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Accessorize your dollhouse or diorama with EE Makerspace Coordinator Andrew Baker. Use a curated selection of beads, trims, and other tiny treasures to create 1:12 scale lamps, side tables, and seating. Open to ages 13+.

All materials and tools are included.

Pricing:
General: $40
Student/Educator: $35

Spots are limited. Reserve yours today!

Join guest artist Karen Schroeder in the EE Makerspace to explore the magical, dimensional world of tunnel books. Also called “telescopic books.” a tunnel book creates a three dimensional depth illusion when viewed from a single point, like looking through a peephole. When the book is pulled open, a miniature scene or landscape is revealed.

For ages 13+. All materials and tools are included.

Pricing:
General: $40
Student/Educator: $35

Spots are limited. Reserve your seat today!

Turn up the spookiness just in time for Halloween! Join EE Makerspace Coordinator Andrew Baker for our Mixed Media Ghost Stories Workshop and craft your own eerily illuminated ghost story using weird and wonderful vintage finds. All materials and tools are included. For ages 13+.

Pricing: General $25 | Student/Educator $20
Spots are limited. Reserve your seat today!

Don’t miss this chance to craft something spooky, magical, and completely unique!

Santa Barbara Friends Meeting Invites Community to Celebrate World Quaker Day

Santa Barbara, CA — September 22, 2025 — Santa Barbara Friends Meeting (Quakers) welcomes the community to join them in celebrating World Quaker Day on Sunday, October 5, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. at the Friends Meetinghouse, 2012 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara.
World Quaker Day is an annual event when Quakers around the globe open their doors to neighbors and friends. Quaker worship is simple: a gathering in silence, with no clergy or ritual, where anyone may speak if moved by the Spirit.
Quakers believe there is “that of God” in every person and seek to live out values of peace, equality, integrity, simplicity, community, and care for the earth.
There are about 400,000 Quakers worldwide, including 75,000 in the United States. The Santa Barbara Meeting is a small group that gather weekly for worship and fellowship.
“All are welcome,” said a member of the Meeting. “You don’t need to be a Quaker to attend—just bring yourself and a willingness to share in a time of peace and reflection.”
For more information, please contact Phoenix Hocking (landline: 805-318-1526)
Website: https://www.sbfriends.org/

The Simi Valley Mandir Hindu Temple is hosting this year’s Feast of Faiths. This will be our 1st vegetarian dinner in the finest Indian Cuisine since our annual Feast of Faiths began 2006... First we’re seated at round tables of 8 to 10 people. Then officials from various religions give a blessing and offer some encouraging comments. Then we dine with new friends as we learn from each other and teach each other about our beliefs.

The Mandir Temple asks for modest dress: shoulders and knees should be covered. The Ventura County Interfaith Community [VCIC], who sponsors this event, asks that you not proselytize your religion.

VCIC asks you to please buy your tickets on or before Sunday, September 28 so we can plan on the right amount of food. Presale: $30 General Admission, $15 Students. At the door: $35 and $20

“Mine for the Tribe” is a sermon (I know, no running away yet). Written and performed by Chris Smith, this one person show focuses on mental health in the arts. By following Chris’ journey through growing up on a ranch, attending theater school, being a television producer in LA, leaving LA because of his one-eyed rescue pup and then watching his world crumble as two important women in his life died (one an artist that never faced her demons), he drives home the point that we need to take better care of ourselves and each other to keep creating. Set up in chapters, some are Chris playing cultural avatars from his life phases, interspersed with “book reports” on the ideas that made him know he was an artist and that his brain ain’t like the average person’s (ideas that, as the show points out, make artists go “Fuck, yeah, that!”). Once the greatest tragedy in his life happens, he realizes that once you heal yourself, the mission is to help the other artists around you, so we don’t lose any more. Armed with only a stack of four books and a few easy to add costumes and props, Chris jumps between clowning, character work, intense need to devour interesting ideas and find the honest problem within to help others.

ABOUT CHRIS SMITH
Chris Smith is a country boy who reads philosophy and writes plays. He grew up on a cattle ranch, found theater, went to LA, became a producer for film and TV and then returned to the ranch. These days he’s writing and annoying cattle. As a writer, and due to events that shaped him in this solo show, he’s focusing on two areas that matter to him “Mental Health in the Arts” and “Building Better Men”. After years of acting, writing, directing, producing, designing and other film and theater stuff, he wants to help his fellow artists.

Camerata Pacifica presents landmark works for solo piano by Beethoven and Chopin as well as a Mozart tour de force for woodwinds and horn on a milestone program that launches “Beethoven 32,” a momentous three-year cycle featuring Principal Pianist Gilles Vonsattel on all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas in a hybrid blend of solo recitals and chamber programs. Setting the tone for this significant project, Vonsattel performs Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier,” considered among the most demanding and monumental pieces in the solo piano repertoire.

A counterweight to the titanic “Hammerklavier” is Mozart’s Wind Serenade in E-flat Major, K.375, at once ceremonial, seductive, and witty, offering striking aural and emotional contrast to the Beethoven. It features oboists Nicholas Daniel and Claire Brazeau; clarinetists Jose Franch-Ballester and Pascal Archer; bassoonists Eleni Katz and William Wood; and Melia Badalian, horn.

To close the program, Vonsattel, “a pianist well worth watching” (The New York Times), plays Chopin’s Nocturne No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 37, No. 1.

Presented at four Southern California locations, the performances are Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 pm, at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall in San Marino; Wednesday, October 29, 7:00 pm, at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West; Thursday, October 30, 8:00 pm, at Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles; and Sunday, November 2, 2025, 3:00 pm, at Thousand Oaks’ Janet and Ray Scherr Forum.

For tickets ($75 at The Huntington, Music Academy of the West, and Zipper Hall; $94.40, including fees, at Janet and Ray Scherr Forum) and information, visit www.cameratapacifica.org.

Me, Myself, and Other is a sharp, funny, and unexpectedly moving solo performance about identity, disability, and the messy middle between who you were told to be and who you actually are.

A first-gen American grappling with the feeling of being “othered” throughout her life is forced to confront and embrace her true identity after a life-altering diagnosis. Humorous, heartfelt, and unflinchingly honest, this show takes one on a timely and poignant journey through cultural contradictions, societal expectations, and the resilience it takes to rewrite your own narrative.

The B-sides are a local band based out of Ojai California consisting of four lifelong long childhood friends. Beckett McDowell (Vocals), Cosmo Penny (bass guitar), Dylan Petrucci (drums), and Lucca Kun (Guitar) have been playing music with each other since they were 12 years old. With influences from the Beatles to Frank Sinatra, from Al Green to Green Day and everywhere in between, these friends have created a unique sound that blends traditional music with a modern twist! Be sure to see them because they will take you on a music journey of original material that will open new horizons and push genres!

Come play, explore, and connect with the natural world alongside the staff and friends of Wilderness Youth and enjoy hands-on activities and creative outdoor fun for the whole family including nature crafts, earth-based skills, and other interactive activities led by Wilderness Youth Project staff and other local community partners, like Yes Yes Nursery, who will be leading a seed planting activity.

This year’s Nature Play Day features a special collaboration with GRAMMY Award-winning musical group, the Alphabet Rockers, who will guide attendees in a collective songwriting experience to find your voice in nature through music and expression.