The Goleta Valley Art Association invites you to their free online 10th Annual Picassos 4 Peanuts Art Show - 2020 Style

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is delighted to announce that Arthur Beaumont: Art of the Sea--an exhibit of 53 paintings chronicling the accomplishments of the US Navy, from the USS Constitution to atomic bomb tests and expeditions to the North and South Poles—will be at the Museum for just six months, the last show on the West Coast before it leaves for the East Coast. Beaumont used Impressionist techniques in painting the stunning images in this exhibit and in capturing the majesty of the oceans and the vessels that sail them.

Braille Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. We offer a broad range of free programs, classes and services serving thousands of students of all ages helping to demonstrate that vision rehabilitation is a beginning, not an end.

We serve the community from seven centers, and hundreds of community outreach locations throughout Southern California, and lead popular national programs like Braille Challenge and Cane Quest. Our staff and volunteers understand losing your vision can be scary, but we believe it is not the end of independence, but a new way of living.

A variety of free classes, workshops and support groups are available to help you or a loved one stay active, remain independent and enjoy connections with others.

Sign up for individual events, workshops and seminars – free and open to everyone. Register online or call 1-800-BRAILLE (272-4553) Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm.

Victory Vegetable Gardening Classes for the True Beginner.
University of California Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County announce an online series of gardening classes for true beginners, modeled after the popular World War II Victory Vegetable Gardens. The four classes take attendees through the basics of successful vegetable gardening in our area.

Please join the UC Master Gardeners on four Saturdays from 10am-12pm, from February 20-March 13, 2021.

SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery Art Talk ‘Introducing Cosmovisión Indígena’ scheduled for Feb. 24

Living along the coastline in Santa Barbara, SLO and Ventura Counties there are more than a few estuaries. Living under or near, the path of the avian migration super-highway, The Pacific Flyway, which supports nearly a million birds, knowing more about the bird life these areas help sustain is a timely topic. This free program presented by Santa Barbara Audubon Society (SBAS) will be a wonderful opportunity to hear, firsthand, from the Director of Bird Conservation for California Audubon, Andrea Jones. The 90-minute Zoom program includes a presentation and Q&A – using the chat section to ask your questions. Moderator for the program is Teresa Fanucchi.

Downtown Santa Barbara invites you to the 2021 Annual Awards Ceremony, Presented by Southern California Edison. This event includes the announcements of the 2020 Volunteer of the Year, Citizen of the Year, Business Champion of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, and the 2021 Harriet Miller Youth Leadership Award recipient.

It’s a Downtown Santa Barbara tradition, more than two dozen years old - the Annual Awards Ceremony, designed as a way to celebrate past accomplishments and share our goals for the coming year. The occasion is also a way to honor people, organizations, even historic buildings that have gone above and beyond to make a difference in Downtown Santa Barbara. Join us, and celebrate Downtown Santa Barbara.

A free Zoom event, a Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Update on Vaccines and Viral Variants.

Sullivan Goss is proud to present an important and timely exhibition devoted to that most American of artistic sensibilities, Realism. 

UC Santa Barbara Opera Theatre and the Department of Music will present a virtual performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s two-act opera Don Giovanni on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 6 pm PST as a YouTube Premiere.
Directed by UC Santa Barbara Associate Professor Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian, the abridged version of the opera will be sung in the original Italian with English subtitles. The video will be free and available to the public via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel.

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2171

UCSB Opera Theatre and the Department of Music will present a virtual performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s two-act opera Don Giovanni on Friday, February 26

The Department of Theater and Dance is proud to present Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities, a groundbreaking historical recount of the 1991 Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, written by Anna Deavere Smith and directed by Risa Brainin. The show opens at 7 p.m. on February 26 on Zoom and runs through the 28th.