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Rescue Roundup 2026

Annual fundraiser benefiting Santa Barbara County’s all-volunteer Search & Rescue team

Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026
Time: 6–10 p.m.
Location: Santa Barbara Carriage Museum
Tickets: $250
Tickets & Information: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/rescue-roundup--2026

Join the Santa Barbara Search & Rescue Foundation for Rescue Roundup 2026, an annual community celebration and fundraiser supporting Santa Barbara County Search & Rescue. The evening will feature dinner and drinks, live music, an auction, and rescue demonstrations offering a firsthand look at how Search & Rescue volunteers prepare for and respond to emergencies in the field.

About Santa Barbara County Search & Rescue
Santa Barbara County Search & Rescue is an all-volunteer team of more than 40 highly trained responders serving communities across the county 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In 2025, the team responded to 121 incidents, from lost and injured hikers to technical rescues, searches for vulnerable individuals, helicopter-assisted operations, and wildfire and disaster response.

Event Details
Proceeds from Rescue Roundup support the training, equipment, technology, and operational resources needed to keep Search & Rescue volunteers ready to respond. Tickets are $250, and sponsorship opportunities are available. Space is limited.

The harp has a reputation for behaving politely. Máire Ní Chathasaigh has spent a career putting fire back into it. Máire joins guitarist Chris Newman at Namba Performing Arts Space for an evening of breathtaking acoustic music rooted in Irish tradition but far too curious to stay there. 47 South Oak Street, Historic Downtown Ventura, CA. Tickets are $20 online at NambaArts.com; $25 at the door.

“In a class of their own.” — The Guardian.

Grab your glow gear and dress your spookiest — it's time for Santa Barbara County's most electrifying nighttime 5K! This glow-in-the-dark bash is fun for the whole family... furry members included! Dogs & cats and other critters welcome. We'll be joined by special guests Shorty Rossi, Star of Animal Planet’s “Pit Boss” and Suzan Vaughn, Animal Communication Specialist!

4:00 – 5:45 PM — Pre-Party at Blast 825 Brewery Stockyard: vendor booths, silent auction, food, music, a costume contest and Halloween themed fun
6:00 PM — 5K Glow Run/Walk kicks off through Downtown Orcutt.
Until 8:00 PM — After-party fun continues at Blast 825 Brewery Stockyard!

Every step you take helps fund emergency vet care, shelter programs, and youth education for the animals of Santa Barbara County Animal Services and beyond!

The family, friends, fellow veterans and community members are invited to gather at Santa Barbara Cemetery to honor the life and legacy of decorated World War II veteran Arthur Max Petersen, a longtime Santa Barbara resident and member of the 101st Airborne Division.

The graveside ceremony will include a military burial and memorial honoring Petersen, who served in major World War II campaigns including D-Day, the Battle of Carentan, Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. He received two Purple Hearts and was awarded France's Legion of Honor Medal in 2015.

The ceremony will include a military funeral flag-folding ceremony conducted by members of the 101st Airborne Division, along with music, military honors and a T-34 squadron flyover featuring four passes and a missing man formation.

Featured Participants:
Lt. John Blankenship, USN, officiant
David Gonzales, vocalist
Jerry Gray, military chaplain
David Munoz
Howard Hudson, Taps
Deacon
Bill Boetticher, bagpiper

Admission:
Free / Open to the public

Website / More Information:
Pierre Claeyssens Veteran Foundation — www.pcvf.org

This solo, a deeply autobiographical journey, traces the artist’s childhood shaped by military circus training and joining Cirque du Soleil at nine. This is a story about the journey from obedience to owning one's own body and voice. Winner of Namba Performing Arts Space's 2026 SPLASH Award, Body As An Archive is showing at 8 pm on Friday, October 16th at NAMBA. The show opens with a nine-year-old girl making her premiere with Cirque du Soleil before tracing backward to a four-year-old child mesmerized by a contortion act at her uncle’s wedding, the moment that pulled her into a brutal military-style circus system. Training becomes both home and battlefield, where discipline is shaped through repetition, pain, and control. Part confession, part endurance ritual, the piece moves from obedience and survival toward the reclaiming of the body, the voice, and ultimately, her own artistry. Tickets are $20 online at NambaArts.com or $25 at the door at 47 So Oak St. Ventura.

Vista: Selections from SLOMA’s Permanent Collection is an exhibition that looks back with gratitude and forward with hope. Taking up both the Nybak Gallery and the Gray Wing, SLOMA presents a selection of works from its Permanent Collection — works that have been entrusted to this institution’s care by local collectors, artists and their families who believed in the vital importance of the arts on the Central Coast. It is an important moment: the last exhibition of its kind in our current home at 1010 Broad Street before SLOMA expands into its new home on Higuera Street, opening in summer 2027. 1010 Broad will continue to be an important part of SLOMA’s identity, as it will take on new life centered on education and community collaboration. Vista is an opportunity to pause here, in these rooms, and celebrate the artists and individuals whose work and dedication have shaped this place across decades.

SLOMA traces its origins to the San Luis Obispo Art Association, founded in the 1950s. The Permanent Collection was conceived by longtime volunteer curator Arne Nybak — a staunch supporter of the visual arts and of this region’s artists since the early days of the Art Center in the 1960s and 1970s. The Board of Directors established the collection in 1998 as a testament to the artistic richness of the Central Coast and to honor Nybak’s decades of service. The artists represented here were dedicated to their practices, to the landscape around them, and to enduring traditions of plein air painting, figure drawing, and working from life. This exhibition is an homage to them and their creative vision.

Join us at the Gatehouse at Bien Nacido in Santa Maria for a pawsitively inspiring gathering! Enjoy wonderful wine, live music by Brody Wink and delicious food from Danny’s Pizza food truck. Visit with our team to learn about C.A.R.E.4Paws’ work to improve pet family welfare on the Central Coast. Our friendraiser is free to attend, and well-behaved, leashed dogs are welcome to join the fun. Plus, Bien Nacido will donate 10% of all sales from Friday, October 23 through Sunday, October 25 to C.A.R.E.4Paws, so you can support pets and their people simply by stopping by anytime over the weekend!

Cerisa House Wesley was the first African American born in the City of Ventura. The year was 1898. And this was the first documented birth at least. Her life is remarkable not just because of her historic birth, but because despite her being a qualified nurse she was never allowed to use her skills in a hospital setting because of the color of her skin. This is the story of a Black nurse no hospital would hire.

There are over two million undocumented people living in California. No matter your opinion on illegal immigration, industries like agriculture have a demand for these workers. They’re here. Working and living. In this episode of The One Oh One, we wanted to give you a glimpse into the lives of the undocumented and specifically those that have been 'without papers' a really long time. We're talking decades.

Once upon a time there was a clam, a butterfly and a fox. They all called the central California Coast their home. They lived happily among trees, on mostly uninhabited islands and hidden under the sand on the beach.But then they all almost disappeared. Why? Some because of human activity – for others, who knows.But this tale does have a happy ending because all these creatures are coming back… some, really quickly.On this episode of The One Oh One – the Pismo Beach Clam, the Monarch Butterfly and the Channel Islands Fox... a comeback story.