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

AEG presents Vir Das Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 7 PM. Vir has become a global comedy sensation as a stand-up comedian and actor. He’s gained worldwide appeal with his five specials on Netflix in the last six years, one of them For India having been nominated for an Emmy Award, and his starring roles in over a dozen films, most recently in the Judd Apatow film The Bubble on Netflix. He’s been hailed by Variety magazine as a “Top 10 Comic To Watch” and honored by The Kennedy Center as one of their inaugural “Next 50” leaders who are lighting the way forward through art and action. https://www.lobero.org/events/vir-das/
$53.75

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presents “Central Coast Ocean Adventures & the Tall Ship Mystic Whaler” on Thursday, October 20, 2022, at 7 pm. This in-person lecture by Christine Healy and Michael Sheehy, of Central Coast Ocean Adventures (CCOA), will share the story of the tall ship Mystic Whaler, her voyage from Connecticut to California and the plans for her future. Cost is free for SBMM’s Navigator Circle Members, $10 for all other members, and $20 for members of the public. There will also be a pre-lecture reception for members only from 6:15-6:45pm. Register at: https://sbmm.org/santa-barbara-event/ and become a member at https://sbmm.org/membership/

At its upcoming 25th annual Salute to Scouting, the Los Padres Council of Boy Scouts of America will recognize local leaders Douglas Scott and Robert Maloy for their contributions to the health, education and safety of youth in Santa Barbara County

It’s Spooky Season! Kick off Halloween by joining the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County at Restoration Oaks Ranch on October 21st for our Tarantula Trails Tour!

Monthly Westmont Public Telescope Night