Community Calendar

The Fund for Santa Barbara produces a weekly email calendar of local progressive events including film screenings, festivals, lectures, performances, important policy meetings and fundraisers. If you would like to sign up to recieve these updates or to submit an event to be listed, please send an email (text only, no attachments) to greengeoff@aol.com

Below are the latest such listings through April 20th...

California Coastal Commission Hearing in Santa Barbara – Wednesday, April 9th through Friday, April 11th @ The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors Chambers - 105 East Anapamu Street, 4th Floor in Santa Barbara

Screening of “Paper Dolls” - Wednesday, April 9th – 6:00 p.m. @ The UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater

Screenings of “Angels In The Dust (Nominee for the 2008 Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award):
* Wednesday, April 9th and Thursday, April 10th – 7:00 p.m. @ Conceptual Motion Company - 1501 Chapala St. in Santa Barbara
* Friday, May 23rd - 7:30 p.m. @ Center of the Heart - 487 North Turnpike Road in Santa Barbara

Wilderness Youth Project (WYP) Open House! - Thursday, April 10th – 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuckers Grove

Opening Reception and Award Ceremony For “A & R: Artists and Representation” - Thursday, April 10th – 5:00 p.m. @ The UCSB MultiCultural Center Lounge and Meeting Rooms

Join Us For COAST's "2nd Thursday" Monthly Happy Hour - Thursday, April 10th – 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. @ "Chad's on Chapala" - 625 Chapala Street in Santa Barbara

Transnationalist Myths: Recontextualizing Cultural Iconographies, A Lecture by Alma Lopez - Thursday, April 10th – 5:00 p.m. @ The UCSB Womens Center MultiPurpose Room, SRB

Basins of Relations: Thinking Like a Watershed Lecture - Thursday, April 10th – 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. @ SBCC, BC Forum, Fe Bland Auditorioum, West Campus

UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents a Screening of “Conspiracy” with Film Director Frank Pierson - Thursday, April 10th - 7:30 p.m. @ UCSB Campbell Hall

The Nonprofit Support Center Presents Management in a Multicultural Environment with Michael Landers of Culture Crossing - Friday, April 11th - 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. @ The Nonprofit Support Center - 5638 Hollister Ave. Ste. 200, 2nd Floor Conference Room in Goleta

World Future Council Experts Come To Santa Barbara For Future Justice Summit - Friday, April 11th - 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. @ the McCune Conference Room of the UCSB Humanities and Social Science Building

Solar Flair Solstice Fundraiser - Friday, April 11th – 7:00 p.m. @ Chef Karim's - 1221 State Street #2 (Just beneath SoHo) in Santa Barbara

Performance by Soulfege - Friday, April 11th – 8:00 p.m. @ The UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater

Judge Christopher Weeramantry Featured Speaker at An Evening of Foresight and Compassion Presented by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - Saturday, April 12th - 6:30 p.m. @ the University Club - 1332 Santa Barbara Street in Santa Barbara

April 11th and 12th Grand Opening of the new Arts Alive Multi-Art Center – For more information go to www.artsalivesb.com

Introduction to Permaculture Lecture by Brock Dolman - Friday, April 11th – 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. @ SBCC, BC Forum, Fe Bland Auditorium, West Campus

Health Care for All - Santa Barbara Chapter Yard Sale Fund Raiser - Saturday, April 12th – 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. @ 211 Vernal Ave. in Santa Barbara

Measure V (The Santa Barbara City College Improvement Measure) Campaign HQ Grand Opening Saturday April 12th – 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. @ 2261 Las Positas Road (at Modoc) in Santa Barbara

Naples Coalition invites public on Naples Beach Hike - Sunday, April 13th – 11:00 a.m. – Meet @ The Public Access Parking Lot at Haskell's Beach adjoining the Bacara Resort

Walter H. Capps Presents Henry A. Schimberg Lecture and Symposium on Ethics by Cynthia Cooper, TIME Magazine’s 2002 Person of the Year
"Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower"
Sunday, April 13th - 3:00 p.m. @ Victoria Hall - 33 West Victoria Street in Santa Barbara

Hadassah's Lovers of Peace Dinner - Sunday, April 13th - 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. @ Congregation B'nai B'rith - 1000 San Antonio Creek Road in Santa Barbara

King and Queen of Pride Pageant - Sunday, April 13th – 7:00 p.m. @ the Santa Barbara Dance Center - 11 West Ortega Street in Santa Barbara

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies Presents Nathan Englander, Author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges “The Ministry of Special Cases” - Monday, April 14th - 8:00 p.m. @ Victoria Hall - 33 West Victoria Street in Santa Barbara

The New 990: Marketing, Governance and Accountability for Your Organization - Tuesday, April 15th - 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. @ The Nonprofit Support Center - 5638 Hollister Ave. Ste. 200, 2nd Floor Conference Room in Goleta

Lecture and Discussion of the Cuban Elections and Participatory Democracy - Tuesday, April 15th – 6:00 p.m. @ The UCSB MultiCultural Center Lounge

Petroleum Geologist Jeffrey J. Brown Speaks on Peak Oil - How Soon? How Serious? - Tuesday, April 15th – 7:00 p.m. @ The UCSB Corwin Pavilion

League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara Community Forum: Measure V, the Santa Barbara City College Improvement Measure - Wednesday, April 16th - 12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. @ Louise Lowry Davis Center - 1232 De La Vina St. in Santa Barbara.

28. Screening of “Looking For Langston” - Wednesday, April 16th – 6:00 p.m. @ The UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater

29. “Rare Plants and Fire: Part 3 in a Three-part Series on Fire Ecology in the Los Padres National Forest” – Wednesday, April 16th – 7:00 p.m. @ Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Blaksley Library - 1212 Mission Canyon Road in Santa Barbara

Wine, Dine & Feel Good About it! Support EDC at our Annual Dine Out for the Earth (Day) - Thursday, April 17th @ Local Restaurants (See List Below)

Journalists and Foreign Policy Experts Steve Coll and Robin Wright Lecture on the future of the Middle East - Thursday, April 17th – 7:00 p.m. @ UCSB Campbell Hall

Surf Film & Music Night to Benefit Channelkeeper - Friday, April 18th - 6:30 p.m. @ the Marjorie Luke Theatre – 721 East Cota Street in Santa Barbara

Earth Day Clean-up - Saturday, April 19th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon @ Santa Barbara’s West Beach

“Bullets or Crayons?” The Coalition Against Gun Violence 13th Annual Lunch – Friday, April 19th - 11:30 a.m. @ the Hotel Mar Monte – 1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard in Santa Barbara

Annual Prime Timers Central Coast Spring Prom – Saturday, April 19th – 5:30 p.m. @ Mulligan's - 3500 McCaw Avenue in Santa Barbara

South Coast Earth Day Festival 2008 - Sunday, April 20th – 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. @ The Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens


 

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