The League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara and the City of Carpinteria are co-sponsoring a Voter Education Forum on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at 6pm to discuss the move to electing candidates by district instead of at large in the cities of Santa Barbara, Goleta and Carpinteria and the county’s school districts.

The Forum, which was initiated by the City of Carpinteria, will be a 90-minute hybrid (via Zoom and in-person) panel discussion at Carpinteria City Hall, 5775 Carpinteria Avenue Carpinteria, and via Zoom. It will also be livestreamed on the League’s Facebook page.

The mayors of Carpinteria, Goleta, and Santa Barbara have confirmed their participation: Wade Nomura of Carpinteria, Paula Perotte of Goleta, and Randy Rowse of Santa Barbara. Dr. Susan Salcido, the newly reelected Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools, will join them on the panel. Chris Carson, Past President of the League of Women Voters of the United States, will moderate and discuss the California Voting Rights Act.

Telescope Tuesday at Camino Real Marketplace

Carpinteria Schools Job Fair Offers Rewarding Career Opportunities and $2,000 Signing Bonuses - Save the Date: Tuesday, August 2, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., at Carpinteria Unified School District / Open Positions — Instructional Assistants, Bus Drivers, Custodians & Food Service Employees

Join us for an afternoon of creative reuse fun at Art From Scrap!

This lecture will review some works—paintings, objects, sculptures—by the great Catalan artist Joan Miró. Charles Palermo will offer readings of works in the hope of showing how Miró implies movement and scale in his works. The result is fictional worlds with their own sense of time and place, which nevertheless stand right before us.

Free for Students and Museum Circle Members
$10 SBMA Members
$15 Non-Members

Bring the whole family to enjoy Teaching Artist-led activities in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Play with patterns of repeated shapes by creating a print in white ink on boldly-hued paper, inspired by Bridget Riley’s "Annul" (1965). Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm.

Free!

State Street Ballet Academy presents a variety of new dance works choreographed to celebrate the many wonderful instruments that make music. This performance is the culmination of SSBA’s two week Junior Intensive Camp.

The Fiesta Historical Parade is unique to Santa Barbara and features floats depicting episodes from the history of the state and city

The Field to Vase dinner series, hosted by Certified American Grown, brings its second stop of 2022 to the beautiful Central Coast of California in Arroyo Grande. The dinner will take place amongst the flowers at Ocean Breeze Farms on Saturday, August 6, 2022. 

EARL MINNIS PRESENTS and Lobero LIVE present The Blasters with special guest Dave Alvin on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at 7:30 PM With a sound that ignores the lines between Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, and Rockabilly, The Blasters carry on a hard-won legacy as one of the most recognizable and credible bands in American Music. Fronted by Phil Alvin's powerful vocals, the band follows through with spontaneity, power, and grit – making this rare 40th Anniversary Concert an experience not to be missed.
https://www.lobero.org/events/the-blasters/
$49 - $106

The Carpinteria Arts & Crafts Faire will be held on Saturday August 6th from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the courtyard of the Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center at 865 Linden Ave. Carpinteria. Featured ceramics artist Deb Jorgensen will be showing her functional pieces of unique pottery. Local artists will be presenting their work