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

UCSB Library is pleased to present these works by Johnny Onionseed, MFA candidate in UCSB's Department of Art.

Continuing its celebration of coastal living, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is thrilled to present The Peaceful Sea: Paintings by Kevin A. Short, an exhibition featuring more than 30 seascapes and ocean-themed landscapes by the renowned contemporary painter and Santa Barbara native. Thanks to the generous support of Mimi Michaelis, June G. Outhwaite Charitable Trust, Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation, the Wood-Claeyssens Foundation, and American Rivera Bank, the presentation will be on view to the public from August 11 through December 31, 2022.

Become a certified UC Climate Steward and play an active role in the statewide effort to advance rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis in your community.

Family-to-Family is a free, eight-session education program for family members of adults living with a mental health disorder and is designed to help family members understand and support their loved one while maintaining their own well-being.

DramaDogs, A Theater Company presents
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies and Directed by Ken Gilbert. Featuring Felicia Hall & E. Bonnie Lewis. Playing September 30 – October 8. Collected Stories explores the complicated issue of story ownership. This intelligent and engaging play asks questions about consent, appropriation, and the ethics of taking artistic license. For tickets and information, visit www.centerstagetheater.org or call 805-963-0408.

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

The Arroyo Hondo Preserve is open to the public with reservations on the first and third full weekend of the month, Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Connect to nature and explore the winding trails, creek, shady trees, and the rewarding views on your own or sign up for a docent-led hike offered on open weekend Saturdays at 10am.

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society invites the community to celebrate the start of Family History Month and the 50th anniversary of the Society at a FREE Open House and exhibit on Sunday, October 2, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Sahyun Genealogical Library, 316 Castillo Street in Santa Barbara.

Parallel Stories

Layering, fragments, appropriation, cutting, higher cribbing, collage, and what artist Marshall Brown has called “creative miscegenation,” are all part of the crucible in which familiar themes are recast in art and literature. Is the resulting cross-disciplinary mashup an homage to what is left, what is kept, and what is removed? Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Lethem joins artist, Urbanist, Princeton University professor of Architecture and critical-thinking futurist Marshall Brown in a conversation about what Lethem termed the “Ecstasy of Influence.” This event is part of the opening celebration and catalogue release for the exhibition The Architecture of Collage: Marshall Brown (October 2, 2022 – January 7, 2023) on view in the Contemporary and Ala Story New Media Galleries.

Book signing to follow.

$5 SBMA Members
$10 Non-Members

https://tickets.sbma.net/event-detail/parallel-stories-2022-10-02/

ME&US, a special event celebrating over a decade of collaboration between Sister Cities, Santa Barbara and Kotor, Montenegro, and introducing the newly established ME&US Fund

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper is hosting their first post-pandemic fundraiser on Sunday, October 2, at 4 pm, aboard the Condor Express at the Santa Barbara Harbor. The sunset cruise is an opportunity to meet executive director Ted Morton and the Channelkeeper staff; to discuss Channelkeeper's programs (from cruise ship monitoring to water testing and education); to enjoy light bites from Via Maestra, Rivahil Wine, 805 beer, as well as a no-host bar; and to vie for cool raffle items from Channelkeeper and Patagonia. For tickets and info, visit: https://bit.ly/3K5kQcP

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Charley Crockett on Sunday, October 2nd at 7:00 pm at the Arlington Theatre.

Fifty exciting works of photographic art are on display at the Goleta Library in October, 2022.