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.

This month, the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB) is holding its 30th annual architecture design competition for the county’s high school students.

Adult Studio Art Workshop (via Zoom): Drawing
Thursday, March 11, 2021
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
During this session, extend the spirit of International Women’s Day and find inspiration from the artist Barbara Kasten, who at 84 years old, continues to challenge spatial relationships in her work. Drawing from her photograph, Construct NYC 11 (1982), explore her depiction of a 3-dimensional space on a 2-dimensional plane.

View the inspiration image for this class on the Museum’s online collection.

Required Supplies

Prismacolor ebony pencil
Eraser
Pencil sharpener
Meet your Instructor
Tina Villadolid has been a Teaching Artist for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for over 22 years. Connecting with the people in her community through art has brought her so much joy! Tina loves to paint with oils, sculpt with clay, create installation art, draw portraits with charcoal, and write songs. She is conversational in Spanish, has two grandchildren, is originally from New York City, and lives with her cat, Chappie James, Jr.

Ticket Cost:
Workshop via Zoom: FREE

SBWPC's Annual Presidents' Circle Event focuses on the topic of "What's Next" for today's feminist agenda, which coincides with Women's History Month. Headlining the 2021 event is California trailblazer and rising political star Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Holly Mitchell. In 2019, then State Senator Mitchell introduced and helped pass the CA Crown Act that prohibits discrimination against natural hairstyles worn by people of color in the workplace. Santa Barbara County 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann will join the discussion offering a local perspective on the theme of "What's Next."

Directed by Jonathan Moerschel, the UC Santa Barbara Chamber Players will present a virtual concert on Thursday, March 11, 2021, at 6 pm PST as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's
YouTube Channel. The program will include works by Claude Debussy, Elena Ruehr, Johann Joseph Fux, Scott Joplin, Jennifer Higdon, Roger Chapman, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paul Hindemith, and Jessie Montgomery. The event will feature performances by students from the UC Santa Barbara Chamber Music Program.

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2181
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UCSantaBarbaraDepartmentofMusic

PFLAG - Parents, Families, Friends and Allies Untied with LGBTQ People invite you to their Santa Barbara/Santa Maria Spanish Speaking Meeting - "Our Coming Out Stories" Pre-registration is required.

The Department of Music will present a virtual Corwin Series Concert, "Synchresis - the Alchemy of Visual Music," on Friday, March 12, 2021 at 6 pm PST as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube channel. This winter’s Corwin Series program will investigate the various potential fusions between sound and the moving image in “Synchresis." Listeners will be guided through the merger of diverse visual and musical universes and engage their imaginations through the works of Elsa Justel, Chikashi Miyama, Francis Dhomont, Jorge Sad Levi, Clarence Barlow, João Pedro Oliveira, Dennis H. Miller, and Alejandro Casales.

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2177
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UCSantaBarbaraDepartmentofMusic

The Department of Music will present a Corwin Series Lecture featuring composer Francis Dhomont on Friday, March 12, 2021 at 11 am PST via Zoom. Dhomont will speak on his music and influences in a lecture titled “Abstraction and Figuration in My Music.”

Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CorwinW21
Meeting ID: 841 2398 4807
Passcode: Corwin

For more information visit: https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2161

Former Olympic and pro players along with college coaches will be training girls for two days in Santa Barbara