VOICE Magazine: June 13, 2025

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics

Dream Factory

A new program will help students follow their medical career dreams while providing our community with much-needed Physician Assistants.

By Isaac Hernández de Lipa / VOICE

RESPONDING TO A CRITICAL NEED AND OPENING THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics has begun a partnership with the A.T. Still University in Santa Maria to launch a 24-month master’s degree from the Central Coast Physician Assistant (CCPA) program.

“I established this partnership in response to the shortage of Physician Assistants in Santa Barbara County, and with the goal of creating meaningful growth opportunities within SBNC for our talented staff,” shared SBNC CEO Mahdi Ashrafian, MD, MBA. “Through this initiative, employees now have the chance to advance in their careers while also enhancing their professional lives and financial stability. It’s a step toward building a stronger healthcare workforce from within our own community.”

VOICE had the opportunity to talk to the first two students who are taking part in the program. Gabriel Estrada is from Lancaster, California, a 25-year-old who is the first person in his family to go to college. Estrada earned a Biological Sciences degree from UCSB. The second is Morgan Bienias, from Corona, California. She is a 24-year-old who earned a Biology degree from Westmont College.

Estrada has been working as a pediatric Medical Assistant at the Goleta Clinic for three years, while Bienias joined a year ago.

“Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I’d be at SBNC and becoming a PA,” related Estrada.”

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics

SBNC was formed in 1998 with the merging of the Carrillo Clinic (born as the Freedom Clinic, in 1971), and the Westside Clinic (1973). Currently they operate eight clinics and two mobile clinics in Santa Barbara County, including four medical clinics, two dental clinics, a bridge clinic, and health promotion services. www.sbclinics.org

The CCPA program offers an alternative to medical school. “PAs collaborate much more with other healthcare workers as part of a medical team than physicians, and that team approach appealed to me,” said Estrada. “I also appreciate the program’s mission to work with vulnerable populations. This clinic reminds me of where I grew up. I enjoy working with kids, adults, and seniors, and I get to speak Spanish...I like helping those who need it the most.”

Bienias is equally enthused to participate.

She decided to follow a medical career after a trip to Uganda, as part of a global health program with malnourished children changed her life. “The PA program is a perfect match for me,” she related. “The nature of the communities we serve attracts the kinds of providers and personalities I’m drawn to, which makes the work environment much more positive and meaningful.”

Helping address inequity is also part of the program’s appeal.

“I appreciate how everyone is missiondriven, empathetic, and compassionate,”

Gabriel explained.

“Many of us have faced disparities growing up and want to be part of a change in the healthcare community. We chose to work in a FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center) where we are able to help the underserved population of Santa Barbara by connecting with them and breaking the language barrier in the healthcare system. Being able to help the community we come from is what keeps us going, and we are only hoping to provide them with a good health experience as we are reminded of our families through the community we have built.”

joined the MA program fresh out of college, mentored by Dr. Kavitha Vemuri. He also has fond memories of the late Dr. Andria Ruth, sharing, “Dr. Ruth really inspired me. She always took the time to answer my questions in the evenings as she was doing her case notes.”

Both of these program participants are looking to the future. “The most challenging part of being a PA, I believe, will be wanting to solve all my patients’ problems,” Morgan related. “Medically, I can help, but patients don’t always follow directions and or may have behaviors that might complicate treatments. Mentally, you can offer support but they won’t always follow through. Non-compliance is a challenge. But, when they do and we succeed as a team to resolve issues, it is immensely rewarding.

They both know that being an MA can be challenging, and also very rewarding.

“As a pediatric MA, the best experience I have had is being a small part of the child’s development,” Estrada said. “It is rewarding to see how babies begin to form their personalities and how parents begin to trust you with their family.”

My biggest dream is to give back to kids/ teenagers who don’t have the support I did.

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Morgan Bienias

Morgan and Gabriel will spend one year on campus in Santa Maria for the academic phase of the PA program, and then enter the clinical phase, including 35 weeks of supervised clinical practice experiences in various medical centers and hospitals, most likely in Santa Barbara County. Both of them hope they can eventually return to work in pediatric care at SBNC. The new program will help Morgan and Gabriel make their dreams come true.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I’d be at SBNC and becoming a PA.

Morgan related that she appreciates SBNC staff’s dedication and the humility of Yvonnne Cadman, one of the Nurse Practitioners she works with. “I think her humility sets the foundation for other important qualities such as compassion and patience. Yvonne practices medicine by actively listening to her patients’ concerns without judgment. She approaches each interaction with respect, recognizing that healing is a collaborative effort between provider and patient.”

Gabriel, who as an undergraduate supported himself working as a tutor in chemistry and biology,

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Gabriel Estrada

“My biggest dream is to give back to kids/ teenagers who don’t have the support I did and provide them with resources to help them succeed,” said Morgan. “One of the main reasons I want to be a PA in pediatrics is to provide care and support to the underserved who need it the most to be able to thrive and grow into healthy adults.”

“My biggest dream,” Gabriel added, “is to make a difference in a patient’s healthcare journey. I plan on focusing on pediatrics as I will be given the opportunity to be a part of the child’s development. I hope to make a bigger difference as a PA in a child’s life as I will be able to interact a lot more with them and their parents.”

Gabriel Estrada

Morgan Bienias

Photos by Isaac Hernández de Lipa

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A Message from the SBPD Chief of Police

AS YOUR CHIEF OF POLICE, I want to speak directly to you about two important matters that affect the fabric of our community: immigration enforcement and the right to peacefully protest.

First and foremost, I want to be very clear our police department is here to serve and protect all members of our community, regardless of immigration status. In accordance with California law and our department’s long-standing policy, we do not participate in federal immigration enforcement activities. Under California’s SB 54 (the California Values Act), local law enforcement agencies are prohibited from participating in immigration enforcement except in limited specific circumstances. SBPD does not ask about, collect or keep information about the immigration status of anyone we serve. Our focus is on community safety, building trust, and ensuring that victims and witnesses of crime feel safe coming forward without fear of deportation or discrimination.

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We also recognize and affirm that the right to peacefully protest is a cornerstone of our democracy. Whether people gather to speak out on immigration issues, racial justice, economic inequality, or any other cause, our officers are committed to safeguarding the public’s right to assemble and express views freely and peacefully. We’re sworn to protect safety and uphold constitutional rights.

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COMO SU JEFA DE POLICÍA, quiero hablarles directamente sobre dos asuntos importantes que afectan el bienestar de nuestra comunidad: la aplicación de la ley de inmigración y el derecho a protestar pacíficamente.

That said, we ask that all demonstrations remain nonviolent and respectful of others. When individuals engage in acts that threaten public safety, damage property, or harm others, our department will act swiftly and decisively to separate agitators from lawful demonstrators to protect both public safety and the integrity of the protest itself. Our goal is always to de-escalate tensions, facilitate dialogue, and support safe, lawful expression.

As a police department where racial and ethnic minorities make up the majority of our personnel, we are proud of our diverse community and we are committed to serving every resident and visitor with dignity, fairness, and compassion. If you have questions, concerns, or would like to speak with a member of our team, I invite you to reach out to us directly.

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En primer lugar, quiero dejar muy claro que nuestro departamento de policía está aquí para servir y proteger a todos los miembros de nuestra comunidad, independientemente de su estatus migratorio. De acuerdo con la ley de California y nuestra política de larga data, no participamos en actividades federales de control de inmigración. Bajo la legislación SB 54 de California (conocida como la Ley de Valores de California), las agencias policiales locales tienen prohibido participar en actividades de control de inmigración, excepto en circunstancias específicas y limitadas. El SBPD no pregunta, recopila, ni guarda información sobre el estado migratorio de ninguna persona a la que servimos. Nuestro enfoque está en la seguridad de la comunidad, generar confianza y garantizar que las víctimas y testigos de delitos se sientan seguros al presentarse, sin temor a la deportación o la discriminación.

También reconocemos y afirmamos que el derecho a protestar pacíficamente es un derecho fundamental de nuestra democracia. Ya sea que las personas se reúnan para hablar sobre cuestiones de inmigración, justicia racial, desigualdad económica o cualquier otra causa, nuestros oficiales están comprometidos a salvaguardar el derecho del público a reunirse y expresar opiniones libre y pacíficamente. Hemos jurado proteger la seguridad pública y defender los derechos constitucionales.

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Dicho esto, pedimos que todas las manifestaciones sean pacíficas y respetuosas con los demás. Cuando las personas participen en actos que amenazan la seguridad pública, dañan la propiedad, o perjudican a otros, nuestro departamento actuará con rapidez y decisión para separar a los agitadores de los manifestantes legales, protegiendo así tanto la seguridad pública como la integridad de la protesta. Nuestro objetivo siempre es reducir la tensión, facilitar el diálogo y apoyar la expresión segura y legal.

Como departamento de policía donde las minorías raciales y étnicas constituyen la mayoría de nuestro personal, nos enorgullecemos de nuestra comunidad diversa y nos comprometemos a servir a cada residente y visitante con dignidad, igualdad, y compasión. Si tiene preguntas, inquietudes o desea hablar con un miembro de nuestro equipo, lo invito a comunicarse con nosotros directamente.

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What History Tells Us to Expect From Trump’s Escalation in Los Angeles Protests

Since the 1960s, studies have shown that heavy-handed policing and militarized responses tend to make protests more volatile — not less.

By JAMILES LARTEY / The Marshall Project

ROUGHLY 2,000 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS CONTINUED PATROLLING LOS ANGELES ON MONDAY under an order from President Donald Trump following weekend protests in response to federal immigration sweeps. It was the first time the federal government had activated the guard over the objections of local officials in 60 years.

Without providing any evidence, Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that the protesters are “paid insurrectionists.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass condemned the deployment, describing it as federal overreach and a dangerous provocation. Early Monday, Newsom announced plans to file a lawsuit challenging the deployment.

“That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions,” Newsom said in a statement.

There’s a substantial amount of social science backing up Newsom’s suggestion. A large body of research, spanning more than 50 years, shows that heavy-handed policing and militarized responses to civil unrest tend to make protests more volatile — not less.

chemical agents, and making mass arrests.

One of the earliest such findings came from the 1967 Kerner Commission, which investigated the causes of urban riots across the country. The commission found that in half the riots studied, aggressive police action, such as mass arrests or tear gas, had served as the catalyst for violence. The commission suggested that “abrasive policing tactics” should be abandoned in favor of de-escalation and engagement.

Experts say extensive research in the following decades has turned up similar findings. Escalating force by police tends to create feedback loops, where protesters escalate against police, police escalate even further, and both sides become increasingly angry and afraid.

During the protests against the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, law enforcement agencies across the U.S. mostly failed to adopt those lessons, repeatedly adopting a “force first” posture and showing up in riot gear, deploying

“There’s this failed mindset of ‘If we show force, immediately we will deter criminal activity or unruly activity,’ and show me where that has worked,” Scott Thomson, the former chief of police in Camden, New Jersey, told The Marshall Project during those protests. He continued: “That’s the primal response. The adrenaline starts to pump, the temperature in the room is rising, and you want to go one step higher. But what we need to know as professionals is that there are times, if we go one step higher, we are forcing them to go one step higher.”

In the wake of the summer of 2020, the Police Executive Research Forum, a think tank that advises law enforcement agencies nationwide, arrived at similar conclusions. Its 2022 report on policing protests recommended avoiding mass arrests, limiting the use of less-lethal munitions, and focusing instead on building trust and maintaining communication with protest organizers. The report concluded that when police establish those lines of communication, protests are far more likely to remain peaceful.

Just last year, many of those recommendations were ignored again during college campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. Police across the country routinely deployed tear gas, rubber bullets and riot teams to clear student encampments, resulting in nearly 3,000 arrests nationwide.

These recommendations only have value if the government’s goal is actually to minimize violence, however. Demonstrators in Los Angeles on Saturday blocked freeways and gathered at federal detention centers, demanding an end to mass deportations. By Saturday night, tensions between protesters and law enforcement were already rising, with reports that some protesters had set fires, thrown projectiles, and launched fireworks at police. Los Angeles Police officers and federal agents deployed tear gas, rubber bullets, and made dozens of arrests.

But local and state officials in California, as well as some journalists who have covered Los Angeles for decades, said that the situation did not warrant the presence of the National Guard. The Atlantic columnist David Frum observed Sunday that the point of the National Guard deployment may not be to calm tensions, but instead, to provoke confrontation for political gain. He noted that the image of fires and protesters waving foreign flags clashing with soldiers may serve Trump’s broader political narrative around law and order better than orderly, well-negotiated protests.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/09/los-angeles-ice-national-guard-protests

Protesters in downtown Los Angeles

Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters

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ICE Agents Routinely Mask Up When Seizing People—That’s Wrong

By Walter Olson , CATO Institute, www.cato.org

IHAD MISSED THE STORY FROM TWO WEEKS AGO about what happened after (apparent) agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one wearing a balaclava to hide his face, seized two men at the Charlottesville, VA, courthouse. The sequel, as reported by the local paper, the Daily Progress, was that an *unnamed* (!) ICE spokesperson threatened to prosecute two persons at the scene who challenged the action and asked the agents to identify themselves or show a warrant. The headline read: “ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted.”

Leave aside the question of when, if at all, it is proper to prosecute bystanders under these circumstances. Why is it considered acceptable for ICE enforcers to wear masks to hide their identity in the first place? They did so last week, a video shows, when they arrested Newark, NJ Mayor Ras Baraka as he protested at a detention facility. A casual search reveals that ICE agents have worn face coverings, ski masks, and the like in raids and stops reported from around the country (Westminster, MD; Douglas County, CO; Great Barrington, MA; Bellingham, WA). Federal agents wore masks when they abducted Turkish grad student Rümeysa Öztürk off a street near her Boston-area home. (She was freed by a judge last week.) The Trump Department of Homeland Security

appears to have made it standard practice. At what point will we as a nation find ourselves with a secret police?

People who mask themselves before street confrontations ordinarily do so to avoid legal and public accountability, especially when they are up to no good.

You don’t have to take my word on this. In its letter sent to Harvard University on April 11th, the Trump administration itself insisted, as part of its demands to toughen student discipline, that “Harvard must implement a comprehensive mask ban with serious and immediate penalties for violation, not less than suspension.” Its rationale was straightforward enough: if student demonstrators can conceal their identity, they might break laws or rules with impunity.

So can ICE agents—or at least whoever is conducting these raids and stops in ICE’s name. Aside from the masking, agents in videos are often seen wearing outfits so random and ill-assorted that they have sparked speculation that they are persons borrowed from local or state law enforcement work or even private security. It’s hard to know when dodging identification is part of the plan.

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Defenders of the practice say if the identities of arrest teams were known, they or their families might become targets for public shaming, harassment, or even violence. Similar concerns haven’t deterred judges, who in the past year have come under a wave of threats, often serious. Despite the real fear, jurists haven’t resorted—and in a free society, mustn’t resort—to concealing their role in administering the law.

Hypotheticals about whether police masking might have proper uses under very extreme circumstances—say, in arresting members of a major criminal gang known for retaliating against law enforcement—are less than relevant to the federal detentions in recent weeks, which have often targeted persons with no police record at all, let alone a record of violence. But masking—as with overkill in the quantity of agents, vehicles, and weaponry sent in to a scene—does convey a message of intimidation.

For the Trump administration, turning masked raids into standard practice fits into a wider effort to dodge accountability for potentially illegal and unconstitutional actions. In the contempt proceedings over its alien removals, for example, as I noted last week, the Department of Homeland Security has defied a judge’s insistence that it make clear which individual officials made key decisions, a necessary step if judges are to impose accountability correctly.

And the administration’s newest rumbling—that it might try to suspend the writ of habeas corpus itself—can be viewed in one light as an even wider bid to escape identification and responsibility for misconduct. It is through habeas and similar proceedings, after all, that judges ascertain that a particular raid detained the wrong person by mistake, or detained someone who is a citizen or in the country legally, or evaded required legal steps—mistakes that fuel public ire and demand for closer controls on the process. (In practice, presidential adviser Stephen Miller’s overtures about suspending habeas are themselves lawless, because the Constitution puts Congress in charge of such a suspension and requires, as colleague Ilya Somin has explained, that it both occur in time of invasion or rebellion, and separately that it be necessary for the public safety, neither of which condition is now met.)

Whether or not they follow through, the administration’s floating of the idea of suspending habeas shows clearly where some of its key figures would like to head. No habeas? No public revelations about who was wrongly taken and what was wrongly done to them. And ever more impunity for an administration that seems hell-bent on trampling constitutional liberties.

Adapted from a post at Walter Olson’s Substack https://walterolson.substack.com/p/will-we-allow-ice-to-behave-as-a by CATO Institute for an online article, dated May 12, 2025

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More Signs of Slow Growth

“The manufacturing economy continues to struggle,” Susan Spence of ISM said. “It will continue to struggle” due to all the trade uncertainty.

“The administration’s tariffs alone have created supply chain disruptions rivaling that of Covid-19,” an executive at an electronics company told ISM.

By Harlan Green / Special to VOICE / 6.4.25

PREDICTIONS FOR Q2 GDP GROWTH are all over the map, but there is some consensus that it will turn positive after the first quarter -0.2 percent decline. But the two main sectors of U.S. economic growth—the service and manufacturing sectors—are already contracting.

The only number in the Institute of Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing survey that rose were prices due to a shortage of commodities—i.e., supply. Every other component of the ISM supply managers’ survey was contracting—such as new orders, production, and employment.

The services index of the Institute for Supply Management also contracted for the first time in a year. It fell to 49.9 percent in May from 51.6 percent in April, the ISM said Wednesday. Any number below 50 percent signals contraction.

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By Harlan Green

Manufacturing employment had been declining since 1980; from 19,000,000 jobs to 12,765,000 jobs in April per the FRED graph out of a total 159 million American jobs.

It’s the first sector of the U.S. economy that is showing stagflation—prices are up while production is stagnating. Hence the above remarks from supply managers and Susan Spence, Chair of the ISM Survey.

Economic activity in the services sector contracted in May, the first time since June 2024, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM® Report On Business®. The Services PMI® indicated slight contraction at 49.9 percent, below the 50-percent break even point for only the fourth time in 60 months since recovery from the coronavirus pandemic-induced recession began in June 2020.

Another growth indicator, the Labor Department’s JOLTS report, shows that the service sector is still adding jobs. Openings rose in April for white-collar, retail, healthcare, and entertainment and recreation roles.

But job listings fell at hotels and restaurants, whose business has been hurt by a decline in tourism. Some foreign visitors have put off trips to the U.S. because of the trade wars and other White

Community News

“Topping Off” for Goleta Train Depot Project

THE CITY OF GOLETA HELD A ‘TOPPING OFF’ CEREMONY on Tuesday, June 10th, with the placement of the final structural steel beam for the Goleta Train Depot located at 27 S. La Patera Lane. This milestone marks the completion of the construction project’s structural framing, a project that broke ground in September of 2024.

The topping off ceremony, a tradition in the construction industry, celebrates the safe, successful completion of the installation of structural steel framing and recognizes the accomplishments of the construction crew. The final beam was signed by workers and project partners adorned with symbolic elements like an evergreen tree for growth and good fortune, and both an American and a City of Goleta flag connecting the building to its community and identity. The beam was hoisted into place followed by applause from the audience. Due to the active construction site, attendance was limited.

“We are excited by the progress being made and are grateful for the ongoing dedication of everyone associated with getting us to this point in construction including our city team, our consultants, Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) and our contractor, Quincon,” said Mayor Paula Perotte. “We first envisioned the development of a new train depot in 2017. In 2018 we acquired the land using city funds and successfully secured state funding to design and construct. After that, we entered the lengthy project development and architectural design phase, and last September we started construction. We can’t wait for the ribbon cutting ceremony next year.”

2nd District Goleta City Councilmember James Kyriaco said, “The train depot is the first “from scratch building” that the city has undertaken to build, so this is doubly exciting for us all to be at the City of Goleta’s first “topping off” ceremony.”

Another jobs report out today was more disheartening. ADP, a private payroll processor, reported that privately run businesses created just 37,000 new jobs in May — the smallest increase in more than two years — as the most damaging global trade wars since the Great Depression caused many firms to pause their hiring.

The real problem is that employers won’t begin to hire again until the trade wars are resolved, and President Trump says he isn’t letting up on the tariff wars because it will ultimately create more manufacturing jobs. But that will take years, and automation has replaced most of the manufacturing jobs (which no longer pay as well), before we see any signs of a manufacturing resurgence.

Economists such as Paul Krugman, who won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering research in foreign trade, remarking on the

sudden 50 percent increase in steel tariffs, believes the damage to the U.S. economy from such draconian tariff rates (i.e., import taxes) is already done.

So steel tariffs don’t make any policy sense. But then neither does anything else in Trump’s trade war — and the nonsensical nature of the whole enterprise is why I don’t think he’ll find an off-ramp. After all, it’s obvious that the increased steel tariff wasn’t a considered policy, it was a temper tantrum after the Court of International Trade ruled against his other tariffs.

Is the contraction of both the service and manufacturing sectors the first sign that the U.S. economy is already in recession? This Friday’s ‘official’ U.S. Labor Department unemployment report will tell us more.

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SBCAG Executive Director Marjie KIRN said, “Delivering a project of this scale and impact takes not only vision but also significant investment – this effort would not be possible without strong support at every level – local, regional, and state. We look forward to celebrating the grand opening—and, more importantly, using this new depot to further connect Ventura County commuters to Goleta with a new rail service starting this fall.”

The project remains on schedule for full completion by early summer 2026.

The full-service multi-modal train depot is a transformative one for our region. It will serve increased train ridership, improve connections to bus transit, accommodate transit service to/from the Santa Barbara Airport and UCSB and add new bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This project will also accommodate the planned future expansion of passenger rail service to Goleta. www.CityofGoleta.org/TrainDepot Watch a video recap of the special event at: https://youtu.be/8Uf2ogjEaHc

Goleta City Council and project partners celebrate “Topping Off” Ceremony on June 10th at the Goleta Train Depot construction site

Narcan Distribution Available at the Santa Barbara Police Department

A NARCAN DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM has begun at the Santa Barbara Police Department. The Narcan will be given away free in the SBPD Station Lobby. The program is part of a statewide effort to reduce opioid-related deaths and enhance education and awareness surrounding the opioid crisis.

The program began June 5th and any member of the public can visit the Santa Barbara Police Department lobby at 215 E. Figueroa St., and after watching a brief educational video, will receive a box containing two 4mg doses of Narcan nasal spray. Members of the public are not required to register or provide any personal information to be eligible. The program is sponsored by the California Department of Health Care Services and is part of a larger statewide initiative to make Narcan more accessible to the public and save lives.

The Santa Barbara Police Department Narcan Distribution Program is currently available during the following hours: Monday: 12 pm-5 pm; Tuesday-Friday: 8 am-5 pm

If you have any questions about the Narcan Distribution Program, call (805) 897-2355 or visit sbpd.com.

June 14th: Santa Barbara: No KingsKick Out the Clowns! | Women’s March

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY with an extravagant military parade in Washington DC expected to cost taxpayers upwards of 45 million dollars. On that day, Americans across the country will be taking to the streets to declare No Kings.

June 14th is also Santa Barbara’s annual Juneteenth celebration of Black Independence Day. Our local “No Kings” protest is planned to accommodate both events. Come to the beach! We will join “hands along Cabrillo” to create a human chain stretching as far as we can along the beach. We will assemble along Cabrillo Blvd sidewalk on the beach side. Beginning at 10:30am, assemble at any point along Cabrillo between Calle Cesar Chavez and Castillo Streets. There will be event monitors stationed at intervals along Cabrillo wearing yellow safety vests and holding “No Kings” signs to mark the location of the event and provide guidance on how to join in. By 11am, we will line up, wave flags, and protest signs, take photos, and then walk to Castillo Street, where participants can join the Juneteenth event at Plaza Del Mar Park (Pershing Park), which will continue until 6pm. Register at: https://www.mobilize. us/nokings/event/788033/ for the Santa Barbara “No Kings” protest and invite friends to join, as we stand in solidarity against the authoritarian threat to our democracy.

There also will be gathering from noon to 2pm in De La Guerra Plaza. This will be a smaller gathering for some fun (bring silly stories! Musicians welcome!) This is our chance to reflect the absurdity of the MAGA regime and the clowns who lead it. Together, we’ll set a national record for the most circuses held in a single day while we simultaneously refuse to celebrate a petty clown who desperately wants to be seen as strong. Due to the other events planned, we will not be marching from this location, but will proceed to join the Juneteenth event. PLEASE RSVP if you will be joining in at DLG Plaza!

Our local 805 Immigrant Coalition is holding a Community Defense Training session for legal observers and those offering to accompany and assist families - also on June 14th. It will take place at Ortega Park Community Room (632 East Ortego St.) from 1 to 3pm. ICE is targeting our area, we will not be idle!

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Construction to Begin on De La Vina Street Bridge Replacement Project

CONSTRUCTION OF THE DE LA VINA STREET BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT is set to begin mid-June 2025, with completion anticipated in summer 2027. The project will replace the existing bridge over Mission Creek, located at 2700 De La Vina Street, between Vernon Road and Alamar Avenue. The new bridge will meet current structural standards, improve safety for all roadway users, and enhance the natural riparian habitat of Mission Creek.

Detours will be in place for the duration of construction. One-way southbound traffic will be maintained on De La Vina Street at all times.

Construction is scheduled to take place Monday through Friday from 7am to 5pm. Updates will be provided in advance of any variance to these approved work hours.

Project improvements:

A new bridge to meet current structural and geometric standards.

Safety features at the Vernon Road and De la Vina Street crossings, including curb extensions, high visibility crosswalk markings, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, and safety lighting.

Improvements to sewer, water, and storm drain facilities.

Mission Creek realignment and Creek habitat restoration.

The existing BCycle station located on the bridge at De La Vina Street and Vernon Road has been relocated near 2829 De La Vina Street to accommodate construction.

For more information and to sign up for project updates, visit De La Vina Street Bridge Over Mission Creek Replacement Project (SantaBarbara.gov/DLVBridge).

Inicia la construcción del proyecto de reemplazo del puente en De La Vina Street

LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL PROYECTO DE REEMPLAZO DEL PUENTE DE DE LA VINA STREET comenzará a mediados de junio de 2025 y se anticipa que finalice en el verano de 2027. El proyecto reemplazará el puente existente sobre Mission Creek, ubicado en el 2700 de De La Vina Street, entre Vernon Road y Alamar Avenue. El nuevo puente cumplirá con los estándares estructurales actuales, mejorará la seguridad para todos los usuarios de la vía y contribuirá a la restauración del hábitat ribereño de Mission Creek.

Se implementarán desvíos durante toda la obra. El tráfico en dirección sur se mantendrá en un solo sentido sobre De La Vina Street en todo momento.

La construcción se llevará a cabo de lunes a viernes, de 7:00 a.m. a 5:00 p.m. Cualquier cambio en este horario será anunciado con anticipación.

Mejoras del proyecto:

Nuevo puente conforme a los estándares estructurales y geométricos actuales

Elementos de seguridad en los cruces de Vernon Road y De La Vina Street, como ampliaciones de banquetas, cruces peatonales de alta visibilidad, balizas intermitentes rectangulares y alumbrado de seguridad.

Mejoras en las instalaciones de alcantarillado, agua potable y drenaje pluvial.

Realineación de Mission Creek y restauración del hábitat del arroyo.

La estación de BCycle ubicada en el puente de De La Vina Street y Vernon Road ha sido reubicada cerca del 2829 de De La Vina Street para facilitar la construcción. Para más información y para suscribirse a actualizaciones del proyecto, visite De La Vina Street Bridge Over Mission Creek Replacement Project (SantaBarbara.gov/DLVBridge).

The Sounds of JUSTICE at the Ensemble Theatre Company

By Mark M. Whitehurst, PhD / VOICE

SONGS OF DISSENT ARE RISING FROM THE STAGE at the New Vic Theatre in the latest production of Justice: A New Musical, presented by the Ensemble Theatre Company, which opened last week and runs through June 22nd.

Blazing a trail for social causes has always involved dissent, and this musical brings specific instances of dissent forward by relaying the life stories of three Supreme Court Justices, Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor. In the musical, the song Blaze, and its supporting story, as told by Sotomayor (with the others chiming in), rings true and highlights the unique character and exceptional fortitude of each judge as they blazed their own trails. From easy melodies to harmonies with heart, the singers and the songs elevate the narrative with amazing gusto!

Playing the part of Justice Sonia Sotomayor is Julie Garnye; Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is played by Heather Ayers; and Valerie Perri plays Justice Ruth Badder Ginsberg. They were an excellent ensemble that moved this musical to a level way beyond a “mench on the bench.” Strong voices, supported by collaborative acting, and stories that need to be retold repeatedly made this musical a three-in-a-million show.

Each character’s story is related via narrative and song, with the songs shining a light on their hearts and inspiring the audience to buy into each woman and judge’s experience. Projections on the back of the stage labeled the important sections of the story with case names, important moments, and phrases. All were well researched and lead back into both the stories and songs.

Trail blazing for equality has been a real challenge in the field of law, and the women who led the way have become part of our national fabric of justice – and hell yes! They’re worth singing about. Especially while the nation is burning figuratively and literally with the need for justice. This musical sings about that important history that should never be forgotten.

Kudos to the creative team for climbing the lofty mountains of great people and telling their story, including Director Jenny Sullivan; Author Lauren Gunderson, who wrote the book; Bree Lowdermilk, who composed the music; and Kait Kerrigan, who provided the lyrics.

One musician, Sio Tepper, held her end on the instrumental side, playing the piano and guitar and lifting the story lines with the power of a Harlem Church Music Director — an amazing performance! The rest of the production team included: scenic design by Francois-Pierre Couture, lighting design by Jared Sayeg, sound design by Randy Tico, costume design by Alex Jaeger, and properties design by Alex Johnston. Casting is by Michael Donovan Casting: Michael Donovan, CSA, and Richie Ferris, CSA. The production stage manager is Kristal Georgopoulos.

Producers for Justice: A New Musical are Kathy Weber and Dr. Philip J. Wyatt. Associate Producers are Cynthia Brown and Arthur Ludwig. Supporting Producers are Carla Amussen, Debra and Peter Bertling, Chris and Dori Carter, Beverly DeVine, Sybil Rosen, Sheila M. Stone and Robert Turbin and Carol Vernon. Dana White is ETC’s Visionary Producer for the season.

Justice: A New Musical runs through Sunday, June 22nd at The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria Street in Santa Barbara.

Heather Ayers, Julie Garnye, and Valerie Perri star in the Ensemble Theatre Company production of Justice: A New Musical, directed by Jenny Sullivan and now playing at the New Vic Theatre in Santa Barbara.

Photo by Lore Photography

Speaking out for Immigrants as ICE Targets the Central Coast

By Mahil Senathirajah / Special to VOICE

AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A NEW, AGGRESSIVE WAVE OF ICE DETENTIONS in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, the Fund for Santa Barbara convened a community “speak out” to support our immigrant communities on Tuesday morning. In a demonstration of community solidarity, 13 organizations as varied as the Unitarian Society and 805UndocuFund, spoke passionately and peacefully in defense of immigrants, calling on our common humanity.

The speakers repeatedly highlighted that ICE and, for the first time, the Border Patrol, are in our neighborhoods right now, the same way they are in Los Angeles.

Primitiva Hernandez, the Executive Director of 805UndocuFund (which runs the “805 Immigrant Rapid Response Network”), indicated that 805UndocuFund received dozens of reports of detentions occurring Tuesday morning, many of them farmworkers, putting the agricultural economy at risk and separating children from their parents. When the first Trump administration deliberately separated children from their parents as a border deterrent, there was an international outcry with the American Academy of Pediatrics identifying it as child abuse causing lifelong damage.

While passionate, the overall tone of the speak out was a positive call to action and an antidote to the

pervasive narrative that dehumanizes immigrants.

“We should love our neighbors and protect the vulnerable…so, when confronted with the violence of ICE on our streets…we have a choice” said Julia Hamilton, lead minister at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara. “We can live in a community as neighbors, or hide behind walls as strangers, allowing our beautiful streets to become silent and fearful.”

Eder Gaona-Macedo, Executive Director of the Fund for Santa Barbara, called for the community to come together and for everyone to play a role, noting, “If you see something, do something.”

Many speakers called out the march towards authoritarianism, the violation of the rule of law and the precarious moment the country faces, including

preserving the right to protest. Gail Osherenko, quoting from a statement prepared by League of Women Voters leadership said, “We will not be intimidated into silence.”

The speak out was positive and peaceful. At the end, Hernandez noted she had to return to Oxnard to provide support to dozens of those detained, including the children whose parents were taken away.

Speakers also called on the community to express their support through donations and volunteering. Some of the participant organizations include: Fund for Santa Barbara: www.fundforsantabarbara.org 805UndocuFund: https://www.805undocufund.org/ Immigrant Legal Defense Center: https://www.sbimmigrantdefense.org/ Indivisible Santa Barbara: https://indivisiblesb.org/ Future Leaders of America: https://futureleadersnow.org/ Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP): https://mixteco.org/

Photos by Mahil Senathirajah

CommUnify’s 19th Annual Champions Dinner & Awards

HONORING DEDICATED COMMUNITY ADVOCATES,

CommUnify held their 19th Annual Champions Dinner & Awards last Friday at Hotel Corque, in The Craft House Restaurant Ballroom. The benefit was held to raise funds to support programs for families and youth.

“In these challenging times, we are doubly grateful for the generosity and continued support from the community,” said CommUnify CEO, Patricia Keelean. “The funds raised will help CommUnify provide the disadvantaged youth of Santa Barbara County with services such as mentoring, behavioral wellness, life skills, parenting skills, and career training, empowering these adolescents and their families to achieve a brighter and more stable future.”

2025 Honorees included: Renee Grubb and the REALTORS of Village Properties, Future for Lompoc Youth (FLY), and Future Farmers of America (FFA). All three Honorees and their organizations support paths to success for the youth in our community. Village Properties through The Teachers Fund

Champions Dinner

Champions Award recipients Future for Lompoc Youth (FLY) at their

leadership skills and business and communications techniques, and prepare them for potential career paths in agriculture.

2025 Champions Award recipients Renee Grubb (seated second and the Realtors of Village Properties at their table just ceremony begins

The Champions Dinner was funded by 60 corporate and in-kind sponsors and raised over $258,350 to support the seven programs in CommUnify’s Family & Youth Services division. As the event’s lead sponsor, CenCal Health generously provided a $100,000 dollar-for-dollar matching grant.

The event hosted close to 200 guests from across Santa Barbara County including many community leaders, business owners, and nonprofits. Geoff Green, CEO, California Association of Nonprofits and a 2024 Champion Honoree, was the event’s Master of Ceremonies and Auctioneer for the evening. www.CommUnifySB.org

Champions Award recipient at their (L to R McNulty, Board Secretary Manager at F Commerce student . (L to R seated) Victor Vega Lena Castenada, Madson

Emcee and Auctioneer Geoff Green Green is also a 2024 Champions and the CEO of California Nonprofits

2025 Champions Award Honoree Future Farmers of America (FFA) on stage receiving their award and medallion. (L to R) Mark Powell, Santa Maria HS FFA Department Chair, Hector Guerra, Pioneer Valley HS FFA Department Chair, Kayce Van Horn, FFA student, Andrea Cuevas, FFA student , Guillermo Guerra, Righetti HS FFA faculty, Selah Rodriguez, FFA student, and James Kyriaco, CommUnify Board President and Goleta City Councilmember.

This year’s plaques and medallions awaiting the start of the 19th annual Champions Award s at Hotel Corque in Solvang.

2025 Champions Award recipients Renee Grubb (seated second from the right) and the REALTORS of Village Properties at their table just before the ceremony begins.

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table. (L to R standing) Carmen Martinez, FLY student; LeeAnne McNulty, FLY Board Secretary; De’Vika Stalling, Co- Founder & Programming Manager at FLY and President/ CEO, Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitor’s Bureau; and Karla Rodriguez-Muñoz, FLY student. (L to R seated) Victor Vega, Ralph Valdavenos, Lena Castenada, Raquel Madson, and Chuck Madson, Executive Director, FLY.

2025 Champions Award Honoree Future Farmers of America (FFA) on stage receiving their award and medallion. (L to R) Mark Powell, Santa Maria HS FFA Department Chair; Hector Guerra, Pioneer Valley HS FFA Department Chair; Kayce Van Horn, FFA student; Andrea Cuevas, FFA student; Guillermo Guerra, Righetti HS FFA faculty; Selah Rodriguez, FFA student; and James Kyriaco, CommUnify Board President and Goleta City Councilmember

CommUnify’s Leadership Team welcomes guests to VIP Reception (L to R) Monica Moreno, Director of HR; Grant Carmichael, CFO; Julie Weiner, CDO; Monica Logan, COO; Steven DeLira, Director of Family & Youth Services; Jennifer Macdonald, Director of Children’s Services; and Nuvia Almanza, Director of Clinical Services

Photos by Helene Glassman

On the Street with John Palminteri

California Senate Leader

Congrats of 37 Years!

Vices & Spices Celebrates 50 Years!

FOR 50 YEARS Vices & Spices has been a favorite old time coffee and tea stop in Santa Barbara with gifts, books, and sweets. The count is 1,097,224 cups sold and it continues. The party Saturday was packed with customers old and new along with music, coffee, and cake.

Still Searching for Information

AS THE UC SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL YEAR ENDS, a plea is out for more information about the death of Liz Hamel in February from what’s been described as a balcony fall at a dorm building.

The family of a University of California, Santa Barbara student is appealing to the public again for help understanding what happened to their only daughter who died mysteriously in February on the UCSB campus. Liz Hamel, an 18-year-old freshman, was found at 10:27 p.m. Feb. 14, outside San Rafael Residence Hall. She is believed to have fallen from an upstairs breezeway and was found by a passerby who called 911. Liz was taken to the hospital and died from her injuries six days later.

man Liz was last seen. Anyone with information was encouraged to come forward. The press conference and flyer yielded results as the man on the flyer was identified as a resident of Palos Verdes, California. Liz’s family turned over that information to UCSB police, however, they are still seeking answers to many questions including: Did anyone hear or see anything between 10 p.m. and 10:21 p.m. Feb. 14, particularly near the San Rafael dorm or Lao Wang’s in Isla Vista?

Does anyone know the man from Palos Verdes, California, who was last seen with Liz, or know why he did not call 911 or come forward after she fell?

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Twitter: @JohnPalminteri • Instagram: @JohnPalminteriNews www.facebook.com/john.palminteri.5

Alain Hamel, Liz’s father, in addition to Tyrone Maho, of Maho & Prentice, LLP and Michael Claytor, of Claytor Investigations, held a press conference April 30, outside the San Rafael dorm at UCSB, seeking information related to Liz’s death.

During the press conference, Hamel, Maho and Claytor released a flyer that included a photo of the

Low BridgeWrong Turn!

A BOX TRUCK DRIVER did not know about the extra low train crossing at Los Patos Way in Santa Barbara and slammed into the metal structure about 7:30am. This is a notorious location for

The Hamel family appreciates the public’s help in identifying the man and is turning to the public again for help in solving what happened to their daughter. They believe there are people out there who may have information about that evening.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Claytor Investigations by phone or text at 805-335-3851 or email at claytor.investigations@gmail.com. All tips can remain anonymous.

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Photos and Stories by John Palminteri, Special to VOICE

this mistakes.

freeway widening project coming up will raise the height of this crossing and end years of metal mashups!

A BIG HOOT ON THE TRAIN HORN for former Carpinteria Mayor Brad Stein who has retired after 37 years as a train conductor for Southern Pacific and Union Pacific.

A SANTA BARBARA COUNTY BEARCAT VEHICLE and 32 personnel have been deployed to the Los Angeles civil disruption areas as part of a mutual aid support agreement. It is unknown how long they will be there.

STATE SENATOR MONIQUE LIMON ( D-Santa Barbara) is the next Senate Pro Tem, the leader of California’s State Senate. She takes over next year. She is the first Latina to hold the top position.

Photo courtesy of State Senator Monique Limon

Snowy Plover ~

Anarhynchus nivosus

By Rebecca Coulter, Santa Barbara Audubon Society | Special to VOICE

AS OUR SUMMER VACATIONS GET ROLLING, Snowy

Plovers are well into their breeding season. They nest on open sand, where they’re especially vulnerable to unsuspecting beachgoers, dogs, and vehicles. The perfectly camouflaged chicks, about the size of your thumb, begin to forage immediately after hatching and leave the nest for good within hours. They’re protected from predators and other hazards by the male parent for a month or so, and

then they’re on their own. Fortunately, many of the local Snowy Plover nesting sites are restricted during breeding season, where volunteers help protect this fragile intersection of human and avian activity.

For more information visit SantaBarbaraAudubon.org or call 805-964-1468

Eagles Nest Ocean Views

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• See the best of Santa Barbara from this park-like setting.

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Photos by Lynn Scarlett

Concerts At Chase Palm Park Begin In July

THE FAMILY FRIENDLY AND FREE CONCERTS IN THE PARK will resume this summer, with the headlining entertainment announced by the City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department. It’s a summer tradition since 2000, that brings large crowds and a range of musical entertainment to the great Meadow at Chase Palm Park every Thursday in July from 6 to 7:30pm. The community is invited to bring blankets, chairs, and picnics to enjoy an evening of free music along Cabrillo Boulevard.

2025 Concerts in the Park Schedule:

Thursday, July 3 – The Molly Ringwald Project

Thursday, July 10 – Captain Cardiac and The Coronaries

Thursday, July 17 – The Academy

Thursday, July 24 – Soul Majestic

Every Thursday in July: 6 to 7:30pm in the Great Meadow in Chase Palm Park (236 East Cabrillo Boulevard)

The free concert series is hosted in partnership with the PARC Foundation. For more event information, visit, Concerts in the Park(SantaBarbaraCA.gov/Concerts).

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Regresa la serie Concerts in the Park a Chase Palm

La serie anual de conciertos del Departamento de Parques y Recreación traerá música en vivo gratuita al parque todos los jueves de julio.

El Departamento de Parques y Recreación de la Ciudad de Santa Bárbara ha anunciado el regreso de la serie anual de conciertos Concerts in the Park. Esta tradición veraniega gratuita y apta para toda la familia ha reunido a grandes multitudes y ofrecido una variedad de entretenimiento musical en Chase Palm Park desde su inicio en el año 2000. Los conciertos se llevarán a cabo en el área conocida como Great Meadow en Chase Palm Park todos los jueves de julio, de 6:00 p.m. a 7:30 p.m. Se invita a la comunidad a traer mantas, sillas y picnic para disfrutar de una noche de música gratuita a lo largo del bulevar Cabrillo.

Programa 2025 de Concerts in the Park

Jueves 3 de julio – The Molly Ringwald Project Jueves 10 de julio – Captain Cardiac and The Coronaries

Jueves 17 de julio – The Academy

Jueves 24 de julio – Soul Majestic

De 6:00 p.m. a 7:30 p.m. • Great Meadow en Chase Palm Park (236 East Cabrillo Boulevard)

La serie de conciertos gratuitos se realiza en colaboración con la Fundación PARC.

Para mas información sobre el evento, visita Concerts in the Park (SantaBarbaraCA.gov/Concerts).

Father’s Day In Santa Barbara

SUPER WAYS TO CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY ABOUND in Santa Barbara, from a car show, to a steak at Ca Dario’s, or a garden lunch at the San Ysidro Ranch. Here are a few ideas to celebrate your special day, June 15th, with your special dad.

Cars at Carr & Cutler's Art & Car Show

June 14th from 6 to 9pm

This event is free and will be held at Carr & Cutler's. 414 N. Salsipuedes Street on the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail. Expect a showcase of classic, luxury, and exotic cars from Milpas Motors and other local collectors, all set against the backdrop of Carr Winery’s iconic barrel room. Enjoy wine, beer, and spirits, plus BBQ by Cutler’s Kitchen and the tunes of Jack Keough & Hot Club of Santa Barbara.

Father's Day Classics by the Sea

June 15th, from 10am to 3pm

Channel Islands Maritime Museum in Oxnard, will host a celebration of life-by-the-ocean including a display of boats, woodies, and classic cars.

Juneteenth Santa Barbara: Hope for the People

June 14th from 11am-6pm

There’s nothing like attending a community celebration with your father. Consider Juneteenth celebrating the Emancipation of formerly enslaved Black/ African Americans. Bring a lawn chair, blankets, and the family to enjoy a free celebration at Plaza del Mar Band Shell. Enjoy local live performances, the return of the Black Artisan Market, the Indy Parenting kids zone. See below for details.

Santa Barbara Arts & Crafts Show

June 15th from 10am-dusk

Stroll along Cabrillo Boulevard from Stearns Wharf to Calle Cesar Chavez every Sunday to view and purchase unique artworks directly from local artists. The show operates from 10am until dusk.

Celebrate Father’s Day at San Ysidro Ranch

June 15th, from 10am to 2pm

Treat Dad to an exquisite celebration this Father’s Day with an elegant three-course brunch at the iconic San Ysidro Ranch. The decadent menu features refined starters such as Royal Ossetra Caviar, Sicilian Burrata with Prosciutto Ruliano, or Dungeness Crab Cakes. Entrées range from PanSeared Pacific Halibut and SRF Wagyu Prime Rib to brunch favorites like Buttermilk Fried Chicken & Waffles and Lemon Ricotta Pancakes. Toast the occasion with the addition of free-flowing G.H. Mumm Brut Champagne, Sorgente Prosecco, Bellinis, Mimosas, and a curated Bloody Mary bar.

Outdoors, in front of the historic Old Adobe, guests will enjoy live music, an Old-Fashioned Bar featuring Jefferson’s Bourbon, and a luxury cigar rolling station – elevating the day with a touch of timeless sophistication.

Call the Stonehouse at 805-565-1720 for reservations starting at $125 per person.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Friday 6/13

COMEDY

Mostly Jokes • presented by Aaron Foster. A dark comedy with a huge heart • Center Stage Theater • $20 • centerstagetheater.org • 8pm Fri, 6/13.

Friday Night Laughs • LA Comedians • Java Station • $20 • santabarbaracomedyclub.com • 7pm, Fri.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Santa Barbara County Courthouse Docent Tours • Free • www.sbcourthouse.org • 10:30am Mon-Fri & 2pm daily.

Meditation Class • Mahakankala Kadampa Buddhist Ctr @ 1825 State Street (Upstairs) with Kadam Keli • $15 • meditationinsantabarbara.org • 5:30-6:30pm Fri.

Karaoke Fridays on State • Longoria Wines • 6:30-8:30pm Fri.

MUSIC

The Crosby Collective • with special guest Jackson Browne • Lobero Theatre • $85-175 • lobero.org • 7:30pm Thu & Fri, 6/12 & 13.

Karaoke Fridays on State • Longoria Wines • 6:30-8:30pm Fri.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Circus Vargas • Hollywood Dreams! at Earl Warren Showgrounds • $25-85 • CircusVargas.com • 6/13-23.

Solstice Lucky Friday • BEAU

JAMES WILDING and His Band Light Refreshments • 631 Garden Street • Free • https://www.solsticeparade.com • 6:30-9:30pm, Fri, 6/13.

Saturday 6/14

CHILDREN

Storytime @ the Sea Center • Stories of the sea • all ages • Free with admission • SBNature.org • 10:30–10:45am Sat & Sun.

Explore Together • Ages 0-7 • Interactive science, math, literacy and art learning activities • Central Library • 10:15-11:15am, Sat.

Musical Learning with Lanny •

Grace Fisher Clubhouse La Cumbre Plaza • Free • 11am-12pm 1st & 3rd Sat.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Nature Journaling • at the Presidio.

Learn about native California plants. Free journals, zines by Solange Aguila & seeds • Free • sbthp.org • 10:3011:30am Sat & Sun, 6/14, 15, 22, 28.

Crafternoon: Craft for the Earth • EE Makerspace, 302 East Cota St • $8 • exploreecology.org • 2:30-4:30 Wed; 11:30-1pm Sat.

SB GO Club • Play or learn the ancient strategic board game. All levels • Questions: Lorin 805-448-5335 • Free • Mosaic Coffee, 1131 State St • 11-4 Sat.

MUSIC

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen • Grammy® winner and satr of Yellowstone • SB Bowl • $50.5090.50 • sbbowl.com • 7pm, 6/14.

OUTDOORS

Nature Walk at Elings Park • with Dean Noble and Denise Knapp – The history and restoration of Elings Park • meet at softball field parking lot • Free • 9-10:30am Sat, 6/14.

Summer Picnic • picnic on the great lawn. Pack your own and bring a blanket. Jazz and blues guitar by Brian Kinsella • Lotusland • $25-$80 RSVP • otusland.org • 2-4:30pm, 6/14.

Power Hour • with Napoleon Jinnies • De La Guerra Place by Paseo Nuevo Cinemas • Free • all levels • 10-11am Sat.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Juneteenth Hope For The People Celebration • Music, Dancing, Poetry, Art, Food • Plaza Del Mar Park Band Shell • Free • juneteenthsb.org • 11am - 6pm Sat, 6/14.

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Circus Vargas • Hollywood Dreams! at Earl Warren Showgrounds • $25-85 • CircusVargas.com • 6/13-23.

Star Party • View of the wonders of the night sky • Palmer Observatory SBMNH • SBNature.org • 8:30-10pm, 6/14.

Sunday 6/15

CHILDREN

Storytime @ the Sea Center • stories of the sea • all ages • Free with admission • SBNature.org • 10:30–10:45am Sat & Sun.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Nature Journaling • at the Presidio. Learn about native California plants. Free journals, zines by Solange Aguila & seeds • Free • sbthp.org • 10:3011:30am Sat & Sun, 6/14, 15, 22, 28.

Empathy Cafe • practice listening & empathy • Riviera Theatre upstairs • Free • theempathycenter.org • 11am Sun.

MUSIC

Valerie June • Owls, Omens And Oracles Tour with special guest Mick Flannery • Lobero Theatre • $42.50 • lobero.org • 7:30pm Sun, 6/15.

OUTDOORS

Domingo Tour • presented by AFSB • relaxed, guided stroll through SB’s Architectural charm • begins at SB Downtown Library • $20 • afsb.org • 10am Sun.

Sundays At The Ranch • Barn animals, outdoor fun & tractor rides!

GV Hist. Society, 304 N. Los Carneros Rd • Free First Sunday Concerts! • 11am – 2pm Sun.

Beach Cleanup • some gloves & bags provided. Meet on East Beach behind Skater’s Point • RSVP • sbnature.org • 10am -12 on 3rd Sun.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Circus Vargas • Hollywood Dreams! at Earl Warren Showgrounds • $25-85 • CircusVargas.com • 6/13-23.

Valerie June Owls, Omens And Oracles Tour with special guest Mick Flannery

VALERIE JUNE HOCKETT is a Grammy-nominated artist from Tennessee. She’s been hailed by the New York Times as one of America’s “most intriguing, fully formed new talents.” She will play The Lobero Theatre on Sunday, June 15th at 7:30pm.

A musician, singer, songwriter, poet, illustrator, actor, certified yoga and mindfulness meditation instructor, and author, she honorably served as a Turnaround artist working with students for the President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities and continues serving through The Kennedy Center. She has recorded three critically acclaimed, best-selling solo albums and has also written songs for legendary artists such as Mavis Staples and The Blind Boys of Alabama. For tickets ($42.50) visit Lobero.org

Monday 6/16

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Community Meetings • Westside and Lower West Neighborhoods; Transportation Management Plan

Virtual Meeting: 5:30-7pm Mon, 6/16; In-Person Meeting: 5:30-7pm Wed, 6/18 La Cumbre Junior High School (2255 Modoc Rd.)

PFLAG June Zoom Meeting •

“Why Safe Spaces Matter” Sharing, support and discussion • Zoom • Free • Pre-register pflagsantabarbara@gmail. com • 7pm Mon 6/16.

Scrabble Club • Louise Lowry Davis

Center • All levels/ English/Spanish • Free • 1-4pm Mon.

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Parliamo • Italian conversation, all levels • Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • parliamo.yolasite.com • Free • 5-6:30pm Mon.

MUSIC

Mary Chapin Carpenter • with Brandy Clark • Lobero Theatre • $59115 • Lobero.org • 7pm Mon, 6/16.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Sip and Swirl • including wine, relaxation and acoustic music on the Kimpton Canary rooftop • Canary Hotel, 31 W Carrillo St. • $35 • https:// tinyurl.com/478cx355 • 5:30-7:30pm, Thur, 6/16.

Tuesday 6/17

CHILDREN

Lego Club • Ages K-6 • Central Library • 4-5pm, Tue.

Bilingual Songs & Stories • Ages 0-5 • Eastside Library • 11-11:30am, Tue.

Yarn Buddies • Crochet and knitting circle for children 9 and up • EE Makerspace, 302 East Cota St • $12 register at exploreecology.org

COMEDY

Carpinteria Improv Drop-In

Class • Learn improv with friends • Alcazar Theater • $10 at door • thealcazar.org • 7-9pm Tue.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Family Caregiver Support Group • adult survivors of brain injury • zoom:

Photo courtesy of Lobero Theatre

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Continued

SB Earthquake: Survivor Stories: a talk by historian Betsy J. Green

WHAT WAS IT LIKE to live through Santa Barbara’s greatest natural disaster? Historian Betsy Green will tell the story of the 1925 earthquake through the words of those who were there and experienced acts of heroism, close calls, and demonstrated the community spirit which rebuilt a shattered city. Through these stories Green will bring fresh perspectives to an oft-told tale. Join the talk at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum on Wednesday, June 18th at 5:30pm.

A RSVP is required. To RSVP ($0-10) visit SBHistorical.org

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84933596481 • 9-10am 2nd Tues.

Montecito Book Club • Register(805) 969-5063 • Montecito Library • 2-3pm, Meets Every Last Tue.

Interm. Spanish Conversation • Central Library • Free • calendar.library. santabarbaraca.gov • 10-11am Tue.

Chess Club • Louise Lowry Davis Center • All levels/ English/Spanish • Free • 1-4pm Tue.

Collage Zine Workshop • Discover the art of DIY publishing • EE Makerspace, 302 East Cota St • $20 register at exploreecology.org • 6-7:30pm Tue.

Wednesday 6/18

CHILDREN

Bilingual Music & Movement • Ages 0-5 • SB Public Library • 10:1510:45am, Wed.

Read to a Dog • Practice reading with therapy dog Tallulah! • Free • Eastside Library • 3-4pm, Wed.

DANCE

Westie Wednesdays • West Coast Swing Dancing with Bryan Gin • 6pm beginner lesson; 7-8pm social dance; 9-11pm Dancing at Casa Agria • Free • 500 block of State St • Wed 6/18, 6/25.

MUSIC

Tommorow’s Bad Seeds • genreblending five-piece band from the South Bay of Los Angeles • SOhO • $15 • sohosb.com • 8pm Wed, 6/18.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Sunset at the Canary • Rooted in Pride! Queens of the Night • Kimpton Canary Hotel rooftop with DJ Curly • Free • 6-8pm Wed, 6/18.

Messtival: Messy Art Festival

• community zine, add to a watercolor art wall, play with pastels, slime, and more! fun for the whole family • 40 E. Anapamu St. • Free • https://tinyurl. com/4duwu642 • 1:30pm-3:00pm, Wed, 6/18.

TEEN

2025 Teen Mural Project & Collaborative Mural Painting

• Collaborative Painting Party, Free lunch provided • Koch Courtyard Carpinteria Arts Center at 865 Linden Ave, Carpinteria • Free • https://tinyurl. com/edcw7xnj • 9am-6pm, Wed, 6/18.

Thursday 6/19

COMEDY

Backstage Comedy Club • Home to hilarious stand-up comedy • The Red Piano • $20-$25 • theredpiano.com • 7:30pm, Thu.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

SB Earthquake • Survivor Stories - a talk by historian Betsy J. Green • SB Historical Museum • Free • sbhistorical.org • 5:30-7pm Wed, 6/18.

Community Meetings • Westside and Lower West Neighborhoods; Transportation Management Plan Virtual Meeting: 5:30-7pm Mon, 6/16; In-Person Meeting: 5:30-7pm Wed, 6/18 La Cumbre Junior High School (2255 Modoc Rd.)

Crafternoon: Craft for the Earth • EE Makerspace, 302 East Cota St • $8 • exploreecology.org • 2:30-4:30 Wed; 11:30-1pm Sat.

Knitting & Crochet Club • Louise Lowry Davis Ctr • All levels/ English/ Spanish • Free • 9-11:30am Wed.

Mending Matters • Sewing & mending • Explore Ecology, 302 E Cota St • $15 • exploreecology.org • 5:30pm7:30pm Wed.

Le Cercle Français • French conversation, all levels • The Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • https://tinyurl.com/5ejbd9ye • Free • 5-6:30pm Wed.

Meditation Class • Mahakankala Kadampa Buddhist Ctr @ 1825 State Street (Upstairs) with Charles DeLisle • $15 • meditationinsantabarbara.org • 6:30-7:30pm Wed.

THEATRE

Hanne Pedersen One-Act Play Festival

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Drawing Natural History • drop-in community drawing sessions • SBMNA • free with admission/ membership • SBnature.org • 2:30pm Thurs through 8/28.

MUSIC

Grace Pettit • to perform at Lost Chords Guitars (Solvang) • Jillr@ mpressrecords.com • 8pm; Thu, 6/19.

OUTDOORS

Arabian Horse Show • region 2 • Earl Warren Showgrounds • Free • ahareg2.org • 8am-9pm, 6/18-19 Preshow; 19-21 Championship Show.

Santa Barbara Ghost Tours

Walk with Professor Julie as she shares tales of mystery and history... & meet friendly spirits Call or text to schedule your walking tour! • 805-905-9019

THE ALCAZAR THEATRE AND ENSEMBLE will present the 2nd Annual Hanne Pedersen One-Act Play Festival June 13th to 22nd at the Alcazar. The festival honors the memory of Hanne Pedersen, a beloved writer, director, actress, teacher, and co-founder of the Carpinteria Community Theatre. Hanne is remembered for her courage in battling cancer and contributions to the arts and the community.

The festival showcases the world premiere of six compelling oneact plays by talented writers from Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties. The featured plays are:

Breakable by Ashley Blom Garden in the City by Sophie Goldstein What I Did the Night of the Big Snowstorm by Scott Mullen Extraction by Lisa P. Sutton The Society by Zev Vitanza Pistachio Ice Cream by Robert Weibezahl

An impressive lineup of women directors will direct all performances: Dawn Balk, Lynne Herrell, Asa Olsson, Dreamer Wilson, Jadzia Winter, and Leslie Vitanza AnnRenee.

For tickets ($20-25) visit TheAlcazar.org

Theatre Listings:

Justice: A New Musical • presented by Ensemble Theatre Co & Celebrating Women who changed America • New Vic • $25-94 • etcsb.org • Through 6/21.

Hanne Pedersen One-Act Play Festival • six world premieres from writers in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles • six visionary female directors: Dawn Balk, Lynne Herrell, Asa Olsson, Dreamer Wilson, Jadzia Winter, and Leslie V. AnnRenee • The Alcazar Theatre • $20-25 • TheAlcazar.org • 6/13-15 & 6/20-22.

Young Frankenstein • A Mel Brooks classic brought to life and presented by OACT • $0-30 • ojaiact.org • 6/20-7/20.

Waitress • a heartfelt story of love, liberation, and the pursuit of dreams presented by PCPA at Solvang Festival Theater • $25-60 • pcpa.org • Through 6/29.

The Wizard of OZ: Youth ED • presented by Rubicon Theatre Co • $17-20 • rubicontheatre.org • 6/28-29.

Santa Barbara Flea Market • at Earl Warren Showgrounds • $7-32 • Earlwarren.com • 7am-3pm, Thu.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Juneteenth with Jon Boogz

• Presented by Museum of Contemporary Art SB • Center Stage Theater • $33 • Centerstagetheater.org • 6pm Thu, 6/19.

Friday 6/20

COMEDY

Friday Night Laughs • LA

Comedians • Java Station • $20 • santabarbaracomedyclub.com • 7pm, Fri.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Tai Chi at the Garden • with Master Yun. Intro to Traditional Tai Chi & Kung Fu • SBB garden, island view lawn • $10-15 • RSVP SBBotanicgarden.org • 9am Fri, 6/20.

Santa Barbara County Courthouse Docent Tours • Free • www.sbcourthouse.org • 10:30am Mon-Fri & 2pm daily.

Meditation Class • Mahakankala

Kadampa Buddhist Ctr @ 1825 State Street (Upstairs) with Kadam Keli • $15 • meditationinsantabarbara.org • 5:30-6:30pm Fri.

MUSIC

Karaoke Fridays on State • Longoria Wines • 6:30-8:30pm Fri.

Saturday 6/21

CHILDREN

Storytime @ the Sea Center • Stories of the sea • all ages • Free with admission • SBNature.org • 10:30–10:45am Sat & Sun.

COMEDY

The Good Good Show • stand up comedy show featuring Jen Murphy, Jamel Johnson, Julie Weidmann and Chad Opitz • Night Lizard Brewing Company, 607 State St • $10 • https://tinyurl.com/bde8w53b • 7:309pm Sat, 6/21.

DANCE

Junior Showcase • family friendly presented by CSD School Of Performing Arts • The Luke Theatre• $18-25 • luketheatre.org • 2-5pm Sat, 6/21. Senior Showcase • family friendly presented by CSD School Of Performing Arts • The Luke Theatre• $18-25 • luketheatre.org • 6pm Sat, 6/21.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Nature Journaling • at the Presidio. Learn about native California plants. Free journals, zines by Solange Aguila & seeds • Free • sbthp.org • 10:30-

11:30am Sat & Sun, 6/14, 15, 22, 28.

An Introduction To Energy Healing• experience in Holistic Energy Healing, Schott Center, SBCC • 310 W. Padre St • $16 • https://tinyurl. com/mr22wnrr • 10:00am, Sat, 6/21. Explore Together • Ages 0-7 • Interactive science, math, literacy and art learning activities • Central Library • 10:15-11:15am, Sat.

SB GO Club • Play or learn the ancient strategic board game. All levels • Questions: Lorin 805-448-5335 • Free • Mosaic Coffee, 1131 State St • 11-4 Sat.

MUSIC

Screening of JAWS @50! • accompanied by the Music Academy of the West Orchestra • $38-78 • Granadasb.org • 7:30pm Sat, 6/21.

St. Paul & The Broken Bones • and The Wood Brothers • eight-piece ensemble • SB Bowl • $46.50-86.50 • sbbowl.com • 6pm, 6/21.

Sunday 6/22

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Nature Journaling • at the Presidio.

Learn about native California plants. Free journals, zines by Solange Aguila & seeds • Free • sbthp.org • 10:3011:30am Sat & Sun, 6/14, 15, 22, 28.

SBMA Parallel Stories • Sea of Ice, Ocean of Sand: Solitude, Seers, and Painting the Inside with Tony de los Reyes and Brendan Constatine • SBMA Mary Craig Aud • Free • SBMA.net • 2:30-4pm Sun, 6/22.

In Conversation with Artist Vian Sora • with James Glisson, SBMA Chief Curator • SBMA Mary Craig Aud • $10-15/Students Free • SBMA.net • 12-1pm Sun, 6/22.

Empathy Cafe • practice listening & empathy • Riviera Theatre upstairs • Free • theempathycenter.org • 11am Sun.

MUSIC

Ladies of the Canyon • A Tribute to Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Linda Ronstadt • SOhO • $15 • sohosb.com • 7pm Wed, 6/22.

OUTDOORS

Mujeres Makers Market • SB Trust for Historical Preservation presents vendors, food options & vibes • El Presidio • sbthp.org • 10am-4pm, 1st Sun.

Domingo Tour • presented by AFSB • relaxed, guided stroll through SB’s Architectural charm • begins at SB Downtown Library • $20 • afsb.org • 10am Sun.

Sundays At The Ranch • Barn animals, outdoor fun & tractor rides! GV Hist. Society, 304 N. Los Carneros Rd • Free First Sunday Concerts! • 11am – 2pm Sun.

SOUNDTRACK TO SUMMER BEGINS

Music Academy of the West Week 1

Wednesday 6/18

Prometheus Quartet • Hahn Hall • 7:30pm • ELIZABETH

MACONCHY: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 15; HAYDN: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5; LEI LIANG: Gobi Gloria; DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

Thursday 6/19

Chamber Music Masterclass • Hahn Hall • 3:30pm • Takács Quartet

LVI SERIES • ORIGIN STORIES IN SONG • Hahn Hall • 7:30pm. The Music Academy’s Lehrer Vocal Institute delves into its roots as a cultivator of art song with a special evening of fellow-selected songs that share their personal journeys.

Friday 6/20

Solo Piano Concerto Competition • in collaboration with Santa Barbara Symphony • Hahn Hall • 11am-5pm (intermission from 1-2:30pm) BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37

LOBERO NIGHTS SERIES • TAKÁCS QUARTET @ 50 • Lobero Theatre • 7:30pm • HAYDN: String Quartet No. 59 in G Minor, “Rider”; JANÁČEK: String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3

Saturday 6/21

Special Event: JAWS @ 50 • Celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, JAWS, with the full power of the Academy Festival Orchestra, conducted by Ben Palmer • The Granada Theatre • 7:30pm

Week 2

Monday 6/23

Collaborative Piano

Masterclass • Hahn Hall • 3:30pm

• Jonathan Feldman

Tuesday 6/24

Clarinet Masterclass • Lehmann Hall • 1pm • Richie Hawley

Viola Masterclass • Weinman Hall • 1pm • Karen Dreyfus

Horn Masterclass • Weinman Hall • 3:30pm • Julie Landsman

String Quartet Showcase • Hahn Hall • 7:30pm • BRAHMS: Selections from: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2; GABRIELA LENA FRANK: Selections from Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135

Wednesday 6/25

Cello Masterclass • Lehmann Hall • 1pm • Alan Stepansky

Flute Masterclass • Weinman Hall • 1pm • Jim Walker

Trumpet Masterclass • Weinman Hall • 3:30pm • Thomas Hooten

MOSHER GUEST ARTIST

RANDALL GOOSBY • Hahn Hall • 7:30pm • CHEVALIER DE SAINTGEORGES: Violin Sonata No. 3 in G Minor; RAVEL: Violin Sonata; MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49, Mvts 1 & 2; BEETHOVEN: Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, Mvt 1. With Miles Goosby cello; Zhu Wang piano

Thursday 6/26

Bassoon Masterclass • Weinman Hall • 1pm • Dennis Michel

Violin Masterclass • Lehmann Hall • 1pm • Glenn Dicterow

LVI Masterclass • Hahn Hall • 3:30pm • John Churchwell

Trombone & Tuba Masterclass • Weinman Hall • 3:30pm • David Rejano Cantero

LOBERO NIGHTS SERIES • TEACHING ARTIST SHOWCASE: MOZART & RAVEL • Lobero Theatre • 7:30pm; MOZART: String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516: Takács Quartet • RAVEL: Trois

Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé: Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano; Richie Hawley clarinet; Jeremy Denk piano; Prometheus Quartet • POULENC: Sonata for Cello and Piano, FP 143: Julie Albers cello; Jeremy Denk piano

Friday 6/27

Double Bass Masterclass • Weinman Hall • 1pm • Alexander Hanna

Oboe Masterclass • Lehmann Hall • 1pm • Xiomara Mass

Solo Piano Masterclass • Hahn Hall • 3:30pm • Jeremy Denk

LVI SERIES: OPERA SCENES

• Hahn Hall • 7:30pm • Experience a full range of theatrical excerpts from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly to Kevin Puts’ The Hours, staged by Lehrer Vocal Institute directing fellow Vanessa Ogbuehi.

Saturday 6/28

AFO SERIES: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION • Anthony Parnther conductor • The Granada Theatre • 7:30pm • VALERIE

COLEMAN: Seven O’Clock Shout; CHAUSSON: Poème, Op. 25 with Mosher Guest Artist RANDALL GOOSBY violin; MUSSORGSKY ARR. RAVEL: Pictures at an Exhibition.

LVI = LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE AFO = ACADEMY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Photo by Emma Matthews

CINEMA

Cinema Events

Eternal Stoke • World Premiere screening and fundraiser supporting the Chris Brown Scholarship and John Bradbury Documentary • One surfer, infinite ripples: The Chris Brown legacy • Lobero Theatre • $24-92 • lobero.org • 7:30pm Thu & Fri, 6/12 & 13.

GreenScreen 2025 Student Film Premiere • four student-produced films focused on eco-consciousness • Pollock Theater • Free • RSVP recommended • carseywolf.ucsb.edu • UCSB • 7-9:30pm, Fri, 6/13.

Peter Pan • Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan when SBIFF hosts Applebox Free Family Films at the Riviera Theatre with complimentary popcorn and drinks! (first come first served seating) • SBIFFTheatres.com • 10am Sat, 6/14.

Let’s Go To The M O V I E S

Green Screen is a selection of four student films focused on ecoconsciousness that will screen at UCSB’s Pollock Theater from 7-9:30pm Friday, June 13th.

Westside Bicycle and Transportation Meetings

WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOODS WILL BE UPDATED REGARDING BICYCLE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANS IN THEIR AREA at two community meetings: Monday, June 16th, and Wednesday, June 18th. City staff will share updates on the Westside and Lower West Neighborhoods Transportation Plan. The project provides safe pedestrian and bicycle routes to schools, parks, and neighborhood services, completing major infrastructure gaps and enhancing crosstown connections. Attendees can view updated plans and ask questions; Spanish interpretation will be available. A virtual meeting recording will be posted online. Construction is expected to begin in 2027.

Próximas reuniones comunitarias sobre el Plan de Gestión de Transporte de los vecindarios Westside y Lower West

LA CIUDAD DE SANTA BÁRBARA REALIZARÁ DOS REUNIONES comunitarias el lunes 16 y el miércoles 18 de junio para compartir actualizaciones sobre el Plan de Transporte de los vecindarios Westside y Lower West. El proyecto ofrece rutas seguras para peatones y ciclistas hacia escuelas, parques y servicios vecinales, cerrando importantes brechas de infraestructura y mejorando las conexiones transversales. Los asistentes podrán ver los planes actualizados y hacer preguntas; habrá interpretación al español. La grabación de la reunión virtual estará disponible en línea. Se espera que la construcción comience en 2027.

Virtual Meeting: Westside & Lower West Transportation Plan: Monday, June 16, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

In-Person Meeting: Westside & Lower West Transportation Plan: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 : 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. La Cumbre Junior High School (2255 Modoc Rd.)

The project includes the following safety enhancements: One mile of protected bike paths adjacent to La Cumbre Jr. High and Santa Barbara Community Academy on Modoc Road and Portesuello Avenue, connecting to the Las Positas/Modoc Multiuse Path and neighborhood bike-friendly streets on Gillespie Street and San Pascual Street; Bicycle infrastructure features to close gaps between the Westside and Lower West neighborhoods; Sidewalk infill on Valerio Street, Manitou Road, Pedregosa Street, Arrellaga Street, Calle Real, and Euclid Avenue; New crosswalks and safety enhancements at existing crosswalks, including curb extensions, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, pedestrian refuge islands, and lighting; Corridor lighting along San Andres Street and Modoc Road.

Comments about the project may be submitted via email to WestsideNTMP@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. For more info and to sign up for notifications, visit SantaBarbaraCA.gov/WestsideNTMP.

Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

Celebrates Area Students at Awards Ceremonies

The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara honored hundreds of area students at consecutive awards ceremonies this week. More than 650 people attended the Foundation’s South County Scholarship Awards Ceremony on May 28 at the Courthouse Sunken Garden in Santa Barbara, and more than 750 people attended its North County Scholarship Awards Ceremony on May 29 at the Santa Maria Fairpark Convention Center. The annual events recognize new and returning Scholarship Foundation recipients. Attendees at each ceremony included students, parents, educators, and community leaders.

Scholarship Foundation Board Chair Danna McGrew was a featured speaker at both events, along with Matt Rowe on May 28 and Ernesto Paredes on May 29. Messrs. Rowe and Paredes are Santa Barbara Foundation trustees. The Santa Barbara Foundation contributed more than $900,000 in scholarship funds this year, and is one of the Scholarship Foundation’s largest partners. Scholarship Foundation President and CEO Melinda Cabrera also addressed attendees at both ceremonies.

This year, the Scholarship Foundation will award college and vocational scholarships totaling more than $7.7 million to 2,125 students throughout the county.

“Meeting our recipients and their families at these ceremonies is always an incredibly moving experience. We are proud to celebrate this milestone with them, and we are exceedingly grateful for the generous community support that enables us to award these scholarships,” said Ms. Cabrera.

The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara is the nation’s largest community-based provider of college scholarships, having cumulatively awarded in excess of $167 million to some 64,000 county students since its founding in 1962. A nonprofit organization, the Scholarship Foundation also provides free financial aid advising services. www.sbscholarship.org

Reunión virtual: Plan de transporte Westside y Lower West • Lunes, 16 de junio de 2025 • De 5:30 p. m. a 7:00 p. m.

Reunión presencial: Plan de transporte Westside y Lower West • Miércoles, 18 de junio de 2025 • De 5:30 p. m. a 7:00 p. m. • La Cumbre Junior High School (2255 Modoc Rd.)

El proyecto incluye las siguientes mejoras de seguridad: Una milla de ciclovías protegidas junto a La Cumbre Jr. High y Santa Barbara Community Academy en Modoc Road y Portesuello Avenue, conectando con el sendero multifuncional Las Positas/ Modoc y calles vecinales amigables para bicicletas en Gillespie Street y San Pascual Street.

Infraestructura ciclista para cerrar brechas entre los vecindarios Westside y Lower West. Instalación de banquetas en Valerio Street, Manitou Road, Pedregosa Street, Arrellaga Street, Calle Real y Euclid Avenue.

Nuevos cruces peatonales y mejoras en los existentes, incluyendo ampliaciones de aceras, balizas intermitentes rectangulares, refugios peatonales y alumbrado.

Iluminación en el corredor de San Andres Street y Modoc Road.

Los comentarios sobre el proyecto pueden enviarse por correo electrónico a WestsideNTMP@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Para obtener más información y suscribirse a las notificaciones, visite SantaBarbaraCA.gov/WestsideNTMP

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Hope Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on May 28, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2025-0001296. Published June 13, 20, 27, July 4, 2025.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER

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Petitioner: Vanessa Taboada filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Vanessa Lorraine Taboada; Kiely Diaz; Kayla Esther Diaz to PROPOSED NAME: Vanessa Lorraine Bueno; Kiely Esther Bueno; Kayla Esther Bueno. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: July 18, 2025; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 4; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 5/30/2025 /s/: Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. Legal #25CV03004 Pub Dates: June 13, 20, 27, July 4, 2025.

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What if I don’t go to my court date? If you do not go to your court date, the judge can grant a restraining order that limits your contact with the person in 1. Having a restraining order against you may impact your life in other ways, including preventing you from having guns and ammunition. If you do not go to your court date, the judge could grant everything that the person in 1. asked the judge to order. How do J find out what the person in (1) is asking for? To find out what the person in (1) is asking the judge to order, go to the courthouse listed at the top of page 1. Ask the court clerk to let you see your case file. You will need to give the court clerk your case number, which is listed above and on page 1. The request for restraining order will be on form CH-100, Request for Civil Harassment Restraining Order.

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REGARDING PROVISIONS OF TITLE 28 AND/OR 30 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA (SBMC)

The Secretary of the Staff Hearing Officer has set a public hearing for Wednesday, June 25, 2025 beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the David Gebhard Public Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street.

On Thursday, June 19, 2025, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 will be available online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHO. Agendas, Minutes, and Staff Reports are also accessible online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHO.

TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTV. See SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTVProgramGuide for a rebroadcast schedule. An archived video of this meeting will be available at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHOVideos.

WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT: Public comments may be submitted via email to SHOSecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.gov before the beginning of the Meeting. All public comments submitted via email will be provided to the SHO and will become part of the public record. You may also submit written correspondence via US Postal Service (USPS); addressed to SHO Secretary, PO Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. However, please be advised, correspondence sent via USPS may not be received in time to process prior to the meeting and email submissions are highly encouraged. Please note that the SHO may not have time to review written comments received after 4:30 p.m. the Tuesday before the meeting.

All public comment that is received before 4:30 p.m. the Tuesday before the meeting will be published on the City’s website at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHO Comments provided via USPS or e-mail will be converted to a PDF before being posted on the City’s website. Note: comments will be published online the way they are received and without redaction of personal identifying information; including but not limited to phone number, home address, and email address. Only submit information that you wish to make available publicly.

APPEALS: Decisions of the SHO may be appealed to the Planning Commission. Appeals may be filed in person at the Community Development Department at 630 Garden Street or in writing via email to SHOSecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. For further information and guidelines on how to appeal a decision to the Planning Commission, please contact Planning staff at (805) 564-5578 as soon as possible. Appeals and associated fee must be submitted in writing, via email to PlanningCounter@SantaBarbaraCA.gov and by first class mail postage prepaid within 10 calendar days of the meeting that the SHO took action or rendered a decision.  Appeals and associated fee post marked after the 10th calendar day will not be accepted.

NOTE TO INTERESTED PARTIES: Only those persons who participate through public comment either orally or in writing on an item on this Agenda have standing to appeal the decision. Grounds for appeal are limited to those issues raised either orally or in written correspondence delivered to the review body at, or prior to, the public hearing.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: If you need services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the SHO Secretary at (805) 564-5470, extension 4572. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

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Zoning Designation: C-G (Commercial General)

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Assessor’s Parcel Number: 043-222-001

Zoning Designation: R-M (Residential Multi-Unit)

Application Number: PLN2024-00496

Applicant / Owner: John Villanti

Project Description: Open Yard Zoning Modification for a 229-square-foot, one-story addition

Santa Barbara Mortgage Interest Rates

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New Art Exhibition Join the Enlichenment

BLENDING SCIENCE, STORYTELLING, AND ART, a new exhibit at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden brings the quiet brilliance of lichens into focus. Located in the Pritzlaff Conservation Center Gallery, it opens Friday, June 14th and runs through December 7th.

“I was driven to share some of the behind-the-scenes work happening in the Garden’s Lichenarium. Lichens invite us to notice the small, often overlooked details that make ecosystems thrive,” said Kevin Spracher, the Garden’s interpretation and exhibitions curator.

“By blending science with art, this exhibition invites visitors to slow down, share curiosity, and celebrate these remarkable organisms. Because getting people to notice and be excited about nature is the first step in getting them to protect it.”

Visitors are invited to get hands-on in the gallery’s interactive printmaking and zine-making station or settle into a cozy reading nook filled with lichen-inspired zines.

In this new exhibition, members of the Garden’s Conservation and Research Department turn their research and experiences as naturalists into art and narratives offering visitors of all ages a chance to explore how lichens shape ecosystems and spark scientific curiosity. In addition, a curated selection of specimens from the Garden’s 55,000-specimen Lichenarium — one of California’s largest — is also on display for the first time, showcasing the role of lichens in understanding biodiversity, land use, and climate change.

Lichens are those intricate, often unnoticed organisms found on rocks, trees, and soil. Neither plants nor animals, They are a complex alliance of fungi, algae, and microorganisms that thrive through symbiosis, surviving in places where few others can. At Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the study and collection of lichens is helping better understand community ecology, land-use change, and the impacts of climate change.

Join the Enlichenment is free with the cost of admission to the Garden. Reservations are required. Visit: sbbotanicgarden.org/visit/hours-reservations/ to RSVP.

The Wild World Solstice Parade In Santa Barbara -

There’s Still Time to Participate

SOLSTICE IN SANTA BARBARA IS THE BEST PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE to find the “Wild World,” a parade and festival, celebrating all things creatively wild. The festival will take place at Alameda Park from June 20th to the 22nd and the Solstice Parade will take place on June 21st at noon on Santa Barbara Street.

The parade will start Start at the corner of Santa Barbara & Ortega and end at Santa Barbara & Sola at Alameda Park.

The Solstice Workshop at 631 Garden Street is currently open to the public from Monday through Friday 3to 8pm and Saturday and Sunday noon to 6pm. The Workshop is the where the people-powered Parade is created by the community.

It is also time to buy your tickets for VIP Parade seating, which offers shaded, reserved seating along with an exclusive view of all the fun and excitement! VIP Seating is available on De La Guerra and Santa Barbara Streets. Single VIP Seats and Group/Organization VIP Seating options are available.

This year there will be elephant sculptures in the parade. At the Solstice Workshop at CAW, artist Christopher Noxon has been painting his design on a life-sized baby elephant sculpture with the help of Solstice artists and Workshop participants. Christopher’s design named Phantasmagorical Landscapephant was the winner in the Solstice Art Box Contest in collaboration with the Elephant Parade®. When finished, the elephant named Phantasmagorial Landscapephant will be in the Parade along with several other “wild” elephants including Pali X-Mano’s giant inflatable elephant which will feature aerialists inside.

Another Parade ensemble “Carnival of the Animals” led by visiting artist Raul Audelo, also features elephants. solsticeparade.com

Pali X-Mano’s rendering for his inflatable elephant.

Zine Poster by Charlotte Grenier

ART VENUES • GALLERIES • STUDIOS

Ralph Waterhouse

Evening Light, Santa Barbara Courthouse - featuring in an exhibition at Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria Waterhouse Gallery

La Arcada at State & Figueroa Santa Barbara • 805-962-8885 www.waterhousegallery.com

10 West Gallery • Summer Vibe thru June 22 • 10 W Anapamu • 11-5 We-Mo • 805-770-7711 • 10westgallery.com

Architectural Fdn Gallery • Marcia Rickard: Gimme Shelter ~ thru Aug 9 • 229 E Victoria • 805965-6307 • 1–4 some Sa & By Appt • afsb.org

Art & Soul Gallery • Blue Skies & Shimmering Seas: Brad Betts: Jun 20-Jul 20 • 1323 State St • artandsoulsb.com

Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB • common thread: 2025 undergraduate exhibit thru Jun 14 • 12-5 We-Sun • museum.ucsb.edu

ART EVENTS

Open Reception & Awards for Aquatic • 2nd Fridays Art @ SBTC • Free • 2ndFridaysArt. com • 4:30-6pm Fri, 6/13.

Goleta Valley Art

Association Marketplace Summer Art Show & Sale

• Art, live music & more • Benefitting Hospiice of SB • Camino Real Marketplace • 104pm Sat, 6/14.

La Cumbre Plaza 3rd Friday Gallery Row Art Walk • 5 galleries, music, art activities, & more! • 5-8pm Fri, 5/20.

SB Arts & Crafts Show

• Local artists & artisans • Free • 236 E Cabrillo Blvd • 10-5 Sun.

Carpinteria Creative

Arts Market • Local pottery, beach art, cards, jewelry, and sewn articles • 8th St & Linden Av • Free • 2:30-6 Thur.

Rod Rolle

LCCCA Elevate Gallery La Cumbre Plaza rodrollephoto@gmail.com

Art From Scrap Gallery • Environmental Educ. & Artistic Expression • exploreecology.org

The Arts Fund • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S Hope Av #F119 • 11-5 We-Su; Free Fri • 805-233-3395 • artsfundsb.org

Atkinson Gallery, SBCC • TuThu 10-3; By Appt • gallery.sbcc.edu

Bella Rosa Galleries • 1103-A State St • 11-5 daily • 805-966-1707

The Carriage and Western Art Museum • SB History Makers Exhibit: Silsby Spalding, WW Hollister, Dixie; Saddle & Carriage Collections • Free • 129 Castillo St • 805-962-2353 • 9-3 Mo-Fr • carriagemuseum.org

California Nature Art Museum • Yosemite: Sanctuary in Stone, Photographs by William Neill thru Sep 1 • 1511 B Mission Dr, Solvang • 11-4 Mo, Th, Fr; 11-5 Sa & Su • calnatureartmuseum.org

Casa de La Guerra • Manongs on the Central Coast: Forming Communities Across Generations thru Jun 22 • $5/Free • 15 East De la Guerra St • 12-4 Th-Su • sbthp.org/ casadelaguerra

Casa del Herrero • Gardens & House • by reservation • 1387 East Valley Rd • tours 10 & 2 We & Sa • 805-565-5653 • casadelherrero.com

Casa Dolores • Bandera Ware / traditional outfits ~ ongoing • 1023 Bath St • 12-4 Tu-Sa • 805-963-1032 • casadolores.org

Channing Peake Gallery • Form and Frame: Abstraction, Community, and the Language of Art • 105 E Anapamu St, 1st fl • 805-568-3994

Colette Cosentino Atelier + Gallery • 11 W Anapamu St • By Appt • colettecosentino.com

Community Arts Workshop • 631 Garden St • 10-6pm Fri & By Appt. • sbcaw.org

Corridan Gallery • La Primavera

- The Early Spring by James Paul Brown thru Jun 21 • 125 N Milpas • 11-5 We-Sa • 805-966-7939 • corridan-gallery.com

CPC Gallery • By appt • 36 E Victoria St • cpcgallery.com

Cypress Gallery • To Bamboo! thru Jun 29 • 119 E Cypress Av, Lompoc • 1-4 Sa & Su • 805-7371129 • lompocart.org

Elizabeth Gordon Gallery • Contemporary Artists • 15 W Gutierrez • 805-963-1157 • 11–5 TuSa • elizabethgordongallery.com

El Presidio De Santa Bárbara • Nihonmachi Revisited; Memorias y Facturas • 123 E Canon Perdido St • 10:30-4:30 Daily • sbthp.org

Elverhøj Museum • Cloth as Canvas ~ 11 local artists thru Jul 6 • the history and Danish culture of Solvang & promoting the arts • 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang • 805-6861211 • 11-5 Th-Mo • elverhoj.org

Faulkner Gallery • 40 E Anapamu St • 10-7 Mo-Th; 10-5 Fri, Sa; 12-5 Sun • 805-962-7653.

Fazzino 3-D Studio Gallery • 3-D original fine art • 529 State St • 805-730-9109 • Fazzino.com

Gallery 113 • SB Art Assn • 1114 State St, #8, La Arcada Ct • 805965-6611 • 11-5 Mo-Sa; 1-4 Su • gallery113sb.com

Gallery Los Olivos • In Full Bloom: Susan Kounanis thru Jun 30 • Daily 10-4pm • 2920 Grand Av • 805-6887517 • gallerylosolivos.com

Ganna Walska Lotusland • Gardens • by reservation • 695 Ashley Rd • 805-969-9990 • lotusland.org

Grace Fisher Fdn • Inclusive Arts Clubhouse • Paintings by Grace Fisher • 121 S Hope, La Cumbre Plaza • We-Su 11-5pm • gracefisherfoundation.org

Indah Gallery • el dood: Artworks by Jeffrey Chernov thru June 15 • 12-5 FriSun • 2190 N Refugio Rd, Santa Ynez https://www.maxgleason.com/indah-gallery

James Main Fine Art • 19th & 20th Century Fine art & antiques • 27 E De La Guerra St • 12-5 Tu-Sa • Appt Suggested • 805-962-8347

Jewish Federation of Greater SB • Portraits of Survival interactive ~ Ongoing • 9-4pm Mo-Fr • 524 Chapala St • 805-957-1115 ext. 114 Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum • The Stamp Act: Manuscripts of the American Revolution ~ Thru Jun 30 • 21-23 W Anapamu • 10-4 Tu-Su • 805-962-5322 • karpeles.com

Kathryne Designs • Local Artists • 1225 Coast Village Rd, A • 10-5 Mo-Sa; 11-5 Su • 805-565-4700 • kathrynedesigns.com

Kerry Methner

www.TheTouchofStone.com 805-570-2011 • VOICE Gallery

Kelly Clause Art • Watercolors of Sea & Land • 28 Anacapa St, #B • Most weekdays 12-5 • kellyclause.com

La Cumbre Center For Creative Arts : Fine Line Gallery; Elevate Gallery; Illuminations Gallery • Multi-Artist Spaces • La Cumbre Plaza• 12-5 Tu-Su • lcccasb.com

Lompoc Library Grossman Gallery • 501 E North Av, Lompoc • 805-588-3459

Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center • A Piece of Carpinteria • Jun 12- Aug 3 • 12-4 Th-Su • 865 Linden • 805-684-7789 • carpinteriaartscenter.org

RUTH ELLEN HOAG www.ruthellenhoag.com @ruthellenhoag 805-689-0858 ~inquire for studio classes~

Maker House • Slingshot/Alpha Art Studio Exhibition • 1351 Holiday Hill Rd • 805-565-CLAY • 10-4 Daily • claystudiosb.org

Marcia Burtt Gallery • Highs and Lows and Manny Lopez thru Jun 29 • Landscape paintings, prints & books • 517 Laguna St • 1-5 Th-Su • 805-9625588 • artlacuna.com

MOXI, The Wolf Museum• of Exploration + Innovation • 10-5 Daily • 125 State St • 805-770-5000 • moxi.org

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara • Arte del Pueblo thru Jul 27 • 11-6pm Tu-Sun • 653 Paseo Nuevo • mcasantabarbara.org

ART VENUES •

MCASB Satellite @ the Riviera Beach House • In Motion: Marie McKenzie & Marlene Struss thru Oct 12 • 9am-9pm Daily • 121 State St • mcasantabarbara.org

Museum of Sensory & Movement

Experiences • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S. Hope Av #F119 • seehearmove.com

Palm Loft Gallery • 410 Palm Av, Loft A1, Carpinteria • 1-6 Fr-Su & By Appt • 805-6849700 • palmloft.com

Patricia Clarke Studio • 410 Palm Av, Carpinteria • By Appt • 805-452-7739 • patriciaclarkestudio.com

Peregrine Galleries • Early CA & American paintings; fine vintage jewelry • 1133 Coast Village Rd • 805-252-9659 • peregrine.shop

Peter Horjus Design • Studio • 11 W Figueroa St • peterhorjus.com

Portico Gallery • Jordan Pope & Gallery Artists • Open Daily • 1235 Coast Village Rd • 805-729-8454 • porticofinearts.com

Santa Barbara Art Works • Arts Education for All • 28 E Victoria St • 805-260-6705 • M-F 8:30-4:30 • sbartworks.org

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden • Join the Enlichenment Jun 14-Dec 7 • 1212 Mission Canyon Rd • 10-5 daily • 805-682-4726 • sbbg.org

Santa Barbara Fine Art • SB landscapes & sculptor Bud Bottoms • 1321 State St • 12-6 Tu-Sa & By Appt • 805-845-4270 • santabarbarafineart.com

Santa Barbara Historical Museum • Don Louis Perceval: His Vision of the West thru Aug 17; Edward Borein Gallery and The Story of Santa Barbara ~ ongoing • 136 E De la Guerra • 12-5 We, Fri-Su; 12-7 Th • 805-966-1601 • sbhistorical.org

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum • The Swiftest Recovery: Island Fox Chronicles thru Aug 24; The Chumash, Whaling, Commercial Diving, Surfing, Shipwrecks, First Order Fresnel Lens, and SB Lighthouse Women Keepers ~ Ongoing • 113 Harbor Wy, Ste 190 • 10-5 Daily • 805-962-8404 • SBMM.org

Santa Barbara Museum Of Art • Math + Art thru Aug 24 • Sea of Ice: Echoes of the European Romantic Era thru Aug 24; Proscenium: Elliott Hundley thru Aug 31; By Achilles’ Tomb: Elliott Hundley and Antiquity @ SBMA thru Feb 22 • 1130 State St • 11-5 Tu-Su; 5-8 1st Th free; 2nd Sun free Tri-Co residents • 805-963-4364 • sbma.net

Santa Barbara Museum Of Natural History • Butterflies Alive! thru Sep 1 ; Drawn from Nature: Antique Prints thru Sep 7 • 2559 Puesta del Sol • 10-5 We-Mo • sbnature.org

Santa Barbara Sea Center • Dive In: Our Changing Channel ~ Ongoing • 211 Stearns Wharf • 10-5 Daily (Fr & Sat 10-7 until 7/27). • 805-682-4711 • sbnature.org

Santa Barbara Tennis Club - 2nd Fridays Art • Aquatic ~ 6/6-29 • 2375 Foothill Rd • 10-6 Daily • 805-682-4722 • 2ndfridaysart.com

Sahyun Genealogical Library • 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake: Stories and Lives Remembered. 316 Castillo St • Tue/Thu 10-4; Sun & 3rd Sat 1-4 • https://SBGen.org

Slice of Light Gallery • Ben Coffman Exhibit; Passage - Photography by JK Lovelace • 9 W Figueroa St • Mo-Fr 10-5 • 805-354-5552 • sliceoflight.com

Stewart Fine Art • Early CA Plein Air Paintings + European Fine Art + Antiques • 539 San Ysidro Rd • 11-5:30 Mo-Sa • 805-845-0255

Sullivan Goss • Leslie Lewis Sigler: Kindred thru 7/28; I; Summer Salon thru July 28; TL;DR: Text/Art thru Jun 23 • 11 E Anapamu St • 105:30 daily • 805-730-1460 • sullivangoss.com

Susan Quinlan Doll & Teddy Bear Museum • 122 W Canon Perdido • 11-4 Fr-Sa; Su-Th by appt • quinlanmuseum.com • 805687-4623

SYV Historical Museum & Carriage House • Art of The Western Saddle ongoing • 3596 Sagunto St, SY • 12-4 Sa, Su • 805-6887889 • santaynezmuseum.org

Tamsen Gallery • Reminiscence’ by Loan

Chabanol; Work by Robert W. Firestone • 1309 State St • 12-5 We-Su • 805-705-2208 • tamsengallery.com

UCSB Library • Readymade Emanations: Trianon Press and the Art of Tearing Apart thru Jun 25 • library.ucsb.edu

Voice Gallery • Santa Barbara Art Association thru 6/28 • La Cumbre Plaza H-124 • 10-5:30 M-F; 1-5 Sa-Su • 805-965-6448 • voicesb.art

Waterhouse Gallery Montecito • Notable CA & National Artists • 1187 Coast Village Rd • 11-5 Mo-Su • 805-962-8885 • waterhousegallery.com

Waterhouse Gallery SB • Notable CA & National Artists • La Arcada Ct, 1114 State St, #9 • 11-5 Mo-Sa • 805-962-8885 • waterhousegallery.com

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum Of Art • 2025 Tri-County Juried Exhibition: On the Edge and WILDLAND: Ethan Turpin’s Collaborations on Fire and Water thru June 14 • westmont.edu/museum

Artists: See your work here!

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ATTENTION SCULPTORS:

Santa Barbara Printmakers is looking for sculpture for their July Exhibition “Challenges” at VOICE

The deadline to sign up is June 21st at midnight.

If interested, vist: https:// sbprintmakers.com/exhibitregistration-and-payment/ Exhibition Dates: July 1 - July 31, 2025

Two receptions: 1st Thursday, July 3, & 3rd Friday, July 18

Entry Fee: $40 - 1st Entry; $352nd Entry; $30 - 3rd Entry

Ingathering: Sunday, June 29, 10am - Noon

Prizes Juried Judy Larson

Highs And Lows and Manny Lopez Open at Marcia Burtt Gallery

AGROUP GALLERY SHOW, HIGHS and LOWS has opened at Marcia Burtt Gallery and will run through June 29th at 517 Laguna Street. Also featured are works by Manny Lopez.

“Manny Lopez paints energetically on location, using confident brushstrokes and saturated color,” commented the gallery in an announcement. “His paintings are exciting and adventurous.”

Lopez is a long-time member of the Oak Group and has worked for decades to preserve open spaces from Carpinteria to Marin County. His passion is evident in his paintings. “The viewer feels what Manny feels,” the statement continues.

The artists in the group show revel in powerful shapes, endlessly varied textures, and slopes that define the West Coast, create island chains, and look down on the lush farmlands, pastures, deserts, and forests of the American West, all of which are monumental yet familiar, metaphors for trials and triumphs, mountains which place us at home in our physical world.

Marcia Burtt Gallery is located at 517 Laguna St in Santa Barbara and online: artlacuna.com

View of Stearns Wharf, oil by Manny Lopez. On view in Artist Focus: Manny Lopez

Looking South, acrylic, by Marcia Burtt. On view in Highs and Lows

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June 1 - July 31, 2025 Artist

SBVA consists of active Santa Barbara artists who are celebrated for their exceptional artwork that encompasses various mediums, and artistic styles across a broad spectrum, of abstract, landscape, seascape, portrait, still life, and photographic compositions.

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GATHERING IN THE GOODLAND CELEBRATING 17 YEARS OF

RANCHO LA PATERA & STOW HOUSE

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2025

5:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.

Tickets: $100.00 all inclusive

Join us for a festive evening at the beautiful Rancho La Patera garden to sample appetizers, wine, an dbeer from local restaurants, wineries, and breweries. Enjoy performances by the 2025 Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta and dance the night away, under the stars, with Area 51.

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