Santa Barbara News-Press: April 18, 2020

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‘A different type of exciting’: Summer Solstice celebration moves online to keep the artistic and vibrant spirit alive By CHRISTIAN WHITTLE NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

‘HEY MAN, THEY WALKED A ON THE MOON. LET’S DO THIS!’ Barry Birmingham might not be able to give in-person lessons at the Santa Barbara Drum Lab, but technology is allowing him to connect to his students

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s the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shut down loCOURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO cal festivals, gatherings, and celebrations, one Santa Santa High graduate Barbara summer favorite refuses Maria to go down without Bryan Barriga

a fight. On Thursday, the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Celebration announced that although it will suspend its annual community workshops and three-day festival, the party will continue online. Keeping the Solstice spirit alive and thriving, staff and volunteers are in the process of COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO planning a plethora of free and Santa Maria High graduate Bryan donation-based online classes Barriga and gatherings in May and June and possibly beyond. Throughout the month of May and June, the Summer Solstice By MITCHELL WHITE Celebration will offer online art NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER classes, dance classes, and various types of gatherings for artryan Barriga he KENNETH SONGadmits / NEWS-PRESS ists and community members, didn’t havehas themoved typicalits Summer Solstice including live-streamed musichildhoodonline experience. 2020 festivities due to the cal performances. When he was 4, Bryan’s father was coronavirus pandemic. The community will be able to diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, participate through live-stream- a disorder of the inner ear, and has ing via Facebook at www.facebook.com/SBSolstice/ andever a webeen unable to work since. At 7, mother and younger sister were binar-style signup accessed with ahis link received via email. deported Mexico. The first workshops are expected to be held to the first week of “I think it just drove me,” Bryan By MITCHELL WHITE May, and will continue to get rolled out through email, Facetold the News-Press during a recent NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER book, and on www.solsticeparade.com. phone interview. “I knew that I needStaff and volunteers are also planning a Friday and Satured to have a better future for my Barriga admits heparday online festival concept with some kindryan of virtual parade. ents and I justhave wanted totypical help them didn’t the “We’re still trying to figure out what that’s going to look out. They’ve done soexperience. much for me just childhood like,” said Robin Elander, executive for the sodirector I could have anSummer education.”

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They’ve done sobecause much forhe mewas just trying to do it all byeducation.” himself. putting a project together. He has had his Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. ifty years ago today, humanity so I could have an KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS PHOTOS He was able to lean on communiLast month, Bryan received his At 2,800 pounds, standing 12 feet tall share of setbacks, but over the years he’s accomplished the impossible. Documentary filmmaker Steven Barber and his wife Tamara are shown with various Apollo 11 celebratory items, including a bust of Neil Armstrong, below. ty members and friends who have high school diploma from Santa MaAmerica and the world were in- and costing $750,000, the monument learned that if you keep swinging, you canattended college, as age wellofas ria High School at the 16.the He spired when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil marks the end of Mr. Barber’s year long not fail. It’s exactly this mentality that led Scholarship Foundation of Santa is the first member of his family to Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, backed by journey to honor three of America’s great- to the statues finally arriving at the KenBarbara. nedy Center’s moon garden. graduate high school and in the fall crewmate Michael Collins and hundreds est heroes. to more than 30 col“You can’t believe what it took to put in heHe willapplied be heading to the University A brief resident of Santa Barbara when of men and women behind them, took their leges, such as Ivy League schools of Notre Dame. he was young, Mr. Barber has made sev- three statues, so I can’t even imagine what first steps on the moon. 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He also applied Please see APOLLO 11 on A4 In celebration of their achievement and eral documentaries on subjects ranging to other prestigious colleges such as By NICK MASUDA Please see GRADUATE on A3 DIRECTOR OF NEWS By MITCHELL WHITE and behavior data. to track and monitor the recovery period from a NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER Thethat technology was developed in Santa Bar- surgery, or even what sleep patterns can tell you arry Birmingham is the first one to admit his life-long bara and is maintained obsession with playing the drums comes with one unique by a local data science about your overall health. hat if perk a conversation could team. the power of the devices and the data — you can take outbe all used of your aggression on some met- A NEWS-PRESS SERIES:“That’s BUSINESS SANTA BARBARA to detect the hidden beginning of “Our data platform enables the passive collec- theySMALL produce right now,” Alessio Signorini, one al without any repercussions. Alzheimer’s? tion and deep analysis of continuous behavior of the company’s co-founders, told the News“If you are having a bad day, playing drums gets all your Or if the type of mobile phone or smartwatch data alongside traditional healthcare information, Press. “You would be surprised how much data By JOSH GREGA aggressions you just feelyou so much better,” Mr. Birmingham NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER you use could revealout, how adherent are to empowering individuals and innovative compa- a smartphone would produce for health. Good said. “Y ou should hear me play when I am angry, I am phenomcertain medications? What if the wearable data nies to understand and influence the everyday kind of data.” enal.” you compile could show changes in the spread behaviors that create better health outcomes,” OhO Restaurant & Music Club is putting some The devices in use produce millions of data Thankfully, Mr. country? 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