Power Portraits
Ages 5 - 12
Monday - Friday
9 am - 3 pm

Discover how artists use portraits to tell stories about other people and themselves. Imagine yourself as a hero, inspired by the work of Los Angeles-born contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley, whose work is currently on view. Explore how poses, backgrounds, clothing, and gesture reveal character. Create personalized portraits of yourself, family, friends, and even pets using mixed media, printmaking, and collage.

Join us for live Spanish music and Flamenco dance performances in the Macy's Court Monday, July 28 through Friday, August 2.

We want to personally invite you to join us this fun Tuesday to get to know you and your business!

We are celebrating the culmination of a year-long free, public outdoor writing workshop.

TEDxSantaBarbara presents local adventures and intimate salons that provide monthly opportunities to spread powerful ideas. 

Tribes on the Edge, an independent documentary directed and produced by Céline Cousteau, explores the timely topics of land threats, health crises, and human rights issues of the indigenous peoples of the Vale do Javari in the Brazilian Amazon, expanding the view to how this narrative is relevant to our own lives. This is a story that invokes the critical importance of respect and care – for land, culture, and humanity. Our survival may depend on it.

Sponsored by: CauseCentric Productions

Finch & Fork’s July Cocktails for a Cause comes to a yappy end with a rooftop celebration benefiting the Santa Barbara Humane Society on July 31 from 5:30-7:30pm.

KopSun invites you to increase your Cannabis IQ! July 31st, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., at the Carpinteria Woman’s Club, 1059 Vallecito Road

When: Thursday, August 1, 3:00 - 5:30 p.m. and/or Saturday, August 3, 1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $60 for a single workshop, $110 for both
Where: The Dance Hub, 22 East Victoria Street, Santa Barbara
Contact: info@dancehubsb.org

Known around Santa Barbara in his dark jean overalls, Kyle Allan, a participant with UCP WORK, Inc. since 1990, was taught to draw by his father where he grew up on an 9-acre alfalfa farm in Blythe, California, and developed a love for tractors and other farm machinery.  Kyle remembers when WORK, Inc. was located in the building on Gutierrez and State, a vocational training and rehabilitation program for people with intellectual

Seven Seas Press is pleased to announce the book launch event for Mermaid Dreams, a children's book by local award-winning author-illustrator team, Janet Lucy and Colleen McCarthy-Evans.

On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Discovered in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metals to beadwork, wood, and even paintings, images of maternity enliven virtually every type of object made in the region.

Defining maternity as a biological and cultural phenomenon, this lecture goes beyond obvious notions of fertility to consider the importance of maternity in thought, ritual action, and worldview. Maternity images of all eras evoke deep and significant messages – well beyond what meets the eye.