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A punderful Musical Comedy for Kids 2 to 102 re-imagined for 2022!

“A winning blend of vaudeville, English pantomime and music hall.” Drama-logue.

Join Alice as she accepts an invitation from the Queen of Hearts to return to the Wonderland of her youth. Will Alice prevail, or are the Cards stacked against her? Will the Queen suffer a heart attack? “STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!” raves L.A. PARENT. “A splendid children’s theatrical experience with a terrific new twist. The quality of performance is so pure and bright that children are fascinated throughout, all the while being exposed to superior theater that does not pander to their young age. The music and lyrics by Evelyn Rudie are the magic of the show. They provide a style and energy that keeps the children glued to the action.”

Lovely audience participation throughout the production helps Alice set a topsy-turvy Wonderland aright in this zany musical comedy. Gorgeous costumes by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes, lilting musical numbers and a charmingly bedecked rose garden enhance the "clever clowning and buoyant silliness" (L.A. Times) of this audience favorite crowd-pleaser.

The internationally acclaimed Family Theatre musical comedy, performed on three continents over the past 45 years is presented by renowned Actors’ Repertory Theatre, and features Jamie Cayer, Tiffany Haile, Cydne Moore. Marika Sayers and Meghan Nealon as “Alice.”

Birthday parties, hosted by colorful fairytale characters, are available with every performance.

Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by generous grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, and Playhouse PALS.

The English Department and First-Year Writing Program will present an evening presentation by Deborah Miranda, the author of this year’s English 110 Common Reading selection, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. The mixed-genre memoir plumbs deeply into Indigenous displacement, imprisonment, genocide, remembrance, resilience and solidarity in a poetically rendered corrective to prevailing narratives of Native erasure.

With dauntless emotional honesty, Miranda challenges the pedagogy of California Missions history, envisions Native life through colonization and reflects movingly on intergenerational legacies of colonial trauma and collective liberation.

Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. She is a professor of English emerita at Washington and Lee University, where she taught literature of the margins and creative writing as the Thomas H. Broadus Jr. Endowed Chair.

Book signing will be 5-5:30 p.m. The 10th anniversary edition of Bad Indians will be available for purchase.

This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

The event is sponsored by the English Department, Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice, Faculty Affairs and the Vesper Society funds for Indigenous Cultural Knowledge.

Petra Griffith, managing director and CEO of Wedbush Ventures, will be joining us as part of the Entrepreneur Speaker Series.

Dinner and networking begin at 6 p.m., the presentation is from 7 to 8 p.m.

Petra Griffith launched Wedbush Ventures to invest in the next generation of technology companies solving big market problems. Griffith has helped build many firsts: the first online printing software; first fitness wearable; and first native ads. Having launched a venture banking division for a regional bank, she understands the strategic and creative mindset necessary to narrow in on a product’s core features for successful market fit execution. Her past leadership-to-product, strategy, marketing, and operations teams at established and startup organizations such as Netflix, Yahoo!, and 24 Hour Fitness makes her a coveted product strategy ally to entrepreneurs ready to scale innovation.

Griffith holds a BA in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA from London Business School.

The Ojai Film Festival returns November 3-20, 2022 for its 23rd year with both in-person and virtual events, celebrating the works of filmmakers from around the world. The official festival schedule includes 84 selected films (varying from features, shorts, documentaries, and animated films), over a dozen seminars, panels, and receptions with filmmakers, live music from local artists, and an Awards Brunch.

For the second year in a row, the festival will run in hybrid form, screening all films in person from November 4-7 at the Ojai Art Center, and virtually from November 8-20, doubling last year's length of virtually available stream times.

This year's festival features an expanded selection of conversations with filmmakers and creatives that delve deeper into the world of film, production and post-production, from the Emmy-nominated director and producer team, Michael Milano and Noémie Dumont (137 Shots, Ojai Burning) to VFX Specialist, Bill Mather (Star Trek: Generations, Men in Black and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope), and more. This year's World Music in Film seminar, designed to raise awareness of the many world cultures that are presented to us through a variety of mediums, will focus on the music in film tracks.

Two Lifetime Achievement Awards, now known as Distinguished Artist Awards, will be presented to audio engineer Paul Massey (Moonage Daydream, Deadpool, 007: No Time to Die) and actress Jacqueline Bisset (Loren and Rose, La Ceremonie, The Deep). For the second year in a row, there will also be two dynamic Diversity in Film panels, and a special Diversity Film Award, sponsored by Panavision. All awards and trophies will be presented at the Awards Brunch on Sunday, November 6, to which all are invited.

Spirited Away (2001 Japanese animated feature)
Introduced by Jim Keeshen
Libbey Bowl FREE Film
6:30 PM – Thursday Nov. 3

Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters an abandoned amusement park and the world of Kami (spirits of Japanese Shinto folklore). After the witch Yubaba turns her parents into pigs, Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba’s bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and return to the human world.

Spirited Away, widely regarded by critics as one of the greatest films of the 21st century, won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, making it the first, and to date only, hand-drawn and non-English-language animated film to win the award. The Film Festival will screen the version dubbed into English.

The cast of the film uses the voices of Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette (in her final film role before her death in January 2008), Michael Chiklis, Lauren Holly, Susan Egan, David Ogden Stiers, and John Ratzenberger.

This continues the Festival’s tradition of thanking the Ojai community for its support by presenting a FREE opening night movie in Libbey Bowl.

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents
Gratitude Revealed Film Premiere
With Award-winning Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg in Person
Post-screening Q&A following

Saturday, November 19, 6:30 - 9 pm, 2022
TICKETS $10

Location: Marjorie Luke Theatre
721 E Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103


Gratitude is a state of mind that preserves our humanity amidst the chaos. Louie Schwartzberg

Just in time for Thanksgiving! Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents the film premiere of Gratitude Revealed, a new film by Louis Schwartzberg, the director of the acclaimed Fantastic Fungi documentary, and recent recipient of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network’s 2022 Eco Hero Award, graciously received to a standing ovation.
An epic journey forty years in the making, Gratitude Revealed is a rich visual tapestry that takes viewers on a transformational cinematic experience of how to live a more meaningful life full of Gratitude through intimate conversations with everyday people, thought leaders, and personalities, revealing Gratitude is a proven pathway back from the disconnection we feel in our lives---disconnection from ourselves, our planet, and each other. Louie Schwartzberg will be attending the event in person, and welcomes a lively Q&A session following the film. Please join us!
Louie Schwartzberg is an American director, producer, and cinematographer, recognized as a pioneer in high-end time-lapse cinematography, and visual artist known for breaking down barriers of perception and taking viewers on journeys of time and scale. For more than forty years, with his studio Moving Art, his passion has been telling stories through film that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature.

The event takes place at the Marjorie Luke Theatre, Saturday, November 19, 6:30 – 9 pm, tickets sales online with Santa Barbara Independent Tickets (fees apply). For more information, www.sbpermaculture.org, margie@sbpermaculture.org, 805-962-2571


A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org



INDY TICKETS links Gratitude Revealed
https://www.sbindytickets.com/events/129780268/gratitude-revealed-film-premiere-with-filmmaker-louis-schwartzberg-attending-in-person-q-a-following

Community Clayworks, a ceramics studio in Buellton is sponsoring an Empty Bowls fundraiser on November 11th at St. Marks Church in Los Olivos benefitting the Food Distribution Program at Bethania Church in Solvang. 100% of the proceeds go to this program which serves the local Santa Ynez Valley. Tickets entitle guests to pick a hand made bowl and enjoy a simple dinner of soup and bread. Soup will be provided by local restaurants including Coast Range, Campo del Sol, Pico, Ramen Katori, and Clean Slate.

BOOK SIGNING & TALK
with Author Erica Gies
Award Winning Journalist & National Geographic Explorer
Water Always Wins - Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
A field guide to a wetter & better future

Tuesday, November 15 6pm-8:30pm FREE
with Panel of Community Members
The Community Arts Workshop (SBCAW)
631 Garden St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Erica Gies is an award-winning independent journalist who writes about water, climate change, plants and critters for Scientific American, The New York Times, Nature, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Economist, Washington Post, bioGraphic, Wired, and more.\
https://ericagies.com/about/

Her stories hail from North America, especially California and British Columbia, and the wider world. In a quest for commonalities that bind us and innovations that inspire, she has reported from many intriguing places: Iraq, Peru, Cambodia, India, Syria, Kenya, China, Qatar, Laos, the United Kingdom, Guyana, Vietnam, France, and Indigenous nations and territories, including those belonging to Navajo (Diné), Kwiakah, Makushi, Kitasoo/Xai’xai, ‘Namgis, Heiltsuk, and Native Hawaiian peoples.
Her book, Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge, is about what she calls “Slow Water” innovations that are helping us adapt to the increasing floods and droughts brought by climate change.


Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network www.sbpermaculture.org

Moorpark College, Oxnard College, Ventura College and Ventura College East Campus are holding free evening Cash 4 College workshops to help students apply for funds to help with college costs. Funds can be used for tuition, books, housing, transportation, childcare, computers and more.


In-person and online Zoom workshops are scheduled for Nov. 8 and 15, depending on the campus. The workshops are free and open to the community; anyone may attend a workshop on either date and can drop in at any time during the events.


Bilingual financial aid staff will assist students in completing applications for the 2023-2024 school-year Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the California Dream Act Application (CADAA). Students can also access information about basic needs support (food, clothing and housing assistance), tutoring, academic counseling, mental health services and other student services.

AB 469 now requires school districts to confirm seniors have completed the FAFSA or California Dream Act Application before graduating in 2023. Cash for College events can help students get ahead.

For more information, visit vcccd.edu/cash4college.