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Music Academy ofVOICE the West Welcomes New Board of Directors Members
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A Conversation with Claudia Rankine: The SB Museum of Art will host critically-acclaimed author To learn more about the Music Academy of the West, visit www.musicacademy.org. and poet Claudia Rankine for a her major influences and I know he will virtual conversation “on the path to GAMBLE PARKS DOUVILLE has joined the Music Academy of the West’s Board of love her book. One of Ted’s best friends, understanding” • 2-3pm Sunday, Directors. A certified specialist in estate planning, trust & probate law by the California our own Dan Gerber, has this to say on the March 7th • Register (free) at Board of Legal Specialization, she is a shareholder at Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck back cover of Mother Lode—“Peg Quinn https://tinyurl.com/yaw5ajau law firm. An involved community member, Douville currently also serves on brings the Board the visual acuity of a fine painter of Directors for Cottage Health System and the Santa Ynez Family School. Having acted to the poems of her debut collection. Her as a Music Academy Board member in the past, she has also previously serveddepictions on the of life often elicit a familiar boards for Dog Adoption and & Welfare Group (DAWG), the Santa Barbara Center for a sense of wonder in our echo and Gamble Parks Douville By Richard Jarrette / Special to VOICE rueful “almost maybe” and because Performing Arts, and theaSanta Barbara Hospice Foundation. In thisthey new roleexperience on the of a world we look at everyday Claudia Rankine are artists try again, and again. And there Music Academy Board of Directors, she will be a part of the Governance, Audit, I bring the boys dark, juicy plums. andand most often don’t see. These are fine above Master Quinn Committees. lays it all right in Advancement/Marketing and Communications Something sweet for someone’s sons. poems from the very heart of things.” Like our arms—“an empty grasp” that thrills. – Peg Quinn Una conversación con Claudia Rankine: El Issa (1763-1828), one of the BRIDGET FOREMAN, CPA, has also joined the Music Academy of the West’sKobayashi Board This is her genius. Of herself she says, Museo de Arte SB acogerá a la poeta y autora of Directors. Upon being selected to the board, she expressed that she believes“four in theimmortals” of Japanese poetry, and “I’m ever-thankful for my childhood in OU CAN FEEL significance WAVES OF of the Music Academy’s many programs for our community as aJuan wholeRamon and Jiménez (1881-1958), Nobel aclamada por la crítica Claudia Rankine para rural Nebraska. I don’t remember having SPARKLING DELIGHT una conversación virtual “en el camino hacia la Prize for for individual artists. She currently works with Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf, LLP, where she Literature 1956, she manifests a toys, but a treehouse and a flowing from Santa comprensión” • 2-3pm, domingo profound empathy and tenderness toward has been a partner since 2009. Her specialties are closely held businesses and individual tire swing, fruit trees, a large Barbara—our own 7 de marzo • Regístrate (gratis) en the world. taxation for high net worth individuals. On the Music Academy’s Board of Directors, vegetable garden, a sandbox, Peg Quinn has a debut poetry https://tinyurl.com/yaw5ajau she will serve on the Alumni and Finance and Compeer Committees. Foreman holds her I watched you flirt with the girl and nearby woods where collection right off the press. I of arts degrees in German studies bachelor and business economics from theNesting UniversitySeason behind the counter, the only rule was, ‘Be home am not the only one whoofhas for Chris California, Santa Barbara. as she nervously refolded by sundown.’ We could fish, been collaring Bridget Forman Gunpowder In a nested dent of drain pipe perfectly-folded napkins. swim, endlessly explore the Press publishers David Starkey woods, and sled down the creek swaying above the library door and Chryss Yost for years to a wren is calling his mate— after poem, Quinn delivers banks in winter. I remember their neighbors – women, children, and families in Santa Poem Barbara, Goleta, andPeg Carpinteria,” reads publish this solidly good and the unsayable, the unreachable, right watching my family watching the Women’s Fund’s announcement. consistent presence. Master silent, waits, here, again andacross again—Mother Lode TV, their faces lit by the screen, Sinceshe 2004, the Women’s Fund has distributed close to $8 million over a hundred local poets and poet laureates are Peg Quin n toes curled onMarch, the edge (Gunpowder Press, 2021) and I’d take off for the woods. nonprofits. This the organization’s Research Committee will present a ballot of nonprofit unified in praise for Mother of the garden gate, to vote to award grant fundingwww.gunpowderpress.com. AVINGy besos RAISED ITS LARGEST POOL IN ITSit HISTORY, the Her own I’m guessing created a very programs for members to. Historically, the organization awards Lode—abrazos many. Years ANNUAL GRANTS before singing her reply. Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara will vote to award $750,000 among local nonprofits painting graces the cover, and blesses calming psychological foundation. grants between $50,000 to $100,000 and up to programs focused on food insecurity, homlessness, ago she won an essay contest through month.her Thea nonprofits selected grants will at be wind announced onrainstorms May 5th, at ain education, healthcare, and more. there. I never flinch driven Adult Ed next awarding scholarship with to receive When we met for lunch, virtualWriter’s Celebration of Grants. She California, having walked a mile to school For Santa Barbara Conference. more information on the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara, or join its team of volunteers, you smelled of pine. 2020, despite ongoing pandemic and economic challenges, Women’s members Still, visit in blizzards. There wereFund no options.” www.womensfundsb.org. Richard Jarrette is author of Beso the Donkey fell in“In with poetry master teacher Perie generously stepped up to create this record-breaking grants pool, recognizing the urgent needs of she chose a brave path by majoring in Art (2010), A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances Longo, SB Poet Laureate Emerita, who (2015), The Beatitudes of Ekaterina (2017), The at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, roused her already waking gift. Now this Pond (2019), and Strange Antlers (Fall 2021). where an elective poetry class with Greg is what Perie has to say printed straight Kuzma was the most memorable. out in Peg’s book—“Peg Quinn’s poems in Mother Lode are songs that pull you ‘like a Someone’s Sons sturdy hand toward the dance floor’ that The world has changed, and yet the Lobero is her life. They embrace the earthiness Glancing in his rearview mirror remains ready and available for the Santa Barbara of Nebraska fields where her childhood the foreman cracks a beer, floors his community when the time is right. is ‘planted,’ the holiness of nature where monster truck and roars away a barn is a ‘cathedral,’ the ocean a place leaving two illegal boys on their knees The Lobero has been a staple in our town during of ‘worship,’ and death in its sorrow or above my steaming driveway, horror, a ‘reckoning.’ She writes with a the good and the bad. Through two global filling cracks with bottled blacktop. grace and voice uniquely hers. I found pandemics, a historic earthquake and other myself bowing after each poem.” I bring them paper masks, simple natural disasters, the Lobero still stands. borders between toxic dust and Cautious Horses Eyed Us young, well-traveled lungs, hand them cans of coconut water. Great-Uncle Ed said if we could grab one of the carp Earlier, I’d read a message from my son, swimming in the horse tank rear-ended by a motorcycle last night down by the barn, UCSB MULTICULTURALIf you love the Lobero, can’t wait to return on the Hollywood Freeway, we could take it home. CENTER PRESENTS for live shows and care about its continued everyone pulled over, CUP OF first-responders there in minutes— role in our vibrant local arts community, now With sleeves rolled to our shoulders, CULTURE no one seriously injured. arms dangling in cold water, more than ever, support our historic stage SERIES bodies baking in the sun, by making a gift today. I bring the boys dark, juicy plums. cautious horses eyed us. Something sweet for someone’s sons. Text LOBERO to 41444 to make As we justified details of how a direct donation on your phone I’ve always thought of Peg as a kind the last one got away, of Grapes of Wrath character bearing Give online at an enormous, indifferent fish memory of a flour sack dress—one bare lobero.org/give-day eased up from the depths foot in a Nebraska barnyard and the other just out of reach. Share your favorite one on Santa Barbara shores washing it @loberotheatre memories from between her toes, flower and seagull We’d spring for the catch, on social media by adding When the Emperor mobilizes his troops to fight the onslaught of invaders from feather in her hair, holding John Keats’ brushing just a slip of life #LoberoGiveDay to your posts the North, a young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order Sonnets aloft above the waves. She’s a as it moved past, to take the place of her ailing father under the name Hua Jun,our setting her on an To uphold our weekly film Follow #LoberoGiveDay videos sophisticated educator, fine painter, and screenings and discussions, adventure that will transform her into a legendary warrior. 2 hrs, 2020 leaving us thrilled we will be transforming from Lobero Family and Friends terrific poet simpatico with Nebraska’s our cup of culture series by the feel of into a virtual setting. Every Ted Kooser who never quit his day job as an empty grasp. Wednesday, we will watch a documentary or movie an insurance underwriter, yet a Pulitzer Visit Lobero.org to see what’s on.and we will as a collective Prize winner and USA Poet Laureate have a post-film discussion Poetry is the say of the unsayable and Zoom Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/92939106309 afterwards. Emeritus. I do believe him to be one of great poets look at their great poems with
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