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.

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.

Virtual Health Class on Google Meet with Dr. Silver: "Level Up Your Brian"

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.

We are thrilled to announce the State Street Promenade Market!

We invite you to a showcase of high-quality products curated from Santa Barbara’s most talented artisans and makers at the 1000 Block of State Street (between Carrillo & Figueroa).

The Holiday lights on State Street along with additional LED lighting will shine on the market to give it a warm and cozy atmosphere. Our goal is to encourage people to shop local and shop small this holiday season, all while staying safe and socially distancing.

Join us Thursdays from 3:00-7:30 PM and #ShopSmall!

We are thrilled to announce the State Street Promenade Market!

We invite you to a showcase of high-quality products curated from Santa Barbara’s most talented artisans and makers at the 1000 Block of State Street (between Carrillo & Figueroa).

The Holiday lights on State Street along with additional LED lighting will shine on the market to give it a warm and cozy atmosphere. Our goal is to encourage people to shop local and shop small this holiday season, all while staying safe and socially distancing.

Join us Thursdays from 3:00-7:30 PM and #ShopSmall!

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

Arts & Lectures presents a FREE double feature at the West Wind Drive-in on Thursday, November 5 at 5:30 pm: "Selena" & "LadyBird."

As part of the Corwin Chair Series, Panayiotis Kokoras, Associate Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) at the University of North Texas, will present a talk titled "Composing sound" on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 2 pm PST via Zoom. In the talk, Kokoras will give an overview of composition techniques used in his recent works such as Sense, The sound is the music, Hyperidiomatisism, and Fab Synthesis.

The Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee is bringing back “Cosmopolitics,” with a virtual twist on November 6 from 5:30-7:00pm

Join Coni Edick from the Santa Barbara Audubon Society as we dive into the sensory richness of birdsong.

Singer/actor Diana Diaz Boadella, sings a program of popular songs from the Great War era and reads some secret letters and diaries.

From our hearts to your ears. Maestro Nir Kabaretti is joined by concertmaster Jessica Guideri, pianist Robert Koenig, cellist Trevor Handy, clarinetist Don Foster, and other members of the Symphony playing solo and chamber music of Beethoven. Once again presented in a livestream format, this event will also feature interviews and 360-degree access to our musicians, both onstage and backstage at the Music Academy of the West.

All tickets for the original May 16 performance will be honored for the rescheduled show at the Lobero Theatre on November 7.

If you can’t make the rescheduled date, you can request a refund by contacting the Lobero Theatre Box Office at 805.963.0761 or by emailing boxoffice@lobero.org Monday–Friday 10 AM–5 PM, and Saturday noon–5 PM.

Refunds will be available until Saturday, September 12 at 5 PM. Many of you have generously expressed your support and concern by seeking to forego your ticket refund. If you are in a financial position to do so, we greatly appreciate these offers. Please let the box office staff know that you’ll be donating your ticket to support the Lobero Theatre.

“A new Karla Bonoff album is like hearing from an old friend you’ve missed and think of often. Her songs are comforting, familiar and timeless, and make us feel a part of them just by singing along.” – Performing Songwriter Magazine

“Her voice is perfection. She conjures memories… keeping alive the flames of her youth and dedication to other artists.” – Huffington Post

Karla Bonoff has been described as one of the finest singer-songwriters of her generation, and, in her case, the description is not exaggerated. With a career spanning four decades, Bonoff has enjoyed critical acclaim, commercial success, enduring popularity, and the unwavering respect of her peers. In addition to her own chart success with recordings such as “Personally” and the Footloose single “Somebody’s Eyes,” Karla has seen many of her ballads become pop classics, and songs such as “Tell Me Why” become hits for such stellar artists as Wynonna Judd, Bonnie Raitt, and Linda Ronstadt.

Guided tour of local ecological reserve.

The Wildling Museum is excited to share that the museum will reopen to the public on Saturday, November 7, 2020. New modified public walk-in hours will be Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.