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“Bee” sure to buzz on over to your AG Museum to celebrate National Honey Bee Day! During our normal 11am-5pm hours visitors can stop by our observation hive to welcome our new bee colony to the neighborhood. Afterwards you may choose to browse a mini-boutique of bee-themed merchandise from local Ventura County vendors, check out our newly-installed ‘Save the Pollinators’ art exhibit by C.R.E.W.’s Green Valley project, and explore our beautiful bee-friendly gardens. Enjoy a free plant giveaway from our Master Gardeners.

Then from 12pm-2pm join us for a special celebration of our pollinator pals and the role they play in supporting agriculture! Volunteers will help kids and adults make their own craft honey bee out of pipe cleaners or choose to craft a rolled-beeswax candle, while visiting beekeepers share fun facts and samples of delicious honey. From 1:00pm-1:45pm, families can participate in a honey bee-themed sing-and-dance-along. Kids will learn a few things about “Bee-havior” while earning some delicious honey sticks (with parental permission, of course)!

The Museum is open from 11am-5pm, admission is FREE, and our observational honey bee hive can be experienced on National Honey Bee Day or any other time you visit the AG!

For novelist Melina Sempill Watts and artist Jeff Sojka, falling in love with a landscape means interconnecting the lives of the plants and animals that make it alive. Watts’ first novel Tree is an exploration of 229 years in the life of a California live oak from the point of view of … the tree. Sojka dove into the book and painted his vision of the tree’s reality, each painting honoring the aliveness and richness of California’s landscapes. This multimedia experiment, with the exhibit being available both on-site and virtually, will offer the audience the opportunity to expand their imagination, stepping into the life of a tree from multiple vantage points. Consider the world from the plants’ perspective: begin going wild.

From childhood in Topanga, California, Melina Sempill Watts interconnected with the outdoors. After UCLA, (B.A., history,) Watts worked in Hollywood for Peter Horton, Ed Zwick, Kathleen Kennedy and Dreamworks before moving into conservation. Published in Sierra Magazine, Earth Island Journal and the New York Times, Tree is her first novel.

Jeff Sojka grew up in the Bay Area, sailing, hiking and painting. Earning an art scholarship after high school, Sojka toured the great museums of Europe, studying and painting. After UCSB, then SDSU, he joined an ad agency, leaving to paint iconic California landscapes that glow with an internal luminosity.

The show starts on Friday, August 26, 2022 and runs through October 2, 2022.
The exhibit is held in tandem with an event series.

Made possible in part by Arts Ventura

With the return of a full-blown Santa Barbara Old Spanish Days Fiesta in 2022 also comes a full-scale “Project Fiesta!”, the annual Santa Barbara Historical Museum exhibition that celebrates the traditions of this beloved citywide celebration. Due to pandemic restrictions, the Museum presented limited Fiesta exhibits during the past three years, including one held entirely outdoors. This year’s “Project Fiesta!” is back inside the Museum and features displays of beautifully restored costumes, shawls, posters, artwork, artifacts, historical photos, and some surprises.

For more about the exhibit, which is on view through September 11, 2022, visit www.sbhistorical.org. For information about Old Spanish Days Fiesta visit www.sbfiesta.org.


“We want to go all-out for a major Fiesta exhibition for its hundredth anniversary in two years,” says Harwood. “Our collection is vast, but there are some gaps, so we are asking the public for their help. For example, we want to exhibit the colorful posters from every year that they were made, and more film and home movies from past Fiesta events would be terrific as well.”

The Museum’s collection of Fiesta posters includes those from 55 of Fiesta’s 93-year history, including the very first poster from 1924. Thirty-eight posters are still to be acquired. Those interested in helping complete the collection should contact the Museum’s library at archivist@sbhistorical.org.

The pieces on view in this exhibition are drawn from the Museum’s varied collection of items related to Fiesta. The entire collection includes 40 pieces of fine art, thousands of photographs, hundreds of oral histories, official badges from every Fiesta, hundreds of souvenir pins, trophies, plates, and dolls – plus the head of a steer which drew a cart in the first parade, stuffed and mounted by artist Ed Borein.

The Santa Barbara Historical Museum is located in downtown Santa Barbara at 136 East De la Guerra Street. Admission is free. Hours are currently Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. and Thursdays from noon to 7 p.m. Visit www.sbhistorical.org.

Twenty stunning works of art by historic and contemporary local artists will be up for grabs during the Santa Paula Art Museum’s virtual 12th Annual Fine Art Auction Fundraiser. Online bidding opens Saturday, August 13, 2022, and closes Saturday, August 27, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. PDT. The auction artworks can be previewed during a special, in-person preview reception at the Museum on Saturday, August 13, 2022, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Admission to the preview reception is free. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

The Santa Paula Art Museum’s annual Fine Art Auction is the nonprofit’s biggest fundraiser each year. All proceeds raised during the event benefit the Museum and the thousands of children, families, and adults served by SPAM exhibitions and educational programs every year, including its free ArtSPARK school tour program, monthly Free Family Days, free Young Artist Program, and free Kids’ Art Fest. Individuals must preregister to bid online at www.bidsquare.com/auction-house/santa-paula-art-museum.

Bid online for your chance to take home artworks by historical Southern California artists like Jessie Arms Botke, Cornelis Botke, Douglas Shively and Manuel Valencia, as well as contemporary pieces by Linda Brown, Lynn Hanson, Debra Holladay, Norman Kirk, George Lockwood, Lisa Skyheart Marshall, Gina Niebergall, Susan Petty, Gail Pidduck, Dan Schultz, Jules Smith and Andrea Vargas

Art lovers can also purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win one of two paintings by historic Santa Paula artists Jessie Arms Botke and Cornelis Botke. Raffle tickets start at $50.00. Raffle tickets can be purchased online at www.santapaulaartmuseum.org/raffle.

The Santa Paula Art Museum is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization as described in section 501(c)3 of the IRS Code. The Museum's tax identification number is 92-0179722.

New West Symphony presents an exciting performance of orchestral music, led by GRAMMY-Winning Artistic and Music Director Michael Christie. Experience timeless melodies that lead us from the heights of ecstasy to the depths of despair. Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony and classic melodies from Mexico and The Great American Songbook connect us to our past and carry us through our lives. Bass virtuoso Xavier Foley will stun audiences with the Bottesini Double Bass Concerto; you have never heard the bass sound quite like this before!

Join our community mural project with art educator, guest weaver and installation artist, Christine Morla! Let's transform a boring chain-link fence into inspiring art that celebrates and empowers our neighborhood and the health and vibrancy of our people.

Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022
9 AM - 1 PM
@ Hobson Park East (AKA Lion's Park), behind OPAC
800 Hobson Way | Oxnard, CA 93030
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All ages welcome! No registration required. Bring a hat!

Led by Jorja Fleezanis (Jun 21), Frank Almond (Jun 28), Rainer Honeck (Jul 5), Sibbi Bernhardsson (Jul 19), Martin Beaver (Jul 13 & 26), Glenn Dicterow (Aug 2) & Philip Setzer (Aug 3)
Public masterclasses have been at the heart of the Academy experience since its inception
Cheer on the fellows and learn more about the music and the art of performance.

Each concert in this new series takes the audience down a different path
In this showcase concert, composer-in-residence Molly Joyce stars in a program of her own works, completed with a world premiere performed by Academy fellows

The MARY JANE McCORD Planned Parenthood Annual Booksale begins September 15th and will run until September 25th, 2022 at the Earl Warren Exhibit Hall, Santa Barbara. Thursday, September 15th, is opening night with an admission fee of $30 and the following days will be free admission. This is an opportunity to purchase over 100,000 gently used books in 50 categories, CDs, DVDs, puzzles, games and more. To find see the hours of operation and further details, check out our website: ppcccbooksale.com.

In this lecture, we will take a look at photos and will review the archaeological history of the Conejo Valley beginning with the Chumash era, delving into the Spanish then Mexican periods, and then through pioneers arriving in the 1870s. We will also go into detail about some of the families that were here long term. This lecture will mostly focus on the Conejo Valley pre-1900.

Carol Anderson has a background in secretarial and archival work. She has been a volunteer in several capacities at the Stagecoach Inn Museum for 32 years. She is one of only six people to have been Curator of History at the museum since the Conejo Valley Historical Society formed in 1964.

Fifty and Better was designed to offer university-level courses and lectures (no tests, no homework) taught by experts in the field, and to host social engagement activities for people age 50 and older.