VOICE Magazine: September 18, 2020

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Billy Strings

Rhiannon Giddens

Vivek H. Murthy, MD

Mike Birbiglia

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China Forbes & Thomas Lauderdale

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SB Airport Director Henry Thompson knows SBA remains essential during the pandemic

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In This Issue Community News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6, 15, 17, 21 Harlan Green: Economic VOICE. . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 18 *Coping with COVID: Thoughts from Pico Iyer. . . . . . 7 *Housing Choice Voucher Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 *The Ticket: A SB Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11, 20 Sigrid Toye: Harbor Voice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 John Palminteri’s Community VOICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 *Creek Week Begins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Community Market. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19 SBAOR President Staci Caplan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Galleries & Art Venues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 - 2 3 * Español y Inglés Find the Voice Digital Edition with additonal stories and advertising online at www.VoiceSB.com

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YOUR GOOD TRENDS IN POPULAR PICTURES P H O T O G R A P H Y LIVE VIA ZOOM MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 28 | 5 PM In her new book, Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, art historian Kim Beil traces 50 stylistic trends through 175 years of photographic practice. In this conversation via Zoom, she discusses elements of contemporary pictures that seem unassailably good, and shows that these judgments are actually recent developments, which overturn decades of previous advice on how to make good pictures.

In the second half of the program, Beil comments on pictures submitted in advance by the audience, placing family photos (1880–1980) in the context of photo history. To have your photos included in the conversation, send images to communityprograms@sbma.net by 9/21.

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Celebrate Santa Barbara’s 21st Annual

Creek Week September 19 - 26

Coastal Cleanup Month!

Every Saturday in September 9am - 12pm

This year Coastal Cleanup Day is becoming Coastal Cleanup Month! Clean up your neighborhood, favorite park, trail, or beach.

Learn more and sign up to participate at exploreecology.org/ccd. Don’t forget to collect and submit cleanup data!

Wednesday, September 23 Watershed Wednesdays: Live Creek Walk Time TBA - Watch on Facebook!

Join the City of SB Creeks Division on Facebook Live for a creek walk and talk about creek and ocean water quality. Details to come! Like us at Facebook.com/SBCreeks. For more information contact Liz Smith at LSmith@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

Carpinteria Dune & Shoreline Management Public Workshop 5:30pm Online

Saturday, September 19

Join the City of Carpinteria for a virtual public workshop on this exciting new project. To RSVP and receive link to join the meeting, contact Erin Maker at erinm@ci.carpinteria.ca.us or Marie Laule at marie.laule@woodplc.com.

Higgins Spring Weed Day

10am, Carpinteria Tar Pits Park

All ages welcome! Wear a mask and maintain social distancing. Help Carpinteria Tar Pits Stewards remove invasive weeds. Bring gloves and digging tools. Meet at Tar Pits Park sign at south end of Carpinteria State Beach or over railroad tracks at the end of Calle Ocho. Contact Andrea Adams-Morden at (805) 886-4382 for more information.

Monday, September 21 Eco-Film Nights Kiss the Ground Premiere

8:30pm, West Wind Drive-In

Join SB Permaculture Network and Ojai’s Big Picture Ranch filmmakers Josh & Rebecca Tickell. Admission is $10 per person or $20 per car (cash only, pay at event).

Admission kiosk opens at 7:30pm. For more information visit sbpermaculture.org.

Watershed Restoration in SB County: A Progress Report 6:30pm on Zoom

Join SB Urban Creeks Council and South Coast Habitat Restoration’s Mo Gomez for a progress report on watershed restoration efforts. Learn more at sb-urbancreeks.org/events.

Film Screening Public Trust - The Fight for America’s Public Lands

2 Showings, 7:15pm and 9:15pm, West Wind Drive-In Join UCSB Arts & Lectures for FREE film screenings. Gates open at 6pm. Arrive early for food trucks and concessions. For more information visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

Creek Week Cross Stitch Let’s Get Crafty! Share your project with us on Facebook or Instagram tagged with #sbcreekweek! Get the pattern at bit.ly/cwcrossstitch.

Storm Drain Chalk Art Contest

Winners Selected Monday 9/28 Grab your sidewalk chalk and create art at your nearest storm drain. Share a pic on Facebook or Instagram tagged with #sbcreekweek for a chance at fun prizes! Pick up free chalk Saturday 9/19 11am-2pm at Art From Scrap (while supplies last) at Garden & Cota. Learn more at Facebook.com/sbcreekweek.

Thursday, September 24 Don’t Move a Mussel! Virtual Lunch & Learn 12pm on Zoom

Join the SB Zoo to learn about the dangers of aquatic hitchhikers and how you can get involved in invasive species work. Register at sbzoo.org/event.

Mission Canyon Crisis Community Forum 7pm on Zoom

Join SB Urban Creeks Council for a panel discussion on public safety and ecological restoration issues associated with SCE’s September 2019 grading of the Tunnel Trail along Mission Creek. Learn more at sb-urbancreeks.org/events.

North Campus Open Space

Self-Guided Tour Tour UCSB’s North Campus Open Space Restoration (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course) at your convenience.

View the map on your smart phone with the QR code here, or get the printable map at ccber.ucsb.edu.

The site is open dawn until dusk, 6969 Whittier Dr. in Goleta.

Visit sbcreekweek.com or Facebook.com/sbcreekweek for newly added events!

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UCSB Arts & Lectures to Launch HOUSE CALLS on September 24th

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By Caitlin O’Hara / UCSB Arts & LEctures

NEW SUITE OF VIRTUAL EVENTS will carry on UCSB Arts & Lectures’ mission to “entertain, educate, and inspire” as the fall season rolls out online. On September 24th, Arts & Lectures will launch its new House Calls series of 15 digital events.

“We’re putting extra emphasis on the entertainment and the

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Bluegrass Guitar Hero Billy Strings | Thurs., Sept. 24 | 5pm, Pacific

Nashville-based Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell | Thurs., Oct. 1 |5pm, Pacific

Special Gratitude Concert with Rising Stars of Britain’s Classical Scene Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello & Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano | Sun., Nov. 22 | 5pm, Pacific (available to stream for seven days) FREE for all House Calls ticket buyers

inspiration – we think it’s time to have fun and get fired up!” exploration to fashion something altogether his own. Strings’ shared Celesta M. Billeci, A&L’s Miller must-see act for fans of both bluegrass McCune Executive Director. and rock alike will be followed by a These are intimate, interactive Q&A with the future of bluegrass online concerts, conversations, and himself. Event sponsored in part by Q&As that you won’t find anywhere Russell Steiner. else. Events will include music by Billy Take your Billy Strings House Calls Strings, Jason Isbell, Nathaniel Rateliff, experience to the next level – order and Rhiannon Giddens; lectures by a curated dinner from The Lark.

19th U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD; Financial Times Restaurant links will be available on the A&L website.

U.S. Editor Gillian Tett; and bestselling author Next up will be Nashville-based SingerAnne Lamott; comedian Mike Birbiglia; and songwriter Jason Isbell on Thurs., Oct. 1st at more!

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A&L invites you to stay home this fall, Variety writes that Isbell is “an artist who sets and let them come to you. From Nottingham an imposingly high bar, then routinely clears it to Nashville, Denmark to Denver, Ireland to again and again.”

Hawai’i and from New York to right here in Among the most prominent figures working California, House Calls will deliver performance, in Americana today, four-time Grammy conversation, thoughtful analysis, and witty Award-winner Isbell reigns as one of the genre’s commentary streaming right to your living master craftsmen. His songs are masterclasses room. in narrative, and his albums – whether solo, Each 60-minute program combines what with his former band the Drive-By Truckers, or Bestselling Author Anne Lamott A&L’s guest excels at with an informal talk back Notes on Hope | Thurs., Jan. 14 | fronting The 400 Unit – are timeless and elegant, 5pm, Pacific session and other elements that would rarely showing his Alabama roots as he drifts between happen on stage. This is better than front row rock, country, and roots. This up-close solo seats! show and Q&A will reveal a portrait of “an artist For those who want to take their House Call to eternally searching deeper within himself” (Rolling the next level, consider supporting Santa Barbara Stone). businesses: Acme Hospitality will bring customFinancial Times U.S. Editor-at-Large Gillian crafted meals to your House Calls experience, Tett is third in line to join you in your living room featuring menus curated by The Lark Executive on Thursday, October 8th at 5pm, Pacific. “She’s Chef Jason Paluska and Loquita Executive Chef a “first-rate journalist and a good storyteller,” Nikolas Ramirez and innovative artisanal fare from according to The New York Times.

Lucky Penny for select events. Restaurant links When it comes to economics, Tett is on the will be available on the A&L website. (Order early! money. She has an unparalleled track record at Dinner options only available while supplies last.) Financial Times U.S. Editor-at- predicting important trends that impact the world And Chaucer’s Books in Loreto Plaza is your one- Large Gillian Tett | Thurs., – her fortitude and savvy had her predict the 2008 Oct. 8 | 5pm, Pacific stop local shop for books by House Calls authors. financial crisis, she foresaw the rise of populism “With artists like Jason Isbell and speakers and the electoral success of President Trump.

Find the rest of the highlights at like Pico Iyer and Annie Lamott in your living www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.Arts room, and meals from The Lark and Loquita on “As always, Arts & Lectures succeeds thanks your table, I think you’ll agree that House Calls to a web of partnerships. We’re deeply grateful to is made for Santa Barbara,” Billeci added. “We’ve all of them, as well as our members, subscribers curated these programs to match our community’s and sponsors. You are all amazing, House Calls interests and needs – and to our friends across the wouldn’t happen without you!” country or overseas, we’d be delighted to welcome you, too.”

Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea The House Calls lineup begins with bluegrass Foundation & Lou Buglioli have provided generous support of the 2020-21 season. Local media partners guitar hero Billy Strings on Thursday, September include: Santa Barbara Independent, KCRW, VOICE 24th at 5pm, Pacific.

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Americana Music Star According to Rolling Stone, “Billy Strings is the Nathaniel Rateliff, solo | Order from UCSB Arts & Lectures by phone at 805bluegrass star you don’t want to miss.”

Wed., Oct. 14 | 5pm, Pacific 893-3535 or online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB. Strings is known for his high velocity bluegrass edu. All Access Pass includes 15 events: $140. Advance tickets and flat-picking guitar technique and intense, confessional for individual events start at $10. Prices are subject to change. songwriting. Voted 2019 International Bluegrass Music Association Capacity is limited. UCSB students: FREE! (Registration required) Guitar Player of the Year, Strings isn’t afraid to look forward.

At only 27 years old, the Nashville-based artist is rewiring the genre with elements of punk, country, folk rock, and psychedelic

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Community News

Westerlay Orchids Donates Over $23,000 to Carpinteria Students

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S CARPINTERIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT has resumed classes through computer screens, students with limited access to technology have faced the threat of falling behind.

Thanks to Westerlay Orchids’ annual September fundraiser for the Carpinteria Education Foundation, however, they were able to donate a grand total of $23,819 toward providing technological resources to CUSD students amidst distance learning.

“We would not be where we are today without a strong local network behind us,” said Westerlay Orchids’ owner and President Toine Overgaag. “This community’s success is our success - we both grow and thrive when we work together - and CEF is doing a great deal to ensure that Carpinteria’s next generation gets the support and resources they need during this extremely tough time.”

From August 31st to September 5th, Westerlay Orchids pledged 100 percent of its retail shop’s showroom proceeds to CEF. A decades old local non-profit, CEF supports students in Carpinteria and Summerland by providing scholarships and other necessary resources. Now, CEF will utilize these funds to ensure that all CUSD students have access to devices and reliable internet connections as online learning continues. In raising over $23,000, Westerlay

Renee, Toine, and Kandie Overgaag present a check from Westerlay Orchids to Sally Green of the Carpinteria Education Foundation

For the past 21 years, Wilderness Youth Project has worked to serve and inspire Santa Barbara students with a passion for the outdoors. To learn more about their ongoing efforts, visit https://wyp.org.

Westmont College Continues to Score Near the Top in Rankings

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Alma Rosa Winery Continues Fundraiser for the Mental Wellness Center

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O ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN THE WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT that ensuring children get plenty of outdoor time is more important than ever. Local philanthropists Jane and Paul Orfalea and the Audacious Foundation share this belief, and have made a $100,000 donation to support the ongoing WYP Bridge to Nature program. The Orfaleas have also issued a donation matching challenge to the general community, promising to match individual donations up to $50,000 until the end of October.

“This pandemic is taking a heavy toll on children. Spending all day inside is not a healthy or happy childhood,” said Paul Orfalea. “Kids need to be outside – exercising and playing actively. We’re supporting WYP because they’re the pros when it comes to nature based learning. We hope others will join us in getting children outside safely during this pandemic with WYP’s Bridge to Nature program.”

The WYP Bridge to Nature program is currently working to provide students of working families in need of educational outdoor adventures. 350 students were selected to participate in this fall’s program by their teachers, school administrators, and community partners. Students were chosen on a highest need basis, out of an awareness that distance learning will affect low-income students differently.

The Bridge to Nature program works to provide these children with the chance to have a safe, positive, in-person learning experience outdoors during these online-oriented times.

“Low-income families who have to go to work to survive financially can’t pay for highpriced camps or private childcare like others do in our community,” said WYP Executive Director Dan Fontaine. “This funding will help us serve children who need help the most.”

To further support WYP, the Orfaleas and the Audacious Foundation will match individual donations through the end of October, up to $50,000. These funds will go toward WYP and the costs of maintaining and expanding their Bridge to Nature program.

N THE SPIRIT SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY’S MENTAL HEALTH amidst these unprecedented times, Alma Rosa Winery has launched its first annual fundraiser to support the Mental Wellness Center and One Mind. Titled “Peace of Mind — 10,000 Steps in the Right Direction,” the fundraiser began on September 10th and will continue until October 10th.

“Alma Rosa Winery and its owners, Bob and Barb Zorich, are concerned about the prevalence of depression and anxiety conditions in our society today,” reads the fundraiser’s website statement. “The Zorichs have a long history of donating their time and resources to mental health organizations around the country, and that support has taken on new relevance in recent months due to the impact of COVID-19 on individuals and communities.”

In order to maximize the impact of this fall’s fundraiser, Alma Rosa Winery and the Zorichs will match individuals’ donations up to $25,000 for both the Mental Wellness Center and One Mind. Based in Santa Barbara, the Mental Wellness Center has offered our community resources, support, and education on mental health for over 70 years. On a broader scale, One Mind supports researchers currently studying and promoting brain health diagnoses and treatments. The fundraiser’s ultimate goal is to raise $100,000 to support these organizations’ ongoing efforts.

As the title suggests, fundraiser participants are presented with the opportunity to walk 10,000 steps around the Alma Rosa Winery Estate to raise donations. After registering online with a minimum $50 donation, participants are able to use the RunGo app to hear an audio tour while they walk or run about 4.5 miles around the estate. Individuals also receive a corkscrew as a thank you gift, and have the opportunity to create their own fundraising platform to raise more donations.

As incentive, participants are able to earn raffle tickets for an Alma Rosa package gift as they meet certain fundraising goal amounts. To register, visit https://almarosawinery.com/peace-of-mind-walk.

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S STUDENTS CONCLUDE THEIR THIRD WEEK OF FALL SEMESTER CLASSES, Westmont College continues to be recognized by national ranking services for its achievements.

These achievements span across multiple areas, including alumni salaries, overall liberal arts education quality, and national rankings.

In terms of alumni accomplishments, Westmont has most recently been recognized by the compensation data company Payscale. According to Payscale’s 2020 Best Universities and Colleges

by Salary Potential list, Westmont alumni earn a median $119,800 yearly income once they are over ten years into their careers. This means that Westmont ranks higher in this area than all the other members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. On a national level, Westmont is listed in the top seven percent of four-year institutions for alumni salary rates.

Westmont has also ranked at number 113 for National Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2021 U.S. News and World Report rankings. It tied for this position with six other liberal arts colleges across the country. Westmont also increased its score in the social mobility ranking section by over 50 points. This section determines how well an institution succeeds in graduation rates of students who received federal Pell Grants. Overall, this has led Westmont to rank fourth place in California for social mobility ranking in liberal arts colleges.

Niche, a popular college ranking and review platform for students applying to higher education programs, has also honored Westmont. In Niche’s 2021 Best Liberal Arts Colleges in America list, Westmont ranks number seven in the state of California. On a national basis, Westmont ranks number 85. Considering Niche currently reviews 4,150 U.S. colleges on both academic and campus life bases, ranking so highly on both their state and national levels is a noteworthy achievement.

Westmont has also made the U.S. News Best Undergraduate Teaching for National Liberal Arts College list, which includes only 63 liberal arts colleges.

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Donation and Matching Funds Challenge Support Wilderness Youth Project

Donations can be made by visiting https://wyp.org/donate.

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Orchids has set a new record for the most money donated over the course of its annual CEF fundraiser. Last year’s 2019 fundraiser raised more than $18,000.

“I’m beyond grateful to be able to support education in any way we can,” said Overgaag.

As the largest commercial orchid provider in southern California, Westerlay Orchids regularly gives back to our community with donations to local causes, schools, and nonprofits.

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Located in Montecito, Westmont College is currently conducting online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about their campus repopulation plan or their academic programs, visit www.westmont.edu.

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Community News

Food From the Heart Continues Supporting Our Community OR 26 YEARS — OR ABOUT 1,355 WEEKS — Food From the Heart has provided weekly meal services to Goleta and Santa Barbara residents facing health challenges. This support has proven more vital than ever amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has added a new layer of difficulty to accessing food resources. Yet Food From the Heart (FFTH) and its volunteers remain dedicated to maintaining their perfect record of providing food and care to our community each week.

“We feel very good about our ability to keep our volunteers safe while continuing our important service uninterrupted,” said FFTH Executive Director Steven Sharpe. “Our clients need us now more than ever, and we are proud to say that in our 26-year existence we have never missed a weekly delivery because we know our clients depend on our bags of meals for their health and well-being. Plus, our service helps ensure they can meet their other

expenses such as rent, utilities, and medication.”

FFTH provides meal services to local residents who are lowincome and live alone while dealing with health issues, such as facing a major illness or recovering from surgery. Its team consists of about 80 volunteers who cook, prepare, and deliver meal bags out of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Santa Barbara to locals in need every week. In addition to the hours of volunteer service, FFTH receives financial support from individual donors, local foundations, and corporate sponsors. All of these efforts allow FFTH to currently provide 160 individuals, who otherwise would be unable to pay for meal services or caregiver support, healthy, quality meals each week.

“Ours is a labor of love,” said FFTH Board Chair Kelly Onnen.

“We are truly grateful that a core team of our volunteers trust the safety measures we have put in place and have continued to help.

We do miss those we do not currently see, and look forward to the day we can return to our normal mode of operation... In the meantime, we are grateful to remain operational during this challenging time, and we are thankful to the donors and foundations who have stepped up to ensure our financial stability.”

Each week, Chef Aaron Casale plans the meal bags’ contents with the overall health and nutrition of FFTH clients in mind. While the recipes vary from week to week, all bags include an entrée, a container of soup, green and cold deli salads, a casserole, bags of rolls and fresh fruit, and a dessert cake. These food items are portioned out so that the receiving client will be able to get two to four servings from each item.

In order to ensure the health and safety of both its volunteers and clients, FFTH has implemented and practiced new health and safety regulations over the course of the past months. While the organization relies on volunteer efforts, FFTH has asked individuals who are at high risk for COVID-19 to not volunteer beyond their comfort. Those volunteers who do continue helping

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are required to wear face masks and gloves throughout the entirety of their sessions. They are also asked to change their gloves and wash their hands on a frequent basis. All of the tables used in meal bag preparation are kept ten feet apart, and volunteers keep a minimum six feet distance from each other. Furthermore, since the majority of FFTH’s clients have compromised immune systems or are considered high risk for COVID-19, volunteers who deliver the meal bags have been instructed to minimize the contact they have with each client.

“It truly is inspiring to see all our volunteers here each week working diligently to ensure we can continue to feed our clients,” expressed Sharpe.

Individuals interested in supporting FFTH and their ongoing efforts can make a donation or volunteer as a meal bag preparer or deliverer. FFTH also runs a Harvesting Program, which collects donated local produce to include in their clients’ weekly meal bags.

To participate in these support opportunities, or learn more about FFTH, visit www.sbfoodfromtheheart.com.

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URT ANDERSEN’S NEW BEST SELLER, Evil Geniuses, The Unmaking of America (2020, Random House), gives a terrific history of the current Gilded Age we are suffering through that has largely benefited Big Business and its enablers.

Just since 1980, they have occasioned the transfer of some $1 trillion per year in income and wealth from salaried workers that comprise 80 percent of our workforce to corporate shareholders and business owners.

“Until 1980, America’s national split of “gross domestic income was around 60-40 in favor of workers, but then it began dropping and is now approaching 50-50. That change amounts to almost $1 trillion a year, an annual average of around $5,000 that each person with a job isn’t being paid,” said Andersen.

We know this wealth transfer to be true from other sources including that of economist Thomas Piketty, sure to be a future Nobel prize-winner in his best-seller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century that documents the history of income inequality from the last Gilded Age in the early 1900s.

Our last period of greatest inequality was at the turn of the 20th century before income taxes were instituted and President Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busters broke up the likes of Standard Oil. Piketty showed the earnings growth of capital—i.e., the owners of businesses and financial assets—has historically been more than double that from wages and salaries of employees since the Industrial Revolution; except for a short period between 1914-1945, when major upheavals and “the consequent advent of new regulations and tax policies along with controls on capital reduced capital’s share of income to historically low levels in the 1950s.”

Andersen echoes Professor Piketty’s history, showing the slow rollback of New Deal policies with the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 that marked the beginning of the conservative counterrevolution.

Andersen wants to answer the question; How can we remake America after the COVID-19 induced recession? Looking at the history of the last great pandemic, the Spanish flu of 1918-19 that killed some 600,000 Americans,

Help and encouragement after the death of a loved one will help us to understand what we should do, since we know what happened next—a recession that lasted approximately two years, then the ‘roaring twenties.’

The roaring 1920s was a euphoric surge in optimism from the devastation of World War I and that pandemic for Americans.

Credit was expanded exponentially and Americans went on a spending spree, resulting in massive bubbles in household debt and stocks that resulted in the Great Depression.

Inequality was as great then as it is today. It, unfortunately, took the Great Depression and another World War to level the playing field in the 1950s to 1970s, until the Thatcher and Reagan-induced counterrevolutions.

Who should own what share of the national wealth has been at the center of all revolutions. It has to do with, in Piketty’s words, the “respective shares of global income going to labor and capital and on how those shares have changed since the eighteenth century.”

So answering the question of who should own America is answering the question of whether our gross domestic income comes to be shared in a more equitable fashion, if we want to end this Gilded Age and preserve our democracy from future counterrevolutions.

Harlan Green © 2020 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

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Hospice of Santa Barbara’s “Coping with COVID-19” Series

“Lidiando con COVID-19” Serie de Hospice of Santa Barbara

Dear friends,

Queridos amigos,

If you were not able to join us for our annual Heroes of Hospice of Santa Barbara event with our special guest Pico Iyer, we hope that you will enjoy some personal responses to a few additional questions. During his talk, Pico Iyer talked about what opportunities might lie hidden within this season of sadness. What we might learn from a time of uncertainty, and how can we reorient lives that may have spun out of control. How loss can sometimes lead to liberation, and remind us of what truly sustains us.

Drawing on 46 years of talks with the XIVth Dalai Lama, 32 years of living in Japan, and more than half a century of visiting Santa Barbara, Iyer offered concrete tips for refreshing our habits in the light of the lock-down and advancing joyfully through a world of sorrows.

— David Selberg, CEO

Si no pudiste unirte a nosotros para nuestro evento anual Héroes de Hospice of Santa Barbara con nuestro invitado especial Pico Iyer, esperamos que disfrutes de algunas respuestas personales a algunas preguntas adicionales. Durante su charla, Pico Iyer habló sobre las oportunidades que podrían esconderse dentro de esta temporada de tristeza. Lo que podríamos aprender de un momento de incertidumbre y cómo podemos reorientar vidas que pueden haberse salido de control. Cómo la pérdida a veces puede conducir a la liberación y recordarnos lo que realmente nos sostiene.

Basándose en 46 años de conversaciones con el XIV Dalai Lama, 32 años viviendo en Japón y más de medio siglo visitando Santa Bárbara, Iyer ofreció consejos concretos para refrescar nuestros hábitos a la luz del encierro y avanzar con alegría a través de un mundo de dolores.

— David Selberg, CEO

David Selberg: What has the coronavirus taught you personally?

Pico Iyer: It’s reminded me of things I’d forgotten I’d been missing – often for years – and it’s

David Selberg: ¿Qué te ha enseñado el coronavirus personalmente?

Pico Iyer: Me ha recordado cosas que había olvidado que había perdido – a menudo durante años – y me ha

Pico Iyer: What Can Give Life Richness Pico Iyer: ¿Qué le puede dar a la vida and Meaning during a pandemic? riqueza y significado durante una pandemia?

given me the chance to think about how I wish to construct a new life that’s closer to the one I’ve always wanted. In many ways, it’s offered me the chance to take a long retreat, going inward, with few distractions, so that I can head back out into the world with a clearer sense of what I can give to it and how I can work with it.

Selberg: ¿Cuál es el efecto espiritual de la pandemia?

Iyer: Creo que la pandemia nos ha enseñado a muchos de nosotros la humildad y nos ha

Selberg: What is the spiritual effect of the pandemic?

Iyer: I think the pandemic has taught many of us humility and reminded

Selberg: How do you think the virus has impacted positive values?

Iyer: I feel this curious season has reminded all of us of what we most

recordado lo mucho que estamos a merced de fuerzas mucho más grandes que nosotros. Por supuesto, en cualquier temporada es imposible saber qué pasará mañana, o incluso esta noche, pero el coronavirus nos ha traído esto a casa con tanta urgencia que espero que nos concentremos menos en lo que queremos hacer y más en lo que servirá al conjunto general y a nuestro medio ambiente. En ese sentido, nos ha puesto de rodillas a muchos de nosotros y nos liberó de la ilusión de ser capaz de moldear el mundo según nuestras preferencias.

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us of how much we are at the mercy of forces much larger than we are. Of course, in any season it’s impossible to know what will happen tomorrow, or even tonight, but the coronavirus has brought this home to us with such urgency that I hope we will concentrate less on what we want to do and more on what will serve the larger whole and our environment. In that respect, it’s brought many of us to our knees and freed us from the illusion of being able to shape the world according to our preferences.

dado la oportunidad de pensar en cómo deseo construir una nueva vida que está más cerca de la que siempre he querido. En muchos sentidos, me ha ofrecido la oportunidad de tomar un retiro largo, ir hacia adentro, con pocas distracciones, para poder regresar al mundo con una idea más clara de lo que puedo darle y cómo puedo trabajar con él.

Selberg: ¿Cómo crees que ha afectado el virus a los valores positivos?

Iyer: Siento que esta temporada curiosa nos ha recordado a todos lo que más valoramos – lo que

value – what gives richness and meaning to our lives – and recalled to us that much of this lies far beyond our resumes or our frantic movements. It’s also, much like any disaster, but more than any I can remember, dramatized how much we can give to others and how much we depend on others. I’ve never known a time in my life when more people are more in awe of, and grateful for, those who choose to devote their lives to serving others, like those connected with Hospice institutions. It’s underlined the fact that nothing is more central than compassion and we’re only as strong as our ability to protect those around us.

da riqueza y significado a nuestras vidas – y nos ha recordado que gran parte de esto se encuentra mucho más allá de nuestros currículums o nuestros movimientos frenéticos. También es, muy parecido a cualquier desastre, pero más que cualquier otro que pueda recordar, dramatizado lo mucho que podemos dar a los demás y lo mucho que dependemos de los demás. Nunca he conocido un momento en mi vida en el que más personas se sientan más asombradas y agradecidas por aquellos que eligen dedicar sus vidas a servir a los demás, como aquellos relacionados con las instituciones de hospicio. Se subraya el hecho de que nada es más fundamental que la compasión y que somos tan fuertes como nuestra capacidad para proteger a quienes nos rodean.

Selberg: Do you see an ideological crisis regarding capitalism/or what does the crisis say about that?

Iyer: The virus is a dictator, but in some respects it’s been very democratic in its devastations,

Selberg: ¿Ves una crisis ideológica con respecto al capitalismo/o qué dice la crisis al respecto?

Iyer: El virus es un dictador, pero en algunos aspectos ha sido muy democrático en sus devastaciones,

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attacking believer and non-believer, Japanese person and American, old and young. We’re all painfully aware of how it has dramatized – and intensified – the terrible and widening gap between the haves and the have-nots, but for me it most usefully reminds us that the main challenge of the age, climate change, can be addressed only by collective action. Even as we’re all standing apart, in some ways we’re sitting together during this virus season, with most of the planet afflicted in roughly similar ways. So we’re reminded that a trans-national problem can be solved only by transnational co-operation and that we can never assume we can second-guess or control natural forces or reality itself. We have to work with them, and so try to bring reality closer to benign possibility.

Selberg: What are you grateful for you even amidst this challenging time?

Iyer: I have much to be grateful for right now, and this season has brought my attention every

hour to blessings I might otherwise take for granted. I have a roof over my head, loved ones who are alive and in relatively good health, and savings in the bank. I get to spend my days in very fortunate and protected places – Santa Barbara and Japan – and those around me have not been stripped of all prospects by the virus. Most of all, this season has reminded me of the importance of gratitude and how much we have to be thankful for even in the most difficult of times. www.hospiceofsantabarbara.org

atacando a creyentes y no creyentes, japoneses y estadounidenses, viejos y jóvenes. Todos somos dolorosamente conscientes de cómo ha dramatizado – e intensificado – la brecha terrible y cada vez mayor entre los que tienen y los que no tienen, pero para mí es más útil que nos recuerde que el principal desafío de la época, el cambio climático, sólo puede abordarse mediante la acción colectiva. Incluso cuando todos estamos separados, de alguna manera estamos sentados juntos durante esta temporada del virus, con la mayor parte del planeta afligido de maneras aproximadamente similares. De modo que se nos recuerda que un problema transnacional sólo puede resolverse mediante la cooperación transnacional y que nunca podemos asumir que podemos adivinar o controlar las fuerzas naturales o la realidad misma. Tenemos que trabajar con ellos e intentar acercar la realidad a una posibilidad benigna.

Selberg: ¿De qué estás agradecido incluso en este momento desafiante?

Iyer: Tengo mucho de qué estar agradecido en este momento, y esta temporada ha atraído mi atención cada

hora hacia bendiciones que de otro modo daría por sentadas. Tengo un techo sobre mi cabeza, seres queridos que están vivos y relativamente bien de salud, y ahorros en el banco. Puedo pasar mis días en lugares muy afortunados y protegidos – Santa Bárbara y Japón – y los que me rodean no han sido despojados de todas las perspectivas por el virus. Sobre todo, esta temporada me ha recordado la importancia de la gratitud y cuánto tenemos que estar agradecidos incluso en los momentos más difíciles. www.hospiceofsantabarbara.org

Coping with COVID-19 Series In response to the growing need to support the Greater Santa Barbara community, HSB now offers a comprehensive resource page called “Coping With COVID-19.” It includes videos and articles by our Community Education staff of dedicated experts, therapists, and clergy.

To learn more, please visit: www.hospiceofsantabarbara.org

Stay Healthy, Active, and Connected!

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Santa Barbara’s Housing Choice Voucher Program is not just for tenants: Landlords receive “pandemic-proof” benefits

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El Programa de Vales de Elección de Vivienda de Santa Bárbara no es solo para inquilinos: los propietarios reciben beneficios “a prueba de pandemias”

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ANTA BARBARA’S AWARD-WINNING HOUSING AUTHORITY A GALARDONADA AUTORIDAD DE VIVIENDA DE SANTA BÁRBARA (HACSB, (HACSB) plays a crucial role in providing safe, decent, and quality affordable por sus siglas en inglés) juega un papel crucial en la provisión de vivienda asequible segura, housing to eligible persons with limited incomes. However, many people decente y de calidad a personas elegibles con ingresos limitados. Sin embargo, es posible que - especially private property owners in need of good tenants - may not know muchas personas, especialmente los propietarios privados que necesitan buenos inquilinos, no that HACSB provides excellent benefits that can help to “pandemic-proof ” their rental sepan que HACSB brinda excelentes beneficios que pueden ayudar a que sus ingresos por alquiler income. A “Section 8” tenant is no longer viewed as a liability. In this day and age of sean “a prueba de pandemias.” Un inquilino de “Sección 8” ya no es visto como un pasivo. En esta economic fallout from COVID-19, they are considered an asset - a partner that will época de consecuencias económicas de COVID-19, se les considera un activo: un socio que hará su do their share to contribute to stable cash flow and take good care of their investment. parte para contribuir a un flujo de caja estable y cuidar bien su inversión.

How is this possible? In essence, HACSB is able to assist their clients if ¿Cómo es esto posible? En esencia, HACSB puede ayudar a sus clientes si sus their income has been reduced as a direct result of the COVID-19 crisis. ingresos se han reducido como resultado directo de la crisis de COVID-19. Los Voucher holders can send the change of income to info@hacsb.org and que tienen los vales pueden enviar el cambio de ingresos a info@hacsb.org y la the information will be forwarded to their corresponding case worker información será remitida a su trabajador del caso correspondiente para realizar el to make the change in tenant rent. Any reduction in tenant rent will be cambio en la renta del inquilino. Cualquier reducción en el alquiler del inquilino matched with an increase in the Housing Authority payment made to the será igualada con un aumento en el pago de la Autoridad de Vivienda hecho al landlord by HACSB to ensure the owner receives the full contract rent. propietario por HACSB para asegurar que el propietario reciba el alquiler completo And, the amount that’s paid by HACSB, which is the “lion’s share” of the del contrato. Y, la cantidad que paga HACSB, que es la “mayor parte” del costo del rent cost, is paid on time at the beginning of every month. alquiler, se paga a tiempo al comienzo de cada mes.

“We’d like City residents to understand that HACSB is proud of is “Nos gustaría que los residentes de la ciudad comprendan que HACSB se our success in matching qualified low-income renters with landlords to enorgullece de nuestro éxito en la vinculación de inquilinos calificados de bajos create sustainable partnerships,” said Rob Fredericks, HACSB Executive ingresos con propietarios para crear asociaciones sostenibles,” dijo Rob Fredericks, Director/CEO. “During the COVID-19 crisis, this type of mutual Director Ejecutivo / CEO de HACSB. “Durante la crisis del COVID-19, este tipo economic relationship takes on even greater importance. It’s really de relación económica mutua adquiere una importancia aún mayor. Es realmente essential to have a dependable safety net program for both tenants and esencial tener un programa de red de seguridad confiable tanto para los inquilinos Carlos Adame, Landlord landlords as we continue to see a steep rise in local unemployment and como para los propietarios a medida que continuamos viendo un fuerte aumento a reduction in federal pandemic assistance benefits. The nationwide en el desempleo local y una reducción en los beneficios federales de asistencia por trend is that incomes are dwindling, savings are being exhausted, and la pandemia. La tendencia nacional es que los ingresos están disminuyendo, los ahorros se rents are being paid late or not at all. For the property owner, this están agotando y los alquileres se pagan tarde o no se pagan. Para el dueño de la propiedad, directly translates to lost rent, potential default on rental property esto se traduce directamente en alquiler perdido, posible incumplimiento en los pagos mortgage payments, and a lower credit score. Our Housing Choice de la hipoteca de la propiedad de alquiler y una puntuación de crédito más baja. Nuestro Voucher Program makes a positive difference by halting this ‘domino Programa de Vales para Elección de Vivienda marca una diferencia positiva al detener este effect’ on both sides of the owner-tenant partnership. The tenant “efecto dominó” en ambos lados de la sociedad entre propietarios e inquilinos. El inquilino gets more financial help and the landlord continues to receive their recibe más ayuda financiera y el propietario continúa recibiendo el mismo monto de pago de same rent payment amount. This win-win approach also prevents alquiler. Este enfoque beneficioso para todos también evita el impacto devastador y duradero the devastating, long-lasting impact of homelessness at a time when de la falta de vivienda en un momento en el que tener una casa es esencial para mantenerse having a home is essential for staying healthy.” saludable.”

Private property owner Carlos Adame, has firsthand experience with the Housing El propietario de una propiedad privada, Carlos Adame, tiene experiencia de primera mano Choice Voucher Program. He shared, “I started with the Housing Authority about 15 con el Programa de Vales de Elección de Vivienda. Él compartió: “Empecé con la Autoridad de years ago. I bought this particular property and the owner at that time told me that Vivienda hace unos 15 años. Compré esta propiedad en particular y el dueño en ese momento me one of the tenants was in Section 8 and if I wanted to keep him or ask him to go out. dijo que uno de los inquilinos era de la Sección 8 y que si quería quedarme con él o pedirle que se And I said, ‘Let me try it...’ I tried it and as of now I’m still involved with them. I really saliera. Y dije: ‘Déjame probarlo ...’ Lo probé y todavía estoy involucrado con ellos. Me gusta mucho.” like it.” Adame added, “One of the benefits for me as a landlord is having the Housing Adame agregó: “Uno de los beneficios para mí como propietario es que el equipo de la Autoridad de Authority team helping me if I do need any assistance with the tenant and knowing Vivienda me ayuda si necesito ayuda con el inquilino y saber que estarán allí para mí dentro de las that they’re going to be there for me within 24 hours. The main thing to me is you can 24 horas. Para mí, lo principal es que puedes llamarlos y ellos pueden venir a ayudar de inmediato. call them and they can come and help right away. As of today I’ve had no problems.”

Hasta el día de hoy no he tenido problemas.”

“Affordable housing is the foundation for one’s life,” Fredericks related. “If you “La vivienda asequible es la base de la vida,” relató Fredericks. “Si no tienes una vivienda estable, don’t have stable housing, everything else falls apart.” The organization is actively todo lo demás se desmorona.” La organización está reclutando activamente nuevos propietarios con recruiting new landlords with qualified residential properties. “Not a lot of people propiedades residenciales calificadas. “Mucha gente no sabe que desde una vivienda compartida know that from shared housing to renting a room, to renting a studio, a 2-bedroom, hasta el alquiler de una habitación, el alquiler de un estudio, una unidad de dos o tres habitaciones, a 3-bedroom unit, we can offer rental assistance for a wide variety of housing options podemos ofrecer asistencia para el alquiler de una amplia variedad de opciones de vivienda que that translates to dependable, on-time monthly payments for the property owner,” se traducen en confiables y puntuales pagos mensuales para el propietario,” señaló Fredericks.

Fredericks noted. “We truly appreciate landlords in the Voucher Program and we “Realmente apreciamos a los propietarios del Programa de Vales y nos encantaría que más de ellos would love to have more of them participate to help us get our clients placed in stable, participaran para ayudarnos a ubicar a nuestros clientes en hogares estables y asequibles para que affordable homes so they can be great, long term community residents.” puedan ser excelentes residentes de la comunidad a largo plazo.”

Landlords and Renters In these uncertain times, discover the benefits and security of the Housing Voucher Program.

Rents are guaranteed regardless of a tenant’s loss of job or income.

Contact us today and learn more!

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Fiesta 2020

Reimagined

Thank You Santa Barbara!

El Presidente 2020 Erik Davis and the entire Board of Directors of Old Spanish Days would like to thank all the amazing sponsors, volunteers, and collaborative partners of Fiesta 2020!

Special thanks to the City and County of Santa Barbara for their generous support of Old Spanish Days Fiesta since 1924. Also, a special thank you to Santa Barbara Historical Museum, the Old Mission Santa Barbara, Goleta Valley Historical Society, the SB Zoo and Downtown Santa Barbara.

Old Spanish Days would like to give special recognition to the many dedicated OSD Committees that made Fiesta Reimagined possible. Thanks also to the Fiesta Friday musicians, the wonderful Santa Barbara dance community, the Los Niños de las Flores, Las Señoritas and their families.

Our heartfelt and immense gratitude goes out to the talented 2020 Spirit of Fiesta Alena Velasco and 2020 Junior Spirit Alexandra Nocker, as well as to the lovely 2020 Saint Barbara Teresa Kuskey Nowak.

Thanks also to our friends at KEYT, TV Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara News-Press, VOICE Magazine, The Independent, Noozhawk, edhat, Rincon Broadcasting, Montecito Journal and the Pacific Coast Business Times. We appreciate your continued support!

And finally, a big Fiesta Thank You to the Santa Barbara Community! Viva la Fiesta!

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—— A M I G O S —— The Arnoult Family Herb & Mareva Barthels David Bolton, Gonzalo Sarmiento Familia Cabrera

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SB Museum of Art will host a talk titled Detroit Riots, Black Lives Matter, and The Collision of Art and Politics with artist Edgar Arceneaux on Thursday, September 24th, from 12 to 1pm via Zoom. Register for free at www.tickets.sbma.net El Museo de Arte de SB presentará una charla titulada Disturbios en Detroit, las vidas negras importan y la colisión del arte y la política con el artista Edgar Arceneaux el jueves, 24 de septiembre de 12 a 1pm a través de Zoom. Regístrate gratis en www.tickets.sbma.net

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18TH Westmont Friday Concert Series: The Westmont Music Department’s concert series continues with a Tom Joyce Pipe Organ Recital on September 18th and will conclude with Alumni Spotlight: Carnevale String Quartet from Ruse, Bulgaria, with Sarah Pfister ’12 on viola on September 25th. Performances start at 7pm.

Listen to the free recitals at https://tinyurl.com/y2w2wyrg Serie de conciertos de los viernes de Westmont: La serie de conciertos del Departamento de Música de Westmont continúa con un Recital de órgano de tubos de Tom Joyce el 18 de septiembre y concluirá con Alumni Spotlight: Carnevale String Quartet de Ruse, Bulgaria, con Sarah Pfister ‘12 en viola el 25 de septiembre.

Las presentaciones comienzan a las 7pm.

Escucha los recitales gratuitos en https://tinyurl.com/y2w2wyrg Regional Business Leaders Webinar: The Chamber has been hosting Friday calls for business leaders and government representatives to connect with the goal to provide updates to the current economic crisis. Join the next call on Friday, September 18th, at 9am. Register in advance at: https://tinyurl.com/yxta85az Seminario web para líderes empresariales regionales: La Cámara ha estado organizando convocatorias los viernes para que líderes empresariales y representantes gubernamentales se conecten con el objetivo de proporcionar actualizaciones sobre la actual crisis económica. Únete a la próxima convocatoria el viernes, 18 de septiembre a las 9am. Regístrate con anticipación en: https://tinyurl.com/yxta85az SBIFF Family Film Fun – Up: Follow Carl, as he fulfills his wife’s lifelong dream to go to Paradise Falls by turning his house into a blimp with hundreds of helium-filled balloons in Up, this

PCPA’s InterPlay Reading Series - The Agitators: PCPA’s InterPlay reading series will kick off with The Agitators by Mat Smart on September 18th at 7pm and September 19th at 1:30pm.

The cost per play reading is $5 per viewer. For tickets visit http://pcpa.org/InterPlay.html Serie de lectura InterPlay de PCPA - The Agitators: La serie de lectura InterPlay de PCPA comenzará con The Agitators por Mat Smart el 18 de septiembre a las 7pm y el 19 de septiembre a la 1:30pm. El costo presentación es de $ 5 por espectador. Para boletos visita http://pcpa.org/InterPlay.html Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home, a project from Forced Entertainment (cocommisioned by UCSB A&L) telling each of Shakespeare’s 36 plays with a single performer, a collection of household objects, and a table top will be broadcast free over nine weeks, Thursday through Sunday, through November 15th. After each Sunday premiere, that week’s performers will host a Zoom Q&A. Week One includes Pericles (Sept. 18), The Merchant of Venice (Sept. 19), & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sept. 20). All performances will be at 12pm unless otherwise noted. Watch the performance at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu Obras completas: Tablero de mesa Shakespeare: En casa, un proyecto de Forced Entertainment (comisionado por UCSB A&L) que cuenta cada una de las 36 obras de Shakespeare con un solo actor, una colección de objetos domésticos y una mesa se transmitirá gratis durante nueve semanas, de jueves a domingo, hasta el 15 de noviembre. Después de cada estreno dominical, los artistas de esa semana ofrecerán una sesión de preguntas y respuestas a través de Zoom.

La primera semana incluye Pericles (18 de septiembre), El mercader de Venecia (19 de septiembre) y El sueño de una noche de verano (20 de septiembre). Todas las funciones serán a las 12pm a menos que se indique lo contrario.

Mira la presentación en www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19TH Clean Up the Coast From Home: Participate in Coastal Cleanup Month this month. Cleanups will happen in neighborhoods across the County on Saturdays from 9am to noon on September 19th, and 26th. Your cleanups should be self-guided and close to home. Preregistration is not required, but is encouraged.

Register and read the guidelines at www.exploreecology.org/ccd Limpia la costa desde casa: Participa en el Mes de la Limpieza Costera este mes. Las limpiezas se llevarán a cabo en los vecindarios de todo el condado los sábados de 9am al mediodía el 19 y 26 de septiembre. Sus limpiezas deben ser autoguiadas y cerca de casa. No es necesario registrarse previamente, pero se recomienda.

Regístrate y lee las pautas en www.exploreecology.org/ccd ‘Medicare’ Virtual Presentation: Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program’s (HICAP) free virtual presentation, Understanding Medicare, will be held Tuesday, September 22nd at 10am. To register, contact the local HICAP office at 1-800-434-0222, 1-805-928-5663, Seniors@kcbx.net or online at www.CentralCoastSeniors.org Presentación virtual de “Medicare”: La presentación virtual gratuita del Programa de Consejería y Defensa de Seguros de Salud (HICAP, por sus siglas en inglés), Entendiendo Medicare, se llevará a cabo el martes, 22 de septiembre a las 10am. Para registrarte, comunícate con la oficina local de HICAP al 1-800-434-0222, 1-805-928-5663, Seniors@kcbx.net o en línea en www.CentralCoastSeniors.org

Celebrate Creek Week by participating in fun and educational self-guided activities, online talks and presentations, beach and neighborhood clean-ups, and much more scheduled from September 19th through 26th. For more info and a schedule of events http://sbcreekweek.com Celebra Creek Week participando en actividades divertidas y educativas autoguiadas, charlas y presentaciones en línea, limpiezas de playas y vecindarios, y mucho más programado del 19 al 26 de septiembre. Para más información y un calendario de eventos visita http://sbcreekweek.com

MONDAY, SEPT. 21ST Luke Theatre’s Virtual Concert Series - Mendeleyev in Concert: Mendeleyev is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Santa Barbara who will light up the Luke stage with his fresh, folk yet funky take on music at noon on Friay, September 18th. Watch it for free at https://tinyurl.com/y6439l6n Serie de conciertos virtuales del Teatro Luke - Mendeleyev en concierto: Mendeleyev es un cantante y compositor nacido y criado en Santa Bárbara que iluminará el escenario del Luke con su versión fresca, folk pero funky de la música al mediodía del viernes, 18 de septiembre. Míralo gratis en https://tinyurl. com/y6439l6n

Eco Film Night Series: Kiss the Ground Premiere: This 2020 documentary sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that can potentially balance the climate, replenish water supplies, and feed the world. Presented by the SB Permaculture Network, Kiss the Ground will screen Monday, September 21st from 8:30 to 10pm at the Goleta West Wind Drive-In. Pay at entrance ($10/person or $20/car). www.sbpermaculture.org Noche de cine ecológico: Estreno de Kiss the Ground: Este documental de 2020 arroja luz sobre un enfoque alternativo de la agricultura llamado “agricultura regenerativa” que potencialmente puede equilibrar el clima, reponer los suministros de agua y alimentar al mundo.

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Pericles (Sept. 18), The Merchant of Venice (Sept. 19), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sept. 20) performed with a single performer, a collection of household objects, and a table top will be broadcast for free as part of UCSB A&L’s Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home series. All performances will be at 12pm unless otherwise noted. Watch the performance at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu Pericles (18 de septiembre), El mercader de Venecia (19 de septiembre) y Sueño de una noche de verano (20 de septiembre) interpretados con un solo artista, una colección de objetos domésticos y una mesa se transmitirán de forma gratuita como parte de la serie de UCSB A&L Obras completas: Tablero de mesa Shakespeare: En casa. Todas las funciones serán a las 12pm a menos que se indique lo contrario. Ve la presentación en www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

Kiss the Ground se proyectará el lunes, 21 de septiembre de 8:30 a 10pm en el Goleta West Wind Drive-In. Paga en la entrada ($10/ persona o $20/auto). www.sbpermaculture.org

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23RD Marilyn Tam, an Interactive Conversation: The National Association of Women Business Owners Santa Barbara will present Marilyn Tam, an Interactive Conversation About “Making the Business Case for Diversity” on Wednesday, September 23rd from 5 to 6 pm via Zoom. The event will be recorded and available in the NAWBO’s archives. Submit questions by email to info@nawbo-sb.org in advance.

Register at: https://tinyurl.com/y68cf3vt Marilyn Tam, una conversación interactiva: La Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Empresarias de Santa Bárbara presentará Marilyn Tam, una conversación interactiva sobre “Hacer el caso empresarial para la diversidad” el miércoles, 23 de septiembre de 5 a 6pm a través de Zoom.

El evento se grabará y estará disponible en los archivos de NAWBO. Envía tus preguntas por correo electrónico a info@nawbo-sb.org con anticipación. Regístrate en: https://tinyurl.com/y68cf3vt Public Trust: The Fight for America’s Public Lands: Patagonia and UCSB Arts & Lectures will present two free community screenings of the documentary Public Trust: The Fight for America’s Public Lands on Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:15 and 9:15pm at the West Wind Drive-In in Santa Barbara. First come, first served: Gates open at 6pm. Food trucks, concessions, and entertainment before each film. For info: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu Confianza pública: la lucha por las tierras públicas de los Estados Unidos: Patagonia y UCSB Arts & Lectures presentarán dos proyecciones comunitarias y gratuitas del documental Confianza pública: la lucha por las tierras públicas de los Estados Unidos el miércoles, 23 de septiembre a las 7:15 y 9:15pm en el West Wind Drive-In en Santa Bárbara. Por orden de llegada: las puertas se abren a las 6pm. Camiones con comida, concesiones y entretenimiento antes de cada película. Para información: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 24TH Webinar: Draft Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Plan: The plan identifies areas of the City that are vulnerable to sea-level rise and recommends actions to adapt over time. A Q&A will follow the presentation. Comments on the plan can be sent to SLRPlan@SantaBarbaraCA.gov by September 30th. For more info visit www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SLR. Register at https://tinyurl.com/y3xtttmo Seminario web: Borrador del plan de adaptación al aumento del nivel del mar: El plan identifica áreas de la ciudad que son vulnerables al aumento del nivel del mar y recomienda acciones para adaptarse con el tiempo. Una sesión de preguntas y respuestas seguirá a la presentación.

Los comentarios sobre el plan se pueden enviar a SLRPlan@SantaBarbaraCA.gov antes del 30 de septiembre. Para más información visita www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SLR. Regístrate en https://tinyurl.com/y3xtttmo SBMA virtual conversation with artist Edgar Arceneaux: In a wide ranging and informal conversation with the audience, artist Edgar Arceneaux will share his thoughts about his art, current and past projects, and how we construct history and memory in a racially divided country when the SB Museum of Arts’ hosts a talk titled Detroit Riots, Black Lives Matter, and The Collision of Art and Politics on Thursday, September 24th, from 12 to 1pm via Zoom. Register for free at www.tickets.sbma.net Conversación virtual de SBMA con el artista Edgar Arceneaux: En una amplia e informal conversación con la audiencia, el artista Edgar Arceneaux compartirá sus pensamientos sobre su arte, proyectos actuales y pasados, y cómo construimos la historia y la memoria en un país dividido racialmente cuando el Museo de artes de SB presenta una charla titulada Disturbios de Detroit, las vidas negras importan y la colisión del arte y la política el jueves, 24 de septiembre de 12 a 1pm a través de Zoom. Regístrate gratis en www.tickets.sbma.net Webinar - Is solar + battery storage right for you?: Learn about new solar + battery storage solutions and whether it makes sense for your home or business during a free webinar on Thursday, September 24th at 12pm via Zoom.

The webinar will include a Q&A with Sierra Club Los Padres Chapter Chair, Katie Davis, and Shawn Jacobson, VP of Operations with Swell Energy. Register at https://tinyurl.com/y29b7kda Seminario web: ¿El almacenamiento de batería + solar adecuado para ti?: Obtén información sobre las nuevas soluciones de almacenamiento solar + batería y si tiene sentido para tu hogar o negocio durante un seminario web gratuito el jueves, 24 de septiembre a las 12pm a través de Zoom. El seminario web incluirá una sesión de preguntas y respuestas con la presidenta del capítulo de Sierra Club Los Padres, Katie Davis, y Shawn Jacobson, vicepresidente de operaciones de Swell Energy. Regístrate en https://tinyurl.com/y29b7kda UCSB Arts & Lectures House Calls - Billy Strings: Nashville-based bluegrass phenom Billy Strings is rewiring the genre with elements of punk,

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Stay home and enjoy a virtual performance on Thursday, September 24th at 5pm. For access ($10) visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu Visitas a domicilio de UCSB Arts & Lectures - Billy Strings: El fenómeno del bluegrass con sede en Nashville, Billy Strings, está reconfigurando el género con elementos de punk, country, folk rock y exploración psicodélica. Quédate en casa y disfruta de una presentación virtual el jueves, 24 de septiembre a las 5pm. Para acceso ($10) visita

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Ask Me Anything – Poet Sojourner KincaidRolle: A free-form online Q&A with Santa Barbara’s art & culture figures with stories to tell continues with Poet Sojourner KincaidRolle on Thursday, September 24th at 4pm.

The interview will take place on Facebook Live— anyone can ask questions and participate in real time via the comments.

Questions can be submitted beforehand via Facebook and Instagram feeds, or by e-mailing hello@sbcaw.org. Watch at www.facebook.com/sbcaw/live Pregúntame cualquier cosa - Poeta Sojourner KincaidRolle: Una sesión de preguntas y respuestas en línea de forma libre con figuras del arte y la cultura de Santa Bárbara con historias que contar continúa con la Poeta Sojourner Kincaid-Rolle el jueves, 24 de septiembre a las 4pm. La entrevista se llevará a cabo por Facebook en vivo; cualquiera puede hacer preguntas y participar en tiempo real a través de los comentarios. Las preguntas también se pueden enviar de antemano a través de Facebook e Instagram, o por correo electrónico hello@sbcaw.org. Disfrútala en www.facebook.com/sbcaw/live Downtown Business Spotlight: Today’s Bar Scene: Downtown Santa Barbara’s Downtown Spotlight Interview Series continues on Thursday, September 24th at 3pm with Drew Cuddy (Satellite SB) and Brandon Ristaino (The Good Lion) as they discuss today’s bar scene.

Each Thursday different business owners will interviewed via Zoom. Register at https://tinyurl.com/yxbxoja8 Negocio del Centro Destacado: Ambiente de bar de hoy: La serie de entrevistas Negocio del Centro Destacado de Downtown Santa Barbara continúa el jueves, 24 de septiembre a las 3pm con Drew Cuddy (Satellite SB) y Brandon Ristaino (The Good Lion) mientras discuten el ambiente de los bares de hoy. Cada jueves, diferentes empresarios serán entrevistados a través de Zoom. Regístrate en https://tinyurl.com/yxbxoja8 September B2B Virtual Networking: The SB South Coast Chamber of Commerce will host September’s Virtual Business-2-Business Networking on Thursday, September 24th from 9 to 10:30am to preserve some community connection in this time of being apart. Every attendee will have an opportunity to share their 30-second commercial with the group and a hot-sheet with attendees will be provided after the event. To register ($10-$25) visit https://tinyurl.com/y4hl6grd Redes virtuales B2B de Septiembre: La Cámara de Comercio de la Costa Sur de SB organizará la Red Virtual Negocio-a-Negocio de septiembre el jueves, 24 de septiembre de 9 a 10:30am para preservar algo de conexión con la comunidad en este momento de separación. Cada asistente tendrá la oportunidad de compartir su comercial de 30 segundos con el grupo y se proporcionará una hoja informativa con los asistentes después del evento. Para registrarte ($10-$25) visita https://tinyurl.com/y4hl6grd

FRIDAY, SEPT. 25TH Santa Barbara Sustainability Symposium: A free virtual event focusing on sustainability and the important roles all businesses can play in ensuring a better future for the environment and our communities. Seth Streeter will

moderate the event starting at 10am on Friday, September 25th via Zoom. Register at: www.carpgrowers.org/sustainability

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Simposio de sostenibilidad de Santa Bárbara: Un evento virtual y gratuito que se centra en la sostenibilidad y los importantes roles que todas las empresas pueden desempeñar para garantizar un futuro mejor para el medio ambiente y nuestras comunidades. Seth Streeter moderará el evento a partir de las 10am el viernes, 25 de septiembre a través de Zoom.

Regístrate en: www.carpgrowers.org/sustainability Virtual Girls Inc. of Carpinteria’s “An Evening in Bloom”: The annual event kicked off with a month-long virtual fundraising challenge that will conclude with a virtual wrap party honoring longtime supporter Mary Crowley on Friday, September 25th at 5:30pm. The evening, filmed at Westerlay Orchids, will feature a live auction, impact stories, and the winner of the Challenge for a Change competition will be announced. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/y2kluvhf Evento virtual de Girls Inc. of Carpinteria “Una tarde de florecimiento”: El evento anual comenzó con un reto virtual para recaudar fondos que duro un mes y que concluirá con una fiesta de cierre virtual en honor a la simpatizante Mary Crowley el viernes, 25 de septiembre a las 5:30pm. La noche, filmada en Westerlay Orchids, contará con una subasta en vivo, historias de impacto y se anunciará el ganador del reto Desafío para un cambio. Regístrate en: https://tinyurl.com/y2kluvhf

SATURDAY, SEPT. 26TH The Teddy Bear Foundation’s Gold Ribbon Campaign Online Silent Auction will go live September 25th at 9am with a special preview of the auction items outside the Nurture Cottage on Coast Village Road on Saturday, September 26th between 8 to 11am. View silent auction items, have a cup of coffee and a croissant, and then place your bid from home. Auction closes September 30th, 5:30pm. The viewing will maintain safe social distancing and adhere to all public health guidelines. View the auction at: www.32auctions.com/TBCF2020 La subasta silenciosa en línea de la campaña Gold Ribbon de Teddy Bear Foundation comenzará el 25 de septiembre a las 9am con una vista previa especial de los artículos de la subasta afuera de Nurture Cottage en Coast Village Road el sábado, 26 de septiembre de 8 a 11am.

Ve los artículos de la subasta silenciosa, toma una taza de café y un croissant, y luego haz tu oferta desde casa. La subasta cierra el 30 de septiembre a las 5:30pm. Durante el evento se mantendrá un distanciamiento social seguro y se adherirá a todas las pautas de salud pública.

Free Drive-In Screenings of Public Trust Ahead of National Public Lands Day 2020, Patagonia and UCSB Arts & Lectures will present two free community screenings of Patagonia Films’ award-winning documentary Public Trust: The Fight for America’s Public Lands on Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:15 and 9:15pm at the West Wind Drive-In in Santa Barbara.

These special screenings take place in advance of the film’s release. First come, first served: Gates open at 6pm. Arrive early to enjoy food trucks, concessions, and entertainment before the film.

Part love letter, part political exposé, Public Trust investigates how we arrived at this precarious moment through three heated conflicts – a national monument in the Utah desert, a proposed mine in the Boundary Waters, and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – and makes a case for their continued protection.

Filmgoers are asked to respect the safety of fellow attendees by wearing masks and maintaining a distance of six feet from others. UCSB Arts & Lectures continues to prioritize the health and comfort of our community.

For info visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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El día del evento digital incluirá clases magistrales, talleres, paneles de influenciadores, promociones exclusivas y más. Para registrarte ($8/$20) visita: https://tinyurl.com/y32uhon5

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 27TH Equinox Concert: Enjoy a virtual version of the Santa Barbara Revels annual celebration of the changing seasons on Sunday, September 27th at 3pm. SB Revels Music Director Erin McKibben will be joined by special guests and Revels favorites, Josh Jenkins and Luis Moreno, in a mellow afternoon of memorable music.

Watch the concert via Facebook live www.facebook.com/SantaBarbaraRevels Concierto de Equinoccio: Disfruta de una versión virtual de la celebración anual de Santa Barbara Revels del cambio de estaciones el domingo, 27 de septiembre a las 3pm. La directora musical de SB Revels, Erin McKibben, estará acompañada por invitados especiales y favoritos de los Revels, Josh Jenkins y Luis Moreno, en una tarde apacible de música memorable. Mira el concierto a través de Facebook en vivo www.facebook.com/SantaBarbaraRevels

Pop Songs & Stories: Singer/actor Diana Diaz Boadella will sing a program of popular songs from the Great War era and read some secret letters and diaries during a free virtual concert on Saturday, September 26th at 6pm. Boadella will give away a free digital album to the top three donors over $100. For access to the concert visit: https://tinyurl.com/y6nclnpq Canciones e historias pop: La cantante y actriz Diana Díaz Boadella cantará un programa de canciones populares de la época de la Gran Guerra y leerá algunas cartas secretas y diarios durante un concierto virtual gratuito el sábado, 26 de septiembre a las 6pm. Boadella regalará un álbum digital gratuito a los tres principales

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Harbor VOICE Join us! The Water’s Fine!

This year’s Yacht Club hosted event - completely masked with branded face coverings - was co-chaired by Staff Commodore Francie Lufkin and Nick Sebastian. Both dutifully stood at the ITH SAILING IN THE CENTER RING, 24 boats registered for Santa Barbara Yacht registration table on that cold foggy Saturday (I think I actually heard the fog horn) welcoming Club’s 16th Annual Charity Regatta competition. One of the Club’s yearly charitable the participants and selling raffle tickets. This year’s honorary skippers were the Palliative Care events, the Charity Regatta sailed on Saturday, September 12th, and Consultants of Santa Barbara, the doctors who provide hospital, hospice, and benefited VNA Health (formerly Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care). outpatient palliative care to VNA Heath’s patients.

Labor Day’s sizzling heat had morphed into a chilling fog and participants were “Support of the SBYC Charity Regatta is more important than ever,” noted Staff forced to change from shorts and shirts to fuzzy warm jackets and long pants Commodore Lufkin. “Throughout the pandemic, VNA Health increased its services … from my perspective, just an inch away from bad weather ‘foulies’. On the to our community and maintained all of other hand, several of the sailors making their way to their boats preferred an eye the charitable community programs such as numbing blanket of fog to frying an egg on the harbor walkway. Understandable! the Loan Closet, community palliative care, The weather wasn’t the only change that took place that Saturday. As is the case music therapy, and bereavement services.” for most charitable events in Santa Barbara, the Charity Regatta was revisioned She then added with a great big smile, “And due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. For the last 16 years … I’m happy to report that even under these the Regatta was held to raise funds in support of the VNA mission of caring with reduced circumstances, and with the help of compassion and integrity. As always, the event was helmed by enthusiastic (but this our generous supporters and yacht owners, time socially distant) sailors. Also in keeping with previous years, the Regatta was Commodore Garry Pawlitski the Charity Regatta once again netted around and Suesan Pawlitski sponsored by a group of generous donors always ready to support VNA Health, $100,000 for VNA!” an organization that has benefited so many in our The headline for this year’s Charity Regatta was - Join community. us! The Water’s Fine! - as indeed it was. Despite the fog Public events, however, that usually accompany the Regatta and its strange orange tint, the day was a great success and did not take place due to concern for public safety and mandated a true example of how creative one can be under limited guidelines. This year non-racing events, although diminished, circumstances. included a basket of raffle items, displayed at the check in table as Congratulations to the Santa Barbara Yacht Club and to well as the SBYC Board’s donation of 19 bottles of wine, four lobster VNA Health for your good work in making our community Check in table manned by dinners prepared by the Chef hand delivered to the winner’s door, the special place that it is!

Nick Sebastian, co-chair and lunch or dinner for eight at the Club. The reduced offering was Sigrid Toye volunteers for the Breakwater Flag Project. She is on the board of directors of the met with no less enthusiasm, however, and from what I heard, those Maritime Museum and participates in Yacht Club activities. An educational/behavior therapist, Sigrid raffle tickets flew off the check-in table like a whirlwind, a testament Peter Lufkin and Francie holds a Ph.D in clinical psychology. She loves all things creative, including her two grown children to the kind of support that VNA generates for its good work.

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The HEAT is ON!

A MORNING BATH - The SPIRIT OF THE OCEAN fountain at the landmark Santa Barbara County Courthouse gets a cleaning. It was built in 1929 and refurbished in 2011 for $731,000. The crew also went up around the outside of the entrance later in the day. The courthouse has been quiet due to the virus.

Are you READY TO RIDE? Santa Barbara is considering an electric bike rental plan for the waterfront and downtown.

Docking stations get a review today by the Historic Landmarks Commission. https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/ gov/brdcomm/dm/historic/videos.asp

I hope you appreciate, like I do, the world class photography we get from Mike Eliason on the Santa Barbara County Fire Public Information staff. He takes us up close, to the scene and into the fire fight as shown here.

Amazing shots! This fire was up at Vandenberg Wednesday and burned about 110 acres.

Remember - JUST WEAR IT!

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HE PATH TO SAFE WINTER HAVENS has become treacherously obscured for songbirds and avians of all kinds as West Coast wild fires rage, destroying, in addition to forests and human lives and homes, water and food supplies for birds headed south. Audubon California raised a red flag in an email blast Q&A with Andrea Jones, Director of Bird Conservation at Audubon California and Joanna Wu, Avian Ecologist at National Audubon Society. “Various species are on the move to escape the flames and migrate.

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By Out West Jess, Mira Monte, CA contributing factors to what is feared to be a significant dieoff event including climate changes, habitat loss, and the fires.

“Millions of birds are coming south through California along the Pacific Flyway, looking for their usual resting spots, particularly along river corridors. When they find these areas burned, they continue on their way in search of reliable habitat, or they fly further south without an important stop to rest and refuel.”

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The event is free, but you must register in advance: The Guardian quoted Martha Desmond, a professor in the biology department at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in its coverage of the die-off that “Flycatchers, swallows, and warblers are among the sbccfoundation.org/spring-forward-gala species ‘falling out of the sky’ as part of a mass die-off across New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, and farther north into Nebraska, with growing concerns there could be hundreds of thousands dead already.”

According to Desmond, “Many carcasses have little remaining fat reserves or muscle mass, with some appearing to have nose-dived into the ground mid-flight.”

Santa Barbara Audubon Society President Dolores Pollock shared via email that she knew of no local examples, “The consensus is that, as yet, people don’t know what is causing the die-off. The good thing is that there is a lot of concern.” She added, “We are watching the situation and hope to learn how we can contribute to understanding and remedying the situation.”

NMSU graduate student Allison Salas [@salasphorus] took to Twitter to publicize her concern, “They’re literally just feathers and bones,” she said in a thread about the avian deaths. Salas has been collecting the carcasses for study and tweeted, it’s “Almost as if they have been flying until they just couldn’t fly any more.”

A project to document and study the die-off has been started on iNaturalist.org.

According to the site, “Hundreds of dead migrant birds have been reported in the state of New Mexico during August and September 2020. With increasing awareness, reports have also come from Arizona, Colorado, and Texas.”

The project is calling on bird lovers to report “avian mortalities encountered in the Southwest United States and Mexico.” The From the Twitter Feed of Allison Salas request is to photograph any avian mortalities and provide information about where and when the death was discovered as well as contact information in a widespread effort to help wildlife biologists understand “the extent of this mass mortality.” The study will FABULOUS INVESTMENT IN DOWNTOWN SANTA BARBARA $1,575,000 include avian deaths between August 1st and October 31st.

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¡Celebra la 21a ‘Creek Week’ de Santa Bárbara a partir del 19 de septiembre!

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OS TESOROS NATURALES DE SANTA BÁRBARA, GOLETA Y CARPINTERÍA se celebrarán la próxima semana cuando ‘Creek Week’ (la Semana del Arroyo) comience el sábado, 19 de septiembre con oportunidades para que los miembros de la comunidad aprendan más sobre los arroyos locales, las cuencas hidrográficas y el océano.

“Estamos emocionados de haber podido organizar una variedad de eventos para ‘Creek Week’ este año, a pesar de la pandemia actual,” compartió Liz Smith, Coordinadora de Alcance de los Arroyos. “Todas las organizaciones anfitrionas se volvieron creativas moviendo eventos en línea o desarrollando actividades autoguiadas.

Esperamos que los miembros de la comunidad continúen participando en el aprendizaje y la protección de nuestros arroyos y océanos.”

Join in Coastal Cleanup Month by cleaning up your Del 19 al 26 de septiembre, se own neighborhood, favorite park, or the beach on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm through September anima a la comunidad a participar en actividades divertidas y educativas autoguiadas, charlas y presentaciones en línea, limpiezas de playas y vecindarios, y mucho más. Únete al Mes de la Limpieza Costera limpiando tu propio vecindario, parque favorito o playa los sábados de 9am a 12pm durante el mes de septiembre. Las limpiezas deben ser autoguiadas y cerca de casa. Obtén más información y regístrate en www.exploreecology.org/ccd y asegúrate de reportar tus datos de limpieza para que se incluyan en el recuento final. Únete a una variedad de foros de la comunidad virtuales y presentaciones educativas provistas por el Zoológico de Santa Don’t Move a Mussel! Virtual Bárbara, el Santa Barbara Urban Creeks Council Lunch & Learn with the Santa Barbara Zoo - September 24th y la Ciudad de Carpintería. Trae tu máscara y guantes y ayuda a eliminar las plantas invasoras en Carpinteria Tar Pits Park. Visita el autocine para ver las proyecciones de documentales de la Red de Permacultura de Santa Bárbara y UCSB Arts & Lectures. Realiza un recorrido autoguiado por el espacio abierto del campus norte de UCSB o únete a la División de Arroyos de la Ciudad de Santa Bárbara para dar un paseo por el arroyo y charla a través de Facebook en vivo.

Aprovecha tu creatividad participando en el concurso “Arte de tiza en el drenaje de tormentas” y el proyecto de punto de cruz de ‘Creek Week.’ Toma tu tiza y crea arte en el drenaje de tormentas más cercano. Se puede recoger tiza gratis en Art From Scrap (hasta agotar existencias) en Garden Street y Cota Street el sábado, 19 de septiembre de 11am a 2pm. Comparte una foto de tu obra de arte completa en Facebook o Instagram etiquetada con #sbcreekweek para tener la oportunidad de ganar. Los ganadores serán seleccionados y notificados el lunes, 28 de septiembre.

Si eres más hábil con una aguja y hilo, cose el logotipo de ‘Creek Week’ y comparte tus fotos de progreso en Facebook @SBCreekWeek usando la etiqueta #sbcreekweek. Descarga el patrón en www.bit.ly/cwcrossstitch.

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Celebrate Santa Barbara’s 21st Annual Creek Week beginning September 19th!

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ANTA BARBARA, GOLETA, AND CARPINTERIA’S NATURAL TREASURES will be celebrated this coming week when Creek Week kicks off on Saturday, September 19th with opportunities for community members to learn more about local creeks, watersheds, and the ocean.

“We are excited that we were able to put together a variety of events for Creek Week this year, despite the current pandemic,” shared Liz Smith, Creeks Outreach Coordinator. “All of the host organizations got creative by moving events online, or developing self-guided activities. We hope community members will continue to get involved in learning about and protecting our creeks and ocean.”

From September 19th through 26th, the community is encouraged to join in fun and educational self-guided activities, online talks and presentations, beach and neighborhood clean-ups, and much more.

Join in Coastal Cleanup Month by cleaning up your own neighborhood, favorite park, or the beach on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm through September. Cleanups should be selfguided and close to home. Learn more and sign up at www.exploreecology.org/ccd and be sure to report your cleanup data so it’s included in the final count. Join in a variety of virtual community forums and educational presentations provided by the Santa Barbara Zoo, Santa Barbara Urban Creeks Council, and the City of Carpinteria. Bring your mask and gloves and help remove invasive plants at Carpinteria Tar Pits Park. Visit the drive-in for documentary film screenings from the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and UCSB Arts & Lectures.

Take a self-guided tour of UCSB’s North Campus Open Space, or join the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division for a live creek walk and talk on Facebook Live.

Tap into your creativity by participating in the Storm Drain Chalk Art Contest and Creek Week Cross Stitch Project. Grab your sidewalk chalk and create art at your nearest storm drain.

Free chalk can be picked up at Art From Scrap (while supplies last) at Garden Street & Cota Street on Saturday, September 19th from 11am to 2pm. Share a photo of your completed artwork on Facebook or Instagram tagged with #sbcreekweek for a chance to win. Winners will be selected and notified Monday, September 28th.

If you are more handy with a needle and thread, stitch the Creek Week logo and share your progress photos on Facebook @SBCreekWeek using the tag #sbcreekweek. Download the pattern at www.bit.ly/cwcrossstitch.

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NTHRALLED BY AVIATION SINCE HIS TEENAGE YEARS, Henry Thompson, Santa Barbara Airport Director, faces the challenge of providing essential travel services during a global pandemic. As the largest commercial service airport between San Jose and Burbank, Thompson knows the importance of ensuring SBA operates safely and efficiently — even as they work back from a 96 percent loss in passengers.

The pandemic “brought about some extremely challenging times for us, unlike anything we had seen before,” Thompson shared. “We had undergone, in the industry, 9/11 and the effects it had on air travel, and economic downturns throughout the years, but this was really unprecedented in how it has impacted airports specifically.”

Thompson embarked on his path to SBA through the United States Air Force, where he spent almost nine years as an air traffic controller. After leaving the military and graduating college, he decided to pursue his second interest — business — and began working as a financial accountant in San Francisco. Yet the charm of aviation still pulled him.

“When you fall in love with airports, you can try and leave, but you always come back,” Thompson explained. “It’s just that alluring of a field, I think.”

For the next 24 years, Thompson worked at San Francisco International Airport. All the while, he grew to further appreciate the connection between his interests in business and aviation, and he was ultimately promoted to Associate Deputy Airport Director. He then moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he worked as Director of Airports until January 2019.

Since assuming the position of SBA Director, Thompson has enjoyed working with his team to address each day’s needs and challenges. He appreciates that due to the small size of SBA, each individual, including himself, must remain adaptable.

“We don’t have the luxury of only focusing in on one specific thing, all of us have to wear different hats on different days,” expressed Thompson. “It requires a lot of energy, a lot of focus, a lot of drive, and I think it motivates me every day that I have to shift gears throughout the day and look at varying tasks that are necessary to ensure the airport operates safely, securely, efficiently, and in a financially responsible manner.”

This flexible mindset has certainly been put to the test at SBA over the past six months. Before March, SBA was the fastest growing airport in southern California, with record numbers of travelers, full parking lots, and new flight destinations with more on the way. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, SBA suddenly experienced dramatic cuts in its daily business. By April, SBA lost 96 percent of its traditional amount of passengers. This resulted in SBA losing a substantial amount of its usual revenue from sources like parking fees and rental car sales.

“The other side of the discussion is that we are a highly regulated environment by the local, state, and federal governments. So when a lot of businesses essentially shut down following the pandemic, the airport had to remain open and operating 24/7,” said Thomspson.

“And so we had to maintain and carry all those expenses at a point when we’re generating fewer revenues to offset that.”

Yet SBA continues to persevere despite the past months’ difficulties. In April, SBA received $9.5 million in financial support from the Federal CARES Act. A portion of these funds, combined with the prior months’ successes actually allowed SBA to end its 2020 fiscal year on a net positive. SBA has also only had to lay off one employee, who oversaw now-cancelled school and group tours, from its staff of about 70 members. Slowly but surely, SBA has improved from its initial 96 percent loss to a 70 percent loss in travelers, for a current average of 500 SBA passengers each day.

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week over week growth, and we’re moving in the airport, such as requiring face masks, installing right direction. The downside is that it’s just not social distancing markers, and increased sanitation happening as quickly as we thought,” Thompson practices. explained.

SBA is also keeping He went on to explain an eye toward the future, The other side of the that he feels control of the and has started to plan and discussion is that we COVID-19 virus and the design future projects that economy will be the main would allow the airport to are a highly regulated determinants in people’s serve greater numbers of environment by the return to air travel. passengers. However, as the local, state, and federal “People are going to future remains uncertain, governments. So when a travel again, the question is Thompson expressed that lot of businesses essentially how quickly will they begin all projects will remain in to do that,” Thompson preliminary phases until shut down following the related. “So we’re developing it becomes clearer when pandemic, the airport a strategy, we’re making construction would be had to remain open and sure that we have all of the feasible. The airport is also operating 24/7. elements in place when examining potential new – Henry Thompson people are ready to travel flight routes it would be able again. The airport is going to offer, and has embarked to be in a position that we’re on a new marketing ready to accommodate them.” campaign to remind the Santa Barbara community In the meantime, Thompson and his team that SBA is there to support them. continue to address SBA’s ongoing needs. In “Looking ahead, we’re focused on recovery,” the spirit of the SBA team’s adaptable mindset, Thompson added. “We’re positive about that Thompson arranged for the airport’s long-term recovery occurring because we have a good product parking lot to be repaved this summer while that we offer here, and that’s the beauty of Santa SBA experienced its decrease in traveler and car Barbara. Air travel will recover here, it’s just a traffic. Beginning in November, Alaska Airlines matter of when.” will start offering daily flights between SBA and To learn more about SBA and its ongoing services, San Diego. SBA has also ensured that new health visit www.flysba.santabarbaraca.gov/home. and safety protocols are practiced throughout the

Oversight Subcommittee Begins Review and Implementation Process at The Community Development Department

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OLLOWING A PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CLARITY AND COMMUNICATION, the Community Development Department has begun a process of introspection, review, and implementation under the guidance of a newly formed Oversight Subcommittee comprised of the Land Development Team and three city council members. Formation of the subcommittee follows the recommendation of three significant studies by professional consultants calling for the Community Development Department to clarify its service to the community.

The subcommittee has chosen the last study, which focuses on workflow, by Novak, to use as their guide.

The new oversight committee is comprised of City Councilmember Eric Friedman, chair; Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez; and City Councilmember Mike Jordan with city staff members Rebecca Bjork, Interim Community Development Director; Andrew Stuffler, Chief Building Official; Renee Brooke,

City Planner; Ellen Kokinda, Administrative Analyst; and Greta Walters, Administrative Assistant.

“I’m looking forward to being a sounding board and a part of the process,” commented Eric Friedman, chair of the Oversight Subcommittee at their first meeting on August 25th.

The Novak study, titled Land Development Process Improvement, was commissioned by the city about a year ago for a comprehensive look at the workflow, communications, and management of the Community Development Department, which includes five departments, several divisions, commissions, and committees. The Novak study, which cost about $80,000 was also partially a response to another study provided by Kosmont and Associates a year before, which focused on economic development, downtown development, and the Community Development Department. Shortly after the Novak Study was released, the City Community Development Director George Buell resigned.

“The report identifies several recommendations designed to improve the customer and staff experience for projects going through discretionary and ministerial permit review and approval.

The recommendations included in this report are informed by interviews with staff, feedback collected from stakeholders, and a process improvement exercise conducted with City staff,” stated Julie Novak in her presentation letter to City Administrator Paul Casey.

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By Harlan Green / Special to VOICE / “Popular Economics”

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HE NUMBER OF JOB OPENINGS INCREASED TO 6.6 MILLION on the last business day of July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week, a good sign. Labor’s JOLTS report will be an important indicator for the last (September) unemployment situation report that comes out just before the November election.

These changes in the labor market reflected an ongoing resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it, said the BLS. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the total nonfarm sector, by industry, and by four geographic regions.

It is showing that certain segments of the economy are doing well, in durable goods such as autos and home sales, because the top 20 percent of white collar income earners that stay employed while working from home, but not the 80 percent of essential workers that really make our economy grow.

For instance, the unemployment rate for companies involved in travel, hotels, dining out, and other forms of leisure and hospitality stood at a stunning 21.3 percent last month, whereas the unemployment rate among banks, insurers, Wall Street brokerages, and other companies involved in the handling of money was just 4.2 percent in August.

The JOLTS report showed hires had decreased to 5.8 million in July from seven million. This tallied with other indicators that fewer workers were being hired in July. Total separations were little changed at 5.0 million. Within separations, the quits rate rose to 2.1 percent, a sign more workers were finding better jobs. But where are they?

Hires increased in federal government (+33,000), largely because of Census hiring.

Hires also increased in real estate, rental, and leasing (+26,000). But the total number of hires decreased in all four regions.

The job openings were led by the retail sector, with 172,000 new vacancies, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). There were an additional 146,000 jobs in healthcare and social assistance. In the construction industry, job openings increased by 90,000. The job openings rate shot up to 4.5 percent, the highest since October 2019, from 4.2 percent in June.

While schools have opened for the new academic year, many are conducting virtual classes, Reuters reported. Problems securing childcare have forced some workers, mostly women, to resign from their jobs. The labor participation rate for women dropped in April to levels last seen in the late 1980s and has not rebounded much since.

Jobs decreased in a number of industries, with the largest fall in accommodation and food services (-599,000), followed by other services (-143,000), and health care and social assistance (-137,000).

This doesn’t show a very strong job recovery, and there will be many teachers and students opting to stay at home and study online, if they can afford it.

Over the twelve months ending in July, hires totaled 70.2 million and separations totaled 78.5 million, yielding a net employment loss of 8.2 million. These totals include workers who may have been hired and separated more than once during the year.

I don’t believe the picture will change much come November. Those that have money will spend it, but not the majority of the wage-earners that face an uncertain job future.

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Ongoing Community Resources & Activities

In the Time of COVID-19

MUSEUMS & THE ARTS SBNature From Home: The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s SBNature From Home page is organized by activities that the community can do outdoors, indoors, or online. Check back for new content. www.sbnature.org/visit/sbnature-from-home Live, Interactive, Virtual Field Trips programs for students grades K to 12, organized by the SB Museum of Natural History, are now available for student groups of up to 30. Museum educators will be joining students for journeys that start in the Museum halls and then transport them in space and time to explore the wonders and secrets beyond the exhibits.

All programs align with Next Generation Science Standards. Each class group is $100 per program. Register at https://tinyurl.com/y6284qyp Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Online: The Museum continues to digitally engage the public by offering instructional videos for at-home art projects; a virtual tour of their current exhibition and other works in the collection; as well as lectures, and musical performances from their Video Library. www.sbma.net UCSB Arts & Lectures: Stay connected with UCSB Arts & Lectures through digital arts and cultural content. Join their email list at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu to receive new content.

The Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center - Online: The Arts Center will be posting daily activities on Facebook and Instagram to inspire the community to create, engage, and connect.

Find virtual art classes, live concerts, and music streams, art activities for all ages, and virtual galleries at: https://carpinteriaartscenter.org MOXI@Home - Weekly Topics to Inspire Exploration at Home: Programming will include videos based on weekly themes that will invite you to explore a variety of different scientific phenomena or activities and guide you to exploring it further at home with easy experiments and design challenges. www.moxi.org/athome Explore Ecology’s New Virtual Learning Page: It’s an online classroom that showcases virtual workshops and lessons, field trips for schools, and their latest videos. The learning opportunities are endless! https://exploreecology.org/virtual-learning PCPA Plays On!: Though their stages may be dark this summer... PCPA Plays On! will be sharing a variety of virtual programs for all ages that are fun, educational, engaging, and theatre focused to keep you playing too! www.pcpa.org/PCPAPlaysOn/

MUSIC Camerata Pacifica Concert at Home!: 60 to 75 minute programs from the Camerata video library, curated by Artistic Director Adrian Spence, will be shared every Sunday at 10am & 6pm on YouTube Live: https://tinyurl.com/yb2llz43 11:30am on Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/cameratasb Nightly Met Opera Streams: The Metropolitan Opera streams begin at 7:30pm EDT and will remain available on the homepage at www.metopera.org for 20 hours. Schedule of streams www.metopera.org

The Sea Center Outdoor Spaces are open to the public Saturdays and Sundays, from noon to 4pm.

Visitors will have access to the Wet Deck for exploring life beneath Stearns Wharf and touch the Swell Sharks, sea anemones, sea stars, and other animals. www.sbnature.org SB Zoo Extended Summer Hours: The Zoo’s hours of operation have been extended from 10am to 7pm with early entry for Zoo Members starting at 9am. Online reservations are still required.

Reserve your spot at www.sbzoo.org Solvang Food Tours Open: Eat This Shoot That invites you to enjoy a three hour outdoor food tour and stroll through iconic Solvang. Use code FOODIENL10 to get ten percent off all in-person food tour tickets. To buy tickets ($109/$99) visit https://tinyurl. com/yxbttas5

Sing! Children’s The Gaviota Coast Chorus: The Music Conservancy: Academy of the Recommends three walks West’s children’s that you can take on the The SB Museum of choral program will Gaviota Coast: Coal Oil Point Natural History’s offer online rehearsals five Reserve and Devereux Slough, Butterflies Alive! days per week over Zoom Baron Ranch, and Arroyo Hondo Exhibit closes beginning September 21st. For Preserve.

September 20th a more challenging repertoire https://tinyurl.com/y7rn6jyt students can audition for Open Days at Arroyo Hondo Preserve: Hike at the Sing! Concert Choir. This additional the Arroyo Hondo Preserve on the first and commitment includes Saturday rehearsals. No third weekends of the month from 10am to experience required, free of charge. Learn more, 4pm and Mondays and Wednesdays from watch concerts, and enroll at 10am-1pm. It’s free to visit and reservations www.musicacademy.org/sing are required. Pets are not allowed. Fill out the reservation form. https://tinyurl.com/yd6so7uk

OUTDOORS Casa del Herrero is open to the general public.

While indoor spaces remain closed, guests will now engage in a reimagined self-guided garden tour utilizing QR codes. Book your tour by calling 805-565-5653. Each tour is first come, first serve with a maximum of six visitors allowed per tour. Admission is $25 per person.

For guidelines visit www.casadelherrero.com/tours Zoom & Bloom Outdoor Learning Camp: The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is offering a schooltime outdoor camp to supplement virtual school for two-week sessions from September 21st through December 18th for elementary school children, ages seven through 12. To register ($50) visit https://tinyurl.com/y2c27uyq SBMNH’s Nature Nook: Sea Center interpreters and volunteers are bringing a little bit of the Sea Center to the SB Museum of Natural History’s campus with the new Nature Nook, offering engaging Museum and Sea Center activities. Check out the web calendar to plan your next visit at www.sbnature.org/visit/calendar

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is Open to the general public from Friday to Tuesday, 10am to 5pm, and to members only from 9am to 10am. No reservations are required, but visitors must wear a mask and practice social distancing. Register for online classes/events: www.sbbg.org/classes-events SB Museum of Natural History has opened its outdoor exhibits by reservation only from Wednesday to Sunday. Guests will have access to wander the Butterflies Alive! exhibit and then explore the Backyard and shady wooded areas along Mission Creek. www.sbnature.org Lotusland Open to the Public: Lotusland is safe, spacious, and socially-distant by its very nature. Reservations will have staggered arrival times and all visitors will be limited to no more than two-hours in the Garden. Face masks required. To reserve a Self-Guided Tour call 805.969.9990. www.lotusland.org Carpinteria Birdwatchers Virtual Meetings: Carpinteria Birdwatchers have evening birdwatching classes and morning birdwatching outings, all free and open to all ages and ability levels. Meetings are weekly and online via Zoom until further notice Thursdays, from 4 to 5:15pm. Each week will focus on a different topic. Join the current meeting by visiting https://tinyurl.com/y9rheypj

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everything from free coloring book pages to online Broadway plays to NASA tours. Choose a new activity every day at https://tinyurl.com/yc6t9uxa To view more online COVID-19 resources for parents and children visit https://tinyurl.com/y8ffq28m Webinars for Your Business to Navigate COVID-19: Webinars on a variety of topics to help the business community survive and navigate the COVID-19 public health crisis. Visit the following websites to see what they have to offer: Economic Development Collaborative (EDC) www.EDCollaborative.com; Womens Economic Ventures (WEV) www.WEVOnline.org; Traffic Solutions www.trafficsolutions.org; SCORE Santa Barbara https://tinyurl.com/yxh2qz5c; and The Chamber of the Santa Barbara Region www.SBChamber.org The Importance of Activities, Mindfulness, and Community for Vitality: The Friendship Center is committed to bringing activities and engagement to you at home! They will be hosting live activity sessions through Zoom and Facebook live every Monday-Thursday.

Join Zoom Meetings at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/257870485 Meeting ID: 257-870-485 Facebook Live: https://tinyurl.com/y9yktnm8 AHA! Free Online Workshops: From topics such as Body Image During Corona to Parenting in Place to Couples’ Issues in Extreme Conditions, AHA! therapists and coaches are offering free online workshops. Preregistration is required. For a complete schedule and to register visit https://ahasb.org/ Mahakankala Buddhist Center Online Classes: Center classes have been moved online.

Evening classes on Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 6:30 to 7:30pm, begin with a guided breathing meditation and culminate with a second meditation based upon the evening’s topic. The Sunday morning class from 10:30 to 11:45am is a practice class with commentary. Suggested donation for class is $10. Register at https://tinyurl.com/y9ea3wpj SBPL Works! offers Help for Job Seekers: Looking for a job or to improve your career skills?

The SB Public Library’s professional staff in their workforce development program SBPL

Ganna Walska Lotusland

Cottage Health’s Free Online Resources for Families: Offering fun and educational resources to help families cope and spend productive time together. The page has

Fighting Hate From Home Webinars: At a time when we can all feel isolated, we need to pull together more than ever to stand up against antisemitism and extremism. The Anti-Defamation League is offering a series of webinars, Fighting Hate from Home, to help unite and inform the community. Sign up for ADL’s email list to receive notifications each week about the next event in the webinar series. www.adl.org/webinars Watch archived webinars at https://tinyurl.com/yc6ynu6z Library & Community Resources for Mental Wellness: Find links to community and national resources about mental health at https://tinyurl.com/yalfwj9m The Library also has books and resources for you to help you cope. Browse the Mental Health Awareness Month collection on Overdrive https://tinyurl.com/yamjtph6 Library Sidewalk Service Locations Added at Eastside, Montecito, and Carpinteria locations in addition to Central Library. Days and times for each location vary. Book drops will also be open at each location during Sidewalk Service hours. This contactless pickup service is only available to SBPL cardholders. https://tinyurl.com/y7pkvas7 COVID-19 Isolation Support Group: New Beginnings is offering a free COVID-19 Isolation Support Group on Mondays from 5:30 to 7pm via Zoom. To sign up call or text 805-419-3212. https://tinyurl.com/y235zn2r SBMM Maritime On The Move: Brings museumquality experiences to sites throughout Santa Barbara County. These adventures begin outdoors and incorporate engaging activities for students to enjoy while exploring local ecosystems and biomes found in their own backyard. Programs can be customized. www.sbmm.org/at-home United Boys & Girls Clubs of SB County After-School program: Monday through Friday 3 to 6pm.

Free for all students who qualify for free and reduced lunch. For three hours every weekday, hundreds of children will be able to take dance and yoga classes, learn organic gardening, take part in outdoor activities, and eat a healthy snack. Register at: www.unitedbg.org/parent Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s Gold Ribbon Campaign will run throughout the month of September to raise funds during National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This year, the Campaign is solely focused on raising funds and awareness for the organization and the families they serve. To donate visit https://bit.ly/31I8Gkm

RESOURCES & WORKSHOPS Nature At Your Fingertips: From art projects, to stories, to natural recipes, Wilderness Youth Project is providing resources that deeply engage children and adults with the natural world. Access the Free Nature Resource Portal at https://wyp.org/resource-portal/ and check back every week to see what fun new offerings are added.

Works! are ready to help you with one-to-one consultations in English or Spanish remotely.

Free and open to all and by appointment.

Complete the survey at: https://tinyurl.com/y9jmn8fx

Santa Barbara Ghost Tours Walk with Professor Julie as she shares tales of mystery and history... & meet friendly spirits...

Call or text to schedule your walking tour! • 805-905-9019

TEDxSantaBarbara Spurs Change: TEDxSantaBarbara, a locally organized offshoot of the international TED nonprofit, kicked off Making Waves: Conversations with Influencers and Disruptors, a series of virtual talks to address two major issues facing society today – COVID-19 and systemic racism. The online events will be free and broadcasted live on Zoom and Facebook on Wednesdays at 4pm through December 2020. Reserve tickets at: www.TEDxSantaBarbara.com

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Call for Proposals for Santa Barbara Reads 2020 Arts Workshops

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Artists are invited to submit proposals for virtual arts workshops for Santa Barbara Reads in November 2020

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ANTA BARBARA READS is the Santa Barbara Public Library’s annual community read program. Generously funded by the Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation and with support from California Humanities, SB Reads 2020: Create! will investigate the creative process, and will feature the book Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, along with a small selection of other titles in English and Spanish. The goal of the program is to engage the community with local artists and writers to explore creativity and, as Gilbert suggests in her book, encourage embracing “a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.”

The Library is seeking artists of all mediums to propose interactive virtual workshops exploring creativity and artistic expression in any creative discipline.

ELIGIBILITY: This project is open to all artists and/or collaborative artist teams at least 18 years of age, working and/or residing in Santa Barbara County. Artists may submit more than one workshop proposal, but will only be eligible to present one workshop during the program. As all workshops will be held on Zoom, selected artists must have access to the resources to facilitate their workshop virtually.

BUDGET: Selected artists will receive an honorarium of $1,000, inclusive of a materials budget for the workshop.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Proposals should be submitted via email to Lisa Neubert, Programming Librarian, at LibraryPR@SantaBarbaraCA.gov, and must be received by September 30th at 5pm.

REQUIRED PROPOSAL MATERIALS: The submitting artist’s name (first and last). Teams should include the name of their group (if applicable), and the names of all participating artists • The city (or cities) in which the artist resides and works • The proposed workshop name • A description of the proposed workshop • The number of proposed workshop sessions, and how long each session will run (maximum of four hours total). Please include preferred workshop dates in November 2020. The Library will work with selected artists to finalize workshop schedules based upon Library availability • The maximum number of participants (minimum of eight participants) • An approximate budget, listing all the materials participants would need and receive in order to participate in the workshop • Learning objectives and the output participants will have created by the end of the workshop • A short description of the artist’s teaching experience, if any • The language in which the workshop will be taught (English, Spanish, bilingual) • The intended audience for the workshop (teens, adults, no age restrictions).

PLEASE CONSIDER: The artist will be responsible for purchasing supplies and creating any workshop kits that will need to be distributed to participants. The Library will facilitate distribution to attendees.

We are searching for workshops for adults and teens, and will be selecting at least one proposal to be offered exclusively to a teen audience.

We are searching for workshops to be held in both English and Spanish (or bilingually in English and Spanish), and will be selecting at least one proposal intended for a Spanishspeaking or bilingual audience.

Workshops should allow for a minimum of eight participants, and we are searching for a variety of workshops – small to large. Our goal is to reach as many people as possible while providing meaningful experiences for participants.

Please consider the cost of supplies when planning for the workshop’s size. We suggest no more than $250 of the honorarium be used for supplies.

SB Reads 2020: Create! is looking to connect local artists with one another and with the Santa Barbara community. Proposals should come from artists living and working in Santa Barbara County, and proposals from artists working in the Santa Barbara Public Library’s service area will be given priority in the selection process.

All workshops will need to be held virtually in November 2020. SBPL will host workshops via Zoom call, and artists will need to have access to a computer, camera, and microphone and be comfortable facilitating the workshop remotely.

Artists need not have any teaching experience to submit a proposal.

Workshops will be selected by a panel with representatives from: Santa Barbara Public Library staff, the Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation, and the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture. The panel’s decisions will be announced by October 6th, 2020.

Contemporary American Landscapes 517 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 805 962-5588 www.artlacuna.com Ann Lofquist, Palisades South View I, oil, 24x28 in., detail.

REH Fine Art at

219 Gray Avenue, in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone

5 on the Rise Featured artists: Dorothy Churchill-Johnson Kerrie Smith Cynthia Martin Cynthia James Ruth Ellen Hoag

Vapours 10 (detail) by Kerrie Smith

Hall of Reckoning by Cynthia James

Inner Hydrangea by Dorothy Churchill-Johnson

South Coast Sunset by Cynthia Martin

Opening Friday, September 18th, 5 to 8pm Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-5pm through October 11th

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.

To learn more about the history of Santa Barbara Reads, visit www.SBPLibrary.org.

All library programs are free and open to the public.

Central Bark (detail) by Ruth Ellen Hoag

Patrons’ and Artist’ safety is central. Social Distancing, face coverings, and all required safety measures will be applied.

Appointments encouraged • Call: 805-689-0858 or Email: ruth@grayspaceart.com

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Celebrating Santa Barbara Artists & Art Destinations GALLERIES • STUDIOS • MUSEUMS • PUBLIC PLACES

Cynthia Martin Contemporary Art

ELVERHØJ MUSEUM: Closed/ COVID-19 • 805-686-1211 • www.elverhoj.org.

FAULKNER/SB PUBLIC LIBRARY GALLERIES: Closed/COVID-19 • 805-962-7653.

“Spring Day at Ellwood Station” 5 x 7 Original Oil Painting

Ralph Waterhouse A. Michael Marzolla Contemporary Art Excogitation Services

www.marzozart.com

GOLETA VALLEY LIBRARY: Closed/COVID-19 • 805-964-7878.

Santa Barbara CA 93101 805-962-8885

GOLETA VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION: Ongoing virtual art exhibition ~ www.tgvaa.org/virtual-show/ • 805-964-787.

La Arcada at State St. & Figueroa

www.waterhousegallery.com

10 WEST GALLERY: Summer 2020 ~ Sep 20 • 10 West Anapamu • FriSun 12-4 • www.10westgallery.com • 805-770-7711.

ART FROM SCRAP GALLERY: many classes online • 805-884-0459 • www.exploreecology.org/art-from-scrap.

ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM, UCSB: MAny On-line exhibitions including: Outside In: The Architecture of Swith and Williams; Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House; Irresistible Delights: Recent Gifts to the Art Collection; Hostile Terrain 94; Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community; Irving J. Gill: Simplicity and Reform; Lucille Lloyd: A Life in Murals; UCSB Campus Architecture: Design and Social Change; and Westmore: Making Faces for Film • 805-893-2951 • www.museum.ucsb.edu/exhibitions/.

HOSPICE OF SB, LEIGH BLOCK GALLERY: 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, #100 • Mo-Fr 9-5pm, By Appt • 805-563-8820.

BELLA ROSA GALLERIES: Central Coast Landscapes ~ Sep 30 • 1103-A State St • 11-5pm daily • 805-966-1707.

INSPIRATION GALLERY OF FINE ART: 1528 State St • 805-962-6444.

CASA DE LA GUERRA: Closed/ COVID-19 • 805-965-0093.

CASA DOLORES: Old Postcards from México/ Tarjetas Postales Antiguas de México ~ Oct 5 • www.casadolores.org • 1023 Bath St • 805-963-1032.

CHANNING PEAKE GALLERY: Closed/COVID-19 • 105 E Anapamu • 805-568-3994.

COLETTE COSENTINO ATELIER + GALLERY: 11 W Anapamu • By Appt • 805-570-9863.

CORRIDAN GALLERY: 125 N Milpas • www.corridan-gallery.com • 805-966-7939.

CYPRESS GALLERY: Daily 11-5, Sun 2-5 • www.lompocart.org • 119 E Cypress Ave • 805-737-1129.

DISTINCTIVE FRAMING N’ ART: 1333 State St • 805-882-2108 • www.distinctiveframingnart.com.

p h o t o g R A p h y

www.roeannewhite.com roeannewhite.com

GOLETA VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: El Corazón de Goleta by Barbara Eberhart • 55679 Hollister • www.thegvcc.org.

ATKINSON GALLERY @ SBCC: Closed/COVID-19 • gallery.sbcc.edu • 805-897-3484

COMMUNITY ARTS WORKSHOP: Closed/COVID-19 • 631 Garden • 805-324-7443.

Roe Anne White

GALLERY LOS OLIVOS: Simple Pleasures ~ Sep 30 • 2920 Grand AVe, LO Thur-Mo 10-5 • 805-6887517 • www.gallerylosolivos.com.

Waterhouse Gallery

(805)452-7108

ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION GALLERY: Siempre Mas by Minga Opazo ~ Oct 31 • 229 E Victoria • 805-965-6307 • www.afsb.org/programs/art-gallery.

GALLERY 113: 1114 State St, #8 La Arcada Ct • SB Art Assn • www.gallery113sb.com • 2-5pm daily • 805-965-6611.

ELIZABETH GORDON GALLERY: 15 W Gutierrez St • 805-963-1157 • www.elizabethgordongallery.com.

EL PRESIDIO DE SANTA BÁRBARA: www.sbthp.org/presidio • Closed/COVID-19 • 805-965-0093.

JAMES MAIN FINE ART: 19th & 20th Cent American & European Fine art & antiques ~ Ongoing • 27 E De La Guerra St • Tu-Sa 12-5pm • Appts Suggested • 805-962-8347.

Represented by www.Silo118.com www.cynthiamartinpaintings.com (805) 708-3054 JARDIN DE LAS GRANADAS: re[visit] 1925 by Kym Cochran & Jonathan Smith ~ Ongoing • 21 E Anapamu.

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SB: Closed/COVID-19 • Virtual Juried Exhibition in partnership with Abstract Art Collective• 805-957-1115.

KARPELES MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: Closed/COVID-19 • 21 W Anapamu • 805-962-5322.

MARCIA BURT T Marcia Burtt Gallery 517 Laguna St., Santa Barbara 805 962-5588 www.artlacuna.com

LINDEN STUDIO AND GALLERY: 963 Linden Av, Carpinteria • 805-570-9195.

LYNDA FAIRLY CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: Closed/COVID-19 • Free virtual art classes • 805-684-7789 • www.carpinteriaartscenter.org.

MARCIA BURTT STUDIO: Gradeur ~ Oct 11 • www.artlacuna.com • 517 Laguna St • Th-Su 1-5pm • 805-962-5588.

KATHRYNE DESIGNS: 1225 Coast Village Rd, Suite A • 805-565-4700.

LA CUMBRE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: La Cumbre Plaza • Thurs-Sun 12-4 • lacumbrecenterforcreativearts@gmail.com

A Re-Opening to Celebrate!

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ALLERY LOS OLIVOS has re-opened with Simple Pleasures including work by artists Cheryl Ambrecht and Patricia Watkins.

The exhibit, which can be viewed online as well as in person is a collection of oil paintings and classic artistic jewelry. It will be on display through September 30th.

Discover the online exhibition at www.gallerylosolivosonline.faso.com www.GalleryLosOlivos.com • 805 688-7517

A Day in the Harbor

by Cheryl Ambrecht

Penske Projects Pop-Up Exhibition Opens at Montecito Country Mart

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NJOY ART WHILE YOU SHOP at the Montecito Country Mart this month! From now until October 10th, Montecito Country Mart is hosting A Peripheral Reverie, a pop-up exhibition from Penske Projects. Consisting of work from 22 contemporary artists, the exhibition is open Wednesdays through Sundays from 11 to 4pm.

“The exhibition seeks to offer a time and place for a moment of reprieve and release amidst the important and radical times we are all currently living in,” reads the Montecito Country Mart’s announcement of the pop-up exhibition.

Sophia Penske, founder Sophia Penske, the founder of Penske Projects, was a co-curator for this pop-up of Penske Projects exhibition. Originally from California, Penske attended Cornell University and worked in gallery and art advising in New York before moving to Los Angeles. She founded Penske Projects in 2019.

In order to ensure public health and safety, all exhibition visitors will be asked to wear face masks and stay six feet apart while viewing the art. Hand sanitizer will also be provided to attendees.

To minimize wait times, viewing reservations can be made ahead of your visit at www.penskeprojects.com/gallery-appointments.

To learn about other ongoing and up-and-coming opportunities at the Montecito Country Mart, visit www.montecitocountrymart.com.

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More Artists & Art Destinations George Fox Steedman – By His Hand – A Collection of Drawings from the Casa Archive

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EEPING ITS HAND IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD in addition to the recent re-opening of the Casa for self-guided garden tours, Casa del Herrero is offering George Fox Steedman - By His Hand - A Collection of Drawings from the Casa Archive online.

During his lifetime, George Fox Steedman pursued many activities and interests. To some, he was considered a modern day Renaissance man.

His background in engineering served him well as he developed projects and worked on inventions, resulting in more than 40 patents.

CDH Executive Director Jessica Tade noted that, Steedman “conducted detailed research and kept meticulous records for many of his pursuits.

Often, drawings and sketches would accompany these Centaur Image items. Additionally, he filed

by George Fox Steedman correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera in neatly organized folders in his workshop office filing cabinets. Today, Mr. Steedman’s world remains alive through the papers he left behind.”

The nearly 60 Steedman drawings and sketches in this exhibition have never been viewed by the public. The Casa hopes they will inspire creativity and ingenuity in the viewer, allowing further creative pursuits to Find them at: www.casadelherrero.com/exhibition/ take shape and soar.

MICHAELKATE INTERIORS & ART GALLERY: Contemporary Art & Interior Design • 132 Santa Barbara St • Open Tu-Sat 10-6 • 805-963-1411.

PEREGRINE GALLERIES: 1133 Coast Village Rd • 805-969-9673.

MOXI, THE WOLF MUSEUM: Closed/ COVID-19 • 125 State St • Thu-Su 10-12 & 1-3 • 805-770-5000.

PORTICO GALLERY: 1235 Coast Village Rd • 805-695-8850.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SB: Closed/COVID19 • Bloom Projects: Genevieve Gaignard, Outside Looking In • 805-966-5373 • www.mcasantabarbara.org.

MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: Closed at this time • 805-653-0323.

PORCH: GALLERY: 3823 Santa Claus Ln • 805-684-0300.

RODEO GALLERY & LOVEWORN: 11 Anacapa St • 805-636-5611.

RUTH ELLEN HOAG FINE ART @ GRAYSPACE GALLERY: 5 on the Rise ~ Oct 11th • On-Line painting classes • 219 Gray Av • Fri-Sun 1-4, RSVPs welcome • 805-689-0858.

PALM LOFT GALLERY: 410 Palm Av, Loft A1, Carp • By Appt • 805-684-9700.

SANSUM CLINIC LOWER LEVEL: The Art of Ballet II by Malcolm Tuffnell ~ Ongoing • 317 W Pueblo St • 805-898-3070.

SANTA BARBARA ART WORKS: Artists with Disabilities - Virtual Arts Market • 28 E. Victoria Street • 805-260-6705.

SANTA BARBARA ARTS: Thurs-Sun 11-5 • 805-884-1938.

SANTA BARBARA FINE ART: Along The Way West: recent paintings

by Michael Drury • 1321 State St • Thu-Sun 1-8 • 805-845-4270.

SANTA BARBARA TENNIS CLUB: Paintings and Photography with John Baran ~ Oct 2 • 10-4 daily by appt • 2375 Foothill Rd • 805-682-4722.

SB BOTANIC GARDEN: members 9-10/ public 10-5 daily • www.sbbg.org • 805-682-4726.

SB HISTORICAL MUSEUM: The Fiesta Project • Reopening as Outdoor Museum • 136 E De la Guerra • Thur noon-5, Fri noon-7; Sat 12-5 • 805-966-1601.

SB MARITIME MUSEUM: Closed/ COVID-19 • Online Exhibit: Dwight Brooks Model Boat Collection • 20th Anniversary Virtual Scape Art Show & Sale • View lectures & art on-line www.SBMM.org • 805-962-8404.

SB MUSEUM OF ART: Closed/ COVID-19 • Online exhibits: Highlights of the Permanent Collection ~ Ongoing • SmallFormat American Paintings from the Permanent Collection • In the Meanwhile...Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art • Fall After-School Classes via Zoom • https://tickets.sbma.net/ • Studio Sundays via Zoom • www.sbma.net/events/videolibrary/studiosundays • Online resources: www.sbma. net/learn/athome • www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFgz_ EK8or8&t=37s • 805-963-4364.

SB MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Online workshops • Outdoor areas open w/ RSVP • Wed - Sun 10-2 • Last weekend for Butterflies Alive! • www.sbnature.org • 805-682-4711.

SILO 118: LOVE ART? HATE COVID-19? • www.silo118.com.

SLINGSHOT: AN ALPHA ART FORUM: Closed/COVID-19 • 805-770-3878.

SOLVANG ANTIQUES FINE ART GALLERY: 1693 Copenhagen Dr • 805-686-2322.

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ITH VIRTUAL LESSONS THAT INCLUDE WEEKLY INSTRUCTION IN DRAWING, COLLAGE, AND PAINTING for second to sixth graders, as well as a specially designed program for kindergarten students introducing them to the essentials of art, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art has made the leap to digital learning for its ArtReach program.

While SBMA had planned for the upcoming academic year with the hope of teaching on-site classes, due to continued concern for health and safety, schools quickly pivoted to online learning, meaning Sketchbooks distributed to third to fifth graders in nine schools that SBMA’s school and community in Santa Barbara—over 1,500 programs had to pivot too. Starting even students before the schools made their decision, the Museum worked with teachers and administrators to offer the same quality and relevance of free programming that is offered in person.

SBMA’s ArtReach program, which has been serving schools in the Santa Barbara region for over 20 years and normally takes place in school classrooms, is now being offered live online via Zoom. SBMA’s ArtReach program lessons still work to emphasize the materials and methods artists use, and the cultural context in which works are produced. Visual Thinking Strategies are used to connect students to original works of art in the Museum’s permanent collection.

And while students cannot visit the Museum inperson at this time, SBMA Teaching Artists and educators are prepared to give virtual field trips through conversations and videos.

Working in classrooms, as well as conducting after-school programs, such as Homework/ Artwork, Art Appreciation, and Art Making in partnership with People’s Self-Help Housing, SBMA Teaching Artists will reach well over 500 students this fall. These include over 100 second graders at one school alone, who have each SBMA art kits ready for received an art kit from SBMA filled with art distribution to area students supplies and activity sheets. This continues an effort to make sure that students have the supplies they need to create art themselves.

In addition, in response to continuing efforts for access, SBMA specially designed a sketchbook that was delivered, along with crayons, to all third to fifth grade students in the nine elementary schools in the Santa Barbara Unified School District—over 1,500 students. These sketchbooks are filled with writing prompts, artist quotes, and creative drawing ideas. A printable version will be available on the Museum’s website soon, along with a version in Spanish.

Various local teachers have responded, “I know the third to fifth graders will be so happy to have these ‘official’ art supplies,” and “I am looking forward to working collaboratively to continue to bring art to Santa Barbara’s young people.”

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And now my friends, here are the most important things for all of us to do in the upcoming weeks – WE MUST REGISTER AND WE MUST VOTE. Discover more Art Matters Columns at www.edwardgoldman.com

Edward Goldman was art critic and host of “Art Talk,” a weekly program which aired prime-time Tuesday evenings during All Things Considered on LA’s largest NPR affiliate, KCRW 89.9 FM, for more than 30 years. Along the way, he also contributed weekly art reports to the Huffington Post and developed a strong digital following.

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Gwynn Murrill in her studio in front of her sculpture

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Gwynn Murrill’s studio in Mid-Town

Susan Morse showing her portrait paintings

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HE GREAT NEWS that Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (ca. 1770), after almost two years of meticulous conservation is now reinstalled at the Huntington Art Gallery, couldn’t have arrived at a better time. In the midst of a pandemic and fires, this news is like a muchneeded breath of fresh air. Among the numerous treasures at The Huntington, The Blue Boy is definitely the most famous art piece- sometimes referred to as the “Mona Lisa” of The Huntington Art Collections.

The museum made a very smart decision to keep this painting on display during the conservation, so visitors coming to The Huntington would have a chance to observe the careful removal of layers of discolored varnish and old overpaint and filling in areas of missing paint due to flaking and abrasion.

When you see the images of this painting, side by side, before and after conservation, you not only get amazed by the brilliance and luminosity of the colors of the restored masterpiece, but realize that the “old” Blue Boy, because of the layers of discolored varnish, was rather greenish.

Looking at the slightly hazy image of The Blue Boy before its restoration, I can’t help thinking about our smoke-filled skies these days…

While museums are still closed, there is still a chance Christina Milton O’Connell for us to visit galleries by appointment. Lucky me, I have Mary Ann and John Sturgeon Senior Paintings Conservator the chance to call up some artists to visit them in their studios, to see and talk about their latest work. Once, after one of such visits, an artist wrote to me, “You looked at my work with an understanding eye. You gave me some interesting insights to what I have been doing for all these years.” Hmm… I’ll take it.

I have been a big fan of Gwynn Murrill, Los Angeles artist, well-known for her sculptures of animals. For years I have seen her sculptures in public spaces and museum exhibitions, but I had never met the artist herself. Two weeks ago, I had the chance to meet Gwynn.

Her large, crowded Mid-Town studio looked like a phantasmagorical zoo with the animals run out of their cages. And all these animals had plenty of character and stories to tell. When we go to the zoo, we see animals in cages. Here, in Gwynn Murrill’s studio her animals were free to be alive and well…

I have been friends with Susan Morse for a number of years, knowing her as an architect and adventurous Side-by-side comparison of Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy, art collector. The last few months, during the lockdown, pre-conservation (left), post-conservation (right) Susan has spent most of her time at home, which has allowed her to focus on what she loves the most – making paintings. I went to see her at her home in the Pacific Palisades, and she showed me various female portraits, including an attention-grabbing portrait of a young Patti Smith. I was particularly intrigued by a large canvas – a still life with pink Lilies. It felt like a gush of fresh ocean air was slowly breathing through the flowers. Susan told me that she is still working on this painting, but I pleaded her to leave it as it is. In my opinion it was perfect as is…

And talking about old friends.

Through the years I have had the pleasure of getting to know a number Installation view of The Blue Boy in The Huntington Art Gallery of art collectors - the members of the Pasadena Art Alliance. The purpose of this Alliance “is to foster the appreciation for contemporary visual arts in Southern California by supporting artists, exhibitions, educational programs, and art-oriented non-profit institutions.”

To raise money, the Alliance organizes impressive bi-annual art auctions, but this year, due to COVID, the Auction will be held online. I checked the list of several dozen artists and found among them the names of many well-known and up-and-coming artists. The Auction will open September 19th and close on October 3rd. To view the full list of artists, artworks, and their prices visit https://events.handbid.com/auctions/pasadena-art-alliance/items.

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Due To The Pandemic, All Registered Voters In California Will Automatically Receive A Ballot In The Mail By Early October

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ITH ONLY 47 DAYS UNTIL THE PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION on Tuesday, November 3rd, voters can expect increased efforts to help ensure their vote is counted.

Due to the pandemic, all registered voters in the State of California will automatically receive a ballot in the mail around the beginning of October. If a voter does not receive their ballot by October 12th, they should immediately contact the Santa Barbara County Registrar of Voters office at (805) 568-2200.

Voters can verify the accuracy of their voter registration, including residential and mailing addresses, at https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ registration-status or www.sbcvote.com. To make address and other updates to their registration, or for eligible citizens to register to vote, go to www.registertovote.ca.gov.

County Elections Adds 30(+) Secured Ballot Drop Boxes Throughout the County Voters are encouraged to complete their ballot and return it through one of 30 or more secure drop boxes located throughout the county. Drop boxes will be available 24 hours per day beginning October 5th, and until 8pm on Election Day. To avoid concerns about

postal delivery delays, voters are encouraged to utilize a drop box to return their ballot. A list of all drop box locations in Santa Barbara County will be included with the vote ballot and posted on the website at www.SBCVote.com.

Voters may mail their ballot with no postage required, postmarked by Election Day, November 3. The preprinted return address is the Santa Barbara County Elections Office. The Postal Service advises voters to mail their ballots no later than October 27th to reach the elections office in time to be counted.

Voters must remember to sign the ballot envelope. The signature on every returned voted ballot envelope will be compared to the signature on the voter’s registration card before it is counted. If a voter thinks that their signature has changed over time, they should contact Santa Barbara Registrar of Voters at (805) 568-2200 or reregister online at www.registertovote.ca.gov. The DMV signature may be utilized with online voter registration.

Santa Barbara County Elections is staffing approximately 35 inperson voting sites over four days for those who would like additional services including language assistance or a replacement ballot. These sites will be open October 31st through Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd. Facial coverings will be required and voters should expect a socially distanced waiting line. Voters have been assigned

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For information about becoming a poll worker at one of these sites, please call (805) 568-2200 or go to https://countyofsb.org/care/ elections/officers/information.sbc.

The three election offices in the county will be open for voting, voter registration and voter questions from October 5 through Election Day, November 3rd.

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