The Santa Barbara Music Club, the largest year-round concert series in Santa Barbara County, celebrates its 50th year! The program for Saturday, March 21, 3pm, is co-presented by the Santa Barbara Music Club and Santa Barbara Public Library and features songs and solo piano works by various composers through the centuries. The free concert is located at the Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu St. For more information visit www.SBMusicClub.org.

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"By Hand" co-director Kellen Keene, the documentary's subjects twin brothers Casey and Ryan Higginbotham and the film's composer, Todd Hannigan, will be attending the 3rd Annual NatureTrack Film Festival Saturday, March 21 at the festival's "Spotlight" event (St. Mark's In-the-Valley, Stacy Hall, 2901 Nojoqui Ave, Los Olivos).

Due to Governor Newsom’s declaration that large gatherings in California should be canceled through the end of March, we have decided to postpone this event. We will announce a new date once it’s confirmed. Thank you for your understanding. Ticket holders will be offered a refund or to transfer their ticket to the rescheduled date.

Join the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History for Stuffed, a documentary feature film about the surprising world of taxidermy, with special live appearance by award-winning taxidermist Allis Markham of Prey Taxidermy.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS. WE PLANT TO RESHEDULE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Botso: The Teacher from Tbllis
Film: Saturday, March 21, 2020, 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Concord Hall, 1407 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Special Guest: Temmo Korisheli

This award-winning documentary chronicles the life, art and wisdom of Wachtang “Botso” Korisheli, a Georgian immigrant, who founded a thriving musical tradition in the Morro Bay, California area, and launched the careers of a number of notable musicians and conductors.

Born in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, young Botso was affectionately treated by Josef Stalin before Stalin’s brutal regime ordered the execution of Botso’s father, popular actor Platon Korisheli. Botso was allowed 20 minutes to see his father one last time. Here, inside a dark prison, Platon communicated to his son his most important life lessons. This powerful moment helped Botso endure years of suffering at the hands of both the Soviet army and Nazis during World War II and continued to inspire Botso throughout his life, up to his death at age 93. He developed an infectious passion for humanity, the arts, and life itself. Eventually arriving in America with nothing but hope, Botso furthered his musical training and became a beloved educator of children. He went on to touch generations of students, inspiring some of the world’s premier musical artists, including five-time Grammy Award winner Kent Nagano.

Filmed partly in the Republic of Georgia, this feature-length documentary captures the rich culture of an ancient country that shaped Botso’s unique way of teaching. Produced under the auspices of the San Luis Obispo Symphony, profits go toward music scholarships for children for years to come!

Questions and discussion will follow the showing of the film.

Botso’s son, Temmo Korisheli, will attend the film showing on Saturday, March 21st, and share his memories and insights of his father’s life and work. He is an active performer in many musical styles, especially medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque. He has been on staff with the Amherst Early Music Festival of New England for the past 22 years, where he has collaborated with many luminaries of the early-music world. Mr. Korisheli has appeared as soloist with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, the New York Collegium under Andrew Parrott, and regional oratorio societies; as a guest artist with several university early music programs around the state and beyond. He sang for many years in the UCSB Cappella Cordina. He is a founding member of the UCSB Middle East Ensemble, sings frequently in the Opera Santa Barbara Chorus, and plays clawhammer banjo.

The iconic musical An American in Paris was inspired by George Gershwin’s jazz-infused orchestral treasure of the same name, and the Santa Barbara Symphony has combined the two for an unforgettable program of music and film! Gershwin’s evocative and vivid An American in Paris is arguably the finest musical love letter ever penned to a

This is a free event hosted by SkyeDyes. We host these events for the community to have another amazing reason to come together. These events are hosted on the Santa Barbara Coast Line at Upper Shoreline Park.

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Cheri Mello presents "Overcoming Brick Walls with DNA" at the Saturday, March 21st Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society monthly meeting

Join us in the Haley Corridor neighborhood of Santa Barbara on March 21 from noon to 5pm to shop 60+ makers with a drink in hand!

This event is easily walkable but we'll also be providing FREE shuttle service with a party bus, which will help you get to each location including:

Third Window Brewing Co.

Potek Winery

Carr Winery

Jaffurs Wine Cellars.

Products will be a wide variety of handmade goods such as jewelry, knit goods, home decor, art prints, soap, candles, etc.

This event is FREE to attend! You only pay for the items you wish to purchase and the drinks and food you want to consume.

Shop over 65 makers and artisans as you sip your way through the breweries and wineries of the Haley Corridor.

Part I (March 22 – July 5, 2020): Works on Paper
Preston Morton Gallery

Part II (May 10 – August 30, 2020): Painting & Sculpture
Davidson Gallery

This two-part exhibition highlights recent acquisitions to SBMA’s permanent collection of contemporary art. Featuring over 40 artworks in a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and sculpture, the majority of the objects are on view at SBMA for the first time. These include painted works on paper by emerging artists acquired through the recently established Basil Alkazzi Acquisition Fund, as well as significant pieces by internationally recognized artists such as Sterling Ruby, Andrea Bowers, and Nigel Cooke. Tying these artworks together is a distinct sense of individuality, innovative use of materials, and playful ambiguity between traditional artistic genres.

The exhibition is comprised of works from artists in various stages of their careers, ranging from the emerging to the well-established. Artists include: Scott Anderson, Edgar Arceneaux, Elizabeth Bonaventura, Andrea Bowers, Bruce Conner, Nigel Cooke, Miles Coolidge, Petra Cortright, Noah Davis, Wim Delvoye, Jacci Den Hartog, Daniel Douke, Jim Drain, Vernon Fisher, Helen Frankenthaler, Peter Halley, Frederick Hammersley, Zach Harris, Naotaka Hiro, Mustafa Hulusi, Nathan Huff, Jim Isermann, Raffi Kalenderian, Tom Knechtel, Emma Kohlmann, Hew Locke, Eamon Ore-Giron, Carl Ostendarp, Cheryl Pope, Nathlie Provosty, Sterling Ruby, Aaron Siskind, Jeni Spota C., Donald Sultan, Stephanie Washburn, and Jane Wilbraham.

This exhibition is curated by Julie Joyce, Senior Curator, ArtCenter College of Design (and former Curator of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art) with assistance from Rachel Heidenry, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Image: Nathlie Provosty, "Council, Untitled (16-38)" (detail), 2016. Watercolor on paper, diptych. SBMA, Museum purchase with funds provided by The Basil Alkazzi Acquisition Fund, 2018.10.2a,b. © Nathlie Provosty.

The Preston Morton Collection, which forms the core of American art at SBMA, was gifted in 1961 upon the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Museum’s founding. In so doing, Preston Morton ensured that SBMA could boast one of the most comprehensive overviews of American art from the 18th to the mid-20th century among mid-sized institutions. The timing of the gift was significant, representing a corrective to the European bias of midcentury canonical modernism and a proud reassertion of home-grown American art.

This selection of small format paintings is a reminder of the breadth of the Museum’s holdings in this area. Oil and brush conjure the illusion of near and far persuasively, from the close perspective of still life, to the life-size proportions of bust portraiture, to sublime expanses of land and sky. Whether within hand’s reach or at an immeasurable distance, both types of visual experience are captured within the confines of a canvas no more than 15 inches in diameter.

Artists represented include William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Eakins, Walter Gay, George Inness, George Luks, Jervis McEntee, John Frederick Peto, Levi Wells Prentice, Edward Henry Potthast.

Image: William Merritt Chase, "Children on the Beach" (detail), 1894. Oil on board. SBMA, Bequest of Margaret Mallory.