ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Calendar of Events

by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, JUNE 8

Flamenco Íntimo – Newly named Spirit of Fiesta Jack Harwood – the first male dancer to hold the post in Old Spanish Days’ history – is the special guest for this periodic intimate evening of flamenco at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Andres Vadin’s approach to the flamenco guitar is to highlight it as a universal instrument with no boundaries, and indeed his career has taken him worldwide and included collaborations on Latin Grammy-nominated albums. Award-winning dancer Manuel Gutierrez has also enjoyed a prolific career, headlining flamenco festivals in Spain, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and throughout the world. Figaro raved about Gutierrez, saying “The dance is strong, voluptuous, and spectacular... a profound type of Flamenco and incredibly explosive.”

WHEN: 7-8:30 pm

WHERE: Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 136 East De la Guerra Street

COST: $100 for two tickets

INFO: (805) 966-1601 or www.santabarbaramuseum.com

SUNDAY, JUNE 11

Town and Gown and All That Jazz – Following up on last spring’s blockbuster performance for the Santa Barbara Jazz Society’s monthly show at SOhO, the UCSB Jazz Ensemble returns to the club with a fresh lineup of musicians and material. The ensemble will perform material drawn from the entire academic year including selections from its winter quarter tribute to Women in Jazz as well as arrangements from Grammy-winning writers John Daversa and Steven Feifke and well-known classics by Toshiko Akiyoshi and Maynard Ferguson. Graduating senior Bella Holland, a Santa Barbara native, will sing a selection of Cuban and Brazilian jazz, while other vocal performances include Nina Lim offering a rendition of Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of “All of Me.” The concert is directed by UCSB Continuing Lecturer Jon Nathan, now in his 28th year as ensemble director.

WHEN: 1-4 pm

WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court

COST: $25 general, $20 Jazz or Blues Society members, $10 professional musicians, singers, and full-time students

INFO: (805) 962-7776/www.sohosb.com or (805) 687-7123/www.sbjazz.org

FRIDAY, JUNE 9

Surf Film Fest – The 3rd annual Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival celebrates Santa Barbara’s rich surf history and culture through the diverse storytelling styles of filmmakers, artists, shapers, and surfers who started it all. The festival showcases captivating surf cinema from a wide variety of film directors including talented up-and-comers and renowned veterans. Friday night’s highlights include the 2022 short Mind Surfing: The Conner Coffin Story, about a Santa Barbara native turned U.S. Open Pro Junior champion and directed by Keith Malloy; and Bill Delaney’s 1977 classic surf movie, Free Ride, which pioneered revolutionary slow motion water photography – previewed by a Q&A session with Montecito surf legend Shaun Tomson and others. Saturday starts with a Grom Program of curated shorts featuring Surf Happens Rincon Classic Youth division winners. The arguable centerpiece of the afternoon is the world premiere of Rebirth the Kill by acclaimed surf film director Josh Pomer – updating the classic surf action series with exclusive new footage of crazy airs, long tubes, and hard carves shot last summer to create an adrenaline-filled ride for audiences. New this year is an outdoor Surf Film Festival Block Party featuring exhibitors and local artisans, plus live music all day.

WHEN: 6 pm-12 midnight Friday, 10 am-12 midnight Saturday; Block Party 12-8 pm Saturday

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.

COST: $46 & $81 Friday in advance, $56/$106 day of; Saturday 10 am Grom $14, single screening admission $26, all-day pass $106 in advance, $14/$21/$126 day of; Block Party $15 in advance, $20 day of, free with all other tickets except single screening

INFO: (805) 963-0761/www.lobero.com or www.santabarbarasurffilmfestival.com

TUESDAY, JUNE 13

The Big One Is Back… Ooh La La –In its all-new 2023 production, the California-based touring single-ring Circus Vargas presents “Bonjour Paris,” channeling the City of Lights via a variety of high-energy acts. The action-packed extravaganza aims to deliver the ultimate live family entertainment experience of the year, boasting aerialists, acrobats, and other awe-inspiring artists to both amaze and delight. Humans do all the tricks in the animal-free Circus Vargas, veering between acts of artistry, daring feats of courage, and routines of breathtaking beauty. Expected under the big top for the company’s residency in town are its popular Wheel of Death (acrobats on the outside of what looks like a carnival ride), Globe of Death (motorcycles criss-crossing inside a wire sphere), plus contortionists, jugglers, trampolinists, a teeterboard specialist, hoop performers, and more. The two-hour show is all but guaranteed to excite and delight audiences of all ages. Circus Vargas + “Bonjour Paris” … C’est magnifique!

WHEN: 19 total afternoon and evening performances from June 9-19

WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 N. Calle Real COST: $29-$75 adults, $10 discount for children (2-10), $5 discount for seniors (60+) and military INFO: (805) 687-0766/www.earlwarren.com or https://circusvargas.com/tickets

Metro Summer Kids Movies – Wondering what to do with the wee ones until school reopens? Try taking the tykes to two-dollar movies, with two different choices at two locations each week. Metropolitan Theatres offers the program every Wednesday morning at Fiesta 5 Theatres downtown, and every Thursday morning at Camino Real Cinemas in Goleta, with different much-loved movies running at each location. Enjoy family favorites such as The Croods, Secret Life of Pets, The Boss Baby, Kung Fu Panda, and Madagascar – back on the big screen and super-sized compared to streaming on an iPhone. See the website for the full schedule to plan in advance for some summer cinema fun.

WHEN: 10 am Wednesday & Thursday mornings, June 13-August 10

WHERE: Fiesta 5 Theatres, 916 State St., and Camino Real Cinemas, 7040 Marketplace Drive, Goleta COST: All tickets $2 with no fees, available at the box office or www.metrotheatres.com, or the Metropolitan Theatres mobile app INFO: www.metrotheatres.com/metro-summer-kids-movies-2023/

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14

Pursuing and Purging in Print – Emmy Award-winning broadcast and print investigative journalist Tamara Leitner has traveled the globe covering natural disasters as a network correspondent for The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC – exposing the underworld of body brokering, diving into Mexican drug cartels, reporting from inside Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Tent City prison camp, and bringing to light a decades-old government cover-up of the later illnesses of American soldiers who had been ordered to bury the toxin Agent Orange on a U.S. military base in South Korea. But her latest book has its beginnings in her own backyard. In 1999 she awoke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment – her neighbor’s sexual assault by a man who would later be identified as serial rapist Claude Dean Hull II, who escaped justice for decades. Leitner’s Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, A Pursuit, And the Women Who Persevered is a powerful true-crime memoir in which the now Santa Barbara-based author seeks closure from the personal demons inhabiting her decades-long compulsion

SCOTS Nights at SOhO – Aside from boasting one of the best names in the history of rock and roll, Southern Culture on the Skids have a unique take on Southern rock, blending in healthy dollops of rockabilly, boogie, R&B, country, blues, swamp music, and elements from other non-Southern influences, all delivered with an almost tongue-in-cheek party band ethos. Founded 40 years ago by singer-songwriter-guitarist Rick Miller in the college town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, SCOTS reached cult status with 1991’s “Too Much Pork for Just One Fork” and scored a major label debut five years later with Dirt Track Date. The current lineup (Miller, Dave Hartman on drums, and Mary Huff on bass and vocals) has been playing together for more than three decades, so when the pandemic put the kibosh on SCOTS’ busy touring schedule, they congregated in Miller’s living room to make 2021’s At Home with Southern Culture on the Skids. Hear the latest and the classics when Southern Culture on the Skids shows up at SOhO tonight. L.A.’s Emily Rose & the Rounders open.

WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court

COST: $18

INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com to follow the investigation. Leitner signs and talks about the book at Chaucer’s.

WHEN: 6 pm

WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center

COST: free

INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

Fiesta Ranchera – Old Spanish Days heads west to the gorgeous grounds of Goleta’s Rancho La Patera gardens for its perennially popular pre-festival event. Sample generous and sumptuous bites, glasses of wine and beer from local providers (more than 23 as of last week) in front of the Stow House, then head over to the tree-lined stage and dance floor for performances by the 2023 Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta, romantic songs from guitarist Tony Ybarra and band, and dancing under the stars with party band favorites Area 51.

WHEN: 5-10 pm

WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta

COST: $85 in advance (no tickets sold at the door)

INFO: (805) 681-7216/https://goletahistory.org/fiesta-ranchera or (805) 962-8101/www.sbfiesta.org/calendar/11616-fiesta-ranchera

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

Symphony & Sinatra – The Santa Barbara Symphony says so long to its 70th Anniversary season with a special oneshot show featuring singer Tony DeSare and orchestra recreating Frank Sinatra’s greatest hits. Travel back to when swing was king and crooners ruled. Relive magic moments of bygone decades with the critically-acclaimed singer/pianist DeSare, who blends Ol’ Blue Eyes with a bit of Billy Joel, for orchestra-backed arrangements of such beloved songs as “I’ve Got the World on a String,” “My Way,” “Come Fly with Me,” “Night and Day,” “New York, New York,” and many more. “An Evening with Sinatra” invites the audience to dress to impress (à la “The Way You Look Tonight”), hum along with selections from the Great American Songbook, sip festive cocktails, and capture the evening’s memories at the Supper Club-themed selfie station –something Sinatra himself would surely have signed off on.

WHEN: 7:30 pm

WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street

COST: $35-$175

INFO: (805) 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

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PHYSICAL TRAINING & THERAPY

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Stillwell Fitness of Santa Barbara

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Obituary Writer

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Burial Plot For Sale

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Health Insurance Plans

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Tutoring Service

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KNIFE SHARPENING SERVICES

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Tile Restoration

Local tile setter of 35 years is now doing small jobs only. Services include grout cleaning and repair, caulking, sealing, replacing damaged tiles and basic plumbing needs. Call Doug Watts at 805-729-3211 for a free estimate.

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