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Get ready for an exhilarating community event that you won't want to miss! Santa Barbara Trapeze Co is thrilled to announce our collaboration with Unity Shoppe for a day filled with fun, excitement, and goodwill.Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 27th, from 3:30 - 6:30 pm, as we come together to attempt breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest canned food pyramid! But that's not all – the day promises a flying trapeze showcase, delicious tacos, refreshing drinks, and fantastic vibes.
We invite you, your friends, and family to join us for this memorable occasion. Plus, for the adventurous souls out there, our trapeze will be open for anyone eager to take a swing and soar through the air.Leading up to the event, you can drop off your canned food donations at either Santa Barbara Trapeze Co or Unity Shoppe. Let's make a difference together!
Donate to Unity Shoppe Here - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=K96JM36XQWZNW&source=qr
Don't miss out on this action-packed day of giving back to the community and having a blast while doing it. Start gathering your canned food donations now, and let's make a difference together!
Stay tuned for more updates as we count down to the big day.
 

“Gonzalez has that particular penchant for navigating perspectives in a voice that’s at once delightfully humorous and sobering.” Elle

Pulitzer Prize finalist, cultural critic, producer and screenwriter Xochitl Gonzalez is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Brooklyn, Everywhere, about class, gentrification and the American Dream. Her debut novel, Olga Dies Dreaming, was named a Best of 2022 by The New York Times, Time magazine, The Washington Post and NPR. Her highly-anticipated new book, Anita de Monte Laughs Last, was released in March 2024. Gonzalez writes with love about Latinx issues, bringing nuance and complexity to stories about class, labor and culture laced with wry humor and filled with abundant moral clarity.

Books will be available for purchase and signing, courtesy of Chaucer’s

Arrive starting at 5 PM for LatinXtravaganza Santa Barbara, a vibrant celebration of Latinx culture and history. Part of A&L's Thematic Learning Initiative.

You are cordially invited to the 7th Annual All District Industrial Arts and CTE Construction Technology Show.
All public welcome. One night only, family friendly event.

The 78th Ojai Music Festival, June 6 to 9, 2024, welcomes as Music Director pianist Mitsuko Uchida, one of the most universally admired artists of our time. The Festival will include more than 20 concerts and free events in the beautiful setting of the Ojai Valley with programs that span from Uchida’s lifelong exploration of the Mozart piano concertos to music by some of today’s most compelling composers.
The 2024 Festival welcomes Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brentano String Quartet, violinist Alexi Kenney, cellist Jay Campbell, harpist Julie Smith Phillips and introduces soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, percussionist Sae Hashimoto, accordionist Ljubinka Kulisic and bassist Rick Stotijn to Ojai audiences.

Dear A&L Patron,

Due to unforeseen and extenuating circumstances, José Andrés is unable to join the UCSB Arts & Lectures series this Sunday. Mr. Andrés’ ongoing commitments to World Central Kitchen as they mourn the loss of their team members have made his attendance at the event impossible at this time.

We have worked closely with his team to reschedule his appearance for Thursday, May 23 at 5:30 PM at the Arlington Theatre. We offer our sympathies to José Andrés and the entire World Central Kitchen organization during this incredibly challenging time.

Please note the new date and time in your calendar, and retain your original tickets for admission on May 23. If you ordered tickets on someone else’s behalf, or gave yours to a friend, please be sure to alert the current ticket holder.

Now more than ever, we feel the work of José Andrés and World Central Kitchen deserves close attention, acknowledgement and recognition.

This weekend’s free screening of We Feed People and free Community Food Solutions Showcase will continue as scheduled on Sunday, April 21. Join us on Sunday for the screening and to meet local food solutions organizations addressing issues of food insecurity and sustainability in our community.

We look forward to seeing you at the live event with José Andrés on May 23.

Sincerely,
Arts & Lectures

Questions? Contact us at (805) 893-3535 or info@artsandlectures.ucsb.edu, Mon-Fri, 10 AM-5 PM.

It’s the 30th anniversary production of the celebrated Rudie-DeCarlo original musical, an excitingly heart-warming, and definitely un-scary, adaptation of the original French tale, proving beyond the shadow of any doubt that true beauty isn’t in your appearance, but in your heart.

“A delightful musical with a timeless message!” The Argonaut

The internationally acclaimed team of Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie bring to the stage all the stuff that dreams (and musicals) are made on, molding the magic, romance, and humor of this timeless tale into a production that touches the hearts, and indeed, almost the fingertips, of its audience members, following Beauty on her journey through the world of manners, reading, sensitivity, gentility, and the pros and cons of washing behind your ears.

“The brightest, most intelligent, not to mention goofiest family theatre in town!” LA Parent

Set in a fantasy Medieval milieu "long, long ago," a lovely and spirited Beauty takes charge of her fate and molds herself a most endearing Beast. Ditzy sisters, a befuddled sire, and a flamboyantly foppish suitor strew more than a few thorns along Beauty and her Beast's arduous, and ardor-ous, path, but loves wins out, allowing all to find their happily-ever-afters and proving that beauty is, and always will be, in the eye of the beholder.

“Wonderful theatrical experience!” Between Pages

Based on the original 1740’s tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, arguably the mother of the modern “Harlequin-style” romance, whose charmingly flawed heroes and independently feisty heroines danced their way into the hearts of the populace nearly a century before Jane Austen’s Elizabeth and D’Arcy made their first appearance, this richly humorous production is written and directed by Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie, and features Pahlig Avakian, Holly Gibson, Michala Peltz, Megan Wright, Theødor Dronen and Devin Ricklef as Beauty’s most adorable Beast, with breath-taking costumes by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes and Graham Silbert, and magical FX that transform the stage into an ornately detailed Medieval castle right before your eyes.

Birthday parties, hosted by gaily-costumed fairytale characters, are available with every performance.

Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission; by the Ahmanson Foundation and Playhouse PALS.

Saturdays at 2pm, Sundays at 12:30, May 11-July 28, 2024

What makes living here so special? Is it the beach, the weather, the people? We say all three and so much more! In honor of our 35th year, we are celebrating what makes living in Ventura County special with popular songs that highlight local people, pastimes, and places. From the Beach Boys and Marvin Gaye to Carole King and Neil Diamond, along with some of our local composers, we’ll sing to the sun, waves, citrus, and surf! With warmer weather just around the corner, we’re Gold Coast-ing into Summer!

It's a Win-Win-Win! Celebrate 4th of July weekend with a fabulous evening of theatre, a lovely post-show wine-and-nibbles reception with the cast and support the Playhouse Benefit Campaign – one night only – Friday, July 5 at 7:30pm.

Inspired by real events, Ink & Paint follows five women artists at Walt Disney Studios in the 1930s and beyond, whose ranks included first- and second-generation immigrants, a single mother and architect, a record-breaking pilot, a concept artist, and Disney’s first credited woman animator. They tell the true story of the company's first all-women story unit in a madcap mashup of mid-century American history, the golden age of hand-drawn animation, and the wild, wisecracking women who fought tooth, nail, and paintbrush for their place in it.

A short version of Ink & Paint premiered Off-Broadway as part of Emerging Artist Theatre's 2023 New Work Series, which was a Time Out New York Critics' Pick. The full-length musical was a semi-finalist for the 2023 Live & In Color Musical Incubator and Wild Imaginings' 2024 Epiphanies Festival. The piece will also be featured in the 2024 SheLA Festival.

Book, music & lyrics by award-winning writer/composer/creative producer Danielle Moore. Dramaturg Emma Bilderback. Produced by GLG, the first (and only) U.S.-based organization dedicated to developing and producing musical theater written and composed by women and nonbinary artists, with the goal of closing the gender gap in musical authorship.

Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by generous grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Rotary Club Foundation, and Playhouse PALS.

The Good Good Show is a monthly stand up comedy show featuring the hottest comics working today that you've seen or heard on Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live, DryBar Special, Amazon Prime, ABC, SiriusXM and more.

FEATURING: Brandon Vestal, Alexa Loftus, Julie Weidmann, Kriste Lundberg and Noah Findling.
Come have some laughs and enjoy a delicious craft beer!
7:30 p.m. $10
Show is 21+

The 19th century was an incredible period of folk influence on classical music masters. Brahms, Mendelssohn and Ravel transformed their fascination with local traditions into unrivaled masterpieces. Pacific Festival Ballet dancers enchant as featured soloists for dances of Brahms. Los Angeles-based composer Derrick Skye energetically blends fun with global music influences for a world premiere work written for NWS Concertmaster Alyssa Park.

Michael Christie, conductor
Alyssa Park, violin
Pacific Festval Ballet, Kim Maselli, director

BRAHMS Hungarian Dances, No. 1, No. 3 & No. 10
RAVEL Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra
DERRICK SKYE “Amalgamation” for Violin and Orchestra (World Premiere)
(a New West Symphony commission)
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, “Italian”

Tickets $30-$120; Student rush tickets $15