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Come one, come all! To downtown Carpinteria for the Carpinteria Valley Historical Society and History Museum’s Marketplace on Saturday, Sept. 30, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the museum grounds, 956 Maple Ave.

Bursting with treasures of all stripes and sizes — handicrafts, vintage clothing, food items, antiques, collectibles, furniture, musical instruments, toys, and plants to name a few — the Marketplace is free and family friendly.

Hot dogs, cold beverages, and snacks will be available for purchase. Musical entertainment includes Mavis Hansen and the Ukulele Jammers.

For more information, call (805) 684-3112, email info@carpinteriahistoricalmuseum.org, or visit carpinteriahistoricalmuseum.org. The next Marketplace is scheduled for Oct. 28.

Our annual wine tasting & yacht tour event, Sips & Ships, will be held this year on October 7, 2023 at Marina 1 in the Santa Barbara Harbor.

Join us for this iconic Santa Barbara event.

Guests will have the unique opportunity to mingle with boat owners and engage with local winemakers while enjoying an evening at the Santa Barbara Harbor. Join us to be treated to local wines and beers, paired with hors d’oeuvres and desserts, while gaining special access to featured yachts. You will also have the opportunity to bid on donations from local businesses at our silent auction.

One of the participating vessels on display this year is the Mystic Whaler, a 110-foot schooner that is owned and operated by the non-profit, Central Coast Ocean Adventures Foundation. The Mystic Whaler recently relocated from the East Coast to the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, CA, offers ocean-based experiential education opportunities to the communities of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties with a focus on serving young people. This is a unique opportunity to explore this vessel right here in the Santa Barbara Harbor.

The annual wine tasting event is the only fundraiser of the Santa Barbara Sea Shell Association. Funds raised in this adults-only event help ensure we can maintain our fleet and provide sailing education for youth at an affordable price for all families. This year, we are also raising funds to renovate our boat storage condos.

The Simi Valley Family YMCA, in partnership with Tri-Counties Regional Center, is hosting its annual Trunk-or-Treat & Fall Festival on Saturday, October 14 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. YMCA Child Care staff decorate their car trunks with fun themes and pass out candy. The event is free and open to the public. The Simi Y is at 3200 Cochran St.

In addition to more than 15 decorated cars, there will be a pumpkin patch, pumpkin decorating, carnival games and crafts, glitter tattoos, haunted laboratory, inflatables, petting zoo and magician. A haunted hallway is from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (kid-friendly version) and 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (spookier version). Visitors are encouraged to dress up in Halloween costumes.

Event registration is required and can be made by going to https://www.sevymca.org/trunk-or-treat. Check the website for parking information.

The Y is accepting individually wrapped candy donations for Trunk or Treat. Drop-off locations are the Simi Valley YMCA and Yarrow Family YMCA (31105 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Westlake Village).

This is a special craft fair with all vendors (29) presenting their handcrafts for sale. It is a Harvest Halloween Craft Fair with trick and treat for the children, a costume contest, raffle prizes, and a bake sale. It is a fundraiser for the Valley of Flowers Half-Century Club serving the Lompoc Valley since 1976. Come see these wonderful items and find your special something. "Just what you've always wanted". Open from 9am to 3pm and there is parking in the rear of the club.

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Presents

Rachel’s Farm Film Premiere
With filmmaker & director Rachel Ward, in person, Q&A follows
Sunday, October 15, 2023, 6-8:30 pm
$14 (plus fees), Kids 12 & under FREE (contact Lobero office to pay if bringing kids)

Location: Lobero Theatre
33 E Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Tickets on Sale Now: Lobero Ticket Office; 805-963-0761, online Lobero.com; or at the door

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If you loved Biggest Little Farm, you will love Rachel’s Farm

Join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network for a special evening with Rachel Ward of Australian film fame, as she shares her experience of coming to terms with the catastrophic fires & floods that beset Australia in recent years. The personal story-telling style of her film features intimate interviews with Rachel, her family, her inquisitive young farm manager who prompts them on a regenerative farm learning path, and all the people she has been inspired by on her transition from the world of entertainment to the world of farming. With honesty, and even humor, the film gives a unique insight into her voyage from willful ignorance about the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture, to embracing a regenerative farming movement to restore the health of Australia’s farmland, food and climate. Conversation & Q&A with Rachel follows.

Film Trailer: https://theregenerators.org/rachels-farm/

Regenerative agriculture (or 'regen ag') is a holistic approach to farming and grazing that focuses on restoring and enhancing the health of ecosystems. By choosing food that’s produced regeneratively, what you eat can be good for the planet, good for farmers, and good for you and your family’s health.
Regen ag can mean different things to different people and there’s an array of practices e planet's) and the biodiversity of the ecosystem by diversifying plant life and building nutrient-rich top

Westlake Village, CA – Early shopping is the best shopping.
The Global Truth Center in Westlake Village will host a Community Holiday Gift Boutique Sunday, October 1st from 9:30am to 1:00pm. The beautiful Water Court Complex will be filled with a multitude of vendors featuring unique jewelry, delectable desserts, handcrafted wreaths, candles, jams, ceramics, art & home decor, and more. Adding an international flair, an array of handmade creations from Uganda courtesy of The Greater Contribution will also be among the items available for purchase.
Get a jump on your holiday shopping. All purchases are tax deductible.
The location at 880 Hampshire Road, Ste. W in Westlake Village offers easy access parking. Artisans will be gathered on the Lower Breezeway facing the water fountain. For more information call 818/ 508-7171.

On Saturday, November 11 at 7:30 and Sunday, November 12 at 3 p.m., the Santa Barbara Master Chorale will present a concert featuring Gabriel Faure’s Requiem and John Rutter’s Gloria.

Faure’s Requiem in D Minor is the best known of his large works. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation. He said of his work “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.”

First performed in 1974, Rutter’s Gloria is based on one of the Gregorian chants associated with the Latin text drawn from the Ordinary of the Mass. The division of the work into three movements – proclamatory, prayerful, and joyfully affirmative – corresponds to the divisions in the text.

The concert will be led by our artistic director and conductor, David Lozano Torres. Mr. Torres is currently conductor of the UCSB Lumina Choir, assistant conductor of the UCSB Chamber Choir, and artistic director and conductor of the elite choral ensemble Vocal Infinity. He is presently completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting at UCSB.

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum presents “All The Life We Cannot See: Marine Microbes and the Health of our Oceans” on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. UC Santa Barbara Professor Alyson Santoro, PhD will discuss the general role of microbes in the ocean, which cycle nitrogen throughout the deep ocean, and the impact and important role the microbes have on the Earth’s climate. Marine microbes are single-celled organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye. They are the most abundant living things in the ocean, where they keep the water and the entire planet habitable for animals—and people. As recently as the 1950s, people believed that the deep ocean was practically devoid of microbial life.

The lecture series is sponsored by Marie L. Morrisroe.

THRILLER 2023
Saturday, October 28th
Costume Dance Party 2:00pm / Thriller Performance 3:00pm
Practices begin September 20th
Wednesdays 6:00pm, Oak Park Stage
Saturdays 9:45am, Beach (Chase Palm Park Soccer Field)

Join World Dance For Humanity for Thriller this year – a fun, freeing, fabulous experience for all! Flashmobs galore, a spooktacular Sunken Gardens event Oct. 28th. All ages and abilities are welcome. Practices are ongoing! Just show up to register: WEDNESDAYS 6:00pm (Oak Park Stage) and SATURDAYS 9:45am (Beach - Soccer Field at Chase Palm Park).

(Not in Santa Barbara? Learn the dance online and join us Halloween weekend!)

Thriller Info with PRACTICE VIDEOS: https://worlddanceforhumanity.org/thriller2023/

The Good Good Show is Santa Barbara's longest running monthly stand up comedy show featuring the hottest comics working today that you've seen or heard on Comedy Central, Netflix, HBO, NBC's Last Comic Standing, Jimmy Kimmel, Sirius XM and more.
FEATURING: Sheng Wang, Reem Edan, Julie Weidmann, Brenda Pontiff and Andy Benedetti.

Come have a laugh with us and enjoy a delicious craft beer!

7:30pm $10

Show is 21+