Family Night is an opportunity to view the Maritime Museum from an entirely different perspective. Our goal for the evening is to present interactive learning activities for the entire family.

Written and directed by Marcos Colón, Beyond Fordlândia (2017, 75 min) presents an environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film

Reproductive Rights have been in the news everyday and continue to change. Speakers will address reproductive rights – from choosing to be a parent to not being a parent, understanding the many forms of reproductive rights politically and physically, and understanding issues of maternal and child health as well as reproductive health

The group intention is to support each other's creative efforts in nonprofits, startups, and passion projects with Facebook and social media technology.

Join us for a dialogue between Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies) and Lisa Sun-Hee Park (Asian American Studies) about Sarkar’s new article, “No Man’s (Is)land: Ecology of a Border.” Refreshments will be served.

The Museum is pleased to present a discussion that helps us appreciate why Chiura Obata was such an influential and beloved artist, and why his artwork is still relevant today. This gallery presentation will feature ShiPu Wang, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at UC Merced, curator of this exhibition and a UCSB

Famously fabulous parties among noted writers and scholars have included Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, Jay Gatsby’s fictional lawn party, and the celebrated literary gathering at Lanting (Orchid Pavilion) in China in the year 353 CE, where the elite participated in a game that incorporated a poetry competition. Rice-wine cups were floated down a small winding creek as the poet-scholars sat along its banks; whenever a cup stopped, the man closest to the cup was required to empty it and write a poem.

This same idea of a gathering of poets is being translated into the 21st century at SBMA, when 41 local poets who contributed to "To Give Life A Shape: Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art" read their works while inspirational images are projected as backdrops.

Famously fabulous parties among noted writers and scholars have included Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, Jay Gatsby’s fictional lawn party, and the celebrated literary gathering at Lanting (Orchid Pavilion) in China in the year 353 CE, where the elite participated in a game that incorporated a poetry competition. Rice-wine cups were floated down a small winding creek as the poet-scholars sat along its banks; whenever a cup stopped, the man closest to the cup was required to empty it and write a poem.

This same idea of a gathering of poets is being translated into the 21st century at SBMA, when 41 local poets who contributed to "To Give Life A Shape: Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art" read their works while inspirational images are projected as backdrops.

During the month of February the Museum galleries will be enriched by a series of musical performances provided in partnership with UCSB and Westmont College. Covering a range of cultures, time periods, styles, and instruments, these pieces will be performed by members of the UCSB and Westmont Music Department faculty and students, as part of a combined desire to offer music and art together as an opportunity for solace, beauty and comfort in our community.

During the month of February the Museum galleries will be enriched by a series of musical performances provided in partnership with UCSB and Westmont College. Covering a range of cultures, time periods, styles, and instruments, these pieces will be performed by members of the UCSB and Westmont Music Department faculty and students, as part of a combined desire to offer music and art together as an opportunity for solace, beauty and comfort in our community.

This UCSB Script to Screen and Shakespeare on Film presentation of "She's the Man" will be followed by a Q&A with screenwriters Karen McCullah & Kirsten Smith ("Legally Blonde" & "10 Things I Hate About You").The event will be moderated by Pollock Theater Director Matt Ryan.

Sunset in the Crow's Nest for Thomas Fire and Flood Relief

Join us on February 23rd for an exclusive August Ridge event benefiting the Thomas Fire and Flood Fund!