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16th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap

Sunday, January 28, 2024
11-4pm, Free - Rain or Shine!

A celebration to bring seeds & people together

LOCATION

Santa Barbara Community Arts Workshop (SBCAW)
631 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org

Join us for the 16th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap! The event takes place at the Santa Barbara Community Arts Center (SBCAW) in downtown Santa Barbara, with both indoor and outdoor space, rain or shine.

Hundreds attend this free event every year sharing seeds and knowledge with other backyard gardeners, plant lovers, beekeepers, farmers and more. Come be a part of this seed saving movement, making sure locally adapted seeds & plants are passed on to future generations. Free seeds offered to help gardeners get started. Local groups will have seed & plant related exhibits. Live music, and kids activities throughout the day.

Once again we will honor a Local Food Hero, this year the award goes to Leslie Person Ryan of Sweet Wheel Summerland Farm. Join us for an award ceremony at 1:30 pm.

Bring seeds, plants, cuttings, and garden knowledge to swap.
Don't have these? Then come get seeds. Seeds to sow, seeds to grow, seeds to harvest. Seeds to save and share next year.
Activities for all ages.
Music that will have your toes tapping.
Plant and seed-related exhibits from local groups
Special speakers throughout the day.
Free Seed Painting
A gathering of garden friends old and new.
Seed saving is a fun and easy way to connect to the circle of life.


A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network. Co-Sponsored by Island Seed & Feed, Blue Sky Biochar, Explore Ecology, & Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

More Info: Margie@sbpermaculture.org, (805) 962-2571

Please join us for a performance by renowned flutist and composer Gary Schocker in celebration of the Library’s acquisition of The Gary Schocker Archives. Schocker will perform a selection of original compositions accompanied by pianist Fumi Kuwajima and featuring special guest Gary Woodward. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience an exceptional afternoon of music!

This event is free and open to the public. To attend, RSVP by January 24.

The SBCC Foundation’s 5th annual Spring Forward! Gala will be held Saturday, May 4, 2024 on the beautiful Great Meadow of SBCC’s West Campus overlooking the ocean, from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, visit the Spring Forward! Gala website (https://www.sbccfoundation.org/spring-forward-gala/ ).

Sponsorships are available!

Over 300 guests joined us last year — sponsors, supporters, and friends of SBCC from near and far enjoyed a special evening celebrating our community’s college and raising funds for student success. Proceeds from the event support all of the SBCC Foundation's work, including the SBCC Promise, student achievement programs, scholarships, book grants, emergency funds, and more.

Flying in experts and archeologists from Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden to present new Viking era discoveries using new technologies Feb 9/10.

The Poetry in Paper gallery exhibit will run from January 20 - April 7, 2024 at Elverhøj Museum of History and Art. Hours are Thursday through Monday from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Karen Bit Vejle, an internationally acclaimed psaligrapher, is being honored with an exhibition at the Elverhøj Museum of History & Art. The debut of Poetry in Paper will be celebrated with an opening reception on Saturday, January 20, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. The public is invited and refreshments will be served, with no charge for admission.

Translated literally, psaligraphy is the art of drawing with scissors and paper. Works are formed from a large, continuous piece of paper and cut with only a small pair of scissors. It is a slow art of painstaking patience that demands the utmost concentration and a steady hand.

Vejle creates images of air and paper. Her magical cuttings are rooted in a tradition that has known a long journey through history, beginning in the first century, when paper was first invented by the Chinese. In fact, the Chinese started cutting in paper before they used it for writing. The art of psaligraphy has developed differently throughout the world, but is particularly rooted in Chinese and other Asian cultures, and also in Bit’s native country of Denmark.
This exhibition takes the viewer into a rare artistic experience as Vejle tells magical stories with her scissors. There is a great degree of humor in her world of imagery; humor and the ability to identify joy in small things. Just as often, though, she confronts serious themes intended to cause involvement and reflection. Her works are captivating, evoking both astonishment and inspiration.

Exhibition programming will include a paper cutting workshop with celebrated Danish artist, Torben Jarlstrøm Clausen at the Museum on March 3, at 11 a.m. To register visit, www.elverhoj.org. Space is limited.

Poetry in Paper is a traveling exhibit sponsored by the National Foundation of Danish America and ScanDesign. Elverhøj Museum of History & Art is located at 1624 Elverhoy Way in Solvang. Hours are Thursday through Monday from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. There Is no charge for admission, but a $5 donation is suggested. For more Information, call (805) 686-1211 or visit www.elverhoj.org.

For his exhibition at SLOMA, San Luis Obispo-based artist Barry Goyette shows a series of portraits taken by a very specific mulberry tree as a site for portrait photography guided by the models, of varying stages of life. Attempting to reverse the traditional dynamics of power in portrait photographer, Goyette offers his camera in service to those he photographs, and they bring their own props, costumes, and stories – with the beloved mulberry tree as a key motif in all the images. Utilizing aging techniques in photography, Goyette seeks to activate slower ways of looking in the history of the medium.

Day break, sunsets, moonrise, mottled leaves, coastal oak trees. Sand dunes, tidepools, ocean caves, volcanic rock, breaking waves. These are some of the moments throughout San Luis Obispo County that artist Leah Rosenberg found inspiration in for the collection of forty-one colors for her mural SLO(W) Rainbow on the exterior museum walls in March 2023. For Rosenberg, this exhibition is a return to the museum and this palette; bringing the colors from the outside in. She returns to and reorders this collection of colors with ritualistic tendency, and by doing so, offers a specific and timely story of this place and a lasting connection to San Luis Obispo.

Once each year the Valley Watercolor Society presents its exhibition of juried paintings submitted by its members. The exhibit will be held at the Thousand Oaks Community Gallery which is adjacent to the Newbury Park library. The exhibit opens on February 2 (Friday). On Sunday, February 4, there will be a reception open to the public from 3:00 to 6:00 pm. Award winners will be announced and refreshments will be served.

Channeling Pearl Chase

Wednesday, January 10, 2024
5:30 p.m. at WorkZones in Santa Barbara

Members: FREE, Non-members: $25

We think of her as the person who shaped the Santa Barbara we know today. Yes, she spearheaded downtown's architectural style. But there was so much more! She was active in environmentalism, the arts, conservation, housing issues, and historic preservation. Writer Cheri Rae reveals a woman ahead of her time.

Cheri Rae's book, A String of Pearls, will be available for purchase and signing.

Click here to read the preface of A String of Pearls

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CQfqhKzNFcIpLCMQVzht-TAcl6oOqfmc/view

*A complimentary copy of the book will be given away at the meeting!*

A day-long exploration of “itty-bitty” organisms and their often overlooked yet critical ecological roles is presented by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. At “Tiny Taxa Doing Big Things,” their 11th annual symposium, seven scientists who study tiny plants and creatures each present a talk focused on their area of interest, including lichen, moss, biocrust, flies, ants, and parasites, among others.

The talks reveal how a “small yet mighty” taxon may have an outsized influence on larger organisms, aid in conservation efforts, and support biodiversity on the planet. Also examined are the relationships between these diverse organisms and how cutting-edge technology is used to study them. The session culminates in a panel discussion about how to help conserve both the “tiny taxa” and the natural world at large.

“Tiny Taxa Doing Big Things” is held at the Santa Barbara County Education Office at 4400 Cathedral Oaks Road, Santa Barbara, and is also streamed online. Advance registration is required for both in person and online attendance. In person admission is $40 for the public, and $15 for Garden Members and students. A catered lunch is included. Attendance for the virtual-only is free, but registration is required. For a complete schedule of speakers and topics and registration information, please visit https://sbbotanicgarden.org/classes-events/symposium-2024/.

“Sometimes in life, it’s the little things that make all the difference. That’s true in nature, too,” said the Garden’s Director of Conservation, Denise Knapp, Ph.D. “Some of the biggest jobs on the planet are done by the tiniest of organisms. For example, lichens build soil, while bacteria, algae, mosses and more hold it together, then bugs and fungi fertilize and recycle. This tiny world is sometimes beautiful, sometimes bizarre, sometimes disgusting – but always fascinating.”

The winner of this year’s Pritzlaff Conservation Award is world-renowned botanist, lichenologist, and philanthropist Shirley C. Tucker, Ph.D. Unable to attend the Symposium, she is honored at this year’s at this event for her many conservation achievements in California and around the world.