EVENT POSTPONED! “Run Like a Woman” is an interactive workshop that will demystify the process of running for office by providing the latest strategies and tools available to local candidates. Topics include: Getting Ready to Run; Making a Plan; Crafting a Compelling Message; How to get Endorsements; and The Role of Social Media. Learn from powerful campaign strategists and current and past elected officials. A question and answer session will follow.

UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County

will provide information on: THE HOUSEPLANT JUNGLE-How to live with and care for them

This month's UCCE Master Gardener Workshop is all about getting those houseplants we all have to flourish! Our homes hold small pieces of the jungle. They are found growing on our windowsills, flowering in our kitchens, and hanging from the ceilings of our bathrooms. Other than the food we eat and the air we breathe,

Garden Street Academy will host its annual Open House on Saturday, January 27th at 10am.

In this lively afternoon discussion, hear the stories behind popular Funk Zone restaurant The Lark. Guests are owner Sherry Villanueva, whose dream inspired both the restaurant and book; Chef Jason Paluska, whose recipes delight both on the page and on our palate; and photographer Macduff Everton, whose soulful depictions of land, sea, and food bring the story to life. Everton’s work is also part of SBMA's permanent collection. More than a cookbook, this is a story of community:

A FREE inspirational talk by Melanie Wahlberg CS

Bringing together the gifts of three internationally recognized artists, Trio Valtorna formed in 2011. After performing together at “Music from Angel Fire” Chamber Music Festival, renowned violinist Ida Kavafian and French horn player extraordinaire David Jolley decided to continue in collaboration, adding the young pianist Gilles Vonsattel to complete the ensemble.

Sunday January 28, 2018 The Quire of Voyces will present A Healing Concert for our Community, music that soothes and heals. 3pm at St. Anthony’s Chapel at the Garden Street Academy 2300 Garden Street in Santa Barbara.

An eight-hour benefit concert featuring top Central Coast bands is planned for 3 to 11 p.m. Jan. 28 at  SOhO  nightclub, 1221 State St., to raise funds for Thomas fire Tri-County victims without insurance to cover their losses.  

The Alzheimer’s Comedy Initiative (ACI) of the Alzheimer’s Association, California Central Chapter is hosting its first ever Alzheimer’s benefit comedy show at the Scherr Forum Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on Sunday, January 28, 2018  from 6 to 8 p.m.

"Brought to Light: Revelatory Photographs in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Collection" presents a non-traditional survey of the Museum’s renowned collection of nearly 8,000 photographs. Based not on chronology or theme, the exhibition seeks to reveal new insights into well-known artists’ work by featuring lesser known, even unusual, images, and recently acquired works by artists entirely new to the SBMA collection that have never before been seen in the Museum’s galleries. This extensive exhibition, one of the first of its kind at the SBMA, aims to deepen and expand our audience’s perception of the SBMA’s stellar photography holdings by uncovering, like never before, fresh and intriguing perspectives on its unique character and depth. "Brought to Light" celebrates the art of photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as it continues its exciting multi-stage renovation project that will include permanent photography galleries for the first time in the Museum’s history. Artists will include Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Dawoud Bey, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Bevan Davies, Michael Disfarmer, Harold Edgerton, Anthony Hernandez, Barbara Kasten, Yevgeny Khaldei, Inge Morath, Gordon Parks, and Masao Yamamoto.

Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm, Free Thursday Evening 5 – 8 pm

Image: Barbara Kasten, "Construct PC-VI," 1892. Polacolor print. SBMA, Gift of Arthur and Yolanda Steinman. Courtesy of the artist.

Assembling striking works from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s distinguished collection, this exhibition reveals how photographic portraiture blossomed in the later six decades of the 19th century. Originally intended to mimic the genre of portrait painting, by 1900 portrait photography had evolved to emphasize many unique and intriguing technical properties of the medium itself, with photographers persuasively arguing for photography’s status as an art form in its own right. Some of the most successful commercial photographers were trained in the fine arts, including Nadar, Roger Fenton, and Henry Collen. In fact, the cachet of early portrait photography stemmed largely from its ability to replicate the colorful effects, dignified poses, and lavish surroundings of painted portraits. As the decades unfolded and technical processes expanded, artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Steichen began to embrace a range of medium-specific possibilities, experimenting with exposure times, darkroom manipulation and even narrative allusions. Rather than constituting a freestanding genre, then, portrait photography was nourished by a constantly evolving relationship with its painted predecessor. From captivating hybrid works dating from just after the birth of photography in the late 1830s to artful Pictorialist expressions at the dawn of the 20th century, this exhibition presents a remarkable opportunity to see nearly 100 works of photographic art rarely on view, and attests to the endless fascination of the human face and form in art and in life.

Visit Tuesday - Sunday, 11 am - 5 pm and Free Thursday Evening 5 - 8 pm.

Image: Nadar, "Self Portrait, Posed in a Balloon Basket," 1862. Albumen print carte-de-visite. SBMA, Museum purchase, 19th century Art Acquisition Fund.