Out of Town: Santa Barbara

What’s happening the next few weeks:

* LINES Contemporary Ballet performs “Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?,” “Tango” and “In to Get Out,” April 17-18 at Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara. 8 p.m. (805) 893-3535.

* Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin will read from his five decades of work Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Fleischmann Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 259 Puesta del Sol Road. (805) 682-4711.

* The State Street Ballet presents the world premiere of “Alice in Wonderland,” from Emmy Award-winning choreographer Robert Sund, Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. (805) 963-0761.

* The Santa Barbara Museum of Art features the exhibition “From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight: Painting in Eighteenth Century France from the Musee de Picardie, Amiens.” This overview of painting from the end of Louis the XIV’s reign to the fall of the French monarchy in the mid-19th century runs April 21 to June 17. 1130 State St. (805) 963-4364.

* The Black Crowes and Oasis play May 12 at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, 1122 Milpas St., (805) 568-BOWL.

* April 6-21, Clearlight productions presents “Shakyamuni: The Life of Buddha,” a dance-theater piece directed by Lark Batteau Bailey in a return engagement. (805) 963-0408.