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Ice in Paradise is hosting a Try Hockey for Free event on Saturday, September 13, 2025 from 1PM-2PM or 2:15PM-3:15PM. No experience necessary! This event is designed to provide kids ages 4 to 9 the opportunity to try hockey in a FUN, safe environment with trained coaching staff.

Come celebrate Another Day in Paradise with us at Santa Barbara’s premier ice rink on October 11, 2025 from 11AM to 5PM. Tickets will be available at the door for $10 in celebration of our 10 years, your ticket to the event will feature a full day of fun for the whole family at Ice in Paradise!

11:15am-11:45am Skating Lesson

11:45am-12:00pm Skating Show

12:00pm-1:00pm Learn to Play Hockey

12:00pm-3:00pm Public Skating Party

1:00pm-2:00pm Open Broomball

3:00pm-5:00pm Try Curling

Outdoor activities all day!

Join us for a lecture by Nicholas van Hoogstraten, author of Broadway Poster Art: 1945–1969 (Schiffer Publishing, 2024). Van Hoogstraten will explore the vibrant advertising art of Broadway’s golden age, sharing behind-the-scenes stories of designers, illustrators, and photographers, along with rare and alternate poster designs and artist progressions.

The lecture complements the exhibition Broadway Posters from the Golden Age: Selections from the Richard C. Norton Musical Theater Poster Collection, on view at UCSB Library from October 7 to December 5.

About the Speaker:
Nicholas van Hoogstraten is an author, playwright, television producer, and lecturer, and he is the owner of New York City’s Triton Gallery, which showcases vintage and current Broadway posters. He lives in New York City.

About the Richard C. Norton Musical Theater History Collection:
The Richard C. Norton Musical Theater History Collection consists of materials documenting musical theater including 25,000 playbills, 800 typescripts, and 1,500 published libretti, as well as sheet music and 78rpm records. Norton is the author of A Chronology of American Musical Theater (Oxford UP, 2002) a landmark work with details on thousands of Broadway productions. The collection was assembled to support the research for his book.

The Good Good Show is Santa Barbara's longest running monthly stand up comedy show featuring comedians that you've seen or heard on Comedy Central, CONAN, Hulu, HBO Max, Jimmy Kimmel, Last Comic Standing, Amazon Prime, Sirius XM and more.

FEATURING: Billy Wayne Davis, Christine Medrano, Julie Weidmann and Jeremy Talamantes.

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

7:30 p.m. $10

Show is 21+

Fall under the spell of owls, bats, & spiders. See slithering snakes and lizards. Touch real skulls & bones that will rattle your bones. Gather around for spooky storytime. Make a mask. Sip Witches Brew. Enchanting music too! This event will take place on the lawn in front of the Neal Taylor Nature Center.

For additional information contact the Nature Center at 805-693-0691
Admission: Donation
Reservations are not needed.
(There is a $10 per vehicle County Park Entrance Fee)

The Neal Taylor Nature Center (NTNC) is located within Cachuma Recreational Area in a picturesque old ranch house. Developed and operated by a corps of committed volunteers, it offers exhibits on the local valley and mountain environment for all ages, emphasizing hands-on exhibits for children of all ages.

The mission of the Neal Taylor Nature Center at Cachuma Lake is to encourage public understanding, enjoyment, and protection of Cachuma Lake, the Upper Santa Ynez River, and the San Rafael Mountain Range Watershed. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that runs completely on donations and grants.

Nature Center & Gift Store Hours
Thursday through Saturday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Native Plant Garden Open 24/7
Admission: Donation

Join us at Studio Channel Islands for a kaleidoscopic range of conversations and insights brought to us by renowned psychedelic and optical artists. Legends including Roger Dean, Mear-One, and Jen Stark will discuss the surrounding artwork and gallery space being featured in our current exhibit, Calidelic Psychefornia.

Dean is most notable for his work featured on album covers of the late 60s, famously the English rock bands Yes and Asia. Mear is an LA based artist, working at the forefront of LA’s mural and graffiti scene and most famous for developing the Melrose graffiti art movement in the late 80s. Stark is a multi-media artist based in LA, whose optical art and use of psychedelic colors is known worldwide. Curator, Brian Chambers, is an expert on psychedelic art and culture and is a well known curator and gallery owner. Come support and listen to this expansive panel discussion!

The Simi Valley Family YMCA will host its annual Breakfast With Santa on Saturday, December 6. Participants can have their picture taken with Santa and receive a framed photo, and enjoy breakfast and hot cocoa. There will be snow, a snow slide and holiday crafts for the kids.

Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Families can then select a newly arrived Christmas tree at the YMCA’s Christmas tree lot operated by the Simi Valley Y’s Men’s Club. The lot offers about 750 Noble, Douglas and Nordmann fir trees from 3' to 9' tall.

All proceeds from tree sales go back into the community. Tree lot hours are 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.

The tree lot and Breakfast with Santa are at the Simi Valley Family YMCA (3200 Cochran St., corner of Galena Ave. and Cochran St.). Advance registration is required for Breakfast with Santa (www.sevymca.org/breakfast-santa).

“I am a Chicano doing an impersonation of an artist, so I do use art and art resources for the purposes of getting at political and economic issues, but also for the purpose of trying to demonstrate that there is a notion of a common humanity.”

— David Avalos, April 22, 1994

¡David Avalos, Presente! is a celebration of the life and legacy of the late artist David Avalos. Currently on view at the AD&A Museum is Welcome to America’s Finest Tourist Plantation (1988), a first of many collaborative projects by the artists Elizabeth Sisco, Louis Hock, and David Avalos. Join us on Friday, December 5 at 1pm to pay honor to Avalos and his impact on the Chicano Art Movement in California.

The event will begin in the galleries with an overview of Avalos’ practice by Ana Briz, AD&A Museum Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. Sisco and Hock will then continue with a discussion of their collaborations over the years. Following the presentations, Angel Diaz, Curator of the California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library, will share archival materials featuring and by Avalos from the Centro Cultural de la Raza archives. To close the event, a gathering will be held over food and drink outside in the Museum courtyard.

Hosted by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and co-organized with the UC Santa Barbara Library, this event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond the Object: Selections from the Permanent Collection, on view at the AD&A Museum through December 7, 2025.

Camerata Pacifica’s season continues with a selection of captivating chamber works presented at four Southern California locations on Tuesday, November 18, 7:30 pm, at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall in San Marino; Thursday, November 20, 8:00 pm, at Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles; Friday, November 21, 7:00 pm, at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West; and Sunday, November 23, 2025, 3:00 pm, at Thousand Oaks’ Janet and Ray Scherr Forum.

The program opens with Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19, considered one of the most famous cello sonatas in the literature. Following on the heels and very much in the style of Rachmaninoff’s wildly successful 2nd Piano Concerto, the piece is broad in scope, filled with glorious melodies, and passionately romantic in character. Camerata Pacifica Principal artists Armenian cellist Ani Aznavoorian and Estonian pianist Irina Zahharenkova bring the masterwork to life.

Illuminating a strikingly different aspect of the piano repertoire, Zahharenkova performs Aequora for grand piano and electronics by María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, which was commissioned for the Iceland Arts Festival in 2015.

Violinist Alena Hove joins both Aznavoorian and Zahharenkova for the program’s final work, Arno Babadjanian’s Piano Trio in F-sharp Minor. Babadjanian, a national hero in Armenia, composed the trio in 1952. It enjoyed immediate and enthusiastic success in Russia and Armenia but has only recently drawn well-deserved attention in the United States.

Hove, applauded for her “rich, smooth tone” and “nuance and grace” (CityArts), is noted for her musical clarity and charismatic stage presence. Zahharenkova is hailed for delivering performances with “impressive…musical colour” (Bachtrack). Aznavoorian offers “scorchingly committed performances…(that) wring every last drop of emotion out of the music” (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.