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The Good Good Show is a stand up comedy show featuring the hottest comedians working today that you've seen or heard on Comedy Central, CONAN, Hulu, Jimmy Kimmel, Last Comic Standing, Amazon Prime, Sirius XM and more.

FEATURING: Billy Wayne Davis, Jeremy Talamantes Julie Weidmann and Faith Ladzinski

Come have some laughs with us and enjoy a delicious craft beer (wine available too)!

7:30 p.m. $10

Show is 21+

Camerata Pacifica launches its 2025-26 season with an all-string program including new and legacy chamber works anchored by Brahms’ String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36, an innovative work noted for its exotic opening strains. Presented at four Southern California locations, the performances are Tuesday, September 23, 7:30 pm, at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall in San Marino; Thursday, September 25, 8:00 pm, at Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles; Friday, September 26, 7:00 pm, at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West; and Sunday, September 28, 2025, 3:00 pm, at Thousand Oaks’ Janet and Ray Scherr Forum. This marks the beginning of the acclaimed Santa Barbara-based chamber collective’s 36th season.

The repertoire also features Anton Arensky’s String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 35, which he dedicated to the memory of Tchaikovsky, his close musical colleague. Its solemn aesthetic is heightened by its unusual scoring for violin, viola, and two cellos.

Latvian composer Peteris Vasks’ Castillo Interior for Violin & Cello, written in 2013 in remembrance of the great mystic St. Teresa of Avila, adds crisp contemporary flair to the program with bursts of emotion that weave together contemplative passages.

Showcasing their virtuosity in the technically demanding repertoire are violinists Paul Huang, The Bob Christensen Chair in Violin who is “a compelling podium presence” (Culture OC), and recipient of the 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, and Alena Hove, applauded for her “rich, smooth tone” (CityArts). They are joined by violists Che-Yen Chen who plays “with silken finesse” (Dallas Morning News), and Meredith Crawford, a “superlative violist” (Crescenta Valley Weekly). Completing the string sextet are Principal Cello Ani Aznavoorian, whose “scorchingly committed performances…wring every last drop of emotion out of the music” (The Strad), and Santiago Cañón-Valencia, a “technically flawless” cellist (The Strad).

For tickets ($75 at The Huntington, Music Academy of the West, and Zipper Hall; $94.40, including fees, at Janet and Ray Scherr Forum) and information, visit www.cameratapacifica.org.

Join the Ventura County Interfaith Community as it celebrates Vespers under the guidance of Fr. Constantine Trumpower of Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church. We’ll gather on Tuesday, September 9th at 6:30 PM at the church at 5575 Santa Rosa Rd in Camarillo for the Vespers service. Following Vespers, Fr. Trumpower will speak briefly about the connections between the Jerusalem Temple, which was for centuries the center of Jewish worship, and Orthodox church architecture.

Admission is free, and all are welcome, so feel free to invite friends and family who may have an interest in what promises to be a fascinating evening.

Image attribution: “Candles” by L.C.Nøttaasen is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.

1st Thursday Event Schedule
5:00-6:30pm – Ludmilla Exhibition Opening Celebration
6:30pm – Last Dance of the Summer Dance Party with DJ Darla Bea

Ludmilla Pilat Welch: Serene Santa Barbara
Join the Museum for their opening celebration featuring plein air painter Ludmilla Pilat Welch, who rendered many of Santa Barbara’s remaining historic adobes in the early 1900s. Her body of work stands as an important historic record as many of these remnants of Santa Barbara's past slowly disappeared from the landscape.

Also, at 6:30 pm join DJ Darla Bea for a Last Dance of the Summer party in the Museum courtyard.

Start your weekend on the right note at Carr Winery! On Friday, October 3rd, from 7 – 9 PM, head to the Winery for an evening filled with live music by the Van Allen Twins Trio.

Experience the unique Blues Grass sounds of the Van Allen Twins Trio. Their sounds of bluegrass, country, and folk music are sure to get you moving. Pair the music with Buena Onda empanadas delivered right to the Winery, and make it your new Friday night tradition.

Free admission, 21+

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A Museum) at UC Santa Barbara is pleased to announce three new exhibitions for the fall 2025 season.

The lead exhibition, Beyond the Object: Selections from the Permanent Collection, brings together a range of artworks from the AD&A Museum’s holdings that engage with our lived environment beyond its constructed reality. Featuring painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper, this exhibition highlights recent acquisitions and gifts primarily from the past five years, demonstrating the Museum’s commitment to expanding its modern and contemporary art collection. Additionally, the Museum joins in the international centennial celebration of the birth of artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) with a spotlight exhibition of her work in the permanent collection.

The AD&A Museum will also open the exhibition, Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection, which celebrates the gift of sixty-one Mexican prints from local collectors Gil Garcia and Marti Correa de Garcia to the Museum. Focusing on lithographs, etchings, and linocuts from the 1920s to the 1980s, the Garcia-Correa Collection of Mexican Prints highlights the importance of the graphic arts in Mexico. This mid-century collection of prints thematically focuses on labor, gender, and domesticity, all key aspects of campesino culture and its farming community that have informed the lives of the collectors. On view are a selection of thirty-one prints that represent a preview of a larger, more comprehensive presentation planned in the years ahead.

Additionally, Environmental Communications: Big Bang Beat L.A. presents the work of the Venice-based collective Environmental Communications (EC), a group of architects, artists, and sociologists who, from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, championed an expanded understanding of architecture—one that encompassed not only individual structures, but the totality of the built environment. This presentation of EC’s materials from the Architecture and Design Collection, following this year’s devastating fires, serves not only as a poignant reminder of the city’s environmental fragility, but also as a tribute to the extraordinary urban creativity that has fueled its resilience over the past five decades.

Organized by the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara, all exhibitions will be on view from September 13 to December 7, 2025. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 13 at 5:30pm.

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum joins in the international centennial celebration of the birth of artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) with a spotlight exhibition of her work in the permanent collection.

Gifted to the AD&A Museum in 1985, Sunflower (1970) is part of a series dedicated to the sunflower that began in the late 1960s and continued until Mitchell’s passing. Inspired by her childhood experience of seeing Vincent van Gogh’s sunflower paintings in her home city of Chicago, Mitchell returned to the significance of the sunflower in her late life, commenting that sunflowers are, “like people to me.” Abstracted yet palpable, the painting reflects on the unique character of the sunflower and its life cycle–at once filled with a bright vitality that also hints at darkness and decay.

Joan Mitchell is widely recognized as one of the most significant American artists of the post-war era. Her abstract paintings are distinguished by their physicality, daring use of color, and personal interpretation of the natural world.

A native of Chicago, Mitchell studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon graduating in 1947, she spent over a year in France before settling in New York in late 1949. There, she became an active participant in the “New York School” of painters and poets, exploring different approaches to composition and gesture as part of the emerging Abstract Expressionist movement.

Over the next four decades, Mitchell dedicated herself to the single-minded pursuit of abstract painting of the highest order, while moving between New York, Paris, and later the French countryside in Vétheuil, where she made her home from 1968 until her death in 1992. Throughout her long and varied career, Mitchell drew on experiences and memories of the world around her—particularly views of cities, fields, rivers, lakes, and trees—as sources for her work. She once said, "I carry my landscapes around with me."

This presentation is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. Special thanks to the Joan Mitchell Foundation for providing the video Joan Mitchell: An Introduction that is on view. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

This celebration marks an exciting milestone for Ventura County Believe Center as we continue bringing hope, healing, and home to the people of Ventura County. It’s an opportunity for the community to see firsthand the work we do, hear from our team, and connect with those whose lives we’ve touched.

Event Highlights:

- A slideshow showcasing our programs, accomplishments, and the people whose lives we’ve touched

- Hear from our CEO, Annabel Taylor, about our mission, vision, and plans for the future

- Opportunities to meet our team, volunteers, and the community we serve

- Interactive moments where guests can learn about our ongoing initiatives and ways to get involved

EVENT DATE:
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 5:30pm
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 5:00pm

Beyond the Object: Selections from the Permanent Collection brings together a range of artworks from the Art, Design & Architecture Museum’s holdings that engage with our lived environment beyond its constructed reality. By reimagining or presenting our contemporary moment anew, the artists highlighted in this exhibition point to various subjects in conceptual or abstracted ways. At times, the works on display are not what they seem at first, inviting viewers to look closely and consider another way of understanding the art object.

Featuring painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper, this exhibition highlights recent acquisitions and gifts primarily from the past five years, demonstrating the Museum's commitment to expanding its modern and contemporary art collection. The title of the exhibition draws from the work of conceptual art group Art & Language, whose series Map to indicate… (2002) is on view. Through a reimagined world map, the collective plays with the conventions of cartography to comment on the worldwide influence of subjects such as art theory, social constructions, socio-political representation, and the ability for all of us to enact change.

Beyond the Object is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and is curated by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions, with support from Curatorial Assistant Letícia Cobra Lima. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the AD&A Museum Council.

Artists in the Exhibition

Art & Language (est. England, c. 1967)
Herbert Bayer (b. Austria, 1900–1985)
Huma Bhabha (b. Pakistan, 1962)
Jonathan Borofsky (b. United States, 1942)
Rose D’Amato (b. United States, 1991)
Elizabeth Sisco (b. United States, 1954), Louis Hock (b. United States, 1948), and David Avalos (b. United States, 1947–2025)
Theaster Gates (b. United States, 1973)
Ishi Glinsky (b. United States, 1982)
Michael Gonzalez (b. United States, 1953)
Mona Kuhn (b. Brazil, 1969)
Tony Lewis (b. United States, 1986)
Hung Liu (b. China, 1948–2021)
Gordon Matta-Clark (b. United States, 1943–1978)
Aliza Nisenbaum (b. Mexico, 1977)
Ruben Ochoa (b. United States, 1974)
Hank Pitcher (b. United States, 1949)
Steve Roden (b. United States, 1964–2023)
Harmonia Rosales (b. United States, 1984)
Analia Saban (b. Argentina, 1980)
Christopher Suarez (b. United States, 1994)
Jennifer West (b. United States, 1966)

Based in Venice Beach, CA, an epicenter of nonconformist energy in the 1970s, Environmental Communications (EC) was a collective of architects, artists, and sociologists who championed an expanded understanding of architecture—one that encompassed not just individual buildings but the entire urban environment. To that end, the group documented defining traits of the then-booming consumerist society and the vibrant counterculture pushing back against it, primarily through photographic slides.

Challenging the architectural pedagogy of the time, which viewed architectural history as the evolution of styles through isolated buildings, EC distributed their slide sets to architecture schools and libraries across the country, offering a real-time and sweeping lens through which to teach the discipline.

Los Angeles—a crucible of market-driven ambition and anti-establishment spirit—became a central focus of EC’s visual inquiries. From smog-choked skies and sprawling suburbs to garish street art and Pop architecture, their slide sets captured the era’s cultural contradictions, evoking a sense of systemic unraveling while L.A. emerged as a beacon of radical freedom and creativity.

Including hundreds of slides, along with dozens of booklets and videos, the collective’s legacy stands as one of the most comprehensive and electrifying visual records of 1970s L.A. The presentation of EC’s materials from the Architecture and Design Collection here, following this year’s devastating fires in the Palisades and Altadena, serves not only as a poignant reminder of the city’s environmental fragility but also as a tribute to the extraordinary urban creativity that has fueled its resilience over the past five decades.

Big Bang Beat L.A. is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and is coordinated by Silvia Perea, curator of the Architecture and Design Collection. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of the AD&A Museum Council. Exhibition furniture has generously been provided by Fatboy.