Ongoing

Winter After-School Multimedia Class

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

Winter After-School Multimedia Class

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

From Discard to Discord

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

Fitness Swimming for All Levels

Swim for Fitness classes begin at SBCC: Improve your fitness level and technique through swimming at Los Banos Pool. Instructor: Sally Saenger

CEC’s Climate Stewards Certification Course

Graduates of the Community Environmental Council's Climate Stewards certification program are equipped to play an active role in the statewide effort to advance rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis in their community – and make a positive impact throughout the Central Coast.

Fitness Swimming for All Levels

Swim for Fitness classes begin at SBCC: Improve your technique and fitness level by swimming at Los Banos Pool. Instructor: Sally Saenger

The Lure of Lighthouses & Dancing Waves Photographs by Dan Merkel

SBMM) presents The Lure of Lighthouses & Dancing Waves, an exhibit featuring more than 35 photographs of lighthouses and waves by the renowned and Emmy Award-winning surfing photographer and videographer Dan Merkel. The lighthouse photographs include images of lighthouses from near and far—from Cape Elizabeth and Cape Hatteras on the East Coast and Point Loma and Point Pinos on the West to Portugal and Australia. The images are accompanied by Dan’s breath-taking photos capturing waves throughout the world. Beginning on Thursday, January 26, the exhibit will be on view in SBMM’s Gallery and Munger Theater through August 27, 2023.

The Good Good Show

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

The Good Good Show

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

Susan Savage: Of Presence & Promise Opening Reception & Live Music from John Lyle

Come and experience local artist Susan Savage’s contemplative exhibition, “Of Presence and Promise.” Her work directs our attention to the meaning of life and guitarist John Lyle’s soulful original finger-style guitar compositions perfectly complement the artwork. Wine from local Stolpman’s winery will be served.

Pop-Up Opera

SBMA and Opera Santa Barbara partner to present a season’s sampling of art and music with pop-up performances in the Museum’s galleries, inspired by SBMA’s collection and special exhibitions or other topical themes.

Pop-Up Opera

SBMA and Opera Santa Barbara partner to present a season’s sampling of art and music with pop-up performances in the Museum’s galleries, inspired by SBMA’s collection and special exhibitions or other topical themes.

Reimagining the Museum

Art Matters Lecture with Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Ph.D., Independent Curator

Family 1st Thursday

Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Collage a bird and flower detail from Utagawa Hiroshige’s color woodblock print Bullfinch (Uso) and Japanese Mountain Rose (n.d.), then add a selection of Japanese characters in black watercolor to your composition. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.

Family 1st Thursday

Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Collage a bird and flower detail from Utagawa Hiroshige’s color woodblock print Bullfinch (Uso) and Japanese Mountain Rose (n.d.), then add a selection of Japanese characters in black watercolor to your composition. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.

February 1st Thursday at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum

The Lobero Golden Eagle flies again! Join us the evening of February 2 at the Museum to view a short film, which tells the saga of the Lobero Golden Eagle. Recovered from an 1854 shipwreck, the eagle graced the stage of the Lobero Opera House for years before disappearing. Learn of its recovery and restoration just in time to celebrate the Lobero Theatre’s 150th anniversary.

An Evening with Amor Towles

“As it turns out, not reaching the intended destination becomes entirely the point and power of this mischievous, wise, and wildly entertaining novel.” The New York Times

The Gin Game

The GIN GAME
By D. L. Coburn
Directed by Ken Gilbert and E. Bonnie Lewis
Starring Kathy Marden & Ed Giron
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Gin Game gradually and inevitably cuts to the core of two people coming to terms with their own mortality, what they have left behind, and what remains ahead of them. The Gin Game plays February 2 - 5, 2023, at Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara. For tickets, visit www.centerstagetheater.org.

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