Community Calendar

Let your imagination take the lead at Crafternoons, every Wednesday from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm and Saturday from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, in the EE Makerspace above Art From Scrap.
Join us for our May Crafternoons: Tinker Lab, where creativity meets sustainability! This month, we're working on creative machines that jump, fly, and walk with reclaimed materials. Perfect for all ages and skill levels, these eco-friendly projects encourage kids to craft purposefully while having a blast.
Craft for the Earth Projects include:
Jack & Jill Jumpers – Craft classic pull-string jumping jack toys using reclaimed paper and brads—watch their arms and legs spring to life with a tug!
Marionettes – Create your own characterful puppets using upcycled materials, string, and imagination—then bring them to life with a tug of a string!
Upcycled Aviators – Build playful airplanes from repurposed bits and bobs, and let your creativity take flight!
Come craft and create with us! Sign up now!
Cost: $8.00 per person. Crafternoons are for kids ages 5 and up. Please note that our workshop is upstairs and utilizes hot glue guns. Adults must remain in the EE Makerspace with their child.
We have something for everyone at the EE Makerspace, so bring the kiddos—Crafternoons are just for them!

Join Our Monthly Crochet and Knitting Circle!

Yarn Buddies is a welcoming crochet and knitting circle held at the Explore Ecology Makerspace! Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just beginning your fiber arts journey, our monthly club is the perfect space to bring your projects to life.

We invite you to drop in with your most recent project and fiber arts questions every month. Our knowledgeable staff will be there to offer any tips and tricks to help bring your project to life. The Makerspace will provide crochet hooks, knitting needles, stitch counters, and yarn that participants can borrow and even leave with their ball of yarn each month.

Join us for a night of creativity, camaraderie, and crafting excellence. Your next sewing adventure awaits at the Explore Ecology Makerspace. See you there!

Let your imagination take the lead at Crafternoons, every Wednesday from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm and Saturday from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, in the EE Makerspace above Art From Scrap.
Join us for our May Crafternoons: Tinker Lab, where creativity meets sustainability! This month, we're working on creative machines that jump, fly, and walk with reclaimed materials. Perfect for all ages and skill levels, these eco-friendly projects encourage kids to craft purposefully while having a blast.
Craft for the Earth Projects include:
Jack & Jill Jumpers – Craft classic pull-string jumping jack toys using reclaimed paper and brads—watch their arms and legs spring to life with a tug!
Marionettes – Create your own characterful puppets using upcycled materials, string, and imagination—then bring them to life with a tug of a string!
Upcycled Aviators – Build playful airplanes from repurposed bits and bobs, and let your creativity take flight!
Come craft and create with us! Sign up now!
Cost: $8.00 per person. Crafternoons are for kids ages 5 and up. Please note that our workshop is upstairs and utilizes hot glue guns. Adults must remain in the EE Makerspace with their child.
We have something for everyone at the EE Makerspace, so bring the kiddos—Crafternoons are just for them!

Join us for a hands-on, eco-friendly journey into sewing and mending! In collaboration with the Santa Barbara Public Library and made possible through their generous grant, this free, limited-time workshop series offers community members the chance to learn valuable skills in sewing, repairing, and upcycling clothing and textiles. From beginners to seasoned sewists, all are welcome!

Our knowledgeable staff and volunteers will be on hand to offer guidance, tips, and tricks to help you bring your vision to reality.
Join us for an evening of creativity, camaraderie, and crafting excellence. Your next sewing adventure awaits at the EE Makerspace. See you there!

Space is limited, registration is encouraged to participate.

This event is for someone with a high interest in single-origin dark chocolate, where it comes from, how it's processed and the technicalities behind making shiny, lusciously smooth chocolate from what starts as a small, bitter bean. You’ll get to taste chocolate at every stage, from bean to bar (including sampling through all our single origin dark chocolate bars), as well as other products we make, like caramel and chocolate-covered espresso beans. We’ll describe the stages of roasting, sorting, refining and tempering. You’ll come away having tasted a lot of chocolate and having learned more about our specialty!

Join us on a beautifully paired wine and chocolate experience. This guided tour walks you through the chocolate making process, from bean to bar! Taste the cacao every step of the way and finish with a chocolate and beverage tasting that excitingly pairs three truffles with three sustainably-made, small production wines, selected and poured by our local wine partner, WINECULT.

Attendees will enjoy a welcome drink while we give a brief introduction to our bean-to-bar, dark chocolate making process. Ingredients for decorating will abound and inspire, and you'll learn a few tidbits about how we invent flavor combinations for new delicious, sweet products at our chocolate factory. We will fill chocolate bar molds with luscious 75% dark chocolate, and you will get to decorate chocolate bars with local ingredients, like flowers, salt and fruit. While bars are setting up, we will lead a 20-30 minute chocolate tasting experience while you sip on perfectly paired wines to enhance the flavors. We are happy to provide a non-alcoholic tasting experience for anyone in the group who might require that. Your custom chocolate bars will go home with you in beautiful, resealable Twenty-Four Blackbirds pouches. Don't miss out on this delicious experience!

Let your imagination take the lead at Crafternoons, every Wednesday from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm and Saturday from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, in the EE Makerspace above Art From Scrap.
Join us for our May Crafternoons: Tinker Lab, where creativity meets sustainability! This month, we're working on creative machines that jump, fly, and walk with reclaimed materials. Perfect for all ages and skill levels, these eco-friendly projects encourage kids to craft purposefully while having a blast.
Craft for the Earth Projects include:
Jack & Jill Jumpers – Craft classic pull-string jumping jack toys using reclaimed paper and brads—watch their arms and legs spring to life with a tug!
Marionettes – Create your own characterful puppets using upcycled materials, string, and imagination—then bring them to life with a tug of a string!
Upcycled Aviators – Build playful airplanes from repurposed bits and bobs, and let your creativity take flight!
Come craft and create with us! Sign up now!
Cost: $8.00 per person. Crafternoons are for kids ages 5 and up. Please note that our workshop is upstairs and utilizes hot glue guns. Adults must remain in the EE Makerspace with their child.
We have something for everyone at the EE Makerspace, so bring the kiddos—Crafternoons are just for them!

Let your imagination take the lead at Crafternoons, every Wednesday from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm and Saturday from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, in the EE Makerspace above Art From Scrap.
Join us for our May Crafternoons: Tinker Lab, where creativity meets sustainability! This month, we're working on creative machines that jump, fly, and walk with reclaimed materials. Perfect for all ages and skill levels, these eco-friendly projects encourage kids to craft purposefully while having a blast.
Craft for the Earth Projects include:
Jack & Jill Jumpers – Craft classic pull-string jumping jack toys using reclaimed paper and brads—watch their arms and legs spring to life with a tug!
Marionettes – Create your own characterful puppets using upcycled materials, string, and imagination—then bring them to life with a tug of a string!
Upcycled Aviators – Build playful airplanes from repurposed bits and bobs, and let your creativity take flight!
Come craft and create with us! Sign up now!
Cost: $8.00 per person. Crafternoons are for kids ages 5 and up. Please note that our workshop is upstairs and utilizes hot glue guns. Adults must remain in the EE Makerspace with their child.
We have something for everyone at the EE Makerspace, so bring the kiddos—Crafternoons are just for them!

This event is for someone with a high interest in single-origin dark chocolate, where it comes from, how it's processed and the technicalities behind making shiny, lusciously smooth chocolate from what starts as a small, bitter bean. You’ll get to taste chocolate at every stage, from bean to bar (including sampling through all our single origin dark chocolate bars), as well as other products we make, like caramel and chocolate-covered espresso beans. We’ll describe the stages of roasting, sorting, refining and tempering. You’ll come away having tasted a lot of chocolate and having learned more about our specialty!