The Santa Barbara Zoo is thrilled to announce Zoofari Ball XXXVI: Enchanted Forest on Saturday, August 27, from 5:30 - 11:00 p.m. Zoofari Ball is one of Santa Barbara’s quintessential charitable events that invites guests to a one-of-a-kind experience after dark at the park, while supporting the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures including all the animals at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

Meet Conservative Candidates running in the November Election for Trustees and Directors serving South County School Boards. Moderated by Christy Lozano.

Beginning July 9, 2022, My Pet Ram sets up shop for the summer in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone to present Double Up, a group exhibition showcasing painting, sculpture and photography which amalgamates the stringent retentiveness of abstract geometric art with the sinusoidal exaltations of waves and surfing.

8:00 - 9:00 Pre-milonga class
9:00 to 10:30 Milonga
10:30 Tango Performance

$20, cash at the door. Or you can Paypal Nomad Tango

Carrillo Recreation Center
100 E Carrillo St
Santa Barbara, CA
A production of the Santa Barbara Association for the Advancement of Tango and Nomad Tango

8:00 - 9:00 Tango class
9:00 to 10:30 Tango Dancing
10:30 Tango Performance

$20, cash at the door. Or you can Paypal Nomad Tango

Carrillo Recreation Center
100 E Carrillo St
Santa Barbara, CA
A production of the Santa Barbara Association for the Advancement of Tango and Nomad Tango

8:00 - 9:00 Tango class
9:00 to 10:30 Tango Dancing
10:30 Tango Performance

$20, cash at the door. Or you can Paypal Nomad Tango

Carrillo Recreation Center
100 E Carrillo St
Santa Barbara, CA
A production of the Santa Barbara Association for the Advancement of Tango and Nomad Tango

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will host a Museum Educator Open House on Monday, August 29, 10:00–11:30 AM for anyone interested in leading school groups on field trips at the Museum.

Join UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Special Research Collections for a tour with artist, Jane Gottlieb.

The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara is pleased to present Malka's Place: The Story of Joyce Wilson's Photo Montages

Art historian Alexander Alberro explores the development of a research-based artistic practice that fused abstract art with mathematics, science, and technology in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The stated goal of the artists involved was to demystify the creative process in favor of an objective investigation of visual phenomena. Alberro will address how and why these experiments evolved into a greater concern with the participation of art spectators.

Alexander Alberro is a professor of art history at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. His writings have been published in a broad range of journals and exhibition catalogues, and he is the author of "Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity" (MIT, 2004) and "Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-twentieth Century Latin American Art" (Chicago, 2017). He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Howard Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Currently, Professor Alberro is completing a book-length study of the newly-formed transnational web of individuals and institutions that has in the past three decades fundamentally changed the nature of contemporary art, exploring not only what has led to this complex transformation but also the impact it has had on the current conditions of artistic practice.

Free Members and Students
$5 Non-Members

Join us as Music & Artistic Director Nir Kabaretti takes you on a nine-month long musical journey spanning 300 years, diverse musical genres, some the region’s most sought after musicians and guest artists that comprise our 2022/23 70 anniversary season

SBMA and Opera Santa Barbara partner to present a season's sampling of art and music with a pop-up performance in the Museum's galleries. In September, enjoy a repertoire of music from around the globe, inspired by SBMA’s current exhibition "Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century."

Free!