen’s Honours List in 2022.

Attendees will receive a link to the film in its single-screen format.

Top image: An installation view of Isaac Julien’s Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die) at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Photo: Henrik Kam. Courtesy of the artist. Portrait of Isaac Julien by Thierry Bal Sponsored by the IHC’s Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment and the UCSB Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

To learn more about Once Again… (Statues Never Die) and to view a trailer, visit bit.ly/Julien-IHC www.ihc.ucsb.edu