developing and encouraging youth sailing skills. SBSSA teaches sailing and regatta to children age 8 to 15 on US Sabots and RS Fevas. $50 / person, including an engraved wine glass. Contact Catherine Gloster, phone 679-1258, email winetasting@ sbssa.org, or visit sbssa.org
10/7 Ganna Walska Lotusland Exceptional Plants: Lotusland Auction and Sale Ganna Walksa Lotusland. 695 Ashley Road
Contact Courtney Tentler, phone 969-3767, email ctentler@lotusland.org, or visit lotusland.org
10/8 Carpinteria Education Foundation The Big Avocado 5K Run/ Walk 8 AM - 10 AM. Carpinteria Viola
Fields . Carpinteria Ave.
The Big Avocado 5K Run/Walk October 8th, 2017 This annual race is always held around Carpinteria Avocado week and is a great opportunity to enjoy a unique cross-country/trail race along the beautiful Carpinteria Bluffs. $25. Contact Debra McCarty, phone 566-1615, email debra@ carpedfoundation.org, or visit carpeducationfoundation.org/ events-page/the-carpinteriatriple-crown-for-education/
10/12 New Beginnings 5th Annual Changing Lives Gala
Join New Beginnings on Thursday, October 12th, 2017 for our 5th Annual Changing Lives Gala. Enjoy delicious food, live music, and time with friends as we honor our 2017 Community Champions. Contact Gabriella Forrester, phone 963-7777 x112, email gforrester@sbnbcc.org, or visit sbnbcc.org
10/14 Santa Barbara Rugby Assn / Elings Park Santa Barbara Beer Festival - Pints for the Park 12 PM - 4 PM. Elings Park. 1298
Las Positas Rd, Santa Barbara Your ticket gets you a tasting glass and the opportunity to cruise the grounds of beautiful Elings Park for an afternoon, sampling the best brewers in the west. Plus, your ticket purchase helps support two local Santa Barbara nonprofits, so you can feel good about it to boot. Join us for our 10th Anniversary, it will be bigger and better than ever! TBA. Contact Bonnie Keinath, email sbbeerfest@gmail.com, or visit sbbeerfestival.com
10/14 Fund for Santa Barbara 24th Annual Bread & Roses Community Celebration 3 PM - 7 PM. QAD Headquarters.
100 Innovation Place, Santa Barbara
Bread & Roses is the Fund for Santa Barbara’s largest annual fundraiser and community celebration. With nearly 800 attendees, it is one of the largest events of its kind on the Central Coast. It is a time for community activists, donors, volunteers, elected leaders and supporters of progressive social change to gather, celebrate our work together and raise money for the Fund’s grant-making and technical assistance programs. This year, we will once again feature a gourmet buffet-style dinner from our region’s finest restaurants, beer and wines from local vintners and both a live and silent auction.
$75 - Sliding Scale Tickets, Individual, Corporate & Organizational Sponsorship Opportunities are Available. Contact Stanley Tzankov, phone 9629164, email Stanley@ fundforsantabarbara.org, or visit fundforsantabarbara.org
10/14 Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI) CIMWI Fundraiser 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM. Carriage and Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara. 129 Castillo Street, Satna Barbara, CA 93101
Come join the party and feast on delicious appetizers and desserts, enjoy wine and beer (including two complimentary drink tickets), dance to live music and bid on great silent and live auction items! Have fun while you help support CIMWI’s mission to positively impact conservation through marine mammal rescue, rehabilitation, research and education to promote ocean and human health. CIMWI rescues, rehabilitates and releases seals and sea lions that strand in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties as well as disentangles dolphins and whales that are in the Santa Barbara Channel. $75.00 per person in advance ($100.00 per person at the event), a tax deductible donation to CIMWI. Contact Ruth Dover, Director of Business Operations, phone 567-1505, email rdover@ cimwi.org, or visit CIMWI.org
10/14 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Table of Life 4 PM - 7 PM. Stephanie and
10/15 Cancer Center of Santa Barbara Cancer Center Walk/Run 8 AM. Montecito Union School. 385 San Ysidro Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93108
The 25th annual Cancer Center Walk/Run features a 5K and 10K event along with a Kids’Fun Run. All proceeds support cancer research and programs at the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. $45; $55; $65. Contact Stephanie Carlyle, phone 898-2116, email stephanie@ ccsb.org, or visit ccsb.org/ walkrun2017
10/15 Santa Barbara Audubon Society Eyes in the Sky Open House/Fundraiser 10 AM - 4 PM. S.B. Museum of
Natural History. 2559 Puesta del Sol Road
Programs with Eyes in the Sky’s seven raptors will happen throughout the event, both by stage presentations and in up close encounters with our bird handlers. Money raised from donations, merchandise and an instant raffle will benefit the raptors and children’s educational programs. Children’s bird-themed games and hands-on crafts (with prizes!) and informative educational exhibits will make this a fun and worthwhile outing for the whole family. Free. Contact Gabriele Drozdowski, phone 2591446, email eyes-in-thesky@cox.net, or visit santabarbaraaudubon.org/
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Jim Sokolove’s Montecito Estate. 1569 East Valley Road, Montecito CA., 93108
Heal the Ocean Back to the Ocean
Bringing together local chefs, winemakers and foodies to celebrate Santa Barbara County’s finest and support thousands of low-income children whose health is impacted by poor nutrition.
6 PM - 10 PM. El Paseo. 813 Anacapa Street
Patron Ticket $1,000. Contact Leslie Velez, phone 9675741, ext. 110, email lvelez@ foodbanksbc.org, or visit donate.foodbanksbc.org/ tableoflife2017
Come join Heal the Ocean at the funnest party of the year! Sponsorships available! Contact Heather Hudson, phone 965-7570, email graciegirlsurf@gmail.com, or visit healtheocean.org
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This signature event is designed for garden connoisseurs, featuring rare and hard-to-find plants. Enjoy a wonderful afternoon at Lotusland with specialty cocktails and sumptuous hors d’euvres served on the lawn. The highlight of the event will be a spirited live auction, other collectible plants and garden items will be offered during a silent auction, and for those impatient plant lovers, there will be a “buy it now” section of interesting and not-so-common species, many propagated from Lotusland plants.
6:30 PM - 8:45 PM. Belmond El Encanto. 800 Alvarado Pl., Santa Barbara, CA 93103