ON The (Music) Stage
Hold an eye fixed out for indie artist Nicole Sophia this weekend; she’ll be showcasing her new single “Pancakes” (from her debut EP Reveal Your Coronary heart) onstage on the Pacific Pleasure Pageant on Saturday, August 26, at roughly 2 p.m. An brazenly queer singer-songwriter, Nicole Sophia’s music tells the story of her private journey of self-discovery and embracing vulnerability, in addition to self-described badassery. Additionally hitting the stage on the Fest (11 a.m.–7 p.m. at Chase Palm Park Area) are DJ Darla Bea, Calypso Jetè Balmain, LG Staff Genius, the Vivian Storm Expertise, Santa Barbara Homosexual Males’s Refrain, and the La Boheme Dancers, amongst others. Go to PacificPrideFoundation.org for the entire scoop.
One805LIVE! is heading our means on September 22 with an incredible profit live performance for our Santa Barbara County first responders. It will likely be headlined by Maroon 5, who’s donating 100% of their efficiency to the trigger, with extra performers to be introduced quickly. Not solely that, the Grammy-winning band will be a part of the celebration at Kevin Costner’s oceanside property in Summerland. I’ll have a full story concerning the work of the group quickly, however tickets can be found right here now. As well as, there’s an internet public sale main as much as the occasion, that includes an entire slew of enjoyable stuff — all the pieces from signed guitars from Robby Krieger (The Doorways), Katy Perry, Kevin Costner, Maroon 5, and Elliot Easton (The Automobiles); a signed drum from Travis Barker and one from Danny Seraphine; a VIP Depeche Mode live performance expertise; and a luxurious cruise from the Dominican Republic, St. Barts, Antigua, the Virgin Islands, and rather more. Click on right here to bid and get in on giving again for trigger!
ON The (Dance) Stage
I’m trying ahead to Sunday’s joyful efficiency of “Dancing Out Loud,” a free public occasion offered by award-winning dancer, choreographer, and deaf artist and advocate Antoine Hunter and members of the City Jazz Dance Firm, which he based. Going down on August 27 at 5 p.m. and once more at 5:30 p.m. on the Santa Barbara Museum of Artwork entrance terrace, Hunter describes his piece by saying it “places the capital D in Deaf, representing energy, tradition, and power.” The general public efficiency accompanies the present (and glorious) exhibition The Non-public Universe of James Fort: Drawings from the William Louis-Dreyfus Basis and James Fort Assortment and Archive. Learn Josef Woodard’s story concerning the exhibition right here.
ON The Web page
Scribe alert: In case you’re a Santa Barbara County creator who wish to see your e-book on our library cabinets, the Santa Barbara Public Library System affords a small show space on the Central Library downtown for native authors who need to make their work accessible to library patrons (woo-hoo)! “This assortment is designed to offer new and rising writers, particularly these whose books aren’t but broadly reviewed or stocked by libraries and bookstores, a chance to be learn by different members of their group,” stated a library spokesperson. Extra particulars and the submittal type are right here.
Tracy Shawn and Michael Cregan will reasonable a panel on “Inviting the Muse” on Friday, August 25, at 6:30 p.m. on the High quality Line Gallery at La Cumbre Plaza (close to Pottery Barn). Panelists on the free occasion embrace singer-songwriter Dan Diamond; author Janet Lucy (whose e-book The Three Sunflowers I wrote about lately); and Melinda Palacio, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate and our very personal Poetry Connection columnist.
Mark your calendars and get out your checkbooks (do folks nonetheless have these?), as a result of Deliberate Parenthood’s colossal Annual Guide Sale (the forty ninth) can be again September 14-24 on the Earl Warren Showgrounds within the big exhibit corridor. The opening night time festivities ($30, all different dates are free admission) get you first crack at titles like Why My Cat is Extra Spectacular than Your Child and Intercourse, Medicine, and Cocoa Puffs. Click on right here to buy tickets. And for extra details about the entire shebang, go to booksale.ppcentralcoast.org.
Jane Hulse, whose identify chances are you’ll bear in mind from the great years of the Santa Barbara Information-Press, is signing her new e-book, Prisoner of Wallabout Bay, on Monday, September 11, at 6 p.m. at Chaucer’s Books. It’s a piece of historic fiction, with the primary character described as “a lowly apprentice at a newspaper the place her foul-mouthed, ill-tempered boss retains assigning her tales on girls’ hair tendencies as a substitute of the Revolutionary Battle intrigue she so desires to cowl. Sarah’s relentless digging uncovers a narrative that no one desires to even discuss, no much less print. The British have arrange decaying jail ships within the waters off New York. Risking all the pieces, Sarah fights to show rampant cruelty and wretched circumstances, and within the course of simply occurs to seek out love.” Sounds fairly attention-grabbing to me.
ON The (Massive) Display screen
In case you missed out on the Barbenheimer wave this summer time, now’s your likelihood to hit a double function on the pretty air-conditioned Metropolitan Theatres for Nationwide Cinema Day on Sunday, August 27. All the Metropolitan Theatres places in Santa Barbara and Goleta (which is principally ALL of the theaters on the town apart from the SBIFF-owned Riviera) can be taking part within the one-day occasion, which celebrates films and affords all seats at simply $4 per ticket. Per the Metro crew, “Moviegoers will have the ability to get pleasure from dozens of films together with new movies opening this weekend like Gran Turismo: Based mostly on a True Story, Golda, The Hill, and Retribution, present field workplace hits like Barbie, Oppenheimer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Blue Beetle, Strays, Meg 2: The Trench, Mission Inconceivable: Lifeless Reckoning Half 1, and Sound of Freedom, plus latest hits returns like The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film, The Little Mermaid, and Asteroid Metropolis.
ON The (Small) Display screen
The wait is over: Deltopia the film drops on digital and on demand on August 29 and it seems to be, nicely, completely nothing like the true Isla Vista. The late Olivia Newton-John was apparently a producer on the movie, produced by Lionsgate. Starring Luna Blaise (Manifest, Recent Off the Boat), Madison Pettis (He’s All That, The Recreation Plan, Cory within the Home) and Charlie Gillespie (Julie and the Phantoms, Charmed, Degrassi: Subsequent Class) the manufacturing description is: “Each spring break, tens of 1000’s of faculty children descend upon Isla Vista, California, for Deltopia — the last word road celebration with no guidelines and no boundaries. Impressed by true occasions, Deltopia follows a bunch of latest highschool grads who be a part of the celebration, trying to have fun their newfound freedom. However nothing can put together these mates for Deltopia’s unstable mixture of intercourse, medication, and rebel, as they unite for a life-changing journey that brings exhilaration, heartbreak, and, in the end, hope.” Take a look at the trailer right here. I don’t assume I’m fairly the goal demo, however I’m unusually inquisitive about this one.
ON The Partitions
There’s at all times one thing cool occurring at CAW. Indy photographer Carl Perry’s present LUNCH is August 29 (see Josef Woodard’s story right here), and following that could be a group present, The Future That By no means Got here, that includes eight assemblage and collage artists exploring the present’s theme of retrofuturism — a motion within the inventive arts exhibiting the affect of depictions of the long run produced in an earlier period. Artist organizer Sue Van Horsen, impressed by sci-fi reveals like Star Trek, Misplaced in Area, Gigantor and Jonny Quest is bringing collectively a few of Santa Barbara’s coolest collage and assemblage artists for a 10-day present starting September 15 on the Group Arts Workshop Gallery (CAW). Artists embrace: Adrienne De Guevara, Dan Le Vin, Michael Lengthy, Jami Nielsen, Norm Reed, Dug Uyesaka, Frank Whipple, and Sue Van Horsen.
The Santa Barbara Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Pageant Returns on September 9-10, and this time it’s coming to the Santa Barbara Elks Lodge (which is, confusingly, in Goleta). There’s certain to be all types of gorgeous beach-inspired artwork and different treasures, in addition to a number of artisans presenting workshops on how one can remodel your beachcombing booty into hand-crafted items. For extra particulars, click on right here.
ON the Calendar
A Joystix and DJ Darla Bea dance celebration is at all times a joyful event, and Saturday’s (August 26) non-poolside pool dance celebration at 1129 State Road within the Mosaic Locale Courtyard is certain to be an ’80s-themed blast. Take a look at this hyperlink for tickets and extra details about the “Completely ’80s Pool-Much less Pool Occasion.”
For an entire calendar of occasions this week and past, go to impartial.com/occasions/.
