Ottmar Liebert founded the first incarnation of his band, Luna Negra, in 1989. His music style is a mix of Spanish, Mexican and World elements, strong melodies tinged with a shade of melancholy, balanced with upbeat rhythms. Liebert has since become one of the most successful instrumental artists of the past decades, entertaining audiences around the world and releasing a catalog of 33 classic albums.
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Demetri won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh for his one-man show, If I. At the Melbourne International Comedy festival, his show Dr. Earnest Parrot Presents Demetri Martin won Australia’sBarry Award. Demetri has released three standup comedy albums and four hour-long standup comedy specials, including his latest for Netflix, The Overthinker.
Demetri created and starred in his own television series for Comedy Central called Important Things with Demetri Martin. His books, This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, are New York Times Bestsellers. His latest book, If It’s Not Funny It’s Art, features a collection of his original drawings. Demetri’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. His first feature film, Dean, which won the Founder’s Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival for best narrative American feature film.
Demetri has brown hair and he is allergic to peanuts.
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Please note: This is a two night engagement, featuring an amplified performance on 1/26/24 and an acoustic performance on 1/27/24
Henry, Jojo, and Ringo Garza have been making bluesy “Texican rock & roll” music together for seventeen years and show no signs of slowing down. The three young brothers formed a band, got signed to a major label, and had a hit single that propelled them to stardom. In the span of their career, they have sold 2.5 million records, won a GRAMMY®, and received five more GRAMMY® nominations.
The second-generation sibling band was showcased at Farm Aid by Willie Nelson, who fronted recording time at his famed Pedernales Studio, and guested on their album. Another dream came true for the Boys when Carlos Santana invited them to guest on his 2005 album, All That I Am. They also released Live at the Fillmore that year. Their father and Willie Nelson joined them on 2006’s Sacred, and in 2007, their cover of John Lennon’s “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” became the second single from the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.
With special guests 80HProject for the 1/27 acoustic performance ONLY
“A smoothly vocal heavy positive groove based crew with an amazing feel.” 80Hproject came together in the fertile music hotbed of their native Austin, TX. The band since expanded their presence to the Nashville, TN music scene and is fast making their mark. The 80HProject are continually ramping up their original, uncompromisingly soulful sound and are breaking through as “just below the radar” sensation. Ady Hernandez, band leader has the tenacity of a new coming artist combined with the history of a seasoned vet. Ady’s live performances has been described as, he “Plays guitar like Carlos Santana and sings like Stevie Wonder”
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Rudolph is the classic holiday tale of a misfit reindeer with a blinking red nose, who makes friends and embarks on a journey through the North Pole to save Christmas. Featuring the students of State Street Ballet Academy as well as the Cold Spring School Choir and Laudate Choir directed by Sara DiSalvo.
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Convergence is an original 805 Beer film starring Authenticos Conner Coffin, Nate Tyler, and Greyson Fletcher. Directed by Perry Gerkshow, and filmed on location throughout California, Convergence follows three surf icons as they travel up the Golden State’s coast to surf, skate, share cold ones, and reflect on the journey their shared love for surfing and the Californian way of life has taken them on.
6:45-8 PM – Happy Hour on the Esplanade
8:00-9:15 PM – Film Screening
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Helena Matheopoulos is a Greek-born, London-based journalist, author, biographer, public speaker and opera specialist. She has worked for a number of high-profile publications including Tatler, The Sunday Times, and Greek Vogue, as well as writing a number of books mainly on opera, but including a biography of Juan Carlos I of Spain. She has also worked in an advisory capacity for the Athens Megaron and the Philharmonia Orchestra and is often asked to speak publicly on opera and related subjects.
Forty five years after her death, Greek born Maria Callas (nee Kalogeropoulos), is still worshipped as ardently as she was during her lifetime: Her records outsell those of any other diva, past or present, and she seems to mesmerize a new generation of opera lovers as potently as she bewitched the audiences of her day; a phenomenon unique in the history of opera. “Not just unequalled –unequalable!” according to the legendary Italian film, opera, and stage director Luchino Visconti. The Italian press perceptively christened her “La Divina,” thus emphasizing the extra, metaphysical dimension that sets Callas apart from singers of her time and, so far, of all time.
Now, in September 2023, the 100th anniversary of her birth, the Mayor of Athens will inaugurate a “Maria Callas Museum” next to Athens Cathedral; Unesco has named 2023 ”Maria Callas Year”; Opera Houses all over the world are dedicating productions to her memory.“Without doubt”, declares Kiki Morfoniou, who sang Neris to her Medea at Epidaurus in 1961,“Maria was The Voice of the Century.
This lecture is the perfect complement to the November 10 performance by Opera Santa Barbara: LA DIVINA: The Art of Maria Callas. Eleni Calenos and Jana McIntyre sing signature arias of Maria Callas, accompanied by the Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra, conducted by Kostis Protopapas.
This is a collaboration between UCSB’s Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies and Opera Santa Barbara, and is made possible through the generosity of the Argyropoulos family and UCLA’s Niarchos Foundation.
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Join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network for a special evening with Rachel Ward as she shares her experience of coming to terms with the catastrophic fires & floods that beset Australia in recent years. The personal story-telling style of her film features intimate interviews with Rachel, her family, her inquisitive young farm manager who prompts them on a regenerative farm learning path, and all the people she has been inspired by on her transition from the world of entertainment to the world of farming. With honesty, and even humor, the film gives a unique insight into her voyage from willful ignorance about the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture, to embracing a regenerative movement to restore the health of Australia’s farmland, food and climate. Conversation & Q&A with Rachel follows.
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FELICIANO: A name that is synonymous with MUSIC. It is synonymous with an international presence that has influenced popular music for two generations. It is synonymous with a presence that has bridged musical styles in a way that has never been equaled. José Feliciano is recognized as the first Latin Artist to effectively cross over into the English music market, opening the doors for other artists who now play an important role in the American music industry.
As importantly, Feliciano has been acclaimed by critics around the world as “The greatest living guitarist.” Referred to as “The Picasso of his realm,” José Feliciano’s accomplishments are highly celebrated. He’s been awarded over forty-five Gold and Platinum records; he has won nineteen Grammy nominations, earning nine Grammy Awards, including the “LARAS Award for Lifetime Achievement.”
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In 2012, Fleetwood Mask was formed to honor the legacy of Fleetwood Mac. Upon meeting with Mick Fleetwood in Maui several years ago, Fleetwood Mask humbly and proudly carries the auspicious gift of having Mick Fleetwood’s only endorsement in America. Fleetwood Mask brings audiences the very best of Fleetwood Mac’s 50-year history with a focus on the 1975 forward five-piece version of their lineup that catapulted the band to super stardom. Fleetwood Mask has played nationally for over a decade to music lovers from all corners of the U.S. and each group member provides their character’s select equipment, persona, and performance bringing audiences a truly authentic Fleetwood Mac experience.
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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network celebrates its fourth Annual Eco Hero Award, honoring Albert K. Bates, Environmental Lawyer, Author, Right Livelihood Award recipient, UN Climate Conference Delegate, and Biochar Pioneer.
A perennial good-natured optimist, but hard-core realist, Albert Bates has been an advocate for the Earth and its ecosystems for over 50 years.
Like many of his generation, he gravitated towards living in an intentional community, joining The Farm ecovillage in Tennessee in 1972, after trekking (Thru-Hiking) north to south, the entire Appalachian Trail. In his years at The Farm ecovillage, he learned many practical skills, working as a horse farmer, mason, solar technician, illustrator, typesetter, flour miller, riding instructor, mushroom grower, paramedic, councilman and schoolteacher.
Albert served on the executive board of Plenty-USA, a not for profit organization founded by members of The Farm, that put small water, energy, and health-care systems into underserved communities around the world. In 1980, The Farm and Plenty were awarded the first Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the alternative Nobel Peace prize, for “caring, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad.” Plenty supports economic self-sufficiency, cultural integrity and environmental responsibility in partnership with community groups and organizations in Central America, the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa.
With Plenty, Albert also founded the Natural Rights Center and launched a lawsuit to end atomic power on human rights grounds that went before twenty-two federal judges and four times to the United States Supreme Court. Bates also challenged uranium mining in the Black Hills and the first strike MX Missile deployment in the Dakotas. He also challenged a State law retroactively disenfranchising all felons, winning a State Supreme Court order that restored the right to vote to more than 200,000 citizens in Tennessee.
As a young lawyer, Albert defended rural Tennessee residents from some of the most dangerous toxins imaginable that were being dumped by agrochemical companies into the Knox Aquifer, a primary source of citizens drinking water. Bringing in experts and showing statistically high cancer rates by county, he won a statewide ban on fracking and deep well injection.
While researching that case, Albert began a journey of learning about how climate change might affect water rights in the future, which led to his fifth book, Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990) with a foreword by Al Gore. Shaken by all he learned, he retired from the practice of law, and as an antidote, took up forest mushroom farming with a mail-order catalog called Mushroompeople, also later discovering permaculture.
Later forays to the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon introduced him to terra preta (dark earth) and biochar, exploring biochar’s potential for mitigating climate change and improving soil quality where implemented. Biochar is modeled after an ancient practice found in the Amazonian basin, where indigenous people used it with great success for centuries to create rich fertile soils, out of their typically thin infertile tropical soils.
In 1994, Bates founded the Farm Ecovillage Training Center and in 1995 co-founded the Global Ecovillage Network. Both were outshoots of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology, a nonprofit scientific research, development and demonstration organization, with projects on six continents including resettling Ukrainian refugees with the Green Road project, and regaining food sovereignty for Palestine. He has taught hundreds of courses in permaculture, natural building, ecovillage design, and climate solutions in more than 60 countries, including training certified permaculture instructors in China and Cuba.
Albert has been an ongoing delegate to the United Nations Climate Conferences (COP), representing the Global Ecovillage Network, ProNatura, and the International Biochar Initiative.
Albert is the prolific author of more than 20 books including Climate in Crisis; The Paris Agreement; The Biochar Solution; Transforming Plastics; The Dark Side of the Ocean; Plagued; and coauthor with Kathleen Draper of Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis (in German as Cool Down). His latest book is Retropopulationism: Clawing Back a Stable Planet from Eight Billion and Change (2023).
Albert will be attending the International Biochar Conference in Sacramento, CA in February 2024.
The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award honors those individuals who have committed themselves to work in service of the planet and its inhabitants for more than thirty years, with actual solutions and concrete ways forward that benefit many, often on a global scale, while demonstrating pathways forward for future generations. Past recipients of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award include John D. Liu; Paul Stamets & Louie Schwartzberg; and John & Nancy Jack Todd. We are honored to have Albert Bates join us in person as the recipient for the 2024 Eco Hero Award. A reception follows in the Lobero courtyard for all ticket holders.
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Join Santa Barbara Symphony Music & Artistic Director Nir Kabaretti on a musical journey through the 2023/24 Season.
Learn how Nir’s conceived the coming season’s programs, the relationship between the pieces, guest artists, backstage stories, and more. Live guest interviews and musical performances including Principal Pianist Natasha Kislenko and Mezzo-Soprano Christina Ramsey from Opera Santa Barbara will round out the event.
Discover:
Complimentary snacks and champagne will be available during the pre-presentation reception outside the Lobero from 4:30– 5 pm. Additional beverages will be available for purchase at the Lobero concession stand.
Bring a Friend! Know someone who’d like to learn more about The Symphony? Bring them along. We’d love to meet and share the symphonic artistry, camaraderie, and joy awaiting them this season.
4:30 – 5:00 PM: Reception
5:00 – 6:00 PM: Presentation
The Preview Presentation is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.
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Nebula Dance Lab is back at Lobero Oct 26th for one night only! This brand new show features the choreography of Chloe Roberts inspired by the works of women artists from 18th century to current. Brought to life by Nebula’s bi-coastal cast featuring dancers from NYC and SB for this one night only experience.
Nebula Dance Lab Artistic Director: Devyn Duex | Rehearsal Director: Ashley Kohler-Reynolds | Choreographer: Chloe Roberts
Perceptions inspired by:
Carol Ann Duffy, b. 1955 – ‘Text’
Rupi Kaur, b. 1992
Joy Harjo, b. 1951 – ‘Remember’
Louise Gluck, b. 1943 – ‘The Red Poppy’
Frida Khalo, b. 1907 – “The Two Fridas” 1939
Alma Thomas, b. 1891 – “Starry Night and the Astronauts”, 1970
Pauline Powell Burns, b. 1876 – “Violets”, c. 1890
Vigée le Brun, b. 1755 – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” c. 1790
Hilma af Klint, b. 1862 – “Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood”, 1907
Yayoi Kusama, b.1929 – “Fireflies on the Water” 2002
Nazgol Ansarinia, b. 1979 – “Lakes Drying, Tides Rising”, 2022
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2023 finds the prolific musician continuing her world tour around the 2021 release of Careless Love Deluxe Anniversary Edition. Madeleine’s 1996 breakthrough album Dreamland sold a striking 200,000 copies and her dusky voice was likened to that of Jazz greats Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Dreamland cemented Peyroux as a ‘classic’ musical talent that was here to stay, and the soulful singer found herself touring the world, singing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and opening for Cesaria Evora.
Thirty years after her formative busking days in Paris, she is an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours, the proud curator of nine beguiling albums, and her countless accolades include the coveted BBC International Artist of The Year honor. Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago. With endearing passion and great curiosity, the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
Photo credit: Steve Rappaport
Joy Clark is a New Orleans singer-songwriter, lyrical guitarist and composer who creates soulful original compositions that celebrate peace and the undeniable power of love. Her intricate rhythms and warm melodies reveal a sweet vulnerability that enchants her audiences around the world. Like so many other artists in New Orleans, Joy’s first stage was in church. Growing up the daughter of a minister, she learned to create an atmosphere ripe for an emotional experience. So it’s no wonder she believes music is her ministry and intimacy is her superpower.
Joy signed a recording contract with Righteous Babe Records and her first two singles have been released on October 5, Guest, and November 16, Gumbo Christmas. The song Guest below which features piano and keys by Lisa Coleman of Wendy and Lisa (Prince Revolution Band). Gumbo Christmas is a tribute to her grandmothers holiday celebration and she recently passed away.
Joy’s album will be released in Early Summer of 2024 and she will be touring solo and with her band to support the record.
Joy has toured with Allison Russell and Brandi Carlile in 2022 as well as opened for The Indigo Girls and Jackie Venson. And Ruthie Foster among others. Joy continues to tour with Allison Russell this year as a guitarist and vocalist as well as her own tours building audiences wherever she goes. Joy continues to tour with Allison and was part of Allison’s The Returner Album recognized with a Grammy win this year.
https://joyclarkmusic.com
https://Instagram.com/joyclarkmusic
https://facebook.com/joyclarkmusic
https://twitter.com/joyclarkmusic
https://YouTube.com/rudaje2000
https://joyclark.bandcamp.com
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December 1924: On Christmas Eve at the port of entry to the New World, immigrants are stranded. Families from Ireland, Russia, and Germany spend extended time together, along with their Mexican supervisors. They discover ways to acknowledge and respect their differences while celebrating their shared rites of passage. With a large cast of actors, vocalists, and instrumentalists and featuring a rich mix of Jewish, Irish, and Mexican traditions in songs, dances, and stories, this is an evocative and exciting entertainment.
Join us and be joyous!
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We are delighted to announce the highly anticipated second edition of the Ceylon International Film Festival (CEYIFF).
We received film submissions from over 50 countries, and our esteemed selection committee and renowned jury are currently engaged in the process of finalizing the selections for 2023. The final film schedule will be announced shortly.
The festival will commence with an invitation-only, red carpet event at Hatch Hall, Direct Relief International (DRI) Headquarters in Santa Barbara, California on Monday, October 23.
This will be followed by a series of late afternoon film screenings and engaging panel talks from Tuesday, October 24 to Friday, October 27 at the Direct Relief International screening room . Admission to these film screenings and panel talks is free and we encourage everyone in the community to attend.
CEYIFF 2023 concludes on Saturday, October 28 at the historic Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara, California.
1:30 pm (Film Screening): There will be a film screening at 1:30 pm with the film THE RAINY DAY.
4:30 pm (Awards Gala): A red carpet Awards Gala follows the film screening at 4:30 pm. The Awards Gala will feature a variety of music, dance and cinematic performances by renowned Sri Lankan, South Indian and Hispanic artists.
7:30 pm (Reception): The night concludes with a VIP reception in the Lobero Courtyard with food and drink from local purveyors.
$75 – VIP Package (includes the final film screening, awards gala and post-show VIP reception)
$56 – Red Carpet Awards Ceremony & Gala only (4:30 pm)
$18 – THE RAINY DAY Closing Film Screening only (1:30 pm)
To Be Announced
We believe that the stories we tell through film can positively impact our world.
The mission of CEYIFF is to:
Direct Relief International: 6100 Wallace Becknell Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93117
Lobero Theatre: 33 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101
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