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The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presents “Global History and the California Missions: A Sea Story” with author, artist, educator, and native Californian Janet Dowling Sands on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:00. This beautifully illustrated presentation will explain how the missions were inextricably linked to global maritime history and prehistory, including the latest research on the origins of California’s indigenous people, whose ancestors came to the Americas thousands of years before the first European soldiers and missionaries arrived.

Cost is free for SBMM’s Navigator Circle Members, $10 for all other members, and $20 for members of the public. There will also be a pre-lecture reception for members only from 6:15-6:45pm. Register at: https://sbmm.org/santa-barbara-event/ and become a member at https://sbmm.org.

About the Speaker
Janet Sands, author of On a Mission: The Real Story of the California Missions, has developed a unique perspective on history—shaped by extensive research and by many years of engagement with educators, scientists and historians. She is a California native with a degree in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a lifelong student of history, art, and the natural world, and a collector of American regional art. She is currently working to complete her next book, Collision of Cultures: A Traveler’s History of the American Southwest.

This event is generously sponsored by Marie L. Morrisroe.

The first annual Wild Oaks Country Music Festival will take place Saturday, June 3 in Thousand Oaks and will feature some of Nashville’s favorite country artists. Performers set to appear include country chart-topping Craig Morgan, grammy-nominated CAM, and local favorites Justin Honsinger and Chris Johnson and the Hollywood Hillbillies (straight from the Cowboy Palace in Chatsworth). The festival also features line dancing and lessons, a live DJ, food trucks, kids’ activities, Hot Sumer Night People’s Choice Best Hot Sauce tastings and over 75 vendors and booths. Presented by the Rotary Club of Westlake Village, all net proceeds go to local nonprofit groups.

Discounted early bird tickets are on sale through April 3 ($75 per person regular price) on the festival website (https://wildoakscmf.com). A limited number of VIP tickets that include free parking, shaded seating next to the stage, private restrooms and food and drink tickets are $225. Kids under 12 are free. Festival hours are noon to 7:00 p.m. Limited parking onsite is $20. Free offsite parking and shuttles nearby. To purchase tickets go to www.WildOakscmf.com. For more information: obmhsn@gmail.com, 805-701-7248. Follow Wild Oaks Country Music Festival on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/wildoakscmf.

Composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was restricted from having a professional career due to her gender and upper-class status. In spite of this, she became an important musical figure in the nineteenth century and a symbol of women’s struggle for equality.

Beyond the Notes features leading scholars whose presentations highlight the times and culture surrounding the works performed by the San Luis Obispo Master Chorale.

The San Luis Obispo Master Chorale will host two free educational presentations given by Dr. Marian Wilson Kimber, Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa, as part of its Beyond the Notes series. These presentations coincide with the SLO Master Chorale’s concert on Sunday, April 23 at 3pm at the San Luis Obispo Performing Arts Center. Titled “Elijah,” it’s a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s great theatrical oratorio Elijah, a dramatic work that tells the story of the prophet Elijah. More details about these presentations are available at www.slomasterchorale.org.

Beyond the Notes is sponsored by Libbie Agran and the Shanbrom Family Foundation.

Felix Mendelssohn’s romantic music drew on his lifelong engagement with his German musical heritage as well as theater, literature, and poetry. An amateur painter, Mendelssohn also composed music that reflected the natural landscape he encountered in his many travels.

Beyond the Notes features leading scholars whose presentations highlight the times and culture surrounding the works performed by the San Luis Obispo Master Chorale.

The San Luis Obispo Master Chorale will host two free educational presentations given by Dr. Marian Wilson Kimber, Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa, as part of its Beyond the Notes series. These presentations coincide with the SLO Master Chorale’s concert on Sunday, April 23 at 3pm at the San Luis Obispo Performing Arts Center. Titled “Elijah,” it’s a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s great theatrical oratorio Elijah, a dramatic work that tells the story of the prophet Elijah. More details about these presentations are available at www.slomasterchorale.org.

Beyond the Notes is sponsored by Libbie Agran and the Shanbrom Family Foundation.

The Odd Birds
$20.00

Saturday March 11 at 7pm

An intimate evening of Roots Americana with The Odd Birds and special guest Doug Schmude.

The Odd Birds are two of the least cool rock stars you’ll ever meet (no really, they met doing musical theatre). They have been playing their blend of Americana/country/folk music for over a decade. They’ve toured and had radio play in both the US and Europe. Known for their vocal harmonies, they were named one of Metronome Boston’s Top 21 bands in 2021.

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award
An Evening with John & Nancy Jack Todd, Ecological Design Pioneers. Come and be inspired by a life of Innovation!

Ecological design goes way beyond any other field of design. It taps deep into Nature’s operating instructions, organizing knowledge & ecosystems to serve human needs without despoiling the planet.

Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network as we celebrate our third annual Eco Hero Award honoring John & Nancy Jack Todd, pioneers in the ecological design movement.

Beginning in the late 1960’s this unique and amazingly productive husband and wife team has shared a partnership journey over five decades, committed to the emerging field of ecological design, that uses human ingenuity to design a future in balance with nature, while healing broken ecosystems damaged historically, and by modern industrial society.

Today John & Nancy operate Ocean Arks International, a nonprofit research and outreach organization founded in 1982. Ocean Ark’s stated mission is “to create planetary healing through promoting ecological literacy and the dissemination of vital eco-technologies”, with projects focused on the restoration of the world’s oceans and fresh waters, using the tools of nature to heal toxic waste sites, oil spills, leaking landfills and severely damaged waterways.

The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award honors those individuals who have committed themselves to work in service of the planet and its inhabitants for more than thirty years, with actual solutions and concrete ways forward that benefit many, often on a global scale, while demonstrating pathways forward for future generations. Audiences will learn what inspired John & Nancy, how they made their projects happen, and what challenges they faced along the way—with time for the audience to ask questions, especially encouraging youth attending to interact.

Past recipients of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award include John D. Liu, Paul Stamets, and Louie Schwartzberg. We are honored to have John & Nancy Jack Todd join us in person as recipients for the 2023 Eco Hero Award. A reception follows in the Lobero courtyard for all ticket holders.

The event takes place at the Lobero Theatre on Friday, March 17, from 6:30 pm – 9 pm, tickets on sale at Lobero Tickets (fees apply), 805-963-0761; Lobero.com. TICKETS $10, $20, $40, & Friends of Eco Hero $100
For more information, www.sbpermaculture.org.

Join SLOMA for free wine, live DJ, and fresh art!

See our new mural, “SLO(W) Rainbow by Leah Rosenberg and attend our reception for Charlie Rugg!

It’s also your last chance to catch HOME/WORK.
For AAD this month, we've partnered with KCBX!

A series of paintings by the San Luis Obispo-based artist

“One of the best quartets before the public today” (The Washington Post), the Danish returns with the third concert in its Doppelgänger Project, pairing Schubert’s “Rosamunde” Quartet with a newly commissioned work by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdóttir. One of the most original voices of her generation, Thorvaldsdóttir wields a “seemingly boundless textural imagination” (The New York Times) to create captivating musical landscapes at once grand and personal.