Come to the SBMM Wine & Seafood Pairing event during the Harbor & Seafood Festival on Saturday October 12, 2019, from 12 noon – 3pm and taste wines of Santa Barbara County paired with culinary creations from Santa Barbara’s best chefs using local, fresh-caught seafood.

Create a watercolor multimedia masterpiece inspired by Jaqueline Woods’ "Black Sun #3" on view in "The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art."

Photographer Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark project is the largest archive of its kind with nearly 8,000 images of the world’s species and counting. His stunning, provocative portraits convey a powerful message: To know these animals is to save them.

“My goal is simple: to get the public to care and save species from extinction.” – Joel Sartore

Music in the Gardens combines the best of American music, food and wine on the grounds of the Music Academy of the West. Join us on October 13th!

The Benefit for the Bahamas will be held Oct. 13th at the Sandbar, 514 State St. @ 6 pm.

Acclaimed pianist, composer and humanitarian Keiko Matsui’s transcendent and haunting melodies have long sought to build bridges. Her sonic cultural exchange has reached the hearts and minds of fans throughout the world and has allowed the pianist to work alongside icons Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Hugh Masekela and Bob James. On February 22, 2019 Keiko

The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation presents the Asian American Neighborhood Festival.

Last year the MultiCultural Center kicked off a new series to explore the issues of race and belonging through literature. This series is an interactive space for lively discussions on various theories about race, a safe space for articulating perspectives on identity and belonging which are contextualized by different authors, and an intentional time for centering the narratives of marginalized communities. Discussions will be facilitated by various faculty members, graduate students, and staff members. Readings may be suggested but are not required for attendance. This series hopes to cultivate open dialogue, and a spirit of appreciation and intellectual kinship. Dessert will be provided! All are welcome.

PFLAG Santa Barbara October Chapter Meeting "An Extra Helping of Support, Acceptance and Understanding"

The Santa Barbara County KIDS Network is pleased to announce that the 2019 BRIDGES TO RESILIENCE conference will be held Monday, October 14 at the Hilton Beachfront Resort in Santa Barbara.

Christmas Parade in Old Town Goleta

Shyam Selvadurai will read from his novels Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts and talk about what it means to be a writer working from the hyphen between Sri Lankan and Canadian. Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and migrated to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen. He has studied creative writing and theatre and has a BFA from York University, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Funny Boy, his first novel, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Lambda Literary Award in the US.