Since March of 2020, we have been challenged and reshaped -- as a community and individuals -- by our experiences living through the COVID-19 pandemic and renewal of abolitionist and anti-racist activist movements. Amidst the shift to remote learning and working, UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections initiated two ongoing projects: the Santa Barbara Black Lives Matter Community Archives and the COVID-19 Community Archives.

Combine materials and techniques to create mixed media pieces that include painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Depictions of birds and trees crossing cultures and time in the Museum’s collections will ignite imaginations and inspire both individual and collaborative creations.

Ages: 5 – 12

Instructors: Nicola Ghersen + Jason Summers

Email communityprograms@sbma.net or call 805.884.6457 for more information.

Location: Ridley-Tree Education Center

$150/6 weeks SBMA Members
$200/6 weeks Non-Members

As part of its multi-faceted celebration of whales this spring and summer, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum announces the April 14 opening of its newest art exhibit, The Wonder of Whales: Two Artists’ Perspectives, which features whale paintings by two local artists, John Baran and Kelly Clause. Thanks to the generous support of Chevron, Dreier Family, Emmett Foundation, Mimi Michaelis, Hank and Mari Mitchel, June G. Outhwaite Foundation, and Wood-Claeyssens Foundation, the exhibit will be open to the public from April 14-July 31, 2022. Although their subjects are often similar, each artist brings his or her unique perspective, technique, style, and medium to the work in this exhibit.

In November and December 2021, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) staff worked with students from Laguna Blanca Middle School, Peabody Charter, Santa Barbara Charter, and Santa Ynez Elementary School to teach them about the importance of whales to the environment and to create whale-inspired artwork to coincide with the museum’s newest exhibit, Whales Are Superheroes! The result of those efforts is on display in SBMM’s new student art exhibit, Whales are Superheroes! Saving the Planet One CO2 Molecule at a Time, opening on April 14, 2022, and on display through July 31, 2022.

Come tune into your heart and the hearts of other women as we heal through movement, sound, and personal exploration. We will explore the experiences of loss, loneliness, and change while we create a path to re-enter the reality of your life with a renewed sense of purpose. You will have the opportunity to rewrite the the love story of your life as it pertains to romance, family, friends, community and your authentic self.

State Street Ballet Academy presents Madeline - Lost in Central Park on Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM.

Performed by all students ages 3-18 at State Street Ballet Academy, this is the story of a young girl visiting NYC with her friends. She gets lost but has many adventures in her journey to find her friends once again.

The Santa Barbara Music Club will present a program of beautiful classical music on Saturday, May 21 at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu at Garden Street. Renowned pianist Pascal Salomon will perform beloved works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert. Free admission. www.SBMusicClub.org.

Santa Barbara Festival Ballet presents
Ballet in Bloom & The Toy Shoppe

Join Santa Barbara Festival Ballet for a celebration of dance on May 21 and May 22.

Pairing the Symphony with jazz royalty, and featuring a work of the first African American woman recognized as a symphonic composer, innovation feels wonderfully familiar.

Community Arts Music Association presents James Ehnes violin with Orion Weiss piano on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 7:30 PM.

The Good Good Show is a monthly stand up comedy show featuring some of the best comedians working today!

Directed by Scott Marcus, the UCSB Middle East Ensemble will present an evening of music and dance reflecting the great variety of cultures found in the Middle East on Saturday, May 21, 2021 at 7:30 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The ensemble performs music and dance from Arab, Turkish, Persian, Armenian, Greek, Jewish, and even Assyrian cultures, with everything from classical pieces to popular songs, as well as folk and cabaret-style dances.

The UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will present a concert showcasing gamelan, the celebrated gong orchestra of Indonesia, on Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 5:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. Led by Richard North, the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble will showcase an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, and lively interlocking rhythms.

On Saturday, May 21, from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm, the public is invited to help Channelkeeper’s Watershed Brigade remove derelict lobster traps from Black Rock Beach below More Mesa.  

Goleta's second city-wide Beautify Goleta Community Cleanup is this Saturday, May 21st from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society is pleased to feature the Society's own Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal as presenter at the Society's monthly meeting on Saturday, May 21.

The Bonsai Club of Santa Barbara will hold its annual show, sale and demonstrations Saturday and Sunday May 21 and 22 in the Fellowship Hall at Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 La Cumbre Road at the corner of Foothill Road. Admission is free and open to all who may be interested. Saturday hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday noon to 4 p.m.

Women's Self-Defense Class $40