Ventura journalist to interview Malcolm McDowell

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Museum of Ventura County is presenting “Ivor Davis: Up Close and Personal with Malcolm McDowell.”

Mr. Davis, a longtime Ventura journalist and author, will interview Mr. McDowell, an Ojai TV and movie star, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the museum’s Ventura campus at 100 E Main Street, and virtually via Zoom. To register, go to www. venturamuseum.org.

This event is free for members and $10 for nonmembers in person and $5 for non-members attending via Zoom.

Mr. McDowell is a winner of Ojai Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. His impressive career puts him in the pantheon of the all-time great British-born actors from Laurence Olivier to Michael Caine to Anthony Hopkins.

Mr. McDowell’s career has spanned more than 50 years, where he has starred in movies such as Stanley Kubrick’s iconic “Clockwork Orange,” Lindsay Anderson’s “O Lucky Man!,” “Caligula,” “Bombshell,” “Time After Time” and “The Artist.” His television credits include “Entourage,” the animated

Wynton Marsalis Septet

Tue, Apr 4 / 7 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre

Marsalis’ wide-ranging career, original works by his frequent collaborators and standards spanning the vast historical landscape of jazz.

Major Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune

Event Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold

Jazz Series Lead Sponsor: Manitou Fund series “South Park” and “Mozart in the Jungle.” He also starred in a remake of ABC’s “Fantasy Island.”

Mr. McDowell was last interviewed by Mr. Davis in February 2021.

“When he first visited us in 2021, we heard so many wonderfully interesting stories from Mr. McDowell about his 50-year film career,” said Elena Brokaw, the museum’s Barbara Barnard Smith Executive Director.“We are sure to be entertained once again as we catch up with him in 2023.” email: kzehnder.@newspress.com

Prior to joining the Smart Museum, Dr. Cacchione was a curatorial fellow for East Asian Contemporary Art in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was responsible for expanding the museum’s collection of contemporary art from East Asia.

Additionally, she has taught various art history courses at the University of Chicago, UC San Diego and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

As the assistant director, Dr. Cacchione will work with the ADA museum director, Dr. Gabriel Ritter. Dr. Cacchione will help the museum develop new exhibitions and educational programs, and explore the balance between art and historical issues.

Dr. Cacchione will begin her new position May 1.

The ADA Museum at the UCSB is a teaching museum and a resource for the wider Santa Barbara community.

According to the museum’s website (www.museum.ucsb. edu), its mission is to “stimulate research, support artistic practice, and generate original programming through the museum’s collections.” email: abahnsen@newspress.com

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The UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum is open noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. Admission to all exhibitions and programs are free, unless otherwise stated. Oncampus parking is $8 for the full day. Visit www.museum.ucsb.edu for more information.

Carlos Henriquez, bass

Domo Branch, drum

Dan Nimmer, piano

Danish String Quartet

The Doppelgänger Project, Part III

Thu, Apr 13 / 7 PM (note special time) / UCSB Campbell Hall

Schubert: String Quartet in A minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”)

Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D. 703 (“Quartettsatz”)

Anna Thorvaldsdóttir: Rituals (Arts & Lectures Co-commission)

Schubert (arr. Danish String Quartet): Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118

“Their command of the score is absolute… impressively cohesive.” The New York Times on Doppelganger, Part II

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Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw

Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

Fri, Apr 21 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

Sō Percussion offers an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam.” The New Yorker

Caroline Shaw’s remarkable ear for melody and Sō Percussion’s playful sense of rhythmic invention come together in this strikingly original music that dissolves the boundaries between classical and pop.

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Santa Barbara Junior High School students prepare to perform live on 99.9 KTYD during the Keep the Beat Instrument Drive.

Drive collects instruments, raises funds for music education

SANTA BARBARA — More than 60 musical instruments were donated, and over $10,000 was raised during the local Keep the Beat Instrument Drive.

In February, 99.9 KTYD, a Santa Barbara rock music station, joined forces with the Santa Barbara Education Foundation to host the drive, which promotes music education.

The foundation and radio station hosted a live on-air event that asked community members for donations of used instruments as well as donations for the Santa Barbara Unified District music programs. The radio event lasted for over a month, and it featured interviews and performances by current Santa Barbara Unified music students, teachers, and professional musicians who shared their stories of finding their passion for music in their public school’s music department. For more education or to donate, visit sbefoundation.org.

— Annika Bahnsen

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Thought for Today

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without” and know we cannot live within.

Baldwin