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The Camarillo Quilters Association will meet at the Pleasant Valley Community Center, 1605 E. Burnley Drive, Camarillo on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 . The doors open at 9:00 am and the meeting begins at 9:30 am. The guest fee is $5.00 and everyone is welcome.
This month will feature four of our CQA members giving mini workshops. The topics will include Sashiko, making a sewing machine mat, Kawandi quilting and how to use an Accuquilt machine.
Please mark your calendars and join us for this event!
See the website https://camarilloquilters.com for more information.

NEWS FROM THE SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HISTORICAL MUSEUM
For Immediate Release: September 24, 2024
Contact: 805-688-7889 or info@santaynezmuseum.org
www.santaynezmuseum.org

SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HISTORICAL MUSEUM
presents
“40th Annual Vaquero Benefit Dinner and Auction”
Saturday, November 9, 2024 5-9 pm
Santa Ynez Township, 3596 Sagunto Street, Santa Barbara County, California
It’s time once again for the Annual Vaquero Benefit Dinner and Auction at the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum in celebration of the traditional Vaquero spirit and way of life. This popular event honoring the ”2024 Vaquero of the Year” will take place on November 9th in the beautiful courtyard setting of the museum in historic downtown Santa Ynez.
Vaquero Benefit Dinner and Auction
The lifestyle of the Californio Vaquero and its influence on modern ranching in California is celebrated through this event including the naming of the favorite “Vaquero of the Year”. This year that honor goes to local Santa Ynez horseman, realtor, ”Ranchero” and popular valley friend, Joe Olla. Along with the honorary presentation and auction there will be opportunity shopping and the traditional multi-course dinner served to guests in the museum courtyard along with a chance to bid on exciting packages, including getaways and unique dining experiences.
This annual event benefits the Santa Ynez Historical Museum and Parks-Janeway Carriage House, by providing valuable funding for various programs throughout the year. Projects include the new Carriage House design, educational programs, “Wild West” Summer Camp, Old Santa Ynez Days, special exhibits, as well as community outreach by providing a central location for local meetings and gatherings, all of which benefit the valley.
Don’t miss this annual celebration. Early Bird tickets through September for the Benefit Dinner are $200.00 per person. Tickets are available by calling 805-688-7889 or online at santaynezmuseum.org/vaquero show.

Conejo Valley fundraiser for American Cancer Society. 32 teams raising awareness for cancer research abd treatment. Team booth on field and a 24 hour walk. Particpants can raise $ by getting sponsors to contribute $/lap. Entertainment, food, silent auction, great fun for whole family

Camerata Pacifica, the international chamber music collective renowned for its musical versatility and bold programming, traverses a range of groundbreaking music from the 20th century and the dawn of the era, including three works for solo instrument, October 25-30, 2024, at four Southern California venues.

The performances are Friday, October 25, 7:00 pm, at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West; Sunday, October 27, 3:00 pm, at Thousand Oaks’ Janet and Ray Scherr Forum; Tuesday, October 29, 7:30 pm, at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall in San Marino; and Thursday, October 30, 8:00 pm, at Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles.

The program opens with Sooyun Kim, “a rare virtuoso of the flute” (Libération) performing Kazuo Fukushima’s mysterious Mei for Solo Flute written in 1962 by the self-taught Japanese composer.

Shifting back in time to 1896, Rachmaninoff’s Moments musicaux, Op. 16, a set of deeply expressive solo piano pieces, showcases celebrated Principal Piano Irina Zahharenkova, heralded for her “impressive…musical colour” (Bachtrack).

The final solo work, Stravinsky’s 1918 jazz- and ragtime-inspired tour-de-force Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet, is interpreted by Camerata Pacifica Principal Clarinet Jose Franch-Ballester, a captivating performer of “poetic eloquence” (The New York Sun).

Schoenberg’s 1906 landmark Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9, arranged by his student Anton Webern between 1922 and 1923, caps the program with the three solo artists joined by Alena Hove, a rising violinist applauded for her “rich, smooth tone” (CityArts), and Principal Cellist Ani Aznavoorian, whose “scorchingly committed performances…wring every last drop of emotion out of the music” (The Strad).

Join the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics for the next exciting installment in the KITP Public Lecture series featuring Manu Prakash (Stanford).

Recreational mathematics involves mathematical puzzles and games, often appealing to children and untrained adults, inspiring their further study of the subject. Can a similar analogy be drawn in biology? Without making any claims of usefulness, we will explore a wide range of puzzles and paradoxes from the living world: Can single cells be toroidal in nature? What would an animal from Flatland look like? Can cells “literally” talk to each other? Can single cells think? Can cells act as a mason and build out of rocks? Finally, we will discuss and share initiatives to democratize science and highlight the role of curiosity and observation in exploring the microscopic world.

Reception at 5PM, talk at 6PM

Please RSVP: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/mprakash24

Parking will be provided in UCSB Lot 10.

THRILLER 2024
Saturday, October 26th
Costume Dance Party 2:00pm / Thriller Performance 3:00pm
Practices begin September 21st
Wednesdays 6:00pm, Oak Park Stage
Saturdays 9:45am, Beach (Chase Palm Park Soccer Field)


Every year, World Dance for Humanity hosts Santa Barbara’s Thriller event, a FREE family-friendly dance party and performance. It's part of “Thrill the World,” a global event that happens each year on the Saturday before Halloween. On that day, about 100 dancing Zombies will rise up at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, casting away inhibitions to create a SPOOKTACULAR community experience! All ages and abilities welcome!


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

Get ready for World Dance for Humanity's big THRILLER event on Oct 26! Practices run Saturdays 9:45AM at Chase Palm Park Beachfront on Cabrillo Blvd, and Wednesdays 6PM at Oak Park Stage. No dance experience needed. Register online or in class. www.worlddanceforhumanity.org/thriller

Are you a watcher? Do you sit at your booth, knowing exactly what’s up with the patrons at the other tables? Better than TV! He’s about to propose. She wants a divorce. Those two are on their first date. Those other two are re-kindling an old romance. That one’s getting fired. Just once, wouldn’t you like to know if you’re right? Now, you can. Set against the backdrop of your most favorite Indian restaurant,
immerse yourself in the world of "Heera," where the flavors of India and the spice of life come together in an unforgettable evening of theatre.

Admission includes post-show wine and dessert reception with the cast.

Crafted and performed through the ShortBurst Theatre® process by Theatre R.A.W. members Simge Alak, Victoria Bemis, Marty Cohen, Caitlin Crowley, Tori Doms, Bob Hucul, Linda Kohn, Emily Morgan, Emma Rosignol, Warren Sata, Theda Weston and Playhouse Associate Director of Adult Education Berkeley Sanjay. Written by Evelyn Rudie, directed by Playhouse Co-Artistic Director Chris DeCarlo.

ShortBurst Theatre® is a collaboration in which professional artists, tyro performers and members of the community at large pool their resources, their time, and their concerns, to create theatre that is relevant on a personal, local and global level, and do it all in a very short span of time, hence the name.

Over the past 36 years, ShortBurst Theatre® has created 50+ collaborative productions locally, nationally and with companies from 11 countries, many that have later become main stage and touring productions, fostering cultural exchange and understanding and making a tangible difference across the city and around the world. “The performances and collaborations are excellent and very educative. Their work is brilliant!” Fusami Sugimine, Director Global Project, International Human Network, Japan.

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

Join the Santa Barbara Chamber Players on October 12th at 7:30pm at the First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu Street, for an amazing concert with Béla Bartók Romanian Dances, Grace Fisher Waltzing with the Waves and A Critter Fable, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’. Tickets are $20 with K-12 free at https://sbchamberplayers.org/.

A Deeper Love offers an artistic examination into some of the ocean’s most vibrant, ecologically productive, and fragile landscapes, worldwide. “While it may be easy for most people to walk outside and appreciate nature in the hills, forests, or meadows where they live, it is much harder to visit a coral reef fifty feet below the surface of the ocean at the edge of civilization,” state Nansi and David. “By sharing what we’ve seen, what we’ve learned, and what has inspired us, we hope to make the world’s coral reefs a little more present in the hearts and minds of our community. We humans protect what we love. We hope this show will help us all fall in love a little more with the beauty of our coral reefs.”

In addition to the intrinsic beauty of coral reefs and the equally breathtaking underwater communities that they support, it is important to note that coral reefs also have a powerful impact on human existence as well. In fact, it is estimated that up to one billion people currently rely on tropical coral reefs as their primary or sole source of food and income. Many of these reef-reliant peoples are among the world’s poorest, and suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate degradation primarily inflicted by industrialized nations. Already, rising sea levels and intensified hurricanes have dramatically reduced or even eliminated the inhabitable land of some island nations. For the sake of all life on our blue planet, it is clear that we must better know, love, and steward coral reefs and other seascapes.

Artists Nansi Bielanski Gallup and David Gallup are motivated by these challenges, working collaboratively and individually as artists to highlight the beauty and importance of coral reefs and their need for protection.

About the Artists:

Nansi Bielanski Gallup holds a Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Loyola Marymount University. Before becoming a professional artist, she was a television director and producer of many award-winning television commercials. She lived in Budapest, Hungary for three years, producing over one hundred commercials and several documentaries. In 2003, she left television to dedicate herself full-time to sculpting and painting. Nansi was selected to be Artist in Residence at the Carnegie Art Museum in 2016 and held a solo exhibition there in 2017.


David Gallup is a graduate of the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design. In his early career, he was the Chief Studio Assistant for pop art legend Hiro Yamagata, supervising a staff of 30 artists on the "Earthly Paradise" project. Gallup then spent 15 years as Vice President of the California Art Club, and has had three solo museum exhibitions; "California's Channel Islands" at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Malibu, "Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary" at the Aquarium of the Pacific, and "Beneath the Surface" at the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard. In 2018 he realized his dream of marrying Nansi.

Deepening the shared vision, both artists find their greatest inspiration in scuba diving. The coral reefs of our planet sustain us all, and they are as imperiled as they are beautiful. Bielanski and Gallup continue to travel the globe to observe life beneath the surface and have recently purchased a small island in the Coral Sea which they use as a second studio. Their personal observations of the reef system have demonstrated the validity of the concerned voices of ecologists and marine biologists. We (humans) save what we love, and love what we understand. For this reason, the couple have chosen to dedicate their art to furthering the public's love and understanding of our oceans and coral reef systems.