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  • Art Gifts to Find New Home in Santa Ynez

    November 5, 2020

    The Forest Foundation, which has supported the arts and education in California and Illinois since 1963, is donating several sculptures and more than three dozen pedestals and sculptural stands to the Ƶ Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Museum officials are working with to create a long-term sculpture exhibition at the Santa Ynez winery.

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  • Concert Offers Toe Tapping Jazz Standards

    November 2, 2020

    Eben Drost directs the Ƶ Jazz Ensemble

    The Ƶ Music Department’s weekly Friday night virtual concert series gets jazzy on Nov. 6. The Ƶ Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of keyboardist Eben Drost, will perform many recognizable standards starting at 7 p.m. at westmont.edu/virtual-concert-series. The concert will be recorded in Deane Chapel with musicians wearing masks and singers standing outside the door when they perform.

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  • $1M Grant Aids Work with Area Churches

    October 26, 2020

    Ƶ has received a grant of $1 million from . to help establish the Ƶ Center for Thriving Communities.

    The program is funded through Lilly Endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative. The aim of the national initiative is to strengthen Christian congregations so they can help people deepen their relationships with God, build strong relationships with each other and contribute to the flourishing of local communities and the world.

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  • Ƶ Hosts Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian

    October 21, 2020

    Acclaimed author Jon Meacham addresses “The Architecture of Endurance: Building a Republic that Stands the Test of Time” on Friday, Nov. 6, from 12-1:30 p.m. in a special virtual event from Ƶ. The live broadcast opens with remarks by Ƶ President Gayle D. Beebe and includes a question-and-answer session with Meacham, presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner. The talk is free and open to the public thanks to the gracious support of Ƶ’s Mosher Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership.

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