In a spectacular tour-de-force Season Opening, The Symphony continues its impactful tradition of performing arts collaboration to create new experiences for the community. More than 150 performers from State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara Choral Society, Quire of Voyces and Sing!, the Music Academy’s children’s chorus join The Symphony on stage in a program that features a new ballet to Gabrielle Fauré’s pensive Pavane, a wildly decadent ode to wine and fertility with Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse Bacchanale from the opera Samson and Delilah, and concludes with Carl Orff’s beloved and powerful Carmina Burana. This concert is part of the Granada Synergy Series.

Santa Barbara Trapeze Co. and CALM are partnering together to support children and families across our community. There will be optional donations for entry and tacos to help raise money for this incredible organization.

Chamber On The Mountain presents
Anita Graef, Cellist with Louise Chan, Pianist

Sunday, October 16, 2022
3:00 pm

Logan House at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts
8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd.
Ojai, CA 93023
Tel: (805) 646-3381

Tickets $30.00 at www.ChamberOnTheMountain.com

Program
Three Preludes for Cello and Piano, G. Gershwin
Cello Sonata No 4, Op. 102, No. 2, L.v. Beethoven
Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58, Felix Mendelssohn
Five Pieces for Cello and Piano, A. Beach
Sonata in A Major, M. 8, C. Franck

Audience members are invited to stay and meet the artists at an outdoor patio reception following the performance.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents An Evening with Laird Hamilton on Sunday, October 16th at 7:30 pm at the Arlington Theatre.

Gentle, mindful walk to connect with nature with certified guide Tamara Murray. No outdoor experience needed! Nature connection walks, sometimes referred to as forest bathing, are gentle, mindful walks inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin yoku and are associated with health and well-being.

The Annual Asian American Neighborhood Festival is back! Come visit El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park on Sunday, October 16th from 11:00am-3:00pm

Sunday, October 16, 2022 - 12pm El Presidio Real, Downtown Santa Barbara

Led by Richard North, ensemble Gamelan Sinar Surya will showcase an ancient style of gamelan from Cirebon, West Java, featuring dynamic drumming, delicate melodies, lively interlocking rhythms and traditional mask dance performed by Noah Malik. Free admission as part of the Annual Asian American Neighborhood Festival.

Learn the fundamentals of the guitar, bass or ukulele in a fun, relaxed, supportive atmosphere! Connect with others socially and musically while you play popular songs with your new friends in the social club every other Monday!

The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County invite you to attend an information session regarding our 2023 training course! Veteran Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer your questions. We will begin fifteen weeks of instruction beginning the first week of March, 2023.

We currently have three information sessions scheduled: October 17, October 19, and November 9th, all at 7:00pm. You can find out more and sign up for one here: ucanr.zoom.us

With performances acclaimed for both “high-octane” excitement (The Strad) and “dusky lyricism” (New York Times), the Aeolus Quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe. Formed in 2008, the Aeolus Quartet has performed in venues ranging from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, to Dupont Underground, a subterranean streetcar station in DC's Dupont Circle. They were the 2013-2015 Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School and are currently Quartet-in-Residence at Musica Viva, NY. In addition to extensive touring throughout the United States, the 2021-22 season includes a Morgan Library performance as well as a feature on the Violin Channel.

Returning to SBMA after a lauded performance in 2019, the Quartet will perform Beethoven’s Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 18 No. 6, Caroline Shaw’s Blueprint*, and Schubert’s Quartet in G Major, D. 887.

* Caroline Shaw’s work will be performed three times this season. This New York City-based contemporary musician and composer became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2013. She is often cited as proof that classical music has an exciting future.

Chamber Music Concerts at SBMA are supported by the Katharine Putnam and Reginald M. Faletti Concert Fund with additional support from the Curletti Fund

Mary Craig Auditorium

$20 SBMA Members
$25 Non-Members

Gentle, mindful walk to connect with nature with certified guide Tamara Murray. Shortened to fit into your weekday lunch break! Nature connection walks, sometimes referred to as forest bathing, are gentle, mindful walks inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin yoku and are associated with health and well-being.

Hospice of Santa Barbara Virtual illuminate Speaker Series Presents Richard Louv “VITAMIN N” AND THE NEW NATURE MOVEMENT on October 19, 2022, from 6:00 to 7:00pm

Join us for a KITP Virtual Public Lecture, "Why Face Masks Work" featuring Eberhard Bodenschatz on Wednesday, October 19 at 6:00 PM PT

Join us for this FREE* webinar led by Rebecca Simonitsch and Gisselle Madrigal. In this 90-minute seminar, you will learn about health equity

Join the Library for an open mic afternoon celebrating the rich poetic community of Santa Barbara. Faculty Emerita and acclaimed poet Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim will begin the event, and will be followed by poets from the Department of English and Gevirtz School of Education. Afterwards, community poets are welcome to share their works in an open mic setting.

Visit SBMA for Third Thursday featuring the following free activities and offerings:

• Free Museum admission, 5 – 8 pm

• Music on the Front Terrace, 5 – 7:30 pm

• Complimentary docent Ten Talks for current exhibitions at 6 and 6:30 pm

• Teaching Artist-led art activities in the Family Resource Center, 5 – 7 pm

• Free raffle entry for a chance to win a gift bag of artful treasures from the Museum Store

PLUS, enjoy 1/3 off an SBMA Membership during this event only, and receive unlimited annual free admission, invitations to exclusive Member events, and frequent SBMA news and updates.

Please note: Special price $55 (33% off $80) for a new Member joining at the Friend level. Available monthly on Third Thursday in person only, 5 – 8 pm.

Join us for the third lecture and demonstration from appraiser Elizabeth Stewart, Ph.D. who will be joined on stage by Louis John, owner of the high end fashion boutique inside Miss Daisy's. Doors open 5 pm; Show begins at 5:30
We invite the audience to ‘dress to impress’ for the event in their favorite iconic fashion designer outfit or your own individual style to be a part of the evenings’ fashion scene.
Louis John said, “It’s the designer’s creation and the wearer’s look that’s the art.”

Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum's galleries as an impetus to writing. Monthly sessions are led by a visiting writer who begins with a conversation and prompt, partially inspired by works on view. Participants write on their own, then reconvene to share and comment on each other's work. Please bring something on which to write.

In October, award-winning author and UCR Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Andrew Winer, leads a session inspired by Édouard Vuillard's Fuchsias and French Marigolds (ca. 1903), on view in Ridley-Tree Gallery.

Museum Galleries

Free with Reservation!

In a reading and discussion of his electric, darkly humorous collection of 13 new short stories, the inimitable T.C. Boyle, Santa Barbara resident and bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In, ”messes with us” as the book inscription from Willie Dixon’s I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man promises.

In the title story of I Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And “Hyena” begins simply: “That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit—it was there, and it came for him.” A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns to share with us these inventive and masterfully told short stories characterized by his always biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.

Book signing to follow.

Mary Craig Auditorium

$5 SBMA Members
$10 Non-Members

Our Public Lands: A 13,000-mile Journey Through California’s Forgotten Landscapes Free IN PERSON Slideshow Presentation with Q&A Thursday, October 20th, 6:30PM Faulkner Gallery – Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA Join Josh Jackson on a photographic tour of the public lands in California managed by the Bureau of Land Management

AEG presents Vir Das Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 7 PM. Vir has become a global comedy sensation as a stand-up comedian and actor. He’s gained worldwide appeal with his five specials on Netflix in the last six years, one of them For India having been nominated for an Emmy Award, and his starring roles in over a dozen films, most recently in the Judd Apatow film The Bubble on Netflix. He’s been hailed by Variety magazine as a “Top 10 Comic To Watch” and honored by The Kennedy Center as one of their inaugural “Next 50” leaders who are lighting the way forward through art and action. https://www.lobero.org/events/vir-das/
$53.75

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presents “Central Coast Ocean Adventures & the Tall Ship Mystic Whaler” on Thursday, October 20, 2022, at 7 pm. This in-person lecture by Christine Healy and Michael Sheehy, of Central Coast Ocean Adventures (CCOA), will share the story of the tall ship Mystic Whaler, her voyage from Connecticut to California and the plans for her future. Cost is free for SBMM’s Navigator Circle Members, $10 for all other members, and $20 for members of the public. There will also be a pre-lecture reception for members only from 6:15-6:45pm. Register at: https://sbmm.org/santa-barbara-event/ and become a member at https://sbmm.org/membership/

At its upcoming 25th annual Salute to Scouting, the Los Padres Council of Boy Scouts of America will recognize local leaders Douglas Scott and Robert Maloy for their contributions to the health, education and safety of youth in Santa Barbara County

It’s Spooky Season! Kick off Halloween by joining the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County at Restoration Oaks Ranch on October 21st for our Tarantula Trails Tour!

Monthly Westmont Public Telescope Night

Friday, Oct 21, 2022- 7:30pm Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall

In this concert the duo AndPlay will present several works for violin and viola from the contemporary American and international repertoire.

http://andplayduo.com/

The Santa Barbara Music Club opens its 2022-23 season of great classical music on Saturday, October 22, 3 PM, at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu. Award-winning organist Tom Mueller performs works by Bach, Conte, Franck and Whitlock, and his own Sonata (2020). Free admission. Details at www.SBMusicClub.org.

This 6-week Intro to K9 Nose Work® (K9NW) Continuing Education course is for dogs and handlers who have completed NACSW Intro to K9 Nose Work® and Intro to Odor® courses.

Sidewalk book sale to support the Santa Barbara Library

Come see our garden campus, classrooms, and learn about our program on Saturday, October 22nd from 10am - 12pm

Join Inside Wine Santa Barbara for a very special, hands-on wine blending/tasting experience with Artiste winemaker Bion Rice.

Fall under the spell of owls, bats spiders and scorpions
Touch skulls and bones that will rattle your bones
Enjoy enchanting music with the Spooky Sisters
Make a mask
Sip witches brew
Visit the Nature Center
Admission: Donation