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.
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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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2023 Annual Membership Meeting & Regional Business Awards
The Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce's Annual Membership Meeting & Regional Business Awards will be held on February 2, 2023, at 11:30 AM.
Pink Martini featuring China Forbes
“A rollicking around-the-world musical adventure.” – Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader/pianist
The Power of Branding
On online refresher on the power of branding.
Community Conversation THE INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WWII
In anticipation of An American Dream, Opera Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara Toba Sister City Organization will present an introduction to the opera and a Community Conversation centering on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Incarceration survivors Hideko Malis and Roke Fukumura speak about their experience in a discussion moderated and by Nina Yoshida Nelsen. The Community Sponsor for this event is the Santa Barbara Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). Contact Opera Santa Barbara for more info. This event will be held at the Faulkner Gallery at the SB Public Library (downtown) on February 4.
Dana Lawton Dances presents The Farallonites
Dana Lawton Dances presents The Farallonites on Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 3 PM and 7 PM. This theatrical dance performance evokes the lives of lighthouse keepers on the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco in the 1860s. Audiences will find themselves immersed in another time and place.
$25 - $100