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The Simi Valley Family YMCA will host its annual Breakfast With Santa on Saturday, December 7, featuring a fresh-cooked breakfast, hot cocoa, photos with Santa, a snow play area and holiday crafts. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Families can then select a newly-arrived Christmas tree at the YMCA’s Christmas tree lot operated by the Simi Valley Y’s Men’s Club.

The breakfast costs $20 for YMCA members and $25 for nonmembers, with children 3 and under admitted free. Advance registration is required at www.sevymca.org/breakfast-santa.

The YMCA’s tree lot will have about 750 Noble, Douglas and Nordmann fir trees from 3' to 9' tall. The trees are grown in Oregon, harvested, and then packed in ice for their trip south to the Y. Once they arrive, they are unloaded by LDS Church volunteers, given a fresh cut at the base, put in water and set out for display. Y’s Men’s Club members and volunteers staff the tree lot. Trees go on sale December 6.

Proceeds from tree sales go to organizations in the community, underserved families and YMCA programs. Christmas tree lot hours are 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

The tree lot and Breakfast with Santa are at the Simi Valley Family YMCA (3200 Cochran St., corner of Galena Ave. and Cochran St.). For breakfast sponsorship opportunities, contact Dani Hutchison at dhutchison@sevymca.org.

Join the Goleta Valley Historical Society for our free First Sunday Concert as we once again welcome The Chaps to the Stow House lawn!

The Chaps play crowd-pleasing swing, bluegrass, folk, and rock & roll originals plus your favorites from the 1930's to today. Bring a blanket, pack a picnic, and enjoy a super Sunday afternoon. We'll see you soon!

It's that time of year again! Join the Goleta Valley Historical Society for our annual Holiday at the Ranch! Meet Santa and his rein-goats, enjoy festive holiday music, and tour the Stow House halls decked out in delightful decorations! There will be children's crafts, tractor rides, a local artisans market, and food trucks too!


We can't wait to celebrate the Ho-Ho-Holidays with you!

Friday December 6
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Saturday December 7
11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday December 8
12 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Enjoy unique gift shopping this holiday season for your family and friends while browsing through 40 professional artists studios and additional guest vendors! There will be free activities for kids, delicious food and treats available for purchase, and craft beer and wine. Free admission and plenty of free parking.

As our community continues to recover from the Mountain Fire, we want to provide a space and more opportunities to get some temporary reprieve through art and creation.

In the days leading up to our Holiday Art Market, we will be hosting free-to-attend events in the gallery, including activities within the fields of music, visual art and literature.

This programming is kindly being put together with the help of world-class artists who wish to support the community and respond to adversity through their various forms of creativity. Everyone is invited to join us in the gallery, as these events have been designed for a general audience with no prior experience necessary. Come along to learn, explore your own creativity or just hang out with like-minded members of the community.

If you would like to show appreciation for these programs and help support Mountain Fire relief efforts, please consider making a donation to the VCCF Ventura County Wildfire Relief & Recovery Fund.

SBCC School of Extended Learning Presents
The 2024 Arts & Crafts Fair

Saturday, Dec. 7
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
SBCC Wake Campus, 300 N. Turnpike Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93111

Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, more than 50 arts and crafts faculty and students from the SBCC School of Extended Learning will be selling their wares at Wake Campus from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7. Community members are encouraged to stop by and view and/or purchase one-of-a-kind works including Fine Arts, Paintings, Ceramics, Jewelry, Weaving, Sewing & Fabric Arts, Cards and Art Glass— crafted by their very own friends and neighbors.

SBCC's Wake Campus (front patio)
300 N. Turnpike Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93111
Free parking on all Wake Campus lots

Areté Symphonic Choir presents the Christmas portion of G.F.Handel’s timeless classic Messiah. Dr. Wyant Morton, Professor of Music at California Lutheran University, conducts.

“It is an honor to conduct one of the best-loved and best-known works of Handel,” says Dr. Morton. “Filled with joyous refrains and exultant arias, including the iconic “Hallelujah” Chorus, it is an exultant music tradition of the Christmas season.”

The concert is on Sunday, December 15, 2024, at 2:00 P.M. in Samuelson Chapel, California Lutheran University, 165 Chapel Lane, Thousand Oaks. $20 advance purchase tickets are available online at aretevocalensemble.org and $25 at the door.

Upcoming performances: Areté Vocal Ensemble Sings the Best of Broadway, Sunday, April 13, 2025, 2:00 PM, Samuelson Chapel. Dr. Morton will conduct.

For more information: aretevocalensemble.org

The Show includes: Exhibits featuring minerals, fossils, rocks and lapidary; Vendors of jewelry, minerals, gems and fossils; a Silent Auction with rocks, fossils and other related items; Youth Room with games for prizes and learning opportunities; a Plant sale; Demonstrators of our hobby; and an Hourly raffle for a prize.
See our Website: www.CGAMC.org

Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 10am-4pm

On October 15th the Ventura County Interfaith Community presented the first of a two part series exploring the approaches of several faith communities to the ways in which they either welcome or discourage conversions.

The second forum will take place at 7:00 PM on November 19th at the Ventura Church of Scientology (2151 Alessandro Dr, Ventura, CA 93001). The moderator for that forum will be Rabbi Michael Lotker. Presenters will include Imam Mehtar of the Islamic Center of Conejo Valley and Mayesvara and Brajarani Roberts of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. They will speak to the role of conversion in their communities as well as their practices for welcoming converts into the community. Also speaking will be Hariharan Pothulu who will add an important additional perspective – that of the impact of conversion in the Hindu community both here and abroad.

These forums are presented free of charge and open to all, so please spread the word to friends and family who might find them interesting.

We hope to see you on November 19th!

"Debra Ehrhardt possesses a rare ability to mesmerize!" Washington Post

Debra Ehrhardt of Jamaica, Farewell fame is back, with acclaimed performer Christopher Grossett and iconic Hall of Famer Paul Williams as director.

A true story about the importance of forgiveness and the power of vulnerability, because running away from something is not being free. in Look What Fell Out de Mango Tree, Debra uncovers a long-held secret that unlocks her ability to forgive and transforms her relationship with men. Expect to leave the theatre energized with the reaffirmation that vulnerability can be transformed into strength, frown into laughter, and sadness into joy. Starring Debra Ehrhardt and Christopher Grossett (Last Life, A Raisin in the Sun – Syracuse Stage; A Wrinkle in Time – Lincoln Center), directed by Hall of Fame Songwriter/Grammy-Award Winner Paul Williams, this delicious new play is written by Ehrhardt.

Last performance of the year – Sunday, November 10 at 4:00pm.

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 We Are Santa Monica Fund, and Playhouse PALS.