Continuing its 34-year tradition of calling attention to and supporting preservation of open spaces in the natural world, the Oak Group is proud to hold its fall 2020 show to benefit NatureTrack, whose mission is to instill young students with leadership skills, attitudes, and habits for lifelong learning, and to inspire them to be respectful stewards of our natural world. 

Casa del Herrero’s year-end fundraiser, Christmas at the Casa, is a beloved annual tradition. With delicious bites, twinkling Christmas trees, and merriment in the air, the event is the highlight of the holiday season. While the Casa remains closed to events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Christmas at the Casa: From Our Casa to Yours will be an online Christmas boutique silent auction that will open November 1 and end on November 30, 2020. The auction is a curated collection of treasures guaranteed to add a little magic and sparkle this holiday season.

A Crimson Holiday reopens in the La Cumbre Plaza on November 1st

Youth Mental Health First Aid is a comprehensive training specifically designed to equip educators, family members, and caregivers (18 years or older) with the skills and knowledge to identify, understand, and respond to the signs or risk factors of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth.
Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, YOUTH Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis.

Ages: 5 – 7

Move between painting and sculpting techniques as you reimagine the shapes, patterns, and textures of 2-dimensional landscapes, seascapes, and skyscapes from the Museum’s collection in 3-D. Drawing, painting, collage, and unexpected materials such as wood, wire, and modeling compound are utilized in the creation of three unique works of art during this class.

Bring history to life for all ages! Have you wondered what life was like 100 years ago when Influenza swept our land? Let’s talk about it. It’s suddenly relevant. Perfect for Veteran's Day, Armistice Day, and Remembrance Day.

Help us in supporting the Foodbank of Santa Barbara with our MILLION MEALS CHALLENGE at the La Cumbre Plaza through the month of November.

Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase, and very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. He has called poetry both "music box and meat grinder" and in his playful, almost improvisational approach to language, his writing takes on the energy and teasing rhythms of jazz. An athlete and artist as well as an award-winning poet, Hayes defies categorization or containment, just as his poetry uses and subverts canonical forms such as the sonnet to create both formal and rhetorical puzzles. Like many in these past months, he knows how to inhabit and make his own the space between flight and confinement. He moves fluidly, brilliantly, and unblinkingly in the space between word and image, between music and breath.

The Santa Barbara Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications will present Creating Your Own Sizzle Reel Video on Nov. 4, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. via Zoom.

"Preserving the Harada House" is part one of three of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation's Advances in Preservation & Archaeology of Asian American Places lecture series.

Mey-Yen Moriuchi
Associate Professor of Art, La Salle University

Costumbrismo, a genre that took hold in Spain and Latin America, manifested itself through the visual and literary arts and sought to capture the customs, costumes, and traditions of everyday people and everyday life. In Mexico, it garnered particular momentum and prominence as the nation’s leaders tried to stabilize the country both politically and economically. Costumbrista artists desired to capture the corporeal physicality and presence of the Mexican people through their emphasis on naturalistic depiction and attention to detail. They created personal, constructed portrayals of Mexican life that were often romanticized and politicized. Ultimately, costumbrismo created a propagandistic, subjective language of representation that evaluated, critiqued, and celebrated 19th-century Mexican culture and traditions.

credit: José Agustín Arrieta, La Sorpreza (detail), 1850. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Historia, INAH, Mexico City.

Ticket Cost:
Virtual Experience via Zoom: FREE