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Get ready to experience an electrifying journey through sound and rhythm like never before seen locally.

Gather your squad and immerse yourself in a high-voltage EDM experience! An electrifying journey through rhythm and sound, the Transcend Electric Music Festival is the ultimate destination for music and dance! With three stages featuring performers, mind-blowing light shows, themed vendors and food, and an atmosphere charged with local action, you won't want to miss this! It's going to be a banger.

$25 presale ends April 30th, 2023
$35 General Admission
18 and older!

Saturday, July 1st, 2023 | 6pm
Location: TBD
https://www.theopac.org/

Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transcend-electric-music-festival-tickets-600835524227

Stay tuned for more announcements!

This is a virtual event telling the story of three men searching for riches in the Sespe in the late 1890s and early 1900s.

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and his Recuerdos: A talk by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

Join Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz as they discuss their recent translation and publication of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s massive five-volume history of California before the American conquest, Recuerdos. It is the most complete account of our Golden State during the Spanish and Mexican periods by one who lived through it and became a major political and military figure in it.

Vallejo, born and raised in Spanish California, rose to high military command during the Mexican era. He then participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California as a member of the Constitutional Convention and of the first State Senate. His Recuerdos emphasized the importance of Spanish and Mexican influence and culture to the development of California. The publication of this work, after decades of obscurity, is a major contribution to the study of early California.

Rose Marie Beebe is Professor Emerita of Spanish literature and Robert M. Senkewicz is Professor Emeritus of History, both at Santa Clara University. Their collaborative works include Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California and Junipero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary which won the Oscar Lewis Award for Western History by the Book Club of California. Both authors are recipients of numerous teaching and scholarship awards.

Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:30-7:00pm
Santa Barbara Historical Museum
136 E De la Guerra St, Santa Barbara CA 93101

Museum Member $10.00
Guest $15.00

Presented by Santa Barbara Women’s Literary Voices and Santa Barbara Historical Museum

Join us in the historic Covarrubias Adobe Courtyard for happy hour and an opportunity to hear Santa Barbara's 2023 Poet Laureate Melinda Palacio and 2022 Youth Poet Laureate Madeline Miller, as they share readings of their work and discuss their passion for poetry.

Melinda Palacio, the newly appointed Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, is an internationally-lauded poet, author, and speaker, is serving as Santa Barbara’s first Chicana Poet Laureate. She was nominated by several community members, and recommended to Council for appointment by the City Arts Advisory Committee. A long-time resident of Santa Barbara, Palacio noted, "Santa Barbara itself is a poem. Santa Barbara is the city that made me a poet."

Madeline Miller, the 2022 Youth Poet Laureate was born in Mexico City, Mexico and raised in Santa Barbara, California by her father, a pastor, and mother, an educator, and like her parents, she has always valued language arts and education. She is the president of the San Marcos Writer’s Society and Vice President of the San Marcos Gender and Sexuality Alliance. She is also the Vice President of her school’s advanced women’s choir, Enchante.

Pierre Claeyssens ​​Veterans Foundation invites you to join them in honoring the men and women in uniform who proudly served their country. This FREE event is on Monday, May 29, 2023 at 11:00 am sharp at the Santa Barbara Cemetery (901 Channel Drive., Santa Barbara, CA 93108). Attendees are encouraged to arrive early.

The open air ceremony includes presentations and performances by the UCSB ROTC Color Guard; Gold Coast Pipe & Drum Band; David Gonzales and the Santa Barbara Choral Society, The Prime Time Band, and a flyover by The Condor Squadron.

Guest Speakers include: Colonel Robert Long, Commander of Space Launch Delta 30 and Western Launch and Test Range, Vandenberg Space Force Base, and LTJG Christia Sandstedt, CGC, USCGC Blackfin.

Motivational speaker Kathy Gruver, PhD will present “Be Yourself…But Who Is That?” at the next Association for Women in Communications, Santa Barbara chapter’s next meeting, scheduled from 5:30 – 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10, at Workzones, 351 Paseo Nuevo in Santa Barbara. In her talk, Gruver will provide practical, easy, and effective techniques to know one’s communication personality in order to become better leaders and more efficient communicators.

The event is free for members and $25 for nonmembers. For more information visit awcsb.org.

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is pleased to announce “The Mystery of the Marie” with Teresa Newton-Terres – the May offering in the museum’s monthly lecture series.

Taking place on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 7 p.m., Newton-Terres’ presentation will delve into her years-long search to solve the mystery of the Marie’s disappearance after it was shipwrecked off Santa Cruz Island in 1960. The lecture will be held at the museum and registration is required.

The cost is free for SBMM’s Navigator Circle Members, $10 for all other members, and $20 for the general public.

On June 7, 1960, the Marie, a converted WWII landing craft, set out at sunrise from Santa Barbara Harbor…and was never seen again. The seven-person crew was working on a covert underwater communications experiment for a Raytheon-related project when the shipwreck occurred. While four bodies were recovered, but the Marie’s lifeboat remained missing, along with the captain, a scientist, and an engineer (Diego “Jim” Terres, Jr). Newton-Terres was only 2-years old when her father disappeared, and years later decided to investigate the story and try to resolve the mysteries surrounding the Marie’s disappearance. Newton-Terres first began her search for the truth while living near Pearl Harbor, when she received her grandmother’s scrapbook with news articles about the shipwreck. She approached Raytheon, scoured original sources, and heard first-hand accounts, uncovering an aerospace Cold Case, an untold Cold War mystery, and a WWII story, all of which she will discuss in her presentation.

TERESA NEWTON-TERRES, PMP® is recognized as a leader and mentor through her work as an author, speaker, and project life treasure hunter. Holding a Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification since 2000, her service to projects gained global recognition by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in 2008 and again in 2016. As an author, she is known for the aerospace cold case and true story, Mystery of the Marie: My childhood tragedy that surfaced a Cold War secret. Her essay, “The Shipwreck,” won inclusion in the anthology Triumph from Tragedy: Personal Stories of Struggle, Courage, Hope, and Victory, which was published in December 2021. Serving initiatives from the United Kingdom to Hawaii, Newton-Terres was raised on the West Coast in Santa Barbara, educated in the Midwest, and now lives in view of the Arkansas River. She is grateful for family and friends as they create paellas, enjoy reading, and savor sunrises and sunsets.

Learn more about Marie and her book at: http://www.mysteryofthemarie.com/ and https://mailchi.mp/5dd2ebcadc15/emkmarie

This event is generously sponsored by Marie L. Morrisroe.

Studio Channel Islands Art Center (SCIART) presents Jimmy in Saigon, a documentary by Peter McDowell. The film begins as a personal exploration into the mysterious death and radical life of Jimmy McDowell, an American 24-year-old Vietnam veteran who died as a civilian in Saigon in 1972, when filmmaker Peter McDowell was only five. While investigating Jimmy’s drug use and sexuality, Peter takes us from the US Midwest to Vietnam, France and back home again. In his quest to get to know his brother, he uncovers a hidden romance, new family ties and a remarkable global love story.

This event is being held at 7:30PM on May 20 in the Blackboard Gallery.

Studio Channel Islands is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the arts in our community, providing unique and diverse artistic encounters for all ages and extraordinary opportunities for artists. Ongoing programs include open studios and arts education classes, diverse Blackboard Gallery exhibitions and performances, cultural festivals and Old Town Camarillo events.

Gallery hours are Tues.–Fri., 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Located at 2222 E. Ventura Blvd., Camarillo, CA 93010.

For more information, visit www.studiochannelislands.org, or call 805-383-1368.

Andrew Kinkella, Ph.D. is director of the Moorpark College Archaeological Program (MCAP), which teaches archaeology through research at local California archaeological sites. Dr. Kinkella has spent 17 field seasons in the jungles of west-central Belize, studying the Classic Maya (AD 250-900).

At 7:00 PM on May 23rd, 2023, the Ventura County Interfaith Community will host a forum featuring a discussion of ancient Mayan religion by Dr. Kinkella at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1201 Paseo Camarillo in Camarillo.

The forum is free, and all are welcome, so feel free to invite folks whom you know might be interested in this informative event.

NOTE – While we will be recording the event and publishing it on YouTube and Facebook in the days following the forum, due to the technical difficulties we have experienced in the past, we will not be attempting to live stream it.

Make it a memorable Memorial Day weekend with a visit to the Carpinteria Valley Historical Society and History Museum’s outdoor fundraiser, The Marketplace, scheduled for Saturday, May 27, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the museum grounds at 956 Maple Ave. in downtown Carpinteria.

Known for its variety of vendors and their unique offerings — which includes handcrafted gifts, specialty foods, toys, antiques, furniture, jewelry, clothing, plants, musical instruments, household items including quilts, kitchenware, and chinaware, and tons more — the Marketplace has something for everybody. Prices at Granny’s Attic, the booth operated by the museum, start at 25 cents.

Janet Rutland, owner of Silverquest, offers a curated collection of sterling silver jewelry from around the world, but mainly from artists in Mexico. She and her husband Mickey will be at booth #6. “We have searched for jewelry in the most interesting places! We have unique styles and something for everyone! I am also located at The Vintage Nest in Fillmore,” suggests Rutland. “Please support this beautiful work.” For more information, email janet@silverquestia.com, call 805-727-0322, or visit @silverquestia.

Hot dogs, cold beverages, and snacks will be available for purchase, and as always admission is free to the Marketplace. Musical entertainment includes Mavis Hansen and the Ukulele Jammers.

For more information, call (805) 684-3112, email info@carpinteriahistoricalmuseum.org, or visit carpinteriahistoricalmuseum.org. The next Marketplace is scheduled for June 24.