May 2 — SBMApresents ‘1st Thursday at SBMA, Pop-Up Opera’

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “1st Thursday at SBMAa,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

 

5 – 6 pm
Pop-Up Opera

Opera Santa Barbara returns to present crowd-pleasing pop-up performances in the Museum galleries.

Location: Museum galleries

 

5:30 – 7:30 pm
Family 1st Thursday

Bring the whole family and enjoy 1st Thursday together in SBMA’s Family Resource Center located on the Lower Level. Museum Teaching Artists will assist families in creating special exhibition-based art projects.

Location: Family Resource Center

 

6:30 – 7 pm

Quire of Voyces
The Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces returns to SBMA to perform a short program of choral music. The group was founded in 1993 to rediscover the sacred a capella choral music of the Renaissance and the modern age.

Location: Museum galleries

 

5 – 8 pm
Exhibitions on view!

A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography

Kehinde Wiley: Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan

Out of Storage and into the Light: Sculptures That Tell Stories

Bamboo, Rocks, and Old Trees: Chinese Calligraphy and Literati Painting

Highlights of the Permanent Collection