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Giddy up for the Canine Adoption and Rescue League’s (C.A.R.L.) 25th Annual Pooch Parade!

Held at scenic Ventura Harbor Village, C.A.R.L. will host the Parade on Sunday, August
24, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1583 Spinnaker Drive, in Ventura. This year’s theme is “Rescue Roundup,” so you and your furry best friend can “slick up” in bandanas, cowboy hats, and western gear. Help support C.A.R.L.’s mission, meet some of its adoptable rescue dogs, and enjoy a “biggity” day filled with vendor booths and canine-centered activities.

Visit the C.A.R.L. Pooch Parade website at poochparade.org for updates about the roundup. Want to be an event sponsor or vendor? Contact Sheila at CARLvolunteer@gmail.com or Claudia at claudiahoste@gmail.com.

Join the Environmental Defense Center on June 8th, 2025, for Green & Blue: A Coastal Celebration! Taking place from 2:00-5:30 PM in the beautiful gardens at Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta, CA, EDC’s biggest fundraiser of the year brings together around 500 guests from across the tri-county region. Green & Blue will have a silent auction packed with unique items, an exciting live auction, food by Duo Catering, and local wine and beer. The event will conclude with a short program to honor EDC’s 2025 Environmental Hero. Various sponsorship opportunities are available as well as individual tickets with a sliding-scale option. Hope to see you there!
To get more info, check out our website: https://www.environmentaldefensecenter.org/gb/

Join the Environmental Defense Center team at your favorite summer community gathering, tgif! The event will be held on July 11th in the EDC Courtyard, 906 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Known as one of the best happy hours in Santa Barbara, tgif! features live music, refreshing beverages, and local food vendors. tgif! is a great gathering of regional nonprofit and environmental organizations, elected officials, and good people from throughout the South Central Coast. Hope to see you there!
For tickets, season passes, or to volunteer, check out our website: https://www.environmentaldefensecenter.org/tgif/

Join us in celebration of Donna Lynn Caskey’s third album, Tiny Victories. Her first studio release in over eight years, the album highlights Donna Lynn’s deft, clawhammer-style 5-string banjo playing, pure folk vocals, and skillful songwriting. Sometimes factual, sometimes fictional, always true, her writing moves audiences to laughter and tears- sometimes within the span of one song! You’ll go home singing catchy melodies and choruses you’ll be glad to have stuck in your head since messages of hope, encouragement, and healing prevail. Donna Lynn will share all songs from the new album as well as some favorite selections from her past two releases. Please reserve your seat today.

Donna Lynn’s previous two albums of original material, Nameless Heart (2014) and The Love Still Shows (2017), received glowing reviews and widespread airplay on folk radio. She’ll have her entire catalogue available for sale including new album Tiny Victories at the show. Please sign up for e-mail updates at her website www.donnalynncaskey.com, listen on your favorite music platform, and follow her on Instagram @dlcbanjogal and facebook.com/dlcbanjogal to learn more.
Tickets are $20 online at NambaArts.com or $25 at the door.

The Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum will offer special tours as part of the Santa Barbara Culinary Experience's "Day On the Farm," Friday, May 16, from noon to 5 p.m.

Visitors can explore the museum, including the historic Parks-Janeway Carriage House, while learning about the agricultural heritage of the Santa Ynez Valley. The event includes a tasting of Rancho Olivos olive oil in the open-air courtyard and an opportunity to sample and take home a free assortment of locally grown produce from a Babé Farms pop-up market.

Rancho Olivos farmers John Copeland and Shannon Casey, plus representatives from Babé Farms, will share stories about their farms and provide information about their agricultural and production practices.

For those interested in a more comprehensive experience, the museum will conduct "History of Agriculture" tours at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Tickets are $15 per person and can be purchased online at the Santa Barbara Culinary Experience website, https://sbce.events/day-on-the-farm. Select the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum Tour option.

Twelve wineries and six breweries that will be pouring local beer and wine for attendees. There will be music and four food stations. William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art will be open throughout the event. Everything is included in the price of admission. All proceeds go to benefit Cal Lutheran University student athletes. 

Save the date for Studio Channel Islands’s Fall Fundraiser Event: Sunday, September 21, 2025. Free RSVP for a Celebration of Creativity and Cocktails in the Garden. Or join us for Dinner in the Gallery, featuring an artfully prepared three course meal and live program, for more information please see our website.

October 1- 31 - Join us for a month-long celebration of new vegan dishes all over Santa Barbara!

For the second year in a row, businesses across the region will showcase exciting special vegan menu items for an entire month, giving everyone the opportunity to explore creative plant-based dishes crafted by talented local chefs.

How It Works:

1- Visit participating restaurants across Santa Barbara.
2- Try their exclusive vegan offerings.
3- Share your experience—rate and review the dishes you try, comment, post photos of your favorite meals, and tag us at @veganchefchallengeWest.

This event is open to everyone, not just vegans! It’s about bringing our community together to celebrate incredible food and support our region's chefs.

Get Involved: Looking for ways to connect? Volunteer with us! We’re seeking passionate individuals to help with outreach, event promotion, and community building throughout the month. It's a great way to meet like-minded people and make a difference! Volunteer using this link: TinyURL.com/VOLVCC

Join us in making Santa Barbara an even more inclusive, vibrant, and compassionate community.

For details on participating businesses, menus, sponsorship opportunities, and more, visit our website at veganchefchallenge.org/SantaBarbara.

For as long as I can recall, one of the first signs of the upcoming Holiday Season is the arrival of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum Store Holiday Preview catalog, featuring their gift cards, ornaments, and calendars, most of which come from images within their vast collection. One of the oldest museums in the United States, it was also one of the first museums in which to take advantage of their own collection to market and share their images. In this special holiday lecture, we will look at the stories behind a few of the cards in the museum collection. Ranging from a variety of themes including Classic Religious Art, Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces, Asian Art and American Art, the works chosen from the collection for Holiday Cards will give a brief overview of the history of art and the Met's collection.

This lecture is part of the FABulous Fall Lecture Series.

The Fifty and Better (FAB) program was designed for people ages 50 and older, seeking intellectual stimulation through university-level courses — without the pressure of grades — for the sake of learning and social engagement.

From mid-November to January 1st, American Radio, TV, and most retail stores are loaded with Holiday music. It's in our ears 24/7! Songs are old, some are new, and all are from different decades, genres, and styles.

In this lecture we will discover the background stories of who wrote the ""standards"" and why so many artists have recorded them. We'll visit behind the scenes of their marketing success and sometimes failure. We will relive the music not played often anymore and discuss the reasons for their holiday disappearance. Lots of music and videos will make this a nostalgic winter time romp! Come join us as we jingle and jangle our way down Santa Claus Lane humming a happy holiday tune!

This lecture is part of the FABulous Fall Lecture Series.

The Fifty and Better (FAB) program was designed for people ages 50 and older, seeking intellectual stimulation through university-level courses — without the pressure of grades — for the sake of learning and social engagement.