Community Blood Drive - Wednesday, June 15th at C Zero

Join the Land Trust for a hike at the Lover’s Loop trail! Hikers will stop occasionally to take in the scenery along with water and snack breaks. Birding talks will be available.

Building a Comprehensive Trails Plan for Santa Barbara County: Where? What? How and Who? with Ray Ford Free Online Presentation with Q&A Thursday, June 16th, 5:30pm In the next few years Santa Barbara County will be completing a trails master plan that could call for new trail access. Currently, the County is inventorying current trail

The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award honors those who have committed themselves to work in service of the planet and its inhabitants for thirty years or more, with actual solutions and concrete ways forward that benefit many, often on a global scale.

Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network as we celebrate our second annual Eco Hero Award honoring visionary mycologist Paul Stamets and award-winning cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg.

Monthly Public Telescope Night at Westmont

With hits like “Passionate Kisses” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards (with 16 nominations), two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music awards and is one of only fifteen female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Over the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has sold over 16 million records. In 2020, Carpenter recorded two albums – “The Dirt And The Stars,” released in August 2020, and “One Night Lonely,” recorded live without an audience at the legendary Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Virginia during the COVID-19 shut down, and nominated for “Best Folk Album” at the 64th Grammy Awards in 2022.

Of the new album “The Dirt And The Stars,” produced by Ethan Johns (Ray LaMontagne, Paul McCartney, Kings of Leon) and recorded entirely live at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath in southwest England, Carpenter quotes the writer Margaret Renkl, “ ‘We are all in the process of becoming.’ That doesn’t stop at a certain age. To be always a student of art and music and life, as she says, that, to me, is what makes life worth living. The songs are very personal and they’re difficult in some ways, and definitely come from places of pain and self-illumination, but also places of joy, discovery and the rewards of self- knowledge. They arrived from looking outward as much as inward, speaking to life changes, growing older, politics, compassion, #metoo, heartbreak, empathy, the power of memory, time and place. There are many themes, but they all come back to that initial truth that we are all constantly ‘becoming’ through art and expression.”

Money, Messaging, Media. These are the topics you learn to mount a successful run for political office (elected and appointed). Join us at a workshop for feminist candidates looking to run in 2022 or 2024.
Learn the nuts and bolts of campaigning, including how district elections have changed the game.

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society is pleased to welcome Neal Graffy at its first in-person general meeting in over two years on Saturday, June 18. The hybrid meeting will take place at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara, and will also be available via Zoom.

The Arroyo Hondo Preserve is again open to the public on the first and third full weekends of each month, advanced reservations required. Explore the trails and enjoy the sun-drenched vistas or stay cool along the shady creek at this historic nature preserve.

How do we encourage local acts of justice in our community? The public is invited to attend a free, informative summer speaker series at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. in Santa Barbara. Do you ask yourself what you can do to support our local community needs?