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 Arroyo Hondo Preserve is open to the public on the first and third full weekends of each month, advanced reservations required. An abundance of native plants and mule deer, foxes, hawks, and other wildlife can be seen throughout the preserve, making for a family friendly adventure or a peaceful solo hike. Explore the trails and enjoy the sun-drenched vistas or stay cool along the shady creek at this historic nature preserve.

JEFF 'SKUNK' BAXTER Live at SOhO Restaurant
FEATURING CJ VANSTON on keyboards, Mark Damian on drums & vocals, and Hank Horton on bass & vocals
Doors: 6:30 PM / / Show: 8:00 PM
Ages : 21+
Call SOhO for Dinner Reservations: 805-962-7776 ext 6
Click here for tickets:
HTTPS://TICKETS.SOHOSB.COM/E/JEFF-SKUNK-BAXTER-SOHO-SANTA-BARBARA/TICKETS

Jeff “Skunk” Baxter is an American virtuoso Grammy winning guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers and Spirit. He has toured with those hit-packed bands as well as with Julian Lennon, Linda Ronstadt and played on sessions for Ringo Starr, Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams, Freddie Hubbard, John Cougar Mellencamp, Cher, Rod Stewart, Dolly Parton, Julio Iglesias, Barbara Streisand, Gene Simmons, Carly Simon, Donna Summer, and The Beach Boys. More recently, Skunk was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Doobie Brothers in 2020. His new album, Speed of Heat was being released in June 2022 by BMG/Renew

Allyship 101 - Santa Barbara PFLAG August Meeting

A free day of coworking in Downtown Santa Barbara at Workzones! If you are ready for an alternative to your home office, come join us. Super fast and secure WIFI, coffee, tea, water and multiple work areas are all included.

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

The Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce will host the return of the in-person Legislative Summit on Wednesday, August 10, from 9:00 to 10:30 AM.

Compassionate Care of Carpinteria’s The Light Shines Ahead 4th Annual Luncheon will be held Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Rincon Beach Club (3895 Santa Claus Lane, Carpinteria, CA).

PFLAG Santa Barbara Spanish Speaking Meeting
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Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, perform with a well-honed and solid power – always in the groove from their years of experience and mutual inspiration. Started as a side project during Jefferson Airplane days, the constant, the very definition of Hot Tuna, has always been Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. The two boyhood pals have never wavered in one of the most enduring friendships in Rock history.

Please join My Pet Ram for the opening of Double Up’s Second Wave on Friday, August 12 from 6-9 pm.

Fans of legendary folk icons The Kingston Trio can re-discover their timeless music all over again. In celebration of nearly 65 years of music, the iconic folk group performs their best-loved songs as part of the ‘Keep The Music Playing’ national tour. Cited as an influence by recording artists as musically and generationally diverse as Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Eagles to comedian and banjo player Steve Martin to contemporary artists such as the multi-Grammy® nominated Mumford & Sons and The Avett Brothers, The Kingston Trio occupies a unique, preeminent position in American musical history.

The Trio released 19 albums that made Billboard’s Top 100, 14 of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group’s LPs charted among the 10 top-selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks in the all-time lists of many of Billboard’s cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Hot Fun in the Summertime: Moonrise Kingdom, on Friday, August 12th at the County Courthouse Sunken Garden at 8:30 p.m.

Free farewell two-piano concert by your local favorite piano duo, SBPianoBoys!

Saturday, August 13, 2022
First United Methodist Church
305 E. Anapamu Street

Doors open @2:30pm and show starts @3:00pm sharp. Free and open to the public!

This is your last chance for a while to enjoy these very talented young musicians and their normally sold-out shows, for free, and before they embark on their next journey of attending college. The brothers will be attending Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Institute of Music to double major in engineering and music, are holding this very special farewell concert of all two-piano performances just before they leave as a thank you to the SB community where they grew up and earned their fame.

They’ll be playing on two grand pianos, many of your favorite duets, some of our award-winning compositions, a beautiful Bach concerto, and a unique Mozart sonata that has proven the “Mozart Effect” of elevating IQ levels.

Monthly Public Star Party at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Goleta Valley Art Association Celebrates Bringing Art BACK to the Community With The Summer Show and Sale at the Camino Real Marketplace

Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in this hands-on informal workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists. Each month explore a different medium—clay, metal, ink, wood, photography, paper—inspired by works of art in the Museum’s collection or special exhibitions.

In August, experiment with mixing a limited palette of paints then creating an abstract composition on black paper, inspired by Fernando de Szyszlo’s "Mar de Lurin" (1989).

Family Resource Center

Free!

Blood Drive at St. Raphael's Catholic Church - Sunday, Aug. 14th from 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
$6 pre-paid gift card for all donors redeemable via email as a thank you for your donation!

Let's Clean the Beach!

Hello Friends! We get to meet one last time at the Adobe. Future dates and location to be determined. You're invited: Death Cafe Santa Barbara in conjunction with The Center for Successful Aging with Liz Bauer, Lynn Holzman, and Peggy Levine Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Time: 3:30-5 PM Place: Hill-Carrillo Adobe building at 11

The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature is offering a Zoom lecture today, August 18 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Suzanne Hudson discusses mid-century abstraction in relation to psychology and projective testing and examines the ways that the use of images in clinical settings conditioned audience encounters with art.

Suzanne Hudson is an art historian and critic based in Los Angeles, where she is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Hudson’s work has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), Creative Capital | The Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Dedalus Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Parkett, Art Journal, and October. A long-term contributor to Artforum, she also has written numerous essays for international exhibition catalogs and artist monographs. She is the author of books including "Robert Ryman: Used Paint" (MIT, 2009), "Agnes Martin: Night Sea" (Afterall/MIT, 2017), and "Contemporary Painting" (Thames & Hudson, 2021). She is currently at work on "Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process," a study of the therapeutic origins of art-making within American modernism.

Free for Members and Students
$5 Non-Members

Come hear messages from loved ones in the Afterlife!
$40/person. Register at: proofofafterlife.eventbrite.com

Monthly Westmont Public Telescope Night

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Hot Fun in the Summertime: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, on Friday, August 19th at the County Courthouse Sunken Garden at 8:30 p.m.

Free community event bringing together friends and neighbors. Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Los Carneros and the mountains. Bring your own picnic and beverages or purchase Dam Pupusas, Dam Tamales, and/or Dam Tacos from Elubia’s Kitchen. Water will be provided but alcohol will not be sold as in years past. Live music from local bluegrass group the Salt Martians and kid-friendly activities, including face-painting and Kona Ice Truck. Dam Dinner t-shirts and City of Goleta’s 20-Year merch will be available for purchase.

Food, live music, silent & live auction to benefit the Santa Ynez Valley Therapeutic Riding Program

The Good Good Show is a monthly stand up comedy show featuring the best comedians working today!

Join Hospice of Santa Barbara on Wednesday, August 24th at 6:00 PM for their next illuminate Speaker Series Event: A Conversation with Dr. Kelly McGonigal.

A career spanning twenty-five years has brought this Canadian guitarist multiple accolades including a coveted Acoustic Guitar Magazine ‘Player’s Choice Silver Award’, eleven Juno Award nominations (he won for 2001’s ‘Free Fall’), a Gemini Award and, most impressively, ten platinum and gold studio albums.

Moreover, he has sold out concert halls the world over, produced five PBS television specials and five live CD’s. Not a bad legacy for a guy who never planned to release an album.

On Thursday, August 25th, from 6-9pm, LISTEN presents the 35th Anniversary screening of the 1987 cult classic surf movie, NORTH SHORE at the beautiful Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA. 

Center Stage Theater Presents Les Femmes Fatales at Center Stage, Encore! A Santa Barbara Drag Revue and Cabaret! Bonsoir! Bonsoir! WE ARE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND FOR AN ENCORE PRESENTATION! Center Stage Theater, along with Santa Barbara drag stars BellaDonna SantaBarbara and Miss Kitty Willows, have created Les Femmes Fatales at Center Stage, Encore! a drag revue and cabaret at Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara. August 25, at 7:30 PM. For tickets, visit www.centerstagetheater.org or call 805-963-0408. This production is considered “PG-15” and contains suggestive material and language.

The Santa Barbara Zoo is thrilled to announce Zoofari Ball XXXVI: Enchanted Forest on Saturday, August 27, from 5:30 - 11:00 p.m. Zoofari Ball is one of Santa Barbara’s quintessential charitable events that invites guests to a one-of-a-kind experience after dark at the park, while supporting the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures including all the animals at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

Meet Conservative Candidates running in the November Election for Trustees and Directors serving South County School Boards. Moderated by Christy Lozano.

Beginning July 9, 2022, My Pet Ram sets up shop for the summer in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone to present Double Up, a group exhibition showcasing painting, sculpture and photography which amalgamates the stringent retentiveness of abstract geometric art with the sinusoidal exaltations of waves and surfing.

8:00 - 9:00 Pre-milonga class
9:00 to 10:30 Milonga
10:30 Tango Performance

$20, cash at the door. Or you can Paypal Nomad Tango

Carrillo Recreation Center
100 E Carrillo St
Santa Barbara, CA
A production of the Santa Barbara Association for the Advancement of Tango and Nomad Tango

8:00 - 9:00 Tango class
9:00 to 10:30 Tango Dancing
10:30 Tango Performance

$20, cash at the door. Or you can Paypal Nomad Tango

Carrillo Recreation Center
100 E Carrillo St
Santa Barbara, CA
A production of the Santa Barbara Association for the Advancement of Tango and Nomad Tango

8:00 - 9:00 Tango class
9:00 to 10:30 Tango Dancing
10:30 Tango Performance

$20, cash at the door. Or you can Paypal Nomad Tango

Carrillo Recreation Center
100 E Carrillo St
Santa Barbara, CA
A production of the Santa Barbara Association for the Advancement of Tango and Nomad Tango

Join UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Special Research Collections for a tour with artist, Jane Gottlieb.

The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara is pleased to present Malka's Place: The Story of Joyce Wilson's Photo Montages

Art historian Alexander Alberro explores the development of a research-based artistic practice that fused abstract art with mathematics, science, and technology in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The stated goal of the artists involved was to demystify the creative process in favor of an objective investigation of visual phenomena. Alberro will address how and why these experiments evolved into a greater concern with the participation of art spectators.

Alexander Alberro is a professor of art history at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. His writings have been published in a broad range of journals and exhibition catalogues, and he is the author of "Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity" (MIT, 2004) and "Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-twentieth Century Latin American Art" (Chicago, 2017). He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Howard Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Currently, Professor Alberro is completing a book-length study of the newly-formed transnational web of individuals and institutions that has in the past three decades fundamentally changed the nature of contemporary art, exploring not only what has led to this complex transformation but also the impact it has had on the current conditions of artistic practice.

Free Members and Students
$5 Non-Members