Art
Lovers! The County Art
Commission’s Channing Peake Gallery at 105 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the Downtown Organization
and neighboring art venues, is excited to present 1st Thursday,
an evening of art and culture in Downtown Santa Barbara. On the first Thursday
of every month, participating downtown galleries stay open in the evening to
offer free access to art in a fun and social environment. This 1st Thursday is March 1, 5-8pm.
Enjoy
an evening of culture by strolling the Historic Arts District’s 30-plus
participating venues. These venues will offer special programming such as
artists’ receptions, music, demonstrations, lectures, wine tastings, and of
course, an array of artwork. As you wander between galleries, take in the live
musical performances and interactive exhibits outside on State Street. At
the Peake Gallery we present:
THRESHOLD
CHANNING PEAKE
GALLERY
105
East Anapamu Street
1st
floor of the County Administration Building
1st
Thursday,
March 1, 5-8pm Reception, 6pm Gallery Walk-thru tour
Join us for a 6 pm walk-thru tour of Threshold, an evocative new exhibition
of water-themed photography, and meet Allan Hancock College film and video
instructors Michele Simonsen and Tim Webb. Their work explores the beauty of
light flowing through water in the Trinity River in Northern California.
In
addition to visiting our venue, be sure to explore the other
participating venues. Listings of the specific programming offered at each
gallery and descriptions of all public performances and interactive exhibits
are available at www.santabarbaradowntown.com. Make the Historic
Arts District the place to be on Thursday nights!
Mark your
calendars and join us Downtown for 1st Thursday on March 1st.
Santa
Barbara artist painter Peter Worsley's exhibit "Our Town" is showing
at Gallery 113, downtown Santa Barbara, Tuesday, February 28 through Friday
March 30, 2012. There is a reception at the Gallery on "First
Thursday," March 1st, 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
Worsley,
who mostly paints narrative figurative stories, occasionally takes time out to
paint scenic views. Recently he has been looking at his home town of Santa
Barbara and has created a large 24 x 48 inch panoramic view from the Santa
Barbara Riviera, of the waterfront, the harbor, and many landmarks of the east
and south sides of the city, including the outline of the Channel Islands.
JESSIKA CARDINAHL
ARTISTS RECEPTION SATURDAY, MARCH 3rd
from 3 – 5 PM
SHOW EXHIBITS FEBRUARY 25 – APRIL 5th
Jessikacardinahl.com
p o r c h
3823 Santa Claus Lane
Carpinteria, CA 93013
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Please join us
for the opening reception of
The New MFAs | UCSB + UCDavis
Friday March
9th . 6-8pm
The artists
exhibiting in this show are pursuing the Master of Fine Arts degree, an
intensive endeavor of creative commitment designed to allow students to fulfill
their artistic potentials. MFA programs have become renowned for playing
a significant role in the formation of the contemporary creative environment,
and this show presents an insight into the students’ output from the various
stages in the program.
The gallery
will present art by seventeen students from UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis and
offers an exciting chance to view a wide range of work including: drawing,
painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, installation, ceramics
and conceptual work. The broad spectrum of practices is testament to the
exciting new work being produced through creative programs on University of
California campuses and reveals the unique sensibilities of each artist.
Come tour
the gallery-as-art-lab and enjoy an opportunity to purchase work by the new
emerging talents!
Jane Deering Gallery
128 E. Canon Perdido
Street . Santa Barbara CA 93101
t: 805-966-3334
c: 917-902-4359
Artists’ Opening Reception - Noah Erenberg,
Estebán, William Woolway
Friday March 2 – 5 to 7 pm
AFS Gallery
302 East Cota Street (Corner of Garden and Cota)
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Perspectives: The White City
March 11 – June 22, 2012
Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara
Art at the JCC: Bronfman Family Jewish
Community Center
524 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-957-1115 info@sbjf.org
http://www.jewishsantabarbara.org/artatthejcc.aspx
Opening Reception: Sunday, March
11, 2-4 pm. No charge.
Photo booklets will be available
for purchase.
Perspectives: The White
City Photos by Carol Bishop and Susan Horowitz
This exhibit examines the Modernist legacy
of Tel Aviv’s White City architecture. Their images excavate the foundations
and spirit of the original vision of the city when the 1930’s International
Style of architecture was adopted to create a new urban environment. Today
these buildings eloquently speak of the complex issues of history, culture,
form, restoration and possibility—both a testimony to the original plan, as
well as a profile on change. Together, the artists reveal issues and ideas
about the current look and meaning of the White City. Bishop’s photos focus on
the changes of the Modernist legacy through the color and light of the city.
Horowitz’s work looks at the issues of preservation, what is lost and what
still exists. The White City was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in
2003.
The Artists: Carol Bishop and Susan Horowitz are Los Angeles-based artists who
create photographs related to architecture, which open dialogues about design
issues, urban life and contemporary culture. As artists whose work often
focuses on architectural modernism in L.A. including the work of Frank Lloyd
Wright, Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler, etc. they seek to find connections to
structures around the world. The forms and ideas of these and other Modernists,
such as Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus architects, inspired separate trips to
explore and document their reactions to the White City.
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WHAT'S NEW FOR 1st THURSDAY THIS WEEK, Sullivan Goss gives you
three new exhibitions and three new books! First up is the sweeping exhibition, IN SEARCH OF
THE SOURCE: Paintings from the Nile and Beyond by Lockwood de Forest.
Join us as we head up the Nile and across the Middle East in 1876 with
Lockwood de Forest. The gallery has prepared a book with excerpts from de
Forest's journals to accompany this epic show. HOWARD
WARSHAW: New Forms is a dynamic new exhibition for one of
Southern California's midcentury icons, Howard Warshaw. Focusing on his
concern with developing a new language of form, the exhibition is timed to
coincide with several important Pacific Standard Time (PST) exhibitions.
We're also welcoming back Anya Fisher to the gallery for her
sixth solo show, ANYA FISHER:
Kaleidoscope. Anya worked with Rico Lebrun, Warshaw's
collaborator and mentor. See how Fisher's vibrant paintings interact with
Warshaw's work. Plus, don't forget about ZACK PAUL:
INSIDE OUT! We are looking forward to a review of his debut
exhibition in this month's ART LTD. magazine. But wait! There's more: THE DRAWINGS
OF LEON DABO has a companion in the form of a new book! Come
see one of the gallery's most special installations and then read about it. The gallery will also continue to feature DYNAMIC DUOS
- a hidden gem in the farthest part of our gallery. If you haven't found us on FACEBOOK or TWITTER, you can click on those
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"Susan
Beauvais is a glass artist, poet and nature photographer and a new resident of
the Santa Barbara Arts community.
Her
organic sculptural works are a combination of fossilized roots, hollowed by the
rivers in Costa Rica, infused with symbiotic glass designs.
This
collection is currently seeking a new home for exhibition. For more
information, please contact her at: info@susanbeauvais.com."
Friday, March 16, 6 pm
smART Salon: The Role of Childhood and Parenting in the
21st Century
As a compliment to the exhibition Flights
from Wonder, this smART Salon features pioneering professionals sharing
their diverse expertise and experience that will broaden and strengthen our
understanding of childhood and parenting today. Esteemed panelists include
Gopal Krishnmurthi, Coordinator of the Krishnmurti Teaching Academy; Ellen
Stoddard, Director of the Lou Grant Parent Child workshop in Carpenteria; Don
MacMannis, Clinical Director of the Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara;
Carolyn Kaster, teacher at the Waldorf School of Santa Barbara; and moderated
by Charles Donelan, Arts Editor of the Santa Barbara Independent.
For questions regarding the smART
Salon, please email education@sbcaf.org
or call (805) 966-5373 x103.
ADMISSION IS FREE
Location:
CAF | 653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
| Paseo Nuevo Mall Upper Arts Terrace |
sbcaf.org
p: (805)966-5373 | f: (805) 962-1421 |
sbcaf@sbcaf.org
Thursday, March 1, CAF celebrates
its two locations!
5-7 pm at the CAF Satellite @ Hotel Indigo
Santa Barbara
CAF and Hotel Indigo Santa
Barbara host an open house celebrating their exciting collaboration. Explore
newly renovated rooms and common spaces designed by AB Design Studios, Inc., as
well as the hotel's first exhibition as CAF's satellite space, Open House. Kunin
Wines will be pouring their award-winning offerings.
Open House features the following artists:
Alejandro Diaz, Ann Diener, Stephanie Dotson, Rob Fischer, Francesca Gabbiani,
Saul Gray-Hildenbrand, Nathan Hayden, Cyndee Howard, Jennifer Nocon, Zacarias
Paul, Luke Stettner, Kirsten Stoltmann, Sandra Torres, and James Van
Arsdale.
5:30 pm - Tour
of the exhibition by CAF Executive Director Miki Garcia and remarks by Clay
Aurell and Josh Blumer of AB Design Studios, Inc.
Leave a business card and enter a
raffle for a chance to win a free hotel stay, CAF membership, and Kunin Wines
tasting.
CAF Satellite @ Hotel Indigo
Santa Barbara
121 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 966-6586
Click here to visit the
Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara website.
Click here to visit the
CAF Satellite @ Hotel Indigo website.
Special thanks to: The Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, NY and The James Irvine
Foundation, San Francisco, CA.
ADMISSION IS FREE
Following this opening,
join us at CAF's main space
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THIS WEEK AT ARTS & LECTURES |
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Songs, Music & Poetry of the American West Fri, Mar 2 /
8 PM / Campbell Hall Few places in the world capture the imagination like the
American West. From the range, ranch, reservation and roadhouse, from the
valley of the Rio Grande to the Bitterroot Mountains, Don’t Fence Me In
explores the region’s celebrated musical and oral culture. Cowboy songs and
poetry, high plains yodeling, western swing fiddle and vocal harmonies,
lively Tex-Mex polkas and rancheras, and Northern Plains pow-wow drum and
song are performed by an assemblage of exceptional artists – Wylie & The
Wild West, The Quebe Sisters Band, Los Texmaniacs, North Bear, and rodeo poet
Paul Zarzyski. |
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Sun, Mar 4 /
1 & 3 PM / Pollock Theater
(Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey, 2011, 84 min.) |
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UCSB Reads Author Event Moby-Duck Mon, Mar 5 /
8 PM / Campbell Hall When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of
thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few
oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers and read up on Arctic science and
geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far and they
carry you away. Hohn’s accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive worlds
of shipping conglomerates and Chinese toy factories, the daring work of
Arctic researchers and the lunatic risks of maverick sailors. Moby-Duck
(2011), a national best-seller, is a journey into the heart of the sea and an
adventure through science, myth, the global economy and some of the worst
weather imaginable. FREE |
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Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies Tue, Mar 6 /
8 PM / Campbell Hall National Inventor Hall of Fame honoree Ray Kurzweil is widely
regarded as one of the leading inventors and futurists of our time. Dubbed a
“restless genius,” he is the subject of the film Transcendent Man.
Kurzweil has written four national best-selling books, including The
Singularity is Near and The Age of Spiritual Machines. He is
currently working on a new book about human intelligence in machines.
Kurzweil has successfully founded and developed companies in music synthesis,
speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial
investment, medical simulation and cybernetic art. He received the $500,000
Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest U.S. award in invention and innovation and is
a recipient of the National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest
technology honor. |
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National Theatre Live Wed, Mar 7 /
7:30 PM / Lobero Theatre “As The Artist threatens to
win the first silent Best Picture Oscar since 1927, Nicholas Wright’s play
offers a fairytale imagining of how it all began.” The Times, London Directed by Nicholas Hytner The National Theatre Live screenings are rebroadcasts of live
performances captured in HD |
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Santa Barbara Symphony Presents “Latin
Passion”
Santa Barbara Symphony
Saturday, March 17, 2012 and Sunday, March 18, 2012
- Carlos
Miguel Prieto, Guest Conductor
- Alexandre
Da Costa, Violin soloist
- Manuel
de Falla: Three Dances from “The Three Cornered Hat”
- Michael
Daugherty: Fire & Blood for Violin and Orchestra
- Bizet-Shchedrin:
Carmen Suite
- José Pablo Moncayo: Huapango
Derived from the famous ballet “The
Three-Cornered Hat”, this orchestral suite brings thrilling Andalusian folk
music to the stage. Experience Bizet's Carmen Suite in
a great arrangement for percussion and strings by Russian composer Rodion
Shchedrin, as well as Daugherty’s colorful violin concerto led by dynamic young
guest conductor, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and featuring rising violin star,
Alexandre Da Costa. Moncayo’s Huapango is an arrangement for orchestra
inspired by the popular dance music of the Gulf of Mexico region and a
thrilling conclusion to the concert.
Prieto serves in four music directorships, including Mexico’s most
important orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico, in his native
country, and also in the re-emerging Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New
Orleans, where he leads the cultural renewal of ravaged New Orleans. A graduate
of both Harvard and Princeton Universities, Mr. Prieto has conducted over 50
world premieres of works by Mexican and American composers.
Award-winning violinist Alexandre Da Costa was recognized by age
nine as a musical prodigy for his astonishing musical abilities. He continues
to perform with prestigious orchestras including the London Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, and the Vienna Symphony.
Date
& Time: Saturday, March 17th at 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 18th at 3:00 pm Matinee
Pre-concert lecture, “Music Behind the Music,” begins one hour before each
performance
Location:
The Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Cost:
$25-$95
March Sponsors: Concert Sponsor: Mosher Foundation;
Artist Sponsor: Mary Beth Larkin and Chris Lancashire; Programming
Sponsors: John A. Rodriguez, II; Media Sponsor: Santa Barbara
News-Press
All Santa Barbara Symphony season concerts take place at The
Granada Theatre. Each concert includes a pre-concert lecture, “Music Behind the
Music” beginning one hour before the concert.
To purchase 2011-2012 Season subscriptions or our "Flex 4-concert series"
package, call the Santa Barbara Symphony Office at (805) 898-9386. Single
tickets and subscriptions are also available online at www.thesymphony.org.
Discounted student tickets are available for $10 with valid student ID.
Santa Barbara Youth Symphony’s Spring
Concert
Santa Barbara Symphony
Experience the talented young
musicians of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony in the 2012 Spring Concert. Under
the direction of Music Director Andy Radford, flute soloist and concerto
winner, Jessica Kozachuk will perform Cécile
Chaminade’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in D Major. The
Youth Symphony will also perform Otto Nicolai’s Overture to Merry Wives of
Windsor, Antonín Dvořák’s Czech
Suite, Op. 39, as well as Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia, Op. 26.
The Spring Concert features Youth
Symphony members who, by audition, perform as soloists with the Youth Symphony.
Concerto winner Jessica Kozachuk is a senior at San Marcos High School and a
fourth year member of Santa Barbara Youth Symphony. She plans to further her
musical passion by studying music in college.
Santa Barbara Youth Symphony serves
the region by providing musical enrichment to young people through the venues
of orchestral performance and instruction in the schools of our
community.
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido
Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Cost:
$12.00 – Adults, $8.50 - Students/Seniors, Children 6 and under
are free.
For tickets, call the Lobero Box Office at (805) 963-0761 or go
visit www.lobero.com.
Tickets are subject to $3 per ticket Lobero Facility Fee; other fees
may also apply. For more information, visit www.thesymphony.org.
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The
Arts Fund Presents
JAMES
HAPKE: PRINTS
March
23 – May 19, 2012
February 20,
2012: The
Arts Fund is pleased to present an exhibition by 2011 Individual Artist Award
winner James Hapke. James Hapke: Prints will be in The Arts Fund Gallery
from March 23 – May 19, 2012. The exhibition will open with a
public reception for the artist on Friday, March 23 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in
the gallery which is located at 205C Santa Barbara St. Gallery hours are
Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. and by appointment. Admission
is free.
PRINTS will present
a diverse range of works on paper by Santa Barbara artist James Hapke. Interested
in exploring the human form and its relationship to the local landscape,
Hapke’s prints communicate an honest sense of discovery and self-examination.
Hapke creates collographs, lithography, etchings and aquatints to uncover ideas
relating to the passage of time in both the human body and the geological
landscape through the use of layering images.
James Hapke was born in 1986 in Newport Beach,
California and studied in Santa Barbara at Westmont College earning a B.A. in
English with a minor in Studio Art focusing on printmaking. After graduating in
2009 he co-founded the Santa Barbara-based writing group and journal, FRAME,
and curated a timeline and visual expression of the development of the poetry
journal for “Monitored”, an exhibit and poetry reading at the Faulkner Gallery
in Santa Barbara. He also co-wrote an ocean/ballad-based concept album, Water
Will Rise, released in 2010 under the name Patience. His work as a
printmaker is driven and influenced by his interdisciplinary background.
Hapke
is one of three artists who received The Arts Fund’s Individual Artist Award in
2011. These awards annually identify and reward artistic excellence in
Santa Barbara County. This solo exhibition, along with a cash prize of
$2,000, is part of the award. Now in its 23rd year, the Arts Fund’s IAA
Program has awarded over $174,000 in cash prizes and showcased over 140 artists
in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Funded entirely through
private donations, the IAA is an important component in sustaining artistic
vitality in the community.
This
exhibition was made possible through the generosity of Suzanne Bock. More
images from the show are available upon request. For more information, please
call The Arts Fund at (805) 965-7321 or go to www.artsfundsb.org.
Organization
Background:
The Arts Fund (www.artsfundsb.org)
was established as a nonprofit in 1983 dedicated to fostering the arts in Santa
Barbara County. The organization’s formal mission is to create, fund and
administer programs and projects that foster the arts for the people of Santa
Barbara County, to act as a catalyst maximizing the effectiveness of arts
resources, and to nurture collaborative relationships amongst arts
organizations.
The Arts Fund is best known as the
sponsor of the annual Individual Artist Awards (IAA), a juried competition open
to Santa Barbara County artists, and the Teen Arts Mentorship Program that
matches promising high school students with professional master artists and
writers in a workshop setting. In 2001, The Arts Fund opened The Arts Fund
Gallery at 205C Santa Barbara Street at Yanonali in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone
neighborhood. Gallery sales and private donations are an important and
essential source of funding for the organization. Please visit www.artsfundsb.org
to learn more upcoming programs and events or how to make a donation to support
the work of The Arts Fund. The Arts Fund Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday
from 1-5 p.n. and by appointment.
Hope
to see you all March 1, First Thursday at The PROJECT!
5 to 8 pm
East de la Guerra at the Plaza
Grammy-winning Mariachi Los
Camperos de Nati Cano come to Santa Barbara for free neighborhood concerts with
¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara!
Summary
Facts:
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Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano,
Grammy-winners, in free concerts
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Friday, March 23, 7 pm, Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Rd., Goleta,
Information (805) 893-5037
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Saturday, March 24, 7:30 pm, Guadalupe City Hall, 918 Obispo Street, Guadalupe,
Information (805) 343-2939
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TWO CONCERTS on Sunday, March 25, 4 and 7 pm, Marjorie Luke
Theatre, Santa Barbara Jr. High, 721 E. Cota Street, Santa Barbara,
Information (805) 884-4087 x7
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Doors open
one half hour before the shows start
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Join ¡Viva
el Arte de Sánta Barbara! on facebook
Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano return to Santa Barbara
for ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara!. Their popular performances always
include the best in classic mariachi, dance, humor, and a unique connection
with the audience that brings people together to celebrate this important
tradition.
Natividad “Nati” Cano. A traditionalist and a visionary, Cano has both
mirrored and shaped the history of mariachi music. He was born in 1933 into a
family of mariachi musicians in Jalisco, Mexico, one of the many west Mexican
communities that gave life to the mariachi tradition. His career took him first
to nearby Guadalajara, Mexico’s second largest city, and then further away to
Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, he and Los Camperos emerged as a major driving
force of the mariachi music tradition in the United States.
Los Camperos de Nati Cano has existed for more than 50 years and is noted for
demanding musical arrangements that highlight the individual skills and voices
of the players. The ensemble employs the finest musicians from Mexico and the
United States and has performed for audiences worldwide.
In December 2006, Cano’s contributions to the American music landscape were
recognized when he became one of the first artists nationwide to win a USA
Fellowship from United States Artists. In its inaugural year, United States
Artists awarded 50 USA Fellowships to a total of 54 artists. Mr. Cano was one
of only five musicians to be named a USA Fellow in the inaugural year.
Mariachi Los Camperos was one of four mariachis that collaborated on Linda
Ronstadt’s album, Canciones de Mi Padre (Songs of my Father). In
1988-89, the group worked on the promotion of the album, including national
television appearances on programs including The Tonight Show with
Johnny Carson and the Grammy Awards Show. They also appear on Linda Ronstadt’s Mas
Canciones (More Songs).
The ensemble has recorded nine albums including: Puro Mariachi (Indigo
Records, 1961); North of the Border (RCA/Carino Records, 1965); El
Super Mariachi, Los Camperos (Latin International, 1968); Valses de Amor
(La Fonda Records, 1973); Canciones de Siempre (PolyGram Latino, 1993); Sounds
of Mariachi (Delfin Records, 1996) and Fiesta Navidad (Delfin
Records, 1997); Viva el Mariachi (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,
2003); Llegaron Los Camperos, (Smithsonian Folkways, 2005.) Los Camperos
shared a 2005 Best Musical Album for Children Grammy for cELLAbration!, A
tribute to Ella Jenkins. In 2006, the album Llegaron Los Camperos
was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Mexican/Mexican-American
Album. In 2008, the group released their third CD with Smithsonian Folkways,
entitled Amor, Dolor y Lágrima that won the 2009 Grammy for Best
Regional Mexican Album.
¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! is a collaboration of the Marjorie Luke
Theatre, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts & Education Center, Isla Vista School,
and UCSB Arts & Lectures. Bringing free music and dance to
neighborhood venues, schools and community organizations throughout Santa
Barbara County, Viva concentrates on making important traditions accessible to
students and families. In order to reach out to the broadest possible audience
Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano will also visit several schools and
community groups as part of their Santa Barbara stay.
Viva coordinators Alíz Ruvalcaba, Graciela Parra, and Catherine Boyer reach
out to local communities to get the word out and organize volunteers to run the
events. In January 2011, the national Association of Performing Arts
Presenters recognized Viva as one of two exemplary outreach programs
nationwide.
The James
Irvine Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and many others in
our community support ¡Viva el
Arte de Santa Bárbara! including the Santa Barbara Foundation, Incredible Children’s Art Network, the UCSB Office of Education
Partnerships, the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, The Marjorie Luke
Theatre’s Dreier Family Rent Subsidy Fund, the Santa Barbara Independent,
Santa Barbara Latino, Santa Maria Sun, Univisión, Radio Bronco, R & V
Photography, Fairview In & Out Carwash, the Sandman
Inn and Pacifica Suites. This
project is funded in part by the Community Arts Grant Program using
funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara, in partnership with the Santa
Barbara County Arts Commission. Co-presented by the
Marjorie Luke Theatre, the Guadalupe Arts & Education Center and UCSB Arts
& Lectures, in collaboration with the Isla Vista School After School Grant.
Dear Community,
You are invited to Ayni Gallery, 216 State Street www.AyniGallery.com
. . .
Friday, March 2, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
"Awakening the Divine Feminine" with LADIMIRA. She
offers solutions and techniques
based on the ancient Slavic Traditions and Shamanic
Traditions http://ladamira.weebly.com/
Free Introductory evening.
Monday, March 5, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
SB LOVE GRID Community Potluck and Circle Up.
This first Monday monthly Community gathering is
growing and magical.
Great food and spontaneous-inspirational-fun Community
circle experience.
Networking and heart connections. No cost.
Sunday, March 18, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
SACRED COCREATIVE ECONOMICS Community Dialogue
with Eileen Workman and Ani Ahavah.
Looking beyond our dysfunctional economic system to Nature's
elegant model of reciprocity and
regenerativity. Special guests will be featured each month. www.SacredEconomics.org.
No cost
LADIMIRA - FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 2 AT AYNI GALLERY -
7:00-9:00 PM
"Ayni"
- Life's principle of reciprocity . . .
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Join
us at The Book Den for an evening of Irish travel and music. Russ Doherty
will be at The Book Den to discuss and sign copies of his book The Quiet
Man Fiddles: Musical Journeys in Ireland. And he'll have some of his
friends along to play some Irish songs as well. Thursday,
March 1, 5 PM to 8 PM |
Museum of
Ventura County
Agriculture
Museum
For more images or information,
contact Susan Gerrard, Director of Marketing
(805) 653-0323 ext 306 marketing@venturamuseum.org
How Green Is Our Valley?
Agricultural Landscape of Historical Santa Clara Valley Explored
in March 18 Talk at Agriculture Museum
Ten years of research by historians Judy Triem and Mitch Stone
helped make the Santa Clara Valley eligible for listing on the National
Register of Historic Places. Learn about the valley on Sunday, March 18 at 2:00
p.m., when they share their findings at the Museum of Ventura County’s
Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula. The presentation will illustrate how the
Santa Clara Valley is a visual record of the evolution of agriculture in
Ventura County, from dry farming to citriculture and beyond. Triem and Stone
will focus on the architecture of farmhouses, barns and outbuildings, as well
as row crops, orchards and water features, all of which serve to explain and
define the cultural landscape.
The talk is included in the price of museum general
admission; museum members are free. Seating is limited; call (805) 525-3100 for
reservations. Copies of the Easton Press book, “The Santa Clara Valley of
Ventura County,” for which Judy Triem wrote the history, will be available for
purchase.
Historians Triem and Stone have worked extensively in Ventura
County and are principals in San Buenaventura Research Associates, which
specializes in historic resources evaluations for compliance with state and
federal environmental requirements, and the production of historic property
surveys and documents to support historic preservation planning.
The
Museum of Ventura County’s Agriculture Museum is located at 926 Railroad Avenue, Santa Paula, California, in their historic
downtown, near the Depot and next to the railroad tracks. Hours are 10
a.m.– 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Admission is $4 adults, $3 seniors, $1 children 6-17, free for Museum of
Ventura County members, and for children ages 5 and younger. On first
Sundays of the month, general admission is always free. For more
information, go to www.venturamuseum.org or call (805) 525-3100.
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Thursdays,
March 8, 29 and Sunday, May 13, 5:30 pm In
conjunction with the exhibition, Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A
Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969 and
introduced by UCSB Critical Theory and Integrative Studies Professor, Colin
Gardner March
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EXTENDED RUNS
PCPA
Theaterfest Presents
LITTLE WOMEN, THE
BROADWAY MUSICAL
Little Women, The Broadway Musical based on the
beloved classic novel by Louisa May Alcott which follows the adventures of Jo,
Meg, Beth, and Amy March as they grow up in Civil War America. Jo longs to
publish a novel. Meg longs for a fiancé. Beth longs for a piano. Amy longs to
be admired. As relevant today as when it was written, this timeless tale has
been given new life as an exhilarating new musical filled with glorious song,
dancing and a few tears. Jason Howland’s score celebrates personal discovery
and a young America finding its voice and coming of age in a time of challenge
and transformation. Little Women will be directed by Roger DeLaurier with
choreography by Michael Jenkinson.
Thursday,
February 16 through Sunday, March 11
922-8313
Santa
Barbara Choral Society Presents
MASTERWORKS AT SAN
ROQUE
In
the second installment of “Masterworks at San Roque,” Santa Barbara Choral
Society Artistic Director JoAnne Wasserman will conduct the 100-voice chorus,
orchestra, and special guests, the Westmont College Choir, in a performance of
the ethereal Requiem of Maurice Duruflè. “We are also thrilled to bring
to Santa Barbara the West Coast
Premiere of Rollo Dilworth’s The Rain Sequence, in which the audience itself plays a
key role!” said Ms. Wasserman who reports that Dr. Dilworth was in Santa
Barbara on February 18 to work with the singers in preparation for the concert.
Saturday,
March 3 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 4 at 3:00 p.m.
San
Roque Church, 3200 Calle Cedro, Santa Barbara, 965-6577
University
of California Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance presents
ENTANGLED
By Lila Rose
Kaplan, directed by Risa Brainin.
The
new fall term is starting at Twins Academy, a boarding high school for
exceptional twins. The school's dance instructor, Leigh, is not happy to learn
that her long-estranged twin sister, August, is returning to teach physics at
the academy they founded together 25 years ago. August's eccentric lessons on
entanglement*. gradually pull their students into the family rift. Oh, and
everyone stops showering. In a school setting both unusual and familiar,
Entangled examines the highs and lows of breaking apart and coming back
together again. (*Entanglement is a term used in quantum theory to describe the
way that particles of energy/matter can become correlated to predictably
interact with each other regardless of how far apart they are. Einstein called
it "spooky action at a distance.")
Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 pm, Sunday, March 4 at 2:00
p.m., Thursday, March 8-Saturday, March 10 at 8:00 p.m.
Hatlen
Theater, UCSB Campus
www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu
The
Department of Theater and Dance is located amidst some of the newest facilities
on campus, including a well-lit parking structure (Lot 22) close to performance
venues. Visit the departmental website - www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu - for
directions and information about attending events at UCSB. The department's
productions are not targeted to children.
ITM
Collective Presents
DANNSAIR
Explore
the emotions of Traditional Irish Music This Thursday Night at Dargan’s Irish
Pub & Restaurant – 18 E. Ortega This Sunday Night at The James Joyce – 513
State Street Both Performances are Free.
6:30
– 8:30 p.m.
SINGLE EVENTS
UCSB
Arts & Lectures Presents
DON’T FENCE ME IN
Santa Barbara
Debut. Few places in the world capture the
imagination like the American West. From the range, ranch, reservation and
roadhouse, from the valley of the Rio Grande to the Bitterroot Mountains, Don’t
Fence Me In explores the region’s celebrated musical and oral culture.
Cowboy songs and poetry, high plains yodeling, western swing fiddle and vocal
harmonies, lively Tex-Mex polkas and rancheras, and Northern Plains pow-wow
drum and song are performed by an assemblage of exceptional artists – Wylie
& The Wild West, The Quebe Sisters Band, Los Texmaniacs, North Bear, and
rodeo poet Paul Zarzyski.
Friday, March 2 at
8:00 p.m.
UCSB Campbell
Hall, 893-3535
https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=2135
American
Medical Response Presents
MICHAEL
MCDONALD
Michael
McDonald, a five-time Grammy Award winner, is certainly one of the most popular
singer/songwriters of our time, not only as a solo artist but with hits bands
such as Steely Dan and of course, the Doobie Brothers. All proceeds from this
evening will benefit Doctors Without Walls—Santa
Barbara Street Medicine (DWW-SBSM). DWW-SBSM’s provides free healthcare to the
underserved population in Santa Barbara. The first annual Takin’ it to the
Streets Award, as well as a short multi-media presentation about Doctors
Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine, will take place prior to the
concert. VIP ticket holders will attend a “meet and greet” with Mr. McDonald at
a reception in the Lobero Courtyard.
Saturday,
March 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Lobero
Theatre, 963-0761
www.lobero.com/calendar/index.php?display=event&id=747&returnto=list
State Street Ballet Young Dancers Presents
SPRING CELEBRATION OF DANCE
The
State Street Ballet Young Dancers’ Spring Celebration of Dance 2012 is an
annual choreography concert, featuring innovative choreography by well-known
choreographers on young dancers from the apprentice company of State Street
Ballet. This year, works are being choreographed by State Street Ballet
director Rodney Gustafson and State Street Ballet resident choreographer Josie
Walsh, named by Dance Magazine as one of “25 to watch.” It’s an exciting
year for the company, because one of the works of choreography will be selected
for the National Regional Dance America Festival in Montreal this coming May.
Sunday,
March 4 at 6:00 p.m.
Lobero
Theatre, 963-0761
www.lobero.com/calendar/index.php?display=event&id=736&returnto=list
Opera
Santa Barbara Presents
OPERA NIGHT TRE LUNE
Opera
Santa Barbara brings back its popular Tre Lune Opera Night! Sit down and
enjoy a sumptuous meal while being serenaded by members of the cast of Opera
Santa Barbara's Marriage of Figaro. A romantic night on the town,
or a fabulous night out for you and your friends! One night only, make
your reservations soon. Buon appetito!
Tuesday,
March 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Tre
Lune Ristorante, 1151 Coast Village Road, 969-2646
Opera
Santa Barbara Presents
FREE NOONTIME
CONCERT
Opera
Santa Barbara presents free noontime concerts featuring members of its 2012
Studio Artists Program. This is a rare opportunity to hear rising opera stars
performing a varied program of arias and ensembles.
Wednesday, March 7,
12:00 p.m.
McCune
Founders Room, Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street, 898-3890
www.operasb.org/young_artists.php
UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents
TRAVELLING LIGHT
In a remote village in Eastern Europe circa
1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his
father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber
merchant and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures
of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of storytelling. Forty
years later, Motl, now a famous American film director, looks back on his early
life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams. Following Vincent in
Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas Wright’s new play, directed by
Nicholas Hytner and featuring award-winning actor Antony Sher, is a funny and
fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players
in Hollywood’s golden age.
Wednesday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Lobero Theatre, 963-0761
www.lobero.com/calendar/index.php?display=event&id=749&returnto=list.
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