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No matter what genre of music he composed, Mozart did so with masterful skill – operas, choral works, concertos, chamber music, solo songs, sonatas, chamber works, and symphonies – making him what many consider the greatest composer in history. Highlights from more than six hundred works will take you on a Grand Tour of Mozart’s musical genius.

Michael Christie, conductor
Cedric Berry, baritone
Natasha Kislenko, piano
Joshua Ranz, clarinet
New West Symphony Chorus
Dr. Wyant Morton, director

MOZART:
Symphony No. 25, Allegro con brio
Overture from The Marriage of Figaro
“Non più andrai” from The Marriage of Figaro
Piano Sonata No. 11, “Alla Turca,” Andante grazioso
Piano Concerto No. 24, Allegro
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Allegro
String Quintet No. 5 in D Major, K. 593, Larghetto-Allegro
Clarinet Concerto, Rondo
Requiem (selections), Kyrie, Dies Irae, Lacrimosa, Amen, Lux Aeterna, Cum Sanctis

No matter what genre of music he composed, Mozart did so with masterful skill – operas, choral works, concertos, chamber music, solo songs, sonatas, chamber works, and symphonies – making him what many consider the greatest composer in history. Highlights from more than six hundred works will take you on a Grand Tour of Mozart’s musical genius.

Michael Christie, conductor
Cedric Berry, baritone
Natasha Kislenko, piano
Joshua Ranz, clarinet
New West Symphony Chorus
Dr. Wyant Morton, director

MOZART:
Symphony No. 25, Allegro con brio
Overture from The Marriage of Figaro
“Non più andrai” from The Marriage of Figaro
Piano Sonata No. 11, “Alla Turca,” Andante grazioso
Piano Concerto No. 24, Allegro
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Allegro
String Quintet No. 5 in D Major, K. 593, Larghetto-Allegro
Clarinet Concerto, Rondo
Requiem (selections), Kyrie, Dies Irae, Lacrimosa, Amen, Lux Aeterna, Cum Sanctis

Grab a glass and join us for this presentation in your living room!

Author and UC Santa Barbara Alum Renée Patin Farrington reminisces about student life as well as the fashions and fun on campus and in Santa Barbara in the latter half of the 1950s.

UC Santa Barbara moved to its Goleta location in 1954 with a student body numbering a little over 1,700. For the next several years most of the buildings on campus were leftovers from the World War II-era Marine base – a far cry from the major educational institution of today.

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Renée Patin Farrington is the author and publisher of In the Shadow of the Sign, a personal memoir of her upbringing in Southern California as the daughter of a Disney animator.

This talk is VIRTUAL and FREE. Register for the Zoom webinar here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_31DeeS6uQz6bnBeXvhVaKA#/registration

In the early 1940s, author and Utopian Bobby Hyde bought 50 acres of wildfire scarred land in the foothills above Montecito. He sold one-acre lots to like-minded souls for $50 down and $50 a month. In the years following World War II, a bohemian community of free thinkers built their homes of adobe, raised their families, threw countless parties, and became legend in Santa Barbara.

Join author Lee Chiacos and archivist Chris Ervin for the inside story and rediscovery of Santa Barbara’s most well-known counterculture and alternative lifestyle community – Mountain Drive.

The museum's current exhibition about the Mountain Drive Community is open through June 25, 2023.

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Author and journalist Elias (Lee) Chiacos collected the stories and wrote the definitive local history book, Mountain Drive: Santa Barbara’s Pioneering Bohemian Community.

Chris Ervin is Head Archivist for the Gledhill Library at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

Reservation Required. Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/memories-of-mountain-drive-tickets-607856112997

Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales is a Black-Latinx and Santa Barbara, California native artist who uses elements of mythology to explore her identity and personal experiences. She began this exploration during her attendance at the Maryland Institute College of Art and carried it on in exhibitions in Oxnard, Ventura and Los Angeles, California, New York City, Baltimore, Maryland, and Florence, Italy.

Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales is attracted to mythology because it rides the line of reality and fantasy to tell the story of a people. Her passion has brought her to think of her own creation. With all the nuances that form her identity, Vanessa has come to begin thinking of herself not just as one but a universe of beings in which the entirety is her. Her works consist of figures built from collaging transparent paper, insects, bugs, flowers, leaves while simultaneously playing with body language, distortion, and metaphor. In a visual language exploring the expanses of the human body and mind, a vibrant color palette and organic materials, Vanessa attempts to navigate the complex, imperfect yet beautifully kaleidoscopic nature of a people and thus herself.

The city you live in has a powerful effect on how you behave. How, then, do we design happy cities? Urban design consultant, award-winning journalist and author of Happy City, Charles Montgomery looks for answers in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics and cityscapes from Disneyland to Dubai. Montgomery launched the world’s first Happy Neighborhood Audit in Mexico City, works with the World Health Organization’s Europe Healthy Cities Network, and collaborates with TIME magazine on an interactive survey exploring happiness in American cities. Discover the link between urban design and our thoughts, feelings and actions as Montgomery demonstrates life-changing relationships with the cities we inhabit.

Woman. Life. Freedom. is a public art projection featuring 30 artworks by anonymous international artists. These monumental digital images, which will be projected onto the façade of the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum, respond to systemic gender inequity and discrimination in Iran. As a gesture of solidarity, the works in this exhibition reflect the central message that a struggle for women’s right to self-determination affirms human dignity.

Note: Projection will run from 8 PM-11 PM.

John Barrett was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1952 and grew up in Manhattan Beach, California. He began pursuing his career as an artist in the late 1960s influenced by his great-grandfather, a painter. His grandmother, a photographer and wood worker, gave him his first oil paints and enrolled him in drawing lessons at age 10.

John suffered a brain injury as a child and was diagnosed with learning disabilities in the 1950s. In spite of his limitations in reading and spelling he pursued his education at El Camino College in Torrance, California. Living in a garage, with limited resources, and determined to learn more about making art, John persevered at the college from 1971 to 1974. Eventually he was instrumental in founding the school’s first lithography lab and became a student teacher in lithography and monoprints.

John was an advocate for increased civic support for mental health and homeless services.

The Alisa Sikelianos-Carter exhibition at SLOMA will promote an emerging female artist of color whose works are inspired by the stories of her Black ancestors and traditionally Black hairstyles, centered on ancestral power and mythology. With her opulent, large-scale paintings she creates a mythology that is centered on Black resistance and utilizes the body as a sight of alchemy and divinity.

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed-media painter from upstate New York. She has been awarded residencies at Fountainhead Residency, Millay Arts, NXTHVN, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, Yaddo, Art Omi, Headlands Center for the Arts, and The Golden Foundation.

OXNARD, CA.: U.S. Coast Guard Station Channel Islands will host it’s Annual Safe Boating Open House on Saturday May 20, 2023. The event is the start of National Safe Boating Week. 200+ people are expected to visit the station from 10:00AM to 2:00PM. The station is located at 4201 S. Victoria Ave. Oxnard. Free admission and parking.

USCG Boat Tours & Helicopter Rescue
Highlights include USCG Helicopter rescue demonstration over Channel Islands Harbor! Ventura County Fire Department Air Support Unit and Harbor Patrol demonstration. Boaters may receive free life jacket with exchange, drop-off expired flare disposal collected by the Ventura County Sheriff Office – Bomb Squad, Touch a Truck with Ventura County Fire Department, Environmental Education Boater Kits, and much more.

Multiple public safety agencies will be present to demonstrate and provide an opportunity for the public to learn about recreational safe boating. Active duty members of the Coast Guard will conduct informative tours of their rescue boats and the USCG Cutter “Blacktip”.

Fun for the Whole family!
Families and Children are welcome. Kids will delight with the antics of the talking Coastie Safety Boat robot! Lean to tie knots at the seamanship skills table or try your throwing ability with the heaving line contest or learn about environment protection and good boating practices. There are several information booths with safety brochures, boating safety class registration, vessel safety check RSVP, and all things to help adults and children learn about safe boating. There’s something for everyone!

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and the members of the active duty Coasties will be on hand to answer your questions and make your visit to the station enjoyable. https://safeboating.us