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Lehmann Hall, Music Academy! There is talk on the Ton that costume attire is optional. However, having fun is mandatory!

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rumor has it to be the event of the holiday season... music, dance, silhouette portrait cutting, food, and libations in Lehmann Hall of the Music Academy!

A Summer Favorite by Daniel K. Tennant

Santa Barbara Symphony, review by Mark Whitehurst

Dear Reader,

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Music Academy Auxiliary

The Aux Ball...

Celebrating the Eras entle Reader... there is talk on the Ton, that guests at the inaugural The Aux Ball: Celebrating the Eras, to be hosted at the Montecito estate known as Miraflores at the Music Academy on Saturday, December 9th from 5 to 8pm, will be treated to the crowning event of the season. Arriving in a variety of polished and shining coaches and bejeweled with glittering tiaras, gowns, evening gloves, or perhaps elegant tux and tails, guests will be transported to the grandeur of the Regency Era, courtesy of The Music Academy Auxiliary in the elegant and transformed Lehmann Hall. Not only reflecting the Regency’s opulence and charm, the Ball will be a tribute to all the eras of the Music Academy, now spanning more than 77 years and support its mission to advance and develop the next generation of musical talent, and inspire global audiences. Taking inspiration from the playful pomp and allure of the Bridgerton phenomenon, The Aux Ball promises to be captivating, a journey back in time. “As Chair, it has been one of my missions to open the gates of the storied Music Academy to the larger community of Santa Barbara,” shared Mally Chakola, Auxiliary Chair and Music Academy Board Member. “The richness of the Music Academy’s educational impacts and its stunning campus are a jewel in our community’s crown. I can’t wait to see Santa Barbarians put on their crowns and attend The Aux Ball to connect while classical traditions meet modern music.”

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Lehmann Hall, the heart of the Music Academy, will undergo a metamorphisis for the dazzling extravaganza for one unforgettable evening. Guests attending The Aux Ball will be immersed in the elegance, and come in costumes that evoke the glamour of the period. While costumes are optional, envision corseted gowns, dashing tuxedos, opulent jewelry, and intricate hairstyles that harken back to a time of refined sophistication. Reader, if you accept this invitation, you’ll enjoy signature libations alongside Regency-era inspired food. Live musical performances will provide a harmonious backdrop to the festivities including silhouette portraits, and guests will have the chance to waltz the night away on the dance floor - together and with waltz instructors. And of course guests can expect the arrival of a highly anticipated “Dear Reader” letter! Event Chair Connie Fickel shared of the Ball, “What I am most excited about is the opportunity provided by the event itself – to foster community engagement and inclusivity by bringing together people of different ages and backgrounds, as well as varying degrees of experience with classical music. With the spirit of celebration and learning, our hope is to increase access to musical education.” Tickets for this extraordinary event are limited and in high demand. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this magical evening. Proceeds raised by the Auxiliary will go to support SING!, the local choral program available to Santa Barbara 1st through 9th graders.

Yours Truly,

Lady Whistlemore

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By Kerry Methner, VOICE

The Music Academy:

The Auxiliary:

Previously know as the Women’s Auxiliary, the organization whose mission is to support Music Academy programs, has itself undergone a metamorphosis recently.

the Music Academy creates a space where exceptional talent can thrive by encouraging artists to stretch, experiment, improvise, and play. It gives artists the tools they need to become not just great musicians but great leaders. The Music Academy’s year round programs are: Sing!, a children’s choir free of charge for all participants that performs with local, national, and international partners; the annual eight-week Summer School & Festival which trains up to 140 fellows ages 18-34 and presents more than 120 performances and events, competitions, and a fully staged opera; the MAX (Music Academy Exchange) partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra; the Innovation Institute’s Alumni Enterprise Awards; and the Mariposa Series of concerts by Academy-affiliated artists.

“Last year, as Governance Chair, I helped to spearhead the Aux for All movement, a historic change for the Auxiliary, making it an all inclusive organization,” Mally Chakola explained. “We wanted everyone to see and feel like they are welcome at the The Aux Ball Committee Music Academy. The & Honorary Committee change has resulted in Connie Fickel, Committee Chair; a tremendous increase Mally Chakola, Auxiliary Chair & in new members that Board Member; Colette Cosentino; have quickly engaged David Herrera; Kelly Herting; Casey in the Music Academy Kallenbach; and Jennifer Zacharias ecosystem as compeers of Summer Festival There are a variety of sponsorship fellows and charmed opportunities available. audience members. It’s For sponsorship inquiries, contact such an exciting time.” Jill Rode at JRode@musicacademy.org For details and tickets ($175 – $1,750) visit: www.tinyurl.com/auxball

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195 Local Nonprofits Share $1.1 Million

The Annual MB&T Holiday Community Dividends® Awards Luncheon EGINNING THE HOLIDAY SEASON GRANTING MONEY TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, Montecito Bank & Trust held Two special awards of $50,000 were their 21st Community Dividends® Awards given to Children’s Resource & Referral luncheon, on and Livingston November 20th. Memorial Visiting Through this unique Nurses Association. giving program, the The Children’s Bank has granted Resource & Referral more than $22 received their grant million to local Santa to support its CRR Barbara and Ventura child care expansion County nonprofit and to take steps to Mario Baraona (Montecito Bank & Trust), organizations. This license the program. Roger Durling (Santa Barbara Film Festival), year’s Community Livingston Memorial and Alan Acosta (Montecito Bank & Trust) Dividends® $1.1 Visiting Nurses million investment in the Association received the nonprofit community special grant to support accounts for the majority its Grief & Bereavement of the Bank’s annual total Program and Latinx/ investment in nonprofit Hispanic Capacity giving of $1.7 million. Building Program. “As leaders of our local "They're true partners nonprofits, you play a pivotal in what we do… and role in driving the growth, with clients that we development ,and vitality of are trying to put into our communities. You inspire Brianna Aguilar (Montecito business they're right Bank & Trust) and Alana and motivate your staff, there to help and that's Walczak (Calm) your boards, and the what's important,” larger community to said Kathy Odell of come together, work Women's Economic towards a common Ventures, after goal, and make a receiving their grant. tangible difference in Community the lives of so many. Dividends® and the Our communities Michael Towbes and their futures are Community Impact Ernesto Paredes (Easy Lift Transportation), better because of the Peter Jordano, and Jen Sanregret Dividend have work you do today!” (Foodbank of Santa Barbara County) primarily focused on stated Janet Garufis, supporting organizations or programs that Chairman & CEO of Montecito Bank & serve low- and moderate-income individuals and families in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. These Dividends are awarded to organizations that serve youth and education, social services, medical and health services, and the arts.

Janet Garufis, Chairman & CEO and George Leis, President & COO of Montecito Bank & Trust

"We're growing, we are the heart of downtown Carpinteria, and we make a difference in so many lives…. We're really the heartbeat of the community… It spans the spectrum of everyone who

needs arts and theatre and dance,” said Jodi Wilson from the Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center. Today’s nonprofit leaders were joined by the Bank’s board of directors and leadership team, in addition to 121 MB&T associates who volunteer over 5,400 hours each year with many of the nonprofits in attendance. Speaking to the $1.1 million gifted in this year’s program, Garufis noted, “It is an honor to be able to support the work of so many worthy organizations. In an ideal world we would be able to say yes to all of the Community Dividend applications we receive each year. We do our best to support as many nonprofits within our footprint as we can." Forty-eight years ago Michael Towbes and a small group of local investors started Montecito Bank & Trust because they believed they could deliver exceptional and personalized customer service and fulfill the needs of the local community. When Mr. Towbes became the single shareholder and owner, the vision of investing a meaningful portion of the Bank’s profits back into the community took shape. Five years ago, the Bank expanded the Community Dividends® program to honor the impactful legacy of Mr. Towbes, by introducing the Michael Towbes Impact Dividend which is awarded to one or more nonprofits that deliver critical and sustainable services to the most vulnerable people in our community.

Montecito Bank & Trust is the oldest and largest locally owned community bank in the Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Founded in 1975, the bank celebrated its 48th anniversary on March 17, 2023, and operates 13 branch offices in Santa Maria, Solvang, Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Carpinteria, Ventura, Camarillo and Westlake Village.

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Santa Barbara Symphony

Symphonic Boom!

By Mark Whitehurst / VOICE

ITH MASTERFUL PRESENCE AND DYNAMIC CREATIVITY, the Santa Barbara Symphony opened last weekend's eagerly awaited concert pair with style and aplomb far surpassing expectations. Performing complex works at a level of upper echelon orchestras, they illuminated musical narratives in a voice only dreamt of by their composers.

Ranaan Meyer (TF3), Jane Lynch, Charles Yang (TF3), and Nicolas “Nick” Kendall (TF3)

The achievement of clear translation of music is no small feat and requires talented musicians performing together under an exceptional leader like Maestro Nir Kabaretti, a rising star in the music world. As the baton rose last Saturday, so did the audiences' anticipation for a remarkable concert filled with both sensational music and fun. The first piece was a contemporary concerto called Contact, which merged a guest jazz trio with the symphony and swept the The Santa Barbara Symphony with guest artists Time for Three audience to their feet in response to the of Bartok woven into the piece along with performance. The trio, Time for Three, is comprised of Nick Kendall and Charles Yang, violinists, and Ranaan Meyer, double bassist, all the freshness of TF3. Grammy winning musicians. Contact was commissioned for TF3 by a group of orchestras including the San The concerto opens on a single note sung a cappella and moves into dueling violins and Francisco Symphony, with Contact being counter point with the symphony. Dramatic and beautifully played, the performance was inspired by the unknown. charged with the unusually high energy of Time for Three (TF3), and immediately absorbed by the audience.

The score for Contact was composed by Kevin Puts, who received the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his compositions and who is best known for the opera Silent Night, with score by Puts and libretto by Mark Campbell. According to Puts, the concerto Contact holds a connection to the film adaption of Carl Sagan’s Contact, with some folk melodies reminiscent

“The word 'contact' has gained new resonance during these years of isolation. It is my hope that this concerto might be heard as the expression of yearning for this fundamental human need. I am deeply grateful to Time for Three for their belief in my work and for the tireless collaborative spirit which allowed Teresa Kusky and Rick Oshay with guest artists us to develop this Time for Three showcase for their immense talents,” commented Puts in a press release.

Ranaan Meyer, Double Bass and Vocals, Time for Three; Maestro Nir Kabaretti, Music & Artistic Director; Janet Garufis, Symphony Board Chair; Christy Glanville; John Glanville; Charles Yang, Violin and Vocals, Time for Three; Kathryn R Martin, Symphony President & CEO; and Nicolas “Nick” Kendall, Violin and Vocals, Time for Three

Following a standing ovation, TF3 performed a short set of three pieces. The first was a rendition of You're Too Good To Be True, followed by an original Steve Hackman song called Vertigo, then a song called Joy, where they were joined by students from the Santa Barbara Symphony's Youth Ensembles who played with the TF3 to great effect. The symphony returned from the break flawlessly play Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin, followed by Georges Bizet’s Suite No 2 from L’Arlesienne. The evening closed with a powerful La Valse by Maurice Ravel.

Sophie Yang, Mia (Nam-Anh) Lê, Adam Remick, Adam Kabaretti, Ella McGowan, Charles Yang, Sophie Saleh, Zahra Clark, Ranaan Meyer, Nick Kendall, Andrii Iliuk, Sebastian Birchenall, Jeffrey Hough Pattison, Hudson Chossek, (also present but not visible: Alisha Kwon, Khôi Lê), and Camerata/Philharmonia conductor Marisa Mcleod

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As an advance to the symphony concert, a private gathering and concert was held at the Santa Barbara Presidio Chapel, where Time for Three performed and entertained about 100 guests of sponsors Rick Oshay and Teresa Kuskey.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Drew Wakefield Receives International Award

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Summer Solstice Announces New Leadership at 50th Anniversary Year Kick-Off

UMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION HELD THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSARY KICKOFF MIXER at Legacy Art SB on Saturday, November 18th.

Lina Ramierz, Director, Franchise operations Wyndham Hotel Group; Tom Patton, General Manager - Ramada by Wyndham Santa Barbara; Drew Wakefield, Direct of Sales & Marketing – Ramada by Wyndham Santa Barbara; and Kether Johnson, Assistant General Manger – Ramada by Wyndham Santa Barbara

MPRESARIO, EMCEE, AND MARKETING GURU for Ramada Worldwide, Drew Wakefield has received the Marian W. Isbell Change Maker Award for Community Service, a Global Award from Ramada Worldwide.

Wakefield is the Director of Sales and Marketing for Ramada by Wyndham Santa Barbara.

Along with music, tasty bites and beverages, the group enjoyed live music, and belly dancing by Laela Duncan and a welcome by Crispin Barrymore, Legacy proprietor. An important part of the evening included introducing their newly elected offiers: Board President Justin Gunn; Secretary Ron Burd; and Treasurer David Machacek as well as new board members Karen Ortiz and Sharon Rich.

Solstice Executive Director Penny Little, Clare Carey, Crispin Barrymore, and Laela Duncan

JUSTIN GUNN is a career news and documentary producer/director and a prolific artist/maker with a deep passion for parades and festivals. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his multi-year documentary series covering the Burning Man festival and was featured in the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2018 for his documentary, A Solstice in Santa Barbara.

According to Tom Patton, General Manager at the Santa Barbara Ramada by Wyndham, “This is the first time they have presented this special service award." www.sbramada.com

Justin Gunn

RON BURD, a local attorney who “supports the various culture for creating art”, will be stepping up to the role of Secretary. DAVID MACHACEK, who served the Board as Interim President when Solstice Board President Stacie Bouffard stepped down in September, has been elected the new Treasurer. Ron Burd David empowers small business owners to greater success through bookkeeping and QuickBooks consulting services.

The Abstract Art Collective’s current exhibition at VOICE Gallery (which runs through November 30th) is a benefit for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation. Pictured at the opening reception are Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner, Voice Gallery; Carol Talley, president of AAC; Brittany Avila Wazny, Senior Development Director TBCF; Sheela Hunt, TBCF Ambassador Co-Chair & Planned Giving Advisory Council, and Mark Ashton Hunt, exhibition curator. www.abstractartcollective.com

HE SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL WHALE HERITAGE AREA (SBCWHA) will host a free gathering at the picturesque Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History to celebrate their recent designation as the 9th Whale Heritage Area in the world. The free Community Gathering will take place Saturday, November 28th from 4 to 5:30pm.

The new designation highlights the region’s commitment to promoting responsible ecotourism, providing more ocean educational opportunities, supporting on-going research and conservation efforts, and honoring the timeless cultural connection we have to whales. To attend, RSVP by emailing info@SBWhaleHeritage.org or call 805.588.0557. www.sbwhaleheritage.org

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Santa Barbara Channel Whale Heritage Area to Celebrate Local Whales

David Machacek

In addition to new officers, Solstice welcomes new board members Karen Ortiz and Sharon Rich.

KAREN ORTIZ is a third-generation Santa Barbara native with some 30 years of development experience as a volunteer, board member and staff member serving nonprofits and the banking industry across the Central Coast. SHARON RICH, Friends of State Street founder and President, former Executive Director of YMCA, secured a donation of five acres of Karen Ortiz land to establish the first YMCA facility within a new 350-acre community development in Camarillo, California, in addition to decades of experience in community engagement. Sharon Rich

2024 THEME: The 2024 50th Anniversary theme was also recently announced and will be Flights of Fantasy! Find out details and consider submitting artwork for the annual poster and t-shirt contest on-line. www.solsticeparade.com

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Teachers Take Center Stage at 10th Annual “A Salute to Teachers” Gala

T WAS AN EVENING OF CELEBRATION AND JOY for eight outstanding educators from across Santa Barbara County who were honored in grand fashion at the tenth annual “A Salute to Teachers” gala held on November 4th at the Music Academy in Montecito. Presented by the Santa Barbara County Education Office and Cox Communications, the event paid special tribute to each of the honorees–the Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year, Santa Barbara Bowl Performing Arts Teacher of the Year, three Distinguished New Educators, and three Distinguished Mentors–and the entire teaching profession.

A Salute to Teachers recognized the following individuals: 2024 Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year and California Teacher of the Year GREGORY WOLF-Santa Ynez Valley Union High School/Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District

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This year’s honorees represented schools and districts from nearly every region of Santa Barbara County. Each honoree was presented with their award on stage by the award’s business sponsor and given the opportunity for remarks.

2024 Santa Barbara Bowl Performing Arts Teacher of the Year ELESA CARLSON-Ernest Righetti High School/Santa Maria Joint Union School District

Dream Foundation’s Dreams for Veterans Program Receives 2023 Fisher Service Award

2024 Distinguished Mentors VICTORIA AGUIRRE–Hollister School/Goleta Union School District NATALIE DURBIN–Liberty Elementary School/Santa Maria-Bonita School District TIFFANY GONZALEZ–Peabody Charter School 2024 Distinguished New Educators RYAN HELSEL–Goleta Valley Junior High School/Santa Barbara Unified School District SAMMI LAMBERT–San Marcos High School/Santa Barbara Unified School District

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JULIO MOLINA–Delta High School/Santa Maria Joint Union High School District For more information visit www.sbceo.org/salute

HE HOUSING AUTHORITY’S INNOVATIVE WORKFORCE HOUSING PROGRAM held a Grand opening of 14 “below market rate” residential studio apartments for local residents. The program is designed to address the affordable housing needs of the community’s low to moderate income workforce who are increasingly caught in the gap between skyrocketing rents and ineligibility for other assistance. The Housing Authority has been committed to providing affordable

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Below Market Workforce Housing Grand Opening Held

housing to make it possible for more people to live where they work, in Santa Barbara. The Housing Authority is in the process of reviewing the over 100 applications received for the studio apartments, and new residents will be moving into their studios in December 2023. www.hacsb.org

Admiral Christopher W. Grady, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kisa Heyer, Dream Foundation’s CEO, Kelly Facer, Sr. Vice President, Military Times, and David A. Coker, President, Fisher House Foundation.

ISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION HAS AWARDED DREAM FOUNDATION’S DREAMS FOR VETERANS PROGRAM the prestigious 2023 Fisher Service Award in recognition of its innovative and positive impact on our nation’s heroes and their loved ones. As part of the award, Dream Foundation was also given a $90,000 grant and a $50,000 advertising package from the Military Times Foundation. Created in 2014, Dreams for Veterans serves our nation’s terminally-ill military veterans, active service members, and members of the Reserve and National Guard across the country and Puerto Rico by bringing their final Dreams to life. Dream Foundation’s CEO, Kisa Heyer, accepted the award at a ceremony hosted by Fisher House Foundation and Military Times Foundation in Washington D.C. Dream Foundation’s Board Chair, Mario Muredda, Dreams for Veterans Advsiory Council Members, U.S. Navy Veteran Rupa Dainer, MD, and U.S. Army Veteran Scott O’Neal (R), as well as Prince Taylor, Ed.D from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs were also in attendance. Dream Foundation, the only national dream-granting organization for terminallyill adults, fulfills final Dreams that provide inspiration, comfort, and closure at the end of life. With the support of a nationwide network of volunteers, hospices, health care organizations, and committed donors, Dream Foundation has given life to more than 34,000 final Dreams since being founded in 1994. Dream Foundation receives no state or federal funding—and relies solely on private donations. www.DreamFoundation.org

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OPINION

Testimony of Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs University Professor at Columbia University UN Security Council Session on Sustaining Peace through Common Development By Jeffrey D. Sachs November 20, 2023 | Common Dreams

Mr. President, Ambassadors, Secretary-General Guterres, NDB President Rousseff, distinguished diplomats, ladies and gentlemen, My name is Jeffrey D. Sachs. I am University Professor at Columbia University. I am a specialist in the global economy and sustainable development. I appear before the UN Security Council on my own behalf. I represent no government or organization in the testimony I will deliver. Today’s meeting takes place at a time of several major wars. In my testimony I will refer to four: the Ukraine War, which started in 2014 with the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich; the Israel-Palestine War, which has flared repeatedly since 1967; the Syrian War, which began in 2011; and the Sahel Wars, which began in 2012 in Mali and have now spread throughout the Sahel.

This Council could end the Ukraine War quickly by addressing its underlying political and economic causes. On the political front, the P5 countries should agree to extend a security guarantee to Ukraine while also agreeing that NATO will not expand into Ukraine, thereby addressing Russia’s deep opposition to NATO enlargement. The Council should also work to achieve a lasting governance solution regarding Ukraine’s ethnic divisions. The failure of Ukraine to implement the Minsk II agreement, and of the Council to enforce the agreement, means that the solution of regional autonomy is no longer sufficient. After nearly ten years of harsh fighting, it is realistic that some of the ethnically Russian regions will remain as part of Russia, while the vast majority of Ukrainian territory will of course remain with a sovereign and secure Ukraine.

On the economics side, there are two considerations, one regarding policy and one regarding financing. On policy, Ukraine’s strong economic interest is to join the European Union while also to maintain open trade and financial relations with Russia and the rest of Eurasia. These and other recent wars have claimed Ukraine’s trade policy should be inclusive rather millions of lives, squandered trillions of dollars in Jeffrey D. Sachs than diversionary, allowing Ukraine to serve as a military outlays, and destroyed cultural, natural, vibrant economic bridge between the east and west and economic wealth built over generations of Eurasia. On the financing side, Ukraine will need funding and indeed millennia. Wars are the worst enemy of sustainable for reconstruction and for new physical infrastructure – such development. as fast rail, renewable energy, 5G, and port modernization. These wars may seem intractable, but they are not. Indeed, As I describe below, I recommend that the Security Council I would suggest that all four wars could be ended quickly by establish a new Peace and Development Fund, to help mobilize agreement within the UN Security Council. One reason is that the financing to help Ukraine and other war zones to turn major wars must be fed from the outside, both with external away from war towards recovery and long-term sustainable finances and armaments. The UN Security Council could agree development. to choke off these awful wars by withholding external financing Consider in a similar way the war in Israel and Palestine. and armaments. This would require an agreement among the Here too the war could be ended quickly by the Council major powers. enforcing the many UN Security Council resolutions made over The other reason why these wars can end quickly is that they several decades calling for a return to the 1967 borders, an end result from economic and political factors that can be addressed of Israel’s settlement activities in occupied territories, and the through diplomacy rather than through war. By addressing the two-state solution, including UNSC resolutions 242, 338, 1397, underlying political and economic factors, the Security Council 1515, and 2334. It is clear that Israel and Palestine are unable can establish conditions for peace and sustainable development. to reach bilateral agreements in line with these UN Security Let us consider each of the four wars in turn. Council resolutions. On both sides, hardliners repeatedly frustrate moderates who seek peace based on the two-state The War in Ukraine has two main political causes. The first is the attempt by NATO to expand to Ukraine despite the timely, solution. repeated, and increasingly urgent objections by Russia. Russia It is high time, therefore, for the UN Security Council to considers NATO presence in Ukraine as a significant threat enforce its decisions, by implementing a just and lasting solution to Russia’s security. The second political cause is the east-west that is in the interests of both Israel and Palestine, rather than ethnic divide in Ukraine, partly along linguistic and partly allowing hardliners on both sides to ignore the mandate of along religious lines. Following the overthrow of President this Council and thereby to threaten the global peace. My Yanukovych in 2014, ethnic Russian regions broke away from recommendation to this Council is that it immediately recognize the post-coup government and appealed for protection and the State of Palestine, in a matter of days or weeks, and welcome autonomy. The Minsk II agreement, endorsed unanimously by Palestine as a full member of the United Nations, with capital this Council in Resolution 2202, called for regional autonomy in East Jerusalem and with sovereign control over the Islamic to be incorporated in Ukraine’s constitution, but the agreement Holy Sites. The Council should also establish a peacekeeping was never implemented by the Government of Ukraine despite force, drawn heavily from the neighboring Arab countries, the UN Security Council backing. to help provide security in Palestine. Such an outcome is the overwhelming will of the international community, and in The economic cause of the war results from the fact that the manifest interest of both Israel and Palestine, despite the Ukraine’s economy faces both west to the European Union and east to Russia, Central Asia, and East Asia. When the EU tried to vociferous objections by hardline rejectionists on both sides of the divide. negotiate a free trade agreement with Ukraine, Russia expressed alarm that its own trade and investments in Ukraine would be As with the case of Ukraine, the failure of this Council to undermined unless a three-way agreement was reached among enforce its earlier resolutions regarding Israel and Palestine have the EU, Russia, and Ukraine to ensure that Ukrainian-Russian made the current situation far more difficult to resolve. Israel’s trade and investment would be sustained alongside EU-Ukraine illegal settlements have by now expanded to more than 600,000 trade. Unfortunately, the EU was apparently not prepared to settlers. Yet Israel’s brazen and long-standing violation of the negotiate with Russia over such a three-way arrangement, and UN Security Council in this regard is no reason for the Council the competing east-west orientation of Ukraine’s economy was to shrink from decisive action now, especially as Gaza is in never resolved. flames, and the broader region is a tinderbox that could explode

at any moment.

An economic strategy should accompany the political strategy. Most importantly, the new sovereign State of Palestine must be economically viable. This will require several economic measures. First, Palestine should benefit from offshore oil and gas deposits in Palestine’s territorial waters. Second, the new Peace and Development Fund should help Palestine to finance a modern port in Gaza and a secure road and rail link that connects Gaza and the West Bank. Third, the vital water resources of the Jordan Valley must be equitably shared between Israel and Palestine, and both nations together should be supported to secure a substantial increase in desalinization capacity to meet the urgent and growing water needs of both countries. Fourth, and most importantly, both Israel and Palestine should become part of an integrated sustainable development plan for the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East that supports climate resilience and the region’s transition to green energy. The Council can similarly end the war in Syria. The Syrian War broke out in 2011 when several regional powers and the United States joined forces to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This deeply misguided regimechange operation failed, but triggered a prolonged war with enormous bloodshed and destruction, including of ancient cultural heritage sites. The Council should make clear that all P5 countries and the countries in Syria’s neighborhood are in full agreement that all regime-change attempts are now permanently ended, and that the UN Security Council intends to work closely with the Syrian Government on reconstruction and development. On the economic side, Syria’s best hope is to become closely integrated in the Eastern Mediterranean – Middle East region, especially through the construction of physical infrastructure (roads, rail, fiber, power, water) connecting Syria with Turkey, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean nations. As with Israel and Palestine, this investment program should be partly funded by a new Peace and Sustainable Development Fund created by this Council. The war in the Sahel has similar roots to the war in Syria. Just as regional powers and the US aimed to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad in 2011, the major NATO powers similarly aimed to overthrow the regime of Moammar Qaddafi in Libya in 2011. In pursuing this aim, they grossly exceeded the mandate of UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which had authorized the protection of Libya’s civilian population, but certainly not a NATO-led regime change operation. The violent overthrow of the Libyan government quickly spilled over to the impoverished countries of the Sahel. Poverty alone made these Sahelian countries highly vulnerable to the influx of armaments and militias. The result has been ongoing violence and multiple coups, gravely undermining the possibility of economic improvement. The Sahel crisis today is first and foremost a crisis of insecurity and poverty. The Sahel is a region that is semi-arid to hyper-arid, with chronic food insecurity, hunger, and extreme poverty. Most of the countries of the region are landlocked, causing massive difficulties for transport and international trade. Yet at the same time, the region has massive deposits of highly valuable minerals, great biodiversity and agronomic potential, huge solar energy potential, and of course an enormous human potential that is not yet realized because of a chronic shortfall of schooling and training. The countries of the Sahel form a natural aggregation for regional economic investment in infrastructure. The entire region urgently needs investments in electrification, digital Continued on page 15

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access, water and sanitation, and road and rail transport, as well as in social services, notably education and healthcare. As the Sahel is among the poorest regions of the world, the governments are utterly unable to finance the needed investments. Here too, and perhaps more than in any other region, the Sahel needs external funding to make the transition from war to peace, and from extreme poverty to sustainable development.

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All P5 members, and indeed the whole world, suffer adverse consequences from the continuation of these wars. All are paying a price in terms of financial burdens, economic instability, risks of terrorism, and risks of a wider war. The Security Council is in a position to take decisive actions to end the war precisely because it is clear that the interest of all UN Security Council members, and notably all of the P5 countries, is to bring these long-standing wars to an end, before they escalate into even more dangerous conflicts. The Security Council is vested with considerable powers by the UN Charter when it has the resolve of its members. It can introduce peacekeepers, and even armies if necessary. It can impose economic sanctions on countries that do not comply with UNSC Resolutions. It can provide security guarantees to nations. It can make referrals to the International Criminal Court to stop war crimes. In short, the Council is certainly able to enforce its resolutions if it chooses to do so. For the sake of global peace, let the Council now choose to end these wars. The UN Security Council should also bolster its toolkit by engaging in economic peacebuilding alongside the more usual decisions on borders, peacekeepers, sanctions, and the like. I have mentioned several times the idea of creating a new Peace and Development Fund that the UN Security Council could deploy to create positive dynamics for sustainable development, and to encourage other investors – such as the World Bank, the IMF, and the regional Multilateral Development Banks – to co-invest in peacemaking. I would recommend three guideposts for such a new fund. First, it would be funded by the major powers by transferring a part of their military outlays to global peacemaking. The US, for example, now spends roughly $1 trillion per year on the military, while China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia are the next biggest spenders, with combined military outlays that are a bit more than half of the US, perhaps around $600 billion. Suppose that these countries reduced military outlays by just ten percent and redirected the savings to the Peace and Development Fund. That alone would free up around $160 billion per year. Even that sum could be leveraged with some financial engineering to enable annual loans of say $320 billion per year, that is, enough to help today’s war zones to begin a vigorous turn to recovery and development. Second, the fund would emphasize regional integration. This is paramount for peacemaking as well as for successful development. Ukraine would be helped to integrate both west (to the EU) and east (toward Russia, Central Asia, and East Asia). Israel, Palestine, and Syria would all be helped to integrate in an infrastructure network for the EMME region, deepening peace as well as economic development. The Sahel countries would be helped to break their isolation and lack of basic services through a network of infrastructure for roads, rail, ports, fiber, and power. Third, the Peace and Development Fund would partner with other funding streams, such as China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the EU’s Global Gateway, the G7’s Global Partnership for Infrastructure and Investment, and increased lending by the Bretton Woods institutions and the regional development banks. Interestingly, the Fund for Peace and Development could be a vehicle for greater investment partnerships linking China, the EU, the United States, and the G7. This too would be a contribution towards peace, not only into today’s war zones but also among the world’s major powers. Directly across the street from us is Isaiah’s wall, with the visionary words of the great Jewish prophet of the 8th century BCE: “They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” It is time to honor Isaiah’s words by ending these useless wars, slashing military outlays, and turning the savings into new investments in education, healthcare, renewable energy, and social protection. The proposal to redirect today’s military outlays into tomorrow’s sustainable development finance builds not only upon Isaiah’s enduring wisdom, but on the proposals of religious leaders and the world’s nations in the UN General Assembly. Pope Paul VI in his brilliant encyclical Populorum Progresio (1967) called on world leaders “to set aside part of their military expenditures for a world fund to relieve the needs of impoverished peoples.” The UN General Assembly took up this cause in UNGA Resolution 75/43, calling on “the international community to devote part of the resources made available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever-widening gap between developed and developing countries.” As an American, I am proud that our greatest President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the visionary who oversaw the establishment of this great institution. I believe firmly in the capacity of the United Nations, and of this Security Council, to keep the peace and to promote sustainable development. When all 193 UN member states, or 194 with the membership of Palestine, live up to the UN Charter, we will have a new Global Age of Peace and Sustainable Development. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/peace-framework-israel-palestine https://www.other-news.info/a-framework-for-peace-in-israel-and-palestine/ Copyright © 2023 Sonia Sachs, all rights reserved. www.JeffSachs.org

By Melinda Cabrera

UITION HIKES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES TEND TO PROVOKE BACKLASHES FROM STUDENTS, parents, and education advocates, as one would expect. Among others likely to suffer their own economic fallout downstream of such policy decisions, however, the reaction is often muted. In today’s increasingly interconnected economy, though, hardship in one sector seldom fails to darken others.

who eschew college or drop out will likely earn far less over their lifetimes — 75 percent less compared with those who earn bachelor’s degrees, according to Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Those without degrees also typically enjoy less job security. For a full account of the impact of tuition increases, however, we must look beyond the lives of students. Price pressures that initially affect one consumer segment have a way of rippling through the wider economy.

Consider the plight of Tuition increases merchants and business Melinda Cabrera have become owners whose fortunes depressingly common in are closely tied to campus life. Think recent years, particularly in California. restaurants, bars, retailers, and service In September, trustees at California providers. Cash-strapped students State University (CSU) voted to will in time beget dampened bottom raise student tuition by six percent lines, which in turn exert downward annually for five consecutive years. This followed a similar announcement pressure on local economies. Young people who come out of college with from the University of California in heavier debt loads will also be more July 2021. constrained in their spending. The consequences of larger tuition Further, to the extent that tuition bills for college students and their hikes contribute to enrollment families are by now sadly familiar. declines by discouraging students Students are forced to borrow more from applying to and sticking with and graduate with more debt. Because college, they are likely to worsen many must work more part-time emerging labor shortages in fields hours to defray growing expenses, from health care to information they take longer to complete their technology. studies. Some even reconsider their majors, with an eye toward more The fiscal challenges confronting remunerative fields. colleges and universities are undeniably serious. In CSU’s case, And these are the fortunate ones. administrators say the system needs to Other students are forced to drop address a $1.5 billion budget shortfall out, often having incurred significant if it is to continue funding programs debt. For these young people the financial burden is twofold: They must and services at current levels. Inflation has been a factor, and officials point repay their student loans without the out that CSU’s 23 campuses haven’t earnings premium conferred by a seen a tuition increase in more than a college degree. decade. Still others will tragically forgo I suspect that’s small consolation college altogether. According to to the system’s 460,000 students, many data from the National Student of whom are minorities and firstClearinghouse, undergraduate college generation college students. enrollment nationwide dropped eight percent from 2019 to 2022. Disconcertingly, a return to in-person instruction failed to stem the decline. The slide in the college attendance rate since 2018 is the steepest on record, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Would-be students routinely cite rising costs as one of their main reasons for bypassing college. It goes without saying that those

I’m not sure what the answer is. In the absence of tuition revenue increases, programs would likely have to be cut, which hardly seems better.

This much I do know: We all suffer when college becomes increasingly unaffordable for young people. Melinda Cabrera is president and CEO of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.

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Harbor Holidays Are Here! Y THE TIME THIS COLUMN GOES TO PRINT, the Thanksgiving feast will be over, the Pepto Bismol returned to the medicine cabinet, and leftovers will have… well, left! Preparations for next round of holidays seem to be in the mix earlier and earlier each year, certainly long before the Thanksgiving turkey is on the table. Discount coupons for the anxious pre-Christmas shopper arrive in the mail and a plethora of holiday ads punctuate our leisure hours in front of the television screen. Black Friday comes earlier as well, but under assumed names such as Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday… you get the drift. It’s like, “Rush out and shop, you have only (fill in the blank) days until Christmas!” Still, the magic of the season continues to fascinate us and bring us together. Families gather around the Hanukkah menorah and the Christmas tree — or both—to celebrate the Winter Solstice season of renewal. The City of Santa Barbara and the Waterfront Department definitely get into the holiday spirit, and this year is no exception. Mike Wiltshire,Waterfront Department Director, and his crew are hard at work planning for the events to come and the logistics that go with it. The holiday celebrations along the waterfront begin at 5pm on December 10th with the lighting of the Christmas tree at the end of Stearns Wharf. The 2023 tree lighting ceremony comes complete with holiday tunes sung by the Dos Pueblos Jazz Choir next to the Sea Center. The competition in the human-powered category of the boat parade will be held during the daylight at 3:30pm. Dozens of standup paddlers and kayakers dressed in festive attire will loop the harbor and Stearns Wharf spreading lights and cheer for all. For the even earlier birds (and those who forgot a warm jacket) the annual Winter Wonderland begins in the afternoon around 3pm on the City Pier with fun and games for the entire family. Ten tons of snow will be waiting for snowball gathering and pretend winter sports for visiting kids to enjoy. Santa will assume his usual spot for gift consultation and photos to help everyone get into the spirit of the season. I’m told that free goody bags might possibly be distributed by Santa’s helpers.

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And now for the Main Event! Visitors can grab a seat to watch the waterfront’s most spectacular display, the place to see and be seen, for the 2023 Parade of Lights which begins at 5:30pm. A yet to be determined number of boats will leave the harbor motoring and sailing along the Santa Barbara Coastline to the theme of Holiday Disco Extravaganza! It’ll be great fun to see what Santa Barbara’s creative boat and watercraft owners come up with this year. From their elevated perch atop Stearns Wharf the judges have an excellent view for the post event award ceremony at Anchor Rose Restaurant atop the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. The much anticipated celebratory evening will be topped by a spectacular fireworks display, visible up and down the coastline, ending the waterfront’s signature festivities for 2023 with a great big bang! As a side note, never let it be said that anyone in Santa Barbara will pass up an opportunity to party! Most likely at the stroke of midnight after the Thanksgiving feast, you can just bet that parties all over town are

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being planned. Our job (when not planning a party ourselves) is to figure out where and when to show up. I look forward to seeing many of you during the month of December at one or all of these super fun events. Start making your Christmas list now, seal it in an envelope addressed to the North Pole, and pop that into the mail. Let’s hope the weather will kind to us this holiday season because we need to keep those elves busy and Santa’s sleigh full! Sigrid Toye volunteers for the Breakwater Flag Project. She is on the board of directors of the Maritime Museum and participates in Yacht Club activities. An educational/behavior therapist, Sigrid holds a Ph.D in clinical psychology. She loves all things creative, including her two grown children who are working artists. Send Harbor tips to: Itssigrid@gmail.com

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ITH A CHANCE OF FLURRIES and a guarantee of holiday cheer, the 28th Anniversary La Arcada Plaza Christmas walk is set for Wednesday, November 29th between 5 and 8pm.

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The traditional event will include photos with Santa, Holiday Music and Carolers, Fresh-Popped Popcorn, and lots of Holiday Goodies. It’s a bring-the-familyfor-holiday-fun and merriment event, so you won’t want to miss it!

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Participating venues include: Ace Rivington • Andersen’s Bakery • Barbieri & Kempe Wines • Catherine Gee • Coast 2 Coast Collection • Field Trip • Gallery 113 • Hook & Press • La Tavola • Lewis and Clark • Lucky Puppy Optical • Mizza • Petit Valentien • Renaissance Consignment • Salon U • SBMA Museum Store • State & Fig • The Barber Shop • The Crafter’s Library • Urban Optics • Waterhouse Gallery • YES Store • Pizza Mizza . La Arcada Plaza is located at 1114 State Street at Figueroa. Find out more at www.LaArcadaSantaBarbara.com

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TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY Ring in the holiday season with lights, snow, and Santa • Paseo Nuevo • Free • Lighting at 5:30pm, festivities 5-8pm Fr, 11/24.

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VICTORIAN HOME OPEN HOUSE Explore a holiday-decorated 1875 Victorian home • Lompoc Valley Historical Society • 207 N. L St., Lompoc • Donations appreciated, group tours by appointment • Contact lompochistory@gmail.com • 10am-1pm Fr, 11/24 & Sa, 11/25. SOLVANG JULEFEST Month-long holiday celebration with decor, tours, Santa visits, and more • Solvang varying locations, details: https://tinyurl. com/58psa4e3 • Fr, 11/24 through 1/5/24.

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Saturday, November 25th

Kick off the holiday season with snow, visits with Santa, and a dazzling Christmas tree when Paseo Nuevo hosts its second annual Tree Lighting Ceremony at 5:30pm on Friday, November 24th. Following the 5:30pm lighting, attendees can take photos with Santa or the Grinch in Center Court, or celebrate at the after-party at the Peppermint Parlor, located across from Sephora, from 6 to 8pm. For more holiday events visit www.paseonuevosb.com

Friday, November 24th MUSIC

KING ZERO WITH PET MEDZ Punk reggae party • SOhO • $15-18 • www.sohosb.com • 9pm Fr, 11/24.

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FRIDAY BIRD WALK Learn about the bird life of Elings Park • SB Audubon Society • Elings Park • Details/contact: https://tinyurl.com/5c9myvxz • 8:3010:30am Fr, 11/24.

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY Shop small businesses this holiday season • Stores across downtown SB • All day, Sa, 11/25. MOSAIC MAKERS MARKET Shop 25+ local artisans, live music, and food • Mosaic Locale, 1131 State St. • Free • 11am-4pm Sa, 11/25.

Sunday, November 26th DANCE

MARIA BERMUDEZ’ SONIDOS GITANOS Gypsy flamenco music and dance • Lobero Theatre • $45-80 • www.lobero.org • 7:30pm Su, 11/26.

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SUNDAY FUNDAYS Live music and wine specials • SAMsARA Winery & Tasting Room, 6485 Calle Real, Ste E • Free • 2-4pm Su, 11/26.

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Opera SB Presents:

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Everyone’s favorite mischievous cat, Puss in Boots, will enjoy musical adventures when Opera Santa Barbara performs the family-friendly opera El Gato Con Botas at Center Stage Theater at 7:30pm on Friday, December 1st and at 2:30pm on Saturday and Sunday, December 2nd and 3rd. This opera will be sung in Spanish with English supertitles. For tickets ($28, Ages 8-18 free) visit www.centerstagetheater.org

SB ROLLERS Rollerskate with an ocean view • SB City College Lot 3 • Free • 3pm Su.

Monday, November 27th LECTURES/MEETINGS

ROMAN-PERSIAN RELATIONS BY JAN WILLEM DRIJVERS on The Emperor Jovian And The Syriac “Julian Romance” • UCSB IHC, 6056 HSSB • www.ihc.ucsb.edu • 4-5:30pm Mo, 11/27. PARLIAMO! ITALIAN CONVERSATION All levels • Arnoldi’s Cafe, 600 Garden St. • http://parliamo.yolasite. com • Free • 5-7pm Mon.

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Tuesday, November 28th LECTURES/MEETINGS

MONTECITO BOOK CLUB Discuss Death with Interruptions by José Saramago • Montecito Library • Free, register: tinyurl.com/jtan5w2h • 12pm Tu, 11/28. ALICE IN WONDERLAND AS A FAIRYTALE AND A RESOURCE BOOK IN CHINA Webinar by Professor Zongxin Feng • UCSB IHC • www.ihc.ucsb.edu • 4-5:30pm Tu, 11/28. CHAUCER’S BOOK SIGNING Local author & photographer Chuck Graham, Paddling Into a Natural Balance • Chaucer’s Books • Free • 6pm Tu, 11/28.

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STUDENT TEA SESSION Observe a Japanese tea ceremony • SB Botanic Garden Tea Garden • Free with admission • www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 10:30am12:30pm Tu, 11/28.

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AN EVENING WITH RAINN WILSON Interview and reading with The Office star to support Rubicon Theatre Company • Ventura Center for Spiritual Living, 101 S. Laurel St, Ventura • $2039.50 • www.rubicontheatre.org • 8pm Tu, 11/28. SB CHANNEL WHALE HERITAGE AREA GATHERING Free Community Gathering Celebrating Our Local Whales • RVSP required info@SBWhaleHeritage.org or 805.588.0557• SB Museum of Natural History • 4pm Tu, 11/28.

Wednesday, November 29th LECTURES/MEETINGS

CLIMATE HOPE: OUR PUBLIC LANDS & WATERS Talk by public lands and waters policy specialist Deborah Williams • SB Museum of Natural History Fleischmann Auditorium • $10-12 • www.sbnature.org • 6:30-8pm We, 11/29.

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STAY & PLAY • Share stories with kids • Eastside Library ~ 8:30-10am Tu • Montecito Library ~ 9-10:30am Tu MUSIC & MOVEMENT • For ages 2-5 • Shoreline Park • 10:30-11am Th • Central Library ~ 10-10:30am Th. BABY AND ME • For babies 0-14 months • Central Library ~ 11-11:30am We • Eastside Library ~ Bilingual ~ 11-11:30am Th LIBRARY ON THE GO • Carrillo Castillo

Commuter Lot ~ 10am-12pm Tu, 11/28; State St. Farmer’s Market ~ 3-6:30pm Tu, 11/28; Alameda Park ~ 10am-12pm We, 11/29; Harding School ~ 12:30-2pm We, 11/29; Bohnett Park ~ 3:30-5pm We, 11/29; La Cumbre Jr. High ~ 5:30-6:30pm We, 11/29; Shoreline Park ~ 10am-12pm Th, 11/30; SB Jr High ~ 2:30-4:30pm Th, 11/30; MacKenzie Park ~ 10am-12pm Fr, 12/1

READ TO A DOG • For grades 3-6 • Eastside Library ~ 3-4pm We.

SPECIAL EVENTS

LA ARCADA PLAZA CHRISTMAS WALK Shopping with carolers, photos with Santa, popcorn, and more • La Arcada Plaza, 1114 State St. • Free • 5-8pm We, 11/29. A MINDFUL MARKET Shop conscious brands, artisans, and wellness goods • Lily Pond at El Encanto Hotel • Free • 1-5pm We, 11/29.

Thursday, November 30th LECTURES/MEETINGS

SBPL WORKS! TYPING COURSE Hone your typing skills for the workplace • Central Library Faulkner Gallery West • Free, register: https:// tinyurl.com/3mzjdaaz • 10:3011:30am Th, 11/30. LUNCHTIME ACTIVISTS Meet local activists and organizers • The FUND • On Zoom: https:// tinyurl.com/2p92b2sa • Free • 121:30pm Th, 11/30.

LE CERCLE FRANÇAIS French conversation, all levels • Arnoldi’s Cafe, 600 Olive St. • http://sbfrenchgroup.yolasite.com • Free • 5-7pm We.

MUSIC

UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR Traditional and contemporary music from African American religious traditions • UCSB Music Bowl • Free • 12pm We, 11/29. THE IDENTITY OF ELLINGTON UCSB Jazz Ensemble celebrates Duke Ellington • UCSB, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall • https://tinyurl.com/2ekcvz2f • Free$10• 7:30pm We, 11/29. SAN LYON Gypsy Swing quartet • SOhO • $20-22 • www.sohosb.com • 7:30pm We, 11/29.

Santa Barbara Ghost Tours Walk with Professor Julie as she shares tales of mystery and history... & meet friendly spirits... Call or text to schedule your walking tour! • 805-905-9019

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Safari Local In Person & Online Activities for Everyone

Courtesy of Lobero Thearte

Shop handcrafted, one-of-a-kind gifts and support local artisans by visiting one of Santa Barbara’s many pop-up holiday markets this week! Whether you’re searching for jewelry, home decor, art pieces, sweet treats, or a yet-to-bediscovered treasure, here is where you can shop this holiday season: A Mindful Market at El Encanto SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY Shop small businesses this holiday season • Stores across downtown SB • All day, Sa, 11/25. MOSAIC MAKERS MARKET Shop 25+ local artisans, live music, and food • Mosaic Locale, 1131 State St. • Free • 11am-4pm Sa, 11/25. A MINDFUL MARKET Shop conscious brands, artisans, and wellness goods • Lily Pond at El Encanto Hotel • Free • 1-5pm We, 11/29.

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Photo courtesy of Department of Music, UCSB

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Downtown Holiday Tree Lighting & Block Party

Celebrate the official start of the holidays in Santa Barbara with friends, family, and music when Downtown Santa Barbara hosts its annual Downtown Holiday Tree Lighting, followed by a community Block Party on the 1300 block of State Street from 5 to 8pm on Friday, December 1st.

For details on all upcoming downtown holiday events, visit www.downtownsb.org/events/holiday-happenings

CEC CLIMATE STEWARDS: LOCAL ACTIVISTS CREATING WAVES OF ACTION Learn about the Climate Stewards program • Community Environmental Council • On Zoom, register: https:// tinyurl.com/779u6zf7 • Free • 6:30pm Th, 11/30.

MUSIC

GIN & JAZZ Sip cocktails while enjoying live 1920s jazz music • The Bar at El Encanto • 6-8pm Th. AUDRA MCDONALD IN CONCERT Singing music from Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and beyond • UCSB Arts & Lectures • UCSB Campbell Hall • $19-100 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 7pm Th, 11/30.

ELKS LODGE HOLIDAY BAZAAR Shop local vendors, enter a raffle, and more • Elks Lodge #613, 150 N. Kellogg Ave • Free • 10am-5:30pm Fr, 12/1.

JAMES GARNER'S TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH Relive Cash’s greatest hits • Lobero Theatre • $41-67 • www.lobero.org • 7:30pm Th, 11/30.

MUSEUM MARKETPLACE Shop local vendors for the holidays • Carpinteria Valley Historical Society & History Museum • Free • 8am-3pm Sa, 12/2.

PRÓXIMA PARADA Indie soul concert • SOhO • $17-23 • www.sohosb.com • 8:30pm Th, 11/30.

ANNUAL ARTS & CRAFT FAIR BY SBCC’S SEL Shop handcrafted goods by over 50 artists • SBCC School of Extended Learning; 300 N. Turnpike Rd • Free • 10am-2pm Sa, 12/2.

SPECIAL EVENTS

HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE Shop unique gifts from over a dozen local artists • Wildling Museum of Art & Nature, Solvang • Free • 10am4pm Su, 12/3.

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CHAUCER’S BOOK FAIR Shop to support Washington Elementary School • Chaucer’s Books • Free • 6-8pm Th, 11/30. PLANNED PARENTHOOD YOUNG ADVOCATES HOLIDAY EVENT Seasonal drinks, crafts, and more • Miracle Pop-Up at Pearl Social • $15 donation • https://tinyurl.com/ muyxann3 • 6-8pm Th, 11/30.

Friday, December 1st LECTURES/MEETINGS

OPEN MIC Share your talents, hosted by Melina F. Poinsettia, Miss Ventura 2023 • UCSB Multicultural Center Lounge • Free • https://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm Fr, 12/1.

MUSIC

PIANIST SEONG-JIN CHO Performing Mozart, Ravel, Liszt • UCSB Arts & Lectures • UCSB Campbell Hall • $15-65 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb. edu • 7pm Fr, 12/1. EL GATO CON BOTAS Opera family-friendly retelling of “Puss in Boots” • Opera SB • Center Stage Theater • $28, Ages 8-18 free • www.centerstagetheater.org • 7:30pm Fr, 12/1; 2:30pm 12/2 & 12/3. MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS Christmas concert with Chip Davis • Chumash Casino Resort • $69-99 • www.chumashcasino.com • 8pm Fr, 12/1.

SPECIAL EVENTS

ELKS LODGE HOLIDAY BAZAAR Shop local vendors, enter a raffle, and more • Elks Lodge #613, 150 N.

Kellogg Ave • Free • 10am-5:30pm Fr, 12/1. DOWNTOWN HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING & BLOCK PARTY Celebrate the holidays with the whole community • 1300 Block of State St, Arlington Theatre • Free • 5-8pm Fr, 12/1. HOLIDAY SIP & STROLL Artisan vendors, local eats & drinks, and music • Old Mission SB • $50 • https://tinyurl.com/feuvtcky • 5:307:30pm Fr, 12/1. GOLETA’S FINEST 2023 Celebrate local community members making a difference • SB South Coast Chamber of Commerce • Ritz-Carlton Bacara • $175 • https://tinyurl. com/2whyr5a3 • 5:30pm Fr, 12/1.

Saturday, December 2nd CHILDREN

KIDS CRAFT: PINECONE ORNAMENTS Children 12 and under can create a pinecone ornament • SB Botanic Garden Backcountry • Free with admission • www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 10:30am-12:30pm Sa, 12/2.

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Westmont Christmas Festival: Fullness of Joy

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Honor the spirit of the first Christmas with a joy-filled concert featuring the Westmont Orchestra, College Choir, and Chamber Singers when the 19th annual Westmont Christmas Festival returns to the Granada Theatre at 7pm Saturday, December 2nd and at 2pm on Sunday, December 3rd.

OnSTAGE

For tickets ($22) visit www.granadasb.org

RUDOLPH Performed by State Street Ballet Academy and the Cold Spring School Choir • Lobero Theatre • $19-31 • www.lobero.org • 6:30pm Sa, 12/2 & 2pm Su, 12/3.

LECTURES/MEETINGS

LOCAL AUTHOR BOOK FAIR Meet local writers and purchase their books • SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery • Free • 2-4pm Sa, 12/2.

THE ART OF SYMEON SHIMIN Book signing with Curator/Editor Tonia Shimin and guests Charles Donelan & Josef Woodard • Tecolote Book Shop • Free • 2-4pm Sa, 12/2.

MUSIC

WESTMONT CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL Concert celebrating Jesus’ birth by

Westmont College Orchestra, Choir, and Chamber Singers • Granada Theatre • $22 • www.granadasb.org • 7pm Sa, 12/2 & 2pm Su, 12/3. A CEREMONY OF SONGS CSU Channel Islands University Chorus concert • SB Old Mission Parish, 2201 Laguna St. • $20 donation at the door • 7pm Sa, 12/2. UCSB MIDDLE EAST ENSEMBLE FALL CONCERT With guest dancers Devilla and Aubre Hill • UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall • Free-$10 • https://tinyurl. com/3hxy4kmr • 7:30pm Sa, 12/2.

OUTDOORS

ELINGS RESTORATION WORK PARTY Help restore California native plants to Elings Park • Elings Park • Free, details & sign-up: https://tinyurl.com/ bddbys4a • 8am-1pm Sa, 12/2.

Arise 5k Walk/Run

VOLUNTEER DAY ALICE KECK PARK Help prune, weed, and care for the park • Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden • Free, information: https:// tinyurl.com/345ckdsz • 9am-12pm Sa, 12/2. ARISE 5K WALK RUN Walk or run to support SB Rescue Mission - Bethel House • Start at the soccer field in Chase Palm Park, Cabrillo Blvd • $25; students $10, kids free • www.arise5k.org/event-info • 9am registration, race 10am Sa, 12/2. MEET WITH A MONARCH SPECIALIST Learn about monarch butterflies and their habitats from expert Charis van der Heide • City of Goleta • Main Ellwood Grove • Free, register: https:// tinyurl.com/bddutu2j • 10:30am12pm Sa, 12/2.

SPECIAL EVENTS

MUSEUM MARKETPLACE Shop local vendors for the holidays • Carpinteria Valley Historical Society & History Museum • Free • 8am-3pm Sa, 12/2. ANNUAL ARTS & CRAFT FAIR BY SBCC’S SEL Shop handcrafted goods by over 50 artists • SBCC School of Extended Learning; 300 N. Turnpike Rd • Free • 10am-2pm Sa, 12/2.

Photo courtesy of Arise 5K Walk/Run

GOLETA HOLIDAY PARADE Welcome the holidays with community cheer • Greater SB Lions Club • On Hollister Ave. from Orange to Kinman Av • Free • 6-9pm Sa, 12/2. GINGERBREAD WONDERLAND St.Mark's-in-the-Valley • 50+ decorated Gingerbread houses, $1 raffle tickets, seasonal music & crafts • 805-688-1815 • Free • 4-7pm Sa, 12/2.

Whether you are six or 90 years old, all Santa Barbara community members are invited to walk or run to support Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s Bethel House at the Arise 5k Walk/Run on Saturday, December 2nd. Registration will begin at 9am, with the race kicking off at 10am at the soccer field in Chase Palm Park on Cabrillo Boulevard. To register ($25 general, $10 students, kids free) and view event details visit www.arise5k.org/event-info

Sunday, December 3rdth

MUSIC

UCSB CHAMBER PLAYERS FALL CONCERT Chamber music concert • UCSB Karl Geiringer Hall • Free • https://tinyurl. com/3cck4yww • 7:30pm Su, 12/3.

Photo by Zach Mendez

DANCE

LJ Benet, Kasper, Glenn Stanton, Valerie Larsen, and Sam Linkowski star in the Ensemble Theatre Company production of Ring Of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash Clap your hands to unforgettable hits such as I Walk The Line, A Boy Named Sue, Ring of Fire, and more when Ensemble Theatre Company presents the lively musical Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, directed by original Ring Of Fire Broadway cast member Randy Redd. Previews begin at 7:30pm on Thursday, November 30th, with opening night held at 8pm on Saturday, December 2nd. Performances run through December 17th. For tickets ($40-78) visit www.etcsb.org

RING OF FIRE: THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH Musical portrait of Johnny Cash’s life and career • Ensemble Theatre Company • $40-78 • www.etcsb.org • 7:30pm Th, 11/30, through 12/17. GOT BROADWAY? Goleta Valley Junior High students perform a musical show • Goleta Valley Junior High auditorium • Free-$10 • 7pm Th, 11/30 & 12/1; 2pm 12/2. A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL A musical version of this nostalgic story about family life • Ojai Art Center Theater • $10-30 • www.ojaiact.org • 7:30pm Fr, 12/1, through 12/17.

SPECIAL EVENTS

HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE Shop unique gifts from over a dozen local artists • Wildling Museum of Art & Nature, Solvang • Free • 10am-4pm Su, 12/3.

LIGHT UP A LIFE Lighting of a memorial tree celebrating departed loved ones • Hospice SB • Stars available for purchase: www.hospiceofsb.org/lual • Multiple locations and times: Lobero Theatre, 5:30pm Su, 12/3; Montecito Upper Village Green 4pm We, 12/6; Linden Ave. Seal Fountain, 5pm Sa, 12/9; Camino Real Marketplace 5pm Su, 12/10.

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UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center

Revisiting the Classics:

Paris is Burning

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Fri 1/26: 7:30pm: Herb Alpert & Lani H all

Cup of Culture

Mon 2/19: 8pm: Colter Wall

Wed 2/21: 7:30pm: Thu 2/22: 7:30pm: Sun 3/10: 4:00pm: Fri 4/19: 8pm: Abraham Verghese Antionio Sanchez Brian Regan The Rat Pack Birdman Live!

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REVISITING THE CLASSICS: PARIS IS BURNING 1990 documentary on drag ball culture; post-film talk with Professor Lucas Hilderbrand • UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center, Pollock Theater • Free, RSVP: www. carseywolf.ucsb.edu • 7-9:30pm Tu, 11/28.

Now Playing HUNGER GAMES

Tomorrow’s Power

Revisit one of the most influential documentaries to chronicle queer life, love, and drag culture when the UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center hosts a screening of the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning at Pollock Theater at 7pm on Tuesday, November 28th. A post-film talk with UC Irvine Professor Lucas Hilderbrand will follow. To register for this free event, visit www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu

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TOMORROW’S POWER Documentary on anti-fossil fuel activism Gaza, Germany, and Colombia; post-film discussion with Students for Justice in Palestine • UCSB Multicultural Center Theater • Free • Register at https://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu • 6pm We, 11/29.

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Tomorrow’s Power takes us around the world from war torn, oil-rich Colombia where people have been building a peace process from the bottom up, to Germany, where activists are pushing the country to leave behind the extraction of fossil fuels and complete its transition to renewable energy. And finally to Gaza City where daily energy blackouts are being tackled by health practitioners through solar power in order to provide essential care in hospitals. Film will be presented with closed captioning. Post-film discussion will be held with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

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Housing Starts Up, Recession Worries Over?

By Harlan Green, Special to VOICE, Nov 20, 2023

HE BEST INDICATOR OF A LOOMING RECESSION is consumer behavior. And this will be a record year for travel on the ground and in the air. So, would consumers continue traveling if they saw financial trouble ahead? Of course not. Gas Buddy, for one, says gas prices are down. For the ninth consecutive week, the nation’s average price of gasoline has declined, falling 6.2 cents from a week ago to $3.27 per gallon according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 12 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.

which are at historic lows because of the interest rate disparities from the COVID pandemic. Overall housing starts (new construction) increased 1.9 percent in October as well to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.37 million units, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. The October reading of 1.37 million starts is the number of housing units builders would begin if development kept this pace for the next twelve months. Within this overall number, single-family starts increased 0.2 percent to a 970,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate.

And AAA is predicting a record number of cars on the road – the third highest since 2000. AAA projects 55.4 million travelers will head 50 miles or more from home over the Thanksgiving holiday travel period. Housing construction and Pending Home sales numbers were also up in October. This may be an indication that the housing market slowdown may have bottomed, another sign of a resurgence.

Economic

That’s in part because mortgage rates have dropped suddenly to the low seven percent range, 15-year fixed to mid-six percent, and homebuyers will know this. The bond market has been rallying of late, in line with optimism that the Fed may be done with its rate hikes and even begin to ease rates early next year.

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However, single-family starts are down 10.6 percent year-to-date. The multifamily sector, where demand is greatest and includes apartment buildings and condos, increased 6.3 percent to an annualized 402,000 pace.

“The construction data in October continue to reflect that despite multidecade lows for housing affordability, the market continues to lack attainable inventory that only the home building industry can provide,” said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz. “And with the ten-year Treasury rate now back in the 4.5 percent range, we are forecasting gains for single-family home building in the months ahead and an outright gain for construction in 2024.”

By Harlan Green

The National Association of REALTORS Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)* – a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings – rose 1.1 percent to 72.6 in September. Pending transactions had declined eleven percent in a year. The NAR forecasts that the 30-year fixed mortgage rate will average 6.9 percent for 2023 and decrease to an average of 6.3 percent in 2024, as markets unwind from the Fed’s rate hikes. I can see blue skies ahead for housing as interest rates continue to decline. More existing homes for sale are needed,

Toys for Tots: Topping Off the Box

“The City of Goleta is grateful to have this funding which will be dedicated to the Safe Routes to School programs for Goleta area schools,” said City of Goleta Public Works Director Charlie Ebeling. “We will work with MOVE Santa Barbara County to provide bicycle and pedestrian education for the community’s school aged children and their families.”

Santa Barbara County Supervisors will be Topping Off the Box at the Board of Supervisors meeting on December 12th. The boxes will be picked up on December 15th. The public can also find Toys for Tots boxes at Santa Barbara County fire stations. Toys can be dropped off anytime between 9am and 5pm, seven days a week.

The grant program will run through September 2024.

The bottom line is with so much pent-up demand brought on by the Fed’s inflation fight, consumers still want to spend, especially with interest rates on the decline.

Overall, lower-income consumers and younger consumers exhibited the strongest declines in sentiment, said Joanne Hsu, Director of the University of Michigan sentiment survey.

HE CITY OF GOLETA IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE it has received a $103,587 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to support its Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Program. This grant will be used to help promote safe practices for pedestrians and bicyclists and provide education about the importance of sharing the road.

It’s a reflection of the 37 percent increase in wealth of mostly homeowners from 2019 to 2022, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve. The average family's net worth jumped 37 percent between 2019 and 2022. That's the largest three-year increase since the Fed began conducting the survey more than three decades ago.

What are consumers thinking at the moment? Many have been discouraged from even looking for homes because of such high interest rates.

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Goleta Awarded Office of Traffic Safety Grant

In contrast, sentiment of the top tercile of property owners improved ten percent, reflecting the recent strengthening in equity markets.

ROP OFF BOXES FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA TOYS FOR TOTS can now be found in the lobby of the County Administration Building at 105 E. Anapamu Street and in the lobby of the Joseph Centeno Betteravia Government Administration Building at 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria. All toys collected through the Toys for Tots will be distributed to low-income needy children through the Unity Shoppe.

For more information go to www.toysfortots.org

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Landmark Climate Law Backed by Rep. Carbajal

ONGRESSMAN SALUD CARBAJAL has announced three new grants for energy efficiency upgrades at Central Coast businesses through the landmark climate law he helped create last year.

Awards totaling nearly $2,400,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Energy for America Program are funding projects in both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. These awards and others are part of $145 million announced this weeknthrough funding made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed by Carbajal and his colleagues in August 2022. Among recipients, The SEPV Cuyama Salud Carbajal Utility Scale Solar Photovoltaic and Battery Energy Storage Facility is receiving a $1,800,000 loan guarantee in Cuyama; Local Bounti in Carpinteria (NYSE: LOCL) is receiving $500,000 to cover upgrading lighting systems to energy efficient LEDS; and TVJ Sons TSLO, a San Luis Obispo auto dealership, is receiving $79,152 to help cover the cost of purchasing and installing an energy-efficient solar photovoltaic system.

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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing to introduce and subsequently adopt, by reading of title only, an Ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Barbara adopting Chapter 30.136 Community Health Center Specific Plan (SP11-CHC) Zone and a Resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Barbara amending the General Plan Map by changing the land use designation from Parks and Open Space to Office/Low Density Residential (five dwelling units per acre) for the property located at 3237 State Street, and make the findings that the project is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15061, 15301, and 15331, on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. Applicant / Owner: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP/Federal Government Application Number: PLN2022-00104 You are invited to attend this public hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office by sending them electronically to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov or by mail to P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. Public comment may be given in person at the meeting or remotely via Zoom. Members of the public who wish to give public comment remotely may do so by completing the Zoom registration at the following link: https://santabarbaraca-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6qBzhd1OQ_iNFgvfSw-R0Q. On Thursday, November 30, 2023, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, will be available at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 805-564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. (SEAL)

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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, during the afternoon session of the meeting, which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider the request of Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics located at 621 W. Micheltorena Street to be designated by the City Council as a Community Benefit Project pursuant to Santa Barbara Municipal Code Subsection 30.170.020. You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office by sending them electronically to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov or by mail to P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. Public comment may be given in person at the meeting or remotely via Zoom. Members of the public who wish to give public comment remotely may do so by completing the Zoom registration at the following link: https://santabarbaraca-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6qBzhd1OQ_iNFgvfSw-R0Q. On Thursday, November 30, 2023, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, will be available at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 805-564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in most cases. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. (SEAL) /s/ Naomi Kovacs Deputy City Clerk November 20, 2023

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UN Adopts Resolution on Addressing the Legacy of Nuclear Weapons

NEW RESOLUTION HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, entitled “Addressing the Legacy of Nuclear Weapons: Providing Victim Assistance and Environmental Remediation to Member States Affected by the Use or Testing of Nuclear Weapons.” The resolution was brought forward by the Republics of Kazakhstan and Kiribati, two states that have been devastatingly impacted by nuclear testing (by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom/United States, respectively). Forty-one other cosponsors from all continents around the globe joined Kazakhstan and Kiribati in expressing their enthusiastic support for the resolution, including Algeria, Austria, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, and many others. During the voting session, On Friday, October 27th, 171 states voted in favor of the resolution, with only four no votes (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom) and six abstentions (China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Israel, Pakistan, and the United States). For more information, visit www.wagingpeace.org

LEGAL NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 23CV04966. Petitioner: Ho Ting Lam filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Ho Ting Lam to proposed name Michael HoTing Lam. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/24/2024; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 3; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 11/20/2023 /s/: Tomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Legal #23CV04966 Pub Dates: November 24, December 1, 8, 15, 2023

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Granada Theatre Welcomes New Board Members

HE GRANADA THEATRE TEAM HAS EXPANDED WITH THE ADDITION of two exceptional women to their Board of Directors, Janet Garufis and Stephanie Nicks. With their passion for the arts and outstanding professional backgrounds they will be outstanding members.

Janet Garufis

With over 50 years in the banking industry, JANET GARUFIS began her career as a teller at Security Pacific Bank, now Bank of America, and climbed the ranks to lead the retail, commercial, and private banking divisions. Holding B.A. and M.A. degrees from California State University Northridge, she later pursued a Ph.D. at U.C. Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Her accolades include awards like Santa Barbara Woman of the Year (2017), and American Banker’s 25 Most Powerful Women to Watch (2015, 2017), to name a few.

STEPHANIE NICKS is a versatile professional with a rich background in print and film production, fashion, and marketing. She has made significant contributions to various organizations throughout her career, including serving on the Board of Trustees at Laguna Blanca School from 2011 to 2019, where her leadership skills helped rebrand the school’s marketing and attract new students and donors. As the Co-Owner and Executive Producer of Concrete+Clay LLC, she successfully produced films for fundraising projects, leveraging her expertise in film production to create impactful content.

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Eastside Neighborhood Park Reopens

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HE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT has reopened Eastside Neighborhood Park after the completion of several park improvements. The multi-phase project aims to expand recreational opportunities while creating a safe, attractive gathering space for the neighborhood. The Parks and Recreation Department also installed a new playground for children ages two to five, including Santa Barbara’s first public nest swing that allows parents and children to swing together. Various fitness equipment was added throughout the park, including parallel bars and stations for sit-ups, dips, chin-ups, push-ups, squats, and more for a free full-body workout. “Community collaboration has played a critical role in this project,” said the City’s Parks and Recreation Director, Jill Zachary. “This park is an important family gathering space for the neighborhood.” The Parks and Recreation Department plans to host a ribbon-cutting community event when all park improvements are complete in 2024.

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Director Alexander Payne’s New Film The Holdovers

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This being director Payne’s first film in over ten years, the movie is a strong comeback of sorts, featuring exquisite performances that are imbued with both sadness and humor. Payne excels in this kind of personal story, devoid of trappings such as special effects and violence. He seems to find the gentle aspects of his characters, normal but eccentric in amusing ways. This film reunites Payne with character actor Giamatti, whose performance is singularly nuanced.

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NE OF THE MORE TOUCHING AND HUMANISTIC FILMS of the year, director Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, is now playing in local theaters, just in time for the holiday season. Set at a prep school in New England, this snowbound heart-beat of a story looks at a particular troubled teen, the school chef, and a dysfunctional teacher stuck at the school for the Christmas break. The On hand for an onstage interview script cleverly hatches a solid tale, where with Roger Durling at the Riviera dissimilar people find a way to bond in Theatre, along the writer Hemingson, a meaningful way, and that changes the and welcomed with a sustained standing trajectory of their lives. The film could be ovation by the audience, Payne stated, “I considered a coming of age tale, echoing wanted to make a contemporary story set Peter Weir’s in the seventies, which made The Dead Poet’s the film more interesting. We Society and recorded sound on the sets, John Fowles’ and minimized re-recording 1958 novel A in a studio to the give the Separate Peace, scenes more immediacy. along with last What’s important to me years film from is casting, and working James Gray, with Paul Giamatti again, Armageddon Director Alexander Payne, Writer David since Sideways, which we Hemingson and Dominic Sessa Time, except did 20 years ago, was an that the dramatic events affect all the extraordinary thing.” main characters. In a conversation with VOICE, writer We get to meet an Hemingson intelligently foulsaid, “I mouthed sad soul of a grew up as classics teacher, Paul, a poor kid expertly realized by the attending a never-better than this prep school in actor Paul Giamatti Connecticut, (Sideways) who via so the the script and the characters performance dominates were based on the scenes. The other teachers I had, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Giamatti, and major characters in this Dominic Sessa in The Holdovers and things I triage include Mary, the heard from my head of the cafeteria, delightfully played Dad, who was also a teacher, with a blueby theatre and television actress Da’Vine collar lifestyle.” Joy Randolph (Only Murders in the Young actor Dominic Sessa, debuting Building) and newcomer Dominic Sessa so vividly in the film, mentioned, “It was as Angus, the young somewhat tortured a leap to go from theatre to performing in protagonist. film, and Paul (Giamatti) took me under The script is cleverly written by David his wing to teach great things to me on Hemingson, and shaped by Payne’s the set.” sensibility, with surprising dialogue that Watch for this film to make headway combines academic references mixed in end-of-season film awards. Already with foul-tempered explosions, deftly announced, the formidable Da’Vine Joy integrated into the dramatic fabric. There Randolph will receive the Virtuoso Award are also settings that capture the 70s time for her acting in this film, at the upcoming period vividly along with the amber low SBIFF festivities, scheduled for February key lighting. The film also shows the 10th, 2024. This film is one of the best characters drinking the hard stuff more stories offered thus far from 2023 and one than is reasonable, but it’s a perfect fit to of Payne’s most gripping tales in a long the devil-may-care period of East Coast career of character-driven subtle dramas indulgences. percolating with humorous dialogue. Robert F. Adams, Film Correspondent for VOICE, is a Santa Barbara landscape architect and a graduate of UCLA’s School of Theatre and Film, as well as Cal Poly. He has served on the film selection committees for the Aspen Film Fest and the SB International Film Festival. Email him at robert@earthknower.com

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH: The tiny Mesa bookstore in Santa Barbara has a one day sale, author signing, and special deals as low as two dollars under way today. It’s a one of a kind location on Cliff Drive between Taco Bell and the Cliff room. Great spot to get gifts and books by local authors.

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Unity Shoppe Bustling for the Holidays

Blowout! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH: The Unity Shoppe has 20 percent off this weekend at its thrift, gift and, furniture stores if you are ready to start your holiday shopping. All proceeds support the year round programs and thousands of Santa Barbara area residents in need.

Meet the MVP MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH: Big West MVP Alay Mitchell makes his season debut tonight in the Thunderdome. 7pm UCSB men’s vs. Le Moyne (New York).

Driving on State SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH: New striping and directional aids have gone down on the 1200 block of State St. to accommodate the drop off and pick up spot at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara. This block previously had no cars as part of the promenade temporary project. The one-way lane is also open the rest of the time too. Bike lanes are also marked. There is a stop sign mid block for cars (one way) and bikes (both directions). This was the first look on Saturday.

On This Day... MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH: It was 20-years ago today....Pop Singer Michael Jackson was arrested November 20, 2003 on suspicion of child molestation. He arrived at the Santa Barbara Airport from Las Vegas in a private jet. He was driven to the Santa Barbara County Jail and booked. The process took about an hour. He was released on $3 million bail. John Palminteri is a veteran news reporter and anchor for Newschannel 3-12 TV and both KJEE and KCLU radio in Santa Barbara/Santa Maria/Ventura. Off the air, he’s often bringing his smile and positive energy to the microphone at fundraisers and civic events. John’s social media presence has one of the largest followings in Santa Barbara, and this page has the weekly highlights. Twitter: @JohnPalminteri • Instagram: @JohnPalminteriNews • www.facebook.com/john.palminteri.5

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH: Mountain Air Sports has discounts up to 60 percent for their once a year blowout sale. 14 State St. Santa Barbara — the whole store – except for Electric bikes. Some of the discounts are inside balloons and they are popped at the register for a surprise.

Three Years!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH: Yona Redz at 532 State St. celebrates a three year anniversary with specials until 8pm. Yona started in a backyard during the pandemic and now has a full restaurant in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara. Specializing in birria.

Santa Barbara Assistance League Pop-up!

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH: The Santa Barbara Assistance League has a special pop-up sale underway. They assist about 16 different groups of all ages in the community with funds raised. They are located at 1259 Veronica Springs Rd. in Santa Barbara.

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Mediterranean Fan Palm Tree of the Month — November 2023

While it is not affected by serious insect or disease problems, it can be infested with common pests like mealybugs, mites, and scale; these can be treated with neem oil and insecticidal soaps. Mediterranean Fan Palms can be propagated from seed—or vegetatively, by removing pups at the base of the tree. If you want a clone of a named variety, you must use the pups from the cultivar. For seed propagation, lightly cover the seeds and keep them moist until germination— this can take several weeks to a month or more.

HE MEDITERRANEAN FAN PALM is extremely hardy, versatile, sustainable, and low maintenance, making it one of the most commonly cultivated palms in our community. It is always a stunning specimen, whether in a classic Mediterranean landscape, in raised planters, or in large containers. As a prized ornamental, it has earned the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

have genders — where male and female flowers only appear on separate palms.

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palm fertilizer applied in both the spring and the fall, following package instructions. Pruning can be limited to the removal of dead or discolored fronds and the removal of young root shoots (pups) as desired.

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After the Mediterranean Fan Palm female flowers are pollinated, the palm fruits develop in clumps of drupes (a drupe contains one seed inside a fleshy cover); each drupe is oval and ½- to one-inch long. The new fruit is green—turning to bright reddish-yellow—and then to dark brown, when ripe in September to November. Each fruit contains a dark brown, oval, ½-inch- long palm nut with a hard shell that contains inside a small round seed. Ripe fruits resemble a bunch of tasty grapes—but are not edible.

Very drought-tolerant, it can survive temperatures above 115 degrees F; it is also remarkably cold-tolerant and can sustain temperatures as low as ten degrees F. Consequently, it can be used in all the microclimates As its name implies, the Mediterranean Fan Palm flowers in Santa Barbara County, Mediterranean Fan Palm is from cold creek areas to hot native to the countries bordering the western foothills. It seems to tolerate all types of soils. Mediterranean Sea, including Portugal, Spain, This hardiness explains why it has been planted France, Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and extensively in our area since the mid- to lateMorocco. Being the only palm native to the 1800s. Its versatility is exhibited by its natural European mainland, its other common name is, shrub-like appearance bearing multiple trunks, not surprisingly, the “European Fan Palm.” which can be pruned to leave as many trunks as desired or reduced to a single trunk. It does have the distinction of being the most northernly naturally occurring of all palms — The Mediterranean Fan Palm is generally a and has been cultivated as far slow-growing palm. However, north as southern England and individuals can vary greatly in Vancouver, British Columbia. growth habit and color—some It is primarily found in coastal slow-growing with compact regions; however, the variety glaucous (bluish-gray) leaves— native to northern Africa, and others faster-growing with known as the “Atlas Mountain green leaves. At maturity, it Palm,” can be found growing reaches ten- to 20-feet in height. at elevations up to 6,000 feet in Its palmately compound Mediterranean Fan Palm fruit the Great Atlas Mountains of (fan shaped) fronds are rather Algeria and Morocco. stiff and can grow to four-feet-long and 2.5-feetThe botanical name for the Mediterranean wide. Each frond is deeply segmented, almost to Fan Palm is Chamaerops humilis. The the petiole (frond stem), into ten to 20 segments. genus name, Chamaerops, is derived from The petioles can be up to two-feet-long and a combination of the Greek words chamai, 1.5-inches-wide; these are well-armed, bearing meaning “dwarf”, and rhops, meaning “bush”. on their margins one-inch-long spines angled The specific epithet, humilis, comes from the outward toward the leaf blade. Fair warning: Latin word, humilitas, meaning “dwarf” or “low.” the spines are extremely sharp—extra care is required during pruning! The Mediterranean Fan Palm is the only species in the genus Chamaerops; however, From November to February, dense clusters there are several subspecies and cultivars of of small bright-yellow flowers emerge from the species. C. humilis var. argentea, native to within the foliage near the tops of the trunks. Northwest Africa, has leaves that are strongly Each flower cluster, called a “panicle,” is eightglaucous with a silvery-blue coating; C. humilis to 12-inches-long and can contain hundreds var. epondraes, native to Northwest Africa, of small three-lobed flowers. The flowers are has somewhat glaucous leaves; and C. humilis both wind-pollinated and insect-pollinated. var. humilis, native to Southwest Europe, has Like many other palms, the Mediterranean Fan green leaves. Palms are primarily “dioecious”—meaning they

From these varieties, many cultivars have been selected for their distinctive ornamental properties and growth habits. Three of the most popular are C. humilis ‘Nana’, selected for its slow compact growth habit; C. humilis ‘Vulcano’, selected for being compact and thornless with silvery leaves and a thicker growth habit; and C. humilis ‘Stella’, selected for its silvery-blue foliage. The Mediterranean Fan Palm is easy to grow and has few problems. It does best in full sun to partial shade. It is not particular regarding soil types—but prefers loam soil with good drainage. It can tolerate severe drought—but looks better with occasional deep watering during the dry season. It will grow better if given a slow-release

The Mediterranean Fan Palm has graced our community since its introduction here over 150 years ago—and is an integral and admired part of our landscapes. Its usefulness as a sustainable ornamental plant will certainly ensure its continued presence in our public parks, our streets, and our private gardens. Mature Mediterranean Fan Palms can be seen in East and West Alameda Parks; in Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden; at the County Administration building (on the Anapamu Street side); at the Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Center; at Leadbetter Beach; in the 800 to 1200 blocks of State Street; in the Santa Barbara Cemetery; in Storke Placita; on Coromar Drive in Goleta; and, on the UCSB campus. Tree-of-the-Month articles are sponsored by SB Beautiful, www.sbbeautiful.org

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Jodi House Raises Support For Brain Injury Survivors

By Ann Pieramici / Special to VOICE

AST MONTH, TWO HUNDRED COMMUNITY MEMBERS GATHERED ON THE ROOFTOP OF MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, to learn about Jodi House’s critical mission to empower brain injury survivors to thrive. “An Evening to Explore Jodi House,” an annual event raising awareness and funds for the brain injury support center, generated over $60,000 for the nonprofit. The evening highlighted the rehabilitation and support services that Jodi House provides brain injury survivors, serving nearly 200 community members in the past year alone. The organization offers resources, programs, and case management helping those with brain injuries recover to their fullest extent possible.

Board member Kerry Kelly and Board President Adriana Mezic

“It’s always a safe place at Jodi House, and there is no fear of judgment,” said Fiore. “Together, we celebrate the small steps that others might not recognize, but that mean so much to us.” Lindsey Black, Jodi House executive director, highlighted the vital role of Jodi Jodi House member Heather Fiore House in completing the continuum of care for brain injury survivors.

Mark Ashton Hunt and Sheela Hunt

Tara Zanecki and John Palminteri

“I think about our fellow community members out there who are experiencing brain injury and struggling with loneliness and isolation… and the decision to walk through our door is a brave and courageous act,” said Black. “Thank you all for making it possible for us to never have to turn anyone away from Jodi House because of the inability to pay.” Guests enjoyed wine and hors d’oeuvres while learning more about Jodi House from its members, staff, and Board. Live entertainment was provided by guitarist Chris Fossek. Jodi House Board President Adriana Mezic and Board member Kerry Kelly cochaired the event. Event emcee Cydney Justman, executive director of Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, led the crowd in a paddle raise, that helped generate $62,205 in support of Jodi House’s programs.

Jeff and Sharon Jordano

Donna and Jerry Wustman founded Jodi House in Santa Barbara in 1982 after their 19-year-old daughter Jodi suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury after being hit by a drunk driver. Jodi House provides rehabilitation and support services to brain injury survivors, regardless of the ability to pay. Its programs are supportive and community-based, consisting of structured activities that facilitate community reintegration.

Jolene L’Hote, Executive Director Lindsey Black, event emcee Cydney Justman, and Jessica Koval

Jodi House has proven effective in establishing independence for survivors, helping them obtain meaningful employment and volunteer opportunities, and supporting them as they and their families recover, reconnect, and move forward in our community. www.jodihouse.org

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“You can be vulnerable at Jodi House,” said Heather Fiore, who shared her personal story of suffering a brain aneurysm at the age of 24. Jodi House supported her throughout her recovery.

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A benefit art exhibition for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation A benefit art exhibition for the by the Abstract Art Collective Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation (TBCF), is a local nonprofit organization support for families battling childhood by theproviding Abstract Art Collective cancer along the central coast, is proud to annouce a major milestone it enters its 21st year of operation. the past Teddy BearasCancer Foundation (TBCF), is a local For nonprofit two decades,TBCF has support been a beacon of hope and childhood support for organization providing for families battling families facingthe thecentral terriblecoast, journey of childhood cancer. cancer along is proud to annouce a major milestone as it its 21st yearprovides of operation. For the The Abstract Artenters Collective (AAC) exhibition andpast two decades,TBCF has been beaconartists of hope educational opportunities for aabstract onand the support central for families the terrible of childhoodprovide cancer. a forum coast of facing California. Based injourney Santa Barbara,we

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CYPRESS GALLERY: Critters – Real And Imagined ~ Nov 26 • 119 E Cypress Av, Lompoc • Sat & Sun 1-4 • 805-737-1129 • www.lompocart. org ELIZABETH GORDON GALLERY: Emerging artists from around the country • 15 W Gutierrez • 805-963-1157 • Tu-Sat 11–5 • www.elizabethgordongallery.com EL PRESIDIO DE SANTA BÁRBARA: Nihonmachi Revisited; Memorias y Facturas • 123 E Canon Perdido St • Th-Sun 11-4 • www.sbthp.org

Evening Glow - Douglas Preserve Original Oil Painting by

Ralph Waterhouse Waterhouse Gallery La Arcada at State & Figueroa Santa Barbara, CA 93101 805-962-8885 www.waterhousegallery.com

10 WEST GALLERY: 2023 Holiday All-Member Exhibit ~ Jan 14 • 10 W Anapamu • Wed-Mon 11-5 • 805770-7711 • www.10westgallery.com ARCHITECTURAL FDN GALLERY: Kids Draw Architecture ~ November • 229 E Victoria • 805-965-6307 • www.afsb.org ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM: Sandy Rodriguez — Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance ~ Mar 3, ‘24; Please, Come In… ~ Dec17 • Sat-Sun 12-5 • www.museum.ucsb.edu

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kenji photography La Cumbre Center for Creative Arts www.peterandrews61.com Elevate Gallery • kenjiphotography.com ART FROM SCRAP GALLERY: 302 E Cota St • 805-884-0459 • www.exploreecology.org/art-from-scrap • We 11-4; Th 11-5; Fr, Sat 11-4 THE ARTS FUND: Celebrating 30 years of Arts Mentorships ~ Dec • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S Hope Av • Wed-Sun 11-5; www.artsfundsb.org • 805-233-3395

ELVERHØJ MUSEUM: Looking Back: Tokyo, Gibraltar, Berlin & Sperlonga: Paintings by Glen Rubsamen ~ Nov 18 • 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang • 805-686-1211 • Th-Mo 11-5 • www.elverhoj.org FAULKNER GALLERY: WEST: Jean Morrison Phillips; MAIN: Adaptation: Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild ~ Nov • 40 E Anapamu St • 805-962-7653 GALLERY 113: SB Art Assn • 1114 State St, #8, La Arcada Ct • 805-9656611 • Mo-Sa 11-5; Sun 1-5 • www.gallery113sb.com

RUTH ELLEN HOAG www.ruthellenhoag.com @ruthellenhoag 805-689-0858 ~inquire for studio classes~ LA CUMBRE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: Three Multi-Artist Galleries at La Cumbre Plaza - Elevate, Fine Line, and Illuminations Galleries • TuesSun noon-5 • www.lcccasb.com LEGACY ARTS SANTA BARBARA: SB Visual Artists Holiday Exhibit • Art, Music, Legacy • 1230 State St• www.CreateLegacyMusic.com LOMPOC LIBRARY GROSSMAN GALLERY: 501 E North Av, Lompoc • 805-588-3459. LYNDA FAIRLY CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: Small Town Big Appetite~ Nov 19 • Thu-Su 12-4 • 865 Linden Av • 805-684-7789 • www.carpinteriaartscenter.org

ATKINSON GALLERY: New Landscapes I ~ Dec 8 • M-Th 11-5; Fr 11-3 • http://gallery.sbcc.edu

GALLERY LOS OLIVOS: Britt Friedman and Gerry Winant - Points Of View”~ Nov 30 • Thu-Mo 10-5 • 805-688-7517 • www.gallerylosolivos.com

BELLA ROSA GALLERIES: 1103-A State St • 11-5 daily • 805-966-1707

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MAUNE CONTEMPORARY: Piscinas by Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo • 1309 State St • Tu-Su 11-5 & By appt • 805-8692524 • www.maune.com

CASA DE LA GUERRA: Haas Adobe Watercolors • $5/Free • 15 East De la Guerra St • Th-Sun 12-4 • www.sbthp.org/casadelaguerra

GOLETA VALLEY LIBRARY: 500 N. Fairview Ave • Tu-Thu: 10-7pm; Fri & Sa 10-5:30pm; Su 1-5pm • www.TheGoletaValleyArtAssociation.org

MOXI, THE WOLF MUSEUM: Exploration + Innovation • Daily 10-5 • 805-770-5000 • 125 State St • www.moxi.org

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MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA: Cameron Patricia Downey: Orchid Blues ~ Dec 23 • 653 Paseo Nuevo • www.mcasantabarbara.org

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Art Museum Goes Big with 675 Small Works By Scott Craig / Westmont

HE WESTMONT RIDLEY-TREE MUSEUM OF ART’S MOST POPULAR EXHIBITION and fundraiser returns to the campus November 30th to December 15th offering viewers an opportunity to see and bid on more than 675, small 5-inch-square works by regional, national, and international artists. The museum will host a free, public opening reception on Thursday, November 30th, from 4 to 6pm. All of the artwork in 5x5: Westmont College Celebrating 85 Years is available for purchase through an online auction that ends Friday, December 15th, at 5pm.

Boat Boyz, mixed media on paper by Ralph Corners

Well-known artists Chuck Arnoldi, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Tim Hawkinson, Billy Al Bengston, Lesley Dill, and Rae Dunn have submitted works. Local favorites John Nava, Wesley Anderegg, Bill Dewey, Dane Goodman, Marie Schoeff, Dug Uyesaka, Linda Ekstrom, Inga Guzyte, Mary Heebner, and Rafael Perea de la Cabada have also contributed. There are also works from Westmont faculty and alumni, including Tony Askew, Susan Savage, Alyssa Beccue, John Carlander, Alexa Goglanian, Nathan Huff, Scott Anderson, and Madeline Lush.

A Summer Favorite, gouache on crescent board by Daniel K. Tennant

Chris Rupp, curator and collections manager, started the 5x5 exhibition in 2011 as a friend-raiser and fundraiser held in conjunction with college or museum anniversaries every three to five years. Rupp said the exhibition has grown in popularity, and he receives inquiries about when the next one will be held from people throughout California. “It’s a great opportunity to see the creativity of hundreds of artists from across the country all in the gallery at once,” he shared. “It’s a visual feast for the eyes!” Judy L. Larson, Askew professor of art history and museum director, thanked Rupp and Ella Jennings, outreach and education coordinator, for their assistance mailing each artist a square of Rives BFK paper and then photographing and cataloging each piece that’s returned. “A huge thank you to those artists who have so generously taken the time to support arts education at Westmont by donating their wonderful creations again this year,” Larson concluded. The Crossing, polymer etching on paper by Don Zimmerman

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SB HISTORICAL MUSEUM: California Missions by Edwin Deakin ~ Feb 18, ‘24 • 136 E De la Guerra • Thu 12-5, Fri 12-7; Sat 12-5 • 805-966-1601 • www.sbhistorical.org SB MARITIME MUSEUM: The Chumash, Whaling, Commercial Diving, Surfing, Shipwrecks, First Order Fresnel Lens, and Santa Barbara Lighthouse Women Keepers ~ Ongoing • 113 Harbor Way, Ste 190 • Thu-Su 10-5 • 805-962-8404 • www.SBMM.org SB MUSEUM OF ART: Inside/ Outside ~ Feb 18, 2024; Shape, Ground, Shadow: The Photographs of Ellsworth Kelly ~ Jan 14; Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-andBird Painting ~ Jan 14; From Copper Plate to Collotype ~ Jan 14; Portrait of Mexico Today; Highlights of East

Find auction details, artist bios, and bidding instructions at www.westmont.edu/museum/5x5.

Asian Art - Ongoing • Tu-Su, 11-5; Thu, 11-8 • www.sbma.net • 805963-4364 SB MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Voyages of Discovery: Natural History Exploration ~ March 10; Mineral exhibition & Prehistoric Forest: Discover Dinosaurs in the Wild ~ ongoing • Wed-Sun 10-5 • 2559 Puesta del Sol • www.sbnature.org SANTA BARBARA SEA CENTER: Dive In: Our Changing Channel ~ Ongoing • Daily 10-5 • 805-6824711 • 211 Stearns Wharf • www.sbnature.org SANTA BARBARA TENNIS CLUB: Cannibal’s Redux ~ Nov 29 • 10-6 daily • 2375 Foothill Rd • 805-6824722 • www.2ndfridaysart.com SLICE OF LIGHT GALLERY: Earth & Space Fine Art Photography • 9 W Figueroa St • Mon-Fri 10-5 • 805354-5552 • www.sliceoflight.com SILO 118: Legacy: Tony Gwilliam and Dorothy Churchill Johnson ~ Nov 25 • 118 Gray St • Th-Sa 12-5/by appt • www.silo118.com

Art Events Eventos de Arte SB ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW • Local artists & artisans • 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd. • 10am-5pm Sun. CARPINTERIA CREATIVE ARTS • Shop locally made pottery, beach art, cards, jewelry, and sewn articles • 8th St & Linden Av • Free • 2:30 - 6pm Thu. CALL FOR ENTRIES: SANTA BARBARA CLAY NATIONAL 2024 - CALL FOR ENTRY •Deadline: Dec 20, 2023 Fee (USD): $30 entry fee • Juror Matt Mitros • Clay Studio Gallery • details: https://tinyurl.com/22wvfjk4 SULLIVAN GOSS: Susan Mcdonnell: Radiant Realm ~ Dec 2 • Fall Salon ~ Nov 27; Inga Guzyte: The Decks Were Stacked; Nathan Huff: Forest For The Trees ~ Dec 18 • 11 E Anapamu St • 805-730-1460 • www.sullivangoss.com

Gentle Obscure Tuesday Morning, watercolor and paint markers on paper by Alexa Goglanian

SUSAN QUINLAN DOLL & TEDDY BEAR MUSEUM: 122 W. Canon Perdido • Fr-Sa 11-4; Su-Th by appt • 805-687-4623 • www.quinlanmuseum.com SYV HISTORICAL MUSEUM & CARRIAGE HOUSE: Art Of The Western Saddle • 3596 Sagunto St, Santa Ynez • Sa, Su 12-4 • 805-6887889 • www.santaynezmuseum.org TAMSEN GALLERY: Work by Robert W. Firestone • 911.5 State St, 805705-2208 • www.tamsengallery.com UCSB LIBRARY: “Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA ~ June 21 • www.library.ucsb.edu VOICE GALLERY: Imaginings: Abstract Art Collective ~ Nov 30 • La Cumbre Plaza H-124 • 10-5:30 M-F; 1-5 Sa & Su • 805-965-6448 • www.voicesb.art WATERHOUSE GALLERY MONTECITO: Notable CA & National Artists • 1187 Coast Village Rd • 11-5 MonSun • 805-962-8885 • www.waterhousegallery.com

WATERHOUSE GALLERY SB: 39th Anniversary • Notable CA & National Artists • La Arcada Ct, 1114 State St, #9 • 11-5 Mon-Sat • 805-962-8885 • www.waterhousegallery.com WESTMONT RIDLEY-TREE MUSEUM OF ART: 5x5: Westmont College Celebrating 85 Years~ Nov 30-Dec 15 • 805-565-6162 • Mo-Fr 10-4; Sat 11-5 • www.westmont.edu/museum WILDLING MUSEUM: Message in a Bottle | Elizabeth Criss ~ February 24; CA National Parks: Stories of Water ~ Feb 19 • 1511 B Mission Dr, Solvang • www.wildlingmuseum.org ARTISTS: SEE YOUR WORK HERE!

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Holiday Lights A musical celebration with audience sing-along 3:00 pm Sunday, December 10, 2023 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Corner of East Valley & Hot Springs Roads, Montecito

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RFG Talk: Roman-Persian Relations: The Emperor Jovian and the Syriac “Julian Romance” NOV

27 MON

4:00 – 5:30 PM 6056 HSSB Learn more: bit.ly/Ancient-Borderlands-RFG

The Roman emperor Jovian (363-364) only ruled for eight months and has not received much attention in scholarship. However, he is more than a footnote in history. After the reign of Julian, he returned to the policies of Constantius II and Constantine the Great. His peace agreement with the Sassanid king Shapur II also had great impact for Roman-Persian relations. The first part of this presentation evaluates the peace agreement, the responses to it, and its long-term influence on the relationship between the Roman and Persian empire. Jovian had an unexpected afterlife in the so-called “Julian Romance,” a rarely studied text of

JAN WILLEM DRIJVERS University of Groningen

Christian historical fiction. This Christian narrative presents Jovian as an ideal Christian emperor and a new Constantine. It offers also surprising perspectives on Roman-Persian relations, which will discussed in the second part of the presentation. Cosponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group, California Consortium for Late Antiquity, and Department of History

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