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Fourteen graduating art majors will offer the capstone art projects, which span painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, performance and video, April 6-May 6 at the ������ú Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. A free, public opening reception for “As of Yet Unknown” is Thursday, April 6, from 4-6 p.m.

The month of April features several free concerts with select ensembles of ������ú students and faculty. For more information, please call the music department at (805) 565-6040.

The Choral Masterworks Concert, featuring selections by Georg Philipp Telemann, Thomas Linley Jr. and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is Sunday, March 26, at 3 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 305 East Anapamu Street. Admission is $10, students are free. For more information, please contact the music department at (805) 565-6040.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams open play in the 2017 NAIA Division I National Championship on March 16.

������ú students will find it easier to complete a minor in thanks to a new program beginning next year. Open to students from all majors, the minor requires five computer science classes.

General Stan McChrystal addressed more than 700 people at ������ú’s 12th annual President’s Breakfast in the Fess Parker Grand Ballroom on March 3. Later that morning, he fielded questions from four ������ú students during convocation on campus, speaking to about a thousand people. At both events, he discussed challenges presented by the rapid pace of technology, globalization and our increasingly complex society.

John Blondell, ������ú professor of theater arts, directs a Lit Moon Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” presenting the king’s Machiavellian rise to power and short reign, on March 9-11 at 7:30 p.m. in ������ú’s Porter Hall Black-Box Theatre.

The ������ú Festival Theatre offers “Blood Wedding,” a tragedy written by Federico García Lorca, one of Spain’s most revered and controversial dramatists, Feb. 24-25 and March 2-4, at 7:30 p.m. in ������ú’s Porter Theatre. General admission is $12; $7 for students, children and seniors. Tickets may be purchased online at .

Eight high schools from the greater Southern California area will compete in the 29^th annual High School Mathematics Contest at ������ú on Saturday, Feb 4, from 1-6:30p.m. in ������ú’s Winter Hall. The contest begins at 1p.m. with the Chalk Talk Derby, a five question written exam and the annual College Bowl competition complete with buzzers, modeled after the 1960’s TV show, College Bowl.

The spring 2017 ������ú Faculty Recital features works by women composers Friday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. in ������ú’s Dean Chapel on lower campus. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the ������ú Music Department at (805) 565-6040.

������ú ushers in the Christmas season with the15th annual Pickle Tree Lighting at Kerrwood Lawn on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 5 p.m. Following holiday music and the Pickle Address, a mystery tree lighter will throw down the massive switch that lights the 150-foot redwood tree, affectionately known as the Pickle Tree. The event is free and open to the public.

������ú presents its 12th annual Christmas Festival, retelling the Christmas story by weaving narration with music from the ������ú Orchestra, College Choir and Choral Union, Dec. 2-3 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 3, at 2 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 4, at 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave.

Santa Barbara celebrates the remarkable life and work of Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death by hosting a series of performances, including three plays, by an international coalition of theaters and arts organizations Nov. 17-20.

������ú student musicians and composers show off their talents at six free concerts this month. For more information, please contact theat (805) 565-6040.