The Santa Barbara Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Festival (SBSGOAF) is having an Instagram silent auction from October 11-18, with 100% of the proceeds going to @sbmaritimemuseum. The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum has been closed for the duration of the pandemic and may not be able to reopen until the end of the year. We wanted to help them out, and we are hoping you will support our efforts. 12 amazing professional artists are transforming wood fish into beautiful original art for you to bid on!

Hookman by Lauren Yee

Directed & adapted by Michael Bernard

An early play by a rising contemporary playwright, Hookman has been described by some as a “slasher comedy.” Sometimes mysterious, often hilarious, Hookman is a biting story of teen angst and loss.
URL: https://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/news/event/747

Event Price: $13-19

UCSB Performing Arts Theater

FEB 15, 2020 / 1PM, 7PM
FEB 18 - 20, 2020 / 8PM
FEB 21 - 22, 2020 / 7PM
FEB 22 – 23, 2020 / 1PM

This summer, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden will host a special exhibition, Garden Casitas: Playhouses Designed with Nature in Mind.​

Join us to listen and feel authentic sound through the vibrations of various instruments such as Tibetan/Crystal singing bowls, voice, bells and chimes. Give your mind a chance to wander into a deeper relaxation and improve overall wellbeing.

Featuring more than 100 seldom-displayed salt prints from the Wilson Centre for Photography, this extraordinary exhibition provides a rare chance to experience some of the earliest photographs ever made, by many of the most important and groundbreaking figures in the history of the photographic medium. "Salt and Silver" surveys the first two decades of photography’s evolution through the salt paper print process, unveiled in 1839 by the English scientist and scholar William Henry Fox Talbot. Talbot’s invention was a scientific and artistic breakthrough that created an entirely new visual experience. The technique—which used the simple compounds of salt and silver—was efficient, portable, and versatile, traits that allowed the practice of photography to spread across the globe from the early 1840s onward. Featuring the work of more than 40 practitioners, "Salt and Silver" traces their networks and geographical reach from England into Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and North America. The presentation at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art represents the final opportunity to see this exhibition after being on view at Tate Britain, London; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, and the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840–1860 has been organized by the Wilson Centre for Photography with the Yale Center for British Art.
Image: Studio of Mathew Brady. Mathew Brady, Sixth Corps Staff Officers, "Winter of 1864," 1864. Salted paper print from a glass plate negative. Courtesy of the Wilson Centre for Photography.

By definition, the observable universe comprises all matter that can be seen or captured with current technologies. As vast and all-encompassing as that may seem, it still presumes a specific perspective from which all else is viewed and conceptualized—one afforded by the particular viewpoint of being on earth. Our unbridgeable physical distance from other cosmic entities, including the infinite reaches of other galaxies, has forced artists to look to observational sciences like astronomy for inspiration and employ experimental methods to conceptualize the vastness of outer space. In astronomy, there are multiple methods used to visualize celestial objects. Similarly, artists’ perceptions of the universe vary widely, inspired by a variety of cosmological models.

Drawing primarily from SBMA’s permanent collection and supplemented by loans from area collections, "The Observable Universe" explores a diverse range of artistic representations of the cosmos roughly coinciding with the ‘Space Age’ of the last sixty years. From early fascinations with space travel to philosophical questions of humankind’s place within the larger universe, the artwork featured in this exhibition reflects an enduring captivation with outer space and the mesmerizing imagery that the limitless cosmos inspires.

Rev. Karen S. Wylie will lead a six-week group that will read and discuss Michael A. Singer’s bestseller, "The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself." The group will meet at a private location in Ojai “for a thought-provoking examination of consciousness, who we are, and what we face in our emerging humanity, as Singer presents it,” Rev. Karen says.

Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1871–1946) was a pivotal figure in the modernist development of Mexican art. He spent his formative years immersed in the artistic life of Paris, returning to Mexico in 1910 on the eve of the country’s Revolution. After becoming director of the famed Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, he established the nation’s first open air schools and encouraged his pupils to create work that captured observations of daily life. In 1929, Ramos Martínez and his family relocated to Los Angeles. For the next two decades, his subject matter focused on the people and culture of Mexico, with the artist receiving many notable mural commissions throughout Southern California. His canvases depict indigenous traditions, local crafts, and religious icons painted in striking hues of umber and sienna accented by bold highlights of color.

While Ramos Martínez was celebrated as a painter, some of his most iconic works of art were created on paper. Said to have always carried a Conté crayon in his pocket, the artist frequently drew on newspaper—the printed columns of text supporting totem-like figures of flower vendors. Working in combinations of gouache, charcoal, Conté crayon, and watercolor, he perfected a signature style in which forms were reduced to essentials to create a structural scaffolding across the paper’s surface. "Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper" is an intimate exhibition of works from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Comprising six drawings, as well as two serigraphs created by his wife María Sodi de Ramos Martínez after his death, the exhibition showcases the artist’s extraordinary draftsmanship, revealing the layered sensibility in his chosen themes.

Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper is curated by Rachel Heidenry, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art, and presented in both English and Spanish in the Works on Paper room of SBMA’s Ridley-Tree Gallery.

Image: Alfredo Ramos Martínez, "Mujeres con flores (Women with Flowers)" (detail), ca. 1946. Tempera and Conté crayon on newsprint / Tempera y crayón Conté sobre papel periódico. SBMA, Gift of the P.D. McMillan Land Company, 1963.32.1 © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project.

Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1871–1946) was a pivotal figure in the modernist development of Mexican art. He spent his formative years immersed in the artistic life of Paris, returning to Mexico in 1910 on the eve of the country’s Revolution. After becoming director of the famed Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, he established the nation’s first open air schools and encouraged his pupils to create work that captured observations of daily life. In 1929, Ramos Martínez and his family relocated to Los Angeles. For the next two decades, his subject matter focused on the people and culture of Mexico, with the artist receiving many notable mural commissions throughout Southern California. His canvases depict indigenous traditions, local crafts, and religious icons painted in striking hues of umber and sienna accented by bold highlights of color.

While Ramos Martínez was celebrated as a painter, some of his most iconic works of art were created on paper. Said to have always carried a Conté crayon in his pocket, the artist frequently drew on newspaper—the printed columns of text supporting totem-like figures of flower vendors. Working in combinations of gouache, charcoal, Conté crayon, and watercolor, he perfected a signature style in which forms were reduced to essentials to create a structural scaffolding across the paper’s surface. "Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper" is an intimate exhibition of works from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Comprising six drawings, as well as two serigraphs created by his wife María Sodi de Ramos Martínez after his death, the exhibition showcases the artist’s extraordinary draftsmanship, revealing the layered sensibility in his chosen themes.

Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper is curated by Rachel Heidenry, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art, and presented in both English and Spanish in the Works on Paper room of SBMA’s Ridley-Tree Gallery.

Image: Alfredo Ramos Martínez, "Mujeres con flores (Women with Flowers)" (detail), ca. 1946. Tempera and Conté crayon on newsprint / Tempera y crayón Conté sobre papel periódico. SBMA, Gift of the P.D. McMillan Land Company, 1963.32.1 © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project.

A Course In Miracles is a practical course for people searching a way to stay at peace in a world that seems at time insane, frightening, and filled with uncertainty. It helps us shift our perception of the world form an experience of fear to one of Love, from an experience of lack and limitation to an experience of abundance.
The curriculum of the Course is carefully conceived and is explained, step by step, at both the theoretical and practical levels. The Course deals with universal spiritual themes.

Startup Weekend is a three-day startup accelerator event that encourages a fun and engaging environment for startup enthusiasts of all backgrounds. 

The Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival is taking place November 8th & 9th 2019 at the historic Arlington Theater. We’ll be screening some innovative films from up and coming filmmakers as well as some old surf film classics. The festival aims to create awareness about protecting our oceans from further damage by screening films that evoke that message, and including speakers and non-profit organizations that share the same goal.

An Antiques, Decorative Arts & Vintage Show and Sale will benefit the unique nonprofit of Child Abuse Listening Meditation at Earl Warren Showgrounds from November 8-10.

The most awaited Antique/Vintage show of the fall! You will find treasures to fit EVERY budget and decorating need from the finest dealers on the west coast

The most awaited Antique/Vintage show of the fall! You will find treasures to fit EVERY budget and decorating need from the finest dealers on the west coast

Opera Santa Barbara Presents Free Masterclass with Warren Jones works

Opera Santa Barbara is proud to welcome back world-renowned pianist/conductor, Warren Jones to work with our 19|20 Chrisman Studio Artists. Held in partnership with the Braille Institute of Santa Barbara, this masterclass will feature standard repertoire in English, German, Italian, and French.

The Braille Institute is a non-profit organization offering a broad range of free programs, classes and services serving thousands of students of all ages to empower themselves to live more enriching lives with blindness and vision loss. Opera Santa Barbara is excited to partner with the Braille Institute this year to offer a bilingual “Intro to Opera” workshop for students.

In 2010, pioneering Chinese filmmaker Wu Wenguang founded the Memory Project. Housed in the Caochangdi Workstation in an art district on the outskirts of Beijing, the project’s purpose is to teach documentary production skills to aspiring amateur filmmakers, who then travel to their familial villages to collect oral histories about some of the most tumultuous

Create autumn accordion books with Marilee Krause this week in the art workshop. Make a gratitude journal, picture book, any accordion creation with our workshop of reuse materials.

The Art From Scrap CreatorLab comes alive with a themed workshop every Saturday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Filled with hundreds of reuse materials, our CreatorLab is sure to ignite your imagination! Children 6 years and up can stay and have fun while their parents go shopping at the Saturday Farmer’s Market – just one block away. Workshops are taught by visiting Guest Artists and AFS Staff Members. This is a perfect way to spend a morning – for artists of all ages and abilities. Cost: $8.00 per person

Our Lady of Mount Carmel School will celebrate its 75thAnniversary with an Auction and Dinner at the Rosewood Miramar Beach on Saturday, November 9, 2019

Enjoy happy hour pricing on all wines on tap at Carr Winery.

Join us for a vibrant evening of connection and community at Sweet Shade Farm in Montecito

Join us for a vibrant evening of connection and community at Sweet Shade Farm in Montecito

Join us for a vibrant evening of connection and community at Sweet Shade Farm in Montecito

SBCC Dance Presents Collective Collaborative 2019 at The New Vic theater, November 8 and 9 at 7pm.

On Saturday, November 9, at 7:30, and Sunday, November 10, at 3:00, the Master Chorale will present Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) by Johannes Brahms.

Steven Gross (Professor of Horn, UC Santa Barbara) will celebrate 25 years at UC Santa Barbara with a special recital featuring American Double members violinist Philip Ficsor and pianist Constantine Finehouse on Saturday, November 9th at 7:30 pm at Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West. The program will feature the West Coast premiere of William Bolcom’s Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano (2017), as well as Václav Nelhýbel’s Scherzo Concertante, an excerpt from Jiří Havlík’s Concerto for Horn, and Bolcom’s Second Sonata for Violin and Piano. Dr. Derek Katz (Associate Professor of Musicology, UC Santa Barbara) will give a pre-concert talk on Bolcom and his works.

Tickets: https://www.music.ucsb.edu/news/purchase-tickets
$15 - General Admission
$5 - Non-UCSB Students
FREE for UCSB Students w/ID
FREE for children under 12

Italian Weekend Brunch

 The public is invited to attend the 35th annual Vaquero Show & Sale from Saturday, November 9 through Sunday, November 10

 The public is invited to attend the 35th annual Vaquero Show & Sale from Saturday, November 9 through Sunday, November 10

 The public is invited to attend the 35th annual Vaquero Show & Sale from Saturday, November 9 through Sunday, November 10

The most awaited Antique/Vintage show of the fall! You will find treasures to fit EVERY budget and decorating need from the finest dealers on the west coast 

The LaserPerformance Men’s and Women’s Singlehanded National Championships, co-hosted by Santa Barbara Yacht Club and the University of California Santa Barbara are set to begin Friday, November 8 with registration, boat assignment and a competitors meeting. Racing will take place Saturday, November 9 and Sunday, November 10.

Come join us and hear the one person on the Central Coast who can give the Democrats a run for their money, Andy Caldwell! Attend this event and learn the concerns Andy will work on in Congress and his plans for the remedy.
The public is welcome. Dress is business casual.
Reservation deadline Wednesday, November 6, 2019

The Santa Barbara Veterans Foundation will host an afternoon complete with BBQ, live music, and military vehicles on display. Be sure to watch for the flyover of vintage airplanes in the sky above the event venue at approximately 1:30 pm!

On November 9, four local Chumash tribes will co-host a day of traditional Chumash activities and educational opportunities for their communities and the public at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

On November 9, four local Chumash tribes will co-host a day of traditional Chumash activities and educational opportunities for their communities and the public at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

On November 9, four local Chumash tribes will co-host a day of traditional Chumash activities and educational opportunities for their communities and the public at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Come join a celebration of Chumash culture and participate in an event that shares the diversity of the Chumash tribes, the rich ongoing traditions of the indigenous peoples of this region, and the cultural preservation efforts of the Chumash communities for future generations.

Professional stylists from Chandler’s Men’s Salon in Santa Barbara will offer free beard trims and clean-ups for Veterans on Saturday, November 9, in honor of Veteran’s Day.

Award-winning SB documentary "Better Together" screens at SB Surf Film Festival, 11/9 at 12: 40pm

Award-winning SB documentary "Better Together" screens at SB Surf Film Festival, 11/9 at 12: 40pm

Award-winning SB documentary "Better Together" screens at SB Surf Film Festival, 11/9 at 12: 40pm

Stress-free holiday shopping! Join us for mimosas and mini-massages while shopping local artisans on Saturday, Nov 9 from 12-6 pm

A Block Party to celebrate Bettina turning one!

Pop-ups, Music, Raffle & Prizes, Snacks & Spritzes and one-day-only specials (Sourdough ice cream by Rori's!) benefitting SB Culinary Experience - Julia Child Foundation.

Pop-ups include Kule, Jake and Jones, Draughtsmen Aleworks, Lepiane Wines, SeaVees kids and T.W. Hollister spritz bar!

Fifty years ago, an oil spill united a community and changed the world

Christopher Lloyd narrates "Better Together", a feature documentary sharing how one community keeps coming together, over 50 years, through oil spills, fires, mudslides and the future challenges of a changing climate

Screening as the Environmental Feature with the Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival