MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 ABCs of Opera – What does it take to produce an opera? Steven Sharpe, 10-year veteran general director of Opera Santa Barbara, tackles the question through a multimedia presentation that illustrates the step-by-step process of creating a polished performance in a talk that inaugurates Antioch in Conversation for the new academic year. Sharpe will detail the multitude of elements – singing, orchestra, dance, sets, costumes, chorus – that coalesce into the final presentation on stage of an opera, the most elaborate of all the classical art forms. Sharpe will share footage of past productions and plans for the upcoming OSB season that features Bizet’s Carmen, Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and Puccini’s La Rondine. WHEN: 4 to 5:30 pm WHERE: Antioch University Santa Barbara, 602 Anacapa Street COST: free INFO: 962-8179 or www.antiochsb.edu
be warned: she’s fronting a full-size band with electric guitars and drums. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $39 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com Swapped – Santa Barbara Theatre Initiative for Young Adults (TIYA) presents its first annual production of Swapped, a “gender miscast” musical review featuring songs from popular musicals. The talented students of the program – which in just its first year as a new theater company put on two shows earlier in 2016, Spring Awakening and Medea – perform in the show, creating a cabaret atmosphere to deliver the songs and the message about equality. Enjoy free drinks (mocktails) and light appetizers during the show – VIP tickets include a reserved spot at a front-row table and additional perks – and be sure to come early or drop by to bid silent-auction items featuring goods from local artisans and businesses. All proceeds will go toward helping SB TIYA further their goal of bringing more youth theater to the Santa Barbara community. WHEN: 8 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $25 general, $20 students, $35 VIP INFO: 963-0408 or www. CenterStageTheater.org
GRANADA THEATRE CONCERT SERIES
CHRIS BOTTI SAT SEP 10 8PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 CINE EN DOMINGO
Our Odyssey – The Odyssey Project partners teens from juvenile detention facility Los Prietos Boys Camp with UCSB students through a theatrical collaboration. Supported by a network of university and community teaching artists including a mask maker, hip-hop music artists, mime/ movement specialist, and fight and dance choreographers, the students rewrite The Odyssey of Homer using their own life stories. Everyone in the cast becomes a hero or heroine on their own path to empowerment, their personal Ithaca. The project is designed to honor youth in identifying their heroic life mission and map a course of action, using theater arts as a strategy for inspiring life-affirming choices. This year’s project examines “To Have a Voice is to Have a Choice,” a timely theme given current community confrontations around the country. Michael Morgan directs today’s matinee performance at Center Stage Theater downtown. For more information, visit www. theaterdance.ucsb.edu/projects/ odyssey/ and odysseyprojectfilm.com. WHEN: 2 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $20, general admission INFO: 963-0408 or www. •MJ CenterStageTheater.org
EL REY DEL BARRIO SUN SEP 11 3PM MOVIES THAT MATTER WITH HAL CONKLIN
IN PLAIN SIGHT MON SEP 12 7PM AND THE BAND PLAYED ON
STOP MAKING SENSE TUE SEP 13 7PM UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
THE NATIONAL PARKS FILMS SAT SEP 24 12PM SUN SEP 25 12PM MOVIES THAT MATTER WITH HAL CONKLIN
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Metheny Scores – As in 20. That’s how many Grammy Awards that have been earned by the incredibly creative and accomplished guitarist Pat Metheny, who most recently added being inducted into the Downbeat Hall of Fame as its youngest member and only the fourth guitarist to his list of plaudits. Metheny returns to the Lobero, kicking off Jazz at the Lobero’s fall season, this time joined by his longtime drummer Antonio Sanchez, Malaysian/Australian bassist Linda Oh, and British pianist Gwilym Simcock, who will help the astonishing ax-man deliver an array of music drawn from throughout his career. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $59 & $69 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and pre-concert private reception). Series tickets available INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com (photo by John Peden)
8 – 15 September 2016
MON SEP 26 7PM
OPEN CALL
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
The Granada Theatre is giving away the chance for one lucky a cappella group to perform as the OPENING ACT for VOCALOSITY when they comeTUE to Santa Barbara on Nov. 11th SEP 27 7:30PM
FAREED ZAKARIA
visit granadasb.org for details
All dash to and fro in motor cars, familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. – T.S. Eliot
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