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Everyone has a story to tell. Explore ways to tell yours in this workshop hosted by the extraordinary MOTH storyteller Michael David Ker.

You’ll learn simple structure and the best elements to include in your story in this fun, creative and supportive atmosphere.

All experience levels encouraged!

Valley Watercolor Society, one of the largest art organizations in our area, will hold its annual exhibit of members' paintings at the TO Art Gallery located next to the library on Borchard Road. There will be a reception open to all on Sunday March 8 from 3 to 6 PM.

The Fermentation House will host an intimate evening of live music on Friday, March 13, from 6:00–9:00 PM, featuring Southern California artists Dwight Knight and Jayden Secor. The show brings together two distinctive voices in roots-driven and country-rock music for a special night of songwriting, storytelling, and high-energy performance.

Jayden Secor is a country rock artist from Ventura County who delivers a sound that blends modern country with classic southern rock, psychedelic jam, and ’90s grunge influences. As of 2026, Secor has continued to write and grow his extensive catalogue of music while touring regularly with his band across the United States.

Sharing the bill is Dwight Knight, a true rock ’n’ roll raconteur and multi-instrumentalist known for his time with Spitoon, an innovative hick-hop band that shared members with acts such as Heart, Puddle of Mudd, and The Knack. Hailing from Rubidoux, California, Knight’s music is rooted in vivid storytelling that captures life, love, and loss—often delivered with a twang, a grin, and a touch of country flair.

This performance holds special significance as Knight is a former resident of Santa Paula, making the show a homecoming of sorts. After an 18-year hiatus from live performance, he has returned to the Southern California music scene, working on his upcoming record Rust Belt and reconnecting with audiences through intimate venues, coffee houses, and songwriter rounds.

This also marks the first time both artists will appear live in Santa Paula, making the evening a special debut for each in the city. Set against the warm, rustic backdrop of the Fermentation House, the evening promises a compelling blend of seasoned storytelling and emerging country-rock energy.

On the occasion of her first comprehensive museum survey show, please join Vietnamese American artist and UCSB Alumna Tiffany Chung for an intimate artist talk followed by a moderated Q&A session with AD&A Museum Director, Gabriel Ritter. Chung will discuss the overarching themes and evolution of her artistic practice over the past 25, as well as the process and inspiration behind her site-specific, immersive sound and video installation, Spheres of Time (2026), exclusively on view at UCSB’s AlloSphere.

Tiffany Chung is an interdisciplinary artist globally recognized for her research-driven practice exploring the intersections of history, culture, and geography on both local and global scales. Working across diverse media—including cartography, embroidery, painting, photography, sculpture, video, text, and music—her projects trace shifts in cultural, geopolitical, and natural landscapes shaped by the upheavals of war, displacement, disaster, and global trade.

World Math Day runs for 48 hours, starting on March 25 in Australia and on March 24 in most U.S. locations (due to time differences). It is the world’s largest online math competition, an international celebration of mathematics where 10 million students have answered more than 1 Billion questions. World Math Day is FREE for all and is hosted on the Mathletics platform. All registrants have free access to Mathletics starting on March 12: https://www.3plearning.com/world-Math-day. The 2026 theme, United by Numbers, celebrates the belief that everyone can learn and excel at mathematics when given the right support. Teachers and students need not be Mathletics users to participate.

Discover your strengths, clarify your goals, and plan your future. Take the next step with confidence. Start planning your path today!

This two-session workshop focuses on the assessment of your strengths, interests, values, personality and abilities in the context of career and education planning Improve decision-making skills by exploring your own decision-making styles and applying specific models to the career planning process.

Personalized Career Planning takes place on Tuesday, February 20 & February 27, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Course number (CRN): 52331
Date: Tuesday, February 20 & February 27
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Format: In-Person
Location: Wake Campus at 300 N Turnpike Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111
Class cost: Free, registration required
Contact: Register online at https://sel.sbcc.edu

SELAdmissions@sbcc.edu

For help with registration, visit Schott or Wake Campus Welcome Centers during walk-in hours, or call (805) 683-8201. For hours and more resources, go to sbcc.edu/extendedlearning/get-help.php


SBCC School of Extended Learning’s Career Skills Institute
Boost your career with SBCC School of Extended Learning’s Career Skills Institute courses. Our courses are designed to help you land a job, get promoted, or build your business. Earn a certificate and digital badge to prove your skills and stand out to employers. Ready to sharpen your negotiation skills or build a foundation in computer or design skills? SBCC Career Skills Institute offers the courses and certificates you need to stay competitive and confident in today’s job market. Save the Date: April 29, THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT Job Fair. Find out more at https://www.sbcc.edu/extendedlearning/job_fair.php

Green & Blue: A Coastal Celebration, is our biggest fundraiser of the year, taking place in the beautiful gardens at Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta, CA. Each year, this event brings together more than 500 guests from across the tri-county region. At Green & Blue we celebrate the many accomplishments this organization has achieved over our years and help raise critical funds to ensure EDC remains strong to protect this region for those who love it now and those who will follow in our footsteps. Guests enjoy gourmet food, local wine and beer, lively auctions, and the presentation of the 2026 Environmental Hero Award. Past awardees include actress Jane Fonda, musician Jack Johnson, and Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, who are locally rooted, internationally recognized environmentalists.

Camerata Pacifica Principal Pianist Gilles Vonsattel takes centerstage, once again, for his second solo recital in three weeks in conjunction with “Beethoven 32,” on Friday, April 10, 7:00 pm, at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West, and Sunday, April 12, 2026, 8:00 pm, at Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles. “Beethoven 32” is the chamber music collective’s three-year Beethoven cycle featuring Vonsattel on all 32 of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas.

Vonsattel opens the recital with Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3, an often-overlooked gem filled with emotional exploration. He also performs Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, Op. 78, “à Thérèse,” one of the composer’s own favorite sonatas, and the divine and mysterious Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101.

Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel boasts remarkable versatility and artistic originality. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2016 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and top prizes in the Naumburg and Geneva competitions, he has graced prestigious stages worldwide, enthralling audiences with recitals and chamber performances, and collaborating with renowned orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic and the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco symphonies. As a champion of new music, he has premiered compositions by celebrated composers such as Jörg Widmann, Heinz Holliger, Anthony Cheung, and George Benjamin. He is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program and has earned degrees from Columbia University and the Juilliard School. Today, Vonsattel shares his passion for music as a Professor of Piano at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

For tickets ($35/$75) and information, visit www.cameratapacifica.org.

“GO! You won’t be sorry!” Backstage.

“Enchanting!” Daily Variety

100 reviews! 100 raves! It’s the 50th anniversary production of the joyous, hilarious, touching, and ever-popular classic musical comedy, the longest-running Jewish musical in LA theatre history (4 ½ years in its initial run)! The glorious numbers, poignant moments and delightful humor will have you laughing, crying, tapping your toes and celebrating life like never before. “The best and funniest theatre production in LA!” hails Century City News of the show that put musicals into the LA intimate theatre arena, back to celebrate Sholom Aleichem’s 110th yahrzeit.

“You’ll discover, through the whimsical wit of Sholom Aleichem and the skill of Chris DeCarlo, why the play enjoyed such a long run. It’s a great evening!” Valley Life

A brilliant team of artists present an unrivaled musical comedy classic inviting audiences of all ages to celebrate the humor and pathos of Sholom Aleichem’s world.

“A sparkling introduction to a new generation of theater enthusiasts to the patina-covered world of their brethren on both sides of the ocean, to a world that is no more and will never return.” B’nai B’rith Messenger)

Chris DeCarlo reprises his award-winning portrayal of the world’s most beloved Yiddish author. Joining DeCarlo is original cast member Evelyn Rudie, with Actors’ Repertory Theatre (ART) members Celeste Akiki, Shravana Karthekiyan, J. T.Melaragno and Michala Peltz.

“Chris DeCarlo portrays the Yiddish story teller with such warmth and humor that one actually thinks he is Sholom Aleichem.” HA’AM

The production is helmed by long-time ART director Arthur R. Tompkins, with authentically detailed costumes by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes and lilting tunes by the acclaimed team of Evelyn Rudie and renowned composer Ben Weisman (57 gold albums).

“I thank you for bringing him so beautifully back To Life,” Aleichem’s second cousin, Lillian Aderman Moller

Sholom Aleichem’s tales are so timeless and universal that they have transcended over 100 years of social and cultural change, and become more appealing to audiences and readers with each coming year.

“AUTHOR! AUTHOR! is an unmitigated delight. It is joyous entertainment…It warms the audience and sends them out feeling better than when they went in.” The Picadilly

Author! Author! had its world premiere at Santa Monica Playhouse in 1976 and played for 4 ½ years in its initial run. Actors’ Repertory Theatre has reprised the show every year since then. 2026 marks the show’s 50th anniversary production.

Author! Author! is also available for private temple and weekday school performances. For details, call 1-310-394-9779,

Friends of the Buellton Library present their Inaugural Santa Ynez Valley Community Art Showcase with a Wine & Cheese Artist reception.

Featuring local artists from the Santa Ynez Valley:
Susan Belloni, Laura Scandalis Cross, Ginny Speirs & Sherry Uyeda

The art exhibit will be on display the ENTIRE MONTH OF MARCH available for viewing during regular Friends of the Buellton Library hours with a special Wine & Cheese Artist Reception event on Saturday, March 7th from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. The event is Free! Everyone is welcome!

Located in the Friends Room at the Buellton Public Library at 202 Dairyland Rd, Buellton.
The Friends’ Room regular store open hours are: Mon. 10-Noon, Tue. 2-4pm,. Sat. 11-1pm.

All art is for display only. Contact information of the artists will be available.

For questions email: FriendsOfTheBuelltonLibrary202@gmail.com or Visit: FOBLbuellton.org

The Friends of the Buellton Library is a non-profit organization. Our mission is to raise money and public awareness in the community to support the services and programs of the library. Visit the website for more info and additional upcoming events.