¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! (Viva) is back in 2023 for the first time since 2020! Since its establishment as a free community arts program in 2006, Viva has brought together people of diverse backgrounds from across Santa Barbara County to celebrate the music and dance of Latin America.

Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar

THREE FREE PUBLIC PERFORMANCES!

Friday, Jan 13 | 7 PM | Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Rd, Goleta
Saturday, Jan 14 | 7 PM | Guadalupe City Hall, 918 Obispo Street, Guadalupe
Sunday, Jan 15 | 7 PM | The Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E Cota St, Santa Barbara

¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! (Viva) is back in 2023 for the first time since 2020! Since its establishment as a free community arts program in 2006, Viva has brought together people of diverse backgrounds from across Santa Barbara County to celebrate the music and dance of Latin America.

Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar

THREE FREE PUBLIC PERFORMANCES!

Friday, Jan 13 | 7 PM | Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Rd, Goleta
Saturday, Jan 14 | 7 PM | Guadalupe City Hall, 918 Obispo Street, Guadalupe
Sunday, Jan 15 | 7 PM | The Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E Cota St, Santa Barbara

Monday, January 16, 2023 9am – 12:30pm In-Person
9 – 10am @ de la Guerra Plaza program
10am Unity March Up State Street
11am – 12:30 pm MLKSB Program at Arlington Theatre

Plaza de la Guerra, 15 de la Guerra Plaza, Santa Barbara, 93101
Arlington Theatre, 1317 State Street, Santa Barbara, 93101

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee of Santa Barbara (MLKSB) presents for the 16th year, a free program honoring the great Dr. King and all he stood for, to the community on the national holiday Monday, January 16. 

UCSB Library invites you to the first Pacific Views lecture of 2023 with Professor Trisalyn Nelson (UCSB Geography). This event is in conjunction with the UCSB Reads 2023 book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design.

https://www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhibitions/spatial-data-science-solutions-better-bicycling

Hello Friends! You're invited to Death Cafe Santa Barbara (in conjunction with The Center for Successful Aging) with Liz Bauer, Lynn Holzman, and Peggy Levine Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Time: 3:30-5 PM Place: First Congregational Church at 2101 State Street, Santa Barbara Parking: The church parking lot access is on State Street For questions,

Hello Friends! You're invited to Death Cafe Santa Barbara (in conjunction with The Center for Successful Aging) with Liz Bauer, Lynn Holzman, and Peggy Levine Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Time: 3:30-5 PM Place: First Congregational Church at 2101 State Street, Santa Barbara Parking: The church parking lot access is on State Street For questions,

Nigel McGilchrist’s book, which was released in July of 2022, looks at the moment in history when a way of thinking which we can truly call ‘Western’ was born. It was a fruitful coming together of the ancient knowledge of the East – of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India – with the restless curiosity and ingenuity of the Greek mind. It was a hinge moment in which what we understand as the scientific way of thinking, first gained traction. And yet it was a science that was also deeply imbued with spiritual awareness and a sense of the beauty and unity of creation.

Ready for your business to take off in ’23? Join us at Julie Schneiderman’s inspiring Stik N Stuk Creative Studios as Tamar Sasson, founder of Mental Super Health™️, leads us through a simple 4 step Method that has helped entrepreneurs 3x their revenue and scale unshakable, profitable brands by putting their mental health first.

University United Methodist Church  Hosts MOVIE: Selma – MLK & Civil Rights, January 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Location: 880 Camino del Sur, Isla Vista. 

Blood Drive at the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara - Thursday, Jan. 19th from 2 - 5:30 p.m. in the bloodmobile at 524 Chapala Street.

SBCEO to lead countywide forum on youth opioid & fentanyl epidemic in new “Education Spotlight” series

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.

The January session is led by local poet and UC Santa Barbara professor Rick Benjamin.

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.

The January session is led by local poet and UC Santa Barbara professor Rick Benjamin.

Join us for Central Coast Start-Ups this month and help create a nexus for the start-up community in Santa Barbara. Kiva has such a rich wealth of knowledge and wisdom within the start-up community, and the hope is that Kiva Cowork can be a house for a start-up ecosystem where leaders can pitch ideas and help one another. Join us for some appetizers, enlightening conversations, and quality time networking.

Longtime Kiva member, Jade Flogerzi from Clever Punch will be sharing marketing and branding secrets that every start up business should know.

Event will take place at Kiva Cowork Funk Zone, 10 E Yanonali St. from 6-7:30pm.

Join us for Central Coast Start-Ups this month and help create a nexus for the start-up community in Santa Barbara. Kiva has such a rich wealth of knowledge and wisdom within the start-up community, and the hope is that Kiva Cowork can be a house for a start-up ecosystem where leaders can pitch ideas and help one another. Join us for some appetizers, enlightening conversations, and quality time networking.

Longtime Kiva member, Jade Flogerzi from Clever Punch will be sharing marketing and branding secrets that every start up business should know.

Event will take place at Kiva Cowork Funk Zone, 10 E Yanonali St. from 6-7:30pm.

The Husahkiw Landscape with Monique Sonoquie Free IN PERSON Presentation with Q&A Thursday, January 19th, 6:30PM Faulkner Gallery – Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA Join us for a very special edition of Trail Talks as Author, Documenter and Cultural Practitioner Monique Sonoquie offers a personal twenty-five year case study

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presents “Paddling into a Natural Balance” with Carpinteria-based freelance writer and photographer Chuck Graham on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 7:00. As part of his presentation, Chuck will recount his many adventures hiking and kayaking the Santa Barbara Channel Islands—and will share many of his award-winning photographs that document the islands and their recovery over the past 30+ years. 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.

Celebrated around the world for her commitment to free expression, human dignity and democratic government, journalist Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power and challenging corruption. The recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, Ressa has had multiple arrest warrants filed against her for her reporting on the authoritarian administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Her new book How to Stand Up to a Dictator tells the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts and how social media is killing our freedoms.

Venice is perhaps the world’s most beautiful city, and certainly one of its most anomalous human creations. Built in the water of a lagoon, it needed, as it grew in size and importance, a hinterland of its own which both protected its approaches from the land, and provided it with agricultural produce and timber. This became the area known as the Veneto – the flat-lands and alpine foothills that extend to the north and west of Venice. The unequalled international wealth and culture of Venice at its apogee, in the 15th and 16th centuries, flowed out into this area, imbuing it with some of the most accomplished painting and dignified domestic architecture we possess – the works of Paolo Veronese, Titian, Cima, and Giovanni Bellini, and the harmonious villas and gardens of Andrea Palladio which were to influence so profoundly American architecture in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Veneto is the incarnation of a quality of life and civilization that has rarely been equaled in history.

Monthly Westmont Public Telescope Night

Monthly Westmont Public Telescope Night

Lobero LIVE presents An Evening with Los Lobos – “Amplified Los Lobos” on Friday, January 20, 2023 at 7:30 PM. Los Lobos has sold millions of records, won prestigious awards and made fans around the world. But perhaps its most lasting impact will be how well its music embodies the idea of America as a cultural melting pot. In it, styles like son jarocho, norteño, Tejano, folk, country, doo-wop, soul, R&B, rock ’n’ roll and punk all come together to create a new sound that’s greater than the sum of its parts.
$59 - $106

The public is invited to attend a hybrid meeting of NOAA’s Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council in-person at the Santa Barbara Zoo with an option for joining online (https://meet.google.com/zsj-nthh-zna).

The public is invited to attend a hybrid meeting of NOAA’s Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council in-person at the Santa Barbara Zoo with an option for joining online (https://meet.google.com/zsj-nthh-zna).

Social media trends for interdisciplinary artists in 2023

Susie Orso and Nigel McGilchrist converse and reminisce about the Museum’s Travel Program over its busy half-century of history – discussing what the real significance of travel is for us, how travel is done at its best, and what instructive lessons we all learned from our abstention during the pandemic years. They share stories and joyous moments - including reflections on gastronomy and art - as well as pictures from recent journeys, far and wide, with the Museum’s indomitable group of traveling members and friends.

Join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network for an evening with Dr. Emily Fairfax, PhD and Cooper Lienhart as they share their work & passion for beaver, a keystone species that until very recently was vastly underrated as the ecosystem restoration hero it is.

Welcome to a celebration of the influences of music of the Americas — with local ties to Santa Barbara. The performance includes Uruguayan born, Grammy© nominated American composer Miguel del Águila’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, The Journey of a Lifetime (El viaje de una vida), with violin soloist Guillermo Figueroa, and the concert world premiere of the late, Academy©-award winning, American composer and former Santa Barbara resident, Elmer Bernstein’s Toccata for Toy Trains — his score for an animated film by Ray Charles Eames, arranged into a concert piece especially for the Santa Barbara Symphony by the composer’s son, Peter. Antonín Dvorak’s magnificent Symphony No. 9, From the New World, will round out the program.

Lobero LIVE presents An Evening with Los Lobos – “Acoustic Los Lobos“ on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 7:30 PM. Los Lobos has sold millions of records, won prestigious awards and made fans around the world. But perhaps its most lasting impact will be how well its music embodies the idea of America as a cultural melting pot. In it, styles like son jarocho, norteño, Tejano, folk, country, doo-wop, soul, R&B, rock ’n’ roll and punk all come together to create a new sound that’s greater than the sum of its parts. https://www.lobero.org/events/los-lobos-acoustic/
$59 - $106

Named one of Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Stand-up Comics of All Time, Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated comedian, writer, radio contributor and actor. She wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show One Mississippi and just released her second HBO special, Tig Notaro: Drawn. In 2021, Notaro co-directed the feature film Am I OK?, which debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. She hosts the critically-acclaimed advice podcast Don't Ask Tig and co-hosts the hilarious documentary film podcast Tig and Cheryl: True Story.

City of Goleta’s first Coffee and Community event this Saturday, January 21st from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at Nectarine Park (Nectarine Ave. & Mandarin Dr.) in Old Town. This is a bilingual event with Spanish interpretation provided along with coffee and pastries.

Recent rains have brought a ton of water and a host of new wildlife to be seen at UCSB's North Campus Open Space. Free guided tours are offered on the 3rd Saturday of every month from 9:30-11:00am.

The entire Santa Barbara Community is invited to The Riviera Ridge School’s mountain-view campus on Saturday, January 21st from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm for their fifth annual Maker Fair

Free Open House event at SBCC School of Extended Learning Wake Campus. Learn more about Extended Learning's hundreds of spring career skills and life enrichment classes, and enjoy lunch and fun activities.