The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County invite you to attend an information session regarding our 2023 training course! Veteran Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer your questions. We will begin fifteen weeks of instruction beginning the first week of March, 2023.

We currently have three information sessions scheduled: October 17, October 19, and November 9th, all at 7:00pm. You can find out more and sign up for one here: ucanr.zoom.us

With performances acclaimed for both “high-octane” excitement (The Strad) and “dusky lyricism” (New York Times), the Aeolus Quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe. Formed in 2008, the Aeolus Quartet has performed in venues ranging from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, to Dupont Underground, a subterranean streetcar station in DC's Dupont Circle. They were the 2013-2015 Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School and are currently Quartet-in-Residence at Musica Viva, NY. In addition to extensive touring throughout the United States, the 2021-22 season includes a Morgan Library performance as well as a feature on the Violin Channel.

Returning to SBMA after a lauded performance in 2019, the Quartet will perform Beethoven’s Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 18 No. 6, Caroline Shaw’s Blueprint*, and Schubert’s Quartet in G Major, D. 887.

* Caroline Shaw’s work will be performed three times this season. This New York City-based contemporary musician and composer became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2013. She is often cited as proof that classical music has an exciting future.

Chamber Music Concerts at SBMA are supported by the Katharine Putnam and Reginald M. Faletti Concert Fund with additional support from the Curletti Fund

Mary Craig Auditorium

$20 SBMA Members
$25 Non-Members

Gentle, mindful walk to connect with nature with certified guide Tamara Murray. Shortened to fit into your weekday lunch break! Nature connection walks, sometimes referred to as forest bathing, are gentle, mindful walks inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin yoku and are associated with health and well-being.

Join us for a KITP Virtual Public Lecture, "Why Face Masks Work" featuring Eberhard Bodenschatz on Wednesday, October 19 at 6:00 PM PT

Join us for this FREE* webinar led by Rebecca Simonitsch and Gisselle Madrigal. In this 90-minute seminar, you will learn about health equity

Join the Library for an open mic afternoon celebrating the rich poetic community of Santa Barbara. Faculty Emerita and acclaimed poet Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim will begin the event, and will be followed by poets from the Department of English and Gevirtz School of Education. Afterwards, community poets are welcome to share their works in an open mic setting.

Join us for the third lecture and demonstration from appraiser Elizabeth Stewart, Ph.D. who will be joined on stage by Louis John, owner of the high end fashion boutique inside Miss Daisy's. Doors open 5 pm; Show begins at 5:30
We invite the audience to ‘dress to impress’ for the event in their favorite iconic fashion designer outfit or your own individual style to be a part of the evenings’ fashion scene.
Louis John said, “It’s the designer’s creation and the wearer’s look that’s the art.”

Visit SBMA for Third Thursday featuring the following free activities and offerings:

• Free Museum admission, 5 – 8 pm

• Music on the Front Terrace, 5 – 7:30 pm

• Complimentary docent Ten Talks for current exhibitions at 6 and 6:30 pm

• Teaching Artist-led art activities in the Family Resource Center, 5 – 7 pm

• Free raffle entry for a chance to win a gift bag of artful treasures from the Museum Store

PLUS, enjoy 1/3 off an SBMA Membership during this event only, and receive unlimited annual free admission, invitations to exclusive Member events, and frequent SBMA news and updates.

Please note: Special price $55 (33% off $80) for a new Member joining at the Friend level. Available monthly on Third Thursday in person only, 5 – 8 pm.

In a reading and discussion of his electric, darkly humorous collection of 13 new short stories, the inimitable T.C. Boyle, Santa Barbara resident and bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In, ”messes with us” as the book inscription from Willie Dixon’s I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man promises.

In the title story of I Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And “Hyena” begins simply: “That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit—it was there, and it came for him.” A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns to share with us these inventive and masterfully told short stories characterized by his always biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.

Book signing to follow.

Mary Craig Auditorium

$5 SBMA Members
$10 Non-Members

Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum's galleries as an impetus to writing. Monthly sessions are led by a visiting writer who begins with a conversation and prompt, partially inspired by works on view. Participants write on their own, then reconvene to share and comment on each other's work. Please bring something on which to write.

In October, award-winning author and UCR Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Andrew Winer, leads a session inspired by Édouard Vuillard's Fuchsias and French Marigolds (ca. 1903), on view in Ridley-Tree Gallery.

Museum Galleries

Free with Reservation!

Our Public Lands: A 13,000-mile Journey Through California’s Forgotten Landscapes Free IN PERSON Slideshow Presentation with Q&A Thursday, October 20th, 6:30PM Faulkner Gallery – Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA Join Josh Jackson on a photographic tour of the public lands in California managed by the Bureau of Land Management