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SBPD Officers Receive the Guerry Award

HONORED FOR SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE, nine law enforcement officers in the Santa Barbara police department were awarded the H. Thomas Guerry Award on May 24th.

Officers who received the H. Thomas Guerry Award included: Officer M. Tonello and members of the Santa Barbara Police Department Community Action Team: Sgt. R. DeJohn; Sgt. C. Payne; Ofc. J. Duffy; Ofc. J. Hesketh; Ofc. K. King; Ofc. M . Renaud; Ofc. D. Reyes; and Ofc. T. Van Eyck

Officer Tonello was awarded for his excellent work in 2022, when he responded to the Olive Mill Road

History of the H. Thomas Guerry Awards:

On January 12, 1970, Detective H. Thomas Guerry was conducting an investigation and driving on Chapala Street. The detective noticed two wanted men walking in the area of Ortega Street and Bradbury Avenue. As he approached the intersection, the wanted men split apart from one another and began to walk back to each side of the front of the police vehicle. As the detective stepped from his vehicle, both wanted subjects opened fire with handguns, fatally wounding Detective Guerry. In memory of Tom, the Santa Barbara Citizens Council on Crime established the H. Thomas Guerry award. Each year, law enforcement officers from agencies in the County of Santa Barbara are honored for valor, skill in conflict resolution, and outstanding overall performance. Information courtesy of the California Peace Officers’ Memorial Foundation.

overcrossing of US 101 for a report of a suicidal male threatening to jump off the overpass. Officer Tonello arrived and began primary negotiation with the subject and immediately began to de-escalate the situation and establish rapport. Over the next two hours Officer Tonello patiently negotiated with the subject and eventually convinced him to receive treatment at Cottage Hospital. The peaceful resolution to this challenging situation was due to the tireless commitment of Officer Tonello.

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The other officers receiving the H. Thomas Guerry Award are members of the Community Action Team (CAT). The SBPD, in response to the need to partner with communities to build meaningful relationships, created CAT. Their skilled approach as a knowledgeable team has supported the ever-changing and complex needs of the city’s most vulnerable community members.

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June 1 - June 29

Receptions: Thursdays

June 1st & June 29th; 5-8pm

Paintings, Photography & Sculptures by Santa Barbara local artists:

• Karin Aggeler

• Sophia Beccue

• Pamela Benham

• Cody Cammbell

• Denise Carey

• Merith Cosden

• Jillian Critelli

• Lee Anne Dollison

• Thore Edgren

• Tricia Evenson

• Mary Freericks

• Piri Friedman

• Karen Frishman

• Bay Hallowell

• Barbara Cronin Hershberg

• Ruth Ellen Hoag

• Carolyn Hubbs

• Holly Hungett

• Mary Ince

• Pamela Kaganoff

• Janice Lober

• Martha Inman Lorch

• Laurie MacMillan

• Cynthia Martin

• A. Michael Marzolla

• Patrick McGinnis

• Jo Merit

• Eve Mero

• Anette Power

• Manuel Reyes-Otalora

• Sarah Reynolds

• Joan Rosenberg-Dent

• Andrea Roy

• Nurit Ruckenstein

• Eric Saint Georges

• Kathi Scarminach

• Mary Kolada Scott

• Marlise Senzamici

• Ashley Shellhause

• Kerrie Smith

• Marlene Struss

• Carol Talley

• Wanda Venturelli

• Iben Vestergaard

• Susan Vodonick

• Lawrene Wallin

• Ken Weintrub

• Elaine Wilson

• Joyce Wilson

• Sara Yerkes

• Karen Zazon

Juried by Jane Callister, Professor of Art UCSB, Contemporary Artist

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10-5:30; Saturday & Sunday

“Solar Kiss” by Eric Saint Georges

Santa Barbara Meals On Wheels Recognizes Volunteer Drivers

CELEBRATING VOLUNTEER DRIVERS, Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels held their annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on May 10th at the Santa Barbara Carriage and Western Art Museum.

“I drive and Terry jumps out to make the deliveries,” said Joyce Fernandez, whose husband began joining her on their 90-minute route when he retired in 2014. The couple always brings their dog along for the ride, and until recently, they covered two routes. “We really believe in volunteering in our community.”

Sherry LaFerriere received an award for her 25 years of service, and Joyce and Terry Fernandez – who cover a route together – were honored for 15 years of delivering meals throughout Santa Barbara. There were three drivers who have driven for a decade, and five who have reached the five-year mark.

With a team of drivers covering weekly routes, Meals on Wheels delivers hot meals seven days a week. Seniors and homebound individuals receive affordable, nutritious food, and the service helps them stay healthy, independent, and exactly where they want to be – in their homes. Many clients look forward to visits from volunteers who have made personal

Student Sports Exams Offered by Cottage Urgent Care

SUMMER ACTIVITIES AND SPORTS EXAMS will be offered by Cottage Urgent Care at a discounted rate of $35 this summer. The offer for preparticipation physical examinations for students begins immediately and is available at all Cottage Urgent Care locations.

During the exam, a board-certified advanced practice provider, either a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, will assess the student’s overall health, evaluate fitness levels, and address any recent health changes and concerns. In California, students who plan to engage in sports or summer activities, such as camp, must undergo physical examination.

While appointments are highly encouraged, walk-ins are also welcome. Cottage Urgent Care locations are open from 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year. To schedule an appointment, visit cottagehealth.org/urgentcare.

First-Ever Pride Comedy Festival to Support Summer Solstice

LAUGHTER IS A LANGUAGE EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND. This Pride Month, prepare for four nights of comedy, positivity, and inclusivity when Luis Moro Productions hosts the first-ever Pride Comedy Festival to celebrate the LGBTQ+ Ally community. Taking place June 1st, 7th, 8th, and 9th, the festival will take place at the Red Piano’s VIP Backstage Comedy Club. Festival proceeds will benefit Santa Barbara’s Summer Solstice parade.

“Our Pride Comedy Festival provides a chance for everyone to come together and ‘Live, Love, and Laugh’, regardless of their expressions in life,” said Luis Moro, founder, and producer of the festival. “I am committed to expanding joy through laughter in our communities. Let’s all help eliminate bias through laughter. I invite everyone to embrace our differences through comedy.”

Festival headliners include regional comedians Julian Michael, Jackie Monahan, and Mattio Martinez. Emcee hosts will include Amanda Michelle, Craig Applebaum, Suwon Weaver, and Courtney Rainwater, with all guests invited to attend each night’s after-party with live music in the main Red Piano bar.

Additional hilarious talent includes Tru Nguyen, Billy McCartney, Clent Bowers, Courtney Rainwater, Denise Winkelman, Emily Kirk, Hannah Rose, Lyz Tory Pryce, Mary Huth, Quan Darius Padilla, Jeremy Pace, Riley Jane, Ashley Blom, Spacee Cadet, Turtle Enigmatic, Paco Samora, and more. Audio-Visual Services are contributed by Joseph Souza Productions.

To purchase tickets ($50-$75 VIP) visit www.PrideComedyFest.com

connections with the people on their routes.

“We’ve never missed a day since Meals on Wheels began in 1971, and that’s because our volunteers are so dedicated,” said Dan Kronstadt, Co-President of the nonprofit’s Board of Directors. “They really care about their clients, and today, over 200 clients receive meals freshly prepared by Valle Verde retirement community, our partner for the past 35 years.”

“We don’t receive federal funding but do rely on grants, donations, and the willingness of volunteers to play an active role in daily operations,” said Board Co-President Scott Reid. “We have just two part-time employees, and our board members and volunteers do the rest, from interviewing new clients and delivering food to writing grants and working with our partners at Valle Verde.”

To learn more about receiving meals, becoming a volunteer or making a donation to Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels, call (805) 683-1565 or visit www.mealsonwheelssb.org.

Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels is a nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of seniors and homebound individuals in Santa Barbara.

Solvang Amber & Viking Museum to Debut New Viking Ship Exhibit

VOYAGE THROUGH TIME to learn about Viking history and remarkable craftsmanship when the Solvang Amber & Viking Museum reveals an exciting addition on Thursday, June 8th. The home of the nation’s largest museum collection of archaeological Viking artifacts, the Solvang Amber & Viking Museum will now include the Viking ship Snorri, named after Snorri Thorfinnsson, supposedly the first Viking and European born in North America.

The replica ship was built almost exclusively by hand and with axes in order to maintain authenticity to how Vikings would have built ships over a thousand years ago. It was built at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, and is a replica of a ship found onboard the larger, 9thcentury Gokstad Viking ship in Norway.

The ship will join the museum’s authentic Viking swords, spearheads, jewelry, and coins, as well as burial urns from approximately 0-400 A.D., around the time of legendary Danish King Heremod of Beowulf lore. “Killed weapons” from Viking burials are also on display.

“The Viking ship and the archeological artifacts which we’ve been able to secure for the Solvang Amber and Viking Museum are truly unique to this Danish-settled town – which is in and of itself, unique,” said René Gross Kærskov, owner of the Solvang Amber & Viking Museum at The Copenhagen House. “Our Viking history is ingrained in Danish culture, and this enhanced exhibit gives us an avenue for educating visitors about our storied past.” www.TheCopenhagenHouse.com

The replica Viking ship Snorri joins the collection

SB Botanic Garden and CA Native Plant Society Discover Only Known Population of Rare Plant

AN EXCITING LOCAL DISCOVERY has resulted in the capturing of the only photos of living Santa Ynez groundstar plants. Found earlier this month by the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the native plant species had not been documented in close to 30 years. Yet thanks to the hard work of local and state botanists, the plant’s only known population has been discovered on Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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“It was a true joy to find and observe the Santa Ynez groundstar in nature,” said Dr. Matt Guilliams, the Botanic Garden’s Ken & Shirley Tucker Systematist and Clifton Smith Herbarium Curator. “The plants are quite small and easily go unnoticed most of the year. We look forward to continuing to search for new populations of this rare plant so we can study and learn more about its role in nature and how best to protect it.”

IN A CEREMONY AT THE COURTHOUSE SUNKEN GARDENS, annual awards honoring and recognizing scholarship recipients were presented by the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara and their partner, the Santa Barbara Foundation, on May 24th.

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Scholarship Foundation Board Chair Matt Rowe and Santa Barbara Foundation Board Chair Steve Hicks were the featured speakers at the ceremony. More than 500 people attended, including students, parents, educators, and community leaders.

Prior to this find, the Santa Ynez groundstar (Ancistrocarphus keilii, CRPR 1B.1) was known only from very old records and one or two occurrences. It was originally described as a new species in 2004 from analysis of dried specimens. By piecing together details from these dated documentations, a team comprised of CNPS and Botanic Garden scientists were able to obtain permits to search areas on Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) where the plant was recorded having existed.

This year the Scholarship Foundation will award college and vocational scholarships totaling nearly $7.2 million to 1,864 students throughout Santa Barbara County.

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Project collaborators included Dr. Guilliams; CNPS Rare Plant Program Manager Kristen Nelson; Botanic Garden Rare Plant Techs Sean Carson and Kevin Mason; and Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands Lead Botanist Dr. Sarah DeGroot. The search was coordinated with VSFB Botanist Luanne Lum, with location information being provided by Botanic Garden research associate Dr. Dieter Wilken, who was previously the only person to have seen the Santa Ynez groundstar since it was recognized as a distinct species.

According to a report by NatureServe, 34 percent of plants across the United States are at risk for extinction, with California plants facing the most risk. By working to update plant occurrence data, scientists can better understand the status of various species and improve conservation efforts.

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Neighborhood Restorative Justice Program Seeking Volunteers

IN MAY 2021, the District Attorney’s Office, in partnership with the Second District Supervisor’s Office, implemented a Neighborhood Restorative Justice (NRJP) pilot program. This pilot program served firsttime offenders in the City of Goleta.

The NRJP is a community-driven, pre-filing diversion program designed to divert low-level misdemeanor offenses from entering into the criminal justice system. Offenders in this program are given an opportunity to take responsibility and repair some of the harm they caused through a community-based process using restorative justice principles instead of a courtroom. The NRJP addresses criminal violations that impact the quality of life in the community.

According to Santa Barbara County District Attorney John T. Savrnoch, the Neighborhood Restorative Justice Program will program will be expanding countywide beginning in July 2023. Community panelists and facilitators who will be trained in restorative justice principles and participate in leading restorative justice proceedings (conferences) are being solicited. The facilitators will be trained in leading the conferences and guide participants through a step-by-step restorative process. The panelists play a supportive role in representing the community’s needs, interests and perspectives concerning the crime(s) committed.

To become a volunteer facilitator or panelist: Complete the application and a Live-Scan fingerprinting and criminal record check (Immigrant status is irrelevant and will not be checked.) Volunteers must have no recent felonies or misdemeanors, complete volunteer facilitator and panelist training, and make a two-year time commitment. Bilingual/bicultural Spanish/English volunteers are highly encouraged. For more info and to apply, visit https://da.countyofsb.org or email the program at sbdaneighborhoodrjp@countyofsb.org.

Savie Health Welcomes New Board Members

AFREE MEDICAL CLINIC IN LOMPOC for people who are uninsured, called Savie Health, is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to the organization’s board.

YASMIN DAWSON, a renowned community organizer, is the co-founder and president of Collective Cultures Creating Change (C4). She is a recipient of the Valley of the Flowers Peace Prize for her role as organizer of the March for Marlon in 2019 in honor of Marlon Brumfield, a U.S. Army soldier shot and killed while visiting home in Lompoc. Dawson is also president of the Islamic Center of Lompoc and a member of both the Santa Maria/Lompoc Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the local Democratic Club. She received the Santa Barbara County Action Network’s North County “Looking Forward” award in 2021, and previously served as a volunteer for the North County Rape Crisis Center.

MICHAEL DIXON is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and manager of the Behavioral Health Program at Lompoc Health — North H Center. He previously worked in Lompoc Valley Medical Center’s Case Management Department. Dixon has extensive experience working with patients in crisis, having worked on the Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness’ crisis team from 2014 to 2021. Dixon holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Oswego State University in New York, and a Master of Social Work from the University at Albany.

Dawson and Dixon join Savie Health’s seven-member Board of Directors. The board provides guidance and oversight of the clinic’s operations and finances, as required under its nonprofit status.

Savie Health provides free medical, behavioral health, dental, and vision care to uninsured adults in Santa Barbara County. Located at 1111 E. Ocean Ave. Suite 2, Lompoc, CA 93436 find them online at www.saviehealth.org or reach them at 805-743-4776. Hablamos Español.

Highway 154 Safety Committee Scheduled to Meet

THE SAFETY COMMITTEE FOR HYWAY 154 will meet to discuss the latest traffic safety and improvement efforts with a specific focus on the Los Olivos community, at the Solvang Memorial Veterans’ Building on June 14th at 5:30pm.

“Highway 154 sees tens of thousands of commuter and tourist vehicles daily, and the safety of our highways and the impact on local communities is very important,” said the Chair of the State Route 154 Safety Committee Joan Hartmann, SBCAG director. “The public is invited to meet with several transportation and safety officials on June 14th to share concerns and learn about updates and safety

Miles for Moms 5K Draws Over 550 Participants and Raises $100,000 to Benefit Patient Care at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital

IN A DISPLAY OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND CELEBRATION OF MOTHERS EVERYWHERE, the 4th annual Miles for Moms 5K run/walk drew 550 participants on the eve of Mother’s Day. The event paid tribute to mothers and raised $100,000 to benefit Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital. Funds from the event will advance patient care at GVCH through investments in state-of-the-art equipment and technology. As a not-for-profit hospital, GVCH relies on community support to enhance its state-of-the-art healthcare facility.

In addition to the 5K run/walk, participants enjoyed a prerun warm-up, informational booths with valuable health and wellness resources, gifts for all moms, and a fun run for kids.

The event’s success was made possible by the Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation and the generous contributions of sponsors and all participants. Their generosity has not only helped meet fundraising goals but has also demonstrated their commitment to the well-being of the community. Event sponsors include Yardi, Prowest Constructors, Sonrei, Cox Communications, SCEMG and Joan E. Bennett.

Founded in 1966, the not-for-profit GVCH is licensed for 48-bed acute care beds, admits 1,700 patients a year and receives 24,000 emergency room visits. Since 1966, the hospital has provided exceptional healthcare services, including 24/7 emergency care. It is recognized for its Breast Imaging Center, the Ridley-Tree Center for Wound Management and the Center for Orthopedics.

For more information about the services offered at GVCH or to make a contribution, visit www.cottagehealth.org

improvements on the state highway.”

Representatives from Caltrans, California Highway Patrol, County of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, Senator Monique Limón, Assemblymember Gregg Hart, and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians will be present at the meeting to provide updates, answer questions, and address concerns.

State Route 154 is a California state highway that runs between U.S. 101 in Santa Barbara through the San Marcos Pass, Los Padres National Forest, Santa Ynez Valley, and Los Olivos, and State Route 246.

SBCAG Board of Directors formed the committee in 2019 to convene public agencies to address safetyrelated concerns among committee members and the public.

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The rich ambiguity of Tár, and why director Todd Field wouldn’t have it any other way

By Tom Jacobs

The UC Santa Barbara Current

EW CONTEMPORARY FILMS have been dissected as thoroughly, and debated as vigorously, as Tár. The Oscar-nominated 2022 drama, which traces the downfall of a brilliant, world-famous, emotionally abusive orchestra conductor, stubbornly refuses to judge its central character.

Is she a predator who finally gets caught, or an unfair victim of cancel culture? Is her fate at film’s end a deserved punishment, or a moment of grace and renewal? And are all the strange plot twists actually happening, or products of her increasingly unhinged mind?

Don’t expect director Todd Field to provide any answers when he engages in a Q&A with Tyler Morgenstern, assistant director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, Saturday, June 3rd, at UC Santa Barbara’s Pollock Theater. He politely declines all invitations to interpret his work.

But do expect a lively discussion following the 2pm screening of the critically acclaimed film. Tár (the title is an anagram for art) is a great catalyst for conversation.

“The centerpiece of the film is the incredible performance by Cate Blanchett in the title role. I’m interested in how they worked together to create this character who feels so complete that, for a long time, people were convinced she was a real person, and this was a biopic of some kind,” Morgenstern said. “I’m also interested in this question of the persistence of the Global South in the film, and how it might change the way we think about abuse and exploitation. If we take this story of workplace abuse in the Global North and place it in a larger geopolitical frame, as I think Field is inviting us to do, it opens up wider questions about the nature of abuse, where it resides and how it plays out across different scales and intensities.”

To emphasize that easily overlooked part of her origin story, Morgenstern (with the help of UCSB’s Christian Thomas) has arranged to display a photograph created for the film in the theater’s lobby during the event. Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, it features Blanchett in character, her face decorated with ceremonial markings suggestive of her time as a researcher in the Amazon.

The photo can be seen, fleetingly, in the film; it hangs on the wall of the second apartment she keeps as a work space. As a keepsake, it suggests Tár’s time in the rainforest played an important part of her life. More subtly, it raises a potential link between her abusive behavior in Berlin and the histories of exploitation that link the Global North and Global South. “We’re going to dive into that angle at the event,” Morgenstern said.

Global geopolitics aside, “putting the credits right up front basically forces us to recognize the amount of labor that goes into the making of a film,” Morgenstern said. “We then see a film about the kinds of abuse and exploitation that are enabled when one particularly powerful person comes to believe she has earned all of this through sheer individual merit — not through the support and contribution of others. That’s a pretty strong statement!”

“Why do we feel compelled to dominate and rank those within our sphere of influence? What does the animal part of us gain by contaminating our better angels? The film revolves around hierarchy and how it corrupts any and all human beings involved with building and supporting the scaffolding of that structure.” — Todd Field

Field said. “(It’s) something we hear about, or experience first-hand from an early age. As Marin Alsop rightly points out, this is a narrative fact, but also a real obstacle if you want to examine the corrupting influence of power itself.”

Tár will be screened at 2 pm Saturday, June 3rd in the Pollock Theater on the UC Santa Barbara campus. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended.

For more information, go to www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/big-screen-tar/

The fact Field made Tár a woman has been widely criticized. Conductor Marin Alsop called it a travesty to tar (as it were) female conductors in this way, when men are far more likely to engage in this sort of abusive behavior. Morgenstern said he understands the criticism, but also gets why Field made that counterintuitive choice.

“Why do we feel compelled to dominate and rank those within our sphere of influence?” he continued. “What does the animal part of us gain by contaminating our better angels? The film revolves around hierarchy and how it corrupts any and all human beings involved with building and supporting the scaffolding of that structure.”

“I don’t think it sneers at the fact that vibrant music cultures have grown up around the video-game industry, so I don’t think the film sees her working at that space as simple debasement. But I’m also not convinced that it redeems her in any real way. That would send the film down the Eat Pray Love path, where the Global South becomes a place of redemption for a troubled white person.”

If you saw the film but missed that particular thematic thread, join the club: It is largely absent from the voluminous online commentary and analysis. But Morgenstern argues it is in the film from literally beginning to end.

Disconcertingly, the movie opens with a quite lengthy title sequence. While name after name flashes onto the screen, the soundtrack features audio of a young, pre-fame-andfortune Tár doing ethnomusicological research in the Amazon rain forest.

“Having a male in the lead role would lead more people to see it exclusively as a #Metoo movie, which really localizes its analysis of power within a specific cultural context and historical moment,” he said. “By sidestepping that, he opens up a larger set of questions. I think it makes for a more interesting film. Elite institutions position and incentivize people to abuse their power in all kinds of ways. One’s particular identity does not necessarily guarantee insulation from those enticements.”

That’s exactly right, Field told the Current “We all know, or should know, how we feel about the men who hold and abuse power,”

In the film’s final scenes (spoiler alert!), Tár is back in the Global South — specifically somewhere in Southeast Asia, where, having lost her prestigious European position, she is conducting a young orchestra in a video-game score. Some commentators see this as her ultimate humiliation; others point to it as the delayed fulfillment of a piece of wisdom she once received from Leonard Bernstein, that the sole purpose of making music is for other people’s enjoyment.

“I have not been able to come down on either side of that debate, partly because I think both sides require of the film certain things that it does not seem interested in doing,” Morgenstern said.

Rather, in his view, “It puts her in a position where she, as a kind of avatar for Western cultural authority, is dislodged from her very sealed world, and suddenly finds herself among a totally new set of cultural poles. I think that’s more of a question about the shifting ground of cultural power than it is a final statement about Tár herself.”

Of course, there is no right or wrong answer, to this or any of the other questions the film poses. The debate continues, which is terrific as far as Field is concerned. “The level of engagement, and sense of agency and ownership from the individual viewer is thrilling,” he said.

Morgenstern fully agrees. “One of my biggest pet peeves is when movies overexplain,” he said. “I admire films that allow for ambiguity.” Printed

Photo Credit “Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.

Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.

Tyler Morgenstern is the associate director of UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center. He previously worked for the center as a graduate student researcher in 2020 and 2021. Tyler holds a Ph.D. in film and media studies from UC Santa Barbara and is a former doctoral fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The Adderly School Celebrates 30 Years

By Robert F. Adams Special to VOICE

WILDLY ENTERTAINING EVENING

PULLED IN ENTHUSED

SUPPORTERS

as the Adderly School for the Performing Arts celebrated their 30th Anniversary on Saturday, May 27th at the Lobero Theatre. The remarkable evening showcased the dedication of both the faculty and school attendees and their commitment to the culture and creativity of American musical theatre, past and present.

Special guests included rockstar Kenny Loggins who, in a jam-packed, happy take on Loggin’s own Footloose, was accompanied by dozens of current Adderly School students. Other key attendees included the accomplished Tony awardwinning stage, film, and television producer Debra Martin

Chase (A Strange Loop, The Princess Diaries), and the founder of the school, actress Janet Adderly (Starlight Express). Other special guests included alums filmmaker John Alexander, actress Marissa Reyes, Tonywinning actor Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen), and Jack Dylan Grazer.

Happy to be there to greet the wellwishers, proud parents, and current and former students, the evening illustrated the success of Ms. Adderly's performing arts programs for kids and their positive impact on a young generation of performers.

“Providing world class performance and training opportunities for students with live musicians, professional sets, and exceptional guest Broadway directors and choreographers is an essential component of what Adderly has to offer children,” Adderly noted. “Our mission to expand our outreach to underresourced children is my most fervent focus.”

The witty emcee for the evening, actor and entertainment personality James Corden, opened the program, followed by Adderly students and guest performers. On stage the first impressive act included songs from Pippin, Oliver (forcefully sung by Maile Kai Merrick), Into the Woods, Grease, The Music Man (Trouble); climaxing with Footloose featuring Loggins and company. Act II offered songs from Cabaret, Chicago, Legally Blonde, West Side Story, My Name is Alice,  Les Misérables, and You Can’t Stop the Beat from Hairspray as the finale. Performers

included students from the Pacific Palisades branch, Santa Barbara, Austin, New Orleans and Connecticut, key places of Adderly’s reach across the country and a successful indicator of their widespread efforts. Commitment and energy were on full display as well as the polish and bravery of these young and budding performers in every chapter of the night’s musical scenes. The students were treated to multiple standing ovations for their professional displays of dancing and singing.

Sponsors included the school’s non-profit arm, The Adderly School Foundation, (TASF) which was established to expand access to the school in regard to their focus on after-school musical theater enrichment programs. Also on board were Stephen Sherill, The Shulte Family Foundation, Beverly Dale, Homer Montecito, and Laurie Robinson Hayden. Wines, for the adults, were provided by Babcock Winery and Vineyards, as well as the key players from Juice Consulting, a public relations firm from Austin, Texas. The pre-performance celebration was held at Intermezzo and the post-party behind the Lobero under the green festivity tent. www.theadderleyschool.org

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

Actress and School Founder Janet Adderly

Producer Debra Martin Chase

Burton Mound Landmark Plaque Stolen

Remembering Milt Larsen

By John Palminteri

MONDAY, MAY 29TH: Remembering

Milt Larsen, founder of the Magic Castle in Hollywood and Magic Castle Cabaret in Santa Barbara as he passes at the age of 92. He brought smiles to so many faces, and always had a witty line or that swizzle stick

trick ready to go from his pocket. With his wife, Arlene, when they invited you over to the shows or the house, it was always an amazing night to remember. He was part of some of the best entertainment we enjoyed with his writing, work on game shows, and drive to bring the art of magic to us in person.

Downtown Business Changes

By John Palminteri

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31ST: Fresco Cafe in downtown Santa Barbara has closed. The location at 23 East Canon Perdido opened last fall after the owner said rising rents at the Five Points location forced the move to downtown. Fresco Cafe first opened 28 years ago.

“We remain very grateful for the opportunity to serve Santa Barbara for these many years,” reads a statement posted on Fresco Cafe’s door. “We have been fortunate to work with the best group of people anyone could hope for. We ask that you continue to support small businesses here in Santa Barbara, as they are the center of the community that connects all of us.”

By John Palminteri

TUESDAY, MAY 30TH: Stolen! The Santa Barbara City Parks department confirms the Burton Mound plaque at Ambassador Park has been stolen. It is California Historic Landmark No. 306. The site has very deep Syujtun tribal ancestry. Cabrillo first noted the location on his voyage in 1592. Park Rangers and police are investigating. For more, visit https://tinyurl.com/4vfb45va

I Madonnari Brings Artistic Fun to Old Mission Santa Barbara

By John Palminteri

SUNDAY, MAY 28TH: Beautiful chalk art creations are coming to life at the Santa Barbara Mission for I Madonnari. It supports the Children’s Creative Project that provides art experiences in the county schools. The street painting festival also included vendors selling Italian food and a line-up of live music.

To learn more about the Children’s Creative Project, visit https://ccp.sbceo.org

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31ST: US Bank has officially taken over Union Bank. The signs were revealed this week at all of the branches including these in Santa Barbara. It was a reported $8-billion deal. Union Bank has branches primarily in West Coast states.

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.

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Music Academy The Magic of Miraflores

Elegant Gala to Launch Summer Festival

By Daisy Scott / VOICE

PIANO, OPERA, AND THE CLINK OF COCKTAIL

GLASSES will sweep Music Academy gardens once again when its annual benefit gala kicks off this summer’s festival. The Magic of Miraflores, the June 3rd affair will present music aficionados the opportunity to mingle with Academy teaching artists and alumni before enjoying a star-studded concert by Metropolitan Opera star Michelle Bradley and the Sing! children’s choir.

“It’s warm, it’s welcoming — it was a place for me to grow and discover myself,” said soprano Michelle Bradley of her time as a Music Academy fellow. “It really was a life changing experience, one of the best summers of my life.”

Saturday’s gala, which is co-chaired by Mindy Budgor, Belle Hahn, and Lily Hahn, serves as a benefit for the Music Academy’s full scholarship program as well as its Sing! children’s choir programming.

“This year’s three dynamic cochairs represent the next generation of volunteer and philanthropic leadership for their respective families who have done so much for the Academy and the Santa Barbara community,” said Music Academy President and CEO Scott Reed. “We are the fortunate beneficiaries of their creativity, energy, and generosity.

Currently, 137 fellows from around the world are preparing to spend the summer in Montecito fine-tuning their musical skills with the Academy’s critically-acclaimed teaching artists.

Bradley, who participated in the 2014 Summer Festival, reminisced with VOICE Magazine about her time singing the third act of Verdi’s Aida at the Academy. She shared that the experience helped her realize her knack for acting — a talent that has proved her well on the Metropolitan Opera and Fort Worth Opera stages, where she recently starred in Aida’s title role.

She emphasized the Academy’s value as an institution that prepares fellows for a career in classical music today.

“I can speak as a professional a lot of opera houses are moving toward the contemporary and being innovative,” commented Bradley. “I think that the Music Academy will prepare students for this new opera era that we’re in, and of course, prepare them for the traditional as well.”

The Sing! children’s choir is a free program for first through sixth grade students in Santa Barbara County. Participating students have the opportunity to explore a range of cultures and historical periods through

Wagner, Verdi, and In the Wand of the Wind by Lee Hoiby. She will be joined by the Sing! children’s choir for a moving performance of We are the World

“We are the World incorporates what we need right now in the times that we’re in. Everyone seems so divided, and we can’t seem to work together when we absolutely can,” said Bradley. “I think this song will bring that forth, that we can be together no matter what our backgrounds are.”

Bradley added that she knew she had to sing We Are the World with the Sing! children after she first met the choir in February.

“I saw a lot of leaders, a lot of wonderful spirits,” she shared. “I’m inspired that there is a group of young people who are inspired by what I do... The opera world has a future, there are still young people who want to learn music, how to read music, how to sing.”

music, working with Academy faculty and guest artists such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. Sing! will also perform in the Academy’s July production of La bohème.

The Magic of Miraflores will unite community members in celebrating these two facets of the Academy’s educational programming. Upon entering, guests will stroll the Miraflores garden sipping cocktails and savoring hors d’oeuvres. All will then enjoy an outdoor, candlelit dinner before an intimate concert experience.

Bradley shared that she plans to sing a program of “happy tunes,” including

Gala attendees will also enjoy performances by pianists and Academy alumni Natasha Kislenko and Vassily Primakov. A faculty member at UC Santa Barbara and the Music Academy, Kislenko is an award-winning pianist who has played with orchestras internationally.

Academy devotees will remember Primakov from this past March’s concert devoted to teaching artist Jerome Lowenthal, where he passionately performed pieces by Franz Liszt. A cofounder of L.P. Classics, Inc., Primakov has cultivated a reputation as a master of Chopin and Mozart.

The Magic of Miraflores will also act as a celebration honoring Music Academy CEO & President Scott Reed,

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Soprano Michelle Bradley will sing We Are The World with the Sing! children’s choir

Photos by Stewart Shining

The night will honor Music Academy President and CEO, Scott Reed

Michelle Bradley is a Music Academy alumna

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who will be departing the Academy at summer’s end. A dedicated member of the Music Academy team for 25 years, Reed began working with the institution as an intern.

In his 14 years as CEO & President, Reed spearheaded significant campus improvements and programming growth, including the launch of the Academy’s first alumni program, Compeer Program, and Sing!. He also ensured the Academy successfully navigated the pandemic, seeing it through its 75th anniversary season.

“It is always humbling to be recognized and I am truly

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honored that this year’s Gala will acknowledge my time here at the Music Academy,” said Reed. “This has been a special place to spend such a large portion of my career. I have worked with some extraordinary people and am proud of all that we have accomplished on behalf of our fellows, the children of Sing! and this uniquely supportive community of Santa Barbara.”

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The Sing! class of 2023 includes elementary students from 33 schools across Santa Barbara County

The MIRA Event Committee: Xorin Balbes; Truman Davies; Lucy Firestone; Mary Firestone; Carolyn Fitzgerald; Jessica Graham; Ashley Hollister; Jennifer Blaise Kramer; Analise Maggio; Tara Penke; Nati Smith; and Mary Ta.

Co-chairs Lily Hahn, Belle Hahn, and Mindy Budgor lead this year’s Academy Gala

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CA Offshore Race Week Begins!

By Sigrid Toye, Special to VOICE

LAST WEEKEND’S MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATIONS extended to the entire city of Santa Barbara and attracted visitors in droves. Along the waterfront the hotels, Stearns Wharf, beaches, and parking lots were filled to the brim. Navigating my way along the harbor walkway, I was able to watch the annual Memorial Day yacht race. Concurrently, the weekly Wet Wednesday races have been up and running despite the cloudy, sometimes very chilly weather. It seems that pesky fog layer, and the ominous looking clouds hugging the mountains, can’t get the clue that summer’s approaching and sunshine is mandated, especially for holiday weekends!

Looking forward to the challenges of winds and weather in the Channel outside of the breakwater, mariners (and their visitors!) have remained undaunted by clouds and sunshine as an even more ambitious racing calendar in and around the Santa Barbara harbor begins this week. Once again the Yacht Club is co-hosting the 2023 California Offshore Race Week beginning in San Francisco on Saturday, May 27th and ending on Saturday, June 3rd in San Diego. The Race Week has been a premier offshore California regatta series since 2015 and consists of three different races combined under one heading: the Spinnaker Cup from San Francisco to Monterey, the Coastal Cup from Monterey to Santa Barbara, and the SoCal 300 from Santa Barbara to San Diego.

This huge California Offshore Race attracts some of the best and fastest boats not only from our shores but nationwide, many of whom compete in other challenging races such as the Transpacific Race to Hawaii. After seeing the popularity of the SoCal 300, there was growing interest in including the Spinnaker and Coastal Cups, combining all three races under one umbrella to be held in sequence in one intense week of sailing down the coast, now known as the California Offshore Race Week.

The prestigious race also includes the CA 500 designed for larger faster boats with a course from San Francisco to San Diego. Indeed, it is a bucket list trek starting in San Francisco, stopping in picturesque Monterey Bay and Santa Barbara and concluding in San Diego.

For sailors wanting to limit their adventure and stay closer to home, each of the individual events will still provide plenty of offshore adventure plus a trophy for each. The Race Week’s steering committee consists of representatives from the Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, the Encinal Yacht Club, as well as the Santa Barbara and San Diego Yacht Clubs. The 2023 steering committee will include Santa Barbara Yacht Club Race Director Brad Schaupeter and Staff Commodore Bill Guilfoyle, Coastal Cup & So Cal 300 Co-chair.

For those racing fans and fellow mariners wishing to view the start of the Santa Barbara based So Cal 300 Race from our shores, the view is best from Stearns Wharf and the harbor breakwater.

Again, the date is Thursday, June 1st and the ETD is 1pm. This race officially serves to end the Offshore Race Week three days later in San Diego where a celebration is to take place.

Sadly, I won’t be joining this year’s big sendoff as I am going out of town for a few weeks. You all will have to be at the start of this race for me! So, head on down to the harbor for some good fun! And stay tuned ...

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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MUSIC

SCHOLARSHIP SHOWCASE CONCERT

Classical concert by local students

• Santa Barbara Music Club • First United Methodist Church • Free • 3pm Sa, 6/3 & 6/10.

LAMB OF GOD

Vocal Affinity and UCSB's Lumina/ Singing Gauchos perform Rob Gardner’s famous Oratorio • Granada Theatre • $10-30 • www.granadasb.org

• 7:30pm Sa, 6/3.

OUTDOORS

BUTTERFLIES ALIVE!

Immersive butterfly exhibit • SB Museum of Natural History • Included in museum admission • Through 9/4.

ARCHITECTURAL WALKING TOURS

Learn about local architecture • Architectural Foundation of SB • SB City Hall on Sa; Central Library Anapamu St. entrance on Su • Suggested $10 cash donation • https://afsb.org • 10am Sa & Sun.

RANCHO LA PATERA & STOW HOUSE

Wharf Wednesday to Feature Do No Harm Band

Jam out to the rockin’ beats of the Do No Harm Band when Stearns Wharf hosts its first Wharf Wednesday of the summer from 6pm to 8pm on Wednesday, June 7th. Arrive early to visit the Sea Center and shop seaside goodies from wharf vendors.

Verheyen • SOhO • $30-77• www.sohosb.com • 7:30pm Su, 6/4.

OUTDOORS

Aud. • www.sbnature.org • 7:30pm Mo, 6/5.

SPECIAL EVENTS

WEAR ORANGE DAY OF SERVICE

General clean-up, mural tour, activities • Moms Demand Action • Ortega Park • Free, RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/f4hn2ycj • 9am12pm Sa, 6/3.

DOWNTOWN BEAUTIFICATION DAY

Care for our downtown area • Downtown Santa Barbara • State Street • Register: https://tinyurl.com/mvmuzd52 • 9am-12pm Sa, 6/3.

BEACH CLEAN-UP

Show our beaches some love • Land Trust & Heal the Ocean • West

Friday

DANCE

•

SENIOR DANCE SOLOS

June 2nd

UCSB BA students • UCSB HSSB Ballet Studio • www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu • Free • 7pm Fr, 6/2.

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

UNDERSTANDING AND SUSTAINING

OUR REGIONAL WATERSHEDS

Free talk by Brock Dolman, cofounder of the Sowing Circle • Explore Ecology • Fe Bland Forum, SBCC • RSVP: www.exploreecology.org • 7pm Fr, 6/2.

NOT TOO LATE, A CLIMATE BOOK TALK

Talk with activist Rebecca Solnit, Dr. Leah Stokes, and Nikayla Jefferson • UCSB Corwin Pavilion • Free, RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/35mjxxyj • 7pm Fr, 6/2.

OUTDOORS

OSO FLACO LAKE DAY TRIP

Guided hike with botanist Steve Junak

• SB Botanic Garden • Oso Flaco Lake

• $30-40 • www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 9am-1pm Fr, 6/2.

Beach, right of pier • Free, RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/335tajrh • 9-11am Tu, 6/6.

TRAIL RESTORATION DAY

Help trails after winter storms • City Parks & Rec • Rattlesnake Canyon Trail, Old Pueblo Trail, and Hot Springs Trail • RSVP with SBiddle@SantaBarbaraCA.gov or (805) 564-5439 • 8:30am-2pm Sa, 6/10.

BEACH CLEANUP

Care for our shoreline • Explore Ecology • Arroyo Burro Beach • 10am-12pm Su, 6/11.

DISCOVER OUTSIDE 2023

Ten days of outdoor hikes, activities, and more! • Land Trust for SB County

• Full schedule: www.sblandtrust.org • Through Su, 6/11.

SPECIAL EVENTS

TREVOR NOAH: OFF THE RECORD

Night of comedy with The Daily Show host • SB Bowl • $41.50-144.50 • www.sbbowl.com • 7:30pm Fr, 6/2 & Sa, 6/3.

OPEN MIC

All are welcome to the mic; hosted by Leah aka Dj Blacula • UCSB

MultiCultural Center Lounge • Free • https://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm Fr, 6/2.

Saturday • June 3rd

DANCE

SALSA NIGHT

Salsa classes and dancing

• ME Sabor •

SOhO • $25 • www.sohosb.com • 9pm Sa, 6/3.

Take a tour • www.goletahistory.org • 11am to 2pm weekends.

SPECIAL EVENTS

ZOO BREW

Beer tastings at the Zoo after hours • SB Zoo • www.sbzoo.org/zoobrew • $75-110 • 4-7pm Sa, 6/3.

A TOAST TO HOME

Wine, dinner, and music supporting PATH • Sunstone Winery, Santa Ynez • $150 • https://tinyurl.com/5bj5734e • 5pm Sa, 6/3.

THE MAGIC OF MIRAFLORES

Gala/concert supporting Music Academy & Sing! Children’s Choir • Music Academy campus • $1,000 • www.musicacademy.org • 5pm Sa, 6/3.

SUNSET SOIREE BY THE SEA

Dinner, music, auction supporting Hillside • Cabrillo Pavilion • $300 • www.hillsidesb.org • 5-8:30pm Sa, 6/3.

POP!

Presidio Orchard Party with quesadilla bar & aguas frescas • SB Trust for Historic Preservation • El Presidio de Santa Bárbara • $125-150 • www.sbthp.org/pop • 6-9pm Sa, 6/3.

MOSTLY BROADWAY

Broadway actor David Burnham tells stories and sings songs • Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St. • $20-75• www.rubicontheatre.org • 7pm Sa, 6/3.

Sunday • June 4th

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

CHAUCER’S AUTHOR TALK

With young adult novelist P.C. Cast, Earth Called • Chaucer’s Books • Free • 4pm Su, 6/4.

MUSIC

CARL VERHEYEN ACOUSTIC BAND

Guitarist & singer-songwriter Carl

SB ROLLERS

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

SPECIAL EVENTS

MUJERES MAKERS MARKET

Outdoor market of local womenowned businesses • El Presidio • Free • 10am-4pm Su, 6/4.

GLITTER BRUNCH

Hosted by Vivian Storm & Angel D’Mon • Wildcat Lounge, 15 W. Ortega St. • https://glitterbrunch.com • $5 • Brunch 11am-3pm, Show 12:30pm, Sun.

Monday • June 5th

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

PARLIAMO!

Italian conversation, all levels • Arnoldi’s Cafe, 600 Garden St. • http://parliamo.yolasite.com • Free • 5-7pm Mon.

FREE MONTHLY GARDEN TALK

Webinar on supporting pollinators • UC Master Gardeners • RSVP: https://ucanr.edu/sbmg • 7-8pm Mo, 6/5.

THE 19TH-CENTURY CHUMASH

COMMUNITY OF 'AMUWUN

Free talk by Kaitlin Brown, PhD • SB Museum of Natural History, Farrand

OIL PIERS REMOVAL CELEBRATION

Celebrate and learn more about the closure of oil piers • CA State Lands Comm. & City of Goleta • Cliff Drysdale Tennis Club parking lot • Free • 9am Mo, 6/5.

Tuesday • June 6th

DANCE

LITERACY THROUGH DANCE English language learners class hosed

Photo courtesy of City of Santa Barbara

Irene Fredricey of the Do No Harm Band

Flamenco Íntimo

Admire the intimacy, skill, and passion of flamenco when award-winning dancer/singer Manuel Gutierrez and guitarist Andres Vadin join forces to present Flamenco Íntimo at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s Covarrubias Adobe at 7pm on Thursday, June 8th. Co-hosted by Flamenco Santa Barbara, the night will also feature 2023 Spirit of Fiesta Jack Harwood. For tickets ($20-$150) visit www.sbhistorical.org

by Sabor a Mi Dance Studio • Eastside Library • Free • 11-11:45am Tu, 6/6 & We, 6/8.

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD

Provide input on library programming • Eastside Library • Free • 4-5pm Tu.

CHAUCER’S BOOK SIGNING

With local author/UCSB undergrad Elaine Skiadas, Fantastic Vegan Recipes for the Teen Cook • Chaucer’s Books • Free • 6pm Tu, 6/6.

SPECIAL EVENTS

TEEN JOB AND VOLUNTEER FAIR

Learn about community service, internships, and jobs • SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery • Free, register: https://tinyurl.com/ycmw632s • 3-5pm Tu, 6/6.

SANTA BARBARA FARMERS MARKET

Shop fresh, local produce and treats •

600, 700, & 800 blocks of State Street • Free • 3-7pm Tu.

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AUCTION LAUNCH

View the philanthropist’s designer wardrobe; Live & Silent Auction of Hats and Wine • 3845 State St. • $98 • https://tinyurl.com/4n9amwdu • 5-8pm Tu, 6/6.

Wednesday • June 7th

DANCE

KINETIC LAB 2023

New works by Junior BFA Dance majors • UCSB Theater/Dance • Hatlen Theater • $11-15 • www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm We, 6/7-6/9.

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

1 MILLION CUPS

Network with entrepreneurs • Free •

www.1millioncups.com/santabarbara • 9-10am We.

UKRAINIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN MEMORY DIMENSIONS

Webinar by Professor Maryna Vardanian • UCSB IHC • Free, link: • 12-1:15pm We, 6/7.

LE CERCLE FRANÇAIS

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

CHAUCER’S BOOK SIGNING

With local author Bruce Luyendyk, Mighty Bad Land • Chaucer’s Books • Free • 6pm We, 6/7.

OIL PIER REMOVAL TOWN HALL

Learn about decommissioning of Platform Holly • CA State Lands Comm. & City of Goleta • City of Goleta Council Chambers • Free • 6-8pm We, 6/7.

MUSIC

GARBAGE & NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS

Alternative rock concert, with special guest Metric • SB Bowl • $54.50130.50 • www.sbbowl.com • 6:30pm We, 6/7.

OUTDOORS

HIKE ARROYO HONDO PRESERVE

Mon & Wed, 12:30-3pm and the first & third weekends, Sat & Sun 10am12:30pm and 12:30pm-3pm. Free • https://tinyurl.com/ya3pgxge

SPECIAL EVENTS

SB PRIDE COMEDY FESTIVAL

Laugh with a diverse range of comedians • Backstage Comedy Club, 519 State St. • $50-75 • https://tinyurl.com/5d7j2ahh • 5pm We, 6/7-6/9.

WHARF WEDNESDAY

Free concert by Do No Harm Band, shopping, and fun • Stearns Wharf • 6-8pm We, 6/7.

Thursday • June 8th

CHILDREN

BILINGUAL SONGS AND STORIES

For kids ages 0-5 • Eastside Library • Free • 11-11:30am Th.

DANCE

FLAMENCO ÍNTIMO

Flamenco dancer Manuel Gutierrez and guitarist Andres Vadin • SB

Pearl Chase Society Presents Kellam de Forest Speaker Series

Tour architectural history when author and editor Douglas Woods discusses Santa Barbara’s shift to a Spanish Revival style after the 1925 earthquake at 6pm on Friday, June 9th at the Carrillo Recreation Center. A $5 donation is recommended, call 805-403-7053 to RSVP.

Historical Museum • $20-175 • https://tinyurl.com/bpajjmyn • 7pm Th, 6/8.

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

ENGLISH CONVERSATION GROUP

Practice naturally • Eastside Library • Free • 1-2pm Th.

KNIT 'N' NEEDLE

Knit and embroider with others • Montecito Library • Free • 2-3:30pm Th.

CRAFTERNOONS

All ages craft workshop • Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. • $8 • https://tinyurl.com/4xp8vtud • 3:305pm Th.

CHAUCER’S BOOK SIGNING

With author Colleen Marie Delaney, Rancho Guadalasca • Chaucer’s Books • Free • 6pm Th, 6/8.

PFLAG SPANISH SPEAKING MEETING

Discussion, support, and sharing • Zoom • Email pflagsantabarbara@gmail.com • 7pm Th, 6/8.

MUSIC

ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

American Roots concert • Lobero Theatre • $44-54 • www.lobero.org • 7:30pm Th, 6/8.

OUTDOORS

TAI CHI AT THE GARDEN

Hosted by Yun Chao Zhang • SB Botanic Garden • $10-15 • www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 9-10am Th, 6/8.

SPECIAL EVENTS

LITERACY THROUGH COOKING WITH A TO Z COOKING

Cooking class for English language learners • Eastside Library Patio • Free, register: https://tinyurl.com/dasj67bz • 4:306:30pm Th, 6/8.

PAELLA AND SPANISH WINE TASTING

Casual way to meet singles in their 40s and up • Fieldside Restaurant, SB Polo

& Racquet Club • $35-45 • https://tinyurl.com/2mse5mtn • 5:30pm Th, 6/8.

17TH ANNUAL CHAMPIONS DINNER

Benefit awards dinner for CommUnify • The River Grill, 150 Alisal Road • $250 • www.communifysb.org • 6pm Th, 6/8.

Friday • June 2nd

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

KELLAM DE FOREST SPEAKER SERIES

Author Douglas Woods discusses Spanish Colonial Revival style • Pearl Chase Society • Carrillo Rec. Center • Free, RSVP: 805-403-7053 • 6pm Fr, 6/9.

SPECIAL EVENTS

CIRCUS VARGAS

Family fun at the big top • Earl Warren Showgrounds • $20-30 • www.circusvargas.com • Fr, 6/9-6/19.

SB LITERARY JOURNAL CELEBRATION

Readings and music to mark release of Vol. 9 of this local journal • Faulkner Gallery • Free • 5-6:30pm Fr, 6/9.

BASIL’S BIG BASH

Music, dancing, and more supporting ASAP Cats • Carousel House, Chase Palm Park • $250 • https://tinyurl.com/5n76jby9 • 5:3011pm Fr, 6/9.

Saturday • June 3rd

CHILDREN

SUMMER READING KICK OFF PARTY

Sign up for summer reading challenge, scavenger hunt, crafts and more • SB Public Library • Alameda Park • Free • 11am-1pm Sa, 6/10.

READ WITH PRIDE!

Storytelling event with Miss Angel D'mon • Chaucer’s Books • Free

2pm Sa,

Photo courtesy of Pearl Chase Society

Photo by Fritz Olenberger

Jack Harwood, the 2023 Spirit of Fiesta

Transportive Tributes

The Theatre Group at SBCC Reveals 2023-2024 Season

By Daisy Scott / VOICE

STEALING THE SPOTLIGHT with swashbuckling pirates, mischievous matchmaking, and New York City’s underground 1950s gambling scene, The Theatre Group at Santa Barbara City College has announced its 2023-2024 season. A shift from this past year’s successful focus on comedy, the upcoming season embraces theater’s power to reimagine well-loved stories with a line-up spanning Guys and Dolls, Emma, Treasure Island, and The Outsider

“I feel that audiences should be transported to another perspective, another country, another time period, another possibility of romance, adventure, and excitement,” said Katie Laris, SBCC Theatre Arts Department Co-Chair and stage director. “That they emerge feeling like they’ve been in another place where they forgot their day-to-day and saw something they hadn’t ever experienced before.”

Running October 13th through the 28th, this fourth wall-breaking work promises a “fresh feminist take on a treasured classic.”

A more dramatic reinterpretation will emerge with the Theatre Group’s Treasure Island, in which the adventurous Jim Hawkins is a girl. Adapted by Bryony Lavery and premiered at London’s National Theatre, the play brings Robert Louis Stevenson’s book of pirates and riches to life with a heroine as the lead. It will run March 1st through 16th.

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The Theatre Group invites all actors, regardless of SBCC student status, to audition for their productions. This contributes to each production’s joyful, community-focused atmosphere, with exclamations of surprise and support often heard as audience members spot familiar faces onstage.

“The book is almost completely guys, so one of the things the adapter wanted to do was to center a young woman,” explained Laris. “It’s a version that’s really exciting, it’s very physicalized. There’s an experimental theater quality to it because the actors are really creating the sense of the boat, ocean, and the island.”

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Guys and Dolls kicks off the season with a classic musical rom-com, following Nathan Detroit as he tries to organize a high-rolling crap game while under heat from the police. Desperate for dough, Detroit makes a bet: that Sky Masterson, a suave gambler, will fail to take the pious missionary Sarah Brown on a date. With Nick Ehlen and KEYT’s Anikka Abbott set to play this unlikely couple, musical sparks should fly. Performances will run July 14th through 29th.

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Unexpected matchmaking will continue in a fall production of playwright Katie Hamill’s interpretation of Emma. Jane Austen’s masterpiece, the lighthearted romance follows the titular Emma as she tries to pair off her friends — inadvertently finding love for herself along the way.

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The Outsider concludes the season with its political comedy. Reminiscent of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the play chronicles the struggles of Ned Newley, who is appointed governor despite being afraid of public speaking. Audiences are left with an entertaining look at the clashes between public perception and actual proficiency in politics.

“It’s a piece that in an age of cynicism is really about optimism, how we can all come together to actually get things done in politics,” said Laris.

Season tickets are now available online. Single performance tickets will be available on June 20th. Visit www.theatregroupsbcc.com

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CONTINUES / CONTINÚA

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS

Actividades en persona y en línea para todos

SANTA BARBARA HOME & GARDEN EXPO

LOCAL AUTHOR SIGNING

Jana Goldbloom Brody signs Sit Behind the Nets! • Tecolote Book Shop • Free • 3-4:3-pm Sa, 6/10.

BILINGUAL / BILINGÜE

Explore home and garden decor • Earl Warren Showgrounds • www.chargoproductions.com • 10am-5pm Sa, 6/10 & 10am-4pm Su, 6/11.

MUSIC

FOLK ORCHESTRA OF SB SPANISH CONCERT

Spanish music concert • Trinity Episcopal Church & El Presidio Chapel • $35-50 • www.folkorchestrasb.com • 4pm Sa, 6/10 (Trinity) & 4pm Su, 6/11 (Presidio).

SOUTH ON LINDEN & FRIENDS

QUEER CLIMB NIGHT

Rock climbing for LGBTQ+ community • SB Rock Gym • Free-$15 • 5-8pm Sa, 6/10.

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Sunday • June 4th

LECTURES | MEETINGS | WORKSHOPS FROM CHERNOBYL, WITH LOVE

Summer community concert • Alcazar Theatre • $15-25 • www.thealcazar.org • 7-9pm Sa, 6/10.

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OUTDOORS

Actividades en persona y en línea para todos

STAR PARTY

Talk between author Katya Cengel and Oksana Yakushko, member of the Ukrainian diaspora • Faulkner Gallery • Free • 2-3pm Su, 6/11.

OnSTAGE

UCSB THEATER/DANCE

THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

A trial for Judas' fate • UCSB Performing Arts Theater • www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu • $1319 • Through 6/4.

PARTICLE COLLIDER 2023

Students explore their creativity in playlets • UCSB Studio Theater • Free • www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

• 4:30pm Fr, 6/2.

BILINGUAL / BILINGÜE

Explore the night sky • SB Museum of Natural History, Palmer Observatory • Free • 8:30-10pm Sa, 6/10.

SPECIAL EVENTS

FAMILY PHOTO MINI SESSIONS

Professional family photos taken by photographer Edward Clynes • SB Botanic Garden • $150 • www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 9-11am Sa, 6/10.

WORLD OCEANS DAY

Free Sea Center admission for all • Sea Center, Stearns Wharf • No reservation required • 10am5pm Sa, 6/10.

MUSIC

UCSB JAZZ BIG BAND

A swinging jazz concert • SB Jazz Society • SOhO • $10-25 • www.sohosb.com • 1pm Su, 6/11.

SPECIAL EVENTS

GREEN & BLUE: A COASTAL CELEBRATION

Environmental Defense Center fundraiser with food, auctions & more • Rancho La Patera & Stow House • www.environmentaldefensecenter.org/gb • $125 • 2-5:30pm Su, 6/11.

SENIOR SOLOS 2023

Solo performances by BFA Acting students • Free • www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu • 6pm Fr, 6/9.

ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY

SEARED

Hilarity ensues when a chef refuses to make his signature dish • The New Vic • $40-84 • www.etcsb.org

• 7:30pm Th, 6/8, through 6/25.

Ensemble Theatre Company Presents: Seared

When a chef suddenly refuses to make his famous signature scallops for the hungry masses, comedy will certainly be on the menu. Art clashes with the restaurant world when Ensemble Theatre Company presents Seared at The New Vic, opening for previews at 7:30pm on Thursday, June 8th. Performances continue through June 25th. For tickets ($40-$84) visit www.etcsb.org

Photo by Zach Mendez

Nick Ehlen, who portrayed Shakespeare in The Theatre Group at SBCC's 2022 production of Something Rotten!, will star as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls this summer

Photo by Ben Crop

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Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival & Block Party

Catch a wave and ride the tide into the Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival. A celebration of our community’s local surfing history and the filmmakers who helped record it, the festival will take place at the Lobero Theatre from 6pm to midnight on Friday, June 9th and from 10am to midnight on Saturday, June 10th.

In addition to film screenings, there will be a SBSF Block Party with live music, food, drinks, and more from 12pm to 8pm on Saturday, June 10th at 115 East De la Guerra.

To help local conservation efforts, the film festival has partnered with nonprofits Heal the Ocean, Surfrider Santa Barbara, and The Surf Happens Foundation. Purchase individual screening tickets or festival passes ($26-$126) visit www.lobero.org

Mind Surfing: The Conner Coffin Story, directed by Keith Malloy and presented by 805 Films will screen at 7pm on Friday, June 9th

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*

Sneak Peek: Free summertime cinema at the Santa Barbara Courthouse is just around the corner! The fun starts July 7th with UCSB Arts & Lectures' screening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

TÁR

A conductor’s downfall and dark past; followed by talk with director Todd Field • UCSB Pollock Theater • Free, RSVP: www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu • 2pm Sa, 6/3.

DON GIOVANNI

Met Opera’s performance of Mozart’s tragicomedy • Music Academy, Hahn Hall • $28 • www.musicacademy.org • 2pm Su, 6/4.

MOVIES AT LA CASA

Free community movie screening of Super Mario Bros. • Casa de la Raza • 7-9pm Fr, 6/9.

SB SURF FILM FESTIVAL

Two days of films focusing on surf cinema • Lobero Theatre • $26-106 • www.lobero.org • 6pm-midnight Fr, 6/9 & 10am-midnight Sa, 6/10.

Economic Life Signs Improving

By Harlan Green, Special to VOICE

AFTER A SPUTTERING START, it looks like the U.S. economy is picking up steam. First Quarter GDP growth was revised upward from 1.1 to 1.3 percent in the BEA’s second estimate yesterday.

And the Personal Consumption Expenditure Index (PCE) out Friday, the Fed’s favorite inflation indicator, shows consumer spending is the main engine of growth. The PCE is the best measure of consumer behavior, and rather than pulling back because of higher inflation and interest rates, spending is keeping up with inflation.

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The result won’t make our Federal Reserve Governors happy who have been hinting at the possibility of a rate pause in June, since the PCE inflation index ticked up from 4.2 to 4.4 percent YoY.

By Harlan Green

Compound this with predictions of up to 2.9 percent GDP growth in Q2, and we could be off to a ‘roaring’ 2023 year and decade that I’ve been touting.

The revised Q1 GDP number was buoyed by consumer spending as well. PCE data also showed consumer spending sprang back to life in April, rising 0.8%, the largest gain in three months, “surpassing expectations for a 0.5% increase as Americans bought more cars and spent more on services,” said a MarketWatch commentator. Why not, when fully employed and feeling more secure about their prospects?

Within services, the largest contributors to the PCE increase were spending for financial services and insurance, health care, and “other” services (notably professional and other services). Within goods, spending for motor vehicles and parts (led by new motor vehicles) and “other” nondurable goods (notably pharmaceutical products) were the largest contributors to the increase.

And lastly, orders for U.S. manufactured goods jumped 1.1 percent in April largely because of the military, but business investment also rose sharply in a positive sign for the economy. Manufacturing output has been shrinking in the last six

months.

In a good sign, business investment rose a sharp 1.4 percent. What are corporations seeing that induces them to invest more? They are also expecting economic growth to improve.

The latest results show that consumers are in a tug-ofwar with the Fed, which has been outspoken in its efforts to slow consumer spending with boosts to credit card and installment loan interest rates.

Yet Americans remained worried about the future of the economy, especially against the backdrop of another fight in Washington over the debt ceiling.

The University of Michigan sentiment survey final reading in May rebounded slightly to 59.2 from earlier in the month but was still lower than April’s 63.5 final reading.

“Consumer sentiment slid seven percent amid worries about the path of the economy, erasing nearly half of the gains achieved after the all-time historic low from last June. This decline mirrors the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, during which sentiment also plunged,” said survey Director Joanne Hsu.

But they can’t be but so worried as the post-pandemic surge in prosperity seems to more than cancel out such bad news.

Harlan Green © 2023 Follow Harlan Green on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HarlanGreen

Harlan Green has been the 16-year Editor-Publisher of PopularEconomics.com, a weekly syndicated financial wire service. He writes a Popular Economics Weekly Blog. He is an economic forecaster and teacher of real estate finance with 30-years experience as a banker and mortgage broker. To reach Harlan call (805)452-7696 or email editor@populareconomics.com.

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NAME CHANGE

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE––CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER : 23CV01597

1. Petitioner (name of each): JARED ANTHONY COLLINS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: JARED ANTHONY COLLINS to proposed name JACOB ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ. 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: 06/21/2023; 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-mycourt.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: [ ] (for resident of this county) printed in this county (specify paper): VOICE MAGAZINE.

Date: 05/02/2023 /s/: Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Legal #23CV01597 Pub Dates: May 19, 26, June 2, 9, 2023

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Notice Inviting Bids

U.S. 101 STATE STREET UNDERCROSSING PROJECT ATPSB1L – 5007(084)

Bid No. 3964

1. Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its U.S. 101 State Street Undercrossing Project (“Project”), by or before June 22, 2023 , at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/ uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

If any Addendum issued by City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from City’s PlanetBids portal.

2. Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located on State Street between Gutierrez Street and Yanonali Avenue, and near the intersection of Kimberly Avenue and Mason Street, is described as follows: Removal, realignment and replacement of concrete hardscape sidewalks with new safety lighting, fencing and stormwater treatment.

2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 360 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about August 2023, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is approximately $5,000,000.

3. License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California Contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A.

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William J. Dalziel Lic#B311003 – Bonded & Insured BillJDalziel@gmail.com www.idareproductions.com

or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

6. Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.

7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will performance bonds, insurance certificates and by the Contract Documents and as specified

3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/ portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959

A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of 5% of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s

6. Prevailing Wage Requirements.

8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor prevailing wage requirements applicable to each craft, classification or type of worker needed payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation,

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor specified rates to all workers employed to work based upon a working day of eight hours. The time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.

7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful performance and payment bonds, each for Contract Documents.

8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of from progress payments is permitted under

9. Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

9. Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Proposal, including the name, location of the number, DIR registration number, and percentage base bid price) for each Subcontractor that Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half List form included with the Contract Documents.

10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should detailed information before submitting a Bid General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Notice Inviting Bids.

10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

By:

Date: 5/30/2023

Brian D’Amour, City Engineer

Date:

Brian D’Amour, City Engineer

Publication Dates: 1) May 31, 2023 2) June 7, 2023

Publication Dates: 1) June 2, 2023 2)

June 9, 2023

END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

END OF NOTICE

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ORDINANCE NO. 6113

LEGAL NOTICES VOICE Magazine • Community Market • LEGAL NOTICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT: The following Person / Persons is/are doing business as JMM HANDYMAN SERVICES at 891 Cieneguitas Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. JAE M MERCADO at 891 Cieneguitas Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on May 25, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0001346. Published June 2, 9, 16, 23, 2023.

Legal Notices

Business Name Alcohol License Summons Name Change Petition to Administer Estate Trustee Sale Public Entities

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADDING CHAPTER 9.96 TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE TO REGULATE THE STORAGE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY IN PUBLIC PLACES

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on May 23, 2023. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California. (SEAL)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 6113

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ORDINANCE NO. 6114

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2022-2024 MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE AND COMPENSATION PLAN

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on May 23, 2023. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California. (SEAL)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 6114

STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) )

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss.

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on May 9, 2023, and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on May 23, 2023 by the following roll call vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse.

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on May 25, 2023.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on May 25, 2023

/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following Person / Persons is/are doing business as BALLOONTIQUE at 4839 San Gordiano Ave, Apt D, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. VALERIA REYES at 4 839 San Gordiano Ave, Apt D, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on May 19, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0001312. Published June 2, 9, 16, 23, 2023.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on May 9, 2023, and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on May 23, 2023 by the following roll call vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse.

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on May 25, 2023.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on May 25, 2023

/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following Person / Persons is/are doing business as ZOOM PO’ ARE OR at 427 W Islay St Apt 22, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. MAHDI A MUBASHSHIR at 427 W Islay St Apt 22, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on April 21, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20230001043. Published May 12, 19, 26, June 2, 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following Person / Persons is/are doing business as AJ’S PEST CONTROL at 1129 E Bell Ave, Lompoc, CA 93436. ABIMAEL J EVANS at 1129 E Bell Ave, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on April 17, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20230001010. Published May 26, June 2, 9, 16, 2023.

Commemorative Tree Plaques... Great Gifts & Great Memories

Designate a tree as a tribute to a family member or friend.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following Person / Persons is/are doing business as BEAVER ARBORISTS; BEAVER TREE SB at 720 W Arrellaga St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. AUTUMN L FISH at 720 W Arrellaga St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on May 22, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0001320.

Published June 2, 9, 16, 23, 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT:

The following Corporation / Limited Liability Company is/are doing business as RANCH & COAST REAL ESTATE GROUP; RANCH & COAST REAL ESTATE at 415 Stanley Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. RANCH & COAST MORTGAGE GROUP, INC. at 415 Stanley Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on May 19, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0001313.

Published June 2, 9, 16, 23, 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following Corporation/Limited Liability Company is/are doing business as LEAP: LEARN. ENGAGE. ADVOCATE. PARTNER at 6842 Phelps Road, Goleta, CA 93117. ISLA VISTA YOUTH PROJECTS, INC at 6842 Phelps Road, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on April 24, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2023-0001061. Published May 12, 19, 26, June 2, 2023.

‘Keep calm!’ The economy stays steady despite inflation and the impacts of remote work

By Keith Hamm

The UC Santa Barbara Current

still relatively high.

THE ONSET OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

SINCE

in 1929, there have been dozens of adverse events that have threatened to cripple the U.S. economy, including wars, recessions, and government shutdowns. And to be sure, the economy has taken some big hits, especially during the pandemic. But overall, it trends in a positive direction.

“Our economy is tough,” said Peter Rupert, a professor of economics at UC Santa Barbara and director of the university’s Economic Forecast Project (EFP). “That’s why I say, ‘Keep calm!’”

Rupert was speaking to a crowd of several hundred gathered in downtown Santa Barbara for the EFP’s annual South County Economic Summit, where early chatter in the lobby of the Granada Theatre centered around inflation. This year, the summit brought in Christopher Waller, who sits on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, to offer the Federal Reserve’s broader perspective on the economy, particularly inflation.

Waller emphasized that the unemployment rate — now at 3.4 percent — is the lowest it’s been since 1969. Gross domestic product (GDP), retail sales, and hourly earnings continue trending upward. Our banking system overall, he said, is “sound and resilient.” But he also acknowledged that he was “concerned about the lack of progress on inflation,” with food prices and rents, among other indicators,

Currently, inflation is running around five percent, the highest it’s been since the late ’70s and early ’80s. Waller said the Federal Reserve’s target is to stabilize inflation at two percent.

“The tool the Fed (Federal Reserve) uses is the federal funds rate, an overnight rate that banks charge to one another for loans,” explained Rupert, who’s been with UCSB’s Department of Economics since 2007. “Higher rates lead to fewer loans and, in their view, slows the economy.”

Waller concluded by saying that the Federal Reserve will review updated numbers concerning the labor market and consumer pricing, expected to arrive in the coming weeks, before deciding on a potential interest rate hike this summer.

Case Study: City by the Bay

As the national economy as a whole rebounds from the pandemic to realign with overall upward trends, not all is well in the Golden State. In particular, San Francisco can provide a cautionary tale.

“We’re not heading toward a Detroit situation,” said Ted Egan, the chief economist for the city and county of San Francisco for the past 16 years. “But the next five to ten years are going to be rough.”

Over the past two years, San Francisco has lost upward of eight percent of its population, the biggest drop in any city nationwide. Former residents have left town. Many tourists are staying away. And with the massive increase in remote work, especially in the technology sector, downtown office buildings remain all but empty.

“The pandemic showed that you don’t need occupied offices,” Egan said, adding that the office industry

— which encompasses transportation, food services, retail, and development, among other factors that fuel a city’s economy — generated 80% of San Francisco’s GDP. Fortunately, he added, there is no sign that tech workers are leaving the region, “they’re just working from home.”

Among other issues, the city must weigh the prospect of raising taxes to compensate for the drop in business-tax income as employees work remotely, and how to tackle the perception that city streets are overwhelmed by poverty and homelessness.

“San Francisco does not seem to be an outlier,” Rupert said. “It just happened a lot faster due to the predominance of the tech sector and remote work. LA is now seeing problems in the office market.”

It’s too soon to tell how widespread remote working might impact the economy, Rupert noted. “But it is extremely likely that working arrangements will look different than the prepandemic allocation.”

july 2023 call for entries:

exhibition:

Midsummer: Santa Barbara

To participate: Email up to three entries to artcall@voicesb.art by June 24th

• Label Image with Artist Name, Title

• Include in the email: Artist name, title, material, dimensions, price

• Entry fee for accepted admissions: $40–1st; $35–2nd, $30–3rd piece.

• All artwork must be wired or pedestal ready. No sawtooth hangers.

• Sales: 70% to artist / 30% to gallery.

•Art Drop Off: Accepted art will be dropped off 10am-noon, July 1st.

• Exhibition Dates: July 3rd to 30th, 2023

Receptions: 1st Thursday reception will take place July 6th from 5 to 8pm

3rd Friday Artwalk will take place July 21st from 5 to 8pm

Photo by David Bazemore

Juried and curated by Kerry Methner, PhD & Mark Whitehurst, PhD

2023 South Coast Economic Summit guests (from left) Ted Egan, Christopher Waller and Peter Rupert

Peter Rupert is a professor of economics and former chair of the Department of Economics, and associate director of the UCSB Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance, founded by Nobel laureate Finn Kydland. Rupert’s areas of specialization include macroeconomics, monetary economics, economics of the criminal justice system, labor and household economics.

Tri-County

Juried

Exhibition

Winners

Best in Show:

Terminal Basins by Caroline Kapp

Honorable

Mentions:

1st: I Don’t

Know 1 by Ralph Corners

2nd: The Hike by Tom Pazderka

3rd: Summer Evening in Savannah by David Dixon

Mixed-Up is on view through June 17th • Open 10am to 4pm Mo-Fr, 11am to 5pm Sa • Westmont College, Montecito

Mixed-Up

Tri-County Juried Exhibition

By Daisy Scott / VOICE

WELCOME TO MIXED-UP, where saddles rest in trees, lampshades house birds, and busy cafes serve eager and reflective customers. Currently on display at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, the gallery’s annual Tri-County Juried Exhibition is an eclectic celebration of local imagination and talent, inviting viewers to look at familiar vistas ever-sodifferently.

“To me, the theme ‘Mixed Up’ suggests a blending, merging, or juxtaposition of different elements, ideas, or perspectives,” explained Bay Area artist Rae Dunn, the show’s juror. “It also implies a departure from traditional norms or expectations and encourages the exploration of unconventional combinations.”

A ceramist with a nationwide line of household items, Dunn is known for her minimalist, whimsical style. She is also an author, most recently publishing the interactive guidebook In Pursuit of Inspiration: Trust Your Instincts and Make More Art Dunn received hundreds of submissions for Westmont’s Mixed-Up exhibition. In reviewing pieces across styles, subjects, and mediums, she aimed to highlight those works that evoked inspiration, strong emotions, and thought.

Intimate vignettes group the gallery’s 50 works. Monochromatic pieces border the entryway walls, beckoning viewers to examine grayscale patterns, a carved tablet, and the exhibition’s Best in Show, Terminal Basins by Caroline Kapp. Composed of tone cyanotypes, the photograph depicts a rock patterned with circles reminiscent of a fingerprint, or ripples in a pond.

“Each viewing made me want to understand it more but there’s a mystery to it that won’t allow me to fully understand it, which I love,” commented Dunn.

Colors envelop the main gallery space, with bold pops of blue, green, and purple punctuating its hanging canvases. Portraits range from the overtly surreal, such as Gary Silverstein’s I See U, to the quietly introspective, such as the pensive gentleman of Polly Griscom’s Reflections. The overarching theme begs viewers to examine the subjects’ faces closer, asking what they may be thinking.

Juxtapositions of subject and movement carry through the exhibition’s landscapes and still lifes. Several works observe human impacts on the environment, such as skies streaked with airplane trails and a washed-up tire being bathed by ocean surf. These complement the exhibition’s still lifes of human objects engaging in abnormal behavior, including Is It Love?

by Cody Cammbell — showing two handheld phones spooning on an unmade bed.

Other artists depict “mixed-up” pairings, such as Amanda Colacchia’s Dragon Avocados, depicting dragon fruit and avocado, and Melinda

Mettler’s G&T

Viewers are left with a vibrant glimpse into the tri-county area’s enormous pool of talent that sparks appreciation and admiration.

“One thing that can be difficult while viewing art in a crowded exhibition is to have the adequate time and space to really view each piece and let it resonate with you,” shared Dunn. “My hope is that viewers won’t rush through the show and instead be able to absorb each piece more fully. I find when I slow down, that’s when I discover those stronger emotions and can be more inspired by those pieces that I really connect with.”

www.westmont.edu/museum

Is it Love? by Cody Cammbell

I See U by Gary Silverstein

Best in Show winner, Terminal Basins by Caroline Knapp

Dragon Avocados by Amanda Colacchia

10 WEST GALLERY: Summer

Saturation ~ July 16 • 10 W

Anapamu • Thu-Sun 11-5 • 805770-7711 • www.10westgallery.com

ARCHITECTURAL FDN GALLERY: A Natural Curiosity by Nadya Brown ~ Jun 3 – Aug 12 • 229 E Victoria • 805-965-6307 • www.afsb.org

ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

MUSEUM: 2023 MFA Thesis

Exhibition: Chaotic Good ~ June 4 • www.museum.ucsb.edu

ART FROM SCRAP GALLERY: 302 E Cota St • We 11-4; Th 11-5; Fr, Sat 11-4 • 805-884-0459 • www.exploreecology.org/art-from-scrap

THE ARTS FUND: Never One Without the Other ~ June • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S Hope Av • Su-Thu 11-6; Fri, Sa 11-7 • www.artsfundsb.org • 805233-3395

ATKINSON GALLERY: Closed for summer • http://gallery.sbcc.edu

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

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

CASA DOLORES: Bandera Ware / traditional outfits ~ ongoing • 1023 Bath St • www.casadolores.org

CHANNING PEAKE GALLERY: Sunshine on Tuesdays • 1st fl, 105 E Anacapa St • 805-568-3994

CLAY STUDIO GALLERY: 10-4pm Daily • 1351 Holiday Hill Rd • 805565-CLAY • www.claystudiosb.org

CORRIDAN GALLERY: Something for Spring • Central Coast Artists • 125 N Milpas • We-Sa 11-6 • 805-9667939 • www.corridan-gallery.com

CPC GALLERY: Garden of Pixels | David Mark Lane • By appt. • 36 E Victoria St. • joyce@cpcsb.org

CYPRESS GALLERY: California Pathways by Kristine Kelly ~ Jul 2 • 119 E Cypress Av, Lompoc • Sat & Sun 1-4 • 805-737-1129 • www.lompocart.org

EL PRESIDIO DE SANTA BÁRBARA: Nihonmachi Revisited; Memorias y Facturas • 123 E Canon Perdido St • Th-Sun 11-4 • www.sbthp.org

ELVERHØJ MUSEUM: Music is Love: Photographs from Henry Diltz / Tribute to David Crosby ~ Aug 31 • 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang • 805686-1211 • Th-Mo 11-5 • www.elverhoj.org

FAULKNER GALLERY: Local Artists • 40 E Anapamu St • 805-962-7653

GALLERY 113: Members of SB Art Assn, Denise Carey: It’s Not All Black & White Featured Artist ~ Jun 29 • 1114 State St, #8, La Arcada Ct • 805-965-6611 • Mo-Sa 11-5; Sun 1-5 • www.gallery113sb.com

GALLERY LOS OLIVOS: Vicki Andersen and Neil AnderssonShades Of Light ~ Jun 30 • Thu-Mo 10-5 • 805-688-7517 • www.gallerylosolivos.com

GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: 805.969.9990 • www.lotusland.org

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

HELENA MASON ART GALLERY: Work by Pedro De La Cruz • 48 Helena Av • 2-6pm, Fri-Sat • www.helenamasonartgallery.com

JAMES MAIN FINE ART: 19th & 20th Fine art & antiques • 27 E De La Guerra St • Tu-Sa 12-5 • Appt Suggested • 805-962-8347

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY & MUSEUM: 21 W Anapamu • Tu-Su 10-4 • 805-962-5322 • https://karpeles.com/museums/sb.php

KATHRYNE DESIGNS: Local Artists

• 1225 Coast Village Rd, A • M-Sa 10-5; Su 11-5 • 805-565-4700

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

LOMPOC LIBRARY GROSSMAN

GALLERY: 501 E North Av, Lompoc • 805-588-3459.

LYNDA FAIRLY CARPINTERIA ARTS

CENTER: Summer Bounty ~ Jun 16Aug 6 • Thu-Su 12-4 • 865 Linden Av • 805-684-7789 • www.carpinteriaartscenter.org

MARCIA BURTT GALLERY: Less Can Be More ~ Jun 11 • 517 Laguna St • Th-Su 1-5 • 805-962-5588 • www.artlacuna.com

MAUNE CONTEMPORARY: Tom Wesselmann, Ross Bleckner, Donald Baechler • 1309 State St • Tu-Su 11-5 & By appt • 805-869-2524 • www.maune.com

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

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

SANTA BARBARA: Sarah Rosalena: Pointing Star; Diego Melgoza and Marisa de la Peña; David Horvitz: Seaea ~ Jul 30 • 653 Paseo Nuevo.

MUSEUM OF SENSORY & MOVEMENT

EXPERIENCES: La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S. Hope Av #F119 • www.seehearmove.com

MY PET RAM: Windward: Ida Badal and Ryan Nord Kitchen ~ June 25 • 16 Helena Av • Fri-Sun noon-7pm • 805-637-1424 • www.mypetram.com

OLD MISSION SANTA BARBARA: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, The Exhibition ~ Sept 4 • 22o1 Laguna St • www.sboldmission.org

PALM LOFT GALLERY: 410 Palm Av, Loft A1, Carp • By Appt • 805-6849700 • www.Palmloft.com

PEREGRINE GALLERIES: Early California and American paintings; fine vintage jewelry • 1133 Coast Village Rd • 805-252-9659 • www.Peregrine.shop

PORTICO GALLERY: Open Daily • 1235 Coast Village Rd • 805-7298454 • www.porticofinearts.com

SANTA BARBARA ART WORKS: Artists with disabilities programs, virtual exhibits • 805-260-6705 • www.sbartworks.org

SANTA BARBARA FINE ART: Winter Show ~ Spring • 1321 State St • MoSa 12-5; Su 12-4 • 805-845-4270 • www.santabarbarafineart.com

SB BOTANIC GARDEN: At the Edge • 1212 Mission Canyon Rd • 10-5 daily • 805-682-4726 • www.sbbg.org

SB HISTORICAL MUSEUM: Clarence Mattei: Portrait of a Community; Memories of Mountain Drive: SB’s Bohemian Community ~ June; The Story of SB • 136 E De la Guerra • Thur 12-5, Fri 12-7; Sat 12-5 • 805966-1601 • www.sbhistorical.org

SB MARITIME MUSEUM: Dan Merkel: The Lure of Lighthouses and Dancing Waves ~ Aug 27; 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: Lyonel Feininger/Andreas Feininger: The Modern Sea, The Modern City; Stillness ~ June 18; Portrait of Mexico Today; Highlights of East Asian ArtOngoing • Tu-Su, 11-5; Thu, 11-8 • www.sbma.net • 805-963-4364

SB MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators ~ July 2; Butterflies Alives! ~ Sept 4; Mineral exhibition ~ ongoing • Wed-Sun 10-5 • 2559 Puesta del Sol • www.sbnature.org

Evening Glow - Douglas Preserve Original Oil Painting by Ralph Waterhouse

La Cumbre Center for Creative Arts

La Cumbre PLaza

A. Michael Marzolla, Fine Artist Excogitation Services/Marzozart Paintings, drawings, prints

Santa Barbara Junior High School Celebrates 90th Graduating Class with New Mural

ANEW MURAL WAS UNVEILED AT SANTA BARBARA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

commemorating its 90th graduating class. SBJH opened its doors in 1932 as the first junior high school in the City of Santa Barbara.

The following year, artisans from the Works Progress Administration added the Marjorie Luke Theater.

To keep in the theme of the school’s mascot, the Condors, the mural highlights what makes students soar.

The artwork features feathers created by students and

staff that include decorations on the front and a statement about what makes them soar on the back.

School leaders unveiled the new mural during an event on Thursday, May 25th.

The entire project was spearheaded by SBJH English teacher and Emergent Multilingual Learner lead PJ Carmean.

Carmean applied for and was awarded a $3,000 grant from the Santa Barbara Education Foundation to fund the project.

In collaboration with SBJH art teacher Darren Iacono and SBJH woodshop teacher Michael Nott, 650+ feathers were applied to wooden backing and affixed to SBJH’s new Multipurpose Building.

“This mural reminds us that when we combine our diversity and differences, it creates something beautiful,” shared Carmean in her remarks at the unveiling.

Iacono’s and Nott’s students also helped with the project. In true community fashion, four former SBJH (and current SBHS) students spent many hours after school assisting Iacono and Nott with the final product.

“What I love most about this project is that it was both community-inspired and community-created; it brought the entire school together,” said SBJH Principal Dan Dupont.

SANTA BARBARA TENNIS CLUB: AQUATIC Annual Jury Competition ~ Jun 3-Jul 5 • 10-6 daily • 2375 Foothill Rd • 805-682-4722 • www.2ndfridaysart.com

SILO 118: Adam Licsko & Brian Kuhlmann ~ June 30 • 118 Gray St • 12-5 Th-Sa/by appt • www.silo118.com

“SBJH is truly proud of the community effort it took to bring this project to fruition. We’re excited that generations of future Condors will be able to benefit from this collaborative project.”

Superintendent Dr. Hilda Maldonado noted, “I want to thank everyone who contributed to this project that celebrates the vibrant Condor Community. SBJH educators have inspired nine decades of scientists, engineers, writers, artists, athletes, and more. We can’t wait to see what’s in store for the school in the next 90 years.”

Santa Barbara Junior High School’s 90th graduation will take place on June 8th.

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 • 805-688-7889 • www.santaynezmuseum.org

WATERHOUSE GALLERY MONTECITO: Rick Delanty & Ray Hunter & Notable CA & National Artists • 1187 Coast Village Rd • 11-5 Mon-Sun • 805-962-8885 • www.waterhousegallery.com

SANTA BARBARA SEA CENTER: Dive In: Our Changing Channel ~ Ongoing • Daily 10-5 • 805-682-4711 • 211 Stearns Wharf • www.sbnature.org

Art Events Eventos de Arte

MICHELANGELO’S SISTINE CHAPEL: THE EXHIBITION • View magnificent projection of Michaelangelo’s masterpiece • Old Mission Santa Barbara • Free-$25 • www.santabarbaramission.org • 9:30am5pm daily through 9/4.

SULLIVAN GOSS: Recent Acquisitions ~ June 26; Robin Gowen: Last Shadow & First Light; The Summer Salon ~ Jul 24 • 11 E Anapamu St • 805730-1460 • www.sullivangoss.com

OPENING RECEPTION: A NATURAL CURIOSITY

• View solo exhibition of oil paintings by Nadya Brown • Architectural Fdn of SB Gallery, 229 #. Victoria St. • Free • 5-7pm Fr, 6/2.

AQUATIC: ARTISTS RECEPTION: Awards presentation & reception for juried competition • 2nd Fridays Art @ SB Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Rd. • Free • 4:30-6pm Fr, 6/9.

STUDIO SUNDAY: Create your own animal watercolor with ink • SB Museum of Art Family Resource Center • Free • 1:304:30pm Su, 6/11.

SB ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW • Local artists & artisans • 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd., SB • 10am-5pm Sundays.

TAMSEN GALLERY: Work by Robert W. Firestone • 911.5 State St, 805-705-2208 • www.tamsengallery.com

UCSB LIBRARY: www.library.ucsb.edu

VOICE GALLERY: Abstract Is Everything! An Abstract Art Collective exhibition ~ Jun 29 • La Cumbre Plaza H-124 • 9:30-5:30 M-F; 1-5 Sa & Su • 805-965-6448

WATERHOUSE GALLERY SB: 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: Mixed Up: 2023 Tri-County Juried Exhibition ~ June 17 • 805-565-6162 • Mo-Fr 10-4; Sat 11-5 • www.westmont.edu/museum

WILDLING MUSEUM: Bird’s Eye View: Four Perspectives ~ Sept 4 • 1511 B Mission Dr, Solvang • www.wildlingmuseum.org

Send your art openings, receptions, and events to Editor@VoiceSB.com to be included in this free listing.

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Santa Barbara’s Cultural Night Downtown

June 1st

5 to 8pm

1ST THURSDAY is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm. 1st Thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. State Street also comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.

Galleries, Museums, & Art Venues

1. VOICE GALLERY/VOICE MAGAZINE • 121 South Hope Avenue, H124 • “Abstract is Everything! The Abstract Art Association invites you to an energetic group show. Experience the power of abstraction as colors dance, textures intrigue, and forms evoke emotions. Solar Kiss by Eric Saint Georges

2. SBIFF’S SB FILMMAKER SERIES • SBIFF Education Center, 1330 State Street • This month we are featuring Michael Lee, Ethan Takekawa, Meg Kievman, and Emma Holm-Olsen’s WHALEROADS which explores the clash between global commerce and marine protection as evidenced by whale/ship strikes in the Santa Barbara Channel. Showtimes 5:30pm, 6:00pm, 6:30pm & 7:00pm. Runtime: 15 mins

3. ENGEL & VOLKERS • 1323 State Street, 805-3420227 • Engel & Volkers Luxury Real Estate invites you to our Santa Barbara office. Enjoy artwork by world renown impressionist painter, James Paul Brown, wine and tasty hors d’oeuvres. See you there!

4. SANTA BARBARA FINE ART • 1321 State Street, 805-845-4270 • Celebrating our beautiful city with art by Santa Barbara’s premiere local artists, Oak Group members and works by beloved marine mammal sculpture, James “ Bud” Bottoms.

5. CPC GALLERY • 33 East Victoria Street • For over 30 years David Mark Lane has used computers to help illustrate his architectural designs. His digital artwork has been called ...’painterly’... This exhibit features a retrospective of David’s ‘digital abstractions’. This vibrant and colorful artwork will be presented on canvas, metal, screens, and through digital projections.

6. PALMA COLECTIVA • 1221 State Street, Suite 24 • ARCHITECTURAL DREAM: An evening of art and oracle readings from The Untamed Elemental by artist Tasya van Ree. Tasya van Ree is a multidisciplinary artist. Her artwork is infused with otherworldly elements of eros, alchemy, and the infinite mystery of the natural world.

7. DOMECIL • 1221 State State, Suite 7, (805) 324-4971 • Stop by domecíl in Victoria Court to view the artwork of local artist Melissa Chojnacki. Her acrylic and oil landscapes explore themes of nature and light focus on themes of nature, landscape and light in my contemporary paintings. Also, shop beautiful ceramics by local potter, Lori Coleman.

8. 10 WEST • 10 West Anapamu Street • Join the artists for Summer Saturation, exploring the depth of color in the natural world and encompassing the emersive effect that art can have on the human mind, soul, and spirit. On view through July 16th. Participating Artists include: Karin Aggeler, Penny Arntz, Bryson Bost, Sophie MJ Cooper, Rick Doehring, Sheldon Kaganoff, Pamela Larsson-Toscher, Dahlia Riley, Eric Saint Georges, Marlene Struss, and Karen Zazon.

9. COLETTE COSENTINO ATELIER + GALLERY • 11 West Anapamu Street, 805-730-1460 • “All About Wallpaper” Colette Cosentino presents the original paintings on canvas that were translated into the highest quality wallpaper murals for the 100 year old company F. Schumacher’s worldwide client base. The original work will be on view and for sale as well as different colorways, printed panels and more! An exclusive opportunity to engage with the original work!

10. SULLIVAN GOSS - AN AMERICAN GALLERY • 11 East Anapamu Street, 805-730-1460 • Join us to celebrate the latest solo show by beloved painter Robin Gowen, who is celebrating 20 years with the gallery. Also on view Recent Acquisitions, and Summer Salon, 2023.

11. SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART • 1130 State Street, 805-963-4364 • Join SBMA for Family 1st Thursday in the Family Resource Center for a Teaching Artist-led activity from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Create a cityscape in oil pastel on bogus paper inspired by Henri Matisse’s Pont Saint-Michel. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm. All free!

12. GALLERY 113 • 1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #8, 805-965-6611 • Members of the Santa Barbara Art Association exhibit their original artwork here in various media. Artist of the Month is Denise Carey. Featured Artists are Bill Hull, Nancy Hull, Paula Gregoire-Jones, Rosemary Jones, Susan Marcelletti. Lily Sanders, and Suemae Willhite.

Artist Marcia Burtt’s Pearly Morning, Goleta Beach is one of the works by Oak Group members on view at Santa Barbara Fine Art. (18)

There is still time to take a dive into Santa Barbara’s Bohemian Mountain Drive history. Enjoy libations and music as well at the beautiful SB Historical Museum! (18)

13. WATERHOUSE GALLERY • 1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #9, 805-962-8885 • The Gallery features figurative works, interiors, and cityscapes, by some of today’s finest nationally known local and Oak Group artists. Enjoy works by Ray Hunter, Derek Harrison. Wyllis Heaton, Camille Dellar, Ann Sanders, Thomas Van Stein, Nancy Davidson, Rick Garcia, Ellie Freudenstein, and Ralph Waterhouse.

14. ACE RIVINGTON • Apollo Cadiente and Dain Hollis are local Santa Barbara artists. Combining graphic design, fashion, and chemistry, they created 6 wholly unique cyanotype designs with Ace Rivington to show their love of Santa Barbara, and all that is has given them.

15. THE YES STORE • 1100 State Street • Join us for 1st Thursday Music by Dan Lower Enjoy snacks and beverages while checking out the work of our featured artists - Lancaster’s wood prints. Looking to give a locally hand-made gift? Look no further than the Yes Store. We are now a year-round local arts gallery.

16. TAMSEN GALLERY • 911.5 State Street, 805-705-2208 • Please join us at Tamsen Gallery to celebrate the vibrant work of artist Robert W. Firestone. From vivid abstracts printed on glossy acrylic to geometric cityscapes laser cut from metal to dynamic portraits printed on canvas, Tamsen Gallery offers a rich visual experience in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara.

17. THE BLUE OWL • 5 West Canon Perdido Street • The Blue Owl will present a jam on the first Thursday of each month. Hosted by guitarist Tony Ybarra, this Jam session will feature local jazz instrumentalists and vocalists. Backed by Santino Tafarella and Matt Perko, it will be a fantastic night of Jazz!

18. SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM • 136 East De la Guerra Street, 805-966-1601 • Enjoy access after-hours with wine and music while you explore our galleries, including a final opportunity to explore our exhibition about the bohemian Mountain Drive community. Free entry. No RSVP needed. Bring a friend!

19. LA PALOMA CAFE • 15 West Gutierrez Street, 805-963-1157 • Dive into Chef Jeremy’s Dad’s ocean-inspired artwork, where color swirls and dances like cresting waves. Each canvas captures the untamed beauty of the sea, inviting you to immerse yourself in its depths. Let his art transport you to a world of tranquility and wonder, where the ocean’s allure never fades.

20. WORK ZONES • 351 Paseo Nuevo • Experience the grandeur of the Queen’s 1953 Coronation through coronation robes, gowns, 70-year-old patterns, press photos and magazines; showcasing the Queen’s dressmaker, Norman Hartnell. Behold an authentic sample of the Queen’s velvet Coronation robe, along with revived ensembles crafted by Santa Barbara couture seamstress, Cara Austine. Witness the historic 1953 BBC broadcast. Wine served. Don’t miss out!

21. MCASB • Paseo Nuevo Upper Arts Terrace, 653 Paseo Nuevo • Please join us at MCASB for a fun evening of California poetry and music hosted by Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate Melinda Palacio! California State Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and Ladies’ Social Strumming Club will also be featured, in collaboration with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture and MCASB.

22. IDYLL MERCANTILE • 703 Chapala Street • This 1st Thursday we are celebrating Cat Craig who is painter, illustrator and digital artist, based in Ojai, California. Her inspiration comes from long road trips, hard climbs, classic vinyl and other indescribable moments. As usual we will have Apiary on tap and DJ Donnybru on the vibes! See you 5-8!

23. SBCAST • 513 Garden Street • Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, electronic music,

and digital art research, practice, production, and theory. Experience cutting-edge research and new media artworks on June 1st at the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology (SBCAST).

24. ELIZABETH GORDON GALLERY • 15 West Gutierrez Street, 805-963-1157

• Join us at Elizabeth Gordon Gallery in downtown Santa Barbara on Thursday, June 1st from 5 - 8 PM to enjoy wine, bites, and the beautiful, artwork by America Martin, Greg Miller, Rafael Gaete, Sherri Belassen, Stanley Boydston, David Matthew King, Dan Lencioni, Richard Mann, and more of our locally loved artists.

25. RIVIERA BEACH HOUSE • 121 State Street • Join us at the Riviera Beach House for the opening night of our new art gallery. Our debut exhibit, “A Riviera Summer,” kicks off the season with artwork inspired by the vibrant mood of summer as part of a series of rotating artwork curated by the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation.

Performers & Special Events

STATE STREET PROMENADE MARKET • 800 State Street • Join us every 1st Thursday at the State Street Promenade Market (3 to 8pm) to check out great local artists and vendors, plus enjoy food from surrounding restaurants, live performances, and interactive activities.

JACOB MARQUEZ AND THE GOOD VIBES BAND • 800 Block of State Street (5-8pm) • Mezcal Martini is a high-energy Latin jazz band playing music designed to make you move., from cha-cha, to cumbia, to salsa. Come shake your maracas to Latin favorites from Santana, Celia Cruz, Poncho Sanchez and more!

TINY LIBRARIES RETURN TO STATE STREET! • Join us on for a free book exchange at six locations: State & Victoria, Anapamu, Carrillo, and Canon Perdido Street intersections. Additional chalk illustrations by Sharyn Chan and Sara Wilcox with support from I Madonnari and the SB County Arts Commission. Created by Douglas

Lochner in 2019, Tiny Libraries was originally commissioned by SB County Office of Arts & Culture in partnership with The City of Santa Barbara and support from SB Beautiful.

Explore the new gallery at Riviera Beach Hose - It’s summer curated by Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Fdn! (25)

Discover art by local artists at Gallery 113 - wecolming the work of members of the Santa Barbara Art Association (12)

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is a best best on 1st Thursday! This month create a cityscape in oil pastel & more. (11)

Tiny Libraries by Douglas Lochner make a new appearance - including book exchanges!

Robin Gowan’s 20th solo exhibition at Sullivan Goss is a main event at the gallery. Drift into her landscapes for an experience of Santa Barbara! (10)

Experience the granduer of a Queen - coronation robes from 1953, made from 70 year old patterns at Work Zones. (20)

Wow! illuminating the buildings of SB CAST will be cutting-edge new media artworks. (23)

Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate Melinda Palacio will headline a fun evening of poetry at MCASB! (21)