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In celebration of Family History Month and international Home Movie Day, the UCSB Library’s Santa Barbara Community Archives Project is partnering with the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society (SBCGS) to promote the importance of home movie collections and to provide free digitization services for Santa Barbara community members. Digitized materials will be preserved for future generations in the Library’s Local History Collections.

Current and former residents of Santa Barbara County are invited to bring their eligible films (8mm, Super 8, 16mm) to the SBCGS’s Sahyun Library (316 Castillo St) on October 24, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., and October 27, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., for free off-site digitization. Original materials and digital files will be returned to participants at no cost. UCSB Library will then provide long-term preservation for the digital copies.

To learn more about the event and the services we will provide to you as well as other local history resources available at the SBCGS Library, please check the Event FAQ on the UCSB Library's Website or stop by SBCGS’s Family History Month Open House on Sunday, October 6, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., at Sahyun Library, or at SBCGS’s monthly membership meeting on Saturday, October 19, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara (21 E Constance Ave). Both events are free and open to the public; a SBCGS membership is not required to attend.

Host Bio
Laura Jean Treat Liebhaber is a Curator at UCSB Library Special Research Collections where she oversees the Film & Television, Santa Barbara & Local History, and Oral History Collections. Laura was born and raised in California’s Central Valley to a family of local history enthusiasts and has called Santa Barbara home since joining UCSB Library in 2020. Along with her colleague Angel Diaz, Laura launched the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project, a UCSB Library initiative to document the rich and diverse communities that make up Santa Barbara by digitizing, preserving, and sharing family histories. For more than a decade, Laura has dedicated her professional work to preserving home movies. While at the University of North Texas, Laura ran two successful home movie digitization projects and local film events under the name Spotlight: North Texas with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also participated in the Texas Archive of the Moving Image’s award winning Texas Film Round Up Program. Laura holds an M.S.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information. She is Member of the Board of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and Co-Chair of the AMIA Local Television Task Force.

Santa Monica Playhouse is excited to present the 18th anniversary production of its modern Halloween classic, Oct 5 – 27 only. It’s the delectable Family Theatre Halloween musical for Kids 2 to 102 – the heartwarming Rudie-DeCarlo tale of the aptly-named Candy, a sweet young girl who learns some surprising lessons about life, love, laughter, and sugar, from a delightful array of characters who take her on a magical All Hallow’s Eve adventure. And you, the audience, help Cattypuss, Patty Patches, Lester the Jester and Fifika the French Fortune Teller save Halloween for one more year.

As witching hour approaches, kids, and parents, too, discover the value of team spirit, friendship, sharing, making choices, and moderation, especially when it comes to treats and sweets. Now an audience favorite holiday tradition and back by audience demand for its 18th October run, ABSOLUTELY HALLOWEEN is one in a series of original Rudie-DeCarlo fairy tale musical comedies that make up the award-winning Family Theatre Musical Matinee Series for Kids 2 to 102, now celebrating 56 years as it cuts across the imaginary generation gap by providing an experience the entire family can enjoy.

Helmed by Playhouse Artistic Director Chris DeCarlo, with book, music & lyrics by DeCarlo, Evelyn Rudie & Matthew Wrather, the ingenious costumes are created by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes, with production and multi-media design by James Cooper and The Attic Room. ABSOLUTELY HALLOWEEN features internationally acclaimed Actors’ Repertory Theatre members Celeste Akiki, Isabel Lindley, J.T. Melaragno, Cydne Moore, Joseph Perez, Charlotte Robinson, Graham Silbert and Megan Wright. Birthday parties, hosted by gaily-costumed members of the ABSOLUTELY HALLOWEEN Company, are available in conjunction with every performance. It’s Around Town’s “Favorite Pick!” It’ll be yours, too! Saturdays, 2pm, Sundays 12:30, October 5-27 only.

Santa Monica Playhouse is supported in part by grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Rotary Club Foundation, We Are Santa Monica and Playhouse PALS.

In celebration of Family History Month and international Home Movie Day, the UCSB Library’s Santa Barbara Community Archives Project is partnering with the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society (SBCGS) to promote the importance of home movie collections and to provide free digitization services for Santa Barbara community members. Digitized materials will be preserved for future generations in the Library’s Local History Collections.

Current and former residents of Santa Barbara County are invited to bring their eligible films (8mm, Super 8, 16mm) to the SBCGS’s Sahyun Library (316 Castillo St) on October 24, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., and October 27, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., for free off-site digitization. Original materials and digital files will be returned to participants at no cost. UCSB Library will then provide long-term preservation for the digital copies.

To learn more about the event and the services we will provide to you as well as other local history resources available at the SBCGS Library, please check the FAQ on the UCSB Library's Website or stop by SBCGS’s Family History Month Open House on Sunday, October 6, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., at Sahyun Library, or at SBCGS’s monthly membership meeting on Saturday, October 19, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara (21 E Constance Ave). Both events are free and open to the public; a SBCGS membership is not required to attend.

Host Bio
Laura Jean Treat Liebhaber is a Curator at UCSB Library Special Research Collections where she oversees the Film & Television, Santa Barbara & Local History, and Oral History Collections. Laura was born and raised in California’s Central Valley to a family of local history enthusiasts and has called Santa Barbara home since joining UCSB Library in 2020. Along with her colleague Angel Diaz, Laura launched the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project, a UCSB Library initiative to document the rich and diverse communities that make up Santa Barbara by digitizing, preserving, and sharing family histories. For more than a decade, Laura has dedicated her professional work to preserving home movies. While at the University of North Texas, Laura ran two successful home movie digitization projects and local film events under the name Spotlight: North Texas with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also participated in the Texas Archive of the Moving Image’s award winning Texas Film Round Up Program. Laura holds an M.S.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information. She is Member of the Board of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and Co-Chair of the AMIA Local Television Task Force.

HALLOWEEN SANTA BARBARA PUB CRAWL
(Thursday, October 31st)
🎃 SANTA BARBARA HALLOWEEN CRAWL 🎃


💀 Join over 300+ guests on our annual Halloween bar crawl! Come in costume and roam the lively State St stopping in and out of over 10+ bars and nightclubs with one all-access pass 💀


🧟‍♂️ Halloween survival kit includes 🧟‍♂️
- ⚡ Free welcome shot tickets at select venues
- ⚡ Drink discount coupons
- ⚡ Free nightclub entry passes
- ⚡ Map to all participating bars, lounges & nightclubs

------------- 🕷️ PRE PARTY 🕷️ ------------------


👻 Check In: 7pm - 10pm 👻 🕸️
Pre-party event includes:
- ⚡ Exclusive drink specials
- ⚡ Free Halloween handouts
- ⚡ Pre bar crawl social and meet and greet


🎃 At check in pick up your bar crawl maps, lanyard and drink coupons before setting off to visit multiple Halloween parties in one night! 🎃

🎟️ www.santabarbarazombiecrawl.com 🎟️

It’s the 30th anniversary production of the celebrated Rudie-DeCarlo original musical, an excitingly heart-warming, and definitely un-scary, adaptation of the original French tale, proving beyond the shadow of any doubt that true beauty isn’t in your appearance, but in your heart, November 2-17 only!

Based on the original 1740’s tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, arguably the mother of the modern “Harlequin-style” romance, whose charmingly flawed heroes and independently feisty heroines danced their way into the hearts of the populace nearly a century before Jane Austen’s Elizabeth and D’Arcy made their first appearance, this richly humorous production is written and directed by Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie, and features Theødor Dronen, Holly Gibson, Isabel Lindley, Michala Peltz, Joseph Perez, Megan Wright, and Devin Ricklef as Beauty’s most adorable Beast, with breath-taking costumes by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes and Graham Silbert, and magical FX that transform the stage into an ornately detailed Medieval castle right before your eyes.

Birthday parties, hosted by gaily-costumed fairytale characters, are available with every performance.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST plays Saturdays at 2pm, Sundays at 12:30, November 2 - 17, 2024. Tickets are 12.50 per child, $15.00 for adults. For reservations, details and party information visit http://SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com or call the Playhouse Box Office at (310) 394-9779 ext. 1. Reservations are highly recommended.

Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission; We Are Santa Monica; the Ahmanson Foundation and Playhouse PALS.

A Living Exhibit!
Friday & Saturday evenings at dusk Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend
ADMISSION: Donation
*Program times vary by week depending on the time of sunset*
visit www.clnaturecenter.org/going-batty to see each week's times

Meet at the front entrance of the Nature Center.
fThese are wild bats—we never feed or touch the animals.
Guests of Cachuma Lake Recreation Area are welcome to visit our bat boxes at any time during their visit, although they typically only come out about 30 minutes after sunset, and are mostly active here during the warmer months.
This is a living exhibit! Please do not disturb the bats with lights or loud noises.

Keep a 10-15ft distance from bat boxes at all times.
Includes a Docent led talk and Q&A.
After learning about the local bats, we’ll move to the Native Garden to watch as the bats drop out of the bat boxes to feed.

Admission: Donation
The Neal Taylor Nature Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Click here for more information about this program

“BEST New Year’s Eve events in Los Angeles!” LA Times, LA Weekly, Daily News.

Champagne, sparkling juice, and a delectable dessert buffet accompany this rousing, family-friendly Rudie-DeCarlo musical revue. Join in the singing, dancing, humor and other delights culled from over 6 decades of audience favorite Santa Monica Playhouse productions. With finger-snapping jazz, foot-stompin’ sing-a-longs, Jewish patter songs, romantic ballads, this show has it all! Add hats, tiaras, noisemakers, leis and streamers and you have a not-to-be-missed New Year’s Eve celebration. “A company that knows what its audience expects from an evening of theatre!” LA TIMES.
Usher in 2025 and the Playhouse's 65th anniversary of continuous theatrical and educational services to the community. Featuring the internationally acclaimed Actors’ Repertory Theatre, it’s the BEST New Year’s celebration in town!

The 10:30 show lets you celebrate the changeover to the New Year in the theatre with members of the cast. The 7:00 show offers everything the later show does and is a great way to celebrate with the entire family, letting the kids have a real New Year's Eve treat, and get home at a reasonable hour, or kick off an evening of after-theatre dining and celebrating. Champagne, sparkling juice and dessert buffet served 6:30 to 7:00 and 10:00 to 10:30. Tickets go VERY FAST so book today!

“The Playhouse is truly a gem in this city and visiting it should be at the top of everyone’s to do list!” DAILY BRUIN.

Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, We Are Santa Monica, the Ahmanson Foundation and Playhouse PALS.

It’s been a year since audiences have been treated to this spectacular performance by Shelley Fisher, the Down Home Diva, in a musical rock n' roller coaster ride, filled with humor and pathos, as this good southern Jewish girl fights prejudice and personal tragedy to fulfill her vision of helping the world celebrate diversity, dreams and determination. Now when we need it the most, Shelley brings you the longest-running musical solo show in America, one performance only, Saturday, September 9 at 7:30pm. And the fabulous Miss Fisher is donating all proceeds to the Doors-Open Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Campaign.

“Shelley Fisher rips the roof off with her bluesy, ballsy, autobiographical one-woman show – while ripping at the heart strings of her packed houses. Fisher's story of a good little southern Jewish girl with big rock and roll dreams gets fueled by 17 show-stopping numbers co-written with renowned hit makers, Kenny Hirsch (I've Never Been To Me, No One In The World), Harold Payne (Bobby Womack, Snoop Dogg) and Steve Rawlins (I Wanna Win a Grammy Before I Am A Granny; arranger for The Emmys, Grammys, Smokey Robinson and more). The Huffington Post.

Share this uplifting, life-affirming, powerful musical with family and friends, and celebrate the joy of live theatre!

This performance is sponsored by the Santa Monica Playhouse Jewish Heritage Series.

Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by generous grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Rotary Club Foundation, We Are Santa Monica, and Playhouse PALS.

From AI to social media to election politics, it’s tough to know what to believe online anymore! Local journalists and truth crusaders Starshine Roshell, Lisa Osborn and Amy Marie Orozco are offering practical tips and easy-to-follow advice to help Central Coasters become savvy, responsible media consumers. Learn to spot doctored images, check sources, resist falling for “ragebait” — content that spurs you to share it without even verifying — and avoid spreading misinformation to your friends and family. Moment of Truth: Sorting Fact from Fiction in the Misinformation Age is made possible by a grant from the Association for Women in Communications Advancement Fund and the fiscal sponsorship of the Santa Barbara Foundation.

Wednesday, October 9
5:30 p.m. at WorkZones

Members free; Guests $25