A transformative mini-retreat just for women in Santa Barbara hosted by Melanie Elkin, creator of Yoga'licious.

Come Visit Arroyo Hondo Preserve & Explore the Natural Wonders of the Gaviota Coast
Join knowledgeable docents for a guided tour of our beautiful preserve. Learn about chaparral, coastal sage scrub, oak woodland, stream-side, and grassland habitats. Walk in the shade of giant sycamores, live oaks, and bays as you learn about local fauna, flora, and history.

Literary agent and editor extraordinaire, Toni Lopopolo will help you craft your personal narrative into a marketable book.

The Vic Graber Cup kicks off on Sunday, June 3 at 2:30PM at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club.

Katherine Saltzman-Li, professor of Japanese literature and theater at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-curator of the current exhibition "The Loyal League: Images from Japan’s Enduring Tale of Samurai Honor and Revenge" introduces the film "47 Samurai," directed by Hiroshi Inagaki in 1962.

The local big band under the direction of legendary jazzman Isaac Jenkins puts on an afternoon of the very best in contemporary big band music.

To celebrate a golden anniversary, Ian Anderson will present 50 years of Jethro Tull at the Vina Robles Amphitheatre on Sunday, June 3.

The 19th State Street Mile will be held in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara, California on Sunday, June 3, 2018. The State Street Mile has been selected by Competitor Magazine as one of 7 Must-Do Mile Road Races!

Come Visit Arroyo Hondo Preserve & Explore the Natural Wonders of the Gaviota Coast

Join knowledgeable docents for a guided tour of our beautiful preserve. Learn about chaparral, coastal sage scrub, oak woodland, stream-side, and grassland habitats. Walk in the shade of giant sycamores, live oaks, and bays as you learn about local fauna, flora, and history.

Join us for a Free Family Art-Making Workshop with artist Pattie Porter Firestone focused on the sculpture "Leaves of Grass." Using Walt Whitman’s poem as inspiration, the whole family is invited to use colored strips of card paper to depict nature in three dimensions. Simplify the forms seen in nature and illustrate the forces of nature moving in those forms. Come have fun cutting and gluing colored strips of cardboard to create your own work of art.

A workshop using writing to heal the heart. No writing
experience required. Facilitated by Marsha Goldman, MSW, PhD
805.690.6219 marsha.goldman@vnhcsb.org
Six Mondays, 6/4 - 7/9, 2:00 – 3:30 PM

In “’I am fragile and small’”: Versions of Masculinity in Soviet Unofficial Poetics,” Ainsley Morse will examine the presentation of masculinity (usually that of the lyric speaker) in the work of several unofficial poets of the late Soviet period. As an institution, unofficial literature occupied a powerless position vis-a-vis officially published literature; yet, unofficial poets