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Feb. 20 — Community Environmental Council’s (CEC) — An Evening with Captain Charles Moore: Meet the Man Who Discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Feb. 21 — Studio Channel Islands Art Center to present “Poetry in the GalleryPoetry in the Gallery”
Feb. 22 — ‘Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms’ exhibit to open at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA)
Feb. 22 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents an unprecedented recital of world premieres from Yo-Yo Ma at The Granada Theatre
Feb. 25 — Ventura County Taxpayers Association (VCTA) — Breakfast Club to receive Mountain Fire Update
Feb. 25 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents two nights, two programs of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour at the Arlington Theatre
Feb. 25 — Economic Development Collaborative (EDC) presenting NO-COST Webinar: LA Games: Prepare your business to win!
Feb. 26 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents a double dose of Crescent City soul from Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen and Cha Wa at UCSB Campbell Hall
March 1 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents virtuoso fiddle fireworks from Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy and The Celtic All Stars at UCSB Campbell Hall
March 2 — Oxnard Film Society to present ‘THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE’
March 7 — UCSB Arts & Lectures to present Arturo Sandoval and the Legacy Quintet at Campbell Hall
March 7, 8 — New West Symphony (NWS) presents ‘Mozart and American Voices,’ a genre-defying celebration of musical storytelling
March 7 — On Zoom — Create a Compelling Cover Letter and Resume: FREE workshop at SBCC Extended Learning
March 7 — Bombay Bar & Grill in Ventura — ENCHANTED is Back at Bombay’s!
March 8 — ‘AS IF IN A DREAM: HISTORY, FANTASY, FUTURE’ opens at SBMA
March 11 — California Coastal Commission Public Hearing
March 14 — Santa Paula Art Museum presents ‘Cornelis Botke: Painter of the Western Scene’
March 18 — Ventura County Taxpayers Association’s next Breakfast Club Meeting — The Santa Paula Hospital in Focus
Through March 23 — Sullivan Goss — An American Gallery to present visionary landscape painter PHOEBE BRUNNER
March 28 — Bilingual report — Transgender Day of Visibility Celebration to be held in Santa Barbara
April 11 — 13th Annual Ventura County Farm Day – ‘Meet The Hands That Feed You’
April 16 – Ventura County Taxpayers Foundation to present 2026 Taxpayers Economic Outlook Conference
April 16 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents mandolin virtuoso and American roots star Sierra Hull at Campbell Hall
April 20 — Oxnard Film Society to present KOKUHO
April 25 — Ventura County Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business (VC CoLAB) to hold annual Spring Fling
Through April 27 — Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara presenting SIDNEY GORDIN (1918-1996)
Through April 27 — Solo exhibition by tonalist landscape painter SARAH VEDDER at Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara
May 7 — County of Ventura District 2 Supervisor Jeff Gorell to present 2nd annual District 2 Supervisorial Leadership & Excellence Awards
January at the Santa Paula Art Museum
In 2025, the Santa Paula Art Museum welcomed 5,600 visitors to its exhibitions and events. The Cole Creativity Center delivered more than 100 classes in fine arts, fiber arts, and ceramics to 892 students of all ages. In addition, the Museum provided 1,677 hours of free arts education programming to more than 6,400 K-12 students throughout Ventura County. And 2026 is shaping up to be even bigger!
VCCF Power of Purpose – December 2025 Newsletter
Dear Ventura County Community Foundation Family,
I spent yesterday morning enjoying a delightful coffee and croissant with one of your community foundation board members, Catherine Sepulveda. As always, time with Catherine is just so good for the soul!
For those who have not yet met her, Catherine is a bright light, kind, generous, deeply thoughtful, endlessly curious, creative, optimistic, and rooted in her values. It was only a few moments into our conversation when we found ourselves marveling at the kindness and generosity we have witnessed across Ventura County this past year and sharing our hopes and dreams for our community’s future.
Holiday Music & Greetings from Ventura Music Festival
We wish you a restorative holiday season and look forward to making more music with you in 2026! In the meantime, please enjoy the holiday music of our Music Director, Nuvi Mehta, on violin.
Community Environmental Council (CEC) — Season’s greetings: Together, we power hope
Thanks to your support, we’ve continued making a real difference for our communities and the environment. Even amid federal rollbacks and new proposals to expand offshore drilling along our beloved coastline, your generosity helps us fill the gap and protect what makes the Central Coast home.
Happy Holidays from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art!
As we reach the end of the year, we are filled with gratitude for the community that surrounds and sustains the Museum. Your curiosity, your presence at our exhibitions and programs, and your belief in the power of art to deepen our lives have made 2025 a year of connection, discovery, and joy.
SYV People Helping People fulfills a holiday wish for vulnerable families
SOLVANG — People Helping People (PHP) teamed up with generous local businesses, volunteers, and community members to create the 31st annual Fulfill-A-Wish Boutique, bringing relief and joy to 144 low-income households.
The festive boutique at Veterans’ Memorial Hall in Solvang on December 10th and 11th supplied everything parents needed to create a warm holiday memory for their children from presents to wrapping paper.
All recipients are clients of PHP who live, work, or go to school in the Santa Ynez Valley or Los Alamos.
Bilingual report — EVACUATION WARNING Issued for Identified Properties in Santa Barbara County Associated with the Lake Fire
EVACUATION WARNING Issued for Identified Properties in Santa Barbara County Associated with the Lake Fire
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ADVERTENCIA DE EVACUACIÓN emitida para propiedades identificadas en el Condado de Santa Barbara asociadas con el Incendio Lake
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City of San Luis Obispo — Five Ways to Prepare for the Upcoming Storm
The National Weather Service is forecasting a moderate to strong storm that will impact San Luis Obispo County from Tuesday, December 23 through Saturday, December 27. Heavy rainfall is expected with high rainfall rates and high winds.
A Flood Watch is in effect from Tuesday, December 23 at 4 PM until Thursday, December 25 at 10 PM and a High Wind Watch in effect from Tuesday, December 23 at 12 PM until Thursday, December 25 at 3 PM.
Bilingual report — The latest news from the County of Ventura
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Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara — ’25 Wrapped!
Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces 2026 Winter/Spring exhibition schedule
In the new year, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art offers a sweeping look at how artists engage with time. Works grounded in personal histories, inherited traditions, and collective memory speak to the past while giving us new ways to access it in the present. Contemporary materials and lived experience illuminate the world as it is now, yet they also open space for reflection and reinterpretation. Digital experimentation and visionary forms gesture toward the future, and at the same time expand how we record, memorialize, and remember. Seen together, these exhibitions reveal art as a continuum—one in which past, present, and future coexist, overlap, and remain vividly alive today.